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Mr. Dufour’s Wayback Machine: Nov.26, 1984 MSG
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Welcome everyone to another edition of Mr. Dufour’s Wayback Machine where we review classic WWF shows of wrestle-years gone by.
Before I start my review, I’d like to comment on the passing of the legendary Nick Bockwinkel. The best compliment that I can give Nick is when you heard him speak, you knew he was important. Nick was in the mold of a Buddy Rogers: an arrogant, well spoken heel who looked down upon the peasants who showed up to the events or watched him on television. His matches with Billy Robinson and Verne Gagne are all time classics, and his tag team with Ray Stevens was in my opinion the best tag team in AWA history. Nick you were one of a kind and you’ll be sorely missed.
Today we travel back to November 26th, 1984 to Madison Square Garden where we have good looking show, featuring one match in particular that I’m looking forward to. Our main event features the Tonga Kid with Jimmy Snuka facing Roddy Piper with Bob Orton Jr by his side. This show is historically significant as the Tonga Kid became the youngest wrestler to main event Madison Square Garden, a record that still holds to this day. Let’s take a roll call of the champions at this time.
Your current champions are:
World Title: Hulk Hogan
Intercontinental Title: Greg Valentine
Tag Team Titles: Dick Murdoch and Adrian Adonis
Your hosts for tonight’s action are Gorilla Monsoon and Lord Alfred Hayes. I love this duo. Your ring announcer is Howard Finkel
Match #1: Charlie Fulton vs S.D Jones
Charlie Fulton had been doing jobs for a few years at this time. He’s pretty decent in the ring, but a jobber nonetheless. S.D Jones is most famous for losing to King Kong Bundy in 8 seconds at Wrestlemania 1, but he’s picked up his share of wins over the years. Now that I’m done trying to psych myself up for a Charlie Fulton vs S.D Jones mach, let’s move on to the action.
The two start off with some nice chain wrestling with Jones gaining the early advantage. Jones works a side headlock takeover on Fulton and continues to frustrate Fulton with his speed. Fulton eventually catches Jones with an awkward looking clothesline and works a reverse chinlock. Fulton works this hold for over three minutes. I know I’ve said this before, but could you imagine if someone tried that today? Jones finally breaks the hold with a front atomic drop and begins to go to work on Fulton. The two trade lefts and rights before Fulton eye rakes Jones and tosses him into the corner. A corner charge is missed by Fulton and Jones catches him with a headbutt and that’s all she wrote!
Result: S.D Jones @ 10:11 via headbutt
Rating: **1/4. That was a nice little opening match. The two worked at a nice pace, the crowd was into it and so was I. Well done.
Match #2: Jose Luis Rivera vs Moondog Spot
My boy Moondog Spot might actually pick up a win here. Rivera is an interesting case. I’ve always had the feeling that if Rivera showed even a little bit of charisma that the WWF would have given him a decent push. He’s just so emotionless and bland. Gorilla gets in a great line before the match: “Moondog Spot says he’s from Parts Unknown, but when you’re applying for a wrestling license you can’t just put down that you’re from Parts Unknown.” Fuck you and your logic Gorilla!
Spot hits a shoulder tackle to begin the match but misses a running elbow drop. Rivera immediately goes to work on the left arm of Spot and works a standing armbar. Spot briefly breaks the hold with a handful of hair, but again misses an elbow drop. Spot attempted an arm ringer, but fired off a few horrible looking punches to regain control of the arm. Spot gets back to his feet and sends Rivera into the ropes and nails Rivera in the gut with a vicious looking standing side kick. Spot picks up Rivera and drills him with a knee to the face. Spot goes to the second rope and hits a splash but pulls Rivera up at the count of two. Bad Spot! Bad!. Say what you will about Rivera’s personality, the man can take a great beating and sell it very well. Spot then head butts Rivera and throws him into the rope where he’s met with a big forearm for the count of two. Spot hits a shoulder breaker but seems to lose his grip on his way down and just about dislocates Rivera’s shoulder. Fuck that looked brutal. Spot picks up Rivera again at the count of two. Damn it, he’s gonna lose to friggen Rivera. Spot works a reverse chin lock and then hits a stomach breaker for the count of two. Spot is really beating the piss out of Rivera. Spot body slams Rivera and hits another second rope splash and again picks up Rivera at the count of two! This is giving me an ulcer! Spot gets a thumb into Rivera’s eye and then throws him outside the ring. Rivera gets back into the ring and starts to make a comeback. A few of the worst looking punches you’ll ever see and a drop kick stagger Spot. The crowd is getting into this. Rivera attempts a corner splash but Spot gets his knees up. Spot then hits a flying clothesline from the second rope. 1-2-3!!!!!! Yes!!!
