Clip after some Orndorff stalling and they come back to a top wristlock battle that ends with a double knockout spot after a shoulder tackle spot. Orndorff goes for the piledriver and Garvin essentially falls into a sprawling stance and back drops Orndorff who ends up selling a right from Garvin by falling on the table on the floor. Orndorff comes back in and ends up getting backed into a corner with Garvin going into his boxing stance. Garvin opens up with some jabs and though none of them looked like they landed that clearn Orndorff's sellling was really great and then we got the awesome jumping headbutt from Garvin and a great bump from Paul who spills to the floor yet again. Orndorff ends up taking over off of another corner spot where Mark Curtis gets in between them and he ends up hitting a cheapshot. Strangely Orndorff's run is somewhat short. Garvin ends up taking over after a corner flurry and knee shot to the nuts from behind which is not something you see every day. He ends up trying for the piledriver on the floor but Orndorff back body drops him. Orndorff chokes Garvin with an electric chord and Garvin goes into a mini-Terry Funk sell twitching on the floor. Then he uses a cup of some sort as a grater on Garvin's eyes. Garvin comes back into the ring with chord still around his throat and takes over with a turnbuckle ten count spot with Orndorff taking the face bump better than most. Then we get a Garvin Stomp to a really awesome reaction from the crowd, followed by his dumping head butt and leaping punch. Garvin goes for the piledriver, pulling Orndorff's tights completely up his ass in the process but Orndorff still escapes. Gavin keeps going for pinfalls and then Garvin goes for another piledriver but Orndroff leaps up and headbutts him in the balls. Garvin's selling is really great during this Orndorff control segment as he sort of stumbles around and wobbles at the knees in such a fashion that he really think he's finished. Ref bump off of a piledriver attempt. Finish to this involves foreign objects, a non-existent piledriver, Danny Davis running out, et. I thought both of these guys worked hard but man the finish pissed me off as there was no real cause to overbook shit that much. I promise I'll stop doing play by play type shit as this goes along.

I thought this was a solid hard hitting affair. The type of match that you would expect from these 2 guys. Orndorff and Garvin take pride in their stuff looking real. That finish was overbooked, but at least we got to see a killer piledriver on Davis. Still the finish killed this dead for me. I vote no.

Piledriver Match: "Hands of Stone" Ronnie Garvin vs. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff (8/8/92)

 

Two of my favorites here in a match that would've been even more awesome 10 years earlier. Sure enough we get a fucking clip to start the match and we come to Garvin trying to piledrive Orndorff who drops to the floor to stall for a bit. Garvin throws some great punches here as usual and Orndorff throws some solid ones of his own to set up his control section with Garvin fighting back with his unorthodox offense of scratches, punches, & bites. Garvin tries a piledriver on the floor but Orndorff would counter with a backdrop on the concrete then choked him with the camera wire which was a popular spot during this time of SMW. Garvin fought back and hit the GARVIN STOMP!!! for good measure before the jumping headbutt/KO punch combo to setup his attempt for a piledriver where used Orndorff's tights making it look like a thong. Paul got out though and this turned into a war of atrition with both men getting offense then selling the effects of their war. Sure enough we get a ref bump as Orndorff tried a piledriver and then he tried it again but Garvin backdropped him off the top rope allowing Orndorff to use his chain to KO Garvin then pulled up Mark Curtis saying that he put him out with a piledriver and Curtis called for the bell. Danny Davis then shows up and tells Curtis that Orndorff used a chain so Paul attacks him and gives him a piledriver for his trouble. Orndorff then brings a steel chair in the ring but Curtis pulled it out and as Orndorff pulled Garvin up he went to town on him with punches before Orndorff ducked and ran. Curtis then raised Garvin's hand for the DQ and this was a complete fucking bullshit finish. I thought the action here was really solid but that finish was brutal. I'm going to pass this along now but I don't know in the end how it will fare.