Really solid opening with Saito taking some rapid fire bumps for Hennig and Saito bowing off of the clean breaks, offering up his hand, et. Hennig eventually bites on the handshake and gets a thrust to the throat and then a punch to the face. Really great sleeper from Saito with Curt feeding off the crowd and working back to a base but then getting stiffed in the back of his head for his trouble. Saito locks on a nervehold that looks like a choke which makes it a lot less tedious to me and more impressive when Hennig fights back to his feet. Hennig hits a double axe that looks nasty as fuck and then opens up with some really stiff chops before decking Saito in the guts which Saito takes a nice tumbling bump for. Hennig ends up going for a corner charge and takes an insanely fast bump flying through the middle ropes to the floor. Hennig does some great selling here falling limply for every Saito shot. Hennig finally catches Saito coming toward him on the apron and ends up crotching him on the ring post and going to work on Saito's leg. Hennig works a spinning toehold and then tips him over into a Boston Crab. Saito does a cool push up out and manages to get to the ropes but now Hennig is opening up on his back. Hennig hit a nice suplex for nearfall with Nelson screaming at him to hook the leg on commentary being a nice touch. Hennig hits another suplex and goes for a third but Saito hits a back drop suplex. Really great nearfall on a sunset flip with both Hennig and Saito milking the fuck out of it. Hennig hits a second sunset flip off of a corner charge and they end up squaring off from there with some stiff as strikes and Saito backing Hennig into the corner. Saito stiffs Hennig with a foreign object and scores the fall with his feet on the ropes. I thought this was a pretty damn good match.

Mr. Saito vs. Curt Hennig (3/28/85)

 

Saito trying to sucker Hennig to shaking his hand then when Curt takes his hand before taking a thrust to the throat was great. Saito would then work his sleeper followed up by a nervehold that Hennig sold really well thus keeping it from being boring to the fans. Hennig then made a fun comeback before throwing Saito into the corner and missing a running shoulderblock hitting all post and taking a hard bump to the floor. Saito would then attack Hennig from the apron until Curt pulled his legs out from under him and wrapped his left leg around the post before crotching him. Hennig brought Saito back in the ring and worked him over before a desperation Saito Suplex would even the odds. Hennig would fight back with nearfalls until Saito used a foreign object on Curt and pinning him using the ropes as the referee wasn't looking. Very good match and a nomination.