Buddy Rose with the wheel barrow of belts! He and Piper issue an open challenge 4 on 4 for next week.

 

Ed Wiskowski/Killer Brooks/Buddy Rose/Roddy Piper v. Ron Starr/George Wells/Hector Guerrero/Adrian Adonis (Elimination Match)

 

Love the opening of this was Piper being theatrical as fuck in every motion, Hector running off some nice spots, all the faces getting some early action, and Adonis hitting an epic looking diving elbow off the top to Piper's arm. Holy shit Ron Starr's exchanges with Rose and Wiskowski were really great with both guys taking huge theatrical bumps and flying around the ring wildly for everything. Disturbing moment as George Wells appears to fuck Wiskoski's face, which I suppose may shed some light on the fears that were represented later in the Col. Debeers gimmick. Piper gets crotch posted, but eventually fights his way back to the heel corner tagging in Brooks while clutching his balls. Seriously Piper sells the fuck out of this ball shot and there is a great camera shot of him hunched over clutching his junk while Rose kneels down to console him. Heels end up taking turns in rapid succession working over Ron Starr. Heels do a great job isolating him in the corner and when he finally does his scramble bit for the hot tag it is with Rose and comes off really well. Wells comes in and makes a run with the heels bumping huge for it but Wiskowski hits a diving headbutt to Wells as he tries to cover Rose and the heels take the first fall.

 

Second fall starts off with Adonis in peril but Hector comes in and lights up Piper who again is at his theatrical best. Hector ends up in the ropes with the heels beating the piss out of him, kneeing him in the head and crotching him behind the refs back. Hector also takes one of the more thuddish face plant bumps I can remember. They end up working over Hector's ribs violently and Hector takes the fall and gets eliminated.

 

Next stanza starts off with a really great nearfall off of a sunset flip from Starr and then a great sequence of wild bumps off the apron from dropkicks. The babyfaces actually isolate Brooks, including a cool desperation double team off of a semi-flubbed spot. Brooks gets counted out after an accidental headbutt from Wiskowski and the heels tease dissension. Brooks ends up attack Wiskowski and Rose attacks Brooks from behind with Piper siding with Brooks.

 

The action was really great in this and I liked the angle with the heels splitting at the end, though the failure to pay off on the totality of the gimmick was a bit annoying. Still this was awesome.

 

Buddy Rose/Wiskowski post-match interview as Brooks gets stretchered out. VQ here is really shitty. Technically Adonis and Starr win the match at this point as Rose and Wiskowski get counted out mid-promo.

 

Buddy Rose v. Hector Guerrero

 

Typically awesome Rose rope running spot opens this. Hector ends up going to work on Rose arm, including a nice looking arm scissors. They even did a really dope looking monkey flip out of it and then another one off of another good rope running spot. Buddy bails to the floor to cut the flow and comes back end with an extended hand but Hector doesn't bit and takes Buddy right back down by the arm. Hector with his awesome front flip counter off the back body drop attempt into another arm bar. Hector gets cut off offensively and takes a couple of big face plant bumps. Hector comes back and they are chasing the clock at this point with Hector running through high spots to try and take a fall. He goes for a splash but Buddy catches him and hits a back breaker and then a Billy Robinson style backbreaker for the fall. This was not blowaway great, but it was a lot of fun, and the big spots were really awesome.

 

Roddy Piper promo. Really coked up promo even by Piper standards.

 

Adrian Adonis/Ron Starr promo with a poster of fat women. I think this was supposed to be funny...

 

Buddy Rose promo on Stan Stasiak.

 

Another pretty good Buddy Rose promo

 

Buddy Rose v. King Parsons

 

Parsons takes over on the arm almost right away. Armwork is not nearly as compelling here as it was in the Hector match, but the crowd was into it and it was solid. I liked the headbutts especially and Buddy's reactions to everything were great. Rose fights back but Parsons never really keeps moving forward. Rose really does a lot to make Parsons look good here, but Parsons was really fucking green. Match cuts off, but this was not on the fast track to nomination by any means.

 

Roddy Piper snaps and beats up a woman's wrestler in the Crow's Nest. EXTRA

 

Wiskowski/Rose promo.

 

Ed Wiskowski/Buddy Rose v. Stan Stasiak/George Wells

 

Man Portland babyfaces love to do the crank the body part while the crowd counts spot. Anyway the first fall was okay and ends with a Wiskowski headbutt. Second fall is Stasiak isolated. I liked some of the work and they were targetting his face/throat which was cool. Still this was pretty underwhelming. Wells eventually gets the hot tag and takes a big shoulder first bump into the turnbuckle almost immediately. Wiskowski does the awesome splash onto seating opponents neck that Billy Robinson always does. Wells headscissor and Stasiak comes back in and hits a hearpunch to a diving Wiskowski for a cool end to the second fall. Match cuts off in the third fall.

This sucks since these are all great matches.... but this is the 70s hoop johnson set...

 

DVD #1:

Interview...Playboy Buddy Rose & Ed Wiskowski 3/31/79

Interview...Playboy Buddy Rose, Ed Wiskowski, Rowdy Roddy Piper & Killer Tim Brooks (2 interviews) 3/31/79 & 4/7/79

Match......Rose, Wiskowski, Piper & Brooks vs. Adrian Adonis, Ron Starr, George Wells & Hector Guererro (Rose/Wiskowski turn on Piper & Brooks....this was the start of the legendary Rose/Piper feud!!!) 4/7/79

Match......Rose vs. Guerrero 4/14/79

Interview...Piper (All of the Piper interviews on this video are classic early Piper stuff!!!) 4/14/79

Interview...Adonis & Starr 4/14/79

Match......Rose & Iceman King Parsons (with a huge afro...ends right before the finish of the match)

Interview...Piper & Vickie Williams as Piper ends up slapping Williams around 4/21/79

Interview...Rose & Wiskowski 4/21/79

Interview...Starr, Williams & Piper as Williams slaps Roddy 4/21/79

Interview...Buck Zumhoff 4/21/79

Match......Rose & Wiskowski vs. Stan Stasiak & George Wells (end of third fall not shown) 4/21/79