Donnie watches WWF 1986

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Hulk Hogan-23/1/84
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Randy Savage-8/2/86
WWF Tag Team Champions: The British Bulldogs-7/4/86

WWF Maple Leaf Wrestling
August 2nd, 1986
Hamilton, Ontario

AA joins commentary for this week to replace Bobby Heenan.

Match#1 Randy Savage w/Miss Elizabeth vs Frankie Lane
Randy puts on another super angry squash he breaks out all his nasty offence on this kid and never gives a second to breath or attempt to fight back. Lanny has a cut in reading a poem saying Randy will never beat Hogan fair and square. What a dick. Randy wins with two amazing Elbow Drops.
**

Match#2 Harley Race vs Mario Mancini
AA says the Giant Machine could be the Nightstalker under the mask!!!! Harley gets violent like Randy before him as he drags the kid on the outside and drops him on the mat with a wicked suplex. He stays on him and beats him worse and worse and it's a sick old man mauling. He kills him with a Lariat and then the Fisherman's Buster
**

They replay Hogan's interview.

Match#3 Billy Jack Haynes vs Gino Carobello
More trash from this lunatic hack. At least other famous crazy wrestlers were actually good at this, while BJH is just the dirty worst and offers nothing good. Full Nelson ends it after a million minutes.
POOP

Match#4 Hercules Hernadez w/Freddie Blassie vs Bob Marcus
Jesus, what a bad duo of squashes to follow each other. Bad muscle head stuff as always, and i dread his first proper feud. He wins with his shitty Rack
1/2*

We go to the Body Shop with Bobby Heenan who is now managing two Korean wrestlers. They walk on with bags on their heads and it's clearly Bundy and Studd. One is named Duck and the other is Han, and hey they take the bags off to show their real faces. Studd says this is stupid and it's not fooling anyone just like Andre isn't fooling them. Bundy says they're going to squash these little men and take their masks.

Match#5 Tito Santana & Pedro Morales vs ??
JIP and the jobbers aren't named, so whatever. Pedro does most of the work and drags it down just to make things a little worse, so now i'm even more upset. Tito wins with the Figure Four
1/2*

We go backstage where Wonderful is watching himself turn on Hogan. He says it didn't have to be this way as all he had to do was pick up the phone like a friend and it would be fine. There was a time when the fans wanted to see the old Mr Wonderful, WELL HERE HE IS. Hogan is too big for his britches and he's getting what's coming to him.

Match#6 King Tonga & Afi vs Mike Sharpe & Mr X
Afi works most of the match so it's another piece of shit, which seems to be the theme of this episode. Thankfully the tape runs out and the show ends

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF BOSTON GARDENS-89/86

The Hart Foundation w/Jimmy Hart vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff w/Slick (#1 Contenders Match)
Slick is making his debut, which is awesome as it means we're super close to the debut of one of my favourite monsters OMG (and eventually Big Boss Man), so i'm happy as hell about this. IN EVEN BETTER NEWS THE FOUNDATION WORK FACE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND JUMP NIK AS HE'S SINGING. The crowd gets behind it with not much of a fight, which bodes well. Bret uses his speed to mess them up and makes fools of them, and it's a wonderful sight to see him get to do this and do it this well right away. Sheik catches him with a lariat to the nose to take over. Good control seg thanks to Bret selling his ass off for them, and Sheik giving a shit for the first time in ages helps as well. Anvil gets the hot and his insane actions work so well as a pissed off face running through these goofs that have hurt his little buddy. He gets tripped by Sheik and Nik lands on top and the heels steal it. Booooo
**3/4

Jake Roberts vs Ricky Steamboat
Nice change of pace as both men take their time and try to make the other mess up first. Jake grabs the arm first and works it and really throws Ricky off by doing his thing to him before he had a chance to do it. Jake keeps taunting him and working the arm, and it's amazing work from a guy whose not a mat based wrestler for the most part. He's always doing something cool or mean looking, and Ricky's selling is Ricky Steamboat selling a limb. Steamer finally fires back with karate and drops him and makes him break to the outside for the first time, and Jake is pissed about it. Ricky hits him again when he pops back in and he unloads a series of chops and strikes, and whips his ass in revenge. Ricky goes another chop but Jake moves and Steamer's hand smacks off the post and he's badly hurt. Jake smashes it off the rails and bends in between the ropes in a nasty angle, and Ricky's all messed up. Jake keeps it up and obliterates it and uses to cut Ricky off whenever he attempts to comeback. Truly amazing and brutal work on it as he's focused on trying to break Ricky's fingers or his wrist depending on the chances he gets to work on it. Just a sick display from a insane person. He gets too crazy however, and Ricky is able to hang him on the ropes and smashes his head off the rails and beats the fuck out of him in incredible fashion. HE SMASHES HIS FACE OFF THE RINGSIDE TABLE AND JAKE TAKES IT RIGHT TO THE JAW. Steamer stay on him and breaks out more karate based strikes, but Jake grabs him and throws him into the ref. Jake beats Ricky down some more and more but he now realises the ref is down and is forced to get him back up, so Ricky sneaks up behind him and rolls him up to steal the win.
***1/2

Post match, Jake backdrops him onto his head as he's celebrating with the fans! He kills him with the DDT and takes Damien out of the bag. Sadly, the babyfaces run down and scare him off before he can drop him onto Ricky. This feud is sooooooo amazing, my God.

Hulk Hogan & George Steele vs Randy Savage & Adrian Adonis w/Miss Elizabeth
Pro wrestling bullshit hits as Hogan strips Adonis of his dress as Steele eats a buckle and showers himself in it as he flings into the air. Steele keeps chasing Randy for a good minute and Hogan throws him to the wolves when he tries to run for it, and the crowd explodes as Steele murders him. They turn their attention to AA and Hogan beats his ass around ringside, and AA again takes wild bumps for a big man, including going crotch first onto the rail. The heels eventually calm it down and isolate Steele, and it's mostly good enough even if Steele is a bad fip, and they aren't working all that hard in control. Hogan gets the tag and is actually isolated brifley much to everyone's shock. He comes back with ease and runs through everyone and beats AA with the legdrop.
**1/4