WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event (1-4-1986)

From the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT’S MAIN EVENT!

I don’t usually do entire show reviews, of course, but I don’t NOT do them, and this is a request! There will be a couple more, too. Plus SNME runs about 60 minutes and had a breeziness, so I’m looking forward to it.

Just a reminder that if you DO want to request a full show — which is welcome! — it, like, costs more than the normal $3. Because it is long and takes up a lot of my time. And what a great treat you get in the end! Me saying shit about wrestling to read while you take a crap or dump.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Adrian Adonis vs Bob Orton Jr (SWCW, 5-21-1983)

Southwest Championship Wrestling, Houston, TX

So after watching the Adrian Adonis “Dark Side of the Ring,” I wanted to take my own advice and watch some old Adrian Adronis. This is one that I always think of quick, because it’s the time I learned how much different pre-“Adorable Adrian” was.

This is on the Wrestling Gold DVD set that came out in the early 2000s, which features Dave Meltzer and Jim Cornette commentary on and over some matches from the early 80s, mostly. It was an invaluable sort of pickup for someone like me then; like, these aren’t all great matches, but the footage and commentary combination is incredible for someone who wanted to know more, and this was long before all this type of stuff was easy to get within seconds, minutes, or hours.

It also also incredibly strange to hear Meltzer and Cornette sitting and having reasonable conversations. It’s tough to get old and have the world change.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Hulk Hogan & Jimmy Snuka vs Bob Orton & The Magnificent Muraco (WWF, 5-18-1985)

WWF on NESN, Boston, MA

From Coliseum’s “The Best of the WWF Vol. 4.” A big tag match in Boston, headlining at the Boston Garden.

(Ko-fi)

Ricky Steamboat vs Bob Orton (WWF, 7-20-1985)

WWF Prime Time Wrestling, Landover, MD

The actual match date is July 20, 1985, this also aired on the Aug. 6, 1985 edition of Prime Time Wrestling. Orton and Steamboat had been in Mid-Atlantic together but actually had minimal ring time together that I can tell, working a series of tags in late ’83 that had Orton paired with Greg Valentine and Dick Slater and Steamboat with Youngblood.