WWF MSG house show 2/17/86

WWF MSG House Show 2/17/86 Match #1 Rene Goulet vs Lanny Poffo Solid opener here! The hit each other very hard with chops and right fists! Goulet got the advantage early when Poffo went charging into the corner with a dropkick. Goulet moved and Poffo landed upside down on his head. Goulet and Poffo both utilized the headscissors during the bout. For a while it resembled an MMA contest with ground based hold counter hold. Poffo worked decidedly "heel" in the match. Blatantly choking the Frenchmen several times in clear view of the referee! Poffo picked up a hard fought victory with his signature one footed backflip off the top rope!
     Match 2 Les Thornton vs King Tonga(Haku Meng)  This was a matchup of two men who belonged to different era! When Men got in the ring and beat each other up! They mat wrestled early. Thornton got the advantage by getting Tonga down and smashing his leg down over the ring apron. Thornton clamped on a rear chin lock and smashed several hard crunching forearms down across Tonga's face. Tonga fought back with stiff knife edge chops in the corner(receipt for the crossface forearms? Thornton fought back against this onslaught with forearms and jarring euro uppercuts. Finish came when Tonga hit a spot on side kick to the face and then hit a flying headbutt off the turnbuckle for the win!
     Match #3 The Hart Foundation vs The Killer Bees No need to spend a whole lotta time on this bout. It is almost beat for beat the match these two tremendous teams had in Boston nine days earlier. Except it was a time limit draw. With Brunszell hitting his perfect dropkick and getting a one count as time expired on Bret Hart! Let me be clear this is not a downgrade of the bout it is spectacular tag team work! a joy to watch!
      Match #4 George Wells vs King Kong Bundy This was a very quick bout. It did however build Bundy up as a dangerous monster in preparation of him being the challenger for Hogan at Mania 2! He squashed Wells quite literally with his "Avalanche" and a big splash! Wells had to be helped to the back! (he was to big for the stretcher!
     Match #5 Ricky Steamboat vs Don Muraco (Martial Arts Match.....my third time seeing it! Saw one from Landover MD And Boston Mass!) The only major difference being that King Tonga accompanied Steamboat to the ring. This again was the same match they ran around the circuit minus the finish. Witch was A referee bump Muraco has Steamboat in a small package, Mr. Fuji gets in the ring to revive the ref. As this is happening Tonga sneaks in on the blindside grabs Muraco's Judo jacket and pulls Steamboat on top. The official slowly counts the fall with Fuji still in the ring celebrating the victory(because you see heels are supposed to be stupid!) Fuji is shocked when Howard Finkel announces that Steamboat won the match. Post match Tonga goes after Fuji so Muraco attacks him from behind. He puts him in the scariest Tombstone piledriver I've ever seen! I cannot tell who botched the move, but Tonga was bent at a very odd angle and dropped on his head! He walked very slowly with Steamboat to the back.
    Intermission time as Monsoon went to three different pre-taped interviews he had conducted earlier with George Steele, Sheik and Volkoff and Randy Savage.
      Before the next match began Stu Hart was in ring and introduced to the crowd, it was his birthday!
     Match #6 Tony Atlas vs Barry O Nothing to this glorified "Squash" Comedy spots with Barry posing. Atlas got sick of that and with a punch to the jaw, a headbutt and a press slam won the match!
     Match #7 Adorable Adrian Adonis vs George "the Animal" Steele! (a sure fire mat classic here!) This was all about the pre-match as Adrian and Steele took ages to lock up! Steele screaming YOU and the entire Garden chatting a gay slur at Adonis! Steele kept biting Adrian. Jimmy Hart hit Steele's manager "Captain" Louis Albano in the back with his megaphone. Steele chased Hart around and into the ring where he dropped his megaphone. Adonis tried to use it on George who blocked it. Then he hit Adrian with it several times in the back. The ref saw this and Dq'd Steele giving Adonis the Win. I need to go gargle saltwater to get rid of this match or shower in a hazmat suit!
     Match#8 The Iron Sheik/Nikolai Volkoff vs Corp Kirchner/Danny Spivey  Basic tag team bout here. Spivey and Kirchner looked very bad here missing spots and being in the wrong place at the wrong time! Tremendous crowd heat as always with Sheiky and Volkoff! Both Spivey and the Corp had to make "hot" tags in the match! Finish took to long to develop. Spivey was out of it facedown on the floor. Kirchner had Sheik up on his back, Sheik had to fight out of that, get down and "load" his boot. So Volkoff distracted Corp, Kirchner turned around and took the Sheik's boot to the gut. He did a full front flip(odd bump to take from a boot even a loaded one. Why not just go down?) Sheik covered him for the win! This bout should have been better!
     Match #9 Ted Arcedi vs Terry Gibbs(oh Boy)! Nothing at all Bearhug submission by Arcedi! (How can anybody look that bad in a two minute bout where nothing happened?)
     Main event(Thank God because the second half of this card has been dreadful!) WWF World title Lumberjack Match Champion Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage! This was good but too quick! They did however do an excellent job of building toward Mania 2! Very early Hogan went out on the heel side of the ring. As Muraco held his arms around the ringpost, Bundy gave him the avalanche twice to the back. The other heels stood guard so the faces could not help Hogan. Savage eventually hit his top rope elbow, Hulk Kicks out(of course) and "hulk's up". Savage rakes the eyes grabs a side headlock and the began a crisscross. I believe George Steele(the camera missed it) grabs Savage's ankle he goes down Hogan hits the big leg 123 and the crowd goes home happy! Savage faces Steele at Mania 2 so that gets more layers! 1st half of this was really good, then it fell of a cliff!