Goldust jumps Horowitz to start and the two battle for control , which the bizarre one wins. Pillman claims he needs to be Goldust's agent for building the harem he intends. Pillman then again claims that Vince loves cashing his checks since he's the boss. Goldust finishes off this squash match quick with the curtain call. Vince himself walks right into Pillman's joke which has him have to cut away from it...

"Does Marlena ever get excited about anything ?"

"She is when she has that 3 way soon , ha ha-"

Backstage is the Smokin Gunns and an angry Sunny still covered with cake. She proclaims that the Smokin Gunns are respectable champions unlike Shawn and Ahmed. Both brothers are angry as its the 1st time I have seen Billy and Bart actually speak in a long , long time. Then we get the slam of the week where we see Cornette cost Shawn Michaels the win against Vader , and he was Vader bombed.

In ring we see Vader ready to be interviewed by Vince McMahon. Its there we see Cornette claim he demanded this WWF World title match at the next PPV. Cornette claims that this is like when Shawn was in grade school and had to give the big bully his lunch money. The dream will end for Michaels soon at Summerslam and the next champion is Vader !

We get the funny Olympic promo for the 1996 Summerslam which was pretty funny. The main event is next as after Shawn and Ahmed come out , the Gunns run out in anger. They brawl in ring as the Gunns are soon knocked outta the ring. As Sunny tries to talk strategy and get her guys back into this , Shawn eases over and asks how she loved that cake baby.

Shawn is just on fire and doing his showboating and bragging as he sits up in the corner , taunts and teases the Smokin Gunns. We see a picture of Ahmed's nose bandage which Vince claims is him healing from a broken nose. Ahmed comes in and continues the ass kicking on the Gunns. It looks like Gunns will get some advantage as Shawn seems down as Bart is tagged in and misses a big elbow drop.

As the heels start to beat on Ahmed , he suddenly rallies back and nails a one handed type body slam with his power. He tags in Shawn who is on fire. Then in a cool wicked spot , Shawn goes up for a huricanrana and is dropped by both men throat first across the ropes. This has Bart yell and taunt Shawn as they work him over with some solid tag team moves.

The fans get behind Shawn and the entire place rallies for Shawn. It doesn't work as Billy throws Shawn with so much force , he goes flying over the turnbuckle. Shawn takes more of a beating as Billy Gunn taunts him. Ahmed finally makes the tag as the referee is distratced by Bart . We go to commercial as Jim Ross advertises the WWF Superstar Line. Will Summerslam be the Undertaker's last match ? I'd say....no.

Back from commercial as Shawn continues to take a beating by both men . Then suddenly as the Gunns get too confident , they try a double team move and Shawn stops it. Then the crowd goes insane as Ahmed Johnson makes the hot tag. He's destroying everyone until dumped over the top rope and suddenly....out comes some guy in a weird blue costume. He's jumped Ahmed Johnson outside the ring and laying a beating on him.

This leaves Shawn alone with both brothers in ring as he rallies to try and handle both of them. Meanwhile outside this guy misses a spot and is supposed to ram Ahmed back 1st into the ring post. Instead he slams him ass first. Lawler claims the man looks like Ron Simmons as he's quickly cut off as it is Ron Simmons once we see his face. Shawn comes outta the ring and kicks away Simmons.

Outside we see that Sunny has brought this guy in as he claims that from this day forward the kingdom belongs to her. So he's a Jehovah's Witness now ? Anyhow he looks insanely silly with the getup on.

The Bad - This RAW featured the debut of 3 guys and all 3 talented men were put into some really insane shitty gimmicks. Bill Irwin was made to dress as a comical evil Hockey player. Its pretty clear the Goon was inspired by Vince McMahon seeing Happy Gilmore and deciding he needed that character on WWF TV. Then you had Tracy Smothers who was a very solid in ring worker and Vince gave him a new name and pretty much did little with him. And finally he gets Ron Simmons and seemed ready to screw him up awhile.

Other than the Goldust/Horowitz squash match , this wasn't a bad RAW wrestling wise.

It had to hurt Candido's feelings that onscreen at this point Shawn Michaels was pretty much making out with his girlfriend , because behind the scenes she had left Candido to be with Shawn awhile. The two had a long affair behind the scenes that Sunny revealed later. So onscreen here was Shawn licking cake off her and more. It wasn't a good time I'm sure for him.


OVERALL : ***1/2 OUTTA 5. This RAW had an anything can happen vibe , long since missing for WWF. The opening match suddenly not happening and then coming later was a nice touch and it was something WCW was doing. You had guys clicking like Mankind , Brian Pillman and Steve Austin. This is the show Austin debuts his full catch phrase that would become legendary.