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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
July 23rd, 1984
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY

Match #1: Sika vs. Ron Shaw

This was short and really nothing special. Sika wins with a poor looking Diving Headbutt.
3/4*

Match #2: The Iron Sheik w/ Freddie Blassie vs. Tony Garea

Highly enjoyable Sheik showcase. Garea has great looking basic stuff, and the hot crowd helps a lot. Sheik hits a really beautiful Saito Suplex for the win.
**1/4

Match #3: Tito Santana [c] vs. Bob Orton [WWF Intercontinental Championship]

Another great Tito title defense. Awesome matwork to begin, great Tito control on the arm, and then he gets blasted with a cheap shot. Orton has some really nasty looking offense in his control segment and Tito sells like a motherfucker. At this point, I am willing to put Tito on a list of top 10 IC Champions ever. I have to revisit the epic Savage title run and I guess HTM's, but I'd list him as a better IC Champion than everyone except Mr. Perfect, The Rock, Orton, and Shelton's first title run. Bret Hart logically should have been a great IC Champion, but he had it in that period where they stopped taping all but MSG house shows and didn't have Raw yet, so there's not a lot of defenses from him. Of course, I'd call him maybe the best WWF Champion ever, so there's that in his favor. ANYWAYS, Tito has a killer comeback, and they go a to 20 minute draw again.
***1/4

They keep brawling and get pulled apart.

Match #4: Bob Backlund vs. Butcher Vachon
Two minute Backlund showcase that ends with the Crossface Chickenwing. Bob deserves more than this, but he is a relic of an era on its way out, so I must accept it.
*3/4

Match #5: Hulk Hogan [c] vs. Greg Valentine [WWF Championship]

Solid enough 10 minutes, but also kind of disappointing. Awesome Valentine bumping early on and then he kind of took over. There's a weird run in the middle of his control seg where Hogan comes back and Greg stalls on the floor, but then takes back over. He works on the leg, but then Hogan punches him as he comes off the top and runs off the ropes just fine and hits the Legdrop to retain.
**1/4

Match #6: The North-South Connection [c] vs. Sgt. Slaughter/Terry Daniels [WWF Tag Team Championship]

HOLY SHIT, THIS WAS GREAT! I expected nothing from Daniels, but he was totally willing to be average to good and let the NSC do the work to make this great. They carried him on the mat and made him look awesome and then had a killer control segment. Lots of really nasty punches and boots and what not. They do a great job playing on Daniels' inexperience, not just with average rookie mistakes, but him not tagging out when he should and then him getting back in before he is ready. The NSC beats Daniels with a fucking 1984 version of the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS! BBBBBBBBBBBBBDAT! Think about Dick Murdoch and Julius Smokes conversing.
***

Match #7: The Fabulous Moolah [c] w/ Capt. Lou Albano vs. Wendi Richter w/ Cyndi Lauper [WWF Women's Championship]

Hey, they did an awesome job promoting this and credit to them for using a celebrity to do huge business, but this really was not that good. Best thing I can say is that it was better than Moolah's 1999 matches, I guess. They both get tangled up in a roll up, but Richter gets her shoulder up before 3, so she wins the title!
*1/4

In the back, Gene interviews Richter, Lauper, and Lauper's manager and they talk a lot. Slaughter and Hogan both come over to put her over and yeah.
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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
August 4th, 1984

Match #1: Paul Orndorff vs. Salvatore Bellomo

Good Paul showcase. Bellomo was the epitome of mediocrity once again. Paul wins with an elbow drop to the face after a Stun Gun.
*3/4

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-In front of a blue and gold background now
-Bob Orton comes in and says Ivan Putski's been on top for a while, but they'll put an end to that tonight. He says every time he puts someone out, he rips a tassle off of his vest, and he's looking to make it more and more ragged all the time. Gene says it's like a notch in his gun, but then asks why he'd need a gun, being a wrestler, and Orton says his Suplex makes guns unnecessary, because he's a peaceful man.

