Pre-match Cornette gets on the mic and says he doesn't want anything to do with this sort of foolishness and no one can make him work the match and sure enough here comes the ref to tell him he will be fined if he doesn't work. I absolutely loved the opening stalling in this as Cowabunga is getting the crowd riled up, going into various karate poses, clucking around to indication Cornette is a chicken, et. and all the while Cornette is running away, bitching, et. Cornette wins the collar and elbow and pulls a headlock which Cowabunga breaks by clawing Cornette's ass. Cornette then tries to work the arm off the next collar and elbow but Cowabunga reverses it with a roll out and then does a rope walk armdrag to Cornette which is to awesome for words. Cornette getting taken down with side headlocks, working criss cross spots, and telegraphing leaping elbows is even better. Cornette takes an awkward bump off of a cross body, but who gives a fuck? The turtle ends up taking a huge head bump off of a legsweep and Corny works a nerve hold which Cowabunga sells, fires up for and then gets caught off with a clothesline. Cowabunga eats a body slam and does this weird sell where he is spinning around like his shell is keeping him glued to the mat and Corny is just laughing at him. Cornette throws a fucking delayed vertical suplex! Cornette starts working over him with punches and the turtle does a fucking "drop the strap" spot and takes off his shell before locking on an abdonimal stretch! Cowabunga wins with a flip senton off the top into a perfect pinning combination. This is Jim Fuckin Cornette working a matwork heavy wrestling match with big highspots against a referee dressed in a giant Ninja Turtles Halloween costume. There is no fucking way this doesn't go on the set unless these guys had a better match somewhere else.

I agree this is a lot of fun. Hilldebrand was great as the turtle. Cornette was great here. Still I don't know about the lead heel getting beat by a Turtle but whatever, it is a spot show. Only in deep fried southern wrestling that I love so much. Solid Nomination.

Cowabunga (Mark Curtis) vs. Jim Cornette (8/19/93)

 

Cornette's micwork before the match is great with the referee threatening to fine him if he doesn't wrestle. The opening schtick between both men was awesome especially Corny who was great being a chickenshit. Then it becomes a fucking wrestling match between Mark Curtis & Jim Cornette with Cornette bumping like crazy in between matwork by Cowabunga. Cornette then takes control using a nervehold and hits a nice clothesline followed up by a diving elbow for a nearfall. Cornette hit a nice suplex as well and this is mindblowing watching him get all this offense and looking credible doing it. The Cowabunga comeback was fun too leading up to him hitting his somersault senton off the top rope for the win. The dynamic of this match totally makes this a nomination to me.