Posted September 28, 200718 yr comment_5422334 “Hacksaw” Butch Reed vs. Hacksaw Duggan (8/17/83) If Duggan wins this he gets 5 minutes with Akbar. Duggan comes in the ring and starts pounding Reed with some awesome punches. Reed is a bumping machine for Duggan early in the match. Reed would start throwing the soupbones though and kickstarted his offense where he was relentless in his offense. Duggan makes his comeback though and at this point it’s a slugfest. Duggan hits a spear for a nearfall and just keeps on punching but Reed would get the advantage once again. Reed used a front chancery to take Duggan to the mat then follows up with soupbones and a swank forearm smash. Duggan would duck a clothesline though and started swinging the hams again before hitting a jumping Mongolian Chop for a nearfall. The slugfest would continue but Duggan would throw Reed into the referee by accident sending him to the floor. Duggan backdrops Reed and hits his spear clean but Akbar would jump on the apron blowing a whistle, which brought out Kamala for the DQ finish. Reed hits a diving shoulderblock to the back of Duggan’s head and they would hold Duggan for Kamala to hit his big splash off the middle rope. The jobbers came out to help but it would take JYD, Magnum, & Mr. Wrestling II to clear the ring. The match was hard hitting as hell and would’ve been even more awesome 2 years later. DVD pick.
November 10, 200717 yr comment_5423783 Ross keeps calling Reed "Bruce Reed". Duggan's offense looked great early on but I just got the feeling that Reed was shrugging it off. A bad ref bump sets up the spear with no count afterword. Kimala and Akbar interfere and that is that. I have to strongly disagree with Kris here. There was very little heat during the match, some of the spots came off awkward and we have a shit finish on top of it. No vote.
December 15, 200717 yr comment_5425316 I'll see about getting Phil to watch this. It is on TV disc 44. But this is what I wrote: Thought this was dissapointing and really distracted by Ross' inability to remember Reed's name. The really great studio matches are really great studio matches. this felt more like it could have been a good house show match but they were trying to do it for a studio setting. No vote from me.
December 15, 200717 yr comment_5425323 Ross is a real idiot, as the Bruce Reed stuff was killing me. This didn't do very much for me at all. These are a pair of guys who can clubber, but I didn't think the clubbering was very good. It also felt a little like they were killing time waiting for a finish. I am going no here.