Match #2: Greg Valentine vs. B. Brian Blair
Another great match with Blair vs. a top heel. Blair has good arm work and Valentine takes over. Nice elbows and yeah. Usual good stuff. Blair has a good comeback, but Valentine dodges as he lunges at him, and he goes falling out to the floor. Valentine tries to Suplex him back in, but he counters that into an inside cradle. Greg then counters that into his own cradle with the tights for the win.
**1/2

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Big John Studd comes on and says he can't be slammed or pinned and says he has $10,000 up for any man who can slam him in the ring, and he's willing to give Andre The Giant the opportunity, and he bets he can slam Andre too.

Clips air of the Richter/Moolah thing from the last MSG show.

In a pretape, Roddy Piper says he'll have Richter on the Pit next week and he's going to show what really happened and says she didn't win the title at all, and he'll have the decision reversed next week, because just when you think you have all the answers, R.P. changes the questions! He says he's going to make that girl cry next week.

Match #3: Hulk Hogan vs. Jerry Valiant
Good Hogan showcase. Legdrop ends it.
*1/2

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WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana, Since 2/11/1984
WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984


Bob Backlund vs. Salvatore Bellomo, Philadelphia (August 4th)
This is Backlund's last match until 1992. :( Bob carries him through 11 minutes of matwork and Bob does some more European-style matwork, just because he's Bob fucking Backlund and he can beat this faggot at his own goddamned game. He wins with a Bridging O'Connor Roll.
**3/4

Michael Hayes/Terry Gordy/Buddy Roberts vs. Ron Shaw/Rene Goulet/Charlie Fulton, Philadelphia (August 4th)

BADSTEET ATLANTA GA! Really fun Freebirds squash and what the fuck, mid-1980s Freebirds working face is so goddamned strange. Gordy beats Fulton with an awesome Powerbomb.
**

Hulk Hogan [c] vs. Greg Valentine [WWF Championship], Philadelphia (August 4th)

Better than MSG. Still formula Hogan with not a lot of variance, but Valentine got in more offense now and got to show off all his nasty elbows and knees. Hogan's selling is also slightly better, but still not that great. He gets the AXE BOMBAH~ and then the Legdrop for the win.
**1/2
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Think about Dick Murdoch and Julius Smokes conversing.


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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
August 11th, 1984
Poughkeepsie, NY

Match #1: The Iron Sheik vs. Jose Luis Rivera

Really fun and violent Sheiky squash. Camel Clutch ends it.
**

Sheik yells "IRAN NUMBER ONE!" and then throws Jose out of the ring.

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Lou Albano says he'll be in the corner of the tag champions when they fight the Samoans, and says he has a 32 inch waist and 21 inch arms, but he won't need to fight. Lou's fine and all, but Dick Murdoch is an amazing promo, so why can't he do this?

Match #2: Rocky Johnson vs. Charlie Fulton
This went 6 minutes! Really average and whatever level stuff. Fulton is a truly horrible jobber, and Rocky wins with a sunset flip. Way too long.
3/4*

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Paul Orndorff says he went to school with B. Brian Blair and he used to take his lunch all the time, and he was never man enough to stop him. He says Blair is a common person and he'll beat him again. He says Blair is a normal man who gets up and showers and eats breakfast, and says he doesn't do none of that, because he kisses a different woman every day and has a different fruit every day. Which somehow prevents him from showering or eating breakfast. He then challenges Larry Bird to a match.

Match #3: The North-South Connection vs. SD Jones/Jeff Lang
AW FUCK YEAH NSC SQUASH! They beat the shit out of Lang, SD gets brief offense, etc. Adonis beats Lang after a Back Suplex in which Murdoch also hit Lang with a Flying Clothesline off the middle rope. God damn right. It's a shame the NSC exists in a time without a truly great face team to oppose them.
**

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Rocky Johnson comes on and says he works out with Hulk every . That's really all he has to say. Not sure why this even happened.

WWF UPDATE:
-Andre The Giant clips

It is time for Piper's Pit, and B. Brian Blair is his guest. Piper asks why he took up wrestling and he says he always wanted to go to the Olympics. Piper than shits on the US olympic wrestling team, and Blair takes offense and says they're doing great. Piper says Russia and Poland didn't even come, so there was no competition. Blair calls him a jerk and he walks off.

