WWF Prime Time Wrestling (March 23, 1987)

 

Original Airdate: March 23, 1987

Your Hosts are Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan from the studio

Dino Bravo v Hillbilly Jim: From Toronto Ontario Canada on March 15. Some back and forth, until the referee gets clobbered by Bravo. And you’d better believe that’s a DQ at 5:32. DUD

Sivi Afi v Ivan MacDonald: From London Ontario Canada on March 16. Sivi puts this goof away at 5:56. Yawn. DUD

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

Frank Tunney Sr Memorial Tournament Semifinal Match: Demolition v The Can-Am Connection: From Toronto on March 15. Okay, finally something we can sink our teeth into. Smash and Tom Zenk start, and Smash smashes him. Tag to Rick Martel for some double teaming, and Smash ends up on the outside. I never realized Zenk also wore those overlong laces on his boots. I always thought that was a Martel thing. Smash with a cross corner whip, but the charge in misses, and Rick gets a wristlock on. Tag to Ax, but he gets into trouble when the babyfaces double team again, and they work his arm. Rick gets into heel trouble to turn the tide, however, and Demolition go to work at cutting the ring in half. Zenk catches the hot tag, and Roseanne Barr the door! Everyone brawls, and the Connection end up getting counted out at 8:57. Not much, but at least it had star power and cachet. ½*

Gene catches up with WWF Intercontinental Champion Randy Savage, who has a cup of coffee for Ricky Steamboat, since that’s all Ricky will get: a cup of coffee in the big time

SD Jones v Red Demon: From London on March 16. Joined in progress, and finished when Jones hooks a sunset flip at 8:13 shown. Let’s safely call this a DUD

Frank Tunney Sr Memorial Tournament Quarterfinal Match: The Killer Bees v Sika and Kamala: From Toronto on March 15. Jim Brunzell starts with Sika, as Gorilla grills Jimmy Hart about why he isn’t putting the tag title on the line at WrestleMania. It’s a six-man tag, idiot. The Bees stick and move on Sika, but B. Brian Blair gets into trouble, and the heels go to work. Gorilla wonders if the ‘paintings’ Kamala puts on his belly hold any significance. To certain Hasbro collectors, they certainly do. Brunzell catches the tag, and Sika eats a dropkick at 8:24. ¼*

Gene catches up with WWF Tag Team Champions The Hart Foundation and Danny Davis, who discuss how they’ve gotten Danny ready to wrestle. And Davis is feeling so good that he’s going to slap people around at WrestleMania. I mean, if they took him to the Dungeon, he’s probably legit

Jose Luis Rivera v Johnny K-9: From London on March 16. Johnny is simply ‘from Romania.’ Pick a city yourself, doesn’t matter. Rivera with a dropkick at 5:28. A main event anywhere in Romania. DUD

Frank Tunney Sr Memorial Tournament Quarterfinal Match: Don Muraco and Bob Orton v Paul Orndorff and King Kong Bundy: From Toronto on March 15. Okay, interesting. Don and Paul start, and they posture. Tags around the horn, and Bundy dominates Bob, so Don comes in with a cheap shot. Tags back to Don and Paul, and Paul ends up in a bearhug. Tag to Bundy for the avalanche in short order, so Bob tags back in. He hits Bundy with a splash for two, so Paul tags in, and runs wild. An atomic drop gets him two when Don saves, so Bundy comes in, and Roseanne Barr the door. Don grabs Mr. Fuji’s cane, but accidentally nails Bob with it, and Orndorff covers at 6:18. This didn’t really work, but it was interesting, at least. ¼*

BUExperience: Remember when Phoebe and Mike went to dinner at Mike’s parents’ house, and there was that third couple there that Mike said were the ‘most sinfully boring people’ he’d ever met? That’s what this show is. Superstars is Phoebe and Mike. Challenge is Mike’s parents. This is those other two assholes silently sipping their soups, while Jose Luis Rivera does his shit in the corner.