The Hennig paintbrush off the initial workrate exchange with DK was nice. Babyfaces take over on the arm of the Assassin early and do a good job working the crowd in the process. Oliver ends up tagging in and gets bumped all over gods creation taking a ton of offense from the faces and really looking good doing so. Hennig goes FIP after taking a shot to the ribs that he sells like a motherfucker. Cool quadruple boot to Hennig's rib cage. Hennig and DK do another one of their awesome sunset flip hope spots. Hennig ends up slipping into this crazy rope running spot that leads to a huge collision and the hot tag to Billy Jack. Gotta give Oliver credit as he really runs through Billy Jack's clothesline and then drops the first fall to Billy Jack's vertical rib breaker thingy while Rose and Hennig dropkick the other heels to the floor.

 

Second fall starts with Oliver in the clutches of Billy Jack. Rose ends up coming in and hitting a really impressive one arm suplex. Oliver eventually cuts off Billy Jack on a corner charge and makes the tag to Dyno. DK gets in some nice offense which Billy takes well and is entertaining selling the power hope spots of Billy Jack. Billy had a chance for a hot tag after Assassin misses a dropkick but tries to take the Assassin's hood instead and gets caught in the heel corner leading to the third fall.

 

Final fall starts off with Billy Jack in peril and totally isolated amongst the heels. Buddy ends up getting the hot tag and gets a teaser off the same roll up spot he had won with over Assassin the week before but the other heels break it up and take over on him. Buddy wins a suplex battle and ends up tagging out. Finish is pretty awesome as Hennig gets into it fired up, but ends up overcome and losing clean to a DK flying knee drop to the throat. Post-match brawl was fun too.

 

Kind of notable as a match involving this level of talent where Rip Oliver may have been the best guy in the match.

I'll take just about any fall featuring Henning in peril, and he was great here, selling the shots to the ribs and hitting his array of fantastic hope spots. Then Oliver ate Billy Jack's offense like a pro to wrap it up. Face started the second with solid work on Oliver's back. Great cutoff spot by Oliver catching Billy with a hard double boot out of the corner. So then we got Billy in peril, which was always better than one might think. That carried into the third fall, though the actual hot tag to Buddy felt a little anti-climatic. The finishing run, with Henning going nuts, only to eat "loaded" headbutts from Assassin and a huge knee from Dynamite, was strong. Really good match with lots of big names, so it's an easy yes.

 

Patterson Portland Disc 27