Match #4: Ivan Putski vs. Ron Shaw
Usual horrible Putski match. More importantly and also horribly, Brutus Beefcake debuts and comes out to watch. :(
1/2*


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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
August 18th, 1984
Poughkeepsie, NY

Match #1: Ken Patera w/ Capt. Lou Albano vs. Billy Travis

Patera looked alright here. Being hyped as the world's strongest man at this point, he obviously does a lot of strength spots and wins with an elbow drop.
*1/2

Match #2: Kamala w/ Kim Chee & Freddie Blassie vs. Steve Lombardi

Hulk Hogan comes out before the bell to give encouragement to Lombardi. It clearly has the opposite effect, as he loses in about 45 seconds to a Big Splash. Great work, Hulk.
*

A highlight video airs of Junkyard Dog. Son of a bitch. THUMP!

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-The same Orndorff promo from last week

Mean Gene is in the ring, and he brings out the NEW Women's Champion Wendi Richter! He presents a brand new title belt to her but then Moolah comes out of nowhere and attacks her. Hey, great. Wendi Richter looks like the byproduct of Hook Bomberry fucking Ricky Morton. She is that ugly.

Match #3: Greg Valentine vs. Mario Mancini
Fun squash, as usual for Valentine, but they only get 2 minutes. Valentine wins with the Figure Four.
*3/4

WWF UPDATE:
-Clips of Roddy Piper

It is time for Piper's Pit now, and his guest is Sgt. Slaughter! Piper talks about him being a veteran and then says he's an idiot and Sarge stands up and Piper says to hear him out. Piper then talks about how nobody cared when he came back from Vietnam and asks how he feels about people protesting and burning flags and consorting with Communists. Piper asks where the people were on the battlefield and Sarge rips his shirt. He says Piper is right and he's bled for his country, but he'd be willing to die for it, and says God bless America.

Match #4: Tito Santana vs. Dave Barbie
This didn't need 6 minutes. They could have given some of that to Valentine's squash. This was good as usual from Tito though. Brutus Beefcake again comes out to watch, and Tito wins with the Flying Forearm.
*3/4
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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
August 25th, 1984
Poughkeepsie, NY

Match #1: B. Brian Blair vs. Charlie Fulton

Good Blair showcase. He guides the horrible jobber through matwork, which is smart, as Fulton is the worst when it comes to strikes and actual action and fast paced stuff. Blair does his thing, and wins with an Abdominal Stretch Cradle.
*3/4

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Capt. Lou Albano comes in again. He says he's interested in the Moondogs' debut in Boston, and says he has a personal investment there, but he's also looking at the Tag Title match and brings in Adonis and Murdoch! He says he's only there for inspiration. Murdoch says to just stay on the floor since he'll be more of a help there and they can handle Slaughter and the Samoans by themselves. He says the people in this nothing happening Yankee town don't even deserve this match.
-B. Brian Blair is in next and says he had Paul beat last time, and he'll get the job done this time

Match #2: Jimmy Snuka vs. Rene Goulet
Fine Snuka squash. Superfly Splash ends it.
*1/2

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-The Iron Sheik comes in. He says Hulk Hogan is dodging him after the WWF stole his belt by double crossing him in the January. He says he's looked everyone for this fake champion, but he can't find him. He then starts yelling in Arabic. Very subdued promo from Sheik tonight.

WWF UPDATE:
-Hogan footage

It is time for Piper's Pit, and Freddie Blassie and Nikolai Volkoff come on as his guests. Blassie complains about Nikolai not being allowed to sing his national anthem without being booed, and Piper says it's typical of the fans and Americans, and they're all better than them, and nobody's going to actually try and stop him. Piper then gives him the mic and he sings the Russian national anthem and it is fucking glorious.

