Donnie watches WWF 1984

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF All Star Wrestling
June 9th, 1984
Hamburg, PA

TONIGHT JIMMY SNUKA WILL BE IN PIPER'S PIT. OH FUCK YES.

They replay the amazing Orndorff squash

WWF Update-Tito Santana hanging out with fans.

Gene is sitting in the Piper's Pit set and he's sombre and sad. He's says what we're about to see is one of the most heinous acts to ever take place in the WWF, and it's time to put the kids to bed. The famous piper's pit airs and you need to watch it because words will never do it justice.



Coming from that, Tito Santana is interviewed by Gene. He's at loss for words and calls this is the biggest insult someone could do to someone, and it's time for Piper to pay his dues for all his crimes.

One of the single best angles ever. Enough said.

Match#1 Rocky Johnson vs Lenny Kean
Rocky is a little better in singles squashes as works the arm and does fine power stuff for a couple of minutes. He wins with his sunset flip.
*

They replay Buzz's debut squash.

Match#2 The Iron Sheik w/Freddie Blassie vs Terry Daniels
Sheiky goes hold for hold with the kid to try and humiliate him, but Terry holds his own and is able to even take him down!! Sarge comes out and watches at ringside. Sheik turns it into a slug fest and batters the kid and spits on him, and hurts him badly just to send a message. He slaps him really fucking hard a few times and takes him to school in ways he's doesn't need to, but he's a horrible human and can't help himself. He forearms him right in the mouth and loads up his boot, AND HE KICKS HIM IN FACE AND TRIES TO COME OFF THE TOP BUT SARGE FINALLY HAS ENOUGH AND SHOVES HIM OFF FOR THE DQ. Amazing angle.
**1/2

Sarge holds the ring and checks on his son as Sheik screams at him.

Jesse Ventura is walking to the ring after finally walking out on Verne and the AWA. Not my favourite person or anything, but an interregnal part of the boom

Match#3 Jesse Ventura vs Jose Luis Rivera
Jesse is famous for being lazy as fuck and hiding it by being "smart and not taking bumps" when he's actually a genius who uses stooging to avoid ever having to work hard. He wins in a minute with his backbreaker
1/2*

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF Championship Wrestling
June 9th, 1984
Hamburg, PA

Match#1 Paul Orndroff vs Tony Garea
Fuck. Goes for a few minutes as Tony isn't going to get nuked like he should, which also means he has runs of offence and it's not exciting at all. Paul gets eaten up and has to win with a flash cradle. Christ.
1/2*

They replay Piper's Pit and the Tito interview, which kills nearly 12 minutes.

Match#2 Jesse Ventura vs SD Jones
The Lazy man meets the bad man. Jesse works the arm in very lazy fashion and i would be bothered if it was against anyone else, but this is a "fuck both men quite frankly" situation, so it's cool and funny as hell to watch it unfold. Jesse wins with a bad running elbow to the chest which is the only bump he took.
1/2*

Post match, Jesse tries to attack but SD runs him off.

Piper's Pit with Lou Albano. Lou gives him an award from the Piper fan club for all the wonderful things he's done for wrestling and for bagpipe music. Piper brings up Wolf calling him a liar and a cheat, and he says he did a little searching and he called up Burt Reynolds and got Cyndi's number and she'll be here next week. Lou is very happy.

They replay Sheik/Daniels in full.

Match#3 Bob Orton vs Salvatore Bellomo
Bob attacks his knee and throws him to the floor to further hurt him, and then he jumps off the top rope onto it!! He drags him back in and wins with the Snowplow
*3/4

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
JUNE 16TH, 1984
NEW YORK CITY

I'll be treating MSG shows as a PPV as it's the most important stuff WWF puts forth until the PPV era.

Gorilla & Gene are on the call, and i can't wait for Heenan & Jesse to get on the booth.

