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This Tuesday in Texas 1991: Savage and Roberts Bring the Hate; Hogan Brings the Ashes

The factual record, historical context, match-by-match analysis, and WrestleFile verdict.

WWFDecember 3, 1991Freeman Coliseum

THE WRESTLEGRADEC6.3 / 10FINAL EVENT SCOREMASTER FILE RANK#842OF 1015

PROMOTION: World Wrestling Federation
DATE: December 3, 1991
VENUE: Freeman Coliseum
LOCATION: San Antonio, Texas
ATTENDANCE: 8,000
EVENT TYPE: PPV

THE FILE

This Tuesday in Texas is the rare pay-per-view whose failure is part of its identity. WWF spent Survivor Series aggressively advertising a rematch nobody had asked to buy six days later, put Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker back together, gave Randy Savage his first match since WrestleMania VII, and discovered that Tuesday night was not waiting to become wrestling's new Sunday. The business experiment failed. The wrestling show is more complicated: too minor to feel essential, too eventful to dismiss, and considerably easier to enjoy than Survivor Series because ninety-three minutes does not leave enough room for the boredom to unionize.

Read the Full FileContinue the event-level analysis

The best thing on the show is not technically a match. Randy Savage and Jake Roberts fight for barely six and a half minutes, but they arrive with months of venom behind them and spend the post-match angle proving that hatred can carry more weight than move count. Savage wins with the elbow. Roberts answers with three DDTs, drags Elizabeth into the violence, and slaps her. The image is ugly, effective and instantly memorable. WWF could have given them fifteen minutes and maybe produced the match of the night. Instead, it gives them six minutes and an angle people remember thirty-five years later. There are worse trades.

The actual best wrestling is the tag match. Ted DiBiase and Repo Man against Virgil and Tito Santana sounds like a card-filling curiosity until the bell rings and four veterans remember that nobody told them this was supposed to be filler. The pace is strong, the crowd stays involved, the Sherri shoe spot is clean, and the cheap finish gives DiBiase another piece of revenge over Virgil. It is not historically enormous. It is simply the best complete match on the broadcast.

Bret Hart and Skinner open with thirteen-plus minutes that prove Bret can make an audience care about almost anyone without making the process look glamorous. The match is methodical and occasionally drags, but Bret's comeback is crisp and the Sharpshooter finish is satisfying. Bulldog-Warlord is the opposite: two powerful men doing competent power wrestling after the feud has already told us most of what it has to say.

Then Hogan and Undertaker attempt to clean up the title mess created at Survivor Series by creating a larger title mess. Flair arrives. Jack Tunney gets knocked down. Bearer misses with the urn. Hogan opens the urn, throws ashes into Undertaker's eyes, rolls him up and wins the WWF Championship. It is a tremendous sequence if the goal is to make a fictional athletic commission develop a stress disorder. The match itself is better than their Survivor Series outing and still not good. The crowd is loud enough to make every Hogan comeback feel important; the wrestling remains slow enough to remind you why atmosphere and match quality are separate categories.

The aftermath saves the booking from becoming pure nonsense. Jack Tunney strips Hogan of the championship, vacates the title, and puts it into the 1992 Royal Rumble. That decision produces one of the greatest Rumble matches ever and Ric Flair's defining WWF victory. In other words, this small failed Tuesday experiment accidentally helps create something much better one month later.

WrestleFile lands at C / 6.3. That is intentionally warmer than the current Cagematch average and John Canton's 5.5, but nowhere near Robert Leighty's 8.0. The short runtime matters. The San Antonio crowd matters. Savage-Roberts matters enormously. But there is no great bell-to-bell match, the main event is overbooked into parody, Bret-Skinner is merely solid, and the whole event carries the unmistakable feeling of a company trying to invent another revenue date before inventing enough material to justify it. This Tuesday in Texas is not a good major WWF pay-per-view. It is a surprisingly watchable failed experiment.

Event ContextBackground, stakes & historical setting

This Tuesday in Texas took place December 3, 1991 at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas. Cagematch classifies it as a Pay Per View, lists approximately 8,000 in attendance, a 1.02 relative buyrate, and a live PPV broadcast. Robert Leighty also uses 8,000 attendance and reports approximately 140,000 buys, while other historical sources have circulated higher equivalents from the era's buyrate methodology. WrestleFile lists 8,000 with medium confidence and leaves the competing buyrate estimates unresolved rather than forcing one retrospective conversion.

