WWF Boston Garden House Show 2/8/86 Match #1 Lanny Poffo vs Paul Christy They trade armbars early with Christy using the hair several times to drag Poffo back down to the canvas. Christy gets the upper hand by kicking Poffo in the stomach. Lanny goes between the ropes and falls to the outside! Then they do an old "Heel" Tactic spot. Where Christy refuses to let Poffo back in ring. Kicking at him repeatedly smashing his head into the turnbuckle at one point as well. Poffo finally manages to get back in the ring by snapping Christy's neck over the top rope as Poffo drops to the arena floor. Poffo comes in supercharged. With Punches he also whips Christy hard into the turnbuckles. Paul takes a bump and bounces out. Lanny uses a beal out of the corner, Christy scoots out under the bottom rope. Then comes the "spot" of the match. With Christy outside Poffo leaps up to the middle of the top rope and comes crashing down with a forearm to the back of Christy's neck on the floor! A move 7 or 8 years ahead of it's time. The crowd popped like mad for it. This was 86 in the Northeast nobody did that sort of move! Poffo hits a one-foot dropkick then hits his signature one foot backflip from the top rope on the inside to get the pin! (that finisher looks awesome but you wouldn't break an egg doing it!) Crowd woke up for the last two minutes for sure!
Match #2 Sivi Afi vs Barry O Nothing out of the ordinary here. A match that was just sorta their. They began by doing several "duck under go behind drop down" spots. That all ended in Barry O being flat on his back in an arm drag. O got the heat by catching Afi on a side bodyblock and dropping him into a backbreaker. You wanna know how great Barry O was, I could not recall one single move he made while he was in charge! I had to go back and look and I had just seen the match! He hit a nice over the shoulder powerslam and that's about it! Avi reverses a vertical suplex hits a bodyslam and hits the ropes for a splash. Barry gets his knees up. Barry O then heads to the top rope for what you ask? I have no idea as Afi gets up slams him of the ropes. Goes upstairs and hits a flying bodypress for the pin! Afi does this goofy looking victory(dance, jig, fit???) where he looks like he should spike a football when he's done!!!).
Match 3 George "The Animal" Steele vs Tiger Chung Le(I love the late great animal but I would rather get my tongue stuck in a belt sander than watch this match......... Oh well, this is what nobody pays me for!) I stand corrected this match was exactly right fun, wild, and blessedly short. Before the introductions Chung Le attacked Steele with his kendo stick. George gets the stick Chases Chung Le out of the ring with it. He breaks the stick in half over his knee. Chung Le pounces while his back is turned and pounds him till George goes outside. Steele takes a section of the wooden barricade and sets it on one end by the ropes. He climbs in the ring, but Chung Le attacks from behind again and slams Steele's head into it. George takes control by jabbing Tiger with the "object"he always had in his tights. With Chung Le on his back George goes to a corner and begins to work on the middle turnbuckle. Tiger goes over while Steele is in the corner and knees him in the back. The Referee makes Chung Le go back to a neutral corner. While no one is looking George moves the pad on the turnbuckle back exposing the bolt. When Tiger comes back George punches him in the gut grabs his head and drives it into said bolt! 123 your winner that crafty crazy cro-magnum man "The Animal" George Steele!
Match #4 Big John Studd Vs Hillbilly Jim Match starts slow(how else with these two?) Hillbilly goes for a bodyslam, Studd goes up about a third of the way and grabs the top rope. After the referee breaks them up, Studd goes outside and takes a slow stroll around ringside to rile up big Jim. That stall tactic is so great because it always gets heat from the crowd. Studd goes back in clubs the back and grabs a wristlock/armbar. After several attempts Jim manages to break the hold using club like forearms. Studd turns him around backs hit in the corner and unloads with some heavy artillery of his own. He delivers a nice full bodyslam to Hillbilly. Stomps follow and a big bear hug. Hillbilly breaks it with more forearms. Studd drives a knee to the mid-section and climbs up to the 2nd turnbuckle on the inside. He wants to come off with another clubbing blow. Hillbilly has other ideas and counters with a punch to the gut as Studd sails off the ropes. Hillbilly goes for another slam Studd grabs the ropes to block and goes outside. Both men battle on the floor With Jim sending Studd into the ringpost and barley beating the count back in! Your winner in a dud of a match Hillbilly Jim!
