This was pretty cookie-cutter for something that had some decent potential on paper. IRS is the most over person in this whole match and is roundly booed whenever he's featured. It doesn't even feel like X-Pac heat either. On the one hand that means he ends up in there for a solid chunk of the ten minutes, while someone like Fatu gets zero, but I suppose he's earned it? The gimmick is obviously ridiculous so if you can turn a feud with Tatanka that's based on not paying gift tax on a Native American headdress into something people are actually invested in then as far as I'm concerned you've earned your TV time. 123 Kid only got about a minute to work but he looked great as he usually does in 1994, hitting spin kicks right under the jaw, bringing some much-needed energy to a team whose primary source of energy, perhaps somewhat ironically, was the dude called SPARKY PLUGG. Jarrett and Martel were pretty amusing and stooged obnoxiously, but they mostly paired up with Billy and Bart and the latter just isn't very good. Billy had a rough start by getting put on his neck off a hip toss in the first three seconds and ignoring it because it wasn't supposed to happen that way, then he redeemed himself with a fun exchange with Samu where he took a killer inside-out bump off a clothesline. Tatanka also participated.
The Quebecers v Men on a Mission (RAW, 4/11/94)
Well this was pretty damn okay! The Quebecers are really fun and make this fairly heated by the end. Their offence rules, all the cool double-teams, distraction spots that would be even better if Hebnar wasn't terrible, just a fun unit that I never really appreciated much before (and it's truly wild that PCO is still going strong 26 years later). I liked them trying to go for Mabel's legs early on before getting bowled over and pivoting towards beating on Mo instead. I have no opinion of Mo whatsoever, really. He gets beaten up for a few minutes and takes an amusing bump to the floor where he headers it into the guardrail. Some pretty big heat for a couple nearfalls, a crowd that really wanted Men on a Mission to win...yeah, this was decent.
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