WWF Monday Night Raw Results
October 16, 1995 (Taped September 25)
Grand Rapids, Michigan (Civic Auditorium)
Commentary: Vince McMahon and Jerry “The King” Lawler
Results by: Mike Tedesco of Wrestleview.com
“The World Wrestling Federation: for over fifty years, the revolutionary force in sports entertainment.” The WWF video leads us into the show.
Video: Dr. Isaac Yankem is shown standing in the Steel Cage. Yankem says he’s going to apply the biggest set of braces in the history of the World Wrestling Federation to Bret Hart’s teeth. Bret Hart says Yankem and Jerry “The King” Lawler are the tartar and abscess of the World Wrestling Federation. Hart says in the 15-foot-high steel cage, he’ll be their personal hygienist. Lawler says Yankem will cure Hart’s gingivitis and overbite. When Yankem is through with Hart, he’ll look like his trench-mouthed mother. Lawler says he knows Yankem’s victory is under lock and key.
Mike’s Thoughts: Oh my god, those were some of the corniest promos that may have ever been cut in wrestling history. That was everything that was wrong with the WWF in 1995. Yuck. Kind of funny to watch now because we know things do get better, but watching through the lens of being there in 1995 is kind of scary. That’s the best the WWF had to offer then. Also, when Yankem was cutting that promo, it was so weird to hear Kane saying all that goofy stuff.
Video: The WWF Raw rooftop brawl intro is shown.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley is in the ring and sprays some of his cologne at Vince McMahon and Jerry “The King” Lawler, who are standing at ringside. McMahon says it smells like some kind of insecticide. McMahon puts over the Steel Cage Match. Lawler says the Steel Cage is no better place for Isaac Yankem to perform his brand of dentistry on Bret “Hitman” Hart. McMahon mentions that if Lawler gets involved, WWF President Gorilla Monsoon will put Lawler in a small cage. Lawler says no one is tough enough to put him in a cage. Yankem’s victory is already under lock and key.
McMahon mentions that King Mabel and Dean Douglas were fined $7,500 for their actions in the 6-Man Tag Team Match last week by WWF President Gorilla Monsoon. Monsoon will join them live later and will announce who will face King Mabel at In Your House 4. As a result of Mabel and Yokozuna coming down on Undertaker’s face, he has suffered a crushed face.
Mike’s Thoughts: Ok, that’s an actual legitimate injury to The Undertaker, one of two awful things that would massively change the In Your House 4 card for this coming weekend (I’ll cover the second in detail later). Undertaker fractured his orbital bone at a WWF House Show on October 7 in a match against King Mabel. They mistimed a clothesline, and Mabel’s fist smashed Undertaker’s eye.
The timing of this injury was brutal. In 1995, WWF’s roster was already razor-thin when it came to true main event talent. Losing Undertaker, a guy who had been built up as a nearly unstoppable force and almost never missed time, was devastating. He was supposed to headline shows and provide much-needed star power on an incredibly shaky card.
What I love about this story, if there’s anything to love from an injury, is how friggin’ tough Mark Calaway was as a wrestler. Most guys would have been immediately sidelined with a broken orbital bone, but Undertaker gutted through it, working an unreal three more house shows against Issac Yankem before the pain became unbearable and he went for a check-up. That’s the kind of stuff that built his incredible reputation as a locker room leader and helped make him one of the most respected wrestlers of all time.
Ultimately, Undertaker would need surgery to repair the injury and would miss about a month of action. In the short term, it forced a major reshuffling of the card and, along with another humongous setback, helped sink In Your House 4 into infamy. That other setback would turn out to be even more shocking.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs. Doink the Clown
Referee: Danny Davis
They lock up, and Helmsley applies a side headlock. Doink quickly rubs his face on Helmsley’s chest, rubbing some makeup onto the Connecticut Blueblood. Helmsley is not pleased. They lock up, and Doink hits a hip toss. Doink grabs him by the nose and slaps his hand down. Helmsley is in a lot of pain. Helmsley charges, but Doink scoop slams him. Doink puts Helmsley’s head between his legs and rings the ears. Doink mocks him until Helmsley clotheslines him down. Helmsley stomps away at Doink before sending him into the ropes for a back elbow. Helmsley does his blueblood bow. Helmsley knocks him to the corner and whips him to the opposite side. Doink boots him away and hits a sidewalk slam. Doink goes for an elbow drop, but Helmsley moves. Helmsley hits a knee drop for a two-count. Helmsley connects with a vertical suplex for another two-count. Helmsley grabs Doink’s head and applies a rear chin lock. Doink fights up, but Helmsley cuts him off. Helmsley sends him into the ropes, but Doink catches him with an inside cradle for a two-count. Doink does a backslide pin for another two-count. Doink punches him to the corner before Helmsley reverses a whip. Doink goes for a springboard cross-body (for real), but Helmsley drops down to avoid it. Helmsley connects with a Pedigree for the win.
