Jan/11/1986 Rockford IL AWA six-man-tag Curt Henning, Marty Jannettty, and Buck(Incesting Child Molesting)Zumhofe vs Boris(Don't call me Private Nelson)Zhukov), Nord the Barbarian and The Mongolian Stomper! The match is only 10 minutes long, It may take longer to type then watch #BloggerProblems Anyway The heels won an okay brawl, Buck went into the heel corner to do his backwards splash finish and Ole Nord clubbed him he went down and Zhukof Pinned him(servers the moron right for going in the wrong corner! I cannot stand this idiot his in ring was silly and his actions outside of the ring are so hideous I don't want to write about them! He is rotting in prison were he deserves to be and I pray getting beaten to a pulp!)
This bout is worth seeing for one spot, Barbarian hits Jannetty with a picture perfect dropkick on the button! the crowd was in awe as was I! That guy could move folks!
Philly spectrum house show 1/11/86 Matches missing are Ron Shaw vs Danny Spivey, Hercules vs SD Jones and Brian Blair vs Jim Neidhart.(missing those 3 beauties is not going to keep me awake tonight tossing and turning with regret, Let me assure you!
1st match "Adorable" Adrian Adonis vs Tony Atlas I gotta say I love wrestling and I realize times change and era's get dated But Adonis's over the top swishy "gay" act is cringeworthy and embarrassing to watch! Their wasn't much to the match Adonis got the victory. They started with some homophobic "Comedy" spots. Adrian draping his ribbons on the ring attendant, and rubbing atlas's chest on a break. Adrian hit him with a good back suplex to get the heat. The finish was botched a bit. Atlas missed a corner splash, Adrian went for the pin. Ref counted two Atlas draped his foot over the bottom rope.Adonis knocked it off and the ref restarted the count and got three. Tony rolled out of the ring and went quickly to the dressing room. He seemed legit upset.
Match #2 King Tonga(aka Haku aka Meng) vs Tiger Chung Le. Tonga won a very basic match Chung Le got the heat then clapped on the dreaded "Nerve" Hold! Tonga fought back Slamming Chung Le of the ropes(why must large heels try to fly?) hitting a leg drop. Then a backdrop and "flying" headbutt to secure the win! (side note: The announcer Dick Graham said at the beginning of this segment the attendance was over 19 thousand people! I hope for the sake of the crowd the 3 matches I didn't see were better than the two I have seen!)
Your commentators for the evening were "Lord" Alfred Hayes and as always at the Spectrum Dick Graham He was legend for being heartfelt enthusiastic and being very bad at his job! Example in the last bout he referred to King Tonga as the Tonga Kid 6 times (I counted) Lord God almighty I can deal with him not knowing technical jargon but for the love of God learn their names!
Match 3 of 6 The Main Event, WWE still does this to this day many times the big match is mid card. A handicapped match with Andre the Giant and Champ Hulk Hogan vs Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy and Bobby Heenan.(A pure wrestling showcase no doubt) All kidding aside, for the moment this was the perfect WWF main event for the era! Heenan Got on the house mic during introductions and reminded the good people of Philly he was "MANAGER OF THE YEAR" Andre took the mic (I mean who was gonna stop him!) and said Heenan was "WEASEL OF THE YEAR"! The place went nuts! Early on Studd took bodyslams from both the Giant and Hogan. The heels got heat on Andre for a few minutes by Studd kicking him on a backdrop attempt. Heenan got the tag allowing Hogan to make the tag. Hogan went for a bodyslam of Bundy Heenan ran in and pushed Bundy over on Hogan. Thus the second heat spot in a 15 minute match! A five-way brawl broke out.Andre Hit Bobby with the big boot end of match! (Andre and Hogan had on matching yellow tights/boots why? To confuse the heels?) Not much wrestling to speak of but a tremendous spectacle of a main event!
match #4 Ivan Putski vs Bret Hart. This had to have been a rib. One of the best workers on earth against possibly the worst Main event star level worker ever! Putski Had more charisma in his pinkie than most guys ever! Ring work horrible but my God that man was over! I take nothing away from him! Nothing Match Hart won when he scooped Putski's Legs out from under him put his feet on the bottom rope, the ref looked right at the feet and counted the pin anyway!
I think we may get our 1st good match here as match 5 is Don Muraco vs Ricky Steamboat in a no DQ no countout Judo Jacket match! I was right this was very good indeed! Match started with Muraco being hampered by the gee(or jacket)if you like. Steamboat tossing him all over the place using the gee for leverage. Steamboat choked him with it(years before Royce Gracie)! Muraco Got the heat by hitting steamboat with a Samoan Drop grabbing a chair a delivering his patented Tombstone Piledriver on to it. Steamboat "Bladed" and played dead for several minutes while Don proceeded to beat the shit out of him! The crowd was into this one folks. End came when Muraco went for a second tombstone and Steamboat countered into a O'Connor roll for the victory! Muraco got his heat back post match when he attacked Ricky from behind tied him by the gee belt into the turnbuckles and hit him repeatedly with Fuji's cane! This match made me happy to be a fan again!
Final match of the show WWF Tag title bout as the British Bulldogs square off vs the Champs Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake. This should be great three great workers and Brutus Beefcake! Was no where near as good as it could have been. Very rushed for time.The champs got disqualified when their manger Johnny Valliant ran into break up a pin on Beefcake. The bout was no more than 7 minutes long, a real shame. This deserved much better! Go out of you way to see Steamboat/Muraco the rest is not much! (unless you like bad wresting)! I kinda do, I mean I have seen TNA!
1/12/86 St Paul Minn Sargent Slaughter vs AWA world champ Stan "the Lariat" Hansen! Personal note Stan Hansen and Ric Flair are in an eternal tie for my favorite wrestler ever! Before the match two Hansen interviews that are nuts and compelling at the same time! He says to the Sarge "You talk about GI Joe and Cobra(Slaughter was a character on the Saturday Morning Cartoon at this point.)This ain't about no little boys toys, this is about this title and beating people up"! The match was two big dudes hitting the over very hard!Hansen retained via count out. Slaughter Had Hansen in the Cobra clutch while he was on the apron but Hansen was in the ring, thus the countout!
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