Posted June 18, 201114 yr comment_5473656 Scott Hall v. Tom Stone Love Tom Stone here. He is not the best wrestler alive but man does he know how to work a cheating heel act. I liked his stalling tactics, using the ropes as weapons, choking with tape, cheapshots, et. Not enough here to nominate but fun. Hall promo. Alexis Smirnoff/Yuri Gordenko v. Mike Richards/Pete Sanchez This was not half bad. The Russians arm drags and legdrops looked good. The babyface jobbers did some fun shit. Respectable showing really. Dennis Stamp/Tony Leone v. Midnight Rockers Stamp was great here. Targetted the arm early, had fun rope running stuff with Shawn, hit a nice headscissors counter at one point and threw some nice right hands. I dug the Rockers double vertical, double nip up, double back elbow sequence. They also hit a nice dropdown/dropkick combo on Leone. Leone does the slow back up into the corner and Stamp fucking wraps the tag rope around Shawn and starts choking him. There was a really cool camera shot of this. Heels cut off the ring on Shawn briefly but Jannetty gets a tag and hits a big twisting elbow on Leone. Rockers hit a double dropkick and then an assisted suplex splash for the finish. Easily the best Rockers squash I've seen. With a two or three minute heat segment on Shawn I could see myself arguing for this on the set. As it stands it's probably below the level of what will be required for the set proper but I could see it as an interesting EXTRA Midnight Rockers promo Larry Z challenges a local promoter(?) on the floor about his failure to get a title shot. This might be a good EXTRA Larry Zbyszko v. Curt Hennig I feel like I may have seen this before. Larry stalls forever and hits a fireman's carry early but then gets shoved to the floor by Hennig. So far the best part of this is Go at ringside brandishing a kendo stick toward a fan. I'll grant that they built the heat here but the payoff for all the stalling was a lengthy headlock spot in a match that wasn't going long. Lame DCO finish. Yuck.
August 13, 201114 yr comment_5479501 All-Star Wrestling on ESPN 10/12/86 ~Scott Hall v Tom Stone I really like Tom Stone. I wish we could have found something to get him on the set. ~Alexi Smirnoff/Yuri Gordyenko v Frankie DiFalco/Mike Richards This was actually really fun. Crowd was really into DiFalco (wearing a tuxedo t-shirt pre-match!) and Richards, and I liked the Russians here (especially considering what kind of Russians we had just a few years later in AWA). ~The Midnight Rockers v Dennis Stamp/Tony Leone Stamp was basically Terry Funk in this and it totally ruled. If Stamp is getting on the set then this is the way he's doing it. I agree with Dylan that it makes much more sense as an EXTRA, but this was just too fun. His work with Michaels was just awesome stuff. Rockers actually hit their tandem stuff in this, which isn't always a given. Curt Hennig v Larry Zbyszko There were about 2 fun minutes of this in the middle, but it was all wrapped up in stalling and rolling to the floor and then...the double count out. This didn't do it for me. Boy
