[1980-06-21-Portland] Buddy Rose vs Butch Miller (Lumberjack)

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[SAMS]

1980-06-21
PNW
Buddy Rose vs Butch Miller 
Lumberjack Match
Sports Arena, Portland, Oregon, USA
Card
★

The most interesting part of this was Rose’s mad dashes to try and get away from the action. Early on he tried rolling out of each side of the ring only to get pushed back in. Later on, when he found himself on the outside, it wouldn’t be immediately clear that he was gonna try and do a runner, then at the last moment he would take his chance, but obviously he was doomed to fail with so many wrestlers surrounding the ring.
Rogers and Rose tried to pull the same trick they pulled on Piper earlier on in the night, but this time Piper was a lumberjack, and he wasn’t gonna see Rose win so cheaply. The foreign object got prised from Rose’s hands and it ended up with Miller who used it himself and he did away with Rose.
My biggest issue here was that I don’t think Miller is very good as a singles wrestler, and I really don’t think he’s that good as a face either. This has been a heated feud and Rose turned on The Sheepherders and bloodied up his partner Williams, but he seemed pretty content here to do his weird head bobbing/body spasm thing instead of taking the initiative and going on the offensive early while Rose was trying to escape. The pace was way too slow and too often Rose would be prone on the mat while Miller stood there looking around at the crowd trying to generate a reaction. This was certainly more Bushwacker than Sheepherder, and it definitely hurt the match.