[1980-02-22-Houston Wrestling] Tony Atlas vs Jerry Brown

[shoe]

We start off with an Atlas promo. Atlas' Ladies walk on my chest shirt is so great based on the stories. A Gino challege. This leads to a Gino/Atlas confrontation in ring. A fight ensues. Gino takes a powder, and Jerry Brown attacks. Atlas makes a comeback. Atlas shows flashes of athleticism like the arm drags, and flying head scissors. I've always loved Atlas's jumping head butt.Loving Jerry Brown using joint manipulation , digging the trunk pulls. His heel work is solid. A little sloppy was that rope running spot. Solid stuff, decent filler match.

[SAMS]

1980-02-22
Houston Wrestling
Tony Atlas vs Jerry Brown
Card
★

Atlas and Gino were verbally sparring before the match then Gino jumps him from behind. Now at a disadvantage Jerry Brown jumped in to take control and from there the match began. Brown apparently also is a newbie to the territory. He’s sporting a brilliant bushy moustache and side parting. I was getting very strong Civil War era gentleman vibes.
I’ve noticed that when Atlas is FIP, he tends to mount his comeback way too early. If it had been a quick squash match but here all it did was serve to kill any heat that Brown had managed to build up to this point. To be fair, when Brown was able to have some consistent offense he showed off only the raw basics. He did some heelish stuff, a hair pull here, an eye poke there, but it was rudimentary at best, otherwise the best he managed to bust out was a simple wrist lock. This awkward back and forth went on for over 10 minutes before mercifully Atlas put him away with an overhead press slam.