What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – March 14, 1992

Vince McMahon and Mr. Perfect commentate another episode, still broadcasting from Tampa, Florida.

Bret Hart’s squash from Prime Time Wrestling kicks off the show.

Gene Okerlund’s Update segment hypes the Super WrestleMania video game for SNES but the footage shown is not inspiring, just Sid’s character coming off the top rope to miss Hulk Hogan while Hogan stomps him. Footage is shown of the WrestleMania VIII press conference where Hogan arrived in a bus and WWF Champion Ric Flair and Perfect showed up in a limousine. McMahon interviews Flair in a hotel lobby. Flair says Savage is trying to buy every copy of WWF Magazine so that makes the recent edition a collector’s item. He shows off new photographs of he and Elizabeth watching TNT years ago in a living room and then playing billiards. Flair tells Savage that he should not feel too bad about what is going on with Elizabeth because it is hard to match up to the Nature Boy and closes by reminding Savage that Elizabeth was his first.

Papa Shango (4-0) pins Lee Thomas after the reverse shoulderbreaker at 1:24:

In the split screen, Shango’s introductory vignette is replayed. His smoking voodoo skull has a malfunction, bursting into flames in the corner and sending smoke into the ring. Safety concerns aside, it makes for a nice visual. The WWF ring crew just lets it keep burning as Shango quickly finishes Thomas with a reverse shoulderbreaker, doing a voodoo ritual after the bout. Shango is getting a lot of exposure on WWF Superstars so that is a sign that the company has big plans for him after WrestleMania.

Okerlund visits Randy Savage at his home. Elizabeth has decided not to appear. Savage rips his sunglasses off, gets in Okerlund’s face and yells “Untrue!” several times despite Okerlund’s cries that the evidence is convincing. This was a shorter segment than many expected but Savage did a good job conveying the emotion of a hurt spouse.

El Matador (8-0) pins Lee Armstrong after El Paso Del Muerte at 1:02:

McMahon tells Perfect that he and Flair have made a big mistake by making their WrestleMania match with Savage personal. El Matador bowls over Armstrong with a clothesline, backdrops him, and quickly finishes with El Paso del Muerte. It is only in the last few seconds that McMahon and Perfect do some token hype for El Matador’s match with Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania.

Okerlund does a taped segment with Jake Roberts. Roberts says that hitting the Undertaker with a chair felt almost as good as slapping Elizabeth and he likens what he did on the Funeral Parlor to foreplay. He promises that worse punishment awaits the Undertaker at WrestleMania, mostly a cracked skull from the DDT and he repeats his vow to cremate the Undertaker after the pay-per-view and send him to hell.

A long camera shot of a prison is shown with a siren heard in the background. A voice warns the Big Bossman that their sentence is almost up and they are coming for him.

The Natural Disasters (5-0) beat Jim Cooper & Paul Simpson when Typhoon pins Cooper after the Tidal Wave at 1:58:

In the split screen, Jimmy Hart christens Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster “Money Incorporated” and DiBiase reminds the Disasters that they are going to keep their titles and money at WrestleMania. Cooper takes almost all of the beating for the jobbers as they pose no match for the tag team title contenders. After the bout, Typhoon reminds Money Incorporated that the Disasters are coming for them.

Okerlund does the WrestleMania VIII Report. Sid Justice and Harvey Wippleman tell fans that Hulk Hogan fears facing them. Hogan fires back that Sid has been a coward since he came to the WWF and it is time that he is put in his place. The Undertaker and Paul Bearer tell Jake Roberts that at funeral will be held for him in Stone Mountain, Georgia after the show. A new match announced for the show is an eight-man tag team match where Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Sergeant Slaughter, Virgil & the Big Bossman will face the Mountie, Repo Man & the Nasty Boys. And Reba McIntyre is booked to sing the national anthem.

Sid Justice (w/Harvey Wippleman) (5-0) beats Dale Wolfe after the powerbomb at 1:48:

Wippleman puts himself over as Sid’s personal physician to the ringside cameras. When Wolfe ends up on the floor, Sid takes a chair to him because Wolfe was allegedly going after Wippleman. Back in, Sid plants Wolfe with a powerbomb and keeps his momentum going for WrestleMania.

After the match, Wippleman checks Wolfe’s heartbeat with a stethoscope and has medics put Wolfe on a stretcher. Sid then puts a “Call 911” sign around Wolfe’s neck and Wippleman puts a Hogan bandana around Wolfe’s head, leading to Sid clotheslining Wolfe off the stretcher. Virgil and another jobber come to Wolfe’s aid and Wippleman blows smoke in Virgil’s face. When Virgil goes to respond, Sid attacks him and both men end up in the ring. As fans chant for Hogan, Virgil eats a chokeslam and Sid takes Virgil to an exposed turnbuckle. Virgil holds his face after that and rolls out of the ring as Sid screams about how he rules the world.

After a commercial break, McMahon informs fans that Virgil suffered a broken nose in the last segment.

Tune in next week to see the Undertaker in action! Also, the Mountie and the Nasty Boys will wrestle in a six-man tag! And there will be a special interview with Hulk Hogan and more photographs revealed by Ric Flair and Mr. Perfect!

The Last Word: There was some good promo work on this show by Ric Flair and Jake Roberts to put over their respective WrestleMania matches. Having Sid Justice take out Virgil at the end of the show was a nice touch too because that means a lot more than Sid beating up jobbers each week.

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