Goody Bag 92: Timestamps

 

Six-Man Tag Team Match: Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, and Jim Duggan v Undertaker, Ric Flair, and Jake Roberts: TV taping dark match from Corpus Christi Texas on December 2 1991. Piper and Flair start, and they posture. Everyone gets a turn in to do some posturing in various pairings, until Duggan gets into trouble against Undertaker, and the heels cut the ring in half on him. Well, you had to know he was taking the heat segment in this group. Jim fights Flair off long enough to tag Piper, and Roddy unloads on the Nature Boy. Piper with a backdrop and a kneelift, and he throws down in the corner, so Ric takes a cheap shot to shake him off. Tag to Undertaker, and the heels work Piper over now, cutting the ring in half. Macho gets the hot tag, and Flair quickly eats the flying elbowdrop at 8:43. Not the finish I would have predicted there. Did they pick that out of a hat? ½*

Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage v Jake Roberts and Berzerker: TV taping dark match from Amarillo Texas on January 28 1992. Hulk starts with Berzerker, and Berzerker hammers on him, but misses a dropkick. That allows Hulk to clothesline him over the top, but Berzerker rushes back in, so Hogan does it a second time. Berzerker rushes in again, so Hulk gives him an atomic drop, and tags Macho in to pound with jabs. Berzerker rakes the eyes to shake him off, and he passes to Jake to throw a series of his own jabs. Jake dumps Randy over the top for Berzerker and Mr. Fuji to abuse, and the heels take control, working Savage over. Hulk gets the hot tag, and we’re running wild brother, until Jake runs away. He looks to take the intentional countout, but Undertaker blocks his path in the aisle, and forces him back. That allows Hogan to grab him, and he hits a big boot, then a schoolboy at 7:49. ½*

Eight-Man Tag Team Match: Undertaker, Steve Austin, Cactus Jack, and Chainsaw Charlie v Rock, Farrooq, Kama Mustafa, and D-lo Brown: From Uniondale New York on December 29 1997, in a dark match. Cactus and Chainsaw dominate D-lo early on, so he tags Rock in, who shows him how it’s done against Charlie. Unfortunately for him, Charlie tags Austin, and Rock is on the run. He passes back to D-lo to do the dirty work, and since this is before the Sopranos even started airing, Brown isn’t aware that he don’t gotta do his dirty work no more. Brown wears Steve down before passing back to Rock to capitalize, but Austin wins a slugfest, and hits Rock with a Thesz press. Stunner, but Rock blocks, and bails. Austin chases, and Jack nails Rock on the outside to help his partner. Inside, Charlie tags in with a wristlock, but Rock goes to the eyes, and passes to Faarooq to beat on Chainsaw. Backdrop, but Charlie uses a DDT to block. Tags to Jack and Kama, and Kama unloads on him. The heels work Cactus over, until he manages to shake Faarooq off long enough to tag Undertaker, and Roseanne Barr the door! Austin hits Rock with a stunner for the pin at 7:33. Just a low gear way to end the night and send the crowd home happy. ½*

Vic Grimes v Erin O'Grady: From Davis California on January 20 1998, in a WWF tryout match for the future Crash Holly (O'Grady). O'Grady dodges him in the corner, and tries sticking and moving, but the bigger Grimes chucks him across the ring. O'Grady manages to knock him to the outside for a dive, but Grimes beats the count in. O'Grady puts him in a headlock, but Grimes escapes, and wins a criss cross with a sidewalk slam. Grimes with a backelbow, and a torture rack drop follows. Grime with a sitout facebuster for two, so he dumps O'Grady to the outside, and grabs a chair to make a bigger point. He sits O'Grady down in the chair on the outside, and tries to dive at him, but misses. Both guys beat the count in, and Grimes snaps his throat across the top rope to swing the momentum back in his favor. Grimes tries a 2nd rope somersault senton splash, but O'Grady dodges, and goes on the comeback trail. A springboard flying DDT leads to a slingshot rana, but a second one gets countered into a cutter, giving Grimes the pin at 7:04. This wasn’t a proper, fluid match, but they were doing a lot for a dark tryout match, and you have to appreciate them for it. ¾*