Match #3: Paul Orndorff vs. Nick DeCarlo
Another enjoyable Mr. Wonderful squash. It did not exactly need 6 minutes here, but it was good enough. Nick isn't good enough to look like he can actually hang with Paul, so that was a waste of time. Paul wins with the Piledriver.
*1/2
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Roddy Piper vs. Jimmy Snuka, MSG (August 25th)
Really fun 6 minutes, but not as out of control and chaotic as their St. Louis match. Piper's bumping and selling was awesome, but the reason this isn't as great is probably because he never really got to control the match. Snuka went up top at the end, but Piper shoved him off the top and he fell to the apron, and was counted out.
**1/2

Piper goes out to the floor and beats the shit out of Snuka with a chair, and he is then taken away on a stretcher.

Tito Santana [c] vs. Greg Valentine [WWF Intercontinental Championship], MSG (August 25th)
This is shorter than their other matches, at about 6 minutes, which is really disappointing. Awesome Valentine control seg working on the head and neck. Killer elbows and forearms. Tito accidentally knocks down the ref, but shortly after, he hits the Flying Forearm. He has the cover and the ref crawls to count 3, and as a result of him lying down on the count, he doesn't see Greg's foot on the ropes.
**1/2

Tito is given the belt, but Valentine chop blocks him from behind! He puts on the Figure Four, and refuses to let go of it for like 2 minutes, and a bunch of referees and agents and people in the back have to pull him off. He finally leaves, and Tito is helped to the back, since he can't walk on his own.
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A video airs before this match of Hogan getting Gene into fighting shape and he makes him eat raw eggs and run with him. EYE OF THE HULKSTER, MAN! They then work out at the gym and give him a piggyback ride up the stairs of the arena.

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I really wish I had written a BQWA promo with Simon and Ralph Cape doing this, but in reverse. Making Ralph eat unhealthy, being lazy all day, then carrying Andy up a flight of stairs. Like this meets Chuck Taylor's Warm Up.

Hulk Hogan/Mean Gene Okerlund vs. George Steele/Mr. Fuji, Minneapolis (August 26th)
This is like 4 minutes of the heels bumping. Hogan slams Gene onto Fuji for the win.
3/4*
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Hulk Hogan vs. Moondog Rex, Maple Leaf Wrestling (August 29th)
This happened. Hogan coming back with karate strikes to the throat was surreal. Rex had some nice knees, and Hogan made his comeback and won with the Legdrop.
*1/2

Bret Hart/Dynamite Kid vs. Iron Mike Sharpe/Troy Alexander, Maple Leaf Wrestling (August 29th)

Dynamite Kid is in his peak by now, and even if I'm not a huge fan of his, he's still really crisp and intense and all that, and under WWF format, he's less liable to do stupid shit like against Tiger Mask. Kid kills Troy with some stuff, and this is a fun squash. DK wins with the Diving Headbutt.
**
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Tito Santana [c] vs. Paul Orndorff [WWF Intercontinental Championship], St. Louis (September 1st)
This is JIP from Best of the WWF Volume 2, but we get like 15 minutes out of 20. Really really fast stuff early on. Tito works the arm, and it is great. Paul once again sells well on the transition and works the head and neck. This really just feels like a tighter version of their previous match, and I am okay with that. Tito has maybe his best fiery comeback yet, and a super hot crowd helps a lot. They do some awesome nearfalls without killing any big offense, and Paul has the pin but the 20 minute time limit expires.
***
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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
September 1st, 1984
Poughkeepsie, NY

Match #1: Nikolai Volkoff w/ Freddie Blassie vs. SD Jones

My instinct is to assume Nikolai sucks, based on 1994, but that would be unfair. That being said, my instinct was right yet again. Nikolai fucking blows. He wins with the Russian Backbreaker.
3/4*

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Chief Jay Strongbow says he doesn't want Patera to break his neck like he did to his friend Billy White Wolf, so he'll have to put him away soon

Match #2: Jesse Ventura vs. Billy Travis
Another horribly overlong Jesse squash.
1/4*

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Lauper's manager says that The Fabulous Freebirds are coming to the WWF!
-They come in and Hayes says everyone knows them and introduces Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts. 250 POUNDS OF TWISTED STEEL AND SEX APPEAL! He says they are 700+ pounds of Fantasia, and says a lot of people are knocking them and knocking Badstreet. He says the further along you go on Badstreet, the badder is gets, and they lived on the last house.

