Posted February 21, 201114 yr comment_5465742 The pagaentry of the pre-match stuff is a lot of fun and adds to this. Rockers come in and just destroy the heels tossing them wildly into the Cage. Sherri is going crazy as Buddy blades early and Michaels throws jabs at Somers flooring him. Somers blades big time. Marty goes to bang the heels heads together and Rose rakes his eyes instead and then tosses him into the Cage. Martel is on the floor literally crying and screaming for Buddy to kill him. Buddy goes up top but Marty kips up and Rose ends up getting crotched and then having the back of his head slammed into the cage over and over. Rose ends up punching Jannetty in the balls to kill momentum but Marty comes back and just starts wailing on Rose. The heels just look dead to the World and the faces are oddly methodical picking them over. Michaels hits a nice diving elbow for a nearfall on Somers. Shawn challenges Rose to come in while they rake Doug over the Cage. Michaels wipes blood on his hand and appears to lick it before decking Somers. Somers goes low with a headbutt and crawls over tagging in Rose. Michaels takes an AWESOME slingshot bump into the steel and gets busted open and Rose is awesome laying in the punches while Michaels stumbles around punch drunk. Rose gets a nearfall and then another off of a DDT. Rose returns the favor and starts licking Michaels blood. Michaels is actually really great throwing loopy jabs only to get bit on the cut by Rose who then spits the blood into the crowd. Michaels is a fucking mess and they just run back and fourth grating Shawn's face against the steel. Michaels takes a wild back body drop and then gets crotched on the top rope. Somers and Shawn brawling on the mat was awesome and felt super intense. Shawn hits a great kneelift and then runs to make the tag. Crazy stuff abounds as Rose tries to crawl out and ends up taking a wild bump down. Jannetty hits a diving splash for the pin. This is an awesome blood bath and will probably contend for number one on a lot ballots.
March 30, 201114 yr comment_5468591 Another vicious cage match with HBK channeling his inner-Abdullah, biting the forehead of Somers. Once Rose came in, he was great, bumping around, but Somers is the star of this show. Weird structure as the heels didn’t gain an advantage until almost 10 minutes in. Thankfully, the Michaels FIP segment was awesome. He and Somers are having a bleeding contest and HBKJ is winning. What a great match.
May 18, 201114 yr comment_5471346 Steel Cage Match for the AWA World Tag Titles: "Playboy" Buddy Rose & "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers © vs. The Midnight Rockers (Marty Jannetty & Shawn Michaels) (12/25/86) Rockers just beat the shit out of the heels early with them juicing pretty good and the Rockers really remind me of the Fabs here as they are the tough guy blowjob team not like RnR Express. This is just a beatdown until Michaels takes a tremendous slingshop bump into the cage where he taps a gusher but the camera guy mainly cares about a guy in the front row wearing a Reagan mask trying to get love from a chick. Michaels gets his ass kicked here from pillar to post before making the hot tag to Jannetty who runs wild with Rose trying to leave the cage but Jannetty pulls him over the cage where he punches him off then Marty hits a big cross body block on Somers to win the match. This was simply awesome and a grand slam nomination.
June 9, 201213 yr comment_5505980 This is a pretty famous match, right? So what is the best VQ to use?
June 9, 201213 yr comment_5506013 Brawl in St. Paul just aired on WWE Classics on Demand, so that one. The copy I got from a guy that taped it as it aired is good but probably not as good as that one...although the disc I have with those bouts seems to have a slight flaw in the master tape as there is a slight green tinge/line on one spot throughout. I'd probably still go with the Classics on Demand version, though.
