IWF This Tuesday in Texas

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This Tuesday in Texas
Imformation
Promotion	International Wrestling Federation
Date	December 3, 1991
Attendance	8,000
Venue	Freeman Coliseum
City	San Antonio, Texas
Pay-per-view chronology
Survivor Series (1991)	This Tuesday in Texas	Royal Rumble (1992)

This Tuesday in Texas was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF), which took place on December 3, 1991 at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas.

Five professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the card. The main event was a rematch for the IWF Championship, which saw Hulk Hogan defeat the champion, The Undertaker, to regain the title. Hogan had lost the championship six days earlier at Survivor Series in a controversial finish. The featured bout on the undercard saw Brady Savage, in his first match since WrestleMania VII, defeat Jake Roberts.

The event was an attempt by the IWF to establish Tuesday as a secondary pay-per-view night. Lukewarm reaction and a disappointing 1.0 buyrate rendered the experiment a failure, and the company shelved its plans until nearly thirteen years later, when it held Taboo Tuesday.

Background

This Tuesday in Texas featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that were played out on Superstars, Wrestling Challenge and Prime Time Wrestling — the International Wrestling Federation's television programs. Wrestlers portrayed a villain or a hero as they followed a series of events that built tension, and culminated into a wrestling match or series of matches.

Event

The first match to air live on pay-per-view (PPV) was a standard singles match for the IWF Intercontinental Championship between the challenger, Skinner and the champion, Bret Heart. Heart controlled the first few minutes of the match until Skinner rammed Heart's shoulder into the ring post. Skinner then retained control for most of the match until he attempted a move from the middle rope which was countered when Hart raised his leg and connected with a boot to Skinner's face. Shortly afterward, Skinner climbed the ropes again but was grabbed and slammed to the mat. Heart then applied his finishing move, the Sharpshooter, and forced Skinner to submit, therefore retaining the championship.

Aftermath

The following weekend, Jack Tunney vacated the IWF Championship due to the controversial finishes of the last two matches between Hogan and Undertaker. He declared that the winner of the Royal Rumble match would be crowned the new IWF Champion. Both wrestlers appeared in the match, however, Undertaker was eliminated by Hogan, who was himself later eliminated by Sid Justice. Jake Roberts and Brady Savage continued to feud for the next couple months. This included Savage eliminating Roberts during the Royal Rumble match and ended following a match between the two on the February 8, 1992 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event. After losing the match, an enraged Roberts waited backstage for Savage and Elizabeth to arrive while announcing that he was going to hit with a steel chair whomever entered first. Elizabeth was first through the curtain but, as he swung, was blocked by The Undertaker who then hit Roberts with the chair, which began a feud between the two that culminated at WrestleMania VIII.

Reception

The IWF earned approximately $100,000 in ticket sales with an attendance of 8,000. The pay-per-view received a buyrate of 1.0, which is the equivalent of approximately 400,000 buys. The event was featured on the IWF Supertape '92 home video, which was released on VHS in the United States on January 23, 1992 by Coliseum Video.

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