Hair vs. Hair: “Gentleman” Chris Adams vs. “Handsome Halfbreed” Gino Hernandez (1/27/86)

 

This is from Fort Worth and makes me so sad to see the Duo feuding with each other. Adams starts the match by kicking Gino’s ass all over the ring before he would miss a diving body press off the top rope allowing Gino to get the advantage. Gino would work over Adams with a sleeper before hitting a suplex to set up his diving elbow off the top rope but Gino would miss allowing Adams a chance to recover. There would be a double collision before Adams would recover to hit the Superkick knocking Gino to the floor. Adams would then post Gino a couple of times before going back to the ring so he could punish Gino and even broke out a piledriver but would pull Gino up from a pinfall situation allowing Gino to get the FREEBIRD HAIRCREAM and blinded Adams with it for the DQ. Unfortunately this was Gino’s last official match as he would be murdered 6 days later in a controversial case. I’m throwing this on the block because of everything surrounding this match but it might be more of an extra nonetheless it absolutely must make the set.

Chris Adams vs Gino Hernandez - Gino throws substance into Chris' eyes; Ft Worth

 

A battle of former partners. This feud could have been big business. This is a good fight berween the 2. If this would have gone longer it would be a nomination. The work was good between the of the wrestlers. Gino was great at bumping for all of Adams high end offense. This should be an extra though. The angle would have heated up this feud big time. It was obvious the fans were already behind Adams in this feud. The blinding angle would have put the heat off the charts.

Famous match with a great famous finish that will definitely make the set in some form, but honestly, the match itself was not doing it for me for the most part. Nothing really bad, mind you, the work just seemed kinda unremarkable.

 

[WCCW 2/1-2/8/86]

I may have to use a governor's pick for this. It belongs on the set...

 

Chris Adams vs. Gino Hernandez (Ft. Worth 1/26/86)

- Just a fight early on with Adams abusing Gino and Gino selling big. Adams misses a 2nd rope splash and Gino takes over. Shortly after, Gino goes to the top and misses an elbow drop and we go back to square one. After a double knock out, Gino attempts another move from the top, gets hit and ends up on the receiving end of a superkick, sending him outside. 5 minutes in and this is already action packed. Adams gets Gino back in, hits a clotheline and has the match but picks him up at two. Adams hits a piledriver and picks him up again. At this point, Gino recovers and blinds Adams in one of the most famous blinding angles of all time. I enjoyed the hell out of this match. We have included short matches before and this one has heavy history behind it. Nomination.