WWF UPDATE:
-Paul Orndorff highlights

They replay the segment with Volkoff on Piper's Pit for some reason.

Match #3: Big John Studd vs. John Lang
Short Studd squash. He gets mad at "ANDRE!" chants. Elbow drop ends it.
1/2*

A music video set to "Infatuation" airs of Bob Backlund vs. Sal Bellomo, for some reason.

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Andre comes in and says some stuff. It's mostly Andre being marble mouthed, but he's clearly talking about Piper, who he faces in the Boston Garden.

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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
September 8th, 1984

Match #1: B. Brian Blair vs. Iron Mike Sharpe

FUCK YEAH B. BRIAN BLAIR! CLIMB THOSE RANKINGS! YOU'RE IN THE TOP 10 BUDDY, DON'T STOP NOW! He carries Sharpe through matwork and then has awesome comebacks and Sharpe bumps around well. They end up going to a double count out.
**

They fight back into the ring and B. Brian Blair runs off Sharpe.

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-THE FREEBIRDS! YEAH! Hayes says this is the debut of Freebird Fantasia against the Moondogs. He says they are Boston's newest sports franchise and Gordy says lots of people might not like us, but he doesn't care and says he'll punch anyone in the face who gets within 5 feet of him.

They air the Freebirds squash from the August 4th Philadelphia show.

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Sgt. Slaughter says the Samoans called him and after he got over the shock of them using a phone, they asked him to be his partner against the Tag Champions and Lou Albano. He says Albano double crossed them and he doesn't like that, so he's agreed to be their tag team partner.

Match #2: Kamala w/ Kim Chee & Freddie Blassie vs. Chief Jay Strongbow
Big squash for Kamala. Strongbow is basically done at this point, so he's not much, but Kamala looked great here. Big Splash ends it.
*3/4

WWF UPDATE:
-Tito Santana highlights

It is time for Piper's Pit and Piper says his guest tonight will be his personal favorite wrestler and a man who always gets the job done and the most intelligent man he's ever met. His guest, ROWDY RODDY PIPER! He brags about solving the Cyndi Lauper case and he says he's going to go all the way with this, and says everyone will see.

Match #3: Ken Patera vs. Steve Lombardi
Good Patera squash. Didn't need 6 minutes exactly, but it was still good. Patera wins with a Legdrop.
*1/4

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Roddy Piper comes on and says everyone shudders and sweats at the name Andre The Giant, but not him. He says Andre is big with those electrical bolts sticking out of his neck and his big flat head, and says all Andre has to do is ask please and he won't end his decades long undefeated streak like he ended Snuka's career.

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The North-South Connection/Capt. Lou Albano vs. The Wild Samoans/Sgt. Slaughter, MSG (September 22nd)
Fun match. The NSC and Slaughter are both great, Albano is fun as the manager stuck in a tag match, and the Samoans are also kind of there too. Lots of awesome Adonis and Murdoch bumping early on, and Sarge's offense looked awesome. Mostly Samoans in there, unfortunately, so it's not outright great. NSC has a great, but too short control seg. The faces clean house, and Albano runs to the back so nobody gets him. Slaughter stops Murdoch and Adonis from their Flying Clothesline combo by throwing Adonis to the floor and throwing Murdoch off the top to the mat for the win.
**1/2

Hulk Hogan [c] vs. Big John Studd w/ Bobby Heenan [WWF Championship], MSG (September 22nd)

HEENAN DEBUTS! YEAH! This isn't much, I mean it's Hogan vs. Studd, whatever. They tease Hogan slamming Studd, but he can't get it done. Studd's control seg is pretty plodding and yeah. They fight on the floor, and as they do, Heenan holds Hogan back at 9, and Studd slides in at 10 to win by count out!
*3/4

