We all know who Pat Patterson is, but who the hell is Tor Kamata? He was known as Mr. The Showdown at Shea on Augwas known for the Bruno/Zybysko main event with the Hogan/Andre undercard but this match was apart of it too. Mainly it was to highlight how devious Jake was to sick a live python on people. In terms of match quality, it was a 4 minute squash so no sense squawking about that. After a few minutes of torture the crowd starts chanting Hogan as the announcers scoff. Yeah, in about 5 years ask Randy Savage how it feels. Jake sicks Damien on McGee as Monsoon says snakes bite. Alfred marvels at the snake as Fink gets in the ring long enough to announce Jake the winner before skedaddling. Ladd asks why they would let Jake bring a snake out to begin with. Jake immediately goes for the bag where he unleashes the giant python Damien. Jake counters and then catches Scott with the D-D-T! Jake taunts the crowd as he makes the cover.1…2….3 and this ones over. Jake goes for a scoop slam but Scott rolls through and goes for another running roll-up. Monsoon says Jake landed on the external occipital protuberance area as Ladd says “you lost me at the last red light.” McGee misses a knee drop and Jake hits the arm wrench/short arm clothesline combo. McGee stomps Jake in the stomach then takes him down. Jake begs off but McGee drags him into the center of the ring. A kneedrop stuns Jake and a pinfall attempt gets two. McGee chases him back into the ring where he hiptosses Jake. Jake slithers out of the ring as Monsoon and Ladd scoffs. Roberts runs into a snap suplex and McGee wastes no time with a gut-wrench suplex and a pinfall attempt for 1….2.no. Back to live action, Roberts counters a running roll up but turns around into a dropkick. Yeah, 10 years later he’d be one of the founding fathers of Los Borriquas. Ladd asks Monsoon about Miguel Perez Sr and Monsoon says his son is wrestling now. Roberts smiles as he rams McGee’s face into the ground twice and slithers around. ![]() Roberts goes for the snake in the bag but then delivers a stomach breaker. Okerlund sends it to the actual broadcast team as Roberts decks McGee with a right hand. Studd says he’s not afraid of snakes and Bundy says there are no asterisks in the record books, only says whether they won or lost. Roberts unload with right hands and rams McGee into the corner. The bell sounds and Roberts is in the purple tights with green snake imprints while McGee is in the red trunks. Okerlund in the voiceover says Roberts is the newest heel in the WWF and Heenan scoffs at the terminology Okerlund uses to describe him. We then go to our first bout.Ĭommentators: Gorilla Monsoon, Alfred Hays and Ernie LaddĪpin Madison Square Garden is the date and venue for this non-legendary squash match. Okerlund runs down what we’re about to see as the truo howl with laughter. Okerlund and Heenan go back and forth and Studd says Okerlund is gonna get the splash before the tape is over. ![]() Studd says he’s not a villain, he’s a very aggressive wrestler. Heenan says Okerlund to keep his mouth shut. He introduces guest hosts Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, King Kong Bundy and Big John Studd. Cue the 1985 Coliseum Video opening and Mean Gene Okerlund is our host today….scratch that. Will it be good to highlight the bad? Let’s find out. This tape is to showcase the villains both past and present that ran roughshod over the WWF. We saw Roddy Piper get his own tape and some of the heel managers were highlighted in THE AMAZING MANAGERS but this one, we got em all. The WWF was the first to truly market and specialize the heels as well as the faces. You saw Lawler but was there a spotlight on Bill Dundee? There was no 4 Horseman tape in the Carolina’s. You didn’t see a Nick Bockwinkel t-shirt or video tape. However, what all the regional territories failed to capitalize on was the other side of the spectrum. From Verne Gage acting in The Wrestler, to Jerry Lawler being all over Memphis to WWF’s own Hulkamania. Showcasing the top babyface stars was nothing new in wrestling. Like I had mentioned on ROWDY RODDY PIPER’S GREATEST HITS, the WWF had hit on a revolutionary concept.
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