SNME #1 - 5.11.85
So yeah...I guess the next logical step after recapping the newest edition of SNME is to go back to the original and work forward. Make sense? As I said in that recap, I absolutely loved this show back in the day. Of course, when this show aired, I was all of eight years old. I'm sure I was easily impressed in my less bitter days. So will this hold up 21 years later, almost to the day? Let's watch!
-We open with a Cyndi Lauper/Wendi Richter promo that is all but cut off on my copy. I'm sure we didn't miss much there. Though Lauper is vaguely nailable. Still is, kinda.
-Promo with Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. Wow. Remember when Mr T was like a celebrity and shit? The 80s...gotta love 'em. And I now have the A-Team theme song stuck in my head. Gah. At any rate, Hogan hypes his match with Bob Orton later tonight and lets us know that T (I can call him that 'cause we're tight) will be in his corner. And T lets us know that if Piper sticks his nose into things, well damn, T PITIES THE FOOL!
-Opening montage (set to "Obsession" by Animotion, naturally). In a nifty touch, it only features people who are actually going to be on tonight's show.
-From the Nassau Coliseum. A scarily young Vince McMahon is your host, along with a scarily pink Jesse Ventura. Not a lot of guys can pull off that look. I'm not sure Ventura is one of them. Vince almost looks sane here, if you can believe that.
-Mean Gene interviews the US Express (Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo), Lou Albano and Ricky Steamboat. No one has much to say, though Albano says that if Fred Blassie interferes in their match, Albano will bust him open. Violence!
Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff & George Steele (w/Fred Blassie) v. Barry Windham, Mike Rotundo & Ricky Steamboat (w/Lou Albano) -
Volkoff treats us to a stirring rendition of the Soviet National Anthem. And then Sheiky grabs the mic! "Russia, number vun! Iran, number vun! USA...hack-ptooey!" Somewhere, Tanvir is marking out. No mention of sodomy on B. Brian Blair. This is a family show, after all.
He starts the match with Windham. They lockup and Windham grabs a side headlock. Sheik backs him into the ropes. Will we get a clean break? Not very likely. Windham is waiting, though, blocking a punch and delivering one of his own. Back to the side headlock. Sheik shoots him into the ropes, but gets tackled. Windham bounces off the ropes. Sheik leapfrogs him, then looks for a hiptoss. Windham blocks and hiptosses Sheik into the face corner. Steamboat nails Sheik, who staggers into a slam. Windham snatches and armbar and makes the tag to Rotundo.
He heads up top, dropping an elbow across Sheik's outstretched arm. Tag to Steamboat. Up top...chop to the arm. He cranks on an armbar for a few seconds, then tags Rotundo back in. They drop Sheik with a double back elbow. Rotundo slams him, then drops an elbow. Cover gets two. On commentary, Vince points out that this is only Steele's second tag match ever. I find that tidbit way more interesting than I probably should. I'll likely end up hitting google later, both to find out if that's true *and* to figure out what that other tag match was. I'm such a geek.
Anyway, Rotundo continues to work on the arm. He tags Steamboat, who lays in a series of chops before going back to the armbar. Sheik sends him into the ropes and locks him in an abdominal stretch. Steamer counters free with a hiptoss. Steele runs in and gets the same. As does Volkoff. Windham and Rotundo run in and the faces clear the ring as we go to break.
-Commercials
When we return, Steamboat has Sheik back in the armbar. He sends him into the ropes and powerslams him. He heads up top and hits a dropkick. Back up top and this time it's the crossbody. Volkoff makes the save. Sheik manages to tag him in. Steamboat chops him a few times, then whips him into Rotundo's boot in the corner. Tag to Windham. Faces hit a double dropkick and Windham picks up a nearfall. Tag to Rotundo. Double back elbow by the US Express.
Rotundo follows with a pair of legdrops. He makes the cover, but Steele breaks it up. Rotundo is distracted, allowing Volkoff to nail him from behind. He goes for a slam, but Rotundo slips away. O'Connor Roll is good for two. Rotundo ducks a wild haymaker and backslides Volkoff for another two count. Sunset flip is next, but Volkoff is in the ropes. Tag to Windham.
Volkoff whips him into the ropes. Sunset flip by Barry, but Volkoff is again in the ropes. He tags Steele. Windham and Steele trade punches. Steele has enough of that and wants to make a tag, but both Sheik and Volkoff drop to the floor. Windham sneaks in from behind, rolling Steele up and getting the duke!
