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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2012, 03:39 PM Post #21 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: Tony Atlas/Rocky Johnson, Since 11/15/1983 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPIONS CURRENTLY WWF Championship Wrestling April 14th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Tito Santana vs. Charlie Fulton They get 4 minutes, so it's almost like a real match. Tito dominates with matwork, and Fulton cheats a lot to get a brief advantage. Tito gets pissed at this and makes a fiery comeback and wins with the Flying Forearm. ** WWF UPDATE: -They recap Big John Studd winning $30,000 in a battle royal a few months back -According to Vince, Studd has challenged both Hogan and Andre after eliminating them Match #2: Greg Valentine w/ Capt. Lou Albano vs. Jose Luis Rivera FUCK YEAH JLR! He has some nice jobber offense before Valentine hits a nasty Gutwrench Suplex. He has some nasty offense, and wins with the elbow drop. Wish this had gone on a lot longer. *3/4 They're now using "Jump" by Van Halen during replays. Awesome. Match #3: Jimmy Snuka vs. Mike Powers Nice 90 second Snuka squash. Superfly splash ends it. *1/2 GENE INTERVIEWS: -Promoting a card in LA now -Blassie calls Mil Mascaras a filthy wetback again and says Sheik will give Slaughter the beating of his life in Los Angeles. Sheik then comes on and yells a lot in Jawa or some other desert speak. -Tito Santana cuts a promo in Spanish. ARRIBA! -Gene says he'd like an interview in English next, but then brings on Snuka and sighs. Amazing. -Sarge is next and says he feels the feel of war again, after declaring war on Sheik, and they'll settle everything in Los Angeles. He says he has all those great medals and he's tough, but they don't come no tougher than Sgt. Slaughter. Match #4: Paul Orndorff/David Schultz w/ Roddy Piper vs. Francisco Vasquez/Johnny Rivera Paul was again brutal and awesome. Dr. D is fine enough, but clearly the lesser man on his team. He wins with the elbow off the middle rope. *1/2 Awesome Piper's Pit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo_QrixLSSc Match #5: Terry Daniels vs. Johnny Ringo This happened for about a minute, and Daniels wins with a sunset flip. *1/4 Match #6: Hulk Hogan vs. Tiger Chung Lee Good Hogan showcase. He's got a lot of energy and Lee is a fine enough jobber. Hogan wins with the Legdrop. *3/4 Gene interviews Hogan on the stage post-match and he says he can see it, brother, and Hulkamania is running wild. He throws in a "baby" in addition to the brother, jack, and dude combo, and it is very shocking to hear. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2012, 04:16 PM Post #22 |
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Tony Atlas/Rocky Johnson [c] vs. The North-South Connection [WWF Tag Team Championship], Allentown (April 17th) THEY'RE FINALLY BACK! Really great 5 minutes. Awesome job by Adonis and Murdoch early on, bumping around for the champs. Johnson shows ability to have some good matwork, and Murdoch especially makes him look great. Murdoch then makes with the amazing punches and the NSC have some amazingly violent control stuff. Breaks down into this awesome brawl and as Rocky is punching Dick on the floor through the ropes, ADONIS ROLLS UP ROCKY AND WINS THE BELTS! YES! **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2012, 05:19 PM Post #23 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Wrestling April 23rd, 1984 Madison Square Garden New York, NY Tito Santana [c] vs. J.J. Dillon [WWF Intercontinental Championship] Can't believe this is a real thing. Dillon is an awesome stooging and bumping jobber heel for Tito to showcase himself against. Tito's armwork was pretty awesome, as usual. Tito wins with the Flying Forearm. **1/4 Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik Sarge immediately controls and Sheiky baby takes some amazing bumps. Sheik is able to slip in this NASTY kick to the throat, and Sarge's selling is amazing. Really violent stomps and punches, and Slaughter has an awesome comeback. There's really nothing fancy or big here, and it just comes off as what would happen if a marine met an Iranian fighter. Stomps on hands, biting, straight punches, etc. Sarge gets off his boot and starts whipping Sheik with it. Sheik trying to fight with body blows as Sarge beats him about the ribs and face with his combat boot is SO FUCKING AWESOME. Sheik finally gets knocked down with the boot, and the ref finally DQs Sarge for this. *** Sheik bails. In the back, someone tries to interview Sheik, BUT SARGE ATTACKS AGAIN! FUCK YEAH! They have a brawl, and it gets broken up by the locker room. Bob Backlund w/ Arnold Skaaland vs. Greg Valentine w/ Capt. Lou Albano Really great and simple limbwork based match. Lots of awesome matwork here, as usual from Backlund. Valentine works on the arm. Lots of nasty stuff on the arm. Backlund is constantly able to power out of his early matwork, so the arm work makes sense. Whenever Backlund tries to reverse, Valentine throws elbows to shut him down before going back to the arm, which is great psychology, since Backlund is a pure mat wrestler and can't really throw strikes. Valentine hurt his knee though, so Bob came back with leg work. His selling of the arm was awesome as well. Greg uses a chair on the leg to hurt Bob's leg, and yeah, that leads to his legwork, which is good too. Greg's selling of the knee was ALSO great! Backlund gets a Bridging O'Connor Roll to win. *** Valentine attacks Bob post-match, and he puts on the Figure Four until Skaaland and referees pull him off. