"The Real American" Hulk Hogan and his fighting for American rights against Iraqi sympathisers Sgt Slaughter and General Adnan had gotten very old by this point. But, to flog the dead horse the WWE bought back former Champion the Iron Sheik, renamed as Col Mustafa, to team up against the "Real American" Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior.
Now I haven't picked on any of the other earlier wrestling story lines from 1985- 1990, because they worked. But for a young Australian this storyline was crap. The Iraq war was a non event and well and truly over by August 1991.
The night started off with a six man tag match won by Ricky Steamboat (returning to the WWE after a long tour of duty in the NWA) The British Bulldog and Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erich, over The Warlord, and Power and Glory Hercules and Paul Roma.
Next up came one of the bets matches ever seen in the WWE as Bret Hart defeated Mr Perfect to win the Intercontinental Championship. Perfect was working with an injured back and put in a sensational performance. Hart was on song as always. These two had tremendous chemistry and this was probably the best of their PPV matches.
Next up we see Andre the Giant in a backstage interview with the Bushwackers in his final PPV appearance as he would die later that year. The interview didn't help them though as The Natural Disasters Earthquake and Typhoon picked up a comprehensive victory over the Bushwackers, who were starting to get pretty old.
Next up we saw some of the build to the main event with Bobby Heenan standing outside Hulk's dressing room. Following this is an interview with Ted DiBiase as he guarantees all of us he is going to wipe the floor with his former slave Virgil and walk out with his million dollar title belt. He was wrong. Virgil got the win and Million Dollar Belt was his.
Next came a jailhouse match won by he Big Bossman over The Mountie. The downside of this was we had to watch some "Comedy" scenes of The Mountie being arrested and thrown in jail. Pretty over the top and quite dated.
In our next match the Legion of Doom Hawk and Animal defeated The Nasty Boys to win the Tag Team Championships. If memory serves I think this was the first time they had been tag champs in the WWE.
We get another shot of The Mountie in jail and then Irwin R Shyster defeating Greg Valentine, who was cast as a good guy in this match for some reason.
Next up is our main event as Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior defeated Sgt Slaughter, Col Mustafa and General Adnan with Sid Justice as the guest referee. It had been a running story all night that Justice had supposedly been bought out by the Iraqis, but this was not the case and Justice and Hogan posed together at matches end. This was the Warrior's last PPV match in the WWE for some time and it nearly didn't happen after Warrior had threatened to leave the building if he was not given bonuses he was owed from months before. The match sucked. The angle sucked. THank goodness it was finished.
The Main Event of the show though was Randy Savage's "wedding" to Miss Elizabeth. Savage, despite not being allowed to wrestle after losing a retirement match to the Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania VII had stayed on the show as a commentator and come back to the good side. He'd proposed to Elizabeth in the build up and they are given a proper wedding here with no catches. This would eventually lead to Savage breaking his retirement, which wasn't a bad thing.
This PPV had some good stuff on it, DiBiase/ Virgil and Hart/ Perfect, but not much else and it really has aged badly.
Now I haven't picked on any of the other earlier wrestling story lines from 1985- 1990, because they worked. But for a young Australian this storyline was crap. The Iraq war was a non event and well and truly over by August 1991.
The night started off with a six man tag match won by Ricky Steamboat (returning to the WWE after a long tour of duty in the NWA) The British Bulldog and Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erich, over The Warlord, and Power and Glory Hercules and Paul Roma.
Next up came one of the bets matches ever seen in the WWE as Bret Hart defeated Mr Perfect to win the Intercontinental Championship. Perfect was working with an injured back and put in a sensational performance. Hart was on song as always. These two had tremendous chemistry and this was probably the best of their PPV matches.
Next up we see Andre the Giant in a backstage interview with the Bushwackers in his final PPV appearance as he would die later that year. The interview didn't help them though as The Natural Disasters Earthquake and Typhoon picked up a comprehensive victory over the Bushwackers, who were starting to get pretty old.
Next up we saw some of the build to the main event with Bobby Heenan standing outside Hulk's dressing room. Following this is an interview with Ted DiBiase as he guarantees all of us he is going to wipe the floor with his former slave Virgil and walk out with his million dollar title belt. He was wrong. Virgil got the win and Million Dollar Belt was his.
Next came a jailhouse match won by he Big Bossman over The Mountie. The downside of this was we had to watch some "Comedy" scenes of The Mountie being arrested and thrown in jail. Pretty over the top and quite dated.
In our next match the Legion of Doom Hawk and Animal defeated The Nasty Boys to win the Tag Team Championships. If memory serves I think this was the first time they had been tag champs in the WWE.
We get another shot of The Mountie in jail and then Irwin R Shyster defeating Greg Valentine, who was cast as a good guy in this match for some reason.
Next up is our main event as Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior defeated Sgt Slaughter, Col Mustafa and General Adnan with Sid Justice as the guest referee. It had been a running story all night that Justice had supposedly been bought out by the Iraqis, but this was not the case and Justice and Hogan posed together at matches end. This was the Warrior's last PPV match in the WWE for some time and it nearly didn't happen after Warrior had threatened to leave the building if he was not given bonuses he was owed from months before. The match sucked. The angle sucked. THank goodness it was finished.
The Main Event of the show though was Randy Savage's "wedding" to Miss Elizabeth. Savage, despite not being allowed to wrestle after losing a retirement match to the Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania VII had stayed on the show as a commentator and come back to the good side. He'd proposed to Elizabeth in the build up and they are given a proper wedding here with no catches. This would eventually lead to Savage breaking his retirement, which wasn't a bad thing.
This PPV had some good stuff on it, DiBiase/ Virgil and Hart/ Perfect, but not much else and it really has aged badly.