Terrific little sprint. Strike Force are PEEVED after losing the tag titles at Wrestlemania and come out guns blazing from the start. Tito is always top tier when it comes to babyfaces who convey wanting to throttle you but Martel was dialing the intensity way up too, even going for the Boston Crab inside about 30 seconds. Every time the Demos try to halt their momentum Strike Force have an answer. Ax reels off a few big clubbing blows and grabs a containment headlock, but Martel scoots out the back, counters with three rapid fast arm-wringers and Ax takes an awesome flip bump on the third. You'd think Santana's life depended on them regaining the belts and Fuji was sweating bullets on the floor. They call him the devious one for a reason though and eventually his distraction pays off, allowing Ax to slide across the apron and catch Martel running the ropes with a knee to the back. Demolition really have some of the best clubbering. It wasn't always something I appreciated, but as I've grown old and enfeebled I appreciate the things that make me wince as if I were on the receiving end of it myself, and these clubbing forearms to the spine would surely leave me in a state unfit for purpose. Ax has especially great clubbering, and varied into the bargain - clubs to the neck, the shoulders, the mid back, the low back, everything credible and visceral and you also fully buy a headbutt from Ax stopping you dead in your tracks. The referee kind of sucks unfortunately, wandering out of position and clearly seeing Smash ram Martel's back into the ring apron, so in some ways you wonder if him missing the Santana hot tag and forcing him back out was actual incompetence. I 100% expected Gorilla to slaughter him on commentary but he never did so I guess maybe they were old drinking buddies or some such. When the proper hot tag comes the heat is right where you want it, though. Demolition end up getting flung into each other with a thud during the last hectic minute and Santana clobbers Smash with a gorgeous flying forearm, but Fuji is on hand again and jabs Tito in the throat with the cane as he's going for the Figure 4. Between this, the amazing Rockers match from December and a lost classic against the Bulldogs in July, Demolition had quite the year in 1988.
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