This is something. It's super heated compared to almost everything I've seen. Rose just works and works and works at the wound on Piper's head that he inflicted the previous tuesday. It's brutal, and makes the opening stretch where Rose gets the advantage totally believable. The nastiest part is sort of an atomic noogie of doom into it from a chinlock position. At one point Rose is literally putting his hand on either side of the cut and pressing it open. Piper grabs sympathy out of this, which is amazing since just a few days before he was the centerpiece of a battle royal with women in it because he'd been brutalizing one of them. Piper tries to fight out but Buddy keeps grinding him down with the nastiest chinlock variations there are, fishhooking and gouging and rabbit kneeing him and nooging again. Piper does a punch drunk facial expression better than anyone. Piper's comeback is something of a medium burn. He fights back. Buddy stomps him down but it's too late. The momentum has shifted and it feels not like a hulking up but like a hope spot come unglued. The crowd comes unglued too as Piper just starts to deconstruct Buddy with methodological violence. He picks him up after the first swinging neckbreaker and Buddy is BRILLIANT with these dead-armed flails against Roddy's torso, complete futility as Roddy hits another neckbreaker and takes the first fall.
Second fall: Piper shows amazing restraint here. He's really picking Rose apart. After a couple of minutes of this, he tosses Rose into the turnbuckle. Then things break down, literally. The second turnbuckle comes down and Piper misses this amazing flying front drop kick into the turnbuckle allowing Buddy to pick up the turnbuckle/hook and maul Piper until Dutch Savage can come in and stop him. I have no idea if the dropkick was supposed to be what dislodged it and it went early but it looked like Buddy was able to get out of the way because of it so it still works. Rose starts really working on the back as they fix the ring, including a great charge into the pole with Piper in his arms. Buddy goes nuts and dismantles more turnbuckles and there's just a great manic energy to the match. He hits the billy Robinson backbreaker but then picks him up just like Piper had. Piper fights back (which is a great tease of buddy's comeuppance) but Buddy gets him in it again. Awesome stuff.
Third fall begins with both guys really spent. Buddy puts on a bearhug, keeping on the back but Piper punches out including a nasty one to the lip. They end out on the floor and Wiskowski comes out nowhere to cheapshot Piper in the chaos. Rose gets back into the ring and that's the countout.
No wonder this popped the territory. Great great match.
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