Rockers overwhelm the muscleheads early. They do the spot with Marty saving Shawn from the corner Irish Whip than the heels try and do the same and Shawn ends up punting Kelly as he lays on the top rope to a huge pop. It might be excessive to some but I enjoyed the Rockers confounding the bigger men with various headlock take downs including a really neat float over spot from Jannetty. To his credit Kiniski was really fun as the jock getting embarrassed by the little dudes. Kelly ends up coming in and what else, flexing. I expect Shawn to make him pay for this, but instead he gets pressed and then slammed on the floor to go FIP. Really cool moment with Shawn pulling a Ricky Morton and having a hope spot slugfest on the floor with Kiniski before getting thrown back to Kelly. Shawn has another nice hope spot off a rope running spot that ends with him getting cut off on a crossbody and hit with a backbreaker. I hate bearhugs as much as the next guy but Shawn sells the @#!*% out of them here, does a cool break of the first, has a crazy bridging spot on the second and then falls into a hot tag for Marty. The Rockers clear the ring with dropkicks and go for a finish but Madusa pushes Shawn off the top for a big flip bump and the DQ. Post-match Madusa ends up getting bumped to the floor by Kiniski on accident and The Rockers clear the ring. This was a real for The Rockers as they were working against a totally uninteresting and almost completely untalented heel team. They passed. This was a good match.

The Midnight Rockers (Marty Jannetty & Shawn Michaels) vs. "Mr. Magnificent" Kevin Kelly & "Slick" Nick Kiniski (12/27/87)

 

This is the same show where the Rockers regained the titles and this was the match before that one to solidify them. Kelly & Kiniski are a terrible team so this is a definite test for the Rockers. Rockers were on fire here using their speed and smarts to piss off the musclehead heels as the crowd goes nuts. Kelly decides to slow the match down by posing and flexing which he thinks will intimidate Shawn and while it didn't it did allow him to get Shawn in a press slam which started the FIP section. The control section was what you would expect on the offensive end but Shawn was really good here at selling everything and his hope spots were really fun which kept the crowd hot for the boring offense. Shawn does a diving hot tag to Marty and he ran wild before the 4-way brawl gets going ending up with Shawn going up top but Madusa jumps up and tosses him back into the ring for the DQ. Total spotlight match for the Rockers who were working with basically broomsticks in there and still had a very entertaining match. This moves forward.