Heenan and Studd flee ringside, and they take the belt with them!
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Bret Hart vs. Butcher Vachon, Toronto (September 23rd)
This sure did not need 9 minutes, but it was solid enough. Bret is still really inexperienced but show a lot of potential and has some nice tight matwork. He ends up getting the win with a sunset flip.
*3/4

Greg Valentine vs. Ivan Putski, Toronto (September 23rd)

Lots of Valentine stalling, which might be preferable to an Ivan Putski match, so I'm okay with it. They do stuff, and really disappointingly, this basically exists to put Putski over, for whatever reason. He gets most of the offense, and then gets the win with the Polish Hammer. Valentine's brief control seg was the sole highlight.
*3/4

Andre The Giant vs. Kamala, Toronto (September 23rd)

This was enjoyable for 7 minutes or so. Not amazing or anything, but I enjoyed Kamala's offense and eventual bumping for Andre. They built well to Kamala finally going down, which given that it took FUCKING ANDRE THE GIANT about 6 minutes to knock him off his feet, is a good sign for his push here. They fight on the floor, and Andre rolls Kamala in at 8, and he then kicks Andre away, and Kamala wins by count out.
**

Andre gets back in, and Kamala flees.

Dynamite Kid vs. Jerry Valiant, Toronto (September 23rd)
Valiant got like 90% of this, so it was not much. Kid eventually slips in the Diving Headbutt to win. This could have been structured a lot better.
*1/4

Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik, Toronto (September 23rd)

FUCK YEAH, ANOTHER ONE?! Only 9 minutes, but that's all they need to tear down the house again. Sarge beats the shit out of him with his belt and with Sheik's flag and is just violent as hell, until Sheik kicks him in the throat with the loaded boot. Sheik works on the throat primarily, which is unique and awesome. Sarge fights back, SO SHEIK KICKS HIM IN THE FACE WITH THE POINT OF THE BOOT! SARGE GETS ANOTHER AMAZING BLADEJOB! He bites at the cut and kicks it and what not. Sarge makes his comeback and it is awesome, but they don't get their big epic final showdown, as Nikolai Volkoff runs out to attack Sarge for the DQ!
***

They double team Sarge and lay him out before jobbers and referees come out to make them stop.
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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


Tito Santana [c] vs. Greg Valentine w/ Capt. Lou Albano [WWF Intercontinental Championship], London, Ontario (September 24th)
Tito is selling the knee injury from MSG big time (I assume he wasn't selling it against Mr. Wonderful because it hadn't aired there yet or been covered), and Gorilla says he had already signed to defend the belt on this show, and after this, he'll take a few weeks off. This is only 3 minutes, which is unfortunate, but it is fucking GREAT. Tito is super super fiery and yeah. He hits the Flying Forearm and has 3, BUT ALBANO PUTS GREG'S FOOT UNDER THE BOTTOM ROPE AT 3, AND THE REF WAVES OFF THE PIN! BOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Tito pulls Albano on the apron, but then Greg chop blocks him. He gets a pin grabbing the ropes and hooking the bad leg, AND VALENTINE STEALS THE BELT! AWESOME ANGLE!
**1/4

NOT OVER YET, BECAUSE VALENTINE PUTS ON THE FIGURE FOUR AGAIN! THIS TIME, NOBODY CAN PULL HIM OFF! They FINALLY get him off, and they have to stretcher Tito out. I love this feud.
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Sgt. Slaughter/The Junkyard Dog vs. The Iron Sheik/Nikolai Volkoff, Philadelphia (October 13th)
SARGE DOES IT AGAIN! JYD and Volkoff kind of drag this down, but this was another incredible Slaughter performance. Huge huge bumps, including some (somehow) even more insane corner bumps of his. He takes one sternum first that causes him to bounce up in the air and then face-first down onto the mat. Sheik vs. Sarge is incredible and yeah. Sarge and Nikolai won't stop fighting and they throw the ref down, so he throws the match out.
**3/4
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Greg Valentine, Since 9/24/1984
WWF Tag Team Champions: The North-South Connection, Since 4/17/1984


