A common theme with the North-South in their WWF run is that they tend to spend large chunks of their matches on the back foot. A lot of stooging, a lot of bumping and selling, a lot of WWF heel in peril. You know, the common theme with every WWF tag of the era. I personally love the North-South in that situation because both are really great at those heel in peril things, and with how I consume wrestling I don't typically watch enough of the same thing back to back for the extended babyface shine segments to wear thin. And I will reiterate that Murdoch and Adonis are fucking awesome as heels in peril. The structure plays to their strengths, even if there are times where I do wish they'd get to play to their other strengths and work from above a little more. And well, this is one of those times where they get to work from above a little more. It was basically an extended mugging and an amazing one at that. Before the match starts Adonis gets run along the apron and flung into the post, taking the shot like a man with zero regard for his clavicles, then falls off the apron doing three pirouettes while trying to remove his jacket. I don't know what had happened before this but Rocky Johnson has a big forehead bandage that's already seeped in blood and Gene and Vince are yammering on about refereeing incompetence for letting the match even begin. Did any other wrestling company in America spend as much time ripping a hole through their officiating group? Or just any other company that does anything? A Premier League referee was literally stood down recently because he forgot to do his job properly and the commentators were less caustic towards him than every fucking commentator in the WWF is towards their referees. It's hard not to feel sorry for him when Murdoch and Adonis are being this big a pair of bastards. I'd love to see Okerlund keep a lid on things. Let's see McMahon take a better stab at it. Ah fuck it. They beat the whole entire brakes off Rocky Johnson, basically. That bandage was never long for the world and sure enough they rip it off and clonk him with a chair and Adonis bites him in the head and Murdoch measures him and punches him right in the cut. Once again they're both great at cutting the ring off, one of them holding Johnson's leg after tagging out so the other can properly measure their next shot. Adonis chokes him with the tag rope while Murdoch lifts his legs up and Tony Atlas tries not to pick up a skinny white referee and throw him into the fourth row. I never noticed how knock-kneed Tony Atlas was. They put that man on the road in his 50s to babysit Mark Henry and I bet he had arthritis like a bastard. Hate to see it. The North-South have a bunch of cool offence they can roll out and always add something new every match, this time Adonis' running bulldog being the highlight. In the end the match does get thrown out, whether it was a disqualification or a blood stoppage I'm not sure, but either way it was warranted. I'm guessing this leads to a rematch and I'm guessing it was good.
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