Postmatch, Steele goes nuts, chomping down on a turnbuckle Sheik and Volkoff attack him, but he cleans house pretty quickly. Lou Albano comes in to calm him down. Gene Okerlund stops the heels as they leave. They don't get to say much, though, as Steele attacks them. Sheik does slip in a "Gene Mean" reference, so...SCORE!
This was fun. Windham, of course, is my favorite wrestler pretty much ever, so I'm a bit biased. Seriously, though, it served it's purpose (Steele's face turn) and there was nothing insulting to be found. These days, that's all I ask for in a wrestling match.
-We cut back to the ring, where it's time for Piper's Pit! Tonight's guest is Paul Orndorff. This show is happening six weeks after Wrestlemania (as in the original. Fuck, I'm old.), so there's a bit of heat between Piper and Orndorff to say the least. They both sit, but Bob Orton tries to sneak behind Orndorff. He grabs the mic and tells Orton to get in the corner. Orton is amused. Orndorff begs him to, "make my day."
Piper, amazingly enough, is the voice of reason. He gets Orton in the corner and asks Orndorff to sit. He looks down at Piper's kilt and says, "Ladies first." That's just mean. Piper isn't amused. He calls Orndorff a loser and points out that he wasn't pinned at 'Mania...Orndorff was. He claims that Orndorff has lost his guts and calls him a piece of garbage. Orndorff gets in his face.
Piper feigns leaving, then tries to attack. Orndorff nails him and briefly dominates both guys. He has Piper up for the piledriver, but Orton blasts him in the back of the head with the cast. Orndorff bumps to the floor. Mr. T runs out. He helps Orndorff up and they head to the back.
-Mean Gene interviews Hogan. He dedicates tonight's match to his mother, then wishes Orndorff the best and says that he's pleased with his recent change of heart.
Bob Orton (w/Roddy Piper) v. Hulk Hogan (w/Mr. T) - WWF Title -
Hogan is still using "Eye of the Tiger" as his theme at this point. And Christ, is he ever over. Crowd goes absolutely apeshit for him. It's nice to see the old school WWF belt as well.
-Commercials
Orton tries to jump Hogan before the match, but Hogan is ready. He punches away at Orton, knocking him to the floor. Hogan gives chase and Orton immediately rolls back in. He bounces off the ropes and gets backdropped. Hogan slams him three times and Orton bails. He and Piper confer at ringside. Back in the ring, Orton closes in for a lockup, but knees Hogan in the gut instead. He whips Hogan into the corner, but misses a charge. Orton goes shoulderfirst into the post. Hogan pounds on Orton's "bad" arm.
He climbs onto the apron and snaps Orton's arm across the top rope. He follows by dragging Orton into the corner and posting the arm. Armbar by Hogan. Orton whips him into the ropes and connects with a high knee. He punches away at Hogan and gives him an atomic drop. Cover gets two. Orton follows up with a pair of fistdrops and gets another nearfall. Kneedrop by Orton. He pulls Hogan to his feet, then rams him facefirst to the mat. Repeated elbows to the back of Hogan's neck have no effect. It's Hulk Up time!
He gets to his feet and starts punching away at Orton. Axe Bomber clothesline connects! Hogan drops an elbow, but can only get two. He punches away at Orton in the corner, but gets caught in an inverted atomic drop. He sits Hogan up top, looking for a superplex (his finisher). Hogan punches him away. He hits a Bionic-style elbow off the second rope, then the trusty legdrop.
He makes the cover, but Piper pops him from the floor. He rolls in and starts stomping on Hogan to cause the DQ. Mr. T backs him into the corner and punches away at Piper. Orton breaks it up and Piper stomps T down. The heels corner Hogan, but Orndorff hits the ring! The heels bail as Jesse bitches about the unfair three on two odds.
Good match, actually. Hogan really did more than people remember. It wasn't great by any means, but somewhere along the line it became Hulk Up, big boot, legdrop and we're done. But before the shtick took over, he was a capable worker. Orton is underrated as well. I guess for him, getting typecast as Piper's flunky was both good (it kept him in the main event and I'm sure made him more money than he would have otherwise) and bad, as he never had an opportunity to show what he could really do.
-Commercials
-When we return from break, the faces are *still* posing in the ring. No one said Hogan wasn't already an egomaniac. Heh.
