Posted April 6, 201114 yr comment_5469208 Dizzy Hogan v. Chris Adams This was not bad. Sort of a strength v. speed type match. Matwork was nothing special but was also not bad. Adams hits several superkicks and the bell rings as he is going for the fall for a time limit draw. Ed Leslie was never a good worker but he was a lot more tolerable as a heel. David Schultz v. Tommy Rogers Decent match. Dr. D cheats and throws throat shots. Rogers comes back with some nice drop kicks. Dr. D cuts him off and wins with a backbreaker. Buddy Rose/Rip Oliver promo Buddy Rose v. Curt Henning (2/3 Falls, No DQ) Hennig has a hurt leg coming in so naturally Rose ends up taking a huge flip bump into the ropes early and Hennig goes to town on his knee to even things up. The early leg work was a lot of fun as Buddy sells his ass off and took several theatrical bumps to set up various hold and attacks from Hennig. Kind of a funny spot with Rose trying to pull Hennig to the floor to scramble in but he ends up getting trapped and has his leg smashed into the steel post several times. Buddy ends up giving up to a half crab to end a very fun first fall. 2nd Fall sees Rose bail out right away and hobble around on one leg before getting trapped in a half crab again. Really cool moment with Hennig shoving Rose own foot into his mouth. Hennig stays aggressive even with Rose in the ropes as it is no DQ, but Rose gets in a couple of shots at Hennigs knee and ends up taking over, including some chairshots to the knee. Hennig comes back jettisoning Rose to the floor and working in on Buddy's knee. I really liked the spot with Rose bailing to the floor here as Hennig is over aggressive and this time gets cut and takes a chairshot into his knee to lose momentum. Rose locks on a half crab center ring and Hennig throws punches and elbows to the back of Buddy's knee joints trying to break the hold but Rose sits down on it and wins the fall. Really good fall, with very well done momentum swings. 3rd fall has kind of a fun beginning as they start out on a tentative lock up, but Hennig suckers him in and beats Rose's knee with a chair and just lights him up. Buddy cut shim off with one of the nastiest eye rakes ever and goes to work on Hennig's leg on the post but Dr. D comes out for the non-finish after cheapshotting Rose. Stupid finish to an otherwise really great match match. David Schultz promo. Rocky Johnson/Bret Sawyer promo. Buddy Rose post-match promo. Rose is sitting in a chair selling his leg which is a nice touch. Bret Sawyer promo. Buddy Rose/Rip Oliver promo. Buddy gives his 40 time which makes me chuckle and shit talks Dr. D. Buddy Rose/Rip Oliver v. Bret Sawyer/Rocky Johnson (2/3 Falls) I liked the dueling monkey flip escapes early with Rose cartwheeling aside and Rocky flipping through. The subsequent criss cross spot was pretty cool too with Buddy claiming that he landed on his feet a la Rocky after a back body drop. Of course Oliver comes in and Rocky DOES land flat footed on a back body drop attempt which really pops the crowd. Bret and Rocky take turns dropping double axes on Oliver who hits a few short rights and tags Buddy in. Buddy hit some big shoulder tackles off the ropes but ends up getting taken over by Sawyer and the faces go to work on his arm. Rocky ends up isolated in the heel corner and goes FIP. Really love the finish to this fall as Rose is great selling befuddlement at Rocky's rolling through escapes before eating a dropkick and sunset flip for the first fall. Opening of second fall is awesome as Rose goes for a headlock and Rocky slides out over and over and Rose just looks absolutely perplexed and appalled by this. Rose tries to escape from a Rocky headlock and ends up face planting himself. Rocky takes a nice bump off of a knee to the gut coming off the rope and goes FIP. Strangely the heels work a nervehold. Even stranger Oliver's working of it is a lot more spirited than Rose's was. Rocky goes for a comeback but gets caught with a back elbow coming off the rope for a near fall. Rocky makes the tag twice but both times the ref misses it and the heels end up taking the second fall. Third Fall starts out hot with Sawyer hitting a great dropkick on Oliver, followed by rose and Sawyer trading missed dropkicks. Dr. D shows up when Rose goes up top and knocks him off, then takes him to the floor and posts him. Rose bleeds big time and the match gets thrown out. This was a match where the big spots were really cool and the work around those spots was solid enough where I think it deserves a real look. Curt Hennig promo. Dizzy Hogan promo. Dizzy implies that Hulk Hogan is coming in. This is a pretty terrible promo and might be worth including for that reason. EXTRA Dr. D promo. They go split screen with bloody Rose in the ring and Dr. D demanding a match.