Result: Moondog Spot @ 9:37 via flying clothesline from the second rope
Rating: ** 1/2. I don’t friggen believe it. Moondog Spot actually won a singles match on a major arena show. Rivera again took a hell of an ass kicking and Spot’s offense looked awesome. Good stuff.
Match #3: Salvatore Bellomo vs Bobby Heenan
Well now this is interesting. Salvatore Bellomo was a mainstay in the WWF for years. He had a decent push in 1983 but really tailed off in 1984. Don Muraco had the greatest line about Bellomo: “Bellomo looks like a potato with pipe cleaner arms”. That’s pretty accurate. Bobby Heenan is actually out by himself tonight. It appears we are going to have a straight up wrestling match. Heenan was a hell of a worker in the AWA and the WWA which was a promotion based out of Indianapolis. Lord Alfred Hayes brings up that Bobby was an accomplished wrestler before becoming a manager. Still, this just seems so weird.
The two meet in the middle of the ring and shake hands before the match. Hmmmm. Heenan tells the fans to shut their mouths. That’s more like it. A collar and elbow tie up ends in a clean rope break by Bobby Heenan. Heenan gets Bellomo in a headlock and punches Bellomo in the face and immediately starts to beg off Bellomo between the ropes. The two repeat the spot and again Heenan ducks between the ropes for safety. Bellomo then gets Heenan in a headlock and gives Heenan a punch for good measure. Heenan takes a classic Heenan bump when Bellomo throws Heenan into the corner. Heenan literally does a cross body block into the corner. Awesome! Heenan then begs off Bellomo before escaping to the outside. Bellomo throws a few punches but is stopped dead in his tracks with an eye rake. Heenan works over Bellomo with a series of punches and kicks before putting Bellomo into a reverse chin lock. Bellomo gets back to his feet and is sent into the ropes where the two crack each other in the head. Heenan takes a heel of a bump. He stumbles across the ring and falls down with his head hitting the bottom turnbuckle. Bellomo throws multiple head butts from his knees to the stomach of Heenan followed by a snap mare and later bangs the head of Heenan over and over again on the mat. Heenan pokes Bellomo in the eye to break it up and then chucks Bellomo out of the ring. I was so expecting Big John Studd to come down and interfere at this point, but it doesn’t happen. Bellomo attempts to sunset flip Heenan from outside of the ring, but Heenan holds onto the ropes and punches Bellomo in the face, and that’s enough for a 3 count.
Result: Bobby Heenan @ 9:24 via a punch to the face.
Rating: * 1/4. Well I definitely did not see this match playing out like this. The two had a straight up wrestling match. In all honesty, once the intrigue wore off it was pretty boring.
Match #4: King Kong Mosca vs Mr. Fuji
This is definitely a battle of two men in the twilight of their in ring careers as both men are approaching 50.. Angelo “King Kong” Mosca was a former Canadian Football League Hall of Famer turned wrestler. He had some good feuds with Pat Patterson and Bob Backlund in the early 80’s. He had recently left the Florida territory and was doing commentary for the WWF. He was gone from the company by January 1985 (my God was he ever bad on commentary). Mr. Fuji had recently split from his team with Tiger Cheung Lee and was a couple of months away from making the transition into managing.
Fuji begins the match with that amazing sinister smile on his face. He was such a great heel and I feel gets overlooked when talking about the great heels in WWF history. Fuji chops Mosca in the chest and then bows with that shit eating grin on his face. Haha awesome! Mosca then returns the favour and then mocks Fuji by bowing in front of him! Ha! Mosca swiftly reverses a Fuji armbar into a single leg takedown which has Fuji begging off Mosca. Mosca drills Fuji with a few punches and then bashes his head into the turnbuckle. The two then engage in a test of strength with a Greco-Roman knuckle lock which ends Mosca putting Fuji’s hands on the mat and stomping them. These two vets are putting on a clinic on working the crowd. A karate kick by Fuji turns the tide on this match. Fuji delivers a falling headbutt to the stomach of Fuji followed by some kicks and a nerve hold. Mosca gets to his feet and shoulder tackles Fuji, but is met with a vicious chop to the chest on a second attempt at a shoulder tackle. Fuji again goes back to a nerve hold on the fallen Mosca. Mosca fights off Fuji with a series of punches and then bashes Fuji head into the turnbuckle 5 times. Mosca hits a corner charge, but Fuji grabs a bag of salt out of his tights. He attempts to throw it at Mosca, but Mosca catches Fuji’s hand! Mosca opens up the bag of salt and empties it outside of the ring. Mosca starts pummeling Fuji and then gets him in a sleeper hold! Fuji grabs ANOTHER bag of salt from his tights and throws it in Mosca’s eyes for the DQ.
