Network Classics: WWF Superstars - May 9, 1992

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports, Sports News, News, Leisure, Wrestling

4.8 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "Network Classics", we relive the May 9, 1992 episode of WWF Superstars! In it, we see Ric Flair go one-on-one with Sgt. Slaughter in the featured bout. Plus, the much anticipated in-ring debut of Crush. Papa Shango places a deathly curse on this new enemy, The Ultimate Warrior. Also, Kamala returns and the Legion of Doom are in action. And we check in with Sean Mooney at the Event Center. All this and more on a special Mother's Day episode of WWF Superstars!

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0:28.6	hello everybody and welcome to yet another network classic right here in prime time with Sean Mooney
0:46.0	as we go through some of the vintage programming that the WWF produced in the early days
0:53.8	before of course becoming the WWE produced in the early days before, of course, becoming the
0:55.2	WWE. And these programs have turned up on the WWE network. And we're talking all kinds of
1:02.3	different shows, which include primetime wrestling, also Tuesday night Titans. We've done some
1:10.0	of those Saturday night main events. We've done some of those Saturday night main events.
1:12.5	We've done a few of those programs.
1:14.7	And then, of course, the WWF superstars, which of course, there's a lot of history behind that.
1:21.0	And the name of that and the WWF superstars having to be removed and that whole thing, it's all mixed up. But still, this is at the
1:29.9	time, they're still calling it, WWF superstars. And this is an episode from May 9th, 1992, which is
1:38.9	a lot, a lot happening in the World Wrestling Federation at this point in time.
1:45.4	And most of it is not good.
1:47.8	It's not a good time in the WWF.
1:52.3	There's all kinds of controversy swirling around the company from the, you know, the steroid scandal to, you know, the government going after Vince McMahon and
2:05.4	hoping to put him in prison. That was basically their idea. That's what it all came down to. And it
2:12.2	wasn't a great time for product either. I mean, the content was not tremendous. A lot of superstars were defecting
2:20.6	and heading down south to work for the WCW. It just wasn't a great time at all in professional
2:26.8	wrestling. And as we have talked about this over a period, you know, doing these podcasts that,
2:34.0	you know, it's all cyclical. It's all,
2:36.0	you know, up and down. The business goes up and down. And it's not just with the WWF. It's
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