Posted February 20, 201114 yr comment_5465680 Holy shit the beginning of this is awesome as Rose challenges Marty to do a pushup so he does. Then he does kip up and tells Marty to match it and he does. Marty tags in Shawn who does a back flip off the top. Rose goes up to try one and Shawn shakes the ropes and Rose ends up crotching himself on the ropes. Shawn then does a nice sequence with Somers and then a really beautiful drop down rope running spot into an armdrag with Rose. Jannetty comes in and does his awesome spinout of the hip toss spot and takes Rose back down. Somers ends up trying for a corner charge and smacks into the steel full blast. Jannetty hits an awesome floatover take down and then he and Shawn hit a nice double team on Somers who tags in Rose. Rose comes in and does a single leg but gets kicked off. Shawn goes for the monkey flip but Rose cartwheels away and then struts around. Jannetty comes in and they do a similar sequence with Jannetty cartwheeling out. Jannetty gets backed into the heel corner but Rose ends up accidentally decking Somers. They go into an armstretcher and do a nice spot with Rose standing up on it only for Jannetty to punch him down. Rose does a nice floatover escape but gets taken back down. Shawn does a really sweet head over heels reversal and they do a double team spot and Jannetty comes back in. Rockers hit their fist to the gut/knee lift combo for a nearfall but Somers comes in and Shawn ends up getting caught with a sweet catapult into a sick looking forearm which is one of the better uses of that kind of spot I've seen. Shawn ends up isolated by the heels who work him over in the corner before Rose hits his awesome spinning back elbow for a nearfall. Shawn ends up reversing a suplex attempt and hits a leaping hot tag to Marty. Somers takes an awesomely high back body drop and then jannetty hits a nice spinning back elbow and powerslam for a pair of nearfalls. Rose ends up bumping wildly to the floor off of a double atomic drop and they work over Somers with some double teams. The refs tries to get Shawn out and Rose pushes Jannetty off the top with Marty taking a wild bump. Shawn vaults onto Rose on the apron as the ref counts down Marty for the finish. This was a great match. This was 86 and Rose still looked like someone you would rate right there near the top of guys in the U.S.
March 30, 201114 yr comment_5468649 Doug Somers & Buddy Rose vs. Midnight Rockers - More great tag team work from these two teams. Rose is really shining here. First with the pre-match challenges and then with this strutting and getting his ass beat as Heel in Peril. Doug Somers came in and they took over on HBK. Good hot ending with double teams and Somers pulling out the win. Another nomination.
May 19, 201114 yr comment_5471371 "Playboy" Buddy Rose & "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers vs. The Midnight Rockers (Marty Jannetty & Shawn Michaels) (4/20/86) This is one of the early matches in their feud so the blood lust isn't here quite yet. The horseshit before the match was fun ending with Rose getting crotched on the top rope as he wanted to try a backflip like Shawn. The start of this is all Rockers as they dominate on offense with the heels bouncing around like pinballs. Rockers are great at the double-teams but Michaels would end up getting caught in the heels' corner leading to their control section. They work over Michaels for a bit before he gets the hot tag to Jannetty who is a house of fire until he has Somers pinned on a bodyslam leading to Sherri putting his foot on the rope which starts the 4-way brawl. They get rid of Rose and double up on Somers but as Jannetty climbs up top, Rose pushes him off and Jannetty crashes to the mat with Somers covering for the win. Rockers cleaned house after the match though for good measure. This was a very fun match and moves forward.