Match#1 Don Muraco w/Mr Fuji vs Tony Garea
Hell yes, Fuji is now dressed as Oddjob in the full suit and he's managing and not stinking up the ring anymore. Gorilla calls him a penguin and mentions how he's dressed, so it's all happening. Also, Don is finally back full time after months away, and holy shit i've missed him. He breaks out the stooging and nonsense to start like running away after having his hair pulled, and complaining to the ref about everything Tony does. Don catches him with a Belly to Belly to win. Bad match, but hell yeah for everything else.
3/4*

Match#2 George Steele w/Mr Fuji vs Jose Luis Rivera
Oh no, it's not all good news on the return front with this goof being bought back. Bad squash as always with terrible wild man shit, which looks even worse now that Buzz is here doing it way better. Animal wins with the Hammerlock.
Poop

Match#3 North South Connection (c) vs The Wild Samoans (WWF World Tag Team Championship-2/3 falls)
The fellas are now babyface out of nowhere, which is far better for everyone after the entire well ran dry for the heel run over the last year. Awesome babyface shine to start as they overpower them and make fools of them for a while, and the stooging and bumps are fantastic. Dick in particular takes wild, wild bumps for a man of his size. Adonis finally chop blocks Sika's knee and goes to work on it. Great control seg from NSC with brutal shit and some wonderful shit talking from Dick, on top of some good selling from the big man. Adonis hits a nasty slam on to his knee and pins him. Albano walks out and he sides with the NSC!!! Adonis keeps attacking the hurt Samoan and it's good shit for a while, and then Afa gets the hot tag and goes insane with strikes and bashes the hell out of them. He kills Dick with the fucking Samoan Drop to even it up. Albano comes back out and tries to make friends with the Samoans again, and they stare him down until he runs off. Afa now controls Dick when the match starts again and it's a sweet angry babyface mauling. Adonis gets his ass kicked as well and it all breaks down as it normally seem to do. Sika gets too angry and hits the ref for the DQ, and the champs retain.
**3/4

In the back, Lord Alfred is with Albano. He asks where his loyalties lie after what he tried to do, and Lou shouts he's only loyal to the green and he doesn't care about anyone or anything other than that. He'll side with whoever makes him richer. God bless

Match#4 Jesse Ventura vs SD Jones
Oh cool, a return match no one wanted in the most important place the WWF runs. Jesse does all the stalling and bullshit and i respect him for being this smart at his job, but it's still wasted on a turd like Stupid Dumb Jones. Backbreaker ends it.
I ain't got time to bleed.

Before the IC title match, Fink introduces Tito's mum in the crowd.

Match#5 Tito Santana (c) vs Greg Valentine (WWF Intercontiental Championship)
Here we fucking go!!! Tito is all fired up and attacks the arm right away and yanks the hell out of it in really gross and hard to watch ways. Not sure why's so mad at Hammer, but holy shit they match up incredibly well together. They tumble out of the ring and it turns into a great punch off with Tito dropping him and going back for the arm as soon he can. Even better work now as he's more fired up and destroys the arm, and Hammer's selling is fantastic. Hammer manages to catch him with an atomic drop and he beats the piss out of him in revenge. Nasty body shots that really fuck him up, and we get another wonderful Tito face in peril seg with everything that makes him one of the best faces to ever do it. Tito doges a charge, AND HE GOES NUTS WITH PUNCHES AND STOMPS AND BEATS THE SHIT OUT OF HAMMER, BUT GREG POKES HIS EYE AND RAMS HIM INTO THE POST TO STOP HIM. Tito won't fucking die and keeps fighting back and it turns into a battle of attrition and it's such a blast watching do everything and anything to win. Hammer runs him into the corner and gets a hold of Tito's arm in revenge for a while, and it's brutal as shit as he attacks with elbows and knees along with yanking and pulling it. Tito gets desperate and kicks Hammer in the dick to finally stop him, and MSG explodes in joy. Tito goes crazy with his comeback and pinballs Hammer all over the ring, but Hammer backdrops him to the concrete and hits a double stomp to him on the floor and slams him down, and runs back in to win via countout.
***1/2

What a fucking match and the best possible start to the feud.

In the back, Hayes is standing by with a half dead Tito. He says he's sick and tired of the like of men like him trying to end his career and he wants that coward back in the ring and he'll make him pay. He cuts a promo in Spanish and his eyes go super fucking wide and crazed, and it's a scary and sick as hell moment. He says Greg had to break the rules to even have a chance, and he will fight his battle and make him pay. Al says he's a winner in his eyes.

