WWF Prime Time Wrestling (March 2, 1987)

 

Original Airdate: March 2, 1987

Your Hosts are Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan from the studio

Sika v Moondog Spot: From Toronto Ontario Canada on February 15. Sika with a clothesline, and he adds a bodyslam for two right away. Sika goes to a front-facelock from there, but Spot counters to a wristlock. Sika counters back to the front-facelock, and a hiptoss grounds Spot for a headvice. Spot fights back to a vertical base, so Sika goes back to the facelock, but Spot gets into the ropes. Spot grabs another wristlock as they engage, but Sika fights him off, and pounds him in the corner. Back to the front-facelock, but Spot gets into the ropes again, so Sika hammers him. Another front-facelock, but Sika gets distracted by the fans, and Spot is able to slug at him. Spot goes on the comeback trail, but gets reversed into the corner, and the rebound allows Sika a Samoan drop at 6:51. They were working like it was 1977 here. ¼*

Ron Bass v SD Jones: From Toronto Ontario Canada on February 15. Heenan gets a funny line in here about how Blackjack Mulligan is clearly ripping Bass off. It’s all in his delivery, transcribing wouldn’t help. Bass takes him out with a jumping backelbow at 6:53. DUD

From Superstars, it's the contract signing between WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant for the main event of WrestleMania III. Everyone is amazing here. Bobby Heenan cuts a world class promo, Hulk perfectly gets over how edgy and nervous he is, and Andre is the perfect picture of calm menace

Gene Okerlund is in the control center with the WrestleMania III Report

Corporal Kirchner v Johnny K-9: From Toronto Ontario Canada on February 15. This is scheduled as Kirchner taking on Butch Reed, but Slick shows up, and reveals that Reed is suffering from the flu, and can’t compete. Kirchner puts this away with a Samoan drop at 11:17. This was really long for what it was. Thank goodness for Gorilla and Bobby’s banter to keep things interesting, otherwise this would be brutal. ¼*

King Kong Bundy v Billy Jack Haynes: From Superstars on February 28 (taped February 16) in New Haven Connecticut. This is actually a unique match. Bundy puts him down with a backelbow right away, but misses a splash, and Haynes unloads. Haynes stupidly tries a whip into the ropes, but Bundy reverses, and clotheslines him, as Hillbilly Jim split screens in, promising to protect his little partners at WrestleMania. Bundy with another clothesline, and a bodyslam follows. Avalanche, but Haynes dodges, and gets the full nelson on him! But then Bobby Heenan runs in for the DQ at 1:43. This was too short to be of note. Afterwards, Haynes tries to go after Heenan, but Hercules attacks, and works with Bundy to deliver a Heenan Family beatdown. DUD

Six-Man Tag Team Match: Greg Valentine, Brutus Beefcake, and Adrian Adonis v Rick Martel, Tom Zenk, and Lanny Poffo: Also from the February 28 episode of Superstars. Adonis loses his cool over Poffo’s poem, and everyone brawls to start, with the babyfaces cleaning house. The dust settles on Beefcake and Martel, and Rick reverses a turnbuckle smash. A criss cross ends in Martel hooking a backslide for two, so Beefcake goes low, and passes to Greg for a flying axehandle. Greg tries a wristlock, but Rick reverses, and passes to Tom. Zenk grabs a wristlock, so Hammer throws chops at him. Zenk tries a rollup, but Greg blocks, only to miss an elbowdrop. Zenk responds with a pair of dropkicks, but gets clobbered while charging into the corner. Tag to Beefcake, but Zenk slips past him for a tag to Rick. Martel runs wild on Beefcake, so all the heels come in, but Rick dispatches them on his own. Adonis responds by grabbing scissors, but he accidentally cuts Beefcake’s hair, and Martel schoolboys at 3:34. Afterwards, a furious Beefcake gets in Adrian’s face, but nothing comes of it beyond words. This was short, but all action. And, it serves as an origin story for the Barber gimmick that Brutus would adopt after WrestleMania. * ¼

Pedro Morales v Paul Orndorff: From Toronto on February 15. Morales wins a criss cross with a shoulderblock, and a bodyslam follows, so Paul bails to regroup. Paul manages a cheap shot to gain control, and he works Pedro over, but Morales wins a criss cross with a bodypress - only for Orndorff to roll through at 4:24 - the referee missing the foot on the ropes. ¼*

The Hart Foundation v The Killer Bees: From Toronto on February 15, in non-title action, which is pretty funny, given how many interviews they were giving about being ‘fighting champions’ during this period. Jim Neidhart starts with Jim Brunzell, and tries to grab a bearhug, but Brunzell claps his ears. Tag to B. Brian Blair, and the Bees work Anvil’s arm with quick tags. Blair tries a sunset flip, but gets clobbered by Bret Hart, and the Foundation gain control. They work Blair over, until he manages to get to the outside, and the Bees put on the masks to do an illegal switch. Brunzell runs wild, and a bodyslam on the Hitman gets two. A dropkick gets another two when Anvil saves, and Blair does another illegal switch to allow him a flying sunset flip on Hart at 8:38. There was surprisingly little going on here. ½*

BUExperience: Monsoon and Heenan continue to be entertaining together, and can carry even bad stuff just through their banter, but most of the actual matches are a chore.