Posted April 13, 201114 yr comment_5469839 1. Ricky Rice/Derrick Dukes v Daryl Nickle/Handsome Harry Yeah! Handsome Harry! Harry has an awesome headlock uppercut, Rice and Dukes throw some high dropkicks, and this was a fun squash. Lee Marshall regularly calls him Daryl Dukes. Harry is a really amusing jobber here and I hope we see more of him. 2. Curt Hennig v Kevin Collins Total squash and Collins doesn't really seem trained or anything. Hennig does some cool takedowns and matwork here, stuff he didn't really do much later in his career. 3. Badd Company v Greg Robertson/Houdini Houdini is a pretty spectacular name for a jobber. Tanaka chopped the hell out of Robertson and Badd Co. win with that leapfrog splash thing that Shelton Benjamin always makes look shitty, but Diamond just crushed Houdini with it. 4. Buck Zumhofe v Sgt. Jacques Goulet – Mat Classic from Omaha, NE Goulet somehow had the same hair here that he had in WWF 25 years later. It's like he started balding and then it just stopped. But again, this is shown way JIP and we get the last 3 minutes. I'm starting to think we're never going to get a full one of these. 5. Jerry Lawler/Greg Gagne v Riki Choshu/Masa Saito Yeah! This is what I'm talking about! I had no idea Choshu ever worked the AWA, and here he and Saito wear matching capri pants and Saito looks like the most solidly built motherfucker on earth. They take Gagne apart to start, with Saito choking him to his knees and Choshu kicking and stomping him. Gagne fights back really nicely and once he tags in Lawler it really picks up, with some (shockingly) great punches and a great fistdrop, then rains down a bunch of great punches to Riki's nose. Saito tags in and charges, and Lawler matadors out of the way and Saito takes a CRAZY shoulder bump into the ringpost, almost Cassandroing himself!! Lawler does an awesome delayed bodyslam and then a fistdrop to the throat! Gagne works over Saito's shoulder with some cool armdrag takedowns, but Saito eventually elbows him in the face to tag in Riki. Riki and Lawler do some shoulderblocks, and Lawler takes a boot to the gut better than most, just stumbling and falling to his knees. Saito and Choshu work sharpshooter variations on him, and Saito headbutts Lawler in his bandaid a bunch! Lawler gets worked over for the next 5 minutes, ref misses two tags to Gagne due to Riki's distraction, but then Lawler ducks a Riki lariat and Saito gets nailed with it! It breaks down on the hot tag with all 4 in the ring, Lawler throwing bombs, Riki takes a big backdrop, and ends in a DQ. The DQ Saito brings in a chair and Riki runs Gagne into it. Lawler is punching dudes post-bell, Saito is headbutting Gagne, crowd is going nuts. 15 minutes of awesome tag action. NOMINATE!
April 13, 201114 yr comment_5469847 On the Mat Classics, you won't get a full match, just 5 minute JIPs for the most part. Also in this case Omaha = either St. Paul or Minneapolis, as is the case for pretty much all of them.