The event was WWF's attempt to establish Tuesday as a secondary pay-per-view night. The concept did not become a regular fixture; WWE would not return to a deliberately branded Tuesday PPV until Taboo Tuesday in 2004, outside unusual circumstances such as the rescheduled In Your House 8 broadcast in 1996.

Five matches aired on the pay-per-view and all five are graded. The larger live card also included several dark matches, including Legion of Doom versus The Rockers, Legion of Doom versus Natural Disasters, Ric Flair versus Roddy Piper and additional preliminary bouts. Those matches are not included in the grades because WrestleFile evaluates the actual PPV broadcast rather than the entire building card.

The event directly followed Survivor Series 1991 by six days. Undertaker had defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship with Ric Flair's interference, while Randy Savage had been reinstated after Jake Roberts' cobra attack. This Tuesday in Texas therefore carried two immediate rematches/payoffs: Hogan-Undertaker and Savage-Roberts.

Current replay access is unusually strong. Netflix currently has a dedicated one-episode title page for WWE This Tuesday in Texas with a listed 1h 33m runtime, and WWE Vault maintains the full-event YouTube upload. Both provide current legal replay options.

VIEWING GUIDE

Watch, Skim or Skip?

WATCH

Randy Savage vs. Jake Roberts - including the complete post-match angle
Ted DiBiase & Repo Man vs. Virgil & El Matador

SKIM

Bret Hart vs. Skinner - WWF Intercontinental Championship
The Undertaker vs. Hulk Hogan - WWF Championship

SKIP

British Bulldog vs. The Warlord

MATCH-BY-MATCH ANALYSIS

The Card, On the Record

01Bret Hart def. Skinner - WWF Intercontinental ChampionshipC+

Bret Hart spends thirteen minutes proving that floor matters. Skinner is not positioned as a serious championship threat, enters without a televised introduction, and works a methodical heel control segment built around choking, shortcuts and an alligator claw. Bret still gets the San Antonio crowd invested because his offense is clean and his comeback has a clear sequence rather than a collection of moves thrown at a problem.

The match is slow in the middle, and Skinner's control never creates the feeling that the title is about to change. Once Bret starts the comeback, the difference in level becomes obvious: Russian legsweep, suplex, backbreaker, middle-rope elbow, then the final counter into the Sharpshooter. The finish gets a strong reaction and sends the crowd home from the opener satisfied.

Cagematch currently has the match at 5.34 from 75 votes and displays a quarter-star Observer rating, while Leighty is warmer on the overall show. WrestleFile lands at C+ / 6.9. Bret makes it solid and the crowd helps. The challenger and excessive runtime keep the match from becoming anything more.

VERDICT

SKIM - a professional Bret Hart carry job with too much Skinner control.

02Randy Savage def. Jake RobertsA-

Savage and Roberts barely bother pretending this is a normal wrestling match. Savage attacks before the bell, still wearing his entrance gear, because months of insults and a cobra bite have made lockups feel socially inappropriate. Roberts immediately targets the injured arm, ramming it into the post and working the damage with the calm nastiness that makes his best heel performances uncomfortable rather than theatrical.

The match is too short to become a classic, but every minute is connected to the feud. Roberts goes for the DDT, Savage drives him into the corner, Roberts collapses from the ribs, and Savage lands the elbow for the pin. Then the real story starts. Roberts hits repeated DDTs, Elizabeth runs in, and Roberts slaps her before officials finally remove him. The post-match promo makes clear that winning the match did not end anything.

Cagematch currently rates the match 6.54 from 80 votes and displays a three-star Observer rating. Canton calls the match fine but the aftermath outstanding. WrestleFile lands at A- / 8.6 because the complete match-plus-angle sequence is excellent pro-wrestling storytelling. The bell-to-bell portion alone would be lower; the Event File preserves the reality that the angle is inseparable from why the match matters.

VERDICT

WATCH - short blood-feud match followed by one of Jake Roberts' defining heel angles.

03The British Bulldog def. The WarlordC-

Bulldog and Warlord return to the same fundamental argument they had already settled at WrestleMania VII: Warlord is strong, Bulldog is stronger at the moment that counts. The match has a few satisfying power exchanges and the San Antonio crowd likes Bulldog enough to react to the comebacks, but twelve-plus minutes is a lot of time for a rivalry that no longer has a new question.

Warlord works the back and attempts the full nelson, Bulldog hits the delayed suplex and tries the running powerslam, and the finishing sequence eventually becomes a crucifix pin rather than another definitive power finish. Nothing is disastrously executed. Nothing makes the feud feel renewed.

