Gagne and Yuri actually had a really fun and spirited looking amateur exchange in this. Heat section on Gagne was not terribly impressive but the crowd was super into it and White fucking kills people off the hot tag. Both Gordyenko and Smirnoff took insane bumps for White mauling and White was really great at firing up the crowd who were absolutely in love with him. Zhukov comes in and gets in some headbutts but gets powerslammed by White when he tries to come off the top. God damn another crazy bump from one of the Russians this time for Ferris. Ferris goes for his Ferris wheel but he gets tripped up from the floor while the faces brawl with Adnan and the Russians end up stealing the win. This was hot enough and fun enough to at least garner consideration.

White, Gagne & Ferris vs. The Russians

- I was not feeling this at all. Gagne as face in peril sucked mainly because the Russians’ offense sucked. Ferris is a big fat dude.. start squashing mother fuckers. White is the future Vader… stiff some commie bastards. I wanted to see some hate to make up for the lack of talent. Bleh.

Yuri Gordienko (Paul DeMarco), Alexis Smirnoff, & Boris Zuhkov vs. Earthquake Ferris, Greg Gagne, & "Bull Power" Leon White (1/17/87)

 

The crowd was definitely into this but damn did almost all of these guys suck. Leon was fun but that was about it as Greg wasn't inspiring and the rest just didn't do it for me. I did like this more than Will but I still don't think it's a nomination.