Coming from that, Al is with Gorilla. Gino says Greg deserves all the credit for his skills in ring, and Tito is a tremendous champion who deserves nothing but respect. Ok then.

Match#6 Andre The Giant vs David Schultz
Doc tries to sandbag on a hip toss and forces Andre to throw him as hard as possible, so Andre stomps on his hands and REALLY fucks him up. I can't tell if they planned it or if Doc wanted to pull some shit, but Andre is mad and hurts him in so many different and hideous ways. A classic case of a body not being able to bend that way but Andre wants it to happen, so it happens. Doc gets next to nothing in as Andre shuts him down time and time again and batters the hell out of him. He kills him with Tremors to win.
**1/2

Match#7 Mad Dog Vachon vs Steve Lombardi
Mani wish Luna was here. I don't mind the Vachon's at all, but Luna is one of the wrestlers i attached myself as a kid and i've always loved her. But anyway, her uncle is here and kills poor young Steve with some fun stomps and choking. He's washed as fuck, but the brains are still there to make it work. Lombardi helps as always. Dog wins with a brainbuster
*1/2

Post match, he beats the shit out of him with a chair and leaves him laying.

Match#8 Paul Orndorff vs Salvatore Bellomo
I've seen this matchup at least 5 times this year, and it's not changing. Piledriver does it
1/2*

Match#9 Bob Orton vs Jay Strongbow
Nine minutes and not good at all. Just a bad thing all round. Bob wins with the Superplex.
1/2*

Match#10 Sgt Slaughter vs The Iron Sheik (Boot Camp Match)
SARGE RUSHES THE RING AND SMACKS SHEIKY BABY IN THE FACE WITH IT. HE GRABS SHELK'S RIDING CROP AND WHIPS HIM WITH IT AND THE CROWD COMES UNGLUED WITH EACH SHOT. He hits him right in the face and throat, and then whips him across the mouth. He uses the helmet as well and Sheik is beaten half to death. Sheik manages to throw him over the ring post and Sarge lands on his face and he's busted open, and Sheiky hits him with a chair and strangles him on the floor. Awesome control seg from Sheik as he uses a belt to whip him and just kicks the fuck out of him like a dirty shithead that wants to kill a man. Sheik chokes him with the belt and Sarge turns purple as he fights for his very life. Sheik loads the boot and hits him in the face with it, but Sarge finally throws him to the floor to hurt him, and both men have incredible selling of all the pain they've been through. Sarge's face is smacked off the ring post and Sheik spits on him and kicks him in the face with the loaded boot and Sarge is busted open. Insane blade job as his entire face and chest are covered in blood, and Sheik punches and bites at him in one of the meanest control segs ever. Sarge's selling is amazing as hell. He climbs up the top AND HE COMES OFF WITH A BOOT TO SHEIK'S HEAD AND BUSTS HIM OPEN AND SHEIK'S CUT IS EVEN MORE INSANE AND GROSS. Sarge's comeback is incredible as he uses wind up punches and kicks and pinballs him all over the place, and Sheik's selling is Amazing. We get some tremendous wobbly KO selling from both of them as they're running out of blood and time, and they both know it. They fight to the death trying to end it and we get a ton of momentum shifts as neither will go down that easily. Sheik takes his boot off and swings it at him, but Sarge ducks and kills him with a Lariat! He crawls to the boot on the mat and gets it, AND HE RUNS AT SHEIK AND HITS HIM IN THE FUCKING FACE AND GETS THE 3. HOLY SHIT. A GODDAMN ALL TIME CLASSIC.
*****

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF All-Star Wrestling
June 16th, 1984
Hamburg, PA

Match#1 Tito Santana vs Lenny Kean
This goes nearly 8 minutes in an insane call, and it's bad as a result. Like, why Tito needs this long to dispatch a nerd is beyond me. Forearm ends my pain
1/2*

WWF Update-Minis are cool.

