PC: Mountain Dew, Queso dip, and WCW. Man, it doesn’t get much better than this. I am still in the track suit, Coach has switched over to gym shorts, and we are ready to go.
Coach: The bathrobe was getting a little stuffy.
PC: Rick Rude out first.
Coach: Good thing I changed out of the bathrobe. I would have been ashamed when I compared it to Rick Rude’s gorgeous attire.
PC: Rude tries to get out a pre-match speak but the crowd is totally drowning him out. Man, they don’t make crowds like this anymore. Rude says his piece but I honestly couldn’t catch a word of it. Steamboat makes his entrance next and the crowd, as always, loves him.
Coach: The announcers tells us that Steamboat won the US Championship way back in his rookie year. That would be like Darren Young beating R-Truth for the title on Raw next week.
PC: Coach, please don’t compare Darren Young to Ricky Steamboat. We get a short feeling out process to start but Steamboat takes control with chops and classic armdrags.
Coach: Why is there a ninja at ringside?
PC: Because it’s WCW. Even when they did good stuff, there was always massive stupidity involved. Steamboat works the arm.
Coach: Rude apparently used to be an arm-wrestling champion. You pair that with the US Title I think you have the most decorated athlete in history.
PC: Rude tries to fight away, but Steamboat stays in control with an armbar.
Coach: Jesse Ventura spends most of his announcing time pandering to the electorate.
PC: Steamboat kicks and chops Rude’s arm before throwing the armbar back on. Steamboat hits the awesome hammerlock bodyslam combo and then goes right back to the armbar. Rude fights out, but Steamboat hits a bodypress, an armdrag, and we’re back to the armbar.
Coach: Ventura keeps talking about The Dangerous Alliance. That must explain the ninja. Dangerous Alliance really spells out the group’s intentions. They might as well be called, “Group of Evil People.”
PC: Rude takes control by hitting a bodypress of his own and then throwing Steamboat to the outside. Rude poses for the crowd.
Coach: He has the physique of a mid-90’s baseball player.
PC: The Steroid Era is the one time that professional wrestling was ahead of the curve. Rude with a headlock on Steamboat. This match is all about the fundamentals. Rude hits a clothesline and then sells the damage to his arm. Awesome. Rude with a neckbreaker.
Coach: Jesse tries to explain how that move is a setup for the Rude Awakening but he trips over his own words and breaks the announce table.
PC: Rude with a big backdrop. Steamboat kicks out at two. Rude goes right back to the headlock. Steamboat counters with a shin breaker followed by a Figure Four.
Coach: I like how they’ll come out with chairs and chains and it’s so illegal and they do it anyway. Yet as soon as the guy reaches the ropes, everybody lets up right away.
PC: Rude hits a clothesline to the back of Steamboat’s neck and then continues to work out of the headlock. Steamboat powers out and they run the ropes until they collide in mid-air.
Coach: “You’re looking at what happens when two frogs leap at the same time.” Maybe Jesse Ventura’s finest piece of oration.
PC: Rude with a sleeper hold on Steamboat. Steamboat struggles but Rude won’t let up. Steamboat ends up getting a sleeper of his own, but Rude counters with a jawbreaker. Steamboat hits a HUGE superplex but Rude kicks out at two. Steamboat mocks Rude’s posing to the crowd’s delight.
Coach: Oh snap.
PC: Steamboat hits his whole repertoire of offense including a top rope clothesline. Steamboat goes to the top again, only to have the ninja at ringside nail him in the head with a bulky cellphone.
Coach: One referee requirement that I forgot in our earlier post: “Are you really good at looking the other way?”
Final Thoughts
Coach: Good match between two very equal wrestlers. And Jesse “The Body” Ventura was announcing. And I had delicious chips and dip. A thumbs up from me.
PC: Pretty fine wrestling here. Even with a ninja involved and a finish that had nothing to do with Steamboat’s arm work or Rude’s neck work which made up the entire match. The marathon continues…
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