-Mean Gene interviews Albano and Lauper. She promises that Wendi Richter will beat the Fabulous Moolah tonight. They hype the "Goonies R Good Enough" video, starring various wrestlers. Then they air it, helpfully. Pro wrestlers should be in every video, because lord knows they make such tremendous actors. This is so bad that it wraps back around to being awesome. Possibly the cheesiest thing I've ever seen. I can't imagine a video like this getting played today. And that's sad, actually. It does make me want to watch Goonies again, though. Probably been a few years since I last saw it. Oh...Steven friggin' Spielberg has a cameo in this. Good god.
We cut back to Gene with Albano and Lauper. Roddy Piper walks in and says that the video was great...until Lauper started to sing. He apparently did the video as a favor to Spielberg himself. A nice guy, that Roddy Piper. They continue to argue as we go to break.
-Commercials
-Gene interviews Moolah, who informs us that Cyndi Lauper has been banned from ringside. We see brief clips from MSG of Lauper interfering in another match.
-Interview with Lauper/Richter. Lauper says she's going to the ring. Richter just sounds unbearably stupid.
Fabulous Moolah v. Wendi Richter - WWF Woman's Title -
Referee boots Cyndi Lauper immediately. For what it's worth, Moolah has a *scroll* that has the proclamation on it. That's some Lord of the Rings shit right there.
-Commercials
Richter opens the match with a boot to the gut, but Moolah cuts her off, raking her eyes repeatedly. She chokes Richter in the ropes for a bit, then tosses her to the floor by the hair. Richter tries to come in, but Moolah kicks away at her, sending her back to the floor. She celebrates on the opposite side of the ring, allowing Richter to charge in and dropkick her in the back. Moolah bumps to the floor. Richter follows, nailing Moolah with a forearm and rolling her back in.
Moolah sends her into the ropes and taker her over with a backdrop. Cover gets two. They brawl back and forth and Richter starts choking Moolah in the ropes. Turnabout being fair play and all. Moolah grabs the ropes. Ref wants a clean break, so Richter yanks her into the air and she crashes facefirst into the mat. And again. Cover gets two. Moolah comes back with a thrust to the throat and choker her in the ropes again. She lifts Richter for a slam, but it's countered into a small package for the win!
Cyndi Lauper charges out to celebrate.
This wasn't so good. Of course, I never saw a match with either of these two that was, so there you go. That said, Richter was crazy over at this point. Pro Wrestling Illustrated ran a semi-infamous (in wrestling magazine circles, at least) article in '85 wondering if she was, in fact, more popular than Hogan. That's pushing it, but she was pretty clearly the number two babyface in the company. And she'd be gone within a year. But that's another story altogether.
-Commercials
-Gene interviews the Junkyard Dog. His mother (from this point known as Mrs. Dog, because I'm one clever sumbitch) is along. JYD wishes everyone a happy Mother's Day. His mom tells Gene that she's quite proud of her son. How sweet.
Pete Doherty v. Junkyard Dog (w/Mrs. Dog) -
Doherty was kind of a cult favorite enhancement guy from the 70s through the mid 80s. Known as the Duke of Dorchester. When I just did a search to confirm that I spelled Dorchester correctly, I found that he made an appearance at a Ring of Honor show. Awesome.
Doherty taunts Mrs. Dog. And eats a headbutt because of it. It's go time! JYD flattens him with a big forearm, then follows with a clothesline. Doherty bails. JYD climbs onto the apron and picks him up by the hair, holding him there for like 30 seconds. Ouchies. Doherty shows he's not the sharpest tool in the drawer, again going after Mrs. Dog. JYD nails him, then rolls him back in. Doherty punches away at him, but it has no effect.
JYD snapmares him, drops to all fours and delivers a pair of headbutts. Doherty again scurries to the floor. He climbs up top for no apparent reason and JYD slams him. Three more headbutts follow. He hits Doherty with a Manhattan Drop, then scores with the Big Thump powerslam to get the win!
Again, not good. Made bearable only because of JYD being super over and the antics of Doherty.
-Commercials
-Cyndi Lauper throws a Mother's Day party. This is seriously some junior high dance shit, with everyone clustered around, barely speaking. And, of course, other than Richter and Lauper, the only females in the room are the moms. Bizarre. Anyway, Sheik and Volkoff bitch that no one brought their moms to the show. Actually, I was wrong. Blassie's "mom" is about 25 and vaguely hot, even for '85. The gist of this is that Moolah comes in and bitches about not being invited. She argues with Lauper. There's a cake present. Do the math. Poor Gene has to take the bump into the cake with Moolah. What'd he do?
