Stretcher Match: "The Crippler" Rip Oliver vs. Billy Jack Haynes (2/8/86)

Don Owen's speech before the match was fantastic talking about the match and having to get Billy to explain it to everyone. Billy telling the crowd to go wild before the match was fun and these guys came out firing shots fast and furious with Oliver juicing very quickly. Billy puts Oliver on the stretcher and the wrestler try to take him away but he gets off of it and comes back for more punishment. Oliver is getting destroyed here until he gets a desperation thumb in the eyes which gave him the opportunity to attack Billy including posting him then following with a piledriver. Billy comes firing back though and just tears Oliver apart even hitting a piledriver on the floor for good measure. Oliver gets loaded up on the stretcher and they haul him out of there or so we thought as Oliver got off of the stretcher before going to the dressing room which was the rules. Billy brings him back to the ring where he lifts him up for a backdrop suplex but Sandy Barry got knocked down in the process. Oliver thumbed Billy in the throat then knocked Billy out with brass knux. The wrestlers loaded Billy on the stretcher and carried him from the ring to the dressing room with Oliver declared the victor. Sandy Barr would take the brass knux away from Oliver after the match but the decision couldn't be changed because the match had no rules. This was really fun with Oliver bumping and bleeding hard but desperately finding a way to win. I'll pass this forward as a low-end nomination.

I thought this was pretty awesome for a stretcher match. Billy Jack just beats the shit out of Oliver early on, making him bleed and I thought it would be a squash. Every time Oliver was put on the stretcher, he would tumble to the floor and make his way back to the ring. When Oliver got the upper hand, he basically gave Billy reciepts for every action including the piledriver which Billy continued to sell the whole way through. It looked like Billy had it won after the piledriver on the floor but he ran to the back to get Oliver back in the ring. A ref bump and some brass knux later, Oliver pulls off the victory. Thumbs up from me!!!!