The opening mat exchange with Saito and Curt was fun and led to Bock tagging in and doing some fun work on Curt. Cool spot with Curt trying to sit up on an arm stretcher only for Saito to punch him in the face from the apron. Saito opens up with some stiff shots on Curt. Bock locks on the front facelock and they do the slow build to the tag but Saito distracts the ref and they do a double team on Curt behind his back while Larry protests. Curt hot tag comes off a telegraphed back body drop and is kind of uneventful but the crowd comes unglued for the Axe and the heels bump like crazy for me. Bock gets isolated and the Hennig's go to work on his leg. Kind of weird as Bock is building mini-comebacks and trying to make the hot tag and the Hennig's are using heel psych tactics but it is a lot of fun. Bock tags out off an eye rake and Saito comes in and gets pinballed around a bit. The Axe ends up getting isolated and worked over by the heels. Larry with another sort of uneventful hot tag and Curt comes in hot reeling off some nice offense. Heels get double bumped around by the faces and Bock gets isolated and hit with a big forearm by a Curt but Saito breaks up the fall. Larry gets distracted and Saito blindsides Curt as he is going for an atomic drop giving the heels the win. Sort of an oddball layout to this, but a really good match nonetheless.

Nick Bockwinkel & Mr. Saito vs. Curt & Larry "The Axe" Hennig (11/8/84)

 

Curt was fun early on taking it to the heels who were getting frustrated at him. The heels would eventually get to Curt and worked over his left arm effectively with this leading to a long control section with Curt before finally getting the tag to his dad with the crowd going nuts. The match took an interesting turn here as the heel Bock started working like FIP with the Hennig's working as quasi heels with the double teams and keeping Bock isolated from getting a hot tag. Saito would come in and took some punishment before the match went back to normal as the heels isolated the Axe and controlled him for a little while. Curt would get the tag and we go to a 4-way brawl with Curt falling to a double-team attack. Good match and this moves forward.