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Ivan Rasputin and Hans Schmidt take on Rudy Kay and Farmer Don Marlin in a two out of three falls match. The crowd boos everybody but Farmer Don. Farmer Don wrestles barefoot in jeans with frayed legs. Schmidt goes straight to heeling with dirty breaks, punches to the gut, and hair pulling. I think he did too much of this too soon and should have paced it better throughout the match. After Rasputin gets in, Farmer Don and Rudy do a comedy sequence where they forearm Rasputin back and forth between them. Rasputin and Schmidt are able to trap Rudy in the corner, but I wouldn't call it much of a hot tag when Farmer Don finally gets in, since he gets cut off fairly fast. Rasputin is able to get Rudy into his finisher, the bear hug. Rudy breaks out with forearms, but Rasputin grabs him in it again and is able to bear hug him down to the mat for the pin.

 

The highlight of the second fall happens when Schmidt inadvertently forearms Rasputin when Rudy breaks out of the double team. Rasputin falls to the floor and they exchange words, but they go back to the match. The end of the second fall is the reverse of the first with Rasputin trying the bear hug again, but Rudy is able to knock him down with the forearm to get the pin.

 

Commentator Russ Davis explains that Rudy is usually booed but is teaming with the fan favorite Farmer Don, which finally explains why the crowd isn't cheering for anything. Probably the funniest part of the match happens in the third fall with Schmidt twisting the toes of the barefoot Farmer Don. Rasputin and Rudy get some hard forearms in on each other in this fall. Schmidt ends the match against Farmer Don with a piledriver followed by an airplane spin.

 

I thought this match was fairly average. I was expecting more out of Schmidt, since he is a famous name, but he did show some nice agility in his bumps over the ropes and the toe pulling was funny. I think the three heels in the match probably lessened the atmosphere of the match, since the crowd wasn't really cheering for much, only booing.