This was one of the first VHS tapes I ever got in '93 when I became a fan, and I could watch this show for ages. With the passing of Bobby Heenan, and the wayback playback on this show, I might as well enjoy it once again. Vince's narration gives us a peek into Mr. McMahon and we go to Piper, Gorilla, and Bobby Heenan. The Dragon, the Texas Tornado, and the British Bulldog are out with Ricky doing the fire stuff. Slick leads his team of Warlord and Power and Glory down. Davey is absolutely enormous here. Ditto Warlord, Roma, and Herc. Herc is pale with a giant roid gut, but his arms are massive.
Ricky gets a nice middle-rope armdrag on Roma. Roma gets a nice back elbow and slugs away in the corner. Power and Glory's gear is fine and Roma in long tights works better for him. Kerry runs wild on Herc for a bit. Davey and Warlord charge into each other before Ricky hits a diving chop. Ricky goes for a corner monkey flip, but Warlord hangs on and Ricky bonks his head. Roma hits a big lariat on Ricky before getting the triple backbreaker. Herc slams him and then Warlord slams him before being a great bully before Herc stun guns him. Warlord attacks him and we get some classic work with Ricky begging on his knees and then getting a few shots in. Warlord misses a flying nothing off the second rope. Davey comes in and Kerry hits a tornado punch on Warlord. Crossbody off the top wins it and gets a huge pop.
Sean Mooney interviews Perfect and "Coach" John Tolos. Perfect looks young, while John Tolos looks like a young 70 year old. Well, it's a payday for him I guess. Shockingly, just having Tolos be "wrestling legend John Tolos" and put him over would have been better. Helen, Stu, and Bruce are in the crowd. Tolos catches the towel, and Hennig actually jumps over the top rope despite being in a lot of pain. Tieup starts things off before Hennig eats a crossbody. Hart lands some big punches in the corner and slams him down. Big flip bump to the floor off a lariat. Yeah, he's all painkillered up. Hennig punts the ribs and knocks Bret into a photographer who no-sells it.
They brawl on te floor for a bit and Curt climbs up top for some reason and punches Bret down into a skewer. NICE swing into a sleeper by Curt and a crucifix is countered into a Samoan drop by Hennig. Curt is sent into the post leg-first and eats a suplex. Small package gets 2. RUSSIAN LEGSWEEP! Rolling cradle gets 2 and Hennig takes a big bump to the floor. Well, he knows he's done and really this is his final truly great classic. Coach eats a bump on the apron and Bret gets crotched with a rope kick. Curt kicks the gut before going for a legdrop, which works, and then gets countered into a sharpshooter to crank it. Curt attacks and Bret takes the singlet off.
Bret hugs the family and Stu says...something. An ad airs for a Hot Ticket - which wasn't on the VHS. It's a Hogan documentary of some sort. Bushwackers are with Andre and we see Earthquake take his knee out. The Bushwackers are just terrible, but hey, they got paid for a long time off this. The faces run wiild and march. Typhoon locks Butch in an overhead backbreaker and then Quake does a bearhug with no tag. Misue leads to Quake hitting Typhoon. One of the whackers gets sandwiched and squashed by Quake. LOD comes down to help Andre, and get a huge pop too.
Ted and Sherri are awesome evil-doers. Now we get a slave video. Virgil gets kissed by Piper and pulls Ted's tights down before beating him up in the corner. Virgil sends him outside a bunch to get some pops. Virgil misses pescado and takes a great bump for it. Virgil is down for a long time, and it's amazing to see something sold in a wrestling match. Virgil eats the steps and makes a great face in peril. This is a great story of the rookie in the story getting an edge, but the cagey veteran knowing the tricks. Ted's fistdrop is so perfect. Ted hits a double sledge. Virgil gets the million dollar dream so Sherri hits him with her purse to make it a DQ so Ted can retain. HOWEVER, the ref will just eject her and allow it to continue! Piper is just great here as the ultimate hype man for Virgil. Ten shots in the corner works for Virgil.
Corner mount punches work perfectly too. Ref gets do-see-doe bumped in the corner. Ted talks shit to Piper, which gets him livid. Big suplex hits for Ted. Another big ones hits. The piledriver gets Ted a visual pin. Ted slaps the ref and teases one more - but first, he stalls and takes the pad off the buckle. Ted talks shit, but Virgil smashes him into the buckle twice and we get a double down. Virgil gets the win! We get a recap of the Mountie-Bossman feud with Mountie backstage with the cops. Mountie is just such a perfect ham - it's great. Bossman cuts a great promo on Mountie for insulting cops and reminds him that he's the law and order of the WWF.