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 6 2012, 03:45 PM Post #24 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling May 5th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Greg Valentine w/ Capt. Lou Albano vs. Pete Sanchez They get 5 minutes, so Greg gets to show off now. Lots of nasty forearms and elbows and shit. He then works on the leg and puts on the Figure Four for the win. ** Valentine keeps on the attack post-match. WWF UPDATE: -More Sgt. Slaughter clips Match #2: The North-South Connection vs. Tony Garea/SD Jones Another great NSC squash. Brutal right hands and stomps and shit and the opponents being a real tag team of not complete jobbers, they actually get time to work a real tag match. Jones has a good brief hot tag before he also gets shut down. They hit a Backbreaker/Knee Drop combo, and then Murdoch drops an awesome elbow to win. **1/4 GENE INTERVIEWS: -Promoting Boston Garden this week -Sgt. Slaughter comes in and says the flag and the National Anthem always gave him more motivation than any pep talk, and that's all he's going to need to get going against the Sheik -Orndorff and Dr. D are next and they talk about facing Backlund and Putski. Paul says nobody can pin him or make him submit and Dr. D imples that Backlund gay. He says Backlund talks about being a family man, but so are they! THEY'VE GOT FAMILIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY! Amazing! Match #3: Princess Victoria/Velvet McIntyre vs. Wendi Richter/Peggy Lee GROSS. This was no good. Victoria and Velvet get the win. 1/4* Piper's Pit with Rocky Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyFDsaCexs Match #4: Paul Orndorff vs. Jose Luis Rivera They get 5 minutes too, and also get to have a real match! Rivera gets to be awesome for a bit, and they do matwork, before Paul shuts him down and gets violent and breaks out a lot of new offense for him. He wins with the Piledriver. **1/4 GENE INTERVIEWS SOME MORE PEOPLE: -Sheik and Blassie come in. Blassie says Sheik is his own man and he annihilated him once. He says Sheik has REAL medals, not a Purple Heart! Sheik says a lot of stuff. It begins with him talking about cops and speed limits, and then breaks down into Arabic. NEXT WEEK: Dr. D vs. Salvatore Bellomo |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2012, 12:12 AM Post #25 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Spectrum Wrestling May 5th, 1984 The Spectrum Philadelphia, PA Monsoon is gone, so LORD ALFRED HAYES MAKES HIS DEBUT! YES! Match #1: Rene Goulet vs. Akira Maeda Maeda is from NJPW at this time, but he would later be one of the guys who ushers in the shoot-style promotion UWF, I believe later in 1984. So him in WWF is strange. He has some fame as the guy who shot on Andre and didn't get killed. Goulet is awful, but Maeda guides him through stuff. Goulet wins with a Suplex. Lame. *3/4 Match #2: B. Brian Blair vs. Ron Shaw Blair showcase. He has some nice babyface armwork. Usual arm drag and arm bar stuff, but he manages to put unique little twists on stuff. Blair wins with an Abdominal Stretch pin. ** Match #3: Salvatore Bellomo vs. Afa This sucked. They did stuff and it was slow and sloppy, and just not good at all. Afa wins with a Headbutt off the middle. 3/4* Match #4: Sgt. Slaughter vs. David Schultz They went to a double count out last month, which didn't make tape/isn't online, so there's two referees now. Good 7 minutes. Sarge has a great offensive early on, but then Dr. D throws his arm into the post. Sarge's selling is really fucking incredible here, and totally carries it. Best current example is 2007 Matt Hardy or 2009 Christian where it's an average opponent carried to a great match by limbwork and limb selling. In a nice piece of poetry, Schultz misses a charge to the corner and hits HIS arm on the post! Sarge then hits a nasty Lariat with his good arm to win. **3/4 Match #5: Tiger Chung Lee vs. Jose Luis Rivera Good Rivera showing, carrying an average guy that he will then put over. He bumps around well, and yeah. Lee isn't really good or anything, but he's not bad. Very average. He rolls through a Rivera Crossbody into his own pin for the win. *3/4 Match #6: Buzz Sawyer w/ Capt. Lou Albano vs. Tonga Kid HOLY SHIT, BUZZ SAWYER! AWESOME! Sawyer delivers an awesome violent 4 minute squash. In the absence of the North-South Connection, this is the next best thing. He wins with a Bulldog. ** Match #7: Hulk Hogan [c] vs. The Iron Sheik [WWF Championship] Great match, and way better than the title switch. Sheiky cheats a lot to take over, so Hogan comes back with lots of revenge spots. There gets to be a point where Hogan is cheating WAY more than Sheik was, and this came right up to that line before they stopped. Sheik busts open Hogan with his pointed boot, so when Hogan comes back, instead of pinning him, he takes off Sheik's point boot and uses it on him! Sheik bleeds too and falls out to the floor. Hogan keeps going after the cut on the floor in revenge and it's a double count out. *** They keep fighting in the ring, and the locker room empties to pull them apart. That was an awesome angle, and I now cannot wait for a No DQ rematch of some kind. Match #8: Tito Santana [c] vs. Greg Valentine [WWF Championship] This is awesome again, and without 20 minutes to kill, there's a lot less dead space. After the draw, Valentine is more aggressive early on, leading to a great fiery Tito performance. The thing I love most about this was that they were always doing something, and there was no wasted motion. Greg turns it into an awesome slugfest. He works the knee and yeah. Tito makes a comeback, but Greg blatantly crotches him on the top rope, and the ref DQs him. