Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson vs. Sting & Dusty Rhodes - Now, this is more like it. Arn & Tully are so great that they bump and sell for the faces making both Dusty and Sting look like a million bucks. The match had a crappy finish with Windham interference but it was never boring, everything made sense and it had some great spots like Dusty catching Tully coming off the ropes and Arn giving Sting a DDT on the floor. I am going to nominate this.

NWA World Tag Titles: “The Enforcer” Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard © vs. “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes & Sting (6/8/88)

 

We are in Rhodes Country in Miami for the main event of Clash of the Champions II. Sting looked good early working on Arn’s left hand and hitting a beautiful flying headscissors on Tully then tags in Dusty who the Miami crowd goes fucking insane for all of his offense. Tully & Arn do what they do best as they bump all over the place making both babyfaces look great. Dusty even breaks out a flying lariat and standing dropkick before tagging in Sting who has Tully in the Scorpion Deathlock but Arn would come in to stop the attack and sent Sting to the floor. Sting would work FIP and ate a great looking sunset flip/clothesline combo by the Horsemen for a nearfall then a DDT on the floor. Sting would fight back though and even used the Hot Shot on Tully before getting the hot tag to Dusty. Dusty was a house of fire and the 4-way brawl was on before Sting threw Teddy Long to the floor as Dusty & Arn battled in the ring. Long came back in the ring but Dusty threw him to the floor before Windham would show up wearing the black glove and putting the claw on Dusty as Flair goes after Sting. This was a very fun match and I think it goes forward.

I'll agree this is a low end nomination. Tully and Arn are a 1st rate team and they stooge and bump and sell their asses off for Sting and Dusty. I loved how Arn set up the arm work by Sting like a master. Dusty was home in Florida so they all ate his schtick up . I liked the finish for what it was.