Posted July 10, 200916 yr comment_5441746 Lanny Poffo v. Terry Gibbs Gibbs had a nice elbow drop, but this wasn’t much of a match. I have seen some other Lanny openers and he often breaks out some nutty spots for the 80’s, not much here outside of a moonsault. I think we might find a set worthy Lanny match, but not this one. Moondog Spot v. Scott McGhee This is the kind of hidden fun match which I think we will discover with some of this footage rewatch. Nothing epic, but both guys had some cool offense (snap suplex by McGhee and diving punch by Spot) and McGhee took a big bump into the Boston Garden boards. Didn’t love the ending, but I liked this a bunch more then stuff on the first set, so I am going to nominate it. Les Thorton v. Cousin Luke I guess Luke’s gimmick was an untrained Hillbilly, and he really looked untrained. He was definitely no Cousin Junior Tito Santana v. Randy Savage This was pretty great, this is a WWF Savage feud I always liked. Santana doesn’t have great offense, but good babyface timing, and Savage is bumping and flying around here, his bump on the five arm. Liked the count out finish, would like to watch all of the available match ups between these two, but this is definitely worth a nomination. Bruno Sammartino/Paul Orndorff v. Roddy Piper/Bob Orton Wow, wasn’t expecting to like anything as much as I dug this, total pier six brawl which reminded me of a Dusty v. Horseman brawl. Piper was nuts in this, bumping and flying around for Bruno and Orndorff. Chairs, stairs, great stuff and a Slam Dunk nomination. Terry Funk v. Pedro Morales Total blast, Pedro couldn’t do much so this was the Funk show, as he busts out all of his shtick, crazy bumping, stooging, flying around. Reminded me of the Guerrerros working Jose Lothario. How we did a WWF set with no Funk is beyond me. Nomination George Wells v. Iron Mike Sharpe Fond memories of Wells from Mid-South aside, this sucked. JYD/Corporal Kirshner v. Iron Shiek/Nicolai Volkoff Kind of fun formula tag with heat on Kirshner and a hot tag to JYD, insane finish with Volkoff hurling a pair of connected chairs at Kirshners head.
July 14, 200916 yr comment_5441951 Phil made me watch three of these matches to temper his enthusiasm. I liked all three but am not sure what to do with any of them. Bruno Sammartino/Paul Orndorff v. Roddy Piper/Bob Orton Wow, wasn’t expecting to like anything as much as I dug this, total pier six brawl which reminded me of a Dusty v. Horseman brawl. Piper was nuts in this, bumping and flying around for Bruno and Orndorff. Chairs, stairs, great stuff and a Slam Dunk nomination. Terry Funk v. Pedro Morales Total blast, Pedro couldn’t do much so this was the Funk show, as he busts out all of his shtick, crazy bumping, stooging, flying around. Reminded me of the Guerrerros working Jose Lothario. How we did a WWF set with no Funk is beyond me. Nomination Yeah I dug both these matches. Both really satisfying. Both had really similar heels in role of guy who stooge get pantsed and bump around for the faces. Bruno brought more to the table as face than Morales but on some level the one man Funk show is the more fun stooging bumping heel show. Still there was a certain sameness to watching two of these matches in a row. A whole set of WWF formula heels fly around, get pantsed and stooge for WWF faces is going to be a mess of indistinguishable matches. Moondog Spot v. Scott McGhee This is the kind of hidden fun match which I think we will discover with some of this footage rewatch. Nothing epic, but both guys had some cool offense (snap suplex by McGhee and diving punch by Spot) and McGhee took a big bump into the Boston Garden boards. Didn’t love the ending, but I liked this a bunch more then stuff on the first set, so I am going to nominate it. I liked the ending of this more than Phil. Ending was Moondog going for bone ref stopping him tieing him up leading to McGhee with roll up. The ref tie up waist lock was a little too long for my taste but the actual roll up was a cool roll up. After watching the other matches, weird how much offense there was in this one. This match was all about the offense. MGhee has nice “technical “offense and Spots stuff also looks great. I mean there were almost too many suplexes in this. Early McGhee technical stuff on the arm, Spot brawls to control…into suplex section big bump on the floor etc. I don’t know how many workrate undercard matches we want to put on a set. But for workrate undercard stuff McGhee is probably one of your better faces and Spot better heels. George Wells v. Iron Mike Sharpe Fond memories of Wells from Mid-South aside, this sucked. Phil didn't make me watch this but recently listened to a Buck Robley interview where he claimed that Mike Sharpe was Vince's poor attempt to create his own Buck Robley to control (the way Demolition was Vince's own Road Warriors). So the idea that they ran fake Robley v fake JYD amuses me. If someone can find the Mike Sharpe/George Wells tag match where "Golden Boy" Danny Spivey blinds Wells, it should make an extra.