Match#2 Paul Orndorff vs Tony Garea.
This also gets 9 minutes and it's baaaaad. Paul is amazing as we know, but Tony drags this shit down with all his bad offence and the fact he adds nothing to this. Paul wins via a rollup just to make it a little worse.
1/2*

Match#3 David Schultz vs Brian Blair
Blair shows no fear and takes it right to Doc and throws him off as he's here for a right, and it's the last thing Schultz was expecting. Doc gets mad as a result and keeps making mistakes and Blair can slip stuff in. Doc finally catches him with a backbreaker to start his control seg and it's good stuff, and a million times better after the last two bad matches. Blair's comeback rules and he gets close, so Doc flips his legs over and grabs the ropes as he pins him to steal it.
**12

WWF Update-Hulk Hogan is very popular.

Match#4 Jesse Ventura vs Ron Shaw
Jesse gets 6 fucking minutes despite all his problems. Fuck this episode. Shaw does all the work as Jesse ain't got time to work hard for anyone. Backbreaker ends our pain.
1/2*

NEXT WEEK. TITO VS GREG IN A NON TITLE MATCH.

Piper's Pit. Piper is very sombre and sad that David Wolf is a liar and a bum who didn't keep his word, but HE DID AND HE BRINGS OUT CYNDI. Piper says he admires her being number 1 just like him. Cyndi is very happy to be here and says hi to the all the fans, and Piper compliments her hair and dress. He says Lou has helped to take her from nothing to stardom, and she says she loves him but he's not her manager. Lou walks on and demands she tell the truth about how he made her, and she's very confused. Lou says he wrote the lines for Time after Time, and he wants his credit. He tells her to tell the world that women belong in the kitchen and men like should be on top. He wants her say women are slime and men are the best. Piper agrees and says Lou must be telling the truth. They stand over Cyndi and try to make her say it, but she refuses AND SHE HITS LOU WITH HER BAG AND HITS PIPER AS WELL, AND WOLF RUNS ON AND PULLS HER OFF. Incredible angle.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF Championship Wrestling
June 16th, 1984
Hamburg, PA

Tonight; Tito vs Orton

Hulk Hogan comes out to ringside and shakes hands with Tito. Biased fuck.

Match#1 Tito Santana vs Bob Orton
They go hold for hold and it's an even battle to start before Orton says fuck it and hits Tito in the face and turns it into one of those fights. Tito meets him right there and throws punches back and meets him blow for blow, so Bob gets dirty again and kicks him off the ropes to crotch him! Tito gets a flash forearm and knocks them both outside the ring and it goes to a double countout
**3/4

Mean Gene-
Mad Dog Vachon. His voice is husky as hell and he's hard to understand, but the gist is he has no friends and he'll stab anyone in the back to get what he wants.

Match#2 Jesse Ventura vs Billy Travis
More bullshit from Jesse, and i'm ready for him to retire and commentate asap. Once again, he gets far too long despite being bad at this, and it's driving me insane. Backbreaker does it.
Poop

Mean Gene-
-Tito Santana talks about how the Olympic inspire him to be his best at all times.
-Orndorff poses and repeats his promo about ending Hogan's career

Replay of Blair/Doc

Match#3 Paul Orndorff vs Rudy Diamond
Rudy is wearing a "Paula" shirt, and Paul goes crazy and beats the holt shit out of the dumb kid for fucking with him. Gross Lariat and two piledrivers end it quick smart.
*

Post match, Paul kills him with the Piledriver again.

Gene meets him at ringside and Paul goes OFF on him. HE HATES THE SHIRT AND HE'S SICK OF BEING INSULTED AND GETTING CALLED PAULA. EVERYONE WILL PAY FOR THIS, AND THEY WILL GET THEIR ASSES KICKED AND GENE FREAKS OUT. PAUL SAYS HE HOPES HE BROKE THAT KIDS NECK AND HE'LL DO THE SAME TO TITO AND HOGAN IF THE INSULTS KEEP HAPPENING TO HIM. WHERE HE DID HE GET OFF TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF HIM, WELL HE HAD TO HURT HIM AND HE HOPES HE NEVER GETS BACK IN THE RING. Jesus Christ.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF Championship Wrestling
June 23rd, 1984
Hamburg, PA

Match#1 Sgt Slaughter vs Dan Greene
The jobber is a big ol motherfucker and Slaughter is nose to nose with him in a cool moment. Sarge trucks with even harder shots than normal to further sell it. Sarge rips out hair from his beard and beats the crap out of him, and i adore this man soooooo much. He kills him with the Lariat and the Clutch
**

WWF Update-Jimmy Snuka has demanded Piper fight him for what he did to him.

