TPTodd Pettengill
Thanksgiving Eve, live from the Boston Garden, an American tradition. I am standing in the middle of the Foreign Fanatics' contigency on this American eve, Thanksgiving, after all, the celebration of America and all the victories we've had in this country...
TTodd
Quite simply, your denigration policy across this country at this time specifically was not very well planned, Jim.
Pettengill, first of all, you don't know the meaning of half of those words you just spit out, you were looking them up all night in Funk & Wagnalls. Second of all, we haven't denigrated anybody, we're upholding a fine American tradition: be winners at any cost, and that's exactly what we are. We're winners, and we'd do anything to win.
And thirdly, there's a fine old American tradition — carving up a turkey on Thanksgiving Eve, and that's what we're going to do. We're gonna carve up four of them. Now everybody's been asking, everybody's been wondering since this match was announced: "what is your strategy? How are you going to fight the All-Americans? Is it gonna be divide and conquer? Are you going to mount a frontal assault, an all-out attack?"
Well, let me just say this. We've sat down and we've thought about this. The All-Americans — we look at them like one man, because they fight together, they stand together, they think as one. They're a unit, so how do you take a man out? Well, you can go for the mind, you can go for the heart, or you can go for the soul.
Now, the heart of the All-Americans is the Steiner Brothers. They got a never-say-die attitude, they'll fight to the end; but you give a blow to the heart, it can be devastating.
Now the mind, the mind is the Undertaker, because, after all, he's the master of fear, the master of psychology, the master of the psych-out; but if you take away a man's mind, he's confused, he's disoriented, and you can easily take him out.
Then there's the soul, and the soul of the All-Americans is Lex Luger.
TTodd
Team captain Lex Luger.
He's the — shut up, Pettengill! — he's the embodiment of the American Dream, the spirit to succeed, victory against the odds. Lex Luger is the soul of the All-Americans, and when you capture a man's soul, then you've defeated him once and for all. And tonight, that's gonna be our strategy: mind, heart & soul. The All-Americans are going down in the Boston Garden tonight!
TTodd
Ladies and gentlemen, on Thanksgiving Eve, in the middle of the Foreign contingency, coming up next, it's the "Clash of the Superpowers."
SM"The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels
[exiting the building] Can you believe that ungrateful leech, what he just did to me? I made that guy. I got news for you. Did you hear of Big Daddy Cool before you heard of Shawn Michaels? No, never. And he treats me like that? That's it, I'm finished with this. You know, you'd think I'd know better. [Struggles to open the car door] Come on. You think I'd know better with this tag team stuff. He turned his back on me like a rabid dog. I got nothing to do with him ever again.
[Shawn drops his tag team championship belt and enters his car]
TPTodd Pettengill
Wait... I don't understand.
He turned on me like a rabid dog. I made him. He's a zero without me.
TTodd
He's a zero without you? Wait, what's that? Diesel is on his way.
You tell Big Daddy Cool, he needs a ride, try hitting the pavement! Hit the bricks!
TPTodd Pettengill
Obviously, we've just witnessed some...we thought you were having compassion for your brother. Vince McMahon said we're seeing the "true Owen Hart." This obviously was some sort of setup.
OOwen
A setup? You got it right, that was a setup! This is the greatest Thanksgiving of my life! And Mom and Dad? [Laughing] You fell right into my trap! You threw the towel in! And Bret, you're no longer the WWF Champion! Mr. Backlund is! And Bret, I could've beaten you before, but you cheated; but now you're nothing! You're below me, you're down there in the gutter, Bret! You're not a champion anymore, [sing-songy] you're a loser, and I'm a king, and Bret, you're a nobody. I'm gonna be the WWF Tag Team Champion, I am gonna be a WWF Intercontinental Champion, and Bret, I am gonna be the WWF World Heavyweight Champion; and I, unlike you, will never quit, I will never surrender! You're a quitter, Bret! Mom and Dad threw in the towel, and you're history, Bret. And I am the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be. Don't you forget it, brother. Woo!
TTodd
Let's go back to ringside. [cut back to the commentary table]
What a creep! Unbelievable! I thought he was showing legitimate compassion! Tears were running down his face, Vince!
I actually feel betrayed. I mean, for Owen Hart to...he was pleading with his mom and dad...
How could you do that to your mother and father, and your brother? What kind of an ingrate...he's a worse individual than I thought he was. He's a creep, first-class.
There's not a great deal you can say. Bob Backlund, the new World Wrestling Federation Champion. And fans here...
A lot of folks crying in this arena. I don't blame them. Imagine what Stu and Helen feel like right now.
Let's go back up for more action.
TTodd
I am standing with Bob Backlund. He did exactly what he said he was going to do. Agree or disagree with his tactics, he is now 2-time WWF Champion...
BBBob Backlund
[interrupting] Wait a minute, wait a minute. First of all, young man, it's Mr. Bob Backlund, and you're incorrect. I've been the Champion since 1978. I never lost the Championship. Tonight I just regained the belt, and I beat the man that represents your society! I beat him so I could save you! I'm going to scrutinize you to the fullest, pasteurize you, homogenize you, and synchronize you back into morality! You understand, ladies and gentlemen? It's sports-education! I'M YOUR CHAMPION! And I'll take on anybody...anybody at all, ladies and gentlemen, in your generation, 'cause I'm fighting for something that's more important than anything in this world, is put morality back into your lives; and now your children have somebody that they can emulate after, and try to catch up to... 'CAUSE I FEEL LIKE GOD!!!
[cut back to the commentary table]
Alright, thank you very much, Todd Pettengill. What's your reaction to Bob Backlund?
Well, we're in trouble, Vince.
You know, but... he made a stupid statement there. He said, "I never gave up," but he got the title back here tonight in the same fashion that he lost it in Madison Square Garden – by someone throwing the towel in. When is he gonna wake up and look in the mirror and say, "hey, it happened before, it's happened again, now I'm the champion, you're gonna have to live with it"? We're gonna have to live with it.