This Tuesday in Texas (1991 TV Special) User Reviews

Ridiculous main event

[amanwhorocks · 5/10 · 12 July 2013]

1. Intercontinental Championship: Champ-Bret "Hitman" Hart Vs. Skinner - Decent match. 6/10

2. Jake Roberts Vs. Macho Man - Savage won "unexpectedly". Poor Jake. They booked him to slap Elizabeth. :/ Used to be a baby-face 5.5/10

3. The Warlord Vs. British Bulldog - Another known in advance result. Unnecessary match. Warlord on PPV always jobbed. That's pity he could be great bad-ass heel. 5.5/10

4. The Million Dollar Man/The Repo Man Vs. Virgil/Tito Santana (now with El Matador gimmick) - Teddy wins, hm no DQ. 5.5/10

5. WWF Championship: Champ-The Undertaker Vs. Hulk Hogan - Champ headed to the ring before challenger, stupid. EMbaraasing is booking either. Hogan wins again. Make this time from WWF Title his personal bitch. Terrible. Hulkamania lives. *SIGH 4/10

I appreciate that there were no idiots on this PPV, like Bushwackers, Big Boss Man, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, etc.

Short card, but does a good job

[bh_tafe3 · 7/10 · 18 February 2009]

This was actually, in many ways, a better PPV than Survivor Series 1991. This is certainly true for match quality and the in-ring return of Randy Savage coupled with the Undertaker's shock title win over Hulk Hogan at SS gave this event a big time feel.

There were an inordinate number of dark matches before the PPV section of the show started, this section lasted around 90 minutes.

The Night kicked off with Bret Hart defeating Skinner to retain the WWE Championship. Hart was really starting to find his feet as a singles performer at this time and was starting to have good matches with everybody. Skinner here was no exception.

Next up came the return of Randy Savage as he began a bitter rivalry with the now evil Jake Roberts. This was a good match, won by Savage in a nice finish. Macho Madness was back! Davey Boy Smith continued his strong singles run in the WWE with a win over The Warlord. This rivalry had been going on for a few months now and this was not an overly memorable chapter.

Next up Ted DiBiase and Virgil continued their hostilities in a tag match. Virgil had been the slave of DiBiase for many years, but at the Royal Rumble earlier in the year Virgil had turned on DiBiase, knocking him out with his Million Dollar Belt. Virgil had then defeated DiBIase at Wrestlemania and won the Million Dollar Belt off DiBiase with a win at Summerslam. DIBiase got some payback here teaming up with the Repo Man to defeat Virgil and Tito Santana. This was quite an angle looking back on it.

Finally we come to the Main Event, with Hulk Hogan cheating (!) throwing the ashes from Paul Bearer's urn into the Undertaker's face to help get the win and regain the WWE CHampionship. WWE President Jack Tunney was horrified with what he'd seen and stripped Hogan of the title, opting to put it up for grabs in the 1992 Royal Rumble.

So there you have it, an entertaining night including a returning legend, a world title change, a successful IC Title defence and ending in controversy. All this in less than two hours! Under rated show. The night proved a failure, drawing a disappointing buyrate. It was 13 years before the WWE tried another PPV on Tuesday and almost two years before they tried another minor PPV. That is one that isn't part of the "Big Four" of the Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, Summerslam and Survivor Series.

Smakes in Texas

[paudieconnolly · 5/10 · 23 October 2020]

This one off show must not have gone the way the company hoped. Evident by the fact . They did not arrive a year later for another Tuesday night following the next years survivor series.

Every Match Was Brilliant

[Big Movie Fan · 23 June 2002]

The Tuesday in Texas was a great event, the way a wrestling event should be. It had five matches on it which were all good. Over the years wrestling promoters felt the need to cram a supercard with dozens of matches which resulted in some pretty poor and meaningless matches. Tuesday in Texas took the better route-a few good matches rather than dozens of pointless matches.

