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[Smally]

Gene is with Savage & Elizabeth and asks macho man why a woman manager? Savage says what kind of man is Gene asking a question like that. Savage & Elizabeth walk to the ring, Gene can't keep his eyes of Elizabeth's arse.

Match 3 -"Macho Man" Randy Savage w/Elizabeth vs Tito Santana (C)
Singles match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship

Jesse continues calling Santana Chico. Savage works up the crowd. After a series of grapple Savage gets the upper hand with a snapmare and knee drop. Santana ducks under a clothesline and hiptosses Savage but misses the elbow drop. Savage quickly climbs to the middle rope and lands a double ax handle. Santana kicks out at 2.

Savage throws on a sleeper and Sanatan struggles to escape. He eventually gets up and elbows his way out, but before he launch a proper attack Savage bodyslams Santana and rushes to the top rope. He leaps, but Santana telepgraphs it and punches Savage in the stomach. He stomps away at Savage and knocks him down again with a punching combo. Jesse moans that Santana is breaking all the rules of wrestling and you can't strike with a closed fist.

Savage is bodyslammed, but then leaves the ring before Santana can attack some more. Tito goes after him on the outside and gets a couple of punches away. They go in and out again, except Savage stops Santana coming back in. Savage tries for a piledriver on the outside but Santana blocks it. Savage hits a knee lift and both men are counted out

Draw - Double count out

A little dissapointing, if only because Santana spent too long of the match in a sleeper hold. Savage was great throughout and really makes people want to hurt him, he and Santana complimented eachother as they're fast enough to keep pace. Wish this could have gone on longer for a proper conclusion 3/5

Both men continue brawling outside the ring, but Savage doesn't follow Santana back into the ring. Savage generates insane heat just doing stuff like this, it's great to watch.

We go to the back where Mr Fuji is making strange noises. He's going to have a Kung Fu challenge with Ricky Steamboat.

We watch a video of how Piper spent haloween at his 'rented home'. Vince appears to interview him. Piper starts wrapping a brick in tin foil, shouts loads of nonsense, puts a stick into a bowling ball and pretends they're sweets. Piper says in Scotland haloween is trick or treat, so he's making tricks. Some kids knock at the door, one dressed as Hogan who Piper rips on. He give sthe kids the bricks & bowling balls, but they rip the kids sweet bags. Piper steals the kids sweets, but when they leave they say the sweets were chocolate covered ref peppers.

Hogan has just watched the video and is proud of the kids.

Mean Gene watches Mr Fuji karate chop a couple of bricks in half.

Match 4 - Mr Fuji w/Magnificent Don Muraco vs Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
Kung Fu battle

Steamboat is with Gene Okerlund, we watch a video of Fuji & Muraco choke Steamboat by hanging him outside the ring over the top rope with a strap. Steamboat says Fuji will feel the dragon tonight (oooh er).

Steamboat chops, elbows and kicks Fuji down. Jesse doesn't know if this was any good or not. Fuji kicks Steamboat in the balls, and then headbutts The Dragon in the groin. Fuji gets in a chop, but Steamboat fights back with quick elbows and kicks. Fuji chops back and 1 finger throws Steamboat across the ring. The crowd aren't into this at all. Fuji kicks some more and tries a suplex, but Fuji reverses this into a suplex of his own. Steamboat lands a dropkick from the top rope and pins Fuji.

Winner - Ricky Steamboat by pinfall (Dropkick from the top rope)

Crap from start to finish. I love Steamboat, but this was just stupid. A kung fu battle where no one blocks, and in the end a suplux & dropkick end it. I'm not buying it, and neither did the crowd. Thankfully it was very short. 1/5

Steamboat tries to celebrate but Muraco comes into the ring and spits red mist into Steamboat's face, blinding The Dragon. Muraco and Fuji hammer away on Steamboat and eventually leave the ring.

Back to the Haloween party/contest, and Gene is with Miss Elizabeth, who is smoking hot. The last round is a pumkin pass - passing pumpkings to eachother without using your hands.

Jesse says he wasn't surpised Albano won the pie eating contest because he is a fat sloppy pig. The faces try the pumpkin pass first, and get 5, Albano dropping to Hogan. Piper has turned up dressed as Superman. The heels blatantly cheat covering the passes with capes. Piper drops it passing to Elizabeth, the faces win. Savage flips out on Elizabeth, he's so good at making you hate him.

