JIP. This is easily the most complete version of this I've seen. There are some awkward moments in this, but it has a lot of momentum shifts and it feels like a war. Blackwell takes several wild bumps, including a missed splash off the ropes, two back body drops into the cage, et. There is a really cool spot where Blackwell just walks up and kicks Gagne right in the guts to stop his attempt at saving Crusher. Gagne hit some fun leaping shots off the ropes throughout this. Patera was a good second for heels, climbing the cage, mugging for the camera, et. There was definitely some shit that was not hit as cleanly as you would like in this, but Gagne's diving knee drop off the top of the Cage onto the arm of Adnan is enough to put this over the top.

Good use of the cage early on. Shit, Greg both uses the cage and gets rammed in the cage with gusto. I am warming on this guy. It is much easier to enjoy his matches 25 years later and not when you are a 12 year old kid laughing at him trying to take on the Road Warriors. With all the cage ramming, I thought the blood would be more noticeable but hey, Greg and Jerry are bloody messes. Don’t have a good camera angle to see if Adnan is bleeding buckets. Crusher just punches and rams people into cages. Good enough for me. OK, Adnan is a bloody mess. Plus Ten. Great ending with Gagne coming off the top and I thought this was another easy nomination.

Steel Cage Match: Da Crusher & Greg Gagne vs. Crusher Blackwell & Sheik Adnan Kaissey (3/25/84)

 

This is nothing fancy just a war between these four as they pound on each other with Blackwell bumping like crazy and Gagne taking some wild bumps into the cage with him juicing. There is some clipping here which hurts some but the action is good enough to counter that. I loved the ending sequence with Gagne jumping off the top of the cage on Adnan's injured arm after Gagne had already jumped off the top rope numerous times. This was a blast and an easy nomination.