Fantastic technical wrestler Bret Hart had a very good match with Skinner. The late British Bulldog battled fellow muscleman The Warlord in a powerful encounter. El Matador and Virgil had an exciting tag team encounter against Ted DiBiase and Repo Man. And the despicable Jake "The Snake" Roberts had a heated match with Randy Savage where Savage's wife Elizabeth got involved.

(SPOILER AHEAD)

The main event was great-Hulk Hogan regained his WWF Title from the evil Undertaker in a great match. One week earlier Hogan had been cheated out of the WWF Title by the Undertaker so it was great to see Hulkamania rule again.

Too short. Not much to look back on.

[morantjavonte · 5/10 · 8 January 2023]

This Tuesday in Texas Thoughts

This Tuesday in Texas was a PPV event produced by the WWF. It took place on December 3, 1991 at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas. We had a decent attendance of 8,000 which is what you would expect from a Coliseum and a disappointing buyrate of 140,000. This show was an experiment for the WWF to launch future PPVs occasionally on Tuesdays. The low buyrate of this pretty much scrapped plans for the future of Tuesday PPVs until 2004 which was a 1 night only. How was the card though?

5 matches were held on the show (excluding a dozen dark matches). Hulk Hogan battled the Undertaker for the WWF Championship. Undertaker won the belt 6 days prior to this PPV which at the time was a shocking moment. It's unfortunate this didn't age well due to someone's egos. The event was also notable for the in-ring return of the "Macho Man" Randy Savage who battled Jake the Snake Roberts who was on a good heel run. Savage was supposedly retired after the previous WrestleMania.

The Good - The tag match on the card was really good with Virgil & Tito Santana facing Repo Man & Ted DiBiase. The match was obviously centered around the feud between Ted DiBiase & Virgil. Both been at it since the break up after Virgil was tired of DiBiase's treatment. The crowd was into it all match and the basic formula worked well with the chemistry between all these stars going very well. It's unfortunate one of these men in the match (Virgil) couldn't do much later in his career.

The Meh - The first 3 matches were okay. The in-ring limits of the WWF at this time seem to be holding all them back. Bret Hart did well with Skinner. The young man at the time entering his prime showed signs he was ready to step up. Randy Savage vs. Jake Roberts could have had more extra time but it was a nice comeback for Savage for this night. A great feud but not too great of a match.

The Bad - The main event unfortunately was a letdown and the ending was lousy. The match was just boring with Undertaker mostly just choking Hogan until the usual comeback was set. It wasn't old school technical wrestling someone might enjoy. Hogan also having to win because of the incident weeks ago he accused Taker of also makes this hard to watch in a later view. Taker didn't have to have this short reign.

Overall - I mean they tried but it didn't click. I think the biggest issue was the length of this PPV. It was pretty short with a lot of house show matches taking place before the show started, probably could have made an impact on the main card.

Score - 5 out of 10: Mediocre

0 = Terrible : 1 = Bad/Lackluster : 2 = Decent : 3 = Good : 4 = Awesome : 5 = One of the Best of all Time

1. Bret Hart vs. Skinner: WWF Intercontinental Championship - 2.5/5

2. Randy Savage vs. Jake Roberts - 2.5/5

3. British Bulldog vs. Warlord - 2/5

4. Virgil & Tito Santana vs. Repo Man & Ted DiBiase - 3.5/5

5. Hulk Hogan vs. The Undertaker: WWF Championship - 1.5/5

Best Match - Virgil & Tito Santana vs. Repo Man & Ted DiBiase

Worst Match - Hulk Hogan vs. Undertaker

Most Memorable Moment - Randy Savage victory

Top 5 Performers

1. Tito Santana - Great Performance

2. Virgil - Great Performance

3. Randy Savage - Great Comeback

4. Jake Roberts - Good Performance

5. Bret Hart - Carried another star for an opener.

Underrated

[RepoManRules · 24 May 2003]

This was an underrated card. MOTN had to go to Savage/Roberts(***1/2) It had excellent pyschology. And Roberts slapping Elizabeth(RIP) was denifitely too hot for T.V. Undertaker losing to Hogan was also pretty cool.

Recommended.