After an ad break Vince, Jesse and Gene are by the pumpkin dunking bath. Jesse says him and Piper want the Hillbillys at the next SNME.

And the show ends without someone falling into cake! FARCE!

More of a fun show this one for kids. Savage & Santana put on a good match, the rest not really rememberable. The next SNME was in January 86, which will be my next review

 

[Smally]

Gene is with Savage & Elizabeth and asks macho man why a woman manager? Savage says what kind of man is Gene asking a question like that. Savage & Elizabeth walk to the ring, Gene can't keep his eyes of Elizabeth's arse.

Match 3 -"Macho Man" Randy Savage w/Elizabeth vs Tito Santana (C)
Singles match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship

Jesse continues calling Santana Chico. Savage works up the crowd. After a series of grapple Savage gets the upper hand with a snapmare and knee drop. Santana ducks under a clothesline and hiptosses Savage but misses the elbow drop. Savage quickly climbs to the middle rope and lands a double ax handle. Santana kicks out at 2.

Savage throws on a sleeper and Sanatan struggles to escape. He eventually gets up and elbows his way out, but before he launch a proper attack Savage bodyslams Santana and rushes to the top rope. He leaps, but Santana telepgraphs it and punches Savage in the stomach. He stomps away at Savage and knocks him down again with a punching combo. Jesse moans that Santana is breaking all the rules of wrestling and you can't strike with a closed fist.

Savage is bodyslammed, but then leaves the ring before Santana can attack some more. Tito goes after him on the outside and gets a couple of punches away. They go in and out again, except Savage stops Santana coming back in. Savage tries for a piledriver on the outside but Santana blocks it. Savage hits a knee lift and both men are counted out

Draw - Double count out

A little dissapointing, if only because Santana spent too long of the match in a sleeper hold. Savage was great throughout and really makes people want to hurt him, he and Santana complimented eachother as they're fast enough to keep pace. Wish this could have gone on longer for a proper conclusion 3/5

Both men continue brawling outside the ring, but Savage doesn't follow Santana back into the ring. Savage generates insane heat just doing stuff like this, it's great to watch.

We go to the back where Mr Fuji is making strange noises. He's going to have a Kung Fu challenge with Ricky Steamboat.

We watch a video of how Piper spent haloween at his 'rented home'. Vince appears to interview him. Piper starts wrapping a brick in tin foil, shouts loads of nonsense, puts a stick into a bowling ball and pretends they're sweets. Piper says in Scotland haloween is trick or treat, so he's making tricks. Some kids knock at the door, one dressed as Hogan who Piper rips on. He give sthe kids the bricks & bowling balls, but they rip the kids sweet bags. Piper steals the kids sweets, but when they leave they say the sweets were chocolate covered ref peppers.

Hogan has just watched the video and is proud of the kids.

Mean Gene watches Mr Fuji karate chop a couple of bricks in half.

Match 4 - Mr Fuji w/Magnificent Don Muraco vs Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
Kung Fu battle

Steamboat is with Gene Okerlund, we watch a video of Fuji & Muraco choke Steamboat by hanging him outside the ring over the top rope with a strap. Steamboat says Fuji will feel the dragon tonight (oooh er).

Steamboat chops, elbows and kicks Fuji down. Jesse doesn't know if this was any good or not. Fuji kicks Steamboat in the balls, and then headbutts The Dragon in the groin. Fuji gets in a chop, but Steamboat fights back with quick elbows and kicks. Fuji chops back and 1 finger throws Steamboat across the ring. The crowd aren't into this at all. Fuji kicks some more and tries a suplex, but Fuji reverses this into a suplex of his own. Steamboat lands a dropkick from the top rope and pins Fuji.

Winner - Ricky Steamboat by pinfall (Dropkick from the top rope)

Crap from start to finish. I love Steamboat, but this was just stupid. A kung fu battle where no one blocks, and in the end a suplux & dropkick end it. I'm not buying it, and neither did the crowd. Thankfully it was very short. 1/5

Steamboat tries to celebrate but Muraco comes into the ring and spits red mist into Steamboat's face, blinding The Dragon. Muraco and Fuji hammer away on Steamboat and eventually leave the ring.