Match #5 Randy Savage vs Tito Santana For Santana's IC title! (Probably the 1st WWF match I ever loved I recorded it on a episode of Prime Time Wrestling and I watched it over and over! 31 years later their are still spots I can recall crystal clear!) Two great workers here! They start by several stalemates from the collar and elbow position. Savage escapes a go behind by getting to the ropes. He leaps over the top rope to take a breather. Savage grabs a headlock Santana very quickly after the hiplock takeover gets a headscissors Savage makes the ropes. Savage grabs a headlock and gives Tito a thumb to the eye. Savage bails out Tito follows him and hits him. Throws him back inside and prepares to deliver his flying forearm. Savage bails again Tito follows and foot race around ringside starts. Savage gets in the ring before Tito and hits him with a double axehandle blow to get the advantage. Savage whips Tito into the ropes tries for a boot Santana catches it and spins Savage into an atomic drop. Tito goes for the pin Savage puts his foot on the rope at two. When they lock up again Randy rakes the eyes and Tito falls to the canvas rolling in pain. Savage hits a hook N Ladder clothesline and a double axehandle off the top getting near falls on both. Randy throws Tito to the floor and hits his famous double ax to the floor! Santana sold it like a gunshot! Santana fights back to the apron and climbs the turnbuckle on the outside and flies in the ring and nails Savage with a forearm on the top of the skull! Savage puts his foot over the rope to break the three count! Tito rushes in the corner to fast and Randy hits him full force with a knee. Savage goes for a cover Tito Kicks out at two. Savage lands on referee Danny Davis(yes that Danny Davis) who is shaken up and is a few seconds late when Santana lands a flash small package on Macho! So Savages escapes with a very close 2 count. Savage knocks Tito back down and goes for a flying kneedrop, but misses. Hurting his left knee in the process. Softening him up for Tito's figurefour Santana kicks at the back of the leg several times. Drags Savage mid-ring and slaps on the Figurefour! Randy struggles but turns over twice and grabs the bottom rope. He scoots out underneath the bottom rope and stands on the apron. Santana suplexes him back in(I think they may have knocked the wind out of themselves with that one!) Santana goes for his submission again, Savage kicks him off. Savage goes to the apron again Stands with his back to Tito (who is being backed off by the referee) and goes into his tights(Monsoon doing commentary calls it "a piece of cold rolled steel postmatch, but as he might say "I find that highly unlikely") he does have something in his hand no doubt. There is a bit of a botch here in a bad spot, Santana goes to the wrong side of Savage to pick him up for the suplex! He fixes it as fast as he can. Savage takes a wild swing at Santana who ducks. He picks Randy up to backsuplex him in the ring. Savage waits till he is mid-air and punches Tito in the head with the object Santana crumples to the ground a Savage pins him to become the New IC Champion! Right after the count Savage takes the "object" and skids it outside! During the pin you can clearly see Savage and Santana talking to each other,,,,,,About what? My guess Santana going to the wrong side on the backsuplex, but who knows! The announcers did a great job of making the title switch a huge deal. It was just that Santana had two title reigns in two years that together that saw him be champion for 13 months in total!
Match #6 The Hart Foundation vs The Killer Bees The Bees start to work right from the jump on the arm of "Hitman." After several minutes of getting it worked on Bret gets to his corner and tags in Natty's daddy AKA "The Anvil." Jim hits B Brian with a running knee to the abdomen. Anvil pulls the ref away and Bret gets in some cheapshots. Blair gets choked in the corner and a textbook Bret backbreaker before Neidhart locks on a bearhug. After a few minutes of more beating by the Foundation Neidhart attempts a dropkick(why?) and Blair hangs to the ropes. He makes it to his corner where "Jumping" Jim Brunzell makes the "hot" tag. He hits Anvil with an atomic drop, but quickly gets in trouble after being shot off into the ropes by Neidhart and taking a knee to the back from the apron by Bret! The Hart Foundation does one of their signature moves as Anvil has Brunzell across his knee. Bret comes from the ropes with a pinpoint elbow to the throat. Hart gives Brunzell a hard bodyslam on the outside. Bret whips Anvil into a corner shoulderblock on Jim. When Anvil whips Bret in the corner Brunzell moves and Bret hits sternum first. Brunzell moves quickly and tags Blair back in. Blair is a house a fire he sends anvil into the ropes and Bret Hart goes flying off the apron and knocks over the wooden barricade at ringside.(this was scary fans fell over the police came running it really took the heat focus off the bout!) The end came when Neidhart and Blair were both down in the ring. Brunzell tries to impede Hart from coming in, the referee stops Brunzell. Bret goes up top and hits a elbow on Blair and gets the pin(not the legal man by the way as Monsoon points out.) solid tag work!
Don Muraco vs Ricky Steamboat (martial arts match) Not much to say about this match. As I already reviewed it once. From a house show in Landover Maryland. From 1/18/86. WWF house show matches are very similar from show to show so no real need to cover it twice. Quick highlights Muraco used a slingshot on the floor to catapult Steamboat's head into a chair being held by Mr. Fuji. Steamboat won the bout with a O'Connor roll, and Muraco attacked him with Fuji's cane after the match! These two are always good.
Main Event Cage Match "Rowdy" Roddy Piper vs Bruno Sammartino I have seen this bout many times it was on "Inside the Steel Cage" from Coliseum Video (I rented that a whole bunch!) Roddy Piper was a master at being funny glib and getting people to HATE HIM! Prime Example in Boston 13 days after the Bears beat the hell Out of the Pats in SUPERBOWL XX 46-10 he gets in the ring and tapes two Giant Bears Posters to the cage! The cage was for Roddy's safety at this point! Very basic bloody old school cage match. Piper gets thrown all over the cage and gigs the hell out of his head. He bleeds buckets. Sammartino takes one poster and tries to make Piper eat it. He takes the other and tries to shove it up his ass! (odd but sadly true!) They both hit low blows. Side note: WWE/F cage match rules are really dumb! Bruno wins by hitting Roddy twice in the head with a wooden chair while Piper has him by the ankle. Piper lets go Bruno escapes! good show those last four bouts are worth seeing!
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