Posted July 1Jul 1 comment_6032083 Hart Foundation vs. The Rockers (MSG 11/25/89) - Great start from Marty and Bret showing off their speed and execution. I love how Marty has a wrist lock, Bret’s elbow on the leg and his elbow digging in the shoulder. Beautiful. Great double leap frog into double hip toss into double elbow drops resulting in an Anvil double clothesline on both Rockers. WOW. Anvil wants the head lock, Shawn is too quick and hits the head scissors and they size each other up. Now Shawn with the headlock, shoulder block and nobody budges. Anvil catches a cross body, goes for the slam but Shawn rolls through for a near fall. Fuck, 5 minutes in and these guys have wrestled beautifully. Shawn tries to answer with a body slam but can’t get Anvil up so he does a quick school boy. Marty is in to control the arm but after an Irish whip reversal, Anvil plows through him on a shoulder tackle. Next round, Marty gets the drop toe hold because he learned his lesson. Shawn and Bret do some great stuff including Bret catching him midair and dropping the atomic drop. On an Irish whip, Bret got the knees in the back from the apron, a back breaker and Shawn is down. Anvil has a better dropkick than Marty. Anvil squeezes that bear hug working on that bad back. They work the hug on the floor and get some near falls. Shawn is the rocker in peril. A slingshot splash from Anvil misses and Bret pulls him back to prevent the tag. Bret is working heelish because… someone has to. Marty comes in and the hot tag was not that exciting but he is energetic. Attempting pin after pin… knee lift, body press, sloppy sunset flip. HOLY MOTHER FUCK. Marty flew over the top rope onto the floor in a nasty ass spill. WOW… Anvil was feeding into Shawn and Shawn crossed him up and Anvil knocked him into next week with a crazy shoulder block for a near fall. Anvil caught Bret in mid air for a 2nd rope cross body and Anvil could not hold him and fell for a two count. He tries one on Bret who rolled through for his own two count. Bret O’Connor roll immediately reversed for two. Anvil broke up an ab stretch and then a bell rung. They start brawling as they finally lose their cools. If this match was on the first set 20 years ago, it would have finished in the top ten. They did great execution. Bret took it upon himself to become the heels in the group while Shawn was in peril. Great finishing stretch that makes you want to see them wrestle more. The crowd keeps it from slam dunk and it’s merely an EASY NOMINATION.