We see clips of NSC/Samoans

Mean Gene-
Hulk Hogan is sick of that loser Paula. He hates that he gets off on hurting people and trying to end careers when that's the wrong thing to do, and he's psyched to stop him for good. He fears no evil or man because Hulkamania is running through his body and no one can get by him.

Match#2 Buzz Sawyer w/Lou Albano vs Jose Luis Rivera
Good stuff from Buzz as always. Very funny how bad JLR fell off a cliff, but this is the way. Lots of cool stuff from Buzz as he's good at filling up space with mean stuff. Bulldog ends it
**

In an amazing pre-tape, Piper visits Cyndi's recording studio to get an apology. She refuses to say sorry for what she did, and he calls her a lowlife that took it too far. She says Lou made her mother cry with his comments, and she carried him and made him somebody in his world. SHE CHALLENGES HIM TO FIND A FEMALE WRESTLER TO FIGHT HER LADY, BECAUSE SHE'S GOING TO TAKE THIS FAT BAG OF WIND DOWN. Piper begs her not to do it because she's going to get badly hurt. We go back to Piper and a shirtless Lou eating a banana sitting on a couch, and Lou calls her a disgrace and he's going to show the world she's a liar and a cheat and he accepts her challenge. God Yes.




Match#3 Tito Santana vs Greg Valentine w/Lou Albano
Hell yes. Tito keeps his cool and dominates the arm like he did in NYC, and Hammer is mad at being taken down again, so he punches him in the face to take over. AMAZING. He beats the hell out of him and Tito's selling is incredible even for the short time of this match. Gross stuff from Hammer working the neck and dropping elbows on him. Tito makes a sick comeback with all his fire and then some. They fight on the apron and the ref is counting, so when Tito knocks Hammer back in and hits a splash it doesn't count as the ref counted him out. Booooo
**3/4

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF Championship Wrestling
June 30th, 1984
Hamburg, PA

Match#1 Rocky Johnson vs Rene Goulet
Very long and very shit

Mean Gene-
Iron Sheik will be facing Andre!!!! Gene demands to know why Blassie is subjecting his man to Andre when his chances aren't good, and Blassie says anyone man can fall and Sheik will drop this stupid giant.

Match#2 Jesse Ventura vs Steve Lombardi
Another 6 minute Jesse squash for some reason. Have to assume he's paying for this much time, or he has pics of Verne or something that Vince loved, because goodness this man stinks. He wins with his bad running elbow.
1/2*

Mean Gene-
Jimmy Snuka. He says if he goes any further to know he loves them and he cares about them, but he wants them to think about what they would do if they had been attacked like him. His soul hurts with the way he's been treated by Piper. Bet your head hurts worse you piece of shit.

Match#3 Greg Valentine w/Lou Albano vs Billy Travis
7 minutes for some damn reason. Man, i can't wait for the era where all of these goes 2/3 minutes and not this long stuff. Still, it's a good beating as Hammer is the best and isn't going to miss during his peak. Also helps that the kid takes a wonderful beating to help the match. Figure Four ends it
*3/4

Mean Gene-
Mr Wonderful is here. Gene demands to know if the rumours about him getting phone calls at all hours from Christie Brinkley. He says he was happy with her until she leaked it to the world and he's done with her after this. Gene is very sorry about that, so Wonderful calls him a blabber mouth. He calls Ivan Putski half a man and then starts picking on Gene lying about his height and his taxes, and Gene tells him to stop. AMAZING. Wonderful flexes and says the women dream of touching and all the men dream of looking like him. What a guy.

