Don Owen forgets Doll's name for a second during the intros. I love it. Jackson is a poor man's Buddy Landell, which is almost as bad as Pretty Boy Chuck Simms working a Doug Somers tribute gimmick in 1987 Montreal. The openig spot with Jackson charging and Doll leap frogging over before taking Doll down and going to work on the arm was actually really cool. I liked the early bit with Jackson trying to find ways to counter out of the arm work and Doll hanging on. I also dug the ay Jackson sold the wrenching of the arm. Jackson goes to the eyes and then attacks Doll's arm including a single arm DDT. Jackson goes for a corner charge and ends up taking the Morton style bump into the post on his previously worked over arm. Doll dropkicks him up over the top for a nice big bump, but when Doll chases after him he gets hit with an atomic drop on the floor. Jackson is working a KOTM spot, but Doll crawls under the ring and catches him with an O'Conner roll for the first fall. This was pretty good.

 

This opens up with a slugfest spot, but Jackson pulls Dolls forward whacking him into the turnbuckle. Jackson goes for a series of elbows to the arm, but misses the big one. I really like how they are staying with the armwork from the first fall as Jackson hits an Anderson bodyslam on the arm. Doll fights back to his feet and hit's a one armed slam which I thought as a pretty cool spot. Jackson stays on the arm, including a ridiculously douchey spot where he slaps up under the arm and rips Doll down by his hair. Doll keeps making these escapes and Jackson keeps cutting him down, including a knee that I thought looked pretty stiff. Doll hits a big sunset flip for a near fall and a twisting back elbow for another. Doll is unloading his offense which doesn't look that great, but they have built the match well enough, here I'm enjoying it. Time ends up running out, which was a shit way to end a pretty good match. With the non-finish and the relatively bland personalities I think this would be a bottom feeder on any set, but it was not bad wrestling at all.

Doll looked good with some slick armdrags and a lot of sharp punches. Jackson did his basic heel stuff well enough. I liked the way he was a dick and wouldn't let Doll back in the ring only for Doll to sneak around the other side and roll him up for the first fall. This could have turned into a legit good match, but the presentation was unbelievably awful. They took a long break between falls to show a video from Curt Henning. The commentators talked about everything but the match (it was Nitroesque.) And then time ran out in the middle of the second fall, without anyone acting remotely urgent about it. It seems that in four years, Portland went from producing some of the best wrestling TV I've seen to producing some of the worst. No vote from me.