Winner by Pinfall: Hunter Hearst Helmsley
Mike’s Thoughts: Ugh, the first sighting of Doink the Clown in the Monday Night War recaps. The man behind the makeup in this match was Ray Apollo. This character was a far cry from the much more sinister portrayal by Matt Borne in 1993. By this point, Doink had overstayed his welcome. Apollo would be released after this match, but the clown character would continue a little while longer.
Backstage Segment
Barry Horowitz is backstage with Hakushi, attempting to Americanize him. Horowitz talks about baseball and quizzes him about who is the greatest Home Run hitter in history. He played for the Yankees. Horowitz is insinuating it is Babe Ruth, but Hakushi corrects him that it’s Hank Aaron. Horowitz says he’s right and hugs him.
Mike’s Thoughts: To me, it’s still Hank Aaron.
Still to come tonight is the Steel Cage Match with Bret Hart and Isaac Yankem.
USWA Tag Team Champions PG-13 make their way to the ring.
Video: Earlier today, PG-13 cut a promo on WWF Tag Team Champions The Smoking Gunns. JC Wolf says tonight is the night for the cowboys. The rodeo is over. These two punks from the hood are coming to lasso them. Wolfie D says they’ll be the Tag Team Champions. They’re taking them to school because it’s cool, like the water in a swimming pool.
Backstage Segment
We see WWF President Gorilla Monsoon standing backstage.
-Commercial Break-
Backstage Segment
WWF President Gorilla Monsoon is asked who will replace The Undertaker as King Mabel’s opponent at In Your House. Jerry Lawler wants it to be Bret Hart. Monsoon says he considered Hart, but the only man who should face Mabel at In Your House is the man who, in conjunction with Mabel, put the Undertaker out of commission, Yokozuna. 600 pounds plus, facing 500 pounds plus, for the first time in the squared circle this Sunday.
WWF Tag Team Championship
USWA Tag Team Champions PG-13 (JC Ice and Wolfie D) vs. The Smoking Gunns (Bart and Billy Gunn) (c’s)
Referee: Mike Chioda
Billy Gunn will start against Wolfie D. They lock up, and Billy powers him to the corner. Wolfie D turns him around and goes for a hip toss, but Billy blocks it. Billy hits a hip toss, hits the ropes, and ducks under Wolfie D as he leapfrogs him. Wolfie D dances and turns into a right hand from Billy. JC Ice runs in, but Billy scares him away. Wolfie D attacks Billy and tags Ice in. They hit the ropes, but Billy sends Ice into Wolfie D. PG-13 is stumbling and bumbling. Ice tries to intimidate Billy, but Billy is unimpressed. Bart Gunn tags in. Ice does a cartwheel, and Bart easily clotheslines him down. Bart sends Ice into the ropes, but Ice ducks a clothesline. Bart goes for a back body drop, but Ice lands on his feet. Ice dances and turns into a clothesline from Bart. Ice runs in and eats a back elbow. Bart presses Wolfie D up and throws him into Ice. PG-13 recovers at ringside. Wolfie D gets in the ring, and Billy tags in. Billy wrenches the arm and applies a side headlock. Billy goes for a hip toss, but Wolfie D lands on his feet. Billy hits the ropes, but Ice trips him. Wolfie D then knees Billy out of the ring. Ice stomps Billy at ringside until he’s chased off by Bart. Wolfie D gets some cheap shots in, so Bart chases him off. Ice runs back and attacks Billy before putting him in the ring. Wolfie D tags in and attacks Billy before hitting a snapmare. Wolfie D applies a headlock, but Billy fights up. PG-13 gets some cheap shots in.
