Posted November 17, 201015 yr comment_5458387 This was some kind of raw footage and had a couple of strange cuts, at one point with the camera shot changing to the back of the Arena during a huge Blackwell bump, which also may have seen a fair bit of the match cut. Having said that, what was shown here was really good. The bulk of this is Gagne in peril which is a role I actually like him in as he is over and can take a pretty good asskicking. Some of the camera shots in this are fun including close ups of women in near tears, Brunzell's bloody face as he begs Greg to tag him, et. There is even blood splattered on the camera at one point. Kassie is way better in this than I would have thought and at one point takes one of the nastiest looking cage rakes I've ever seen from Brunzell. I was on the fence about nominating this mainly due to the edits, but the finish is really great. Greg ends up getting the hot tag and Brunzell comes in hot, but Greg ends up back on the defensive. Blackwell goes to the top rope and misses a huge splash, than takes an insane over the ropes bump into the cage to set up the double dropkick pin by the faces on Adnan. Just a really great "holy shit!" sequence, capped off with a heel beatdown of Greg post-match and Verne running into the ring to beat on Kassie while the crowd surges and tries to jump into the cage to help the faces.
April 16, 201213 yr comment_5500271 Steel Cage Match for the AWA World Tag Titles: The Hi-Flyers (Jim Brunzell & Greg Gagne) © vs. Crusher Blackwell & Sheik Adnan Kaissey (4/18/82) There is some really great stuff here such as the bumping, blood, & violence but the cuts here were a little too much for me as it hurt the flow of the match in some ways. If we had this complete or close enough this would be a slam dunk nomination but I just can't get behind this right now because of the cuts.
May 25, 201213 yr Author comment_5503810 Will still needs to watch this, but I really want to hear from Khawk if he has a rough idea of how much of the match this was. This will go on the set no matter what as it is too good to leave off an EXTRA disc at minimum, but I want to see if the meat is there to justify a slot on the 150
May 25, 201213 yr Author comment_5503896 Not sure. I had several match times saved...on my old computer
June 1, 201213 yr Author comment_5505000 Khawk did some sleuthing on this one. This is 8:30 of 13:41 excluding ring intros and post-match stuff. So basically 2/3's of the match. We have included Flair v. Bock which is almost the exact same percentage shown (literally - I did the match) and the Flyers v. East-West Cage which might even be a slightly smaller percentage (though it is still definitely more than half the match). Both of those are famous/important matches and should make the set. They are also straight JIP, whereas this has a somewhat clumsy clip. Having said that, this was the main event of one of the biggest drawing shows in the history of the promotion and more importantly for the purposes of this project, I think the work in this was better than the work in either of those two matches. I think it should be one of the 150.
June 3, 201213 yr comment_5505461 THe cuts bothered me also but man was this full of action and INSANE atmosphere. If there were any more cuts , I would agree with Kris but what we have is fun and insane enough to justify including. This should go on.