Cagematch currently sits at 3.82 from 66 votes and displays a 2.25-star Observer rating. WrestleFile goes C- / 5.8 because the match is competent big-man wrestling with a hot enough crowd to avoid becoming a chore. On a five-match PPV, however, competent repetition is not much of a selling point.

VERDICT

SKIP - functional power wrestling from a feud that had already said its best sentence.

04Ted DiBiase & Repo Man def. Virgil & El MatadorB+

This is the surprise of the card. DiBiase, Repo Man, Virgil and Tito Santana enter with the sort of lineup that looks like connective tissue between attractions and then work with enough pace that the match becomes the best complete bell-to-bell performance of the night. DiBiase is the structural anchor, Tito keeps the transitions clean, Virgil has built-in emotional history with DiBiase, and Repo Man is energetic enough that the gimmick does not swallow the wrestler.

The finishing stretch is especially good. Sherri tries to hit Virgil with her shoe, Virgil ducks, DiBiase gets hit instead, and the distraction allows Repo Man to create the opening for DiBiase's pin. It is cheap without being convoluted and advances the Virgil-DiBiase story without requiring another singles match to carry the whole burden.

Cagematch currently has the match at 5.31 from 93 votes and displays a 3.5-star Observer rating. Canton calls it the best match at 3.25 stars, while Leighty later ranked it among his better WWF matches of 1991. WrestleFile lands at B+ / 8.1. It is not historically important enough to inflate, but it is crisp, entertaining and substantially better than the billing suggests.

VERDICT

WATCH - the best complete wrestling match on the PPV.

05Hulk Hogan def. The Undertaker - WWF ChampionshipC-

Hogan and Undertaker improve on Survivor Series mostly because the crowd is louder and the match has slightly more motion. Undertaker still relies heavily on choking, the face claw and slow monster offense, while Hogan spends much of the match bouncing between ineffective attacks and the inevitable comeback. The basic dynamic works because San Antonio treats the rematch like a major event even when the wrestling cannot sustain that feeling on its own.

The finish is legendary nonsense. Flair arrives despite Tunney's presence. Hogan hits Flair with a chair, Flair crashes into Tunney, Bearer accidentally hits Undertaker with the urn, Hogan opens the urn and throws ashes into Undertaker's eyes, then rolls up the blinded champion. The referee counts three while Tunney is reviving and watching enough of the chaos to ensure the next controversy can begin.

Cagematch currently rates the match 4.21 from 90 votes and displays a 1.5-star Observer rating. Canton gives it 1.75 stars and calls it pretty bad despite the crowd. WrestleFile lands at C- / 5.9. The atmosphere and historical consequences rescue it from a lower grade. The wrestling and finish prevent any claim that this is a good championship match.

VERDICT

SKIM - important title-history chaos, mediocre wrestling.

BOOKING VERDICTC+

Booking Verdict Grade: C+. The Savage-Roberts story is excellent and nearly everything around the WWF Championship is a bureaucratic crime scene.

Savage beating Roberts is the correct result because the comeback needs catharsis. Roberts then regains the upper hand after the bell, which preserves the feud and deepens his heel character without nullifying Savage's actual victory. The decision to involve Elizabeth is deliberately uncomfortable and historically effective. Roberts crossing that line gives Savage a reason to continue the feud beyond simple revenge for the cobra bite.

The tag match also advances its feud cleanly. DiBiase and Repo Man use Sherri's attempted interference to create the finish, DiBiase pins Virgil, and the result gives the heel another measure of revenge after Virgil's SummerSlam breakthrough. It is conventional wrestling booking and works because conventional is sometimes preferable to six layers of executive review.

Bret retaining over Skinner and Bulldog beating Warlord are straightforward maintenance decisions. Neither challenger is positioned to become champion or alter the hierarchy, so clean babyface victories make sense.

The Hogan-Undertaker finish is where logic becomes performance art. Flair interferes despite Tunney's presence, Hogan accidentally knocks Tunney down, Undertaker gets hit with the urn, and Hogan throws ashes from the urn into Undertaker's eyes before stealing the pin. The point is to create enough controversy that Tunney can vacate the championship and move it to the Royal Rumble. That later decision is fantastic. The path there asks viewers to accept a title rematch designed almost entirely to invalidate itself.

C-plus reflects the split: the midcard stories are coherent, Savage-Roberts is great, and the title chaos produces a brilliant Royal Rumble setup. The main event itself is booking as paperwork.