-Commercial Break-
Back from the break, Wolfie D wrenches Billy’s neck. During the commercial, Wolfie D hit Billy with a clothesline. Back to live action, PG-13 takes Billy down and hits a double elbow drop. Ice covers for a two-count. Wolfie D tags in and goes for a dropkick, but Billy blocks it and catapults him into Ice.
Bart tags in and hits PG-13 with clotheslines. Bart hits them with scoop slams before hitting Wolfie D with a dropkick. Billy tags in. They hit Wolfie D with the Sidewinder for the win.
Winners by Pinfall and still WWF Tag Team Champions: The Smoking Gunns
Mike’s Thoughts: The Smoking Gunns picked up an easy victory against PG-13, who were goofy comedy heels here. It’s amazing how scrawny they looked next to some WWF guys compared to how they looked a few weeks back against some jobbers. Their look was the worst of mid-1990s fashion. I remember seeing hats like that as prizes at carnivals. Buff Bagwell would perfect them later.
Video: Alundra Blayze will battle Bertha Faye for the WWF Women’s Championship next week on Raw.
Video: This past weekend at a WWF House Show, Dok Hendrix interviewed The British Bulldog and Jim Cornette. Hendrix said Bulldog stunned everyone by pinning WWF Champion Diesel last week. Cornette says he wants Diesel to realize what will happen at In Your House. This was a plan from the start. Bulldog suckered Diesel into being his partner so he could embarrass and shame him in front of millions of people. Bulldog wanted a title shot that he’s never gotten. Bulldog then turned his back on every friend he’s had, so no one could keep him from his goal, the WWF Championship. Last week, he pinned Diesel in the middle of the ring in a 6-Man Tag. This Sunday, at In Your House: The Great White North, he’ll do it where it counts. That will be for the World Wrestling Federation Title that’s eluded him for so long. For a man who has gone to these lengths, does Diesel believe anything will stop him from getting to his goal? It’s too late to turn back now.
Hendrix says rumors are running rampant that one of the major factors of Bulldog pinning Big Daddy Cool is because Yokozuna dropped a leg on him. Bulldog is furious at the lack of respect. He beat Diesel once and will do it again this Sunday at In Your House.
-Commercial Break-
Video: Ahmed Johnson talks about honor. Johnson says honor is a mother working for minimum wage. You know in your heart she’s not a minimum wage woman. Still, she finds the money it takes to take you to a WWF event. You appreciate that. You go to school the next day and do the best you can for her. That’s honor.
Mike’s Thoughts: An Ahmed Johnson sighting! This was one of “Cowboy” Bill Watts’ initiatives. He was a little hard to understand with the random yelling, but this was fine. Incredible potential, but his career was pretty short-lived. He’ll factor into the Monday Night War, but he won’t see the end of it.
Replay: Last week on Raw, Dean Douglas viciously assaulted Shawn Michaels.
Dean Douglas vs. Joe Dorgan
Referee: Jack Doan
As the match starts, Vince McMahon announces that Shawn Michaels was the victim of an unprovoked attack in Syracuse, New York, on Friday night. HBK was attacked by ten thugs. Jerry Lawler says HBK was running his mouth. McMahon says HBK lost consciousness, but the thugs continued to beat on him, driving his face into a parked car. He was hospitalized, and both eyes were swollen shut. They’re going to try to get him on the phone.
Douglas hits a pair of waistlock takeovers. Douglas takes it to Dorgan and hits a scoop slam.
They get WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels on the phone. HBK says he is not feeling good at the moment. Everyone is after him. He’s lived both ends of the spectrum. He was talking with some kids and having a great time, but then he was beaten by Dean Douglas and some thugs. Lawler asks HBK if he’ll be at In Your House. HBK says it would be easy to curl up and quit, but he’ll show up and wow everyone.
Meanwhile, Douglas finishes the jobber off with a bridging fisherman’s suplex for the win.
