Superstar Sleeze Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 NWA World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race vs Iceman King Parsosn - WCCW 10/7/83 This was taped off Boston's Channel 25 (their Fox or soon to be Fox affiliate), guess I should have not scoffed at HHH saying he saw WCCW during his childhood. This match had three things going for it: working around Iceman's hard head, Harley's character work and a hot crowd. The crowd loved chanting Go Ice Go, counted vigorously for the countout teases and popped huge for the sleeper. Harley was actually pretty entertaining bitching about We Are Family playing for Iceman, David Manning as the ref and selling Iceman's hard head. David was an effective cheerleader for Ice and as we will see too effective. This was a great NWA World Title Defense match. Iceman started off hot as expected with the best spot of the shine being Harley going for the falling headbutt hitting it and then selling it. Harley should have worked in Texas full time; he was a more vicious heel there. Harley takes over with a cheap shot in the corner and then hit a piledriver in the ring, but Ice kicked out. The best sequence was when Harley smashed Ice's head into the post and went to gloat, but Ice no sold it. David tells him to turnaround and he eats a headbutt. This was a great countout tease. Iceman's headbutts work awesomely as false finishes because how well they built them up. I like Bill Mercer counts the nearfalls throughout the match for Iceman really shows how well he is doing. Harley gets the headbutt to the midsection and necekbreaker for a nearfall. The finish is a lot of nearfalls, but not much in the way of highspots. Harley did do a great job making you believe Iceman could win this. The big spot at the end is the attempted pilderiver by Harley that Iceman backdrops out of, which leads to another countout tease. They slug it out with Iceman winning with a headbutt. Harley hauls off and slaps David. David punches Harley into the Butt-Butt, but and it is a big BUT Bronco on the outside calls for the bell to DQ Iceman due to David's interference. Keep that man away from your title matches! Great NWA World Heavyweight Title match with a few fun spots, but nothing that makes it a classic. Just a really fun outing by both men. **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul sosnowski Posted August 11, 2018 Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 Available on the Network, Vault, WCCW, 1983. Episode 95 10/22/83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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