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2012, 10:21 PM Post #26 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling May 12th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Ivan Putski vs. Rene Goulet This was awful. Just fucking horrible and boring and not interesting and a brutal fucking nothing match that Ford clearly booked to punish me for making him feel bad about not just finishing his KOTR shit. Polish Hammer ends it after 5 excruciating minutes. Ford's Friendship WWF UPDATE: -Highlight video of the Von Erich family -WEIRD -Vince then tells us that Sal Bellomo likes to build paper ships Match #2: B. Brian Blair vs. Ron Shaw Same basic idea as their Philly match, but now only 4 minutes. Good stuff by Blair and the same Abdominal Stretch Cradle ends it. *3/4 GENE INTERVIEWS: -Hypes up a Boston Garden card later on this date -Sheiky Baby and Blassie come on. Sheik has a picture of a man in an Iranian army uniform, which he says is him, and says he was the youngest and most successful general ever, and he spits on South Carolina. He starts yelling in Arabic and then says someone very important in Iran said he doesn't beat Slaughter, he is not welcome in his home country ever again. -Bob Backlund and Ivan Putski talk about Dr. D and Orndorff and say nothing of real value Match #3: Sgt. Slaughter vs. Israel Matia Sarge gets 4 minutes now, and they have quite a fun squash. Cobra Clutch ends it. *3/4 It is time for Piper's Pit, and his guest is Capt. Lou Albano. This is where he takes full credit for Cyndi Lauper's success and says he can bring her to Piper's Pit, and she'll tell everyone that not only is he the best manager in wrestling, but he's also the best manager in rock and roll. They then play "Time After Time". Match #4: David Schultz vs. Salvatore Bellomo This sure happened. Dr. D wins with the Flying Elbow. *1/4 Gene interviews Dr. D post-match and he yells that he wants the WWF Title. GENE INTERVIEWS: -Greg Valentine and Albano are on promoting a match vs. Jay Strongbow. Albano says Strongbow is a legend, but says Valentine is the one who broke his leg to begin with, AND VALENTINE ASKS IF HE NEEDS TO DITCH THE SUIT FOR THE SHIRT SO EVERYONE KNOWS IT! AMAZING! Match #5: The Iron Sheik w/ Freddie Blassie vs. Lee Wong/Victor Mercado Awesome Sheik squash, but only like 90 seconds. He kills them both with throws and then puts on a DOUBLE CAMEL CLUTCH for the win. Awesome finish. *1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 8 2012, 05:07 PM Post #27 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling May 19th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Paul Orndorff vs. Salvatore Bellomo Went on way too long, and Bellomo continued to really bring nothing to it. Orndorff was great though. I always love really unique focus, like on a forearm or the hand or an eye, and Orndorff works the throat here. He wins with a nasty Lariat. *3/4 WWF UPDATE: -Vince tells us Hogan is popular -Awesome Match #2: Bob Orton vs. B. Brian Blair This was a fun 6 minute match, as opposed to the first one. Possibly because Blair is a quality lower card guy. Good matwork to begin and Blair then takes some awesome bumps. Orton's stuff all looks really tight and crisp. Blair has a good comeback but Orton reverses a Suplex into an inside cradle for the win. **1/4 GENE INTERVIEWS: -More Boston Garden plugs. Awful. Fuck Boston. -Sgt. Slaughter says Sheik has used the boot on him enough, so he's begged for a match to settle this, and for a match to put Sheik out once and for all, and it will be in a BOOT CAMP MATCH! -Roddy Piper comes in and he has a match vs. Rocky Johnson, and he brags about beating Andre The Giant bloody in MSG, and Rocky is dumb enough to slap a Giant Killer in the face, and you don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun. -Sheik and Blassie then come on. Sheik calls Sarge the loser and says his boot is pathetic compared to him. Blassie says Sheik has never used anything illegal, but he has a call to Iran after this interview, and he has a surprise for him. Match #3: David Schultz vs. Billy Travis This is fine enough. Didn't need 5 minutes to get the point across, but whatever. Dr. D wins with the Flying Elbow. *1/2 It is time for Piper's Pit. He has Albano with him again and reads a letter from Lauper's manager saying that Albano has never managed Lauper in the music business and he threatens legal action, but Albano says that's nothing and promises that Cyndi Lauper will be on the show next week. Match #4: Sgt. Slaughter w/ Terry Daniels vs. Butcher Vachon Vachon is horrible. Slaughter does fine, and this is more of an angle than a real match. About 90 seconds in, Sheik comes out and he attacks Sarge's flagbearer, Daniels, on the floor. Sarge chases him to the back, and Vachon wins by count out. *1/4 Sarge then comes back out