Winner by Pinfall: Dean Douglas
Mike’s Thoughts: Here’s the second major calamity to hit the WWF and truly knock the dominoes down that will ultimately doom the upcoming In Your House event. They announced that Shawn Michaels was the victim of an attack by some servicemen (referred to as thugs). I’ll get into this in a later recap since this recap will already be news-heavy, but this was a WILD and horrific situation. Michaels easily could have been killed by these guys. By the grace of God, he survived. I’ll dive more into this on the PPV recap and next week’s Raw, but this went on to become one of the most infamous and shocking real-life incidents in WWF/WWE history. The whole story behind the attack, like what led up to it, how severe it really was, and the fallout in both Shawn’s personal life and his career, is something I’ll cover more in depth during the In Your House recap and especially on next week’s Raw.
Dok Hendrix’s Merchandise Corner
Dok Hendrix is in front of that goofy portrait of himself and hocking a Diesel and Shawn Michaels 2 Dudes with Attitudes shirt. One size fits most. $20 plus $3.95 shipping and handling. They’ll even throw in a classic tape. Call 1-800-TITAN-91, though it’s no longer active.
We go to ringside to see a small shark cage being assembled. That is for Jerry “The King” Lawler if he interferes in the Steel Cage Match. Lawler is worried that they’re hooking it up to be raised. Lawler says he’s afraid of heights and will get a nosebleed.
Vince McMahon and Jerry “The King” Lawler go over the In Your House card. They are still promoting Shawn Michaels vs. Dean Douglas. Goldust will also debut at the event.
They’re assembling the Steel Cage around the ring. Timekeeper Mark Yeaton and future ring announcer Tony Chimel are working on it.
Video: Goldust says Marty Jannetty may be a teen idol, but “frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Jannetty is in for a major makeover courtesy of Goldust.
Video: At King of the Ring, after interference from Kama, Mabel pinned The Undertaker. Three weeks ago, King Mabel interfered in Undertaker’s match against The British Bulldog. Last week, Yokozuna and Mabel brutalized Undertaker.
Video: Paul Bearer is devastated by what they’ve done to his Undertaker. Yokozuna and Mabel have crushed his face. Undertaker may never look the same again, and may never be the same again. Soon, he will return to action and crush the souls of Yokozuna and Mabel. Although he may never look the same or be the same again, he’ll return very soon. Mabel and Yokozuna will never be the same again, either. OH YES!
Mike’s Thoughts: I love me a Paul Bearer promo. The best.
Dr. Isaac Yankem makes his entrance and enters the Steel Cage.
-Commercial Break-
Video: Next week on Raw, we’ll have a Battle Royal to determine the No. 1 Contender for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. The winner will face whoever is the champion, whether it’s Shawn Michaels or Dean Douglas.
Raw is brought to you by Tyco.
Steel Cage Match
Dr. Isaac Yankem, DDS vs. Bret “Hitman” Hart
Referee: Tim White
The bell rings to start the match. They lock up, and Yankem shoves him to the corner before clubbing him. Yankem clubs Hart on the back of the neck before bouncing him off the top turnbuckle. Yankem punches Hart in the corner and sends him to the opposite corner. Hart avoids an avalanche and punches away at his midsection. Hart hits an inverted atomic drop, followed by a clothesline. Hart drops a headbutt to the midsection and punches him in the face. Hart puts him in the corner and hits a scoop slam. Hart drops a forearm and starts to climb the cage. Yankem grabs Hart’s foot as he starts to climb over. Yankem pulls Hart down and clubs the spine. Yankem shoves Hart down and drops an elbow. Yankem starts to climb the cage, but Hart pulls him down. Hart clubs the back and knocks him down to the canvas. Hart climbs and nearly gets over, but Yankem pulls him back. Yankem drives him headfirst into the blue steel bars of the cage. Yankem starts to climb, but Hart pulls him down onto his face. That looked nasty. Hart chokes him with his boot, and Jerry Lawler looks concerned at commentary.
Hart stomps away at Yankem and tells the referee to unlock the cage door. Referee Tim White struggles to do that, and Yankem clubs Hart from behind. The key isn’t working. Lawler reveals he’s holding the lock, so the key doesn’t match.
-Commercial Break-
Back from the break, Hart punches Yankem. Yankem pokes him in the eyes and kicks away at him. A crawl at the bottom of the screen tells viewers to call the WWF Hotline for more information on Shawn Michaels. Yankem starts to climb, but Hart slams him off the top rope. Hart goes to the top rope and thinks about going over, but Yankem gets to his feet. Hart redirects and hits a diving clothesline.