Result: King Kong Mosca @ 7:38 via DQ
Rating: ***. Was this a technical masterpiece? No. Was this two old vets working the crowd and this reviewer? Yes. You’ll notice that the crowd weighs heavily in my match ratings and I’ll fully admit that “workrate” doesn’t mean a ton to me. Not to go on a rant, but I think we get far too caught up in the technical aspect of wrestling and don’t allow ourselves to just sit back and be a fan. I just want to be entertained and this match did so.
Match #5: Cowboy Bob Orton Jr vs Swede Hanson.
Orton looks like he’s going at it along tonight. Hanson was purely putting over the newer talent at this stage of his career and I’m expecting tonight to be no different. I love how Hanson has a giant Confederate Flag in New York and is a face.
Swede wastes no time slapping a bearhug on Orton to start the match which Orton is able to break fairly easy. Swede then applies a standing wrist lock to Orton’s which Orton breaks by getting to the ropes. It’s been all Swede so far as Hanson then applies a standing side head lock. Orton eventually breaks the hold with a reverse atomic drop. Orton drops a series of knees and forearms to the fallen Hanson for a 1 count. Hanson actually powers out of the pin so hard that he launches Orton backs to his feet. Orton then applies a neck wrench to Hanson but it is broken with a series of right hands by Hanson that has Orton staggered in the corner. Hanson catches Orton coming off the ropes with a big boot to the chest and then delivers a jumping knee drop followed by a reverse chin lock. I’m surprised Swede didn’t attempt a pin. Swede throws into the corner and attempts a splash but Orton uses the ropes to hurdle Hanson and delivers a shoulder tackle to the guy of Hanson. Orton was sooooo good. Orton beats down Hanson with a series of elbow and knee drops. Hanson gets to his feet and shakes off about 10 Orton punches and delivers a few of his own. Hanson goes for a splash from the second rope but Orton gets his knees up. Orton then hits a Vader Bomb-type maneuver from the top rope, with Orton dropping a forearm to the throat of Hanson and that’s all she wrote.
Result: Cowboy Bob Orton Jr @ 9:10 via top rope elbow drop to the throat
Rating: **. It was an o.k match. Swede was severely limited at this point of career, but Orton was able to pull out a decent match. The crowd was sort of dead for this.
Match #6: The Tonga Kid (With Jimmy Snuka vs Roddy Piper (With Bob Orton)
I’m a HUGE fan of Kayfabe Commentaries Timeline series and I heard Piper talking about this match, so I was pleasantly surprised when I came across this. The crowd loses their shit when Snuka comes out. This is Snuka’s return to MSG after being out of action when Piper had “broken Snuka’s neck” when he repeatedly hit Snuka in the head with a chair. In reality, Snuka was in rehab. The Tonga Kid is billed as the nephew of Snuka, but that seems to change to cousin depending on the day.
