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Watched the Mr. Wrestling 2 vs Mr. Wrestling 3 which is Hercules. This match was just terrible. Hercules work on top was boring. Bad bad match.

Johnny's hosting. Parv was about to fall asleep.

Also don't sleep on the Mil Muertes working over the back throughout the match.

That's cool

It was total overkill. No selling spectacle that makes 0 sense. Since stuff that they did never happens on tv anymore I loved it as a spectacle and can forgive it warts and all. The payoff and the whole angle made 0 sense. I hope no one try's to do something like that anytime soon. I can even understand arguments that the show was one dimensional with a lot of brawling. Well when you build up feuds like they did on top. Those feuds were essentially blood feuds. You're payoff should be a more brawling based matches.

They really delivered with Ultima Lucha.

Watched the Buddy vs Lothario match. It was JIP and wetted my appetetite to see more of this feud.

I was at this show live . 12 year old Pete going nuts.

That cracked me up.

Buddy Landell vs Jose Lothario 8/3/84 Hector & Chavo Guerrero vs. The Fantastics 8/3/84 Magnum TA vs Ernie Ladd 8/3/84

All of this has been updated. The last 2 matches that have been uploaded are from 7/6/84 Boesch @ Houston, TX – Sam Houston Coliseum – July 6, 1984 (9,000) Al Madril d. Buddy Landell The Pretty Young Things d. Pat Rose & Hans Schroeder Hercules Hernandez d. Mr. Wrestling II Chavo & Hector Guerrero d. Hacksaw Duggan & Jose Lothario Terry Taylor d. Krusher Darsow Ernie Ladd & Butch Reed d. Sonny King & Terry Taylor North American Heavyweight Title: Magnum TA © d. Ted DiBiase The Midnight Express d. The Rock n Roll Express Ted/Magnum is from Monsters of the Mat. The MX vs Rock n Roll would be a new one.

Night 11 Tenzan vs Fale We get a batlle of slow to start. Fale using his girth. I like Fale stepping on and working Fale's cut. Fale in control most of the way. He'd give Tenzan some hope spots here and there. Tenazan getting his submission finisher on was good. Fale's big splash was a fine way to end it, Surprised Fale took so much of the match and still went over. 2 1/4* Shibata vs Yano Liking Shibata kicking his ass to start. Great nearfall by Yano. Overall this was fun. 2 1/2* Tanahashi vs Gallows Tanahashi controlling Gallows early with a headlock. Gallows puts Tanahashi outside. He puts him in the guardrails. Similar to the Styles match, Gallows is working the back. Styles was much better in his role than Tanahashi. I liked Tanahashi's dragon screw, but would have liked him establishing the leg work early. The chokeslam would have been great if it was clean. I liked the flash pin aspect of the finish. Still this lacked something from a story telling aspect, and their are so many ways they could have told a compelling story. 2 1/2* Styles vs Makabe Makabe's 1st 2 forearms looked better than any others he's thrown all tourney Makabe taking it to Styles on the floor. Styles is targeting the neck. Styles is the best at mixing his matches up. Styles with an exploder into the corner. Nice reversal of a spinniing DDT by Makabe. Inverted DDT by A J. . This is AJ leading Makabe through a good match. 3 3/4* Ibushi vs Naito Did Naito orange up his hair some more? Brawling in the seats. Ibushi on top, but not for long.Another thing Naito was great at here was his cut offs looked very mean and aggressive. Naito works the back. Ibushi fights back. Big spinning DDT by Naito. I love Naito's submission. The Reverse rana looked nasty. Because Naito works a more deliberate pace, his stuff sticks. The finishing sequence was pretty hot, and stood out because we didn't get a ton of nearfalls early.Ibushi's hope spots and nearfalls were all credible. This was the best Naito's finisher looked. 4*

Thoughts on Abby and Putski. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/31621-abbdullah-the-butcher-vs-ivan-putski-3681/

This match felt real long. It was all about the blood and bringing Wahoo out. It was a match-angle to set up more stuff down the road like a tag match. 1 1/4*

My thoughts on Budro and Madril here. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/31619-buddy-landell-vs-al-madril-7684/

This was ok. Pretty much it was all about Budro's antics. He wiped Madril's grease off him. He'd pull on Madril's hair. Just an entertaining Budro performance. 2 1/4*

I always thought they had similar ring psychology.

Night 10 Elgin vs Takahashi Power moves early by Elgin. Elgin's shine is chalked full of power moves. Hall cheats and puts Elgin in the barricade for the heat. Takahashi works him over on the outside. Elgin seems like he's really won over the crowds. Takahashi's work on top is terrible. I'm liking Elgin working like a less charasmatic Cesaro . It's much better than ROH Elgin. I think in ROH he has pull and dictates the match. In Japan I think he's a follower which suits him because he's not a Ring General. I thought Elgin looked really good here. 2 3/4* Honma vs Kojima Kojima focusing on the neck of Honma.Honma's comeback was solid. Kojima hits a cutter, then follows up with a top rope cutter and never attempts a cover. Makes no sense to me. This is the match that I checked out on Honma. 2 1/2* N Ishii vs Nagata We start with some grappling with Nagata going after the arm. Fore arm exchanges. I like Ishii going after the ribs.Nagata going after arm. This was good. Still the match felt one dimensional. 3 1/2* Okada vs Anderson Some early one upmanship from each wrestler. A lot of back and forth early with nether man getting control. Finally Anderson delivers a power bomb on the ring apron. Anderson on top. His work was ho hum. Okada sneaks in a DDT and begins a combeback. Anderson cuts him off again. The match is lacking a spark. 2 3/4* Nakamura vs Goto Big strikes by Nak off the bat. Nak selling his injury big. Goto goes after it. Goto's offense has been basic, but is targeting the arm. Goto's offense may be basic. but Nak's selling gets the story over. Nak with some kicks to get seperation. Nak looks to be focusing on the neck and core. Not he seques to the core. Goto has shifted away from the arm and works the neck. Nearfalls down the stretch, Awesome Fujiwara by Nak. 3 3/4*

It went around 13 minutes. It told a story. Nothing bad, and the crowd was hot. A perfectly solid upper midcard match.

My thoughts on Krusher Krushev vs Jay Youngblood here. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/31606-krusher-kruschev-vs-jay-youngblood-6884/

This is for Kruschev's tv belt. I thought Youngblood was a good baby face here. He used his speed and chops to his advantage.His work wasn't deep or anything, but it was effective. Krushev's heel work was ok. He did a good job making Jay look good though. A perfectly good undercard match that the crowd dug. 2 1/2*

My thoughts on a super fun Tully vs El Bracero match . http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/31605-tully-blanchard-vs-el-bracero-121181/

Man this was just a super fun match. Tully shined El Bracero up like my mom's Christmas China. Then Tully cut him off. This is easily one of the top 10 squash matches I've maybe ever seen.

Thanks man. That's an incredible compliment.

Barry Orton vs. Dr. Death Steve Williams 6/8/84 Krusher Kruschev vs. Jay Youngblood 6/8/84 Sonny King vs. Masao Ito 6/8/84 Hacksaw Duggan & The Rock n Roll Express vs. Ernie Ladd & The Midnight Express 6/8/84 Mexican Death Match: Hector Guerrero vs. Jose Lothario 6/8/84