and puts him in the Cobra Clutch. GENE INTERVIEWS: -Now we're promoting a Cape Cod show on June 4th -Dr. D comes in to hype a match with Sarge. He says he was in 'Nam, and nobody wears combat boots there because of how much it rains, and Sarge is an idiot. He says he has no idea where Cape Cod is, but he'll get there and he'll whoop that fool. Gene says he knows where it is, and Dr. D interrupts. He says he doesn't care if his family lives there, if his momma lives there, if his momma and his daddy live there together, or if his momma lives there with another man AND GENE FUCKING LOSES IT! Dr. D then says Gene and Sarge might be kin they way they have bad manners, have thinning hair, and are ugly, and then randomly says they might be from Utah. -Nobody can follow that absolute Promo Of The Year level work, so we go to the ring. Match #5: Bob Backlund vs. Lanny Kean Your typical fun 3 minute Backlund squash. Lots of fancy matwork and he wins with the Crossface Chickenwing. ** |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 8 2012, 05:17 PM Post #28 |
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Roddy Piper vs. Jimmy Snuka, St. Louis (May 5th) According to historyofwwe.com, their famous Piper's Pit segment had aired in St. Louis here, but not in any other markets yet. Really energetic and fun match, especially on Piper's end. Frantic strikes early on, then awesome bumping and stalling. Snuka did his stuff fine and has a lot of fire on offense, but was hardly a great seller. They get into an awesome brawl on the floor and Snuka makes an awesome comeback. Piper tries a chair on the floor, but Snuka uses it instead. Back in, Piper pulls the ref in Snuka's way, and then he takes off the ref's belt. he chokes Snuka with it, but the ref pulls Piper off, AND PIPER HITS THE REF! SNUKA STARTS WHIPPING AND CHOKING PIPER WITH THE BELT! THE REF THROWS IT OUT! Holy shit, that ruled! *** |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 8 2012, 09:28 PM Post #29 |
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Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik, MSG (May 21st) This is great once again. Slaughter controls with awesome brawling, and he then takes his AMAZING bump into the corner to the floor. Sheiky makes him bleed with a chair shot, leading to amazing Slaughter selling. LOADED BOOT! Sheik fucking tears and bites at Sarge's disgusting bladejob and it rules. Sarge makes a big awesome comeback with a Lariat. He starts trying to take off Sheik's boot and throws the ref off of him, and that's a DQ because this ref is a bitch. *** Jobbers come out to stop it, once Sarge gets the boot off, but he hits them all with the boot. He drops it though, and Sheik is able to grab it and he slides out and runs to the back. Hulk Hogan [c] vs. David Schultz [WWF Championship], MSG (May 21st) Fairly basic 5 minutes here. Dr. D takes some fun bumps, and Hogan has a lot of energy, so this is way better than I thought. Credit to them for understanding their limits and working a match that emphasizes their strong suits. Hogan gets the AXE BOMBAH~ and then the Legdrop for the win. **1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 13 2012, 09:11 PM Post #30 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Spectrum Wrestling June 2nd, 1984 The Spectrum Philadelphia, PA Tito Santana [c] vs. David Schultz [WWF Intercontinental Championship] This is only about 4 minutes, but it was fun enough while it lasted. Dr. D is Dr. D and he is hardly amazing, but Tito sells well and has a big fiery comeback. Dr. D tries to slam Tito from the apron back into the ring, but Tito counters it into an inside cradle to retain the belt. ** Hulk Hogan [c] vs. The Iron Sheik [WWF Championship] Not as wild as their match last time in Philadelphia, but still better than the initial title switch. Sheik is more about restrained basic heel stuff here than his more awesome recent violent heel control segments. Hogan makes his big comeback and he hits the AXE BOMBAH~ and then the Legdrop for the win. They have a better match in them, and I hope I'm talking more about what they can do in the future, and not their May 5th match. **1/2 Sgt. Slaughter vs. Paul Orndorff Some highly entertaining bullshit to start with Sarge putting on Paul's robe and mocking him. Paul does eventually get on offense, and Sarge takes some wonderful bumps and then bleeds a lot and does his amazing bloody wobbly selling. Really amazing Sarge performance. Paul punching Sarge and wiping his blood off on his trunks and getting mad at Sarge for bleeding on him was fantastic. Sarge comes back with great revenge spots but then takes his great bump to the floor. Paul refuses to let him back in, and Sarge takes many great bumps to the floor. He finally pulls Paul out and goes nuts with punches. He gets a chair, but Paul ducks a shot and rolls in at 10, and he wins by count out! *** |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 13 2012, 09:56 PM Post #31 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling June 9th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Paul Orndorff vs. Tony Garea Acceptable 4 minutes here, but generally average due to Garea spending 3 minute of it just holding arm locks and not doing much with them. Paul finally gets going and then reverses Tony's inside cradle into one of his own for the win. *1/2 WWF UPDATE: -Video of Tito