-Announcers wrap up the show and we're out.
-We open with a Cyndi Lauper/Wendi Richter promo that is all but cut off on my copy. I'm sure we didn't miss much there. Though Lauper is vaguely nailable. Still is, kinda.
-Promo with Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. Wow. Remember when Mr T was like a celebrity and shit? The 80s...gotta love 'em. And I now have the A-Team theme song stuck in my head. Gah. At any rate, Hogan hypes his match with Bob Orton later tonight and lets us know that T (I can call him that 'cause we're tight) will be in his corner. And T lets us know that if Piper sticks his nose into things, well damn, T PITIES THE FOOL!
-Opening montage (set to "Obsession" by Animotion, naturally). In a nifty touch, it only features people who are actually going to be on tonight's show.
-From the Nassau Coliseum. A scarily young Vince McMahon is your host, along with a scarily pink Jesse Ventura. Not a lot of guys can pull off that look. I'm not sure Ventura is one of them. Vince almost looks sane here, if you can believe that.
-Mean Gene interviews the US Express (Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo), Lou Albano and Ricky Steamboat. No one has much to say, though Albano says that if Fred Blassie interferes in their match, Albano will bust him open. Violence!
Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff & George Steele (w/Fred Blassie) v. Barry Windham, Mike Rotundo & Ricky Steamboat (w/Lou Albano) -
Volkoff treats us to a stirring rendition of the Soviet National Anthem. And then Sheiky grabs the mic! "Russia, number vun! Iran, number vun! USA...hack-ptooey!" Somewhere, Tanvir is marking out. No mention of sodomy on B. Brian Blair. This is a family show, after all.
He starts the match with Windham. They lockup and Windham grabs a side headlock. Sheik backs him into the ropes. Will we get a clean break? Not very likely. Windham is waiting, though, blocking a punch and delivering one of his own. Back to the side headlock. Sheik shoots him into the ropes, but gets tackled. Windham bounces off the ropes. Sheik leapfrogs him, then looks for a hiptoss. Windham blocks and hiptosses Sheik into the face corner. Steamboat nails Sheik, who staggers into a slam. Windham snatches and armbar and makes the tag to Rotundo.
He heads up top, dropping an elbow across Sheik's outstretched arm. Tag to Steamboat. Up top...chop to the arm. He cranks on an armbar for a few seconds, then tags Rotundo back in. They drop Sheik with a double back elbow. Rotundo slams him, then drops an elbow. Cover gets two. On commentary, Vince points out that this is only Steele's second tag match ever. I find that tidbit way more interesting than I probably should. I'll likely end up hitting google later, both to find out if that's true *and* to figure out what that other tag match was. I'm such a geek.
Anyway, Rotundo continues to work on the arm. He tags Steamboat, who lays in a series of chops before going back to the armbar. Sheik sends him into the ropes and locks him in an abdominal stretch. Steamer counters free with a hiptoss. Steele runs in and gets the same. As does Volkoff. Windham and Rotundo run in and the faces clear the ring as we go to break.
-Commercials
When we return, Steamboat has Sheik back in the armbar. He sends him into the ropes and powerslams him. He heads up top and hits a dropkick. Back up top and this time it's the crossbody. Volkoff makes the save. Sheik manages to tag him in. Steamboat chops him a few times, then whips him into Rotundo's boot in the corner. Tag to Windham. Faces hit a double dropkick and Windham picks up a nearfall. Tag to Rotundo. Double back elbow by the US Express.
Rotundo follows with a pair of legdrops. He makes the cover, but Steele breaks it up. Rotundo is distracted, allowing Volkoff to nail him from behind. He goes for a slam, but Rotundo slips away. O'Connor Roll is good for two. Rotundo ducks a wild haymaker and backslides Volkoff for another two count. Sunset flip is next, but Volkoff is in the ropes. Tag to Windham.
Volkoff whips him into the ropes. Sunset flip by Barry, but Volkoff is again in the ropes. He tags Steele. Windham and Steele trade punches. Steele has enough of that and wants to make a tag, but both Sheik and Volkoff drop to the floor. Windham sneaks in from behind, rolling Steele up and getting the duke!