Holy cow is the crowd ever going crazy before the start of this match! Piper stalls by walking towards the dressing room. Snuka has an “I Want Piper” shirt on. Orton helps Piper take off his ring jacket which draws a reaction from the crowd. Piper shakes his hips which draws some whistles. Ha! The Tonga Kid is only 19 years old at this point, making him the youngest wrestler to ever main event Madison Square Garden (remember, the Main Event doesn’t go on last during MSG shows). The two meet in the middle of the ring and Piper slaps Tonga in the face which just fires up the Tonga Kid. Tonga blocks two of Pier’s punches and then delivers a jumping head butt followed by a series of right hands that has the crowd exploding! Another head butt has Piper escaping to the ring apron, but Tonga yanks Piper back into the ring by his hair and delivers another head butt. Tonga has Piper on the mat and is just pummeling him with right hands. Tonga hits a running shoulder tackle. He goes for another one, but Piper delivers a signature Snuka spot where he leap frogs Tonga in both directions and then chops Tonga in the chest. Piper then drops to one knee and dose Snuka’s pose right in front of Jimmy. While this is happening, Tonga gets back to his feet and stalks Piper from behind. Piper turns around and is met with a series of chops and the crowd goes INSANE!!! This is incredible. The two then starts brawling in the middle of the ring. Holy fuck I’m finding it hard to type this all out because I’m so into this match! Piper finally turns the tide with a belly-to-back suplex. Piper then chucks Tonga out of the ring. He goes to attack Tonga, but Snuka comes to his aid and has Piper thinking twice. Tonga crawls back into the ring, but Piper drags him over to where Snuka is standing and bites the head of the Kid. He then spits in Snuka’s face! Piper then catches Kid coming off the ropes with a double chop to the throat. A casual pin by Piper only gets a two count. Piper then hits a vicious knee lift for a two count. Piper gets the Kid in a sleeper hold and the Kid appears to be fading. Twice the ref picks up Tonga’s arm and it falls, but on the third try Tonga’s arm stays up and he gives the “I love you” hand sign while getting to his feet. The crowd is going crazy! Tonga weirdly shakes his ass and then delivers some elbows to Piper’s stomach to break the hold. Piper grabs Tonga’s hair, but Tonga uses Piper’s momentum to clothesline Piper with the ropes. Tonga then does some weird dancing that I’m sure Dick Graham would have enjoyed. The look on Piper’s face is priceless. Tonga with a right, a left and a jumping head butt. Tonga goes for a corner splash but Piper catches Tonga and dumps him over the top rope. Orton attacks Tonga outside of the ring. Snuka tries to help but is clotheslined by Piper who does this while laying on his stomach inside the ring. I’ve never seen that before. Piper goes to hit Tonga with a chair but is attacked by Snuka! Snuka follows Orton and Piper into the ring and is double teamed. Tonga gets back into the ring and it’s total bedlam! Orton is sent out of the ring and Piper is all alone with Snuka and Tonga! Piper bails before the two are able to get to him! Snuka gets on the mic and tells Piper that “the war has just begun”. What a match!
Result: Double DQ @ 9:23 via Orton and Snuka interference
Rating: **** 1/2. That was OUTSTANDING! Holy cow, was the crowd ever into this. It was non-stop action and I would put this in the top 5 best Piper matches that I’ve ever seen, maybe top 3. It’s a very hard match to find, but man oh man was that ever awesome!
Match #7: Moondog Rex vs Barry Windham
Moondog Rex, like Moondog Spot was primarily putting others over at this point of his career. He’s a bit bigger than Spot, but not as good. Barry had just left Florida and was only a week into his WWF career at this point. He’d go on to team with Mike Rotunda and win the Tag Team Championship from Murdoch and Adonis in early 1985. He cuts a horrible backstage promo where he says that his opponent likes to brawl, but he’s here to wrestle because that’s what it says on the billboard. Apparently Barry hasn’t watched much WWF.
The two start off with a collar and elbow tie up that send Rex into the corner. Barry gives him a clean break, but Rex shoves Barry to the ground. That was a horrible looking bump. Barry hits a hip toss followed by a drop kick that sends Rex scrambling outside of the ring. Rex gets back into the ring but gets arm dragged for his troubles. Barry applies an armbar to the fallen Rex. Rex breaks the momentum with a knee to the gut of Windham. The advantage is short lived as Rex gets caught with a body slam coming off the ropes. Windham later applies a side head lock to Rex on the mat. Rex gets to his feet and climbs to the ring apron but Windham still has the hold applied. Windham tries to pull Rex by the head over the top rope and into the ring, but Rex’s feet hook the top rope. So Windham just drops him face first. Ha! A snapmare takes Barry over and Rex follows that up with a front facelock. Rex begins using brawling tactics on Windham, but Barry fights back and nails Rex through the ropes to the arena floor. Rex hooks Windham’s leg and trips him up. Rex goes back to biting and punching Barry and later sends him over the top rope and crashing into the barricade with a big elbow. Barry gets back into the ring and is met with a double chop to the throat followed by a back breaker for a two count. Rex continues to work the lower back of Windham by applying a bearhug. Windham breaks the hold with a series of rights, and reverses an attempted over the shoulder back breaker by backdropping Rex. Windham misses a drop kick and gets nailed with an elbow drop by Rex. Rex gets nailed in the stomach coming off the top rope. A running bulldog by Barry gets the three count.