Hart applies a Sharpshooter to Yankem. Yankem taps out, but there are no submissions in a Steel Cage Match. Hart holds it on until Yankem passes out. Hart starts to climb the page, so Lawler gets off commentary and punches Hart down into the ring. WWF President Gorilla Monsoon comes down to ringside with WWF officials. Monsoon admonishes Lawler. Hart climbs and punches Lawler off the cage. The WWF officials grab Lawler and throw him into the shark cage! Lawler looks terrified as the cage starts to be raised over the Steel Cage.
In the ring, Hart punches away at Yankem. Yankem pulls Hart down. Lawler screams in fear. There is a microphone in the cage, so you hear the terror in Lawler’s voice. Yankem steps on Hart’s throat. Lawler screams that the cables are breaking. Yankem sets up for a piledriver, but Hart hits a back body drop. Hart starts to climb the cage and gets over, but Yankem pulls him back. Lawler thinks he’s going to get a nosebleed. Yankem slams Hart off the ropes to the canvas.
Yankem starts to climb, but Hart gets up and pulls him back. They duke it out while standing on the top rope. Hart punches Yankem down before falling crotch-first onto the top rope. Lawler’s nose is bleeding, and he’s crying!
-Commercial Break-
We return from the break to see Hart taking it to Yankem. Yankem fights back and goes to ram Hart into the cage, but Hart blocks it. Hart stuns him by slamming him headfirst into the cage. Hart punches away at Yankem and connects with a sidewalk slam. Hart climbs the cage and goes over, but Yankem pops up and grabs him by the hair. Yankem pulls him over and hits the DDS!
Yankem starts to slowly climb, but Hart recovers and pulls him down. Yankem gets crotched on the top rope. Hart bounces him off the top turnbuckle and punches away at him. Yankem reverses a whip into the corner, and Hart hits sternum-first. Lawler throws the key to the lock down to Yankem. Yankem unlocks the door, but Hart rolls him up and punches him in the face. Hart throws away the key and punches away at Yankem before hitting a bulldog. Hart hits a backbreaker before going to the second rope for a flying elbow drop. Hart climbs the cage and goes over. Yankem sits up and goes for him, but Hart successfully climbs over. Jerry Lawler is devastated.
Winner by Escape: Bret “Hitman” Hart
-Commercial Break-
Back from the break, Jerry Lawler is still suspended above the ring. Vince McMahon says they’re having problems with the cable. Lawler is terrified. Isaac Yankem climbs the ropes and grabs at the shark cage.
This Sunday is the In Your House event.
Mike’s Thoughts: Man, that was actually a ton of fun. The action in the ring was decent. It was a very safe cage match. The antics of Jerry Lawler, while incredibly campy, had me laughing a few times. The goofiness of Lawler having the real lock before being suspended above the ring in a shark cage and screaming for dear life while getting a nosebleed… super fun stuff. I didn’t hate this, even though I hated the Isaac Yankem character.
The last four episodes of Raw were taped on the same night, starting with the September 25 episode. This was extremely common for the time period. Damn, that had to be incredibly grueling. While Yankem only worked this one match, Bret Hart had a really good match against Jean-Pierre Lafitte, followed by this Steel Cage match.
That’s a long day. I wonder how the audiences fared throughout these marathon tapings. Were any readers in attendance at these long WWF tapings back in the day? Let me know in the comments how it was!
Quick Match Results
— Hunter Hearst Helmsley def. Doink the Clown
— The Smoking Gunns (Bart and Billy Gunn) (c’s) def. USWA Tag Team Champions PG-13 (JC Ice and Wolfie D) to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship
— Dean Douglas def. Joe Dorgan
— Bret “Hitman” Hart def. Dr. Isaac Yankem, DDS, via Escape in a Steel Cage Match
Mike’s Wrap-Up: What We Learned from Raw
This was a really solid edition of Raw and a strong way to finish off the marathon four-episode taping in Grand Rapids.
Still, you kind of have to forget the matches because the real story tonight was the chaos outside the ring. The Undertaker is on the shelf with a really brutal injury (on his podcast, Undertaker mentioned the broken fragment was millimeters from severing his orbital nerves), and Shawn Michaels is fighting for his health after a real-life attack. The pay-per-view is just days away, with the card now in shambles. Just when things seemed to be going right with four episodes under “Cowboy” Bill Watts’ new direction, the WWF hit some hard luck again in 1995 and was back on thin ice.
