Posted July 17, 201213 yr comment_5510424 VQ - Very Good 1. Chief Jay Strongbow vs. Kamala Kamala takes several minutes to prepare for the match. Strongbow runs the ropes really fast to confuse Kamala and gets a little bit of offense in. Kamala hits Strongbow a few times pretty hard then The Chief fights back but takes a sick knee that's followed by a big splash for the Kamala win. This was kind of fun but still sucked. 2. B. Brian Blair vs. "Iron" Mike Sharp This has some entertaining spots but it mostly stunk. Mike Sharp is amusing taking a faces offense. Blair would get a flurry of offense and Sharp would leave the ring in frustration. My favorite was after he took a flying body scissors he left the ring and leaped into the MSG crowd. Other than those fun spots, Sharp's offense sucks and the match went downhill. They brawled on the floor for the last few minutes and eventually both were counted out. The match ended up being mostly uninteresting. 3. Salvatore Bellomo vs. Rick McGraw This match was totally bizarre. The first half was perfectly fine with pretty good mat work. The second half was terrible with sloppiness and the two guys didn't seem to know what to do next. The mat work in the first half was pretty neat. McGraw was doing cool hammer lock cradles and shit. He worked on Bellomo's arm for a good while and did some cool arm holds. Bellomo had a nice near fall off of a cross body during all of this as well. Then they totally abandoned the mat work and started rolling around on the mat and fighting real sloppily. Bellomo did randomly do an awesome spot where he folded McGraw's legs Indian style and to stretch his hamstrings. He splashed the folded legs to increase the pain. That was pretty nifty. Next, they did a double shoulder block and then three fucking double dropkicks. I've never seen the "both guys going for the same move, now they're down for the count" spot done four times in a row. After a couple of attempts at pin falls the time expired and it ended in a draw. This by far is the strangest match I've watched yet. 4. Adrian Adonis/Dick Murdoch vs. The Wild Samaons (WWF Tag Title) Adonis and Murdoch do a pre-match promo and Dick's way better than Adrian. Captain Lou was named Special Guest Ref for the hell of it I guess. Gorilla said Albano was the best walking advertisement for birth control he's ever seen. Hilarious. This was terrible. Adonis and Murdoch bumped to head butts for a few minutes. Adonis bumped like a maniac. Then Murdoch and Adonis tried to hit the Samoans in their heads. The strikes weren't effective and they bumped some more. One of the Samaons was in peril and this segment was really bad. Murdoch just lazily worked on him. Then there was some bullshit at the end with the Samaons knocking out Murdoch for the pin but Albano screwed them over and disqualified them for one of them not having their hand on the ring rope or something. I mean this was a horrible match. It had a bunch of bullshit and nothing else. 5. Ken Patera vs. Pat Patterson This wasn't any good. Patera took some nice bumps especially a slingshot into the turnbuckle from Pat. Patera spent most of the match applying a reverse chinlock. Pat took a hot shot then didn't respond after getting locked in the full nelson. Patera wins. I didn't expect much out of this and I was right. 6. Jesse Ventura vs. Ivan Putski Ventura says Putski should have left wrestling or something in his pre-match interview. Atrocious match. Putski body slammed Ventura right away and kicked. Jesse stalled forever then got beat up some more but none of the moves looked good. Then, Ventura won a wrist lock battle and used wrist tape to choke Putski for awhile. Putski got a hold of the tape and used it on Jesse. He got disqualified for it and the fans booed. Yeah, this sucked. 7. The Freebirds vs. Paul Vachon/Ron Shaw/Pete Doherty (2/3 Falls Match) This was just a Freebirds squash but longer to kill time. Hayes danced, Gorilla called Gordy "Grody" and Buddy Roberts did a nice dropkick. Gordy won the first fall with a crossbody then The Freebirds fucked up the finish and nearly killed Pete Doherty with the the double back body drop/powerbomb combo. Roberts gave a leaping elbow to try and fix the mess and pinned Doherty for The Freebirds win two falls to none. This was just random as hell and didn't amount to anything. 8. Roddy Piper vs. Jimmy Snuka This was a really fun and intense brawl. The entrances and pre-match staredowns are really good in this. Piper leaves the ring when the bell rings and comes back in to fight. They throw some really stiff strikes and Piper bumps all over the place. The crowd is really into this as well. Piper does his signature eye poke on Snuka and stiffs the hell out of him with punches. Snuka fights back and Piper bumps wildly some more. There's one crazy spot where Piper is swung into the rope but gets caught neck and throat first with Snuka just pounding on him. They go to the floor and Snuka rams Piper into the ring post and bloodies him with a chair. Piper bleeds everywhere. Snuka puts him back in the ring and goes for a top rope crossbody. Piper catches him and hot shots him on the ropes really violently and Snuka takes an insane bump on the ropes and back first onto the apron to the floor. Roddy wins the match by count-out but continues to assault Snuka this time with a chair to his back several times. Snuka is stretchered out after the match with a crazed and bloody Piper going nuts. This was really intense and had a great finish with a good angle to follow it. I'll give it a solid nomination. 9. Terry Daniels vs. Fred Marzino Very little of this match is shown at all. They really milk the drama of the Snuka getting stretchered out. The entire match consist of backstage in the doctor's room as they work on getting Snuka's feeling back. This is a really good angle. Daniels won with a sunset flip in the match. 10. Tito Santana vs. Greg Valentine (WWF IC Title) The video quality changes from Good to Very Good to Excellent throughout this match because it seems it was taped in pieces between two or three sets of footage. The Snuka drama continued into this match which is annoying but they still did a really good job of making his injury serious. What was shown of this was very good though. It felt like a fight and there was some good stiffness. This was clipped severely but the finish was shown with Tito nailing the ref by accident and then hitting the flying forearm for the win but the groggy ref didn't see Valentine's foot on the rope. Valentine gave Tito a cheap shot and locked in the figure four after the match in frustration. Alfred interviews both guys backstage after the match. Tito's selling the effects of the figure four and says he may have won but the war isn't over and challenges Valentine to another match. The Hammer cuts a racist promo saying Tito was a sanitation worker and custodian at Taco Bell is now somehow the Intercontinental Champion. He wants a re-match. I liked that they furthered the feud between these two since the match wasn't barely shown at all. Final Analysis The first 2/3 of this show was absolutely terrible. There was pretty much nothing with any redeeming value whatsoever. Then the Piper-Snuka and Tito-Valentine stuff was really good. So those two story lines saved the show on their own. To sum everything up, I'm actually satisfied because the Piper-Snuka stuff was really good and the Tito-Valentine feud was continued well.