Back to the Haloween party/contest, and Gene is with Miss Elizabeth, who is smoking hot. The last round is a pumkin pass - passing pumpkings to eachother without using your hands.

Jesse says he wasn't surpised Albano won the pie eating contest because he is a fat sloppy pig. The faces try the pumpkin pass first, and get 5, Albano dropping to Hogan. Piper has turned up dressed as Superman. The heels blatantly cheat covering the passes with capes. Piper drops it passing to Elizabeth, the faces win. Savage flips out on Elizabeth, he's so good at making you hate him.

After an ad break Vince, Jesse and Gene are by the pumpkin dunking bath. Jesse says him and Piper want the Hillbillys at the next SNME.

And the show ends without someone falling into cake! FARCE!

More of a fun show this one for kids. Savage & Santana put on a good match, the rest not really rememberable. The next SNME was in January 86, which will be my next review

 

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Match 9 - Dusty Rhodes (C) vs Tully Blanchard w/JJ Dillon
First Blood match for the NWA World Television Championship, no time limit

Dusty won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at Starrcade 85...or so we thought. Turns out that after the match that the referee reversed the decision and Ric Flair remained champion, but Dusty won by DQ. Since then, Flair formed the Four Horsemen with Arn & Ole Anderson and.....Tully Blanchard. Dusty had a brief spell as World Heavyweight Champion before coming into this match, but lost the belt back to Flair, and is now TV Champ. Tully Blanchard lost one of the best matches I've ever seen at Starrcade 85 to Magnum TA.

Everyone in the crowd loves Dusty and cheers him as he comes down to the ring, Tully got all the boo's. Dusty's got "Tully" dyed into his hair, and the match takes a while to get going as the referee won't start it until Tully removes some headgear. JJ Dillon then tries to grease up Tully's face, but the referee also puts a stop to this, getting a good crowd reaction as he wipes it off with a towel.

The match finally starts when Tully reacts to Dusty giving JJ Dillon a Bionic Elbow. Dillon was shouting in Dusty's face about something, and got Bionic Elbowed for it. Tully as arguing with the referee at the time. JJ is rolling around the ring for a while and is cut open. He leaves the ring but can't get to his feet.

Dusty and Tully stand off, and Dusty gets the first strike in on Tully. He then starts to taunt Tully with his elow, walking around the ring getting big screams from the crowd. Tully is backing off everytime Dusty motions that he will be using his Bionic Elbow. Tully gets Dusty to the ground at one point and misses a falling punch to the head, but he then rolls out the ring. Tully gets back in and after a grapple is headbutted to the mat. Dusty tries to work on Tully in the corner but he keeps defending himself and eventually goes to his knees while clinging on to Dusty.

This doesn't work. Dusty works Tully into position, and finally hits a Bionic Elbow. He doesn't draw blood but he's on top. He works on a leg lock after a few more strikes, and attacks Tully's knee. Tully rolls out again to break the momentum. He gets back in lands a couple of attacks on Dusty, including a snapmare and an elbow drop. With Dusty down, he then tries to pull at Dusty's face to draw blood, but Dusty easily escapes, performing a snapmare of his own. Dusty stomps Tully in the head and strikes him some more. He rams Tully's head into the top turnbuckle, but Tully fights back knocking Dusty into the referee. Tully climbs to the middle rope and while the referee is down JJ Dillon throws Tully a shoe. He jumps off the ropes towards Dusty, but Dusty catches Tully and thows him back into the corner, making him drop the shoe at the same time. Dusty then suplexes Tully, but Tully lands on the referee, knocking him down again.

Dusty now has the shoe and sets Tully up. He takes one look at the shoe and thinks it's not for him, throws it into the crowd and uses the Bionic Elbow on Tully instead. Dusty then goes to work on Tully punching him a lot then clearly blading him, meaning Tully is now cut open but the referee is still down and can't call it. Dusty knocks Tully down again and starts posing to the crowd, but Tully lands near JJ Dillion, who cleans up the cut on Tully's head and uses grease to clog up the cut. Dillon also hands Tully a roll of coins, which is uses to hit Dusty with, but this cuts Dusty open. Dusty and the referee get up together, but the ref sees Dusty cut open and calls for the bell. Tully Blanchard is the new TV Champion!

