Since Monday Night RAW was pre-empted for the U.S. Open on USA Network, there were some matches that aired on the Saturday morning WWF Mania show. Those contests were taped in Worcester, Massachusetts in mid-August. Here were the results of those bouts:
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What the World Was Watching: The Action Zone – August 20, 1995
–Jim Ross and Todd Pettengill are in the booth and they are taped from Portland, Maine. This was the same site as the recent Superstars tapings as the company was reducing television tapings due to budget cuts.
What the World Was Watching: The Action Zone – August 13, 1995
–Jim Ross and Todd Pettengill are the announce team and they are concluding the tapings in St. Louis, Missouri.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – July 8, 1995
–Vince McMahon recaps Men on a Mission beating down the Smoking Gunns back in March because both teams are facing each other in today’s feature match.
–McMahon and Dok Hendrix are doing commentary and they are taped from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
What the World Was Watching: Monday Night RAW – July 3, 1995
–Vince McMahon recaps how Shawn Michaels and Jeff Jarrett had an altercation at the end of last week’s show after Jarrett defended the Intercontinental title against Savio Vega.
–Sid and Bam Bam Bigelow cut promos against each other for tonight’s feature match. Sid promises to give Bigelow a Ph.D. in pain, while Bigelow promises to set Sid on fire, with a fireball included as part of the promo.
–McMahon and Jerry Lawler, who is guzzling what is supposed to be mouth wash, are doing commentary and they are still in Danville, Pennsylvania.
What the World Was Watching: The Action Zone – July 2, 1995
–Jim Ross and Todd Pettengill are in the booth and they are kicking off a new set of tapings in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The tapings were held on June 28, 1995.
–Ross and Pettengill recap the Bret Hart-Jerry Lawler “kiss my foot” match at The King of the Ring. The audience gets another viewing of Lawler hyping his dentist, Isaac Yankem, D.D.S, who he says is coming to the WWF to get some revenge on Bret.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – June 3, 1995
–Vince McMahon says that on today’s show Jerry Lawler will make a “royal decision” about whether to accept Bret Hart’s challenge.
–McMahon and Dok Hendrix are handling commentary and they are doing the last of this cycle of tapings in Danbury, Connecticut.
What the World Was Watching: Monday Night RAW – May 22, 1995
–A promo video puts over how King Kong Bundy is going to try to put Shawn Michaels on the shelf permanently tonight in their King of the Ring qualifying match.
–Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler are in the booth and they are taped from Binghamton, New York.
What the World Was Watching: The Action Zone – May 21, 1995
–A video package hypes today’s Sid-Bob Holly feature match, with Sid saying that Holly has made the biggest mistake of his life by agreeing to face him.
–Jim Ross and Todd Pettengill are doing commentary and they are inaugurating a new set of tapings in Springfield, Massachusetts. The tapings were held on May 17 and drew 2,800 fans according to historyofwwe.com.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – April 15, 1995
–Vince McMahon hypes today’s battle between the Smoking Gunns and the Shoguns (Hakushi and Kwang).
–McMahon and Dok Hendrix – the name that the WWF has given to Michael Hayes – have the commentary duties and they are still in Glen Falls, New York. This is Hayes’s debut as the company chose him to fill color commentary duties over others that they reportedly auditioned, which included Shane Douglas.
What the World Was Watching: The Action Zone – April 9, 1995
–Jim Ross and Stan Lane are tasked with the commentary duties for today’s show and they are taped from Lowell, Massachusetts. The tapings for this month’s set of episodes took place on April 5, 1995.
What the World Was Watching: Monday Night Raw – January 2, 1995
–“Double J” Jeff Jarrett lets us know how great he is going to be in his signing debut on tonight’s RAW.
–Gorilla Monsoon and Shawn Michaels are doing commentary and they are taped from Liberty, New York. This episode was taped on December 12, 1994.
