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- World Mid-Heavyweight title:  The Great Gama v. Dynamite Kid.  Gama was the founder of uber-heel group Karachi Vice in Stampede, and was a pretty solid worker, albeit one with a penchant for stalling like a mofo.  Kid overpowers him, but eats knee and gets put in the dreaded VULCAN NERVE PINCH OF DEATH.  We’re JIP after about 10:00 of stalling by Gama, sez Ed.  Kid seems to stop cooperating for a second, turning a kneelift into an awkward takedown that goes into a kneebar, before heading up for a missile dropkick.  He pounds away, HARD, and tosses Gama.  You have to think Benoit extended his own career by about 10 years because he didn’t bring Dynamite’s foul temper along with everything else he borrowed from his style.  They brawl at ringside and Kid brains him with one of the solid plastic chairs that Stampede used.  Gama blades.  Back in, Kid starts chopping but gets caught with a cheapshot.  They do a tombstone reversal spot, won by the Kid, and he ties Gama in the Tree of Woe before Leo Burke runs in for the weak DQ at 5:01.  Cheap finish, but Dynamite was just beating the hell out of Gama.  **   

- Dynamite Kid v. The Cobra (George Takano).  Cobra is a Japanese guy playing a Pakistani guy.  Hey, it’s no stupider than Yokozuna, a Samoan guy playing a Japanese guy.  JIP at 10:00, as Cobra misses a dramatic charge, and Kid starts working the leg.  Of course, just to mess with my head, it’s the RIGHT leg.  Half-crab, but Cobra escapes.  Kid drops him with something dangerously close to a backdrop driver and lets loose with VICIOUS chops.  I mean, the kind that rattle your teeth from 15 feet away.  Cobra bodypresses him for two, and he tries a victory roll, but Kid blocks for two.  They collide for the double KO, but Cobra covers for two.  Small package gets two, suplex and elbowdrop get two.  Kid fights back with more incredibly stiff shots, but Cobra mulekicks him down and hits a senton.  He goes up and misses another one, so Kid then goes up and hits him with a missile dropkick and unloads the chops again.  What a bastard.  That gets two, and Cobra stomps him down and piledrives him for two.  Side salto gets two.  Butterfly suplex gets two.  They head out, and when Cobra tries a suplex back in, Kid’s manager JR Foley does the old hook the foot routine and Kid gets the pin at 7:10.  Didn’t like the finish, but the match was jaw-droppingly stiff at times and 15 years ahead of it’s time for North America.  ****   

- Davey Boy Smith v. The Cobra.  And now he gets the other half of the Bulldogs.  Smith was in his in-between period, once he discovered steroids but before he discovered he REALLY REALLY liked steroids.  We’re JIP about 20:00 in.  Smith reverses a piledriver and overpowers him, but they do an RVD-ish reversal sequence before Smith clotheslines him for two.  They slug it out, won by Smith, for two.  He hits the chinlock.  Cobra bails and comes back in with forearms and a kneedrop.  He goes up with a senton from the top (this is like 1980 here, remember), but Smith is in the ropes.  Davey comes back with an elbow and no-sells a dropkick, and we get the double-KO.  Someone fucked up there.  Cobra gets two, then goes up for a splash with Davey ¾ of the way across the ring, and misses.  Not for lack of distance, though.  Smith gets the delayed suplex for two. 

Running powerslam goes for naught because Cobra lands in the ropes.  So Smith goes the brute force route, tying up Cobra in the ropes and banging away on him.  Sadly Davey makes the same error he always does, making a blind charge at the ropes and then crotching himself when Cobra moves.  Cobra goes nuts with a flurry of strikes, but Davey catches a quick crucifix for the pin at 7:30.  Cobra did a great job carrying the young Davey Boy.  ***    More...

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