Santana winning matches this week -A kid in Scranton, PA won a contest to have lunch with Tito, and made Tito fly to Scranton to have lunch with him Gene introduces footage of THAT Piper's Put. The famous one with Snuka: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZbZseTuQ1I Match #2: Jessie Ventura vs. SD Jones UGH. He's a fine commentator and all, so I'm glad he's here, but he is just awful in the ring. He wins with a horrible elbow drop. 1/4* It is time for another Piper's Pit, and he has Capt. Lou Albano on once again. Albano gives him an award from the Piper Fan Club and puts over Piper's bagpipe skill, leading into Piper saying Albano is the best music manager alive, and he says he's going to give him a chance to prove it next week, as he definitely has Lauper scheduled for Piper's Pit next week. Match #3: The Iron Sheik w/ Freddie Blassie vs. Terry Daniels w/ Sgt. Slaughter This was fine enough. Daniels is a rookie, but Sheik does well. Once Sheik takes over, it is pretty awesome. He repeatedly refuses to cover despite Daniels being beat, so Slaughter gets in and he attacks Sheik for the DQ. *3/4 Sheik bails out and Sarge helps Daniels up. GENE INTERVIEWS: -Another Boston Garden show. Ugh. -Rocky Johnson talks a lot of jive about Roddy Piper and says he wants revenge. Looks like Tony Atlas is gone ![]() -That's it ![]() Match #4: Bob Orton vs. Salvatore Bellomo Good squash, but not long enough. Orton wins with a Suplex from the apron to the ring. *1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 14 2012, 08:37 PM Post #32 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling June 16th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Tito Santana vs. Bob Orton Good stuff for 5 minutes. I'd love to see them in a longer match. They obviously don't get too intense for a 5 minute TV match, but everything they do looks great, and Tito again has a ton of fire. Tito hits the Flying Forearm, but they both go through the ropes, and it goes to a double count out. **1/2 WWF UPDATE: -Midgets Match #2: Jesse Ventura vs. Billy Travis SIX MINUTES?! WHAT THE FUCK? HORRIBLE. 1/4* GENE INTERVIEWS: -Boston Garden hype again. Ugh. -Paul Orndorff comes in and says Ivan Putski isn't tall enough to be classified as a real human and says everyone is jealous of him. -Tito Santana says he won the IC Title in Boston, and he's ready to beat Greg Valentine once and for all in a week. -The Iron Sheik and Freddie Blassie come in. Blassie says they love the Boot Camp match, because it's their kind of a fight. Sheik says he is no jabroni and he comes from the best wrestling and oil country in the world, Iran. He says the people in Boston like Sarge because they both are terrible, and he says he is the real man. Gene cuts him off. Fuck you, Gene. Match #3: David Schultz vs. B. Brian Blair Good stuff, fantastic Blair performance. Dr. D lets him guide him through matwork and then Blair makes Schultz's offense look great. Blair has a fantastic comeback, and Dr. D gets a roll up holding the ropes to steal the win. **1/4 Match #4: Paul Orndorff vs. Rudy Diamond Good Mr. Wonderful squash. Not long enough, but pretty great while it lasted. He wins with the Piledriver. *1/2 It is now time for Piper's Pit. His guest tonight is Cyndi Lauper! She comes on and says she wants to clear the air and says Captain Lou Albano is not her manager, and she says people always ask her that. Albano comes out and says it's time to stop joking around, and she can tell the people that he took her from nothing and made her into a star, and that women are useless without men supporting them. She thinks he's joking and he tells her to shut up and says all women are slime, so she starts hitting him with a purse and her manager David Wolf pull.s her away |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 14 2012, 09:26 PM Post #33 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Wrestling June 16th, 1984 Madison Square Garden New York, NY Tito Santana [c] vs. Greg Valentine [WWF Intercontinental Championship] Their weakest match yet. These matches are starting to blend together for me, but Valentine had his best control segment yet. Somewhat unfocused as he'd go for the head and then the leg, but all of it looked really violent. He then went to the arm, and yeah. It's good, but he doesn't stay on it, and Tito doesn't sell. They fight on the floor and Valentine hits an atomic drop and gets in. Tito cannot get back in by 10, so Greg wins by count out, but is again denied the belt. **3/4 Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik [BOOT CAMP MATCH] There are no rules, falls count anywhere, and it ends by pin only. AND GOOD LORD, THIS WAS FUCKING GREAT! Huge bloody knock down drag out fight. Punches to the throat, whipping with a belt, straight up choking, HEADBUTTS WITH AN ARMY HELMET ON, etc. Just so much amazing stuff. It's a great brawl on its own and then about 8-9 minutes in, Sheik splits Sarge open and it becomes amazing. Sarge has his own loaded boot with a combat boot, and he hits a diving stomp off the middle rope to a bent over Sheik, and Sheik begins spraying blood like a fucking faucet until the end. Really fantastic wobbly KO selling from both guys. Sheik takes off his boot and runs with it, BUT SLAUGHTER RUNS FASTER AND HITS A KILLER LARIAT! They both crawl to the boot, and Sarge gets it first and hits Sheik in the face with it for the win. ****1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 14 2012, 09:38 PM Post #34 |
