Posted May 25, 201114 yr comment_5471776 Buddy Rose/Doug Somers (champs) v Curt Hennig/Scott Hall – AWA tag title. 10 minutes of really fun tag action with Rose and Hall getting into a posedown to start, Rose mugging to the back row during a knucklelock with Hall (and Sherri kissing Buddy's knuckles afterwards), Hennig chasing Buddy around the ring (and Buddy convincingly outrunning him), and just overall fun. Champs never control during the match which is what it is, but I understand why they would want to be pushing Scott Hall at this point as he had an amazing look. My favorite spot in the match is Rose getting whipped into Somers on the apron (and Rose just smashes into him) then Hall powerslamming him on the rebound. DeBeers runs out to distract Hall, who gets counted out to end it, and Hall throws some awesome rights to DeBeers. Good fun match. NOMINATE! AWA on ESPN Classic 4/19/08, All-Star Wrestling 1986
June 15, 201114 yr comment_5473431 Pretty sure I have watched this one already but I'm giving it a second look since Eric seemed to like it. The opening posedown act Rose is the master of never gets old but it is especially great here as Hall just hams it up on his end to great effect. God @#!*% does Somers take the best back body drop. Gotta say Buddy was great in this, from the test of strength spot to the chase around the ring spot with Hennig vaulting over the top to run him down to his facial expression after Hennig cheap shots him on the apron. I didn't mind the face shine going on as long as it did, but you would have liked the faces to bring some sort of offense of note. Instead the face shine was ALL about the heels. Hennig finally goes FIP and he is pretty much a god in that role in general and this is no exception as he takes a nice bump into the steel on the floor and sells pretty well when he is in there but man they go to the hot tag quick and it really doesn't get the reaction it should have. Finish with Debeers was pretty stupid. I don't know. I like both of these teams but this is a tag match without a real heat section and if you are going to do that you really need more jump off the page spots and better offense from the faces for it to stand out. I am not averse to this being in the discussion, but there are better Buck Zumhofe matches I've watched and Buck Zumhofe is pretty much a bottom feeder as far as "guys that might deserve an affirmative action pick for the set." This is probably destined for the "personal pick or bust" file.
May 21, 201213 yr comment_5503197 The tag titles change was a far better match than this one so we don't need this one.
