The Rock n Roll RPM's (Mike Davis & Tommy Lane) vs. 2 American Jobbers who I didn't catch the name (August 1986) The fans are very hot for the RPM's here and they looked good as a team.

 

Bruiser Brody vs. Dino Minelli (August 1986) Squash.

 

The Islanders (Tapu & Tio) vs. "El Monarca" Javier Cruz & Isaac Rosario (August 1986) Easy win for the Islanders.

 

Then we get clips of Brody destroying Maelo Huertas until The Invader makes the save. WWC TV Title Tournament: Ron Starr vs. Mike Davis (August 1986) Good back and forth action here with some good heat with Starr winning by a cutback on an O'Connor Roll using tights. Tommy Lane would attack him after the match which would bring out Chicky for a brawl and the crowd going nuts. Okay for what it was but not a nomination.

 

The Invader vs. Mr. X (August 1986) X puts up a fight but Invader prevails in the end. Rip Morgan would run in the ring after the match for a brawl.

 

The Road Warriors (Animal & Hawk) vs. The Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn & Stan Lane) (9/21/85) This is from the 1985 anniversario show and these two teams have history from AWA. This starts slow with Fabs trying to work holds but the Roadies would soon take over with power moves but the heat section didn't last long as Lane would get a quick tag to Keirn where they worked over the Roadies until the Sheepherders showed up luring the Fabs to the floor where they chased them away giving the Roadies a countout win. Highly disappointing finish.

 

Then we get a skit with Invader in a restaurant where Al Perez comes in and Invader tries to apologize to him but Chicky Starr & Victor the Bodyguard showed up to escort Perez away.

 

Miguel Perez Jr. vs. "Flamboyant" Eric Embry (August 1986) This is JIP a little. Embry is really cocky here working over Miguelito but he would make a fiery comeback until Embry would get DQed for outside interference.

 

Barbed Wire Match: Carlos Colon vs. Jos LeDuc (August 1985) Colon rips off LeDuc's shirt and shoves LeDuc into the barbed wire and that kicks off the match. Colon is on fire here punching and kicking along with putting LeDuc's body in the wire in different ways. LeDuc is a bloody mess quickly but he would recover to rub Colon into the wire and it was nice of the camera to catch Colon blading himself in the process. LeDuc putting the wire in Colon's mouth is fun and keeps Colon in the wire in different ways until Colon kicks him in the balls which kickstarts his comeback where he showed great fire stomping away at the bloody LeDuc. Colon would pinball LeDuc into the wire numerous times before going to work on his left leg where he would lock in the figure-four where LeDuc would eventually give up. This went about 7 minutes but it was all action and the wire was used well in getting blood so I'm passing this on as a nomination.

 

Next we get Chicky Starr's Sport Shop featuring new ally Al Perez. This was good. Then we get clips of a scaffold match featuring Invader III & Chicky Starr that was fun. This was a bigger looking scaffold than you normally saw and Starr took the big bump right on his knees. Ouch.

The Miguel Perez vs. Eric Embry match may be from Aniversario 85. Is it this one?

 

 

The Al Perez segments (the meeting with Invader and Sports Shop) could be extras.

 

Is the Jos Leduc match the same one as in Bloody Matches?

 

I've seen the full match of Brody destroying Maelo on youtube.

 

 

This is what sets-up Invader vs. Brody at the "Vengeance in the Afternoon" card.

 

I was tempted to skip over the RPMs squash, but the look of the two jobbers was too great to pass up. The guy wearing windbreaker pants over his singlet was something. Crowd was really hot for this, which is kind of neat because generally you think of the hottest acts in PR being locals. Decent competitive squash.

 

Brody squash is what you would guess. I'd actually rather watch him in squashes than regular matches for what it's worth.

 

The Islanders (Tapu & Tio) vs. "El Monarca" Javier Cruz & Isaac Rosario

 

This isn't the good Islanders and this wasn't particularly good.

 

There are a ton of local promos on this disc, though none really stand out.

 

Ron Starr v. Mike Davis

 

Mike Davis getting mobbed by the fans on the way in like he was a Von Erich boy was something. I thought this was actually really solid for a tv match, maybe even a borderline nomination, but ultimately it just felt too short to have a real shot for the set. Still I loved how they cast this as the great rope running guy v. the great striker. Starr getting fed up with the bullshit and just decking Davis ruled. I also thought his headbutt looked great and the match was well put together. Even liked the finish. Post-match attack with Chicky coming out and the other RPM getting bloodied makes me think this might have nominal value as an EXTRA

 

The Invader vs. Mr. X

 

Invader has the mask on here and one day I want it explained to me why he goes back and fourth with it. This was okay. The funniest/best part of it was the camera panning to the Rip Morgan run in early so you just see this empty space and then it pans back to the ring and then back out and by then Rip had made it out. Rip laying Invader down with the full nelson was something.

 

The Road Warriors (Animal & Hawk) vs. The Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn & Stan Lane)

 

This pissed me off. With a match like this I start out with the premise that this should at least be nominated, so I would have been fine with this same finish if it had gone five minutes longer. Instead this went about five minutes total. The work was actually really spirited and very good, but then the the Herders show up and the Fabs get coaxed away right as this got going. Worse yet we don't even get a close look at their brawling. Having said that a part of me feels like this should be an EXTRA

 

Chicky holding court in the restaurant was pretty great.

 

Eric Embry v. Miguel Perez Jr.

 

No clue how JIP this is. It's weird because we have the complete intro and then there is a cut right as Embry kicks Perez in the nuts off of what looked like a handshake. Embry was really awesome in this, he's just such a loathsome son of a bitch. Every motion he makes just screams "I'm a complete piece of shit" and you want to see him get his ass kicked. Having said that he shows some technique, including a really good looking gut wrench suplex. Actually this match had some really good offense and some great Embry bumping and selling, but again the clip we got was just too short. Real shame.

 

Barbed Wire Match: Carlos Colon vs. Jos LeDuc (August 1985)

 

This is already nominated. In fact it's been nominated twice from two discs.

 

Chicky Starr/Al Perez segment was fun.

 

The Invader III v. Chicky Scaffold match is nominated already and a top five contender of course.