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Hulk Hogan [c] vs. David Schultz [WWF Championship], Minneapolis (June 17th) Dr. D jumps Hogan and has a good control seg of cheating. Hogan bleeds, but I just watched Sheik/Sarge, so this is a pussy bladejob. Hogan comes back and busts Dr. D open and just starts killing him with stuff. Way better than their 5 minute match, to my surprise. Not amazing or anything, but simple and with some nice work. Dr. D misses a Diving Headbutt and Hogan hits the AXE BOMBAH~ for the win. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 20 2012, 08:53 PM Post #35 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Superstars June 23rd, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Sgt. Slaughter vs. Danny Green They got 4 minutes here. Sarge legitimately shaking hands and thanking all the fans on his way down is awesome. The jobber cheats, angering Sarge, so he beats him up. He pretty much destroys him with the Lariat, and then wins with the Cobra Clutch. *3/4 WWF UPDATE: -Footage airs of Jimmy Snuka walking to the ring -Great use of TV time here Clips air of North-South Connection vs. The Wild Samoans from MSG, where they went to a Double DQ. GENE INTERVIEWS: -Promoting tonight's Boston Garden show -Rocky Johnson cannot wait to get his hands on Piper -There are promos for the Boston Boot Camp match between Sheik and Sarge, but there's no point since they'll never top the NYC Boot Camp match -Piper mocks Rocky Johnson for being sensitive and says the only thing that isn't huge on him is his head and says he knows how to box and he has never been beat. Match #2: Buzz Sawyer w/ Capt. Lou Albano vs. Jose Luis Rivera Another fun Buzz match. Biting, forearms, big throws, etc. Not quite great, but real fun. He wins with a Powerslam. *3/4 A pretape airs with Piper interviewing Cyndi Lauper in a recording studio. She refuses to apologize for her conduct on Piper's Pit and she says she can find a women's wrestler to manage better than Lou Albano, and she challenges him to find a female wrestler to meet them next week. After that, Piper is at Lou Albano's house as he eats shirtless on his couch in front of a tiny TV, and food is sticking to his stomach. AMAZING/GROSS. He accepts the challenge and says he's going to embarrass Lauper. Match #3: Tito Santana vs. Greg Valentine w/ Capt. Lou Albano Only 5-6 minutes, but a lot of fun again. Good matwork, and then they get going. Awesome Valentine punches to take over, Tito's selling ruled, etc. Tito makes a really awesome fiery comeback and they fight on the floor. They fight on the apron and the ref is counting because he's a faggot and counts the apron as the floor. Tito throws Valentine in right at 10 and jumps over the top to a cover, but he's been counted out. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 22 2012, 03:11 PM Post #36 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling June 30th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Rocky Johnson vs. Rene Goulet This sucked. Dragged, not exciting, overlong, etc. Rocky wins with a sunset flip. 3/4* GENE INTERVIEWS: -Fucking Boston again -Paul Orndorff says Tito Santana is not impressive at all and says he's so wonderful that he's just about broken up Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley. AMAZING! He says he's doing families a favor by turning his back to the camera, because every time he looks into that camera lens, the divorce rate climbs. -Gene then gives the card a hard sell by saying B. Brian Blair will also be there Match #2: Jesse Ventura vs. Steve Lombardi Jesse gets 6 minutes again and it is HORRIBLE. He wins with a really shitty elbow drop. 1/2* Match #3: Greg Valentine w/ Capt. Lou Albano vs. Billy Travis No idea why this went almost 7 minutes, but it was good. Travis had some nice forearms and jobber offense and Valentine carried him well. Greg wins with the Figure Four after a back drop to the floor. ** GENE INTERVIEWS, PART II: -Ivan Putski promo on...something -Gene says Mil Mascaras will also be there, so that's horrible Video airs of Capt. Lou Albano talking to The Fabulous Moolah, and she agrees to take him on as a manager and fight any woman who Cyndi Lauper wants. We then cut to a video of Cyndi Lauper introducing her wrestler, Wendi Richter, who then flexes to horrible 80s music. She says she took offense to what Albano said about women. Match #4: George Steele w/ Mr. Fuji vs. Jose Luis Rivera Well, this happened. Steele does his whole routine. He does clubbering and eats the turnbuckle. He throws JLR into the exposed steel arm-first, and then wins with a lifting Armbar. *1/4 After the match, Hulk Hogan is introduced for an interview. He shakes hands with fans and what not, and George Steele and Mr. Fuji attack him from behind! They roll him into the ring, but Hogan fights back, and he drives them out of the ring and poses. He then helps up Jose, being an actual good guy at this point in his career. GENE INTERVIEWS, PART III: -Roddy Piper comes on and Gene asks about Snuka. He says he's proud of what he did and says he probably knocked half of Snuka's brain out with that coconut. He says he beat Snuka within an inch of his life, but now, he's willing to go just an inch further. AWESOME LINE! - Edited by Big Tuna, Mar 22 2012, 03:14 PM.
