JIP at about 4 mins and Bock gets flattened with a really athletic looking back elbow off the ropes from Mulligan. Bock is really fun in general in the early going doing everything he can to avoid Mulligan and getting caught with single shot blows that have him reeling. Bock knees the shit out of Mulligan and there is a fun spot with Bock having to climb up Mulligan's back to apply the sleeper. Mulligan slowly goes down, but then works his way back up and drives Bock backwards into the ropes, only for Bock to lock it back on. Mulligan fights back to his feet and this time stumbles forward into the turnbuckle with Bock taking the big face bump. They reset and go into a punching exchange which looked really good and allowed Blackjack to make a big babyface with Bock wildly bumping for his punches. Blackjack brings Bock into the ring and they do a stupid ass finish with Heenan punching Mulligan for the DQ. I liked this a lot except for the finish was pretty god damned terrible.

Nick Bockwinkel vs. Blackjack Mulligan (4/19/84)

 

This is JIP and this is the Bock Show as he totally makes Mulligan look like a world beater here and was working for two. Bock was selling his ass off for the plodding Mulligan before finally getting the advantage by locking on his sleeper which Mulligan fought to get out of pretty well. This led to a fun punching exchange with Bock bumping hard for Mulligan until Heenan would jump up on the apron to punch Mulligan for the DQ. Bad finish but this was fun for what it was and I'll slightly push this as a low-end pick.