Opening stalling and feeling out with Larry and Greg is just kind of there until they do a great spot with Doug holding Greg from the apron and Larry charges going for a big knee. Naturally Gagne moves and Larry and Somers both take big time bumps. Oh man Debeers refuses to wrestle the non-white Snuka! Random commericial interlude and we are back with Snuka on the defensive but he quickly comes back with the most egregious "clap" while throwing a kick spot I have EVER seen. Larry is reeling and Hennig tags in and hits a huge running dropkick then lights up Debeers with punches. Man the babyfaces are really lighting up the heels on the apron with cheapshots in this. Gagne tries to keep pace with a big dropkick but Larry holds the ropes and quickly tags out leading to Greg in peril. The look on Greg's face when Sherri slaps him is classic. The heel work on Greg is simple but it is effective and the heat spots get huge pops. Loved Debeers javelin style throw of Gagne on the bodyslam and follow up fist drop for a near fall. Trongard is @#!*% livid at the ref for "missing" multiple hot tags on heel control spots among other things. I really liked the spot with Somers getting caught in the sleeper and then collapsing on a body slam attempt selling the damage. Greg hits some epic strikes but is in the wrong corner and gets decked by Debeers. Snuka gets the hot tag which @#!*% me off because Hennig would have been way better and Hennig end up tagging in a couple of seconds later and hitting a nice second rope splash and then killing Somers with a chop and some brutal forearm blows off the ropes. The capstone flying dropkick looked great. There were flaws here, but this had an insanely hot crowd, a very well worked heel control segment and the big moments in this really stood out.

Greg Gagne, Curt Hennig, & "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka vs. Col. DeBeers, "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers, & "Living Legend" Larry Zbyszko (7/26/86)

 

Snuka is replacing Scott Hall which pisses off DeBeers since he isn't white. This was a blast as you would want in a 6-man like this with heels bumping and stooging around for the faces and DeBeers being racial against Snuka. The faces are so good here at pounding on the heels both in and out of the ring and the crowd is nuts for everything. Greg works FIP and is really good here selling the punishment he gets from everyone including Sherri who jackslaps him in the face. Rod Tronguard channels Larry Nelson when the ref constantly misses Greg's tags and sounds like he is about to have a coronary. Greg is great at fighting his way back to his corner where he makes the hot tag to Snuka who runs wild and the 6-way brawl is on with Curt being on fucking fire here hitting a HUGE atomic dropkick off the top for the win on Somers. I loved this match and this is a definite nomination.