Razor Ramon heads to the ring to open this week's edtion of Raw to face Diesel in a non-title match, but before he can make it to the ring, he's attacked by the Teamsters. Shawn Michaels (Sporting a sweet Hard Rock Cafe jacker), Diesel, Jeff Jarrett, Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart pummel on Razor until we take a quick commercial break.
Our hosts tonight, Vince McMahon and Jim Cornette (who are totally in the arena and not behind a crappy green screen at all) talk about tonight's show and if Razor can even compete tonight after the beating by the Teamsters. Cornette also takes a few digs in at the Undertaker promising that Yokozuna will put him back in the casket at Survivor Series.
Opening Raw instead of Diesel vs Razor is Tatanka taking on Chris Kanyon. Tatanka starts with some clubbing blows early on followed by some chops in the corner. He follows with a couple body slams and couple elbow drops. Tatanka hits a clothesline and follows with a gutwrench suplex. Hard whips to the buckle and more chops until Kanyon gets a cross body for a two count. Tatanka reverses a whip, but Kanyon gets a backslide for two. Kanyon gets a sunset flip for two, but eats a clothesline and some stomps. Back body drop and another body slam. Flying tomahawk chop and the end of the trail drop for the three. Boring Tatanka squash as usual that only felt worth watching when Kanyon put in effort.
Adam Bomb is up next against Jason Ahrndt (or Jason Ain't via Cornette). A series of arm wringers as Cornette suggests that Bob Backlund should be a postal worker and murder his coworkers. Okay then. Ahrndt gets some offense, but Adam Bomb gets a whip to the corner and a sidewalk slam. Vince brings up that Bull Nakano won the Women's title the night prior from Alundra Blayze. Ahrndt gets some clubbing blows, but they aren't effective. Big back body drop and clotheslines while Jim Cornette shills a Planet of the Apes Marathon. Pumphandle powerbomb gets the win for Adam Bomb.
We cut to footage of the WWF Raw video game as Vince and Cornette pretend to play it. Vince as Taker, Cornette as Yokozuna, and Cornette, like a jobber do, loses spectacularly to Vince.
Following this, we get a recap on my hell on earth, the Clowns Are Us vs the Royal Family feud. From King popping Dink's balloons, King kicking the loaded trash can, King smashing Dink's tricycle, Dink in the trash can to help Droese win and the "Pie to the Puss" as Pettengill puts it. We then get a recap of the additions of Queasy, Sleazy and Cheesy and the additions of Wink, and Pink.
This leads us to our edition of the King's Court as Lawler is in the ring with Sleazy, Cheesy and Queasy. While they're in the middle of the interview, the clown sneaks around with a squirt gun as Lawler believes that it was his kings spitting on him. Eventually Doink and crew decide to just lay in with the Super Soakers while the kings cower behind the throne. Well, at least it was a short king's court (pun intended).
Don't forget that Vince wants your dollar. It's Owen and Backlund on the opinion poll (okay, listening to Backlund rant would be worth giving Vince my dollar) and he mentions that at Survivor Series, you have a chance to speak to a superstar every five minutes or so, you keep calling as often as you can. Vince really needs your dollar, kids!
So, IRS is still at the cemetery in his little tax investigation. He's stolen the flowers from someone's grave, dug him up, robbed him of his casket and threw his corpse back into the grave. What's next for Irwin? HE KICKED THE CORPSE OUT OF THE PLOT! This is officially the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
Speaking of IRS, he's up next against a sadly unbroken Matt Hardy. He rams Matt in the buckle and follows with an elbow to the throat and the back of the head. He tosses Matt out of the ring. Dibiase slaps Matt in the face with dollar bills as Irwin gets some more offense. Matt gets back in with a sunset flip for two. Irwin comes back in with a double underhool suplex. He locks in an abdominal stretch as he uses the ropes for leverege. Irwin gets the write off clothesline for the win in what was honestly an okay squash.
It's the final Survivor Series report with Todd Pettengill. The card is etched in stone at this point with really no major changes since the last edition.
Our main event is Razor Ramon vs Diesel in a non-title match. Despite the attack from the Teamsters early in the show, this is still going down. Diesel is flanked by the Teamsters while Razor has the backing of the Bad Guys (Bulldog, The Kid and the Headshrinkers). Razor runs into the ring and lays in some strikes to Diesel, while also getting a shot in at Jarrett and Owen. Razor locks Diesel in a hammerlock until Diesel is able to slide into the rig to escape.
Diesel regains momentum with a knee to the midsection and some clubbing elbows. He lays in a right hand, but Razor comes back with some closed fists, but Diesel gets in a fist of his own. He chokes Razor in the corner as Shawn gets a pull of the hair. Razor tries a backdrop, but gets slammed face first into the mat. Diesel locks in a chinlock and follows with a sleeper hold. Razor breaks out with a back suplex. Razor tries for a clothesline, but gets tossed out as we go to break.
Razor tries to regain some momentum when we return from break, laying in some more right hands. However, he's tripped by Shawn Michaels, allowing Diesel to get in a cheap shot. The Teamsters and Bad Guys are close to brawling, until Razor gets in a right on Diesel to bring him back into the ring. Hard whips to the buckle and a clothesline to the corner from Razor. Diesel groggily gets in another knee to the midsection and a sidewalk slam. Cover only gets a two.
Diesel locks a chinlock for a few seconds, before Razor escapes, only to get a big boot to the face, stopping his momentum once again. Cover for a two count after some long stalling. Hard whips to the buckle from Diesel and several forearms to the lower back. Diesel drops Razor in the buckle with a snake eyes. Cover, but Razor gets his foot on the rope. Shawn pulls at the hair, allowing Diesel to drop a knee to the back of Razor's head. Cover only gets a two count. Diesel sets up a Jacknife powerbomb, but Razor back drops him. Razor get a knee to the face and some clubbing punches.
Big scoop and a slam follow. Jarrett distracts Razor, but gets a punch and a toss to the ring. Razor brawls with both men, but the rest of the teamsters try to interfere, causing a disqualification. The Bad Guys enter and both teams brawl it out to end this edition of Monday Night Raw.
A pretty by the books edition of Raw this week. The squashes were actually not bad for once, though as usual, nothing special came out of them. The King's Court was brief, despite the annoyance of the clowns. The feeling of a build to the Survivor Series PPV is very strong throughout, which is good. And the match between Razor and Diesel provided a good brawl to set up this Survivor Series matchup. Overall, for the last Raw before the PPV, it did a fine enough job, worthy of a B rating.
Up next, it's the pre-Thanksgiving tradition, the 1994 Survivor Series. Towels! Tags! Caskets! Clowns! And Chuck Norris? And what could be considered the beginning of the Kliq era in the WWF. Get ready kiddies, we're entering some strange territory next time.
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