George Steele vs Jim Neidhart
This isn’t a match up that really appeals, but this is
surprisingly not too bad. Liked the opening where Neidhart suckers Steele to
chase him outside and ends up with Steele tangled up in the ropes. This is a
really short match, which is probably for the best, as Neidhart goes to get a
chair from outside, gets stopped by the ref and in the melee Steele hits him
with a loaded fist for the win.
Bret Hart vs Sivi Afi
There’s a noticeable gulf in quality between these two here,
Bret being clearly a step or two ahead of Afi. An early O’Connor roll is blown,
but at least we return from an ad break with Bret in control. His offence looks
really good here, loved how fluidly he goes from dropping a 2nd rope
elbow into a pinfall. We get a “Samoan man has a hard head” spot as Afi
no-sells a shot to the turnbuckle and rams his own head several times, but
aside from that he contributes little. He looks like he’s not really sure how
to run the ropes, always going from odd angles. A flipping senton looks more
like he’s doing a forward roll, but Bret suddenly catches him with a
great-looking backbreaker for the win.
Iron Mike Sharpe vs Corporal Kirchner
Hard to say how I felt about this one, wasn’t a particularly
bad match, but nothing about it really stands out. It just…happened. Sharpe continues
to be fun at stooging about, leaping about to put over the power of Kirchner’s
hammerlock and taking a hilarious fall into the announce table. Sharpe isn’t as
much fun on offence – he’s plodding and slow, with big pauses in between blows.
Kirchner seems pretty athletic and moves well, but doesn’t do anything to
convince he can put a match together. A nice Samoan drop gives the Corporal the
win.
Jake Roberts vs Scott McGhee
McGhee is pretty generic on offence, all pretty simple
bodyslams and decent punches. Jake’s movement really stood out, loved the way
he doesn’t so much climb in the ring as he slinks in. Jake hits a nice
stomachbreaker and I dug the mindgames as he held McGhee in a chinlock and
slowly dragged him towards the snake bag in the corner. McGhee fires back and
looks really good in the process – nice looking back suplex that hits with real
impact and a decent second rope kneedrop. Roberts hits a DDT from out of
nowhere to win. The post-match ‘snaking’ sees McGhee coughing up blood in a
nice twist.
Tony Atlas vs Hercules
This is JIP and we’re instantly into a test of strength
spot. Hercules is pretty sluggish in control, which really contrasts with
Atlas, who looks fired up on his comeback. Herc locks in a pretty mighty looking
torture rack before Atlas gets the win with a sunset flip. Too short to be
offensive, at least.
The Killer Bees vs Nikolai Volkoff & the Iron Sheik
Pretty decent match to end the show, it’s a formula tag team
match and they interestingly keep Volkoff out for the majority of the bout. The
Bees work well in the early stages, isolating Sheik and making quick tags.
Brunzell and Blair both spend time as the face in peril, and I liked how, when
Brunzell did get to make a small comeback with a sunset flip, Sheik instantly
come in to distract the ref and prevent a count. Blair gets locked in the Camel
Clutch and gets to hold on a surprisingly long time before Brunzell makes the save.
Brunzell gets the hot tag, and looks pretty fired up when he get’s on offence.
He locks a sleeper in on Sheik, but Volkoff nails him from behind which gives
Sheik the win. Just a nice, solid tag match.
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