WWF Raw - 03-18-1996

3/18/96 -included footage of Diesel attacking WWF World Champion Bret Hart, the Undertaker, and Shawn Michaels with a steel chair the previous night at Madison Square Garden; included a video package focusing on Michaels' training in preparation for his WrestleMania 12 Ironman match with Hart, showing him training with Jose Lothario; featured a similar video on Hart in training in Calgary, Alberta, with Hart; included an ad promoting the return of the Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania; featured the announcement Hunter Hearst Helmsley would face the Warrior at WrestleMania, followed by a video package focusing on Warrior retiring Randy Savage at WrestleMania VII; included footage from the previous weekend's WWF Superstars in which Jake Roberts challenged Camp Cornette to a six man tag team match at WrestleMania; featured McMahon conducting an in-ring interview with Jim Cornette, Vader, Davey Boy Smith, & Owen Hart in which they accepted Roberts' challenge to face Roberts, Yokozuna, & Ahmed Johnson at WrestleMania and Cornette alluded that he was behind Mr. Fuji being recently hospitalized; moments later, McMahon introduced footage on the big screen of Roberts, Yoko, & Johnson in which they announced Yoko would get 5 minutes in the ring with Cornette if their team won, with Yoko then hitting the Bonzai Drop on a balloon that had Cornette's face on it; included an ad promoting the Hart vs. Michaels match at WrestleMania; featured a closing Billionaire Ted skit from the Federal Turner Commission Hearings, during which Billionaire Ted was grilled on predatory practices and seeing to run his company as a monopoly:

Davey Boy Smith (w/ Jim Cornette) defeated Jake Roberts via count-out when Roberts chased Cornette around the ring and then backstage after Cornette pulled Roberts out of the ring as he had Smith covered following the DDT;

WWF IC Champion Goldust (w/ Marlena) pinned Fatu with the Curtain Call;

Diesel pinned Barry Horowitz with a punch to the face after Horowitz kicked out of a cover following a boot to the face; during the match, footage was shown from the previous week of Diesel attacking Paul Bearer; during the bout, Bearer brought a casket ringside; after the contest, Diesel took the wrench from the timekeeper and approached the casket, eventually opening it to find not the Undertaker but instead Diesel's own body as Taker's gong sounded in the arena;

WWF World Champion Bret Hart pinned Tatanka (w/ Ted Dibiase) in a non-title match with a roll up after Tatanka collided with an interfering 1-2-3 Kid on the apron;