[1980-01-25-Houston Wrestling] Tony Atlas vs Mark Lewin

[shoe]

Atlas promo putting over his body building training and weight training. We're getting a little back and forth fighting. Atlas uses his foot for leverage to push off Lewin. a Full Nelson eye gouge by Lewin. Atlas with a nice revenge spot does the exact Full Nelson face rake spot. Lewin chokes on him on the rope, and Atlas returns the favor. Brawl on the floor and Atlas posts him, and smashes him with a chair. Atlas smashes a chair again. Atlas with a flurry. Lewin is bleeding and is being dominated. He tosses Lewin and is Dq'd. Atlas is still all over Lewin.Atlas biting the cut. Lewin escapes to the back.

[soup23]

Atlas promo was the highlight here saying he trains every day except Sunday when he heads to church. Match was of clubbing variety and not very exciting at all. Atlas had the power advantage and Lewin kept retreating not looking much like a maniac. Chair gets into the ring and Lewin blades to open the action up some. Atlas throws him over for the DQ which was cheap. *1/2

[SAMS]

I think this is Atlas’ debut in Houston. Lewin plays up the Maniac moniker by twitching a lot.
Lewin’s offense revolves around similar style chops and finger jabs to the throat that we saw Billy Graham use on Dusty a few days earlier. And well, it all looks pretty shit. Atlas is super expressive with his body movements when he’s on offense. Not a compliment. He looks like an overgrown child “playing wrestler”. Either way, his beatdown on Lewin, and he really is allowed to beat down on him, puts him over incredibly strong with the crowd.
Lewin tries to use a foreign object but Atlas turns the tables. In the struggle Lewin ends up flying over the top rope and Atlas takes a DQ loss. The match puts Atlas over super strong but a flat ending to a pretty poor match

★