Speaking of “Cowboy” Bill Watts, if you’ve noticed the past few weeks feeling a little different, with babyfaces looking more vulnerable and Diesel even being pinned clean on TV, there’s a reason for that. All of this tied into the fingerprints of Watts, whose short but infamous WWF run shaped this exact stretch of Raw.
Let’s pause for a quick History Corner on “Cowboy” Bill Watts.
History Corner: The Rise and Fall of “Cowboy” Bill Watts in WWF
Behind the scenes, one of the most abrupt and bizarre shakeups in WWF history took place right around the time this episode of Raw aired. Just weeks earlier, at the September 24 In Your House event, Vince McMahon introduced “Cowboy” Bill Watts to the roster as the new head of creative. McMahon was going to concentrate on the business end and leave Watts to handle the booking side. Watts, a legendary promoter from the Mid-South territory, was brought in to shake things up and bring a harder edge to WWF programming, which was underperforming in spots. Watts was also vocal about WCW, firing shots at the leadership of the roster and even predicting doom for the upcoming Time Warner merger.
But almost as quickly as he arrived, Watts was gone. After being promised by McMahon that he would not overrule him, he was overruled. Watts was a bit old school and no-nonsense, so that clashed with McMahon’s attitude at Titan Towers. Several of his proposals, such as demanding that heels and babyfaces never be seen in public together and fining people for being late to shows, didn’t sit well with the locker room or the office. The plug was pulled in early October, leaving Watts’ fingerprints on a handful of taped shows, including this one, but no long-term influence.
Watts’ exit left WWF creative in flux, with McMahon himself and other lieutenants (like Bruce Prichard, Pat Patterson, J.J. Dillon, and Jim Cornette) picking up the pieces. It’s one of those “blink and you missed it” chapters in WWF history, but it also set the stage for some of the chaotic decision-making fans would see over the next few months. This was the first of a few failed attempts made by McMahon to “get out of the weeds” on the creative end, only to immediately renege on the decision. This basically happened all the way up to the end of his career in early 2024 at the age of 78. Yikes.
Anyway, back to the wrap-up.
On the WCW side of things, they had what appeared on paper to be a great show (absolutely see Roy Nemer’s recap for more!). They were live and had a ton of action on the show, including the debut of Chris Benoit. Benoit had a tryout in the WWF, but they didn’t offer him a contract. So how did WWF promoting a Steel Cage match heading into the night fare against Ric Flair and Sting teaming up in the main event?
— WWF Raw (USA Network, taped): 2.6 (Record: 3-1-2)
— WCW Nitro (TNT, live): 2.2 (Record: 1-3-2)
Winner: WWF Raw
After two weeks of ties, WWF Raw pulls ahead of WCW Nitro. Apparently, people were interested in seeing a Steel Cage Match with an evil dentist. WWF has a PPV this weekend and a lot of drama leaking out of Titan Towers. Will all of this lead to another win in next week’s battle? Stay tuned to find out!
The War for Monday Night – October 16, 1995
(TL;DR version)
Raw capped off the Grand Rapids tapings with a Steel Cage main event that was a lot of fun and plenty of drama spilling over from real life. The Undertaker is sidelined with a serious injury, and Shawn Michaels is recovering from an unbelievably vicious real-life assault. The PPV card, just days away, is suddenly in chaos. Add in the short-lived fingerprints of “Cowboy” Bill Watts on creative, and this episode felt like a snapshot of how unstable Titan Towers really was in 1995.
Meanwhile, WCW Nitro rolled out a live show packed with action, highlighted by the debut of Chris Benoit and a big Sting and Ric Flair main event tag match. On paper, Nitro looked stronger, but in the ratings, Raw pulled ahead with a 2.6 rating to 2.2.
For the first time in two weeks, the tie was broken, and Raw took the lead in the war.
To find out what happened on WCW Nitro, check out Roy Nemer’s retro recap!
Did you miss last week’s Raw? Check it out here!
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Make sure to check out the In Your House 4 recap next week… if you dare.
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