High Energy vs The Headshrinkers (WWF, 11-25-1992)

WWF Survivor Series, Richfield, OH

This is one of my personal favorite shows ever and it’s where I’m at on my Survivor Series rewatch. ’92 returned to the site of the original two Survivor Series, in suburban Cleveland, and it was the first year with basically no actual Survivor Series matches.

The Headshrinkers don’t get an entrance, but they have Afa in their corner, and he’s chewin’ on some meat. High Energy, if you’re unaware, are Owen Hart and Koko B. Ware in Hammer pants and suspenders.

Samu starts with Owen, and shoves him over out of a C&E. Owen can’t match power with Samu, and it’s proven again after another C&E. Side headlock from Owen, Samu goes to the hair. Owen off the ropes, and he runs into a wall. But now he picks up the pace, running the ropes, making Samu miss on a crossbody, and hitting his own for a count of one, then a quick dropkick, armdrag, dropkick, and man, Owen was a great fiery babyface before the heel turn.

Koko tags in, and the Headshrinkers corner him, but he ducks a shot and Fatu is punched by Samu. Fatu in, Koko goes to the foot stomps on the bare feet of Fatu. Samu in there, Koko bops their heads together, but of course it has no effect. And then Afa cracks Koko in the back with a big ass stick, and the Headshrinkers take control.

Fatu with a scoop slam, using just one arm to deliver the drop. Owen gets suckered into the ring and pushed back by the referee, and the Headshrinkers corner Koko again as Vince and Bobby talk about Mr. Perfect returning later in the show to team with Randy Savage against Ric Flair and Razor Ramon.

Koko reeling here, Fatu dominating in the ring. Head rammed into the top turnbuckle pad, then Koko off the ropes and runs into a big clothesline from Fatu. Samu tags in. Koko with some elbows to the gut, leapfrogs off the ropes, but gets drilled with another clothesline to cut off any rally attempt.

Fatu tags in, knee to the gut, another one. Koko off the ropes again, goes for a sunset flip and gets it for two. But he stands up slowly, and when he does, Fatu is ready with a superkick. Fatu lets Ware crawl toward his corner, only to cut him off again. He just watched him, toying with Ware’s confidence.

Samu tags in, Koko trying to fight them both off, but they hammer him down. Chop from Samu pus Ware down, a couple more shots and a cover for two. Samu bites him for a moment. Samu sloppily faceslams Koko to the mat. Looked like ass.

Ware to the corner, he dodges a Samu splash and Samu goes down hard. Koko has his chance to tag Owen, and he’s a-crawlin’ for it. He makes it, and Owen leaps in, a house afire. Dropkicks for everyone! Fatu out of the ring, Samu gets backdropped. Owen goes up top, flies off, and hits a crossbody for one before Fatu comes in and breaks it up.

Owen with a spinning heel kick for Fatu, knocking him back out of the ring. Samu reverses a whip, Owen ducks a clothesline, but runs into a powerslam. Fatu tags, goes up top, dives over Samu, and hits the flying splash for the win.

Rating: 3/5. Good tag teams, entertaining enough to kick off the show, quick pace, no restholds or anything at all. They felt a little rushed in the end, but the match worked well enough and Owen Hart looked awesome here. It’s really kind of unfortunate that he was most famous for being a snotty shitty heel, because in a lot of ways he was way better as a plucky, quick babyface.