by The night would open with The Quebecers taking on The Bushwackers in a non-title match. With their credibility hurting after a count out loss to Men On A Mission the night before, the Quebecers badly needed a win and the jobber team of The Bushwackers provided that chance. The Quebecers would win with ease as The Bushwackers further became a joke.
The highlight and true purpose of this match would come afterwards however, as Captain Lou Albano showed up to challenge the champs to a match with a team of his choosing. The team would eventually turn out to be The Headshrinkers weeks later. The Samoans would win the belts in early Spring, and we would pretty much never hear from The Quebecers again.
Up next was Tatanka, who’s eight-man tag got bumped from the WrestleMania X card due to time restrictions. He handled Chris Hamrick in a squash match that made little to no sense to be on the card. The lone highlight in this one saw Hamrick dive between the ropes butt first, missing everything and crashing and burning on the outside.
The match further drove home the point that a lot of steam had already left Tatanka from just oe year ago despite the lackluster win. By the end of the summer, the Native American would turn heel and join the Evil Million Dollar Corporation.
The true star of 1994 was on the docket next as Diesel destroyed some unnamed jobber in quick fashion. This was the start of a monstrous run for Diesel that saw him win the Intercontinental Championship over Razor Ramon later on in April. Then tag with Shawn Michaels to win the tag Championships in August. This was after he challenged Bret Hart for the WWF Championship at King of the Ring.
Diesel wasn’t done yet however, as he would close out the year by turning face, breaking away from Shawn Michaels and capturing the WWF World Heavyweight Championship in December 1994. More on all of that next chapter!
What is interesting about the Diesel squash match was the commentary of Macho Man Randy Savage praising the Intercontinental Ladder match from the night before. Reason being, it was Savage who lost his cool on both Michaels and Scott Hall backstage, for letting them match go on so long and forcing one match to be cut, and another to go 35 seconds. He was singing a different tune when the recording lights were on.
Bret Hart would close the show by giving almost the identical speech he gave after winning his first World Heavyweight Championship. Once again, preaching that he would take on all comers to his belt. A horse throated Vince McMahon struggled to get through the interview, but not before reminding Hart of his loss to Owen the night before. Brett seemed unfazed by the line of questioning from McMahon and raised the title in pride as he walked around the ring with his music blaring to end the segment.
The show would close with the puzzling main event of Double J Jeff Jarrett pinning Koko B Ware. Not sure why this decision was made to a headline such a big show. The only important thing to come out of this match was the surprising Macho Man vs Double J Jeff Jarrett brawl afterwards. Macho Man just loved any chance McMahon gave him to still get in the ring at times. This allowed the broadcast to end on a fun note.