Match#4 George Steele w/Mr Fuji vs Jose Luis Rivera
Ah fuck, he's now back on TV. Very lame and bad, but at least this shit is always quick. Hammerlock does it
1/2*

Post match, Hogan comes out to the ring where Jose is still dead and being checked on. LMAO WHAT AN ASSHOLE. Hogan checks on him to save face, and Fuji distracts him so Steele can attack him from behind!!! Hogan hulks up and they run for it. Hogan helps Jose up and takes him out of the ring. What a nice man.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

Hulk Hogan (c) vs Paul Orndorff (WWF World Championship-7/7/84)
Paul tries to stall so Hogan attacks from behind and pinballs him all over like a real dick. Amazing bumping and stooging from Paula, and the crowd is insane for every second of it and it's rad as hell. Hogan keeps it up and while his offence is pretty limited at this point, everything is brutal as fuck because of the effort he puts into it all, and Paul's bumping is the cherry on the top if it. Wonderful rakes the eyes and kicks him in the ribs and smacks him with a chair to bust him wide open!!!! Wonderful goes crazy on the cut on the top of his head with punches and kicks, and Hogan's KO selling is next level. He fights like hell to comeback and even bites Paul at a point just to get him to stop, and it's a cool little thing that fits really well into the beating he's taken. He makes his comeback and knocks the piss out of him until Wonderful hits him with a nasty forearm to stop him and take back over, and in a really cool moment he's able to keep fighting back no matter what Hogan tries. He even comes right back after the first hulk up in a massive moment. Hogan rams him into the corner and boots him and hits. GROSS Legdrop to win
***

Post match, Paul tries to attack but Hogan runs him off.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF Championship Wrestling
July 7th, 1984
Hamburg, PA

Match#1 Tito Santana vs Tiger Chung Lee
Fun Tito showcase with this hack as his dance partner. He does his thing on offence and selling and makes this much better than someone might have done. Forearm ends it
*3/4

Mean Gene-
Mr Fuji. Gene says his suit is very nice but it reminds him of something, and Fuji shoots him a wonderful look to shut up. He then hypes a Steele/Putski match which sounds like a new depth of hell.

Match#2 Bob Orton vs Salvatore Bellomo
Another 7 minute squash on TV. Fucking please stop. Orton carries it well with some cool mat work and strikes and whatnot, but fuck i just want a sweet 90 second murder, you know? Bob wins with a fucking Vader Bomb!!
*

Mene Gene-
Dick fucking Murdoch. He says the title is very attractive and it's on two attractive men like him and Adonis. He rants about melon farmers in Boston who hate them and want dirty freaks like Tito and Slaughter to beat them up. He rants about the air being terrible in Boston.

Match#3 Paul Orndorff vs Brian Blair
Fuck yes. JIP, but it doesn't seem like we lost much of anything. Awesome mat work from Bee man and he refuses to take any of Wonderful's shit, and he controls the arm for a while. Paula's selling is very good as his stooging again, and he;'s easily became one of the best dudes in the entire company. They fight on the floor and Wonderful drops him over the rail throat first and beats the crap out of him in a fun control seg before Bee dude makes a good comeback. He runs in for a knee but he gets caught and murdered with the Stun Gun and that's that.
**3/4

WWF Update-Hammer is going to break some legs.

In a pre-tape, Piper throws it to Lou Albano with that horrible cunt Moolah as his chosen woman for the fight with Cyndi. Albano trains her and says they're going to end Wendi Richter's and her career. I guess we missed the part where Cyndi picked Wendi as her wrestler, but whatever.

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*

 

[Leon TrotSky]

Piper's Pit with Terry Daniels. He's in full military getup and i assume that Sarge took him as his new son. Piper talks about all the army movies with people screaming at him, and he wants to know if he'd actually let a geek do that to him. Terry says it's mental toughness and it helps him handle anything. Piper gets super excited and says he's never done a thing he was told his entire life, and he couldn't join because he could never take orders. He calls him nuts for being willing to get shot. Terry says he loves his country and he loves America. Piper shakes his head and leaves.

I get the feeling Terry Daniels isn't going to re-gimmick to something more memorable like Jim Nelson (aka Boris Zhukov) did

 

[BigVanDonnie]

I get the feeling Terry Daniels isn't going to re-gimmick to something more memorable like Jim Nelson (aka Boris Zhukov) did

Yeah, poor guy had negative charisma. Sticking him in an interview segment with Piper was maybe a silly idea.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF BLACK SATURDAY
JULY 14TH, 1984





Vince has infamously purchased the GCW/WCW time slot from Jim Barnett in a backdoor deal to fuck over the NWA and have to have ALL the major TV markets for himself. It's a famous disaster as the NWA fans revolted and the ratings tanked liked never before, and then Vince sold it for a million back to JCP and the rest is history. Vince would never let it go and the war starts from this point on until 2001.

