Posted July 19, 201114 yr comment_5477111 I think because of the novelty of this, this is something that almost has to make the set in some capacity so long as it is watchable. This was more than watchable. Deebers ambushes Blackwell early beating him to the punch and tries to climb for the money bag but ends up getting cut off. Blackwell fires back with stiff shots and made use of the ladder in some nasty ways. This is a really solid looking ladder and the shots look pretty tight. Debeers takes some great bumps in this including a sick throat bump off the ladder onto the ropes and a flip bump over the ladder as it is laid on the ropes. They brawl to the floor and Debeers takes a nasty face first shot from the ladder and then Jerry busts out an elbow drop on the floor. Billy Robinson is reffing this in his tracksuit and is sort of funny throughout begging Blackwell to abide by the rules. Really fun finish as Blackwell climbing the ladder is almost scary in the sense that you fear if he falls he will die. He goes up one side and Debeers goes up the other and ends up taking a huge flying back bump to the ground. Visually it looked like the opening credits of Duck Tales with Glomgold and Scrooge racing for his number one dime, except in this live action version Scrooge decks Glomgold and takes his whole bag of dimes. This is pretty much what you wanted out of these two guys fighting with a giant ladder.
May 22, 201213 yr comment_5503262 Col. Debeers v. Jerry Blackwell (Ladder Match) Solid Nomination - > AWA Super Mix #38: The AWA on World Pro Vol. 5 - Wow, a 1980s ladder match! Some of the spots are just as stiff and brutal as those that would pop up a decade later. Wiskowski’s first spill from the ladder and the subsequent toss from Blackwell looked pretty brutal. This would have had bonus points if the Colonel would have bladed after Jerry rammed his head into the ladder but he took a nice bump to end the match. Solid nomination and it will be on the set.
