I thought this was okay, although admittedly it's not entirely my thing. If you're a fan of the rampant Dump-ish interference stuff and the associated chaos then I can get why someone would love it, but for the most part I've probably seen about all I need to see of that particular brand of nonsense by now. I'm not huge on the Crush Gals as a team either. Or Asuka in general and I much prefer bulkier 90s Chigusa. But they were perfectly solid in their roles here and of course the crowd were a million percent mental for them. Just sheer lunacy from word one. You'd think a genuine murder was afoot when Dump stabbed Asuka in the head with those scissors and then Asuka came up bloodied like a scene from a horror film and everyone went even more ballistic after that. Lola and Galactica were awesome as usual. Both were taking reckless bumps off the top rope where you could buy them crushing Asuka or Chigusa had the moves they attempted actually connected, plus they were cheapshotting and biting and scratching and pretty much everything else they shouldn't have been doing but were never actively deterred from because these 80s joshi refs will let EVERYTHING go. To be fair at least they're consistent with it. If I'm Dump and I can waltz in the ring and stab someone with scissors with impunity then why the hell wouldn't I? The Crush Gals' comeback was scorching as well, I'll give them that.
Bruiser Brody v Abdullah the Butcher (Cage Match) (WCCW, 10/12/84)
I had some fairly high hopes for this. Unfortunately they weren't quite met and I much preferred the match from a couple months earlier, but there was some decent stuff here all the same. I actually think the stipulation hurt it. Usually with a cage match, you put two bloodthirsty maniacs in there and you're likely to see some gnarly shit. We never really got anything gnarly though and the best thing about the August match was that they were free to roam around and pick up a chair or a microphone or fight amongst the crowd and whatever. They could also play off Gary Hart around ringside. The cage restricted or outright eliminated all of that and these are not the men to be CONFINED. At least not unless Abby is being handcuffed to that cage and hit with a plank until he starts convulsing and you wonder if this isn't all a bit disturbing. Also Fritz as the guest ref' kind of took some of the focus off of Brody, which is partly understandable as it's Dallas and Fritz is the original Von Erich and of course he's not going to slink into the background. But Abdullah's act works better when the ref' doesn't actually catch him stabbing someone with a fork, let alone take the fork and stab Abdullah with it. Honestly, Brody kind of felt like an afterthought in the end, practically crawling bloodied and battered over Abdullah's carcass after Fritz had slaughtered the poor fella. I'm guessing Brody had burned most of his bridges in America by this point to agree to that.
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