Posted September 17, 201312 yr comment_5563186 This was the final for the 1986 Grand Prix Belt, a real piece of shit looking belt. Joint Promotions had by far the worst looking belts in the history of professional wrestling. They were really into their tournaments at this point, which I guess was a plea/ploy to get people to tune in each week. Regardless of all that, this was my kind of wrestling. Tom Tyrone was a lot bigger than I thought he was. He was looking a bit battle weary here and had put on some pounds, but even with the extra weight there was a pretty significant size difference. The crowd was behind Tyrone and boo'ed Roberts and Tyrone was able to throw his weight around a bit, but for the most part this was a clinic from Roberts on beating a bigger man. He may have been the most charisma-less man in the world, but he could flat out wrestle. The match started to get really good when they began with the forearm smashes then cooled off a bit, but Roberts was savvy the way way through. I can see others not liking this as much. I don't want to say it was cerebral or anything like that, but if you don't like holds or the odd strike then Robert's personality is hardly going to hold you, but if you plain like wrestling then this was about as good as it got in a dying territory.
