Louisville Street Fight: Big Bubba Rogers vs. Ronnie Garvin

 

Garvin goes from originally being in the Starrcade main event with Flair to this match but he was awesome so he made it work. Garvin does nothing but throw bombs early and Bubba takes them for a minute then gets knocked to the floor. Garvin was a machine here just taking it to Bubba who was doing as good as he could at this stage of his career selling for him. Bubba had to use a roll of nickels to get over on Garvin which tells you how much Garvin was frustrating him that a big dude like Bubba had to resort to that. Bubba starts working a bloody Garvin over until Garvin pulls a rope out of his boots and starts choking Bubba then attemps to hogtie him before he starts biting at his head bringing out juice from Bubba. This has become a war of attrition with Garvin using headbutts and punches to counter Bubba's weight advantage. Bubba for his size was a tremendous bumper and had a great bump over the top to the floor after a Garvin punch. Garvin follows Bubba to the floor for more fighting but it comes back to the ring where Bubba goes up top before Garvin press slams him off. Bubba would launch Garvin on top of Tommy Young on a pinfall before Garvin just nuked Bubba with a piledriver right on his damn head. Corny then nailed Garvin with his tennis racket and Young counted both men out so the first man to get up wins the match. Young shoves Corny out of the ring while both men struggle to get up and as Garvin gets up, Corny clips him with the racket and Bubba wins. This was a fantastic brawl and I think it is a fairly easy nomination.

I have a review somewhere of this match when I revisited it. I was wrong on my initial assessment and this is an easy nomination. So much fun.

I guess I'll toss my thoughts on this even if it's on the yes pile. Loving Garvin peppering Bubba with jabs early. Bubba goes down to the big punch. That spot was built to real well. Garvin really brings the violence here. Bubba using his size to set up the heat. I'm a sucker for the roll of quarter spot. Garvin is busted open. Again Bubba uses his size to cut off Garvin. I love the finish to boot. Solid nomination.

Yeah throw in your thoughts regardless if I moved a match or not. It will help in editing the final list.