Posted December 20, 201014 yr comment_5460739 Los Mercenarios (Cuban & Iranian Assassins) vs. Jeff Craney & Jose Miguel Perez (11/13/82) Squash. "Mad Dog" Pierre LeFebvre vs. Mac Rivera (11/13/82) Squash. WWC pimping female mud wrestling events was great. King Tonga vs. Bala Negra (11/13/82) Tonga's fro was great here. "Mad Dog" Pierre LeFebvre vs. Jeff Craney (11/13/82) Squash. Gino Dellaserra vs. Rocky Tomayo (11/13/82) Spotlight match for Gino. Los Mercenarios (Cuban & Iranian Assassins) vs. Jeff Craney & Mac Rivera (11/27/82) Squash. "Mad Dog" Pierre LeFebvre vs. Bala Negra (11/27/82) Squash. Joe Lightfoot vs. Rocky Tomayo (12/4/82) Spotlight match for Lightfoot. Los Mercenarios (Cuban & Iranian Assassins) vs. Victor Jovica & Mac Rivera (12/4/82) Squash. Handicap Match: King Tonga vs. Agustin Acevedo & Jeff Craney (12/4/82) They were pushing Tonga as a monster here. Los Mercenarios vs. Jeff Craney & Victor Jovica (12/4/82) Squash. Johnny Rivera vs. Rocky Tomayo (12/4/82) Spotlight match for Rivera. Gino Dellaserra & Pierre Martel vs. Los Mercenarios (Cuban & Iranian Assassins) (12/18/82) This starts in black & white which is odd watching but it would go to color soon. The faces dominate early but Martel would get posted on the floor and the blood was flowing with the Mercenarios working over the cut. Dellaserra would get the hot tag and ran wild with the crowd going nuts because they never saw action like this at the studio. Martel would get carried out as this was going on so Dellaserra would get doubleteamed until a bandaged Martel would return to run wild and would chase the Mercenarios off for a countout. This was easily the best match I've seen on WWC TV so far but still not enough for a nomination. Fun match though. Enrique Vera vs. Gene Lewis (12/18/82) Enrique wins fairly quickly. King Tonga vs. Angel Diaz (12/18/82) Squash. Pierre Martel vs. Cuban Assassin (January 1983) Slow plodding match. Scorpio & Mr. Tempest vs. Gino Dellaserra & Johnny Rivera (January 1983) Okay match. El Gran Apollo & Princess Victoria vs. Dick Steinborn & Dallas Cowgirl (January 1983) Another okay match.
June 30, 201312 yr comment_5549441 Based on the match list and KrisZ's review, outside of King Tonga's afro, the close but no cigar Gino Dellaserra & Pierre Martel vs. Los Mercenarios (Cuban & Iranian Assassins) and the novelty of seeing Wendi Richter and Princess Victoria in PR, there's not much here.
October 18, 201311 yr comment_5567787 I skipped over and past the clear squashes, with the exception of the Tonga match which was novel, but not really meaningful. Gino Dellaserra & Pierre Martel vs. Los Mercenarios (Cuban & Iranian Assassins) (12/18/82) I liked this more than Kris. VQ will hurt this, but we have had stuff on Memphis and AWA that was around this level and I still regret leaving Dukes v. Deebers off of the AWA set, so unless something is truly horrific it's not going to stop me from nominating it. This fits nicely into a few buckets for me. It's a studio match with a hot crowd. It's an early WWC match from an era where we aren't likely to have a lot of stuff make the set. It's some different faces from the guys who will dominant the set. The ref looks like Gene Shalit. Most importantly it was a PR match with a pretty sick blade job and it had the "face returns with the head wrap on to avenge the evil heels" bit which is one of my favorite semi-regular things in wrestling. Nothing in this aside from the posting, blade job and run-in at the end were out of the world, but I thought the work was spirited and solid. We have nominated and I have backed the nominations of worse matches than this. I will go low end here, mainly because it lacks a real finish, but I could actually see using a personal on this. Cuban Assassin v. Pierre Martel Nothing match. These guys weren't going to unleash in the studio which is a shame because they could have had a hell of a hot match coming off the bloodbath two weeks before. Scorpio & Mr. Tempest vs. Gino Dellaserra & Johnny Rivera Pretty decent, basic tag match. I actually was impressed with the pace they cut here and I thought the finishing sequence was actually really good. Still not enough for a nomination, but I"m glad I at least looked at it. El Gran Apollo & Princess Victoria vs. Dick Steinborn & Dallas Cowgirl This was just weird. The women worked the overwhelming majority of this and actually had some nice exchanges but I kept waiting to see the men mix it up and it never happened. The slow mo shot of the bump that finished this looked like an unflattering image that would be used on a Weight Watchers commercial.