CROWD & PRESENTATIONB+

Crowd & Presentation Grade: B+. San Antonio is one of the reasons the event remains easier to watch than its reputation. Bret Hart receives a major reaction, Savage and Roberts have genuine blood-feud heat, Hogan's comeback gets the expected roar, and even the smaller matches benefit from an audience willing to participate.

The short runtime is another presentation advantage. At roughly ninety-three minutes, the show resembles the compact In Your House model WWF would later use successfully. There is very little dead production space, Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan keep the tone lively, and the show moves to the next attraction before the weaker material can settle into the furniture.

Savage-Roberts is the presentation peak. The match starts before Savage can properly disrobe, the injured arm is immediately part of the visual story, and the post-match attack continues through Elizabeth's arrival and Roberts' backstage promo. The angle feels dangerous because the camera does not treat it like a comedy prop waiting for the next segment.

The main event crowd is also fascinating. Hogan is still overwhelmingly over, but Undertaker has enough support that the championship dynamic is not the simple hero-versus-monster arrangement WWF usually gives Hogan. That mixed energy helps a slow match feel larger than it is.

The grade stops at B-plus because the event's overall scale is unmistakably secondary. Several challengers feel like television opponents, the building card contains more attractive dark matches than parts of the PPV, and the main event's chaos is presented clearly without becoming convincing.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCEB

Historical Significance Grade: B. This Tuesday in Texas is historically important largely because WWF's experiment fails and because the championship mess creates a better idea.

The event is the company's unsuccessful attempt to create a secondary Tuesday pay-per-view slot. The concept disappears for more than a decade before WWE returns to Tuesday PPV branding with Taboo Tuesday in 2004. That makes the show an early case study in the limits of pay-per-view expansion during WWF's first major national era.

Hogan defeats Undertaker for the WWF Championship only six days after Undertaker's first title win. The controversial finish prompts Jack Tunney to vacate the championship, and the vacant belt is awarded to the winner of the 1992 Royal Rumble. Ric Flair wins that match from number three, producing one of the defining performances of his WWF run.

Savage versus Roberts is another major historical chapter. It is Savage's first match after the WrestleMania VII retirement stipulation and continues one of the darkest mainstream WWF feuds of the period. The post-match attack on Savage and Elizabeth becomes one of Jake Roberts' most frequently remembered heel moments.

The larger live card also sits near the end of The Rockers' original run. Shawn Michaels had already turned on Marty Jannetty in the Barbershop segment taped the previous day, even though the segment would not air until January. They continued to work together briefly before the televised breakup became official.

B rather than A-plus reflects that the show is a hinge point, not a destination. Its greatest historical consequence is the Royal Rumble solution WWF creates after this event breaks the championship.

WHAT AGED WELL

Savage and Roberts prove that a six-minute match can feel enormous when the feud has genuine emotional heat and the post-match angle has consequences.
The compact ninety-three-minute runtime makes the event far easier to revisit than many overstuffed early WWF pay-per-views.
DiBiase and Repo Man versus Virgil and Tito Santana is much better than the lineup suggests and rewards the audience with actual pace.
The championship vacancy created after the show leads directly to the 1992 Royal Rumble, one of WWF's best booking solutions of the era.

WHAT AGED POORLY

The WWF Championship rematch is engineered to create another controversial finish only six days after the previous controversial finish.
Skinner receiving a thirteen-minute Intercontinental Championship match on a five-match PPV makes the event's secondary-card depth look thin.
Bulldog-Warlord feels like a feud extension after the rivalry had already delivered its clearer payoff at WrestleMania VII.
The event's failed business concept is impossible to separate from the sense that WWF scheduled the revenue date before building a card worthy of another purchase.

RESEARCH VERDICTWhere the Evidence Lands

Outside reception is unusually split for such a small show. Robert Leighty gives This Tuesday in Texas 8.0/10 and emphasizes its compact runtime, hot crowd and generally entertaining action. John Canton lands at 5.5/10, identifying the Savage-Roberts angle as the highlight, the DiBiase/Repo tag as the best match, and Hogan-Undertaker as the worst. That disagreement is useful because both are reacting to real features of the same event: it is short and lively, but the card contains no genuinely great bell-to-bell match.