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| Big Tuna | Mar 22 2012, 03:14 PM Post #37 |
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Top 25 Matches of the Half-Year: 1. Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik, MSG (June 16th) 2. Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik, MSG (April 23rd) 3. Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik, MSG (May 21st) 4. Tito Santana [c] vs. Don Muraco, MSG (February 20th) 5. Bob Backlund vs. Greg Valentine, MSG (April 23rd) 6. Hulk Hogan [c] vs. The Iron Sheik, Philadelphia (May 5th) 7. Roddy Piper vs. Jimmy Snuka, St. Louis (May 5th) 8. Sgt. Slaughter vs. Paul Orndorff, Philadelphia (June 2nd) 9. Don Muraco [c] vs. Tito Santana, MSG (January 23rd) 10. Tito Santana [c] vs. Greg Valentine, Philadelphia (May 5th) 11. Bob Backlund vs. The Masked Superstar, Philadelphia (January 21st) 12. Tony Atlas/Rocky Johnson [c] vs. The North-South Connection, Allentown (April 17th) 13. Sgt. Slaughter vs. David Schultz, Philadelphia (May 5th) 14. Tito Santana [c] vs. The Iron Sheik, Philadelphia (February 18th) 15. Tito Santana [c] vs. Greg Valentine, Philadelphia (March 31st) 16. Tito Santana [c] vs. Greg Valentine, MSG (June 16th) 17. Tito Santana vs. Greg Valentine, Championship Wrestling (June 23rd) 18. Tito Santana vs. Bob Orton, Championship Wrestling (June 16th) 19. Hulk Hogan [c] vs. David Schultz, Minneapolis (June 17th) 20. Don Muraco [c] vs. Salvatore Bellomo, Philadelphia (January 21st) 21. The Iron Sheik [c] vs. Tito Santana, Philadelphia (January 21st) 22. Hulk Hogan [c] vs. The Iron Sheik, Philadelphia (June 2nd) 23. Eddie Gilbert vs. Rene Goulet, Philadelphia (January 21st) 24. The North-South Connection vs. Tony Garea/SD Jones, Championship Wrestling (May 5th) 25. The Invaders vs. Mr. Fuji/Tiger Chung Lee, MSG (January 23rd) Wrestler of the Half-Year: Tito Santana (32 Points) Tag Team of the Half-Year: The North-South Connection (10 Points) |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 25 2012, 10:23 AM Post #38 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling July 7th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: Tito Santana vs. Tiger Chung Lee Another good Tito showcase. Lots of arm work and shit. Tiger does cheating jobber offense, leading to an awesome fiery Tito comeback and he wins with the Flying Forearm. *3/4 GENE INTERVIEWS: -Fucking Boston again -It has now been changed to Hogan vs. Orndorff for the WWF Title -Mr. Fuji says his animal will destroy Polish Power Match #2: Bob Orton vs. Salvatore Bellomo Orton again looked good. Some nice matwork early on, and then Orton had a nice control seg. Went a little too long for a squash at 7 minutes or so, since Bellomo has shitty comeback offense. He's pretty much only good at matwork, but whatever. Orton wins WITH THE FUCKING VADER BOMB! *1/2 GENE INTERVIEWS: -Dick Murdoch comes on and takes offense to Gene saying he rose to fame in a hurry. He says he's worked long and hard to get to the top and he's been famous for a while, and just because it wasn't up here doesn't mean it don't count. FUCK YEAH DICK MURDOCH! Murdoch says he's heard the Boston Garden is the worst building in the world, which makes sense for these no good yankees up here. He says Sarge is in the closet, Tito isn't even legal, and he's beaten Rocky Johnson before, so there's no challenge here. Match #3: Paul Orndorff vs. B. Brian Blair They get 8 minutes, so this rules. BBB is really quick and crisp once again and Orndorff does his thing. Orndorff's arm selling is pretty good too, and his control segment is decent, but probably the least great part of the match. Blair makes a great comeback, but he gets cut off with the Stun Gun into the top rope, and that gives Paul the win. He is upset at fans chanting "PAULA!" at him. **3/4 GENE INTERVIEWS: -Jimmy Snuka says a lot of nothing about Roddy Piper -They air the Piper/Snuka incident again WWF UPDATE: -Clips air of Greg Valentine crippling people with the Figure Four Video airs of Lou Albano helping Moolah train for her match against Cyndi Lauper. Match #4: Andre The Giant vs. Samula Sweet Jesus, this did not need 6 minutes. So slow