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This Tuesday in Texas was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which took place on December 3, 1991, at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WWF This Tuesday in Texas results/info )〕 Five professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the card. The main event was a rematch for the WWF 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the WWE Championship: The Undertaker — November 27, 1991 )〕 The featured bout on the undercard saw Randy Savage, in his first match since WrestleMania VII, defeat Jake Roberts. The event was an attempt by the WWF 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 October 2004, when it held Taboo Tuesday. ==Background== This Tuesday in Texas featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that were played out on ''Superstars'', ''Wrestling Challenge'' and ''Prime Time Wrestling'' — the World 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Live & Televised Entertainment of World Wrestling Entertainment )〕 During the late summer of 1991, Ric Flair – a multi-time world champion in the rival National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling – signed with the WWF and, appearing on television with his "Big Gold Belt," began targeting WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and declaring himself "The Real World Champion." A feud with Hogan, long-anticipated by fans since the late 1980s, was quickly conceived, and escalated at Survivor Series when he helped The Undertaker defeat Hogan for the WWF Championship. Due to Flair's involvement in the match, a rematch was immediately signed, with WWF president Jack Tunney announcing he would be present at ringside to make sure there was no outside interference. A feud between The Ultimate Warrior and Jake Roberts was planned for the fall of 1991, but when Warrior was fired from the WWF after SummerSlam, Roberts was placed instead in a feud with Randy Savage. That feud's genesis grew out of the wedding reception for Savage and Miss Elizabeth, who were "married" at SummerSlam (in kayfabe, as they had been married in real life for nearly seven years), the reception coming afterward with Roberts and Undertaker crashing the party. After this, Roberts took advantage of Savage's WrestleMania VII loss to Warrior, which forced Savage into retirement, and began insulting him in a series of promos across the country. The insults grew more personal and vicious through the fall of 1991. Eventually, Savage had enough and, while doing color commentary duties on ''WWF Superstars'', came to the ring to confront Roberts, who was delivering an anti-Savage promo. However, Roberts caught Savage and severely beat him before tying him into the ring ropes and allowing a cobra to bite his arm. This incident was the last straw for Tunney regarding Roberts, and he reinstated Savage to the active roster. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「This Tuesday in Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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