Buddy Rose/Roddy Piper/Ed Wiskowski/Killer Tim Brooks vs Ron Starr/Adrian Adonis/George Wells/Hector Guerrero - 4/7/79 - Elimination Tag

Well, THIS is pretty cool. Buddy doing a jig to Piper's bagpipes is awesome (There's also this great little 20 second segment later on where Rose and Piper are kneeling whispering strategy with each other). Shine has all the faces working on basically all the heels' arms. Piper is very much stand out here and he really adds something to the Rose/Wiskowski act (even if it's already great). Heels come back once or twice (Especially Ed who was particularly good at mixing vulnerable and dangerous), but the face stay dominant until we get some tomfoolery and a long, pretty good heat segment on Ron Starr with a lot of comebacks, dickish heel cutoffs and offense, and a great hot tag where Starr desperately avoided Rose around the ring for a minute first. The desperation made it okay he wasn't selling as much as he could, but even then, there was something punch drunk about how he did it and Rose was brilliant stooging while trying to stop him. They hit a cheap diving headbutt on Wells after the hot tag and he gets eliminated though.

Second fall starts with Adonis trying desperately to get out of the heels corner as they do roundabout clubbering on him. The fight out of the corner is really good here and while it's still a bit surreal to see Adonis as a face, he owns the role here. It opens up a bit and we get a few solid cut offs. He eventually gets the hot tag to Guerrero and Hector takes on everyone until he gets double teamed and it's really just a mauling with a double dumping onto the top turnbuckle, a huge toss in the air and multiple double gutbusters. nasty stuff and eventually they pin him much to the remaining faces' chagrin.

Third fall is basically the faces getting revenge on Brooks. Rose takes this visceral flying leap off the apron for a punch. Heels keep breaking up pins and what note until Wiskowski misses the diving headbutt(great call back to the fall on Wells) and nails Brooks, letting him get pinned. Piper thinks it's intentional and the heels explode as the crowd goes nuts They take Piper out with a Billy Robinson backbreaker/knee off the ropes combo and eventually, while ranting, eat the count out.

Really good stuff which makes sure to protect the guys who should be protected and make the guys who look strong strong, but really, once again, everyone comes out looking great.