Cagematch currently gives the event 5.16 from 90 valid ratings, with a lower 4.40 average in 2026. The matchguide currently rates Bret-Skinner at 5.34 with a quarter-star Observer rating, Savage-Roberts at 6.54 with three stars, Bulldog-Warlord at 3.82 with 2.25 stars, DiBiase/Repo-Virgil/Matador at 5.31 with 3.5 stars, and Hogan-Undertaker at 4.21 with 1.5 stars. Those numbers reinforce the absence of a true wrestling classic while also showing that Savage-Roberts and the tag match stand above the rest.

The WrestleFile verdict does not average Leighty's 8.0, Canton's 5.5 and Cagematch's 5.16. The show gets independent credit for being compact, crowd-friendly and historically consequential, while losing substantial points for a poor main event, thin opponent selection and the basic fact that WWF sacrificed Survivor Series resolution to sell a rematch that then created another non-resolution.

Business figures require caution. Cagematch lists a 1.02 relative buyrate. Leighty cites approximately 140,000 buys and calls it WWF's lowest until 1995, while other retrospective sources convert the historical 1.0 figure to a much higher approximate household count. WrestleFile preserves the experiment's failure as the important conclusion without pretending retrospective conversion methods produce one perfectly settled buy total.

Streaming is confirmed from two current sources. Netflix maintains a dedicated WWE This Tuesday in Texas title page with one 1h 33m episode, and WWE Vault's current YouTube result identifies the video as the full event. Both destinations are included in availability.

WrestleFile lands at C / 6.3. That score places the event above Survivor Series 1991 because the shorter show is much easier to watch and contains a substantially better feud payoff, while keeping it below genuinely good PPVs. The failed Tuesday experiment deserves better than its reputation and less than its most enthusiastic defenders.

RESEARCH SOURCESSources & Methodology

14 sources

These sources support the event record, historical context, critical reception, and streaming information used throughout this Event File.

Netflix - WWE This Tuesday in TexasVerified current full-event streaming page and 1h 33m runtime
WWE Vault - Full Event This Tuesday in TexasVerified official full-event YouTube replay
WWE - Hogan vs Undertaker, This Tuesday in TexasPrimary official championship-match historical record
WWE - Savage vs Jake Roberts, This Tuesday in TexasPrimary official Savage-Roberts historical record
Cagematch - WWF This Tuesday In TexasStructured PPV record, attendance, buyrate and official video mapping
Cagematch - This Tuesday In Texas Card With GuideCurrent matchguide and displayed Wrestling Observer ratings
Cagematch - This Tuesday In Texas RatingsCurrent community reception and 2026 trend
411Mania - Leighty's Retro Review: WWF This Tuesday in TexasIndependent 8.0/10 review and PPV-business context
TJR Wrestling - WWE This Tuesday in Texas 1991 ReviewIndependent 5.5/10 review and match ratings
Scott's Blog of Doom - This Tuesday in Texas RantIndependent retrospective counterpoint
Blog of Doom - What the World Was Watching: This Tuesday in TexasSupplementary historical review
Retro Pro Wrestling - This Tuesday in Texas 1991Supplementary full-event retrospective
Wrestling Recaps - WWF This Tuesday in TexasHistorical event recap and result cross-check
Smarkdown's Blog - This Tuesday in Texas 1991Supplementary independent retrospective

FULL-EVENT RECOMMENDATION

SKIM

This Tuesday in Texas is short enough to watch whole, but the Event File has two clear priorities. Watch Savage versus Roberts from entrance through the backstage aftermath. The match is brief, the angle is outstanding, and the promos afterward are among the strongest heel work Jake Roberts produced in WWF. That entire sequence is mandatory if following Savage's 1991-92 arc.

Watch DiBiase and Repo Man versus Virgil and Tito Santana if you want the best complete wrestling match. It has no giant historical reputation and earns its place through execution.

Bret-Skinner can be skimmed; Bret's comeback and finish are good, but thirteen minutes is more Skinner than the historical record demands. Bulldog-Warlord is optional unless tracking their feud.

Watch Hogan-Undertaker for the title-history chaos, not because the wrestling is good. The ashes, Flair, Tunney and the eventual championship vacancy are the point.

The whole event runs only about an hour and a half, so completionists will survive. Everyone else can find nearly all of the value in Savage-Roberts, the tag match and the main-event finish.

WHERE TO WATCH

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Checked August 12, 20262 OPTIONS

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Netflix - Subscription full event

Watch on NetflixNetflix maintains a dedicated WWE This Tuesday in Texas page with one episode listed at 1h 33m.

Worldwide - subject to YouTube availability

YouTube - Free official full event

Watch on YouTubeWWE Vault's current search result identifies this video as the full This Tuesday in Texas event.

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