1st Bout Sivi Avib vs Moondog Spot I scoured the interwebs trying to find this bout and I failed! So god is clearly on my side for this blog/review!
2. Hercules vs George Wells The match only went 4:o7 to begin with and I could only find 2:51 of it! Again God's mercy! The most impressive move of this bout was Wells catching Hercules in mid air with a backbreaker as a counter to Hercules trying a flying bodypress! Then Wells quickly proved himself to be a moron when he badly mistimed a football tackle in the corner as Herc ducked low and George go BOOM!!! Hercules hit him with a short forearm drop and got the again horribly timed pin! Wells could have easily draped his leg over the bottom rope, but nope logic and Mr. Wells were not on speaking terms. So he decides to kick out right after three making the whole thing look clunky and dumb!
3. Bull Nakano & Dump Matsumoto vs Linda Gonzalez and Velvet Mclntyre this match was a huge spectacle and a even bigger mess! The Garden crowd wad no idea what to make of what they were seeing at all! Matsumoto comes out in full samurai warrior gear with kendo sticks. While Nakano wore a punk hairstyle and carried nunchucks! I'm guessing there was a big language barrier between the teams because these a 4 good to great workers, but the timing was bad and the match was flat! The two best parts of the match were the Heel ring entrance, and Gorilla Monsoon burying the ref on commentary! Stating that "he has no clue how to referee a tag match" that the ref is "just standing there like a goof" and that he should have his license revoked"! Matsumoto pinned Gonzalez after an airplane spin!
4. Pedro Morales vs "Cowboy" Bob Orton Couldn't find video of this match! I highly doubt we are missing a wrestling clinic!
5. Don Muraco vs King Tonga(Haku) Faint praise I guess, but easily the best thing on the card I've seen thus far. Tonga and Muraco could both go! this match was simple, too short(at just under ten minutes) but pretty good! Tonga hit Muraco with a pinpoint dropkick to the face that was a thing of beauty! It blooded Muraco's nose! Don got the heat by raking the eyes and hitting a Samoan drop. He kept the advantage until he rammed Tonga's head into the turnbuckle. This of course would never hurt a island wrestler so Tonga makes his comeback. He backs Muraco in the corner and flat blisters him with chops! He scoops Don and slams him. Then backs into the corner and hits his running headbutt to the sternum. Mr. Fuji, Muraco's manager jumps up on the apron, Tonga grabs him by his jacket. Fuji slides his cane into Don. Tonga turns around takes the cane to the throat and Muraco drapes an arm over him and the devious duo steal a victory! Solid stuff here!
6. Leilani Kai and Penny Mitchell vs the Crush Gals This was a much better bout than the 1st Ladies tag match on the card as the crowd really liked the Crush Gals! As there aerial tactics got huge pops! Again the match was barley ten minutes! Two biggest spots of the bout a Giant Swing on Penny Mitchell that had the crowd ohhing and ahing! Also the flying crossbody off the top rope finish! this was rushed but good!
7.King Kong Bundy vs Hillbilly Jim This match was positioned to make Bundy look strong before his upcoming World Title bout in a cage, in the Main event of Wreslemania2 on 4/7. Jim got a quick early advantage but Bundy got the heat be putting a knee in the midsection of the corner charging Hillbilly. He battered Jim until he charged inta a corner and met a Hillbilly boot upside his noggin! So the heat and the comeback were started with almost the same move minutes apart! (the agent for the match must have said screw it your both big it will work)! Bundy ends up reversing another corner whip(getting dizzy and bored). He hits his big avalanche(corner splash and a big splash for the pin! Not bad, not good just kinda there!
8. Ricky Steamboat vs Mr. Fuji (nope that is not a typo they had one of the best workers on earth wrestling a old out of shape manager(who was not a good worker in his prime which was years before this!) on a show in the Garden) Very quick bout Fuji got the heat right away and went to his godforsaken nerve hold! Steamboat fought out and won with a simple crossbody block out of a criss cross! I cant fathom why they had this match! Although for whatever reason the crowd popped for the finish! I'm very confused!
9. Jake Roberts vs Lanny Poffo A very entertaining match! I was Jake's 1st Garden appearance! This match was in it one of the scariest botches I've ever seen! Roberts is on the floor and Poffo leaps up on the middle of the top rope, I think he was gonna backflip back in the ring. But his feet slipped and he fell on his head and face on the floor! Jake goes down too(as a way to check on Poffo! The 2 men get back in the ring, where Roberts quickly grabs Poffo by the trunks and sends him outside again. He then goes to the floor picks Lanny up and gives him a hip toss/beal throw on the concrete! What a splat! A sick bump! Roberts puts Poffo back in the ring and hits a stiff looking DDT! After the pin the Garden gets their 1st gander at Damien! The crowd is stunned as in the last 3 minutes they have seen more violence than in the rest of the show combined!
10 IC Title bout Randy Savage defends against Tito Santana This thing was a wild brawl from the jump! Santana wouldn't Savage in the ring to begin with. Savage keeps rolling in and out of the ring to break the count! Tito starts chasing him around ringside. He catches him and just waffles him for several minutes! This crowd is hot for this! Santana goes for the ten punches in the corner and Savage gets the heat via an eye rake and a nice reverse atomic drop! Randy hits his patented hook n' ladder clothesline and his double axehandle from the top to the floor! Santana however makes his comeback when he avoids Savages top rope elbow! Santana gets his figurefour locked in center ring! Savage sensing the end was near grabs the ref, while still in the hold, by the belt loops and throws him headlong into Santana! Thus getting DQ'd but retaining the title! This was great the best bout of the show!
Sadly I couldn't find the last two matches on the card. A midget bout(that's what there called PC Police!) Plus a 6-man The British Bulldogs & Captain Lou Albano vs The Dream Team and Johnny V! Nobody will lose sleep over this I'm sure!
This show was all over the place from great to alright to dreadful!
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