Postmatch, Steele goes nuts, chomping down on a turnbuckle Sheik and Volkoff attack him, but he cleans house pretty quickly. Lou Albano comes in to calm him down. Gene Okerlund stops the heels as they leave. They don't get to say much, though, as Steele attacks them. Sheik does slip in a "Gene Mean" reference, so...SCORE!
This was fun. Windham, of course, is my favorite wrestler pretty much ever, so I'm a bit biased. Seriously, though, it served it's purpose (Steele's face turn) and there was nothing insulting to be found. These days, that's all I ask for in a wrestling match.
-We cut back to the ring, where it's time for Piper's Pit! Tonight's guest is Paul Orndorff. This show is happening six weeks after Wrestlemania (as in the original. Fuck, I'm old.), so there's a bit of heat between Piper and Orndorff to say the least. They both sit, but Bob Orton tries to sneak behind Orndorff. He grabs the mic and tells Orton to get in the corner. Orton is amused. Orndorff begs him to, "make my day."
Piper, amazingly enough, is the voice of reason. He gets Orton in the corner and asks Orndorff to sit. He looks down at Piper's kilt and says, "Ladies first." That's just mean. Piper isn't amused. He calls Orndorff a loser and points out that he wasn't pinned at 'Mania...Orndorff was. He claims that Orndorff has lost his guts and calls him a piece of garbage. Orndorff gets in his face.
Piper feigns leaving, then tries to attack. Orndorff nails him and briefly dominates both guys. He has Piper up for the piledriver, but Orton blasts him in the back of the head with the cast. Orndorff bumps to the floor. Mr. T runs out. He helps Orndorff up and they head to the back.
-Mean Gene interviews Hogan. He dedicates tonight's match to his mother, then wishes Orndorff the best and says that he's pleased with his recent change of heart.
Bob Orton (w/Roddy Piper) v. Hulk Hogan (w/Mr. T) - WWF Title -
Hogan is still using "Eye of the Tiger" as his theme at this point. And Christ, is he ever over. Crowd goes absolutely apeshit for him. It's nice to see the old school WWF belt as well.
-Commercials
Orton tries to jump Hogan before the match, but Hogan is ready. He punches away at Orton, knocking him to the floor. Hogan gives chase and Orton immediately rolls back in. He bounces off the ropes and gets backdropped. Hogan slams him three times and Orton bails. He and Piper confer at ringside. Back in the ring, Orton closes in for a lockup, but knees Hogan in the gut instead. He whips Hogan into the corner, but misses a charge. Orton goes shoulderfirst into the post. Hogan pounds on Orton's "bad" arm.
He climbs onto the apron and snaps Orton's arm across the top rope. He follows by dragging Orton into the corner and posting the arm. Armbar by Hogan. Orton whips him into the ropes and connects with a high knee. He punches away at Hogan and gives him an atomic drop. Cover gets two. Orton follows up with a pair of fistdrops and gets another nearfall. Kneedrop by Orton. He pulls Hogan to his feet, then rams him facefirst to the mat. Repeated elbows to the back of Hogan's neck have no effect. It's Hulk Up time!
He gets to his feet and starts punching away at Orton. Axe Bomber clothesline connects! Hogan drops an elbow, but can only get two. He punches away at Orton in the corner, but gets caught in an inverted atomic drop. He sits Hogan up top, looking for a superplex (his finisher). Hogan punches him away. He hits a Bionic-style elbow off the second rope, then the trusty legdrop.
He makes the cover, but Piper pops him from the floor. He rolls in and starts stomping on Hogan to cause the DQ. Mr. T backs him into the corner and punches away at Piper. Orton breaks it up and Piper stomps T down. The heels corner Hogan, but Orndorff hits the ring! The heels bail as Jesse bitches about the unfair three on two odds.
Good match, actually. Hogan really did more than people remember. It wasn't great by any means, but somewhere along the line it became Hulk Up, big boot, legdrop and we're done. But before the shtick took over, he was a capable worker. Orton is underrated as well. I guess for him, getting typecast as Piper's flunky was both good (it kept him in the main event and I'm sure made him more money than he would have otherwise) and bad, as he never had an opportunity to show what he could really do.
-Commercials
-When we return from break, the faces are *still* posing in the ring. No one said Hogan wasn't already an egomaniac. Heh.