Mountie has this really serene theme that is great. Bossman runs down and comes in to kick ass. We've got two men with black slacks with a yellow stripe and one in powder blue against red. Jimmy Hart's airbrushed jacket is perfectly '91. Bossman punches him out and does the rope avalanche. Bossman catches him, carries him around and does a constant thumbs down before dropping him. Now that's awesome too. Mountie hits a jumping back elbow. Mountie gets a jumping elbow for 2. Mountie hits a dropkick and elbows his jaw. Mountie hits a slow piledriver. Mountie goes to shock him, but Bossman uppercuts him and the stick goes flying. Double leapfrog by Mountie leads to a Bossman uppercut and the Bossman slam gets 2! This is shocking and it gets a huge pop. Mountie trips him. Mountie goes for another piledriver, but AN ALABAMA SLAM ENDS IT! The cops take him back and Bossman drags him around. Mountie is chewing the scenery up and it's glorious. I'M THA MOUNTIE! We get a multi-camera shoot for him leaving and it's all done perfectly.
Piper has a great line about finally liking the sound of sirens. Ted and Sherri lose their minds over the title loss. Sean Mooney chats with Bret and Jimmy Hart goes to Gene with the Disasters and is BACK IN HIS GETUP FOR THEM while Quake has taken his top down. He should never have done that. John Tenta IS ONLY 28 HERE and looks 45. Bossman says that JAILBIRDS CAN'T FLY. Savage is with Gene in his form white and gold wedding tights, as ya do. They hype up the wedding and run down what we have to go. Bobby teases a heel turn by Sid because they haven't heard from him tonight.
Mountie arrives at the jail and Mountie is still complaining before getting loaded into jail for step one of things. This is a great show-long angle. Nasty Boys are angry about LOD and Tunney COAGULATING for the rules. WE GO BACK TO THE JAIL where they act like the Bossman is there to get him to show his face for his photo. Oh this is tremendous. Jimmy says this is an invasion of privacy and we go to the LOD hyping things up. There is a TON of filler here, but it's all actually building to things so it doesn't feel like it. Hawk cuts a great coked-up promo with his usual WELLLL to start it off. Mountie is having his prints taken, they ask for the finger and he gives them the finger. Awesome stuff and pretty edgy for a '91 show.
Sean interviews the evil Sgt. Slaughter group. Sid is in a ref tanktop next to Gene all roided up. We get footage of him talking to the Iraqis and he says he promised them nothing. Nasties are out to face the LOD. LOD jumps them with the spikes on and sends them packing. Kneeling powerbomb by Animal STARTS THINGS OFF for 2. Hawk and Sags stagger around before an enzuiguri. Tray of drinks to the back of Hawk. Hawk sells and sells and the crowd dies. Animal tags in and runs wild and powerslams Knobbs. Nasties use the helmet, so Hawk grabs it and bonks everyone before the Doomsday Device ends it. These are the deep gold versions of the belts too. Back at the jail, Mountie tries to leave before getting thrown into his cell.
IRS is mid-ring to face Greg Valentine. Now this should be at a glacial pace, but if we're lucky, it'll move up to slow and plodding. Greg stands around while Gorilla recaps the entire event. Greg FIRES PU with a slow lariat. IRS's mullet is something else. Greg is actually slim here. Abdominal stretch with the ropes! IRS goes up, but Greg sends him down. IRS jams his knee into the buckle and sets up the figure four. Big elbow hits and the figure four is locked on, but he gets the ropes. Greg pulls him off the rope and lands a shin breaker. IRS headbutts the balls and cradles him to win. Hogan cuts this amazing promo about being WWF Champion in '84 and winning it in MSG. Oh, and hey, there's Warrior too! He gets to talk about Warrior Wildness. That sounds like a disease.
Sid comes down and does the Brock jump to the apron. Adnan had an incredible story that Jim Valley talks about where he was Saddam's cousin and Adnan wrestled in state-funded shows to beat guys like Andre before leaving as soon as possible. VLAD MARKS OUT OVER SEEING HOGAN! This has become an iconic Hogan intro due to how much it's been repeated, and the hulkster bandanna is great. Gorilla puts Hogan as the biggest WWF Champion of all-time. Well fuck you Warrior. Hogan and Sarge goes through the motions. Hogan hits a double sledge off the second rope. We get a double down and Sid counts. Warrior chases the goons to the back and Hogan tosses powder in Sarge's face and drops the leg to win.
Sid gets the call to pose with Hogan and makes some hilarious faces the whole time. Hogan strips his tanktop off to show off his body. They do the posing and Hogan puts him over huge with all of this. Sid is THE MAN here and he's made. We go back to the Mountie, with his cellmate who "really loves the way leather feels against his body". Now to be fair, Mountie was warned by the cellmate's bitch to be quiet or he'd make him mad - so yeah, this was odd to see in 2017. We see the wedding setup. The super-sappy wedding song is changed out because they don't own the rights. Well that sucks.
The slow-mo shot of Honky stopping to avoid hitting Savage with a guitar is hilarious since his rolls are jiggling. Savage's giant feather is great and there's even a fountain mid-ring. A wrestling wedding is headlining a PPV, which is amazing. The wedding is done and they don't show the Coliseum Video of the Jake and Taker attack. Well that's a shame.
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