[1979-06-02-Portland] Buddy Rose vs Tim Brooks (Dog Collar)

[Clayton Jones]

There are moments of this that are great, but what felt like a blowoff culminated in a lackluster finishing stretch and payoff. When your commentator imagines a better and more logical finish than what you deliver you know you're in trouble. I'm not normally someone who when watching 1979 wrestling is so concerned with how it wraps up but with a match like this, which is lots of face raking, bleeding, and punching, the whole point is more or less how it concludes. The dueling low blows felt very fitting for the way the match was worked, liked something out of an issue of Southern Alcohol Comix, which especially makes sense when they keep referring to this is how Brooks settles things down in Texas. Not bad, both guys look good, but I wanted a little more.