[1983-WWC] Carlos Colon vs Tully Blanchard

[shoe]

I enjoyed the opening sluggfest with Tully's bump to the outside as the payoff. Again Tully loses a sluggfest. Tully is bumping big for Colon. Tully using his weight on Colon.I'm digging the brawling by the fence. Colon throws a nice headbutt. Colon starts to work the leg to soften it up for the Figure 4.Overall, I enjoyed this. 3 1/4*

[Migs]

This was a really fun brawl. The brawling by the fence in particular was great. I also really liked the finish, even if it was a bit messy. ***3/4

 

This and Flair match has me really into seeing Colon against stronger workers - he really meshes well with them.

[Superstar Sleeze]

WWC Universal Champion Carlos Colon vs Tully Blanchard - WWC 1983

I believe the commentary team is Hugo Sanovich and Bobby Jaggers it is helpful on some ways and distracting & annoying in others but it is totally worth it for Jaggers mispronouncing flagrant as fragrant. The idea of fragrant violation in response to a ball shot had me laughing so hard I had to pause the video. 
 

Everything Flair detractors say about Flair being weak applies to Tully a hundredfold. I like Tully but this is not a wrestler with much in the way of offense or working on top. He is the ultimate stooge and heat seeker. This is very compatible with Colon’s style as Tully can pinball and stooge off of Colon’s punches and draw heat by stalling and short cuts. We get that with a foreign object and throwing Colon out of the Ring multiple times and brawling at the railing. I thought the first Colon comeback started lame. Kind of like I am over this I am going to fights back and do a ROUNDOFF~! But even though transition was lame the match really picked up here. Loved the atomic drop on the railing. Love AWA-style spot where Tully gets his foot on the rope so Colon attacks it and works it over building to the Figure-4. We get the Fragrant Mule Kick Ballshot! I didn’t like Tully getting right back on offense after that. Good use of the ref to blind Colon coming off the top eating a punch. I liked the ref bump leading to ref table topping Tully on a suplex attempt got three. 
 

This match is proof even 1980s matches needed an editor. I think if switch the order of some of the spots you could have really whipped me and the crowd into a frenzy. I would say this is a fragrant *** 1/2 match.