Winner - Tully Blanchard via first blood (roll of coins shot)

I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would. Both guys played the face and heel roles well enough but there wasn't enough physical attacking for me to get excited about this match. They did well to sell Dusty's Bionic Elbow as the move to turn the match, and the ending played out well, but something seemed to be missing to make this really enjoyable. 2/5

Dusty protests the result with the referee but it falls on deaf ears. Tully and JJ Dillon have gone to the back with the belt. The next match is now the while reason Starrcade 86 is called The Sky Walkers

Match 10 - The Road Warriors (Animal & Hawk) w/Paul Ellering vs The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey) w/Jim Cornette & Big Bubba Rogers
Scaffold match

There's been a giant scaffold & platforms going over and above the ring in Atlanta, and this match is the reason why. The Midnight Express come down to the ring and are booed, but the Road Warriors have a small Pyro entrance as they make their way down, and they immediately climb up the scaffold, leaving the Midnight Express looking up at them from the ring. The crowd love it as the Warriors walk from side to side on the scaffold.

Schiavone is the announcer and says that the only way to win is to throw both of your opponents from the scaffold. The Midnight Express start at a disadvantage, seeing as the Legion of Doom are already at the top. The Road Warrios however allow Condrey & Eaton to the top, and we get underway. Kind of. LOD start shaking the scaffold not allowing the Midnight Express to their feet. The bell rings the match starts, Hawk with Condrey and Animal with Bobby Eaton.

Road Warriors start off the better and beat the Midnight Express down either end of the scaffold, but things quickly turn when they thow powder on the Legion of Doom and then start to beat down. Hawk is hanging off the edge holding onto a railing but Condrey can't quite get him down. Things weren't looking to good for Animal either, but off camera he has somehow managed to get Bobby Eaton in trouble, leaving him hanging under the scaffold and onto Animal's leg. Condrey crawls over to stop Animal from attacking Eaton, who slowly makes his way back on top of the scaffold.

The Midnight Express have been cut open, Condrey in particular looking in a daze. He tries to climb down the scaffold but won't let go of it. Hawk attacks but has to get onto the scaffold himself and Condrey has moved too far down. Bobby Eaton tries to come over and help Condrey but Animal brings him down, and Condrey is fight back against Hawk, both men now holding on to the scaffold under one of the platforms. Condrey thinks he's done enough damage to Hawk that he can escape from him by using the underside of the platofrm across the ring as monkey bars, and sets himself up to move across. Hawk isn't done yet, and begins to fight back. On the other side of the scaffold, Bobby Eaton and Animal are also below the platform.

Eaton has managed to get away from Animal and is using the monkey bars to move across the underside of the platform. Hawk is also holding on to the bars, but has his back turned to Eaton and doesn't know he's there. However, he is trying to swing and kick at Condrey, which he finally does so to some good effect, and Condrey is sent falling off the scaffold and into the ring. Eaton has been taking some kicks from Animal too, and is now caught in the middle of a Road Warrior sandwich. Not surprisingly, Animal kicks him down shortly afterwards, and the Legion of Doom are the winners.

Winners - The Road Warriors

The crowd certainly seemed to love this, but I'm struggling to see why. I didn't really think there was too much excitement, but that's not really anyone's fault. Everyone was making sure they didn't lose balance when being on top of the scaffold, so no one could really perform any moves, the only thing the teams could do was brawl and climb the platform and scaffold. This match seemed to be something which sounded great on paper but in reality there wasn't much else that could have been done. 2/5

Paul Ellering starts chasing Jim Cornette up the scaffold. Animal is still on top, leaving Cornette caught between the two, minus is tennis racquet for juinior players (Hawk has it and is beating on the Midnight Express with it). Cornette tries to climb down from the platform over the ring for Big Bubba to catch him, but get it all wrong, falls to the ring and does serious legit damage to his knees. The Road Warriors celebrate as the crowd cheer at what they've just seen (Also big props to Hawk who competed in this match with a BROKEN LEG).

Road Warriors should be celebrate this they should beat Cornette with tennis racquet.