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[1989-03-11-WWF-Saturday Night's Main Event] The Rockers vs Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard


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The Rockers vs The Brainbusters w/Bobby The Brain Heenan - 3/89 SNME

 

What a sprint! I am out of breath just having watched this. This is the match I was really looking for from these guys. Busters blindside early. Tully goes for the kill with his slingshot suplex and Marty counters, but Tully counters into a rollup only for Shawn to cross body block Tully while in the rollup. Busters try to whip the Rockers into each other they do a little do-see-do and knock the Busters out. Crazy good opening sequence as Busters powder. Shawn press slams Arn off the top and it ends up with the Busters taking synchronized superkicks. Shawn hits a nice headscissors on Tully. Arn gets one shoulderblock on Shawn, but Shawn gets a drop toehold on the next one. Heenan pulls down the top rope, which gets him ejected of course he hems and haw to great crowd heat.

Marty actually starts the next segment and Marty goes for the atomic drop, but while hoisted up Tully tags Arn. Arn comes in and smashes Marty. Marty bumps great for that. Marty playing a much more active face in peril. Arn dumps Marty over the top onto the floor. I love when Arn desperately tries to grasp for the ropes on a sunset flip attempt by Jannetty. Tully/Jannetty get to do the bridge/backslide/leap for tag/reverse atomic drop sequence that always looks good. Arn in with a wicked spinebuster and Shawn makes the save. Arn attempts a Vaderbomb attempt and eats knees. Both teams tag. Tully bitches out for Shawn, who does a much better job on this hot tag as the crowd is rocking. Shawn attempts a suplex on Arn, only for Tully to sunset flip Shawn and Arn to blast Shawn. Marty retaliates by diving on Tully. They end up on the floor where they back body drop Tully onto Arn. The result is a double countout. The Rockers get back in the ring and give both Busters a double dropkick for the symbolic victory.

This was such a great sprint as it was bell-to-bell action that got over both tag teams to a national audience. The Rockers played a great high-energy tag team that could not be stopped until the Busters started using underhanded tactics. The Busters worked a tough, rugged style, but worked hard to put over the Rockers. They worked some very intricate sequences for the 80s and they came off great. My favorite match of theirs by far and one of the best 80s tag matches from the WWF. ****

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The Brain Busters starting the match by attacking The Rockers and looking for a quick win was great. So smart and clever. It’s even better when it goes against them with The Rockers then taking control. The match has a much different feel to their other matches which are your basic “work over someone and comeback” matches. This match has a big sprint feel with tons of urgency and quick fire sequences in the early portions of the match. Michaels takes a rather nasty bump after Heenan pull down the ropes, causing him to fall to the outside HARD. That leads to Hennan being sent backstage which is a great moment that gets a big response from the crowd.  Jannetty totally shows his worth when he is fighting off the constant double teaming from The Brain Busters. His movement to try and gain some distance (and his wild punches) are great little touches he adds. The finish is fine and adds to the feud perfectly well. Another great edition to the feud. ****1/4

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