Thursday, December 12, 2013

Buddy Rose vs Steve Pardee - 10/27/79

Joined in progress. Pardee has a crew cut from his Playboy match and he starts out here by doing 18 armwrenches in a row. Obviously he's gunning for some revenge here and the crowd is behind him. Buddy pushes back but misses a punch hitting the ringpost as the crowd goes nuts. Pretty standard but effective armwork segment here. And it's varied enough and sold well enough by Buddy to make it work. Neither here nor there but the promotion was pretty great at this point. Sam Bass just came back and he wanted a piece of Rose still. Bastien was there to avenge Pardee who was actively trying to avenge himself and Piper was there for blood against Buddy too. They really set things up really well by having the babyfaces wanting revenge for all the heat Buddy got on them. 

Anyway, Buddy trapped him in the corner and took over, still making sure to sell his arm. Pardee fights back out of a chinlock but they do a nice little thing in delaying hte comeback for another second as he has to reverse a turnbuckle shot too. Pardee has a fiery comeback and keeps trying to get the pin on Buddy, but he tries for a splash and actually gets flipped over Buddy's knees in a kind of cool looking little spot. Then we get the repetition as Rose goes for his own and eats Pardee's knees. Pardee gets some shots in but Buddy hits the Robinson backbreaker out of nowhere. He picks him up at two and hits it again for the pin. Nice little match.

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