Ricky Santana vs. Mr. Pogo (8/10/88)

[El Boricua]

Ricky Santana vs. Mr. Pogo (8/10/88)

[elliott]

Santanta jumps Pogo before the bell and beats his ass all over the ring with punches and stomps. Pogo tries to go outside by Santana throws him right back in and continues the beatdown. Santanta continues dominating early on until he’s able to give Pogo just enough breathing room for Pogo to blast Santana with a headbutt. Pogo immediately starts biting Santana and from there BLOOD. Pogo just attacks the open wound with punches, stomps, headbutts more biting, and these nasty looking karate thrusts right into Santana’s forehead. Pogo even locks in a cobra clutch instead of a sleeper or chinlock which is pretty cool and they use that as a base for a bit with Santana making hope spots out of it and Pogo cutting him off as Santana bleeds and bleeds. Finally Santana manages to hit the vintage babyface kick to the balls to make his comeback. Comeback is all punches until the go outside and Pogo gets posted. Santana grabs a chair and Pogo runs off with El Profe. This was really fun. Only 7 minutes but this definitely left me looking forward to the next Pogo/Santana match on the set.

[dawho5]

Elliot covered most of it. Pogo is really, really good in PR. I've not once liked him in japan.