Result: Barry Windham @ 13:02 via running bulldog
Rating: ** ¼. It was ok. It definitely picked up at the end and the crowd seemed to get more into the match as it went on. I’m a huge Barry Windham fan but he always seemed out of place in the WWF
Match #8: Tony Atlas vs The Executioner
This version of The Executioner is being played by Paul Kelly and primarily did jobs. Tony Atlas lost the tag straps with Rocky Johnson earlier in the year and was on the way down.
The Executioner attacks Tony before the bell, but Tony easily fights him off. This is basically a squash match so I won’t get into detail but it’s the usual Tony spots, finished off with a press slam.
Result: Tony Atlas @ 2:01 via press slam.
Rating: *. Moving on.
Match #9: Dr. D David Schultz vs Rocky Johnson
At this point of his WWF career, Schultz was no longer managed by Piper and was losing more than he was winning. He would later try a create his own angle by attempting to do a run in on Mr. T at a show in California, which landed Schultz in handcuffs. That combined with slapping John Stossel led to his departure in 1985. Rocky Johnson was also starting to find himself on the losing end quite a bit and would be gone from the company shortly after Wrestlemania 1. This one could go either way.
Rocky is admonished right away by the ref from threatening to hit Schultz with a closed fist. Schultz starts talking trash to Rocky and again the ref admonishes Rocky for threatening to use a closed fist. This pattern literally continues for the first two minutes. They haven’t even touched yet. Schultz keeps mocking Rocky behind the ref’s back while the ref yells at Rocky. The ref keeps getting in between Rocky and Schultz every time Rocky tries to go after him. Rocky Johnson looks like he’s about to have an aneurysm. We are approaching 5 minutes of this and I want to punch the ref through my laptop screen. They finally lock up and when Rocky goes to punch Schultz, the ref grabs his arm and Schultz nails him. Monsoon and Hayes share my disdain for the ref. Schultz goes to work on Rocky, delivering a series of kicks and closed fists right in front of the ref, who does nothing about it. So the visual is basically a redneck and a white ref are putting the screws to the African-American Rocky Johnson. Rocky fights back, but again the ref gets in between him and Schultz and admonishes him. The crowd is incensed, but who is getting the heat: Schultz or the ref? Now you see my problem of what’s going on. I’m not kidding, this goes on for the ENTIRE MATCH! Schultz eventually wins by rolling through and attempted Johnson body slam. This was ridiculous.
Result: Dr. D David Schultz @ 7:10 via rolling through a body slam
Rating: DUD. What the hell was that? The ref interfered the entire damn match and nobody got over because of this. What were they thinking?
Match #10: David Sammartino (With Bruno Sammartino) vs Ken Patera (With Captain Lou Albano)
Bruno gets a fantastic reaction and looks to be in great shape. This was shortly after Bruno returned to the company to do commentary. Unfortunately he brought his talentless son with him. Ken Patera’s best days were behind him at this point. He’d go on to be managed by Bobby Heenan and later spend 2 years in jail for throwing a rock through a window at McDonald’s and assaulting policemen with Mr. Saito. Only in wrestling.
The two tie up and David grabs a side headlock on Patera. Patera picks up David in a belly to back suplex position and sits him on the top turnbuckle and mocks David. The two tie up and repeat the spot with David getting the upper hand this time, which draws a nice reaction from the crowd. Patera delivers a kick to the gut followed by a shoulder block, but gets caught in a huge press slam by young David which sends Patera to the floor to regroup. David blocks a kick to the gut and delivers a series of jabs, but Patera is able to break the momentum with a clubbing blow to the back. Patera follows that up with some more clubbing blows, followed by an eye rake and later chokes David on the second rope. A headlock takeover gets a 2 count for Patera. David fights back with a flurry of right hands which has Patera begging off David. David says “the hell with that” and stomp a mudhole into Patera in the corner. Patera regains his composure and knees David in the gut which send David through the ropes to the arena floor. Paters then body slams David on the hard concrete. Patera kicks David in the head when David tries to roll back into the ring and then proceeds to step on David’s head. David gets to his feet, but Patera continues to reign clubbing blows to the back of David. Patera then body slams David halfway across the ring. That was impressive. David gets to his knees and motions Ken to “bring it”, so Ken starts booting David in the gut. Patera hits a vertical suplex for a two count. Patera then locks in a bearhug. I love how Patera has picked a body part and focused on it the entire match. You don’t see that anymore. David is able to break the hold by boxing the ears of Patera. David staggers to the corner and boots Patera in the chest when Patera charges in. David is fired up and begins stomping the hell out of Patera. A headbutt to the stomach of David regains the advantage for Patera. Patera misses a huge right hand and suffers an atomic drop from David followed by a knee drop for a 2 count. David ground and pounds Patera and later catches Ken with a boot to the stomach coming off the ropes. A small package by David almost puts Ken away, but Patera kicks out at the last second. A sunset flip by David again only gets a 2 count. Patera misses a corner charge, but Captian Lou grabs the leg of David for the DQ, which draws attention from Bruno! Bruno chases Captain Lou into the ring but Captain Lou is able to escape, along with Patera. The crowd came unglued when Bruno became involved.
