Posted February 28, 201114 yr comment_5466266 This starts with clips of a Dory Funk Jr. squash where the top rope breaks followed up by a promo by Dory about his upcoming match with Baba. Then we get promos by Tony Atlas & The Invader about their matches with Brody & Flair respectively. Bruiser Brody vs. Sabu (September 1986) Squash. Next is a great Terry Funk promo about Colon. Then we get promos by Rick Martel & Carlos Colon about their matches against Abby & Terry Funk respectively. Next are clips of Terry Funk vs. Barry Windham from 9/19/86. White Knight (Pat Rose) vs. Huracan Castillo Jr. (9/21/86) This was fair. Next we get clips of a Miguel Perez Jr./Crusher (Rip Morgan) chain match. Invader III vs. "Flamboyant" Eric Embry (Spring 1986) Embry's female valet Sasha is locked in a cage before the match. This is clipped up as it goes through 2 breaks and between one of the breaks it goes from Embry in control to Embry selling while bleeding heavily. This had some really fun moments especially the finish where Invader hit a big tope suicida on Embry on the floor for a countout. Invader III vs. El Vikingo (9/19/86) Okay match but clipped. Tony Atlas vs. Mexican Angel (9/19/86) Atlas wins fairly easily. Dory Funk Jr. vs. Jose Gomez (Spring 1985) This looks like it's from ICW. Universal Heavyweight Title Tournament - Semifinals: Terry Funk vs. Rick Martel (9/20/86) Funk is awesome early selling his ass off for Martel's quick jabs and getting his head pounded into the corner. Funk would then go on offense throwing some great punches before going up top where he just crotches himself on the top rope and does this amazing sell job on the turf where the crowd goes nuts and Funk answers back throwing chairs into the crowd. Funk comes back in wanting to shake hands which Martel refuses to do but the ref obliges which was funny. Funk was tremendous here taking a side headlock by Martel as he was moving all over the ring making this seem like it was breaking his neck before locking in one of his own which was just a setup for him to kick Martel right in the balls then begging off which was awesome. The battle went to the turf where Funk would piledrive Martel right on the ground with Martel selling like he was dead. Funk would pound on Martel outside before he could get back to the ring where Funk locked on a sleeper. Martel fought back to free himself so Funk would start choking him with tape to neutralize him this time but Martel would get the tape himself before locking in his own sleeper which took both men over the top rope to the ground. Funk would wear a wooden chair around his neck even as Martel gave him a piledriver before going back to the ring. Martel missed a slingshot plancha from the apron to the ring before Funk threw him back to the floor with Martel trying to get back into the ring with a sunset flip but Funk cuts it back while holding the ropes to win. This was a great one man show by Funk with Martel being good in his role and this is a fairly easy nomination to me.
February 3, 201312 yr comment_5532682 Chris, check the PR discs but that Embry match might be the same one that Phil and I nominated but it also may be more complete than you gave it credit for. We noticed the blood too but it still went near 20 minutes and was awesome.
February 3, 201312 yr Author comment_5532711 Yeah it's the same one and while the match is great the fact that we didn't get to see how Embry got busted open hurts it in my eyes. If it was just a normal clip job okay but the story of how he got busted open isn't there.
June 30, 201312 yr comment_5549482 The interviews for the first show place it as the show that aired the same day as the last day of Aniversario 86 (9/21/86). I've seen the Invader interview on YouTube. Of note, he was originally scheduled to face Al Perez that day, but with Flair retaining the previous day in Mayaguez, Invader was named the number 1 contender and decided to take his shot against Flair for the World title ("you hardly get these opportunities so I'm taking the title shot"). Of course, Al Perez would get involved and cost Invader the match. A lot of these matches are from the Aniversario 86 weekend. That Invader 3 vs. Embry match is for the Junior title and may be from the Jan. 6, 1986 card. I'll have to review the match on YouTube to make sure. The Martel vs. Abdullah match from 9/21/96 had previously been on YouTube, but that account got nuked. It also had a Bruiser Brody vs. Iron Sheik match from early 88 and who knows what else.
October 29, 201311 yr comment_5569517 Can't see the early promos being extras here, other than the Funk promo. We might need a fucking disc of Funk promo's from PR at this rate. Actually that might be able to be included with a match because I think that promo was right before the Martel match. White Knight (Pat Rose) vs. Huracan Castillo Jr. There were some good spots in this, but this was largely a disorganized mess. I'm not saying this ever had potential to be a great match, but both of these guys are better than this match would indicate. If the Perez/Morgan chain match isn't in full I could see the clips as a possible Extra depending on space. There are about four minutes or so shown and what is shown is great. Hard to believe it doesn't exist in more full form. Invader III vs. El Vikingo There was one big clip, but it didn't hurt the match much for me. ON the other hand this was just okay. I will say this had an awesome finish with Invader III fucking killing Vikingo with a flip splash off the top. Tony Atlas vs. Mexican Angel What you would expect. The rest of the disc I've seen.