and plodding. Andre catches Samula jumping off the top with a boot, and that gets the pin. 1/2* |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 25 2012, 04:59 PM Post #39 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling July 14th, 1984 Allentown, PA Match #1: The Wild Samoans vs. Rene Goulet/Lanny Kean This sure as fuck happened. The Samoans did things and won with a Samoan Drop. 3/4* GENE INTERVIEWS: -Hulk Hogan comes in. He talks about working hard to get here and says he doesn't think the Piledriver can beat him and asks whatcha gonna do to Paul when 20,000+ Hulkamaniacs run wild and yell "PAULA!" at him Match #2: Ivan Putski vs. Jerry Valiant 6 minute Putski squash? NO THANKS! GENE INTERVIEWS: -Jesse Ventura comes on and says he wants competition and he wants Chico Santana, and says he could probably beat up Larry Bird too Match #3: The Iron Sheik w/ Freddie Blassie vs. Billy Travis Yeah, 6 minutes of Sheik! The jobber is awful though, so it's not as great as it could be. Still, some nice Sheik throws and strikes, and the Camel Clutch ends it. *3/4 A horrible segment of Lauper training Richter airs. WWF UPDATE: -Big John Studd is still around, I guess Match #4: Dick Murdoch vs. SD Jones Murdoch probably gives SD way too much, but it's still a hell of a Murdoch carryjob. Awesome bumping, selling, killer punches, etc. They fight on the floor and SD rolls him into the ring after throwing him into the post, and Murdoch wins by count out. ** GENE INTERVIEWS: -Now it's Orndorff. He says it's not his fault that he's the best looking man here or that he has the best body in the WWF and goes over the Christie Brinkley line again. He says Hogan hangs around with a lot of fat and ugly women and he wants the WWF Title, and says Hogan hasn't beaten anyone good for that belt yet. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 31 2012, 08:15 PM Post #40 |
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984 WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984 WWF Championship Wrestling July 21st, 1984 Match #1: The North-South Connection vs. SD Jones/Nick Dicarlo AW FUCK YEAH ANOTHER NSC SHOWCASE! Lots of awesome strikes and bumping, and SD Jones had some fine jobber offense. It ends when Adonia holds DiCarlo up in a Bear Hug and Murdoch gets a Flying Clothesline off the top. ** GENE INTERVIEWS: -He is now in front of a black background with the WWF logo, instead of at ringside -The North-South Connection come in and Gene says they have the Samoans. Murdoch says he knows nothing about Boston except for that it sucks, and says this is a conspiracy to get the belts off of them because they ain't cosmetically pleasing or nice boys. A video airs, recapping the Albano/Lauper angle, since the Moolah/Richter title match is set for the next MSG show on July 23rd, which will also be aired live on MTV, as Gene announces from the studio. GENE INTERVIEWS: -Snuka comes on and talks about Piper in mostly incomprehensible speaking Match #2: Kamala w/ Kim Chee & Freddie Blassie vs. Jose Luis Rivera Fun Kamala squash, but only like 90 seconds. Jose makes him look awesome with some big bumps and hits two Big Splashes to the back for the win. *1/2 A video package airs of highlights of Hulk Hogan set to "Eye of the Tiger" WWF UPDATE: -Clips of Sgt. Slaughter leading the crowd in the pledge are shown GENE INTERVIEWS: -Roddy Piper comes on and he takes the mic and kicks Gene off screen. He says the problem with being a nice guy is that a lot of time, punks looking to make a name try and take advantage of you, like loopy Lauper, who made her name on Piper's Pit. He hypes up the match in two days on MTV, and says he'll have the winner of the match on the Pit next week! Unfortunately, I don't have the 7/28 show. Piper then reads a letter asking him not to beat up Jimmy Snuka anymore and says sometimes Jimmy cries at night, AND HE SAYS IT'S FROM SNUKA'S SON! AND HE SPITS ON THE LETTER! Clips air of a Wild Samoans vs. Mr. Fuji/Tiger Chung Lee match from Philadelphia on July 7th. Not enough shown and too clipped, so I won't count it as a real match, but the Samoans win. |
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