Result: David Sammartino @ 15:21 via Captain Lou interference
Rating ** ½. I was expecting this to be terrible, but this was pretty fun. Bruno’s appearance definitely helped the match. The two told a nice story of the vet Patera trying the school the young David. Nice match.
Match #10 for the Intercontinental Championship: Greg The Hammer Valentine (Champion) vs Tito Santana
I’ve seen these two fight I don’t know how many times and it never gets old. You can pretty much pencil in this match for at least a 3 star rating every single time. This feud went on forever and not once did it feel stale. This match is one fall or to curfew and I have a feeling the curfew may play a role in this.
Valentine is very tentative to lock up with Santana, and bails out of the ring to start the match. Hayes and Monsoon are doing a great job setting this match up. They go over what each wrestler must be thinking now that Greg is the champ on not Tito. It makes this much feel like an even bigger deal, which is definitely something today’s product would benefit from. The two lock up and it’s Santana with the early advantage as he hits a running clothesline and then rams Valentine’s head repeatedly into the mat. Santana then puts Greg in a front face lock and grinds Greg to the mat. Tito lets go of the hold for a moment to bash Valentine’s head into the mat again for a 1 count. Greg’s selling of this is great. Tito then reapplies the front face lock again and the two work this spot for a few minutes. Greg eventually breaks the hold with a hot shot on the ropes. Greg climbs out of the ring and goes to work on the neck of Santana. He pulls Tito out of the ring and tries to slam Tito’s head on a chair, but Tito blocks it and it’s Greg who’s face tastes the steel chair! Back in the ring, Back in the ring, Greg takes a Flair bump when Tito nails Greg in the face with a forearm. This match is fantastic already. Tito beats down Greg with punches and kicks, before neck snapping Greg. Tito goes for the Figure-Four, but Greg gets to the ropes. A thumb to the eyes and a shoulder breaker regain the advantage for Valentine. A 2 knee drops from Valentine gets a two count. Valentine makes like he’s going for the Figure-Four, but delivers an elbow drop to the lower stomach of Santana. Valentine starts to go to work on the surgically repaired knee of Santana to try and soften him up for the Figure-Four. Valentine hits a stomach breaker for a two count. Valentine goes for the Figure Four, but Santana shoves Greg off with his other leg into the turnbuckle! Valentine throws Santana into the rope, but Santana hits the flying forearm! Valentine rolls out of the ring before Tito can go for a pin. Tito goes to the outside and grabs Greg’s leg and slams it into the ring post. Tito then grabs a chair and hits Valentine’s leg over and over with it. How is that not a DQ? Not that I’m complaining, this has been a hell of a match! Back in the ring, it’s Santana going to work on the leg. The crowd is going crazy! They have been amazing tonight by the way. Tito goes for a spinning toe hold, but loses his balance when Valentine yanks his tights. Now it’s Valentine on the offensive as he hits a double underhook suplex and a running elbow drop for a 2 count. Greg then works a reverse chinlock for a while before dropping 2 elbows for a 2 count. Valentine attempts a corner charge, but Santana uses both his feet to launch Valentine over the top rope to the outside. That was cool. Valentine’s head hit the ring post on the way over and he is busted wide open! Santana rams Greg’s head into the mat 6 or 7 times for a long 2 count. Santana hits a flying forearm! 1! 2! No! Greg kicks out at the last second! Santana hits an atomic drop followed by a clubbing blow to the head of Valentine before dropping a headbutt to the stomach of Valentine for a 2 count. Tito sensing that time is running out, repeatedly goes for numerous pins all ending with 2 counts. Valentine tries to escape from the ring, but Tito suplex’s Greg back in. A small package gets a two count for Tito! Santana locks in a abdominal stretch but the bell rings for curfew. Great match!
Result: Draw @ 22:34 via curfew
Rating: ****. Next to the Santana vs Valentine cage match this is my favourite match between the two. The crowd was at a fever pitch and the psychology was just amazing. Great way to end a great show.
