Posted March 28, 201213 yr comment_5498753 Nasty Boys promo. Knobbs ear ring is tremendous. Wahoo McDaniel v. The Nomad Wahoo dead weights the Nomand on a hip toss early on and seems really dismissive of this guy even by Wahoo standards. Solidat Ustinov/Adnan promo. Ustinov is wearing his CCCP shirt and Adnan is fondling a sword. Say what you want but AWA interviews were always entertaining on some level. Curt Hennig promo. God damn I love Hennig's wardrobe worth of shades gimmick, where he busts out a new one for every promo. I mean they shot these things all at once, but he's wearing a different one every time. This is a typically good Curt promo for the era. Tom Zenk v. Mike Smith I like how Verne went out and got a jobber named Mike Smith to make Zenk seem like he wasn't a bland motherfucker. Anyhow Smith is one of these charmingly half trained AWA jobbers and Zenk is Zenk Kevin Kelly/Madusa promo. Fucking Kelly is a poor man's Hennig with those eighth rate shades. Nelson is promoting a Madusa bikini promo where she is rocking a Luna Vachonesque hair do. Dear god Kelly has a ridiculous voice. Zenk comes in for his promo and forgets to talk about how the fans were dressed like chairs. Bob Orton v. Ricky Rice Orton was less Ortonish here and seemed to be working with Rice and not trying kill him. I did like Orton's blatant low blow and him dropkicking Rice was rich. Rice comes back with a dropkick of his own and Orton flies to the floor. Orton ends up flinging Rice to the floor, hitting a diving double axe, slamming him on the floor and hitting the superplex but the ref DQ'ed him for god knows what somewhere along the way. Fun to watch Ace do his thing and his post-match destruction of everyone ruled. Curt Hennig promo. New suit, new shades! Man Hennig was a really good promo during this period. Midnight Rockers v. Mike Smith/Mark Wagner Short Kevin Kelly/Madusa promo. Do these guys really need multiple promo segments?? Solidat Ustinov promo. Speaking of guys who don't need multiple promo segments. Solidat Ustinov v. Daryl Olsen These are the times that try mens souls or whatever. Wahoo promo. Nasty Boys promo. Knobbs shows up and says Wahoo is on firewater. Wahoo McDaniel v. Jim Thompson I think that was this guys name. He is basically working as a Tony Atlas clone and Wahoo overpowers him at one point which is fucking absurd. Shawn Michaels promo. Michaels hanging on Nelson like he would with Vince 8 years later was cute. Brian Knobbs v. Greg Gagne This is one of those matches that I don't know how to respond to the existence of. Why the fuck did Knobbs work Greg Gagne in 1988 in North Dakota with Ray Stevens calling the match? How could this have actually taken place? This really wasn't any good, but the crowd was into it and it kind of made me wish the High Flyers v. Nasty Boys existed in an alternate universe where they were around at the same time. Knobbs facial expressions were the best part of this. Baron promo. Man that stache and that sweater Zenk promo. Curt Hennig v. Kevin Kelly We have this already. Kevin Kelly/Nick Kiniski v. Mike Smith/Daryl Olsen Man Kelly/Kiniski is such a comically bad team on paper I can't believe it ever happened. The best part of this was Olsen's arm drag. Wahoo promo. Gagne promo. Greg Gagne v. Mark Wagner Greg Gagne is not a guy who is made to work squashes. Just sayin Nasty Boys promo. Tom Zenk v. The Nomad Zenks dropkick looked cool and I like Nomad's boots Zenk is complaining about not getting a title shot adn announces that Ricky Rice is his new partner Midnight Rockers v. Bob Orton/Adrian Adonis God damn Orton is underrated as an athlete and a wrestler. Buddy Rose said he was the best guy he ever saw which is insane, but he really can take a bump, land a bomb, and pace shit perfectly. Opening stuff is really fun control out of a head lock, coming up for highspots, ala a Backlund MSG title defense. Adonis selling of the headlock/headscissors take over was odd, but beside that all the front end stuff was quality. Orton cuts off the momentum with this awesome delayed spinning backbreaker to Shawn, with Adonis following up with a sledge across his chest guillotine style and a running bulldog. Fuck Orton's delayed vertical was even better and nuttier than the delayed backbreaker. The heels cut off the ring on Shawn and are just crushing him with their entire arsenal. Adonis using his obesity to blockade Shawn form a tag so Orton can come in and stiff him was a great spot. Really cool teased comeback from Shawn who gets him with a short arm clothesline out of nowhere and then a slingshot/clothesline combo. Adonis goes for the splash, but Shawn gets the knees up. Shawn struggles to his feet and you think it will be hot tag time, but Adrian does this awesome punch drunk desperation kick to Shawn's leg sweeping him down. Then he tags in Orton who hits his fucking insane reverse cattle branding move. seriously that move is fucking outright nuts and looks like it could kill Michaels. Sick running powerslam from Adonis for another near fall. They do a ref missed the face tag spot and Shawn takes a huge bump to the floor. Great moment as a ringside boy is pointing the way for Shawn and Orton just flies onto the screen and crushes him, before posting him. Watching this you realize Michaels peaked early as he is so much better selling all of this. Fucking Orton is awesome arguing with the ref that he's been in the corner the whole time by pointing to the tag rope. Adrian takes his crotch first bump, but Michaels gets greedy and goes for a splash that he misses. Orton tags in and hits a neckbreaker on Shawn that literally looked like it broke his neck. Shawn didn't bump right for it and it was fucking insane looking. Orton gets the tables turned and gets punted wildly into a crotch bump on the top rope. Adonis gets the tag but so does Marty. Adonis takes his flip bump and gets whipped into Orton. Marty gets pulled to the floor by Orton and a huge brawl breaks out with all four guys on the floor. Orton is just running around punching every one. Ref double dq's them. Orton takes the Buddy Rose bump to the floor off a double superkick after the match was tossed out. Despite the lackluster finish this was fucking awesome.
