Posted March 29, 201114 yr comment_5468547 1. The Midnight Rockers v Buddhakhan/Pistol Pete Wow, that was quick. Khan didn't even get to tag in, Marty and the PISTOL were just working arm wringers and Marty hits a DDT for the 3. It went about a minute. Then Larry Nelson dorkily slaps the Rockers high 5s after the match. 2. Rocky Mountain Thunder v The Surfer Oh MY LORD! Thunder busts out a Widow's Peak that looks like it might have broken Surfer in half. Totally rewindable. So naturally the match ends with a hip toss. Surfer got up real quick from that Widow's Peak, but I probably would have as well just to see if my legs still worked. Rocky Mountain Thunder should make it on as an EXTRA. This was his debut. 3. Baron Von Raschke v Daryl Nickle Baron controls with nerve holds and snap mares. Nickle doesn't do too much, cut to goose stepping and the Claw. 4. Badd Company v Mando Guerrero/Ricky Rice This match is already great on paper, because we get a Mando sighting, and whenever Lee Marshall commentates a Ricky Rice match it always gets to Kal Rudman levels of weird. "Would you just look at the thighs of Ricky? Mmm Mmm Mmm." I did not make up that quote. He said that RIGHT after I talked about things getting weird. This was well on its way to a nomination, as Mando was working the whole match and running circles around Badd Co. Cool plancha, big bumps, neat sunset flip. Diamond threw a really great clothesline. But then Rice tagged in, took an uppercut and got pinned. C'est la vie. 5. Hulk Hogan/The High Flyers v Jesse Ventura/Adrian Adonis/Jerry Blackwell @ Denver, CO 9/13/81 Wish we could see more of this. We JIP right when Gagne hot tags Hogan and it's only 3 minutes to the end from there. Gagne took a huge bump off the apron to the floor. Blackwell worked really well with Hogan, not going easy on him at all. 6. Debbie Combs v Ms. Olympia This was a 10 minute draw and it was awful. Just so boring and formless. This was a looooong 10 minutes.
March 29, 201114 yr comment_5468549 2. Rocky Mountain Thunder v The Surfer Oh MY LORD! Thunder busts out a Widow's Peak that looks like it might have broken Surfer in half. Totally rewindable. So naturally the match ends with a hip toss. Surfer got up real quick from that Widow's Peak, but I probably would have as well just to see if my legs still worked. Rocky Mountain Thunder should make it on as an EXTRA. This was his debut. This is why he didn't last very long. 5. Hulk Hogan/The High Flyers v Jesse Ventura/Adrian Adonis/Jerry Blackwell @ Denver, CO 9/13/81 Don't get fooled by all the locations they give for those mat classics from the 80's. Most if not all of them are from Minneapolis or St. Paul, despite what Gagne and the other introducers of the bouts tell us. This sort of thing got worse the closer they got to the end of the road...I think it was an attempt to make underscore the former largeness of the AWA territory, but they didn't have the actual footage from those areas to show. Denver, Green Bay, Chicago, San Fran, and many of the others they mention were AWA towns for long periods of time. At least they didn't use towns that they didn't go to regularly when lying about where the footage came from.
April 3, 201114 yr comment_5468939 4. Badd Company v Mando Guerrero/Ricky Rice This match is already great on paper, because we get a Mando sighting, and whenever Lee Marshall commentates a Ricky Rice match it always gets to Kal Rudman levels of weird. "Would you just look at the thighs of Ricky? Mmm Mmm Mmm." I did not make up that quote. He said that RIGHT after I talked about things getting weird. This was well on its way to a nomination, as Mando was working the whole match and running circles around Badd Co. Cool plancha, big bumps, neat sunset flip. Diamond threw a really great clothesline. But then Rice tagged in, took an uppercut and got pinned. C'est la vie. I disagree with Eric, he makes it sound like Rice gets pinned when he first tags in, but he has an section on offense, tags Mando in for another awesome Mando section, and then they have a crazy all four guys in the ring finish before Rice gets hit with the karate thrust to the throat. I think this had enough comeptative action to nominate, and Mando was a total blast in it.