Greg Valentine [c] w/ Capt. Lou Albano vs. Tito Santana [WWF Intercontinental Championship], MSG (October 22nd)
Awesome short match. Tito is PISSED after the last match and has an amazingly fiery flurry to start. This is only 6 minutes and serves to set up future matches more than anything, but it is really great at that. Valentine tries to take over and they have some killer forearm exchanges. Just an awesome war. Tito goes for the knee in revenge, and when Greg escapes to the floor, Tito follows. He just dodges a chair thrown at him, and it hits the post, causing Tito to snap again. He goes nuts with punches in the ring, and when the ref tries to stop it, he throws him to the floor and Tito is DQ'd!
***

Hulk Hogan [c] vs. Big John Studd w/ Bobby Heenan [WWF Championship - If Hogan is Counted Out, He Loses the Belt], MSG (October 22nd)

Good use of the stipulation to make this better than the last one. It being 7 minutes also helps a lot in that regard. They tease the count out a bit, but Hogan always makes it back in, and he wins with the AXE BOMBAH~!
**

Hogan challenges Studd to put up his $15,000 right now because he thinks he can slam him, but Studd just leaves post-match.
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WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan, Since 1/23/1984 - LONGEST REIGNING CHAMPION CURRENTLY
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WWF Championship Wrestling
October 13th (labeled as 22nd in the pack), 1984
Poughkeepsie, NY

Match #1: The Junkyard Dog vs. John Callahan

JYD was the Tatanka of Mid-South when I reviewed that. Meaning that I liked him initially, then his act wore thin, and now I hate him. Fuck JYD. He wins with a Powerslam.
THUMP

WWF UPDATE:
-This is finally set in the Control Center with Lord Alfred Hayes
-Clips of Don Muraco
-Glad to see he's finally coming back

Match #2: The North-South Connection vs. Billy Travis/Rick McGraw
Fuck yeah, NSC squash. Typical awesome performance by Murdoch, and as usual, Adonis is just a step or two behind him. Adonis beats Billy Travis with a flying elbow as Murdoch hits a Back Suplex.
**

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Hulk Hogan comes on and promotes a card in LA and says Mr. T and Sly Stallone will be at ringside and says Hulkamania is running wild and he says John Studd might be strong, but he has the largest arms in the world and he'll bust him up and take it as far as it needs to be taken.

Match #3: Paul Orndorff vs. Rudy Diamond
Good Paul squash again. Piledriver ends it.
*1/2

GENE INTERVIEWS:
-Roddy Piper talks about watching Andre pick the animal bones out of his teeth and says he hates the people in LA and says they're all blithering idiots and transients and Hulk Hogan fits right in there. He says he is the legend killer (!!!) and he's the only man who can make Andre quit, and that's where everyone goes wrong with the big fella

Match #4: Kamala w/ Kim Chee vs. Robbie Parliament
AMAZING JOBBER NAME. Fun short Kamala squash again.
*1/4

It is time for Piper's Pit. He is supposed to have The Executioner as his guest, but Tonga Kid storms on and demands a match with Piper in revenge for what he did to his cousin Jimmy Snuka. Piper says he doesn't fight just any scrub like everyone else on the roster and he only fights the best, and he says if he can beat this fella in the mask next week, he might let him step in the ring with the Hot Rod.

Match #5: Brutus Beefcake w/ Johnny V vs. Chico Martinez
This was average! I expected less from Beefcake. He wins with the Whoopie Cushion. Strange.
*1/4

They play the Tito/Valentine IC Title switch to end the show.
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Sgt. Slaughter/The Junkyard Dog vs. The Iron Sheik/Nikolai Volkoff [Texas Tornado Match], Philadelphia (November 10th)
JYD and Nikolai are still mostly useless, but the chaotic vibe due to the rules covers for them well. Not quite as good as before, since it had less focus on Sheik/Sarge. They got their big awesome run at the end though, so that was cool. Sarge gets the Cobra Clutch on, and JYD holds back Nikolai, so Sheik has to tap.
**1/2
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