Match#1 North South Connection vs SD Jones & Nick DeCarlo
I can't imagine the NWA fans really hating seeing Murdoch back on their TV, at least i would hope not. Fun few minutes with the fellas carrying these idiots for a while, and it's so nice to have tag champs who are awesome. NSC use the fucking Cuban Missile Crisis in 1984 to murder Nicky for the win.
**1/2

Mean Gene-
Mr Fuji & George Steele. Fuji tries to get Steele to speak to show he's human and stuff, but he just grunts and spits for a couple of minutes. Ok then.

Match#2 Jesse Ventura vs Chris Curtis
Ok, now i can see why the fans were fucking pissed off and wanted this gone for ever. A true war crime before their eyes. He gets nearly 6 minutes and it's vile and terrible, and i can't believe how much i hate him. Canadian Backbreaker ends it
Poop

Mean Gene-
B Brian Blair. He talks about all the tough competition in the WWF and those in the tag division, and he wants to prove he's a top challenger with a partner.
Alexis Smirnoff is here. Holy shit, i didn't even know he know he was here during this time. He hates everyone wants to eat food. Cool.

Match#3 The Iron Sheik w/Freddie Blassie vs Ron Hutchison
A nice humbling that represents what Vince tried to do to pro wrestling on this night. Clutch does the job
*

Match#4 Big John Studd vs Bob Brazil
FUCKING NASTY. Bobo is a thousand years old and as washed and bad as you can be. Combined that with Studd kinda being a shitty big man when not against Andre, this is a horrible fucking idea. Studd works a lazy bearhug and Bobo does some bad selling and offence trying to get out, and it's all ugly as sin. Studd wins with an elbow drop.
Poooooop

Vince closes the show by promising Hogan will be here next week along with some other great WWF wrestlers. No, you fucking won't.

This should only be viewed for historic reasons,

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF Championship Wrestling
July 14th, 1984
Hamburg, PA
Match#1 The Wild Samoans vs Rene Goulet & Lenny Kean
Bad showcase as the heels stink, and the monsters are still learning to work face. Soi, it's very rough. Samoan Drop ends it
1/2*

Mean Gene-
Hulk Hogan. Dude the heart of the people has been helping him work hard and get to where he is. People like Orndorff don't work or anything, they just cheat and steal, and he can't allow that to happen. He begs for Paula to piledrive so he can stand up and end this dude forever.

Match#2 Jerry Valiant vs Ivan Putski
Six minutes of maybe the single worst thing WWF will run this year. Though, Studd/Bobo is hard to beat. Bad wrestling in every aspect of the game we love, and not a single thing of good to be found. Polish Hammer ends it
1/2*

Mean Gene-
Jesse Ventura. He's looking forward to beating up Chico Santana and taking the IC title from him. Hell, maybe he'll beat up Larry Bird as well.

Match#3 The Iron Sheik w/Freddie Blassie vs Billy Travis
Six fucking minutes as well. Goddamn it, please stop this. I've been binging 84 because i've got the week off and wanted to smash through it to get to 85, but holy shit this is making me want to end it even faster in hopes of short squashes. Clutch finally ends it.
IRAN #1

We get a video of Cyndi training Wendi for her match with Moolah.



Match#4 Dick Murdoch vs SD Jones
Fucking finally a good match. Dick gives him some offence and we get all that amazing stooging and bumping, before he takes back over and whips ass. Gross series of elbows and punches to Stupid Dumb's face and body. They fight on the outside and Dick posts him and rolls back in to win via countout.
**

 

[BigVanDonnie]

In the back, Piper calls himself a snake and pure venom in every way. He won't tell these idiots what he's going to do in a fight an hour before he does it, you morons. He's going to eat him up like he eats up fly's at his house.