-Mean Gene interviews Albano and Lauper. She promises that Wendi Richter will beat the Fabulous Moolah tonight. They hype the "Goonies R Good Enough" video, starring various wrestlers. Then they air it, helpfully. Pro wrestlers should be in every video, because lord knows they make such tremendous actors. This is so bad that it wraps back around to being awesome. Possibly the cheesiest thing I've ever seen. I can't imagine a video like this getting played today. And that's sad, actually. It does make me want to watch Goonies again, though. Probably been a few years since I last saw it. Oh...Steven friggin' Spielberg has a cameo in this. Good god.
We cut back to Gene with Albano and Lauper. Roddy Piper walks in and says that the video was great...until Lauper started to sing. He apparently did the video as a favor to Spielberg himself. A nice guy, that Roddy Piper. They continue to argue as we go to break.
-Commercials
-Gene interviews Moolah, who informs us that Cyndi Lauper has been banned from ringside. We see brief clips from MSG of Lauper interfering in another match.
-Interview with Lauper/Richter. Lauper says she's going to the ring. Richter just sounds unbearably stupid.
Fabulous Moolah v. Wendi Richter - WWF Woman's Title -
Referee boots Cyndi Lauper immediately. For what it's worth, Moolah has a *scroll* that has the proclamation on it. That's some Lord of the Rings shit right there.
-Commercials
Richter opens the match with a boot to the gut, but Moolah cuts her off, raking her eyes repeatedly. She chokes Richter in the ropes for a bit, then tosses her to the floor by the hair. Richter tries to come in, but Moolah kicks away at her, sending her back to the floor. She celebrates on the opposite side of the ring, allowing Richter to charge in and dropkick her in the back. Moolah bumps to the floor. Richter follows, nailing Moolah with a forearm and rolling her back in.
Moolah sends her into the ropes and taker her over with a backdrop. Cover gets two. They brawl back and forth and Richter starts choking Moolah in the ropes. Turnabout being fair play and all. Moolah grabs the ropes. Ref wants a clean break, so Richter yanks her into the air and she crashes facefirst into the mat. And again. Cover gets two. Moolah comes back with a thrust to the throat and choker her in the ropes again. She lifts Richter for a slam, but it's countered into a small package for the win!
Cyndi Lauper charges out to celebrate.
This wasn't so good. Of course, I never saw a match with either of these two that was, so there you go. That said, Richter was crazy over at this point. Pro Wrestling Illustrated ran a semi-infamous (in wrestling magazine circles, at least) article in '85 wondering if she was, in fact, more popular than Hogan. That's pushing it, but she was pretty clearly the number two babyface in the company. And she'd be gone within a year. But that's another story altogether.
-Commercials
-Gene interviews the Junkyard Dog. His mother (from this point known as Mrs. Dog, because I'm one clever sumbitch) is along. JYD wishes everyone a happy Mother's Day. His mom tells Gene that she's quite proud of her son. How sweet.
Pete Doherty v. Junkyard Dog (w/Mrs. Dog) -
Doherty was kind of a cult favorite enhancement guy from the 70s through the mid 80s. Known as the Duke of Dorchester. When I just did a search to confirm that I spelled Dorchester correctly, I found that he made an appearance at a Ring of Honor show. Awesome.
Doherty taunts Mrs. Dog. And eats a headbutt because of it. It's go time! JYD flattens him with a big forearm, then follows with a clothesline. Doherty bails. JYD climbs onto the apron and picks him up by the hair, holding him there for like 30 seconds. Ouchies. Doherty shows he's not the sharpest tool in the drawer, again going after Mrs. Dog. JYD nails him, then rolls him back in. Doherty punches away at him, but it has no effect.
JYD snapmares him, drops to all fours and delivers a pair of headbutts. Doherty again scurries to the floor. He climbs up top for no apparent reason and JYD slams him. Three more headbutts follow. He hits Doherty with a Manhattan Drop, then scores with the Big Thump powerslam to get the win!
Again, not good. Made bearable only because of JYD being super over and the antics of Doherty.
-Commercials
-Cyndi Lauper throws a Mother's Day party. This is seriously some junior high dance shit, with everyone clustered around, barely speaking. And, of course, other than Richter and Lauper, the only females in the room are the moms. Bizarre. Anyway, Sheik and Volkoff bitch that no one brought their moms to the show. Actually, I was wrong. Blassie's "mom" is about 25 and vaguely hot, even for '85. The gist of this is that Moolah comes in and bitches about not being invited. She argues with Lauper. There's a cake present. Do the math. Poor Gene has to take the bump into the cake with Moolah. What'd he do?
-Announcers wrap up the show and we're out.
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