October 1981

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Hulk Hogan, Eddie Boulder, Greg Gagne, Tito Santana, Jim Brunzell, Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura, Andre the Giant, Baron Von Raschke and many more!!!

More Gold Cup Action. Johnson has an extensive amateur background, but never made it big in wrestling. You see flashes of Johnson on the mat. Slater is trying to work to Johnson's strengths. Though this was weird.

This is an interesting match up. Caras uses Ramos's size against him. Ramos tries to set up a sneak attack to no avail. Caras working inside and bam drop kick. Brawling on the floor and Ramos gets posted. Ramos gets a chair, but Caras gets a small piece and hits Ramos. Bull wants a handshake, and gets one. Caras with an ear biel from the top. Ramos using a nerve hold to control Caras. Ramos has this odd charisma about him. Ramos biting Caras fingers. The last minute of this is pretty terrible. Heck the 1st 10 minutes were no shakes anyways.

Kiniski showing a lot of energy at the start. He's taking it to Patton. I love this attempted hip toss by Patton, while Gene holds on to the ropes. The crowd is loving Kiniski. Kiniski's jump off the bottom rope into a double wristlock was tremendous. Patton is a great foil here. Patton capitalizes on a missed punch, and Patton throws knees at Gene. Patton using roughhouse tactics. Gene catches him with a big knee/into a press for the win. This was a real blast. 2 1/2*

A cool note is Hulk Hogan's 1st match was against Don Serrano This is more Gold Cup tournament. . Tom working the neck early on. Serrano reverses it into a sitting backbreaker. We get some seperation and they work the mat. Serrano getting some heat. Love Serrano's European Forearms. I'm enjoying Serrano working the heat. Pritchard showing fire in his comeback. Crowd is pretty damn hot for this match. I'm really enjoying Pritchard's leg work. Serrano is a really unique worker. Pritchard works hard and has always had good psychology. They really did have a super fun match. 2 1/2*

These guys have a history, and it starts off with Mike throwing hands. Tully takes a powder to stall Mike's momentum. Tully grabs an arm and delivers a knee. Mike scapes and ups the tempo, and goes for the Figure 4. We get a quick rope break. Cheap shot by Tully and Tully using all his tricks. Tully already bleeding. Mike revereses only to get his hair pulled. Another hair pull when it looked like Mike might reverse the headlock. A 3rd hair pull and Mike is ready with a hammer lock into an arm drag only for Tully to pull the hair and get the advantage. This is amazing how much Tully is getting out of a hair pull. Tully with a dead leg, and then a knee to the neck. Of cour…

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