Posted February 14, 201114 yr comment_5464475 Buddy was on fire pre-match during the intros, taunting the crowd with his robe removal ceremony and then doing his one armed push ups only for Bock casually lean over and show him his ass in response to his challenge. Buddy takes a huge over the top bump when Bock ducks down. Bock is a lot of fun in this working subtle heel stuff and infuriating the heels. Debeers comes in and Bock gets cornered but escapes through the Col's legs and Debeers ends up hitting Buddy who bumps to the floor. Rose then ends up getting a cup of liquid tossed all over him by a fan he is shit talking. Rose hits a sick drop toehold and floatover on Pardee but then gets reversed. Solid work leads to a melee. Rose takes a huge bump off a kick and then ends up following backwards through the ropes on his head. Debeers flies wildly over the top too. Pardee ends up isolated and getting elbowed in the throat by Buddy. The heels go to work on Pardee beating on his leg. Pretty good strike exchange with Pardee and Somers leads to the hot tag. All hell breaks loose again with Buddy taking a wild flip into the corner and then getting tosed to the floor. Rheingans gets a somewhat out of nowhere sunset flip pin. Rose looked like the best wrestler on Earth here so I am nominating it.
April 1, 201114 yr comment_5468859 Pardee, Bockwinkel & Rheingans vs. DeBeers, Rose & Somers - Man, Rose is fat but he can still get over on an arm drag. The shine showed the faces cheating and distracting the ref and this happens regularly in AWA. Anyway, really nice, fast paced 6-man that I enjoyed. The heels were classic and I wish Bock would have been more involved but what was here was fine. Good match.
January 7, 201213 yr comment_5491878 Nick Bockwinkel, Steve Pardee, & Brad Rheingans vs. Col. DeBeers, "Playboy" Buddy Rose, & "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers (5/31/86) That is quite the babyface team there. Rose is on fire here hemming and hawwing with Bock early on who is also great doing his own heeling but as a babyface which I loved as Bock didn't change his style after he turned. It helped that half of the guys in this match were PNW stalwarts and there was chemistry going on with Pardee and Rose/DeBeers. Rose made Pardee look like a worldbeater here on offense and really everyone had their working boots on. The heels catch Rheingans and work him over before Buddy takes a wild bump letting Brad tag in Pardee with the faces running wild again but it wasn't too long before Pardee got caught by the heels. This is a fun control section as Pardee gets his left leg worked over fierce by the heels but it doesn't last long as Brad gets the hot tag and we get a really fun 6-way brawl with Brad getting a sunset flip on Somers to win. This was a total blast with Rose being fucking awesome. Easy nomination.
