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[1980-08-23-Portland] Roddy Piper vs Ed Wiskowski (2/3 falls)


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This is a great Roddy Piper performance. If you're a Piper fan, and you haven't seen this match, I really think it's worth seeking out. He's such an awesome fiery babyface, throwing his wild punches, selling, charisma, he shows it all here. Tons of fun. I don't mean to take anything from Wiskowski either, he's really good in this too. I watched this a few days ago, so I might come back for a more detailed review of it when I watch it again and/or have more time.

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  • GSR changed the title to [1980-08-23-Portland] Roddy Piper vs Ed Wiskowski (2/3 falls)
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Does Roddy Piper work the only compelling babyface nervehold in pro wrestling history in this match? Damn he is great in this, this is the best I've seen from Wiskowski/DeBeers, and in large part I think it was because he had to turn it up against Piper. You could see with some of Roddy's punch combos Easy Ed was hoping they'd end a punch or two earlier with how he was selling. No such luck. As a result though I don't think I've ever seen his heel offense look this convincing and build this much heat in a singles match. Each fall was paced exactly how you'd hope for a TV main event, with an equally fitting BS finish. But then Piper just keeps working his ass off after the bell to send everyone home satisfied and chomping at the bit for next Wednesday. This rocked.

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1980-08-23
PNW
Roddy Piper vs Ed Wiskoski
Best Two Out Of Three Falls Match
Sports Arena, Portland, Oregon, USA
Card
★★

A twenty minute match where it felt like they only had enough stuff to do to fill half that time. They kind of went to Wiskoski attacking Piper’s injured throat, but then went away from it. They kind of went to Piper injuring his leg, but they went away from that. Piper usually is pretty excellent at selling vulnerability in these moments too, but I wasn’t buying it here. The best moment was Wiskoski getting into it with a crowd member at ringside then hitting his excellent diving headbutt on Piper to tie things 1-1 then grinning cockily at the fan’s direction afterwards.
The finish had Rose involved as expected, tripping Piper to allow Ed to grab the fall, then we had a post match beat down on Piper that left him completely bloody which was pretty good. Okay match but way to belaboured and bloated for what they had in their locker this evening.

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