Roddy Piper vs Jimmy Snuka (15/7/84)
They get right into a sick fight with a million awesome punches from both men. Snuka gets the best of it and bounces him all over the joint, and it's another masterful job from Piper to die on everything. The ref gets taken out by Piper, and they fight on the outside and Piper brains him with a chair and rips him open. Piper rams him into the post to fuck him up even more, and Snuka's KO selling is amazing and the best thing he's done in forever. Rowdy beats the ever loving shit out of him in a wonderful control seg. Just pure manic shithead energy. Jimmy eventually hulks up and goes nuts on him in revenge and unloads all kinds of sick punches and headbutts. Piper rolls out of the ring, AND SNUKA RUNS AND HITS A STUNNING NO HANDS DIVE OVER THE ROPES ONTO HIM. FUCK YEAH JIMMY. He throws Piper back in and the ref counts him out in a real bullshit finish.
***

SNUKA LOSES HIS MIND AND ATTACKS THE REF WITH A HEADBUTT AND STARTS CHOKING PIPER ON THE MAT. WRESTLERS COME OUT TO STOP HIM, BUT HE ATTACKS THEM AS WELL AND GOES BACK TO KILLING HIM. THEY MANAGE TO PRY HIM LOSE AND DRAG HIM BACK OFF, AND PIPER GETS BACK UP STUMBLING ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND HE RUNS AT SNUKA AND CHEAP SHOTS HIM IN THE HEAD AND RUNS OFF. AMAZING SHIT.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Tito Santana-11/2/84
WWF Tag Team Champions: North South Connection-26/5/84

WWF Championship Wrestling
July 21st, 1984
Hamburg, PA

Vince and Tony Garea are now on the call in a baffling choice.

They replay the NSC squash from Black Saturday.

Mean Gene-
-Gene is now standing by a WWF logo backdrop and it's a sweet setup that makes it look far more professional.
-North South Connection are here and will be facing the Samoans in return matches over the next few weeks. Dick screams he doesn't know a damn thing about Boston and he doesn't want to know anything about them. Nothing has ever happened there, and never will. The WWF is stacking the cards against them by having Albano as the guest ref, and he's sick of these damn yankees. Adonis says he's watching Dick's back and they will survive all of this.

We get a long recap video of the entire Albano/Lauper feud. Gene announces WWF Brawl To End It All live in MSG and aired on MTV on the 23rd. GOD YES,

Mean Gene-
-Jimmy Snuka in a sweet Hawaiian shirt. He's going to kill Roddy Piper next time he gets his hands on him. Fuck yeah murder.

Match#1 Kamala w/Kim Chee & Freddie Blassie vs Jose Luis Rivera
OH GOD YES. One of my all time favourite monsters to ever do it. So much fun to watch him squash people with his fat and cool offence. Tony does a terrible job of hyping him as the new monster, the dumb shitheel. Awesome 90 second squash as WWF will only limit the best guys they have. Awesome chops and choking and fat man offence. He kills him with two wicked Splashes to the back.
**

Post match, he tries to kill him some more, but his managers drag him away.


A video package airs of highlights of Hulk Hogan set to "Eye of the Tiger"

Mean Gene-
-Salvatore Bellomo. He loves America very much. No really, the entire promo is about leaving Italy and coming over and falling in love with the States.

WWF Update-Sgt Slaughter visited the White House

Roddy Piper is standing by. He says he was trying to be a nice guy, but goofs took advantage of him. Loopy Lauper is one of those people who did that to him. He knows Moolah is going to win and crush Cyndi's throat. He says next week he's going to have the winner of the match on Piper's Pit. He pulls a letter someone sent to him "Dear Mr Piper, i am writing to apologise for the actions of Jimmy Snuka. Please do not beat him up anymore cos he is a great man, and he is hurt. sometimes he cries at night. I know because you see, he's my daddy. Please don't hurt him no more" HE RIPS THE LETTER UP AND SHOUTS HE AIN'T HIS DADDY ANYMORE BECAUSE HE IS. HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

We get clips of Fuji/Lee vs Samoans from a recent show. Fuji turns his back on the tag and leaves Tiger to the wolves to get beaten. Post match, he gets in and attacks him for being a loser. They have a bad fight and Tiger chases him off with his Kendo Stick.