Loss Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted November 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2012 Very good match. Kind of pedestrian at times, but there were some hot false finishes at the end, and I liked the slow build. Shawn getting a win over DiBiase at this point, even by DQ is a big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted November 14, 2012 Report Share Posted November 14, 2012 Really hot opening with Michaels absolutely murdering DiBiase with a dropkick. Ted is sort of standard when he's in control but Michaels does take some tremendous bumps, and we go back and forth a few times instead of the usual shine+heat+comeback WWF formula match. Jannetty and Virgil both get involved and it's a double-DQ. Remember when the WWF wasn't obsessed with jobbing guys out in their hometowns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Really wished the time allotted for this and Tito/Perfect would have been switched. Lord Alfred says he has never seen Shawn wrestle in singles which means he doesn't watch wrestling challenge. We also get Gorilla ragging on Joey Morella for his shoddy officiating. Match was good but I thought some of Dibiases offense and work on top was boring. Match actually ends in double dq instead of the double countout that is originally announced by the ring announcer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 I thought this was good. I thought Michael's hope spots were real good. Dibiase using the chinlock got tedious at times though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Dibiase overmatches early with a series of armdrags. Michaels comes back with a couple dropkicks and armdrags of his own. Referee Marella getting physically involved by repeatedly pushing Michaels out of pinning position due to Dibiase using the tights in plain sight. Dibiase misses his turnbuckle back elbow drop. Michaels get a really close two count on a diving cross body but Virgil gets involved. Match ends in a disqualification. I was totally expecting a Dibiase win here. Michaels handled himself pretty good in singles match. Nice match but below what we are currently seeing in WCW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 I thought this was a bit better than most of what we have seen from the WWF on this yearbook so far, but nothing particularly great. Michaels takes a spin bump off of a weak DiBiase clothesline, which just looks fake and business exposing, and doesn't appear to have a ton of offense at this point and doesn't know what to do during his shine, but his selling when DiBiase is on top is good. We get a ddq, which I guess was a favor to Shawn since they were in San Antonio, and makes his spin bump a little more forgivable. Monsoon giving his son shit on commentary always makes me feel bad for the poor guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 I liked this match a lot better the second go-around. My first watch was about a year ago when I thought it was boring. This time, I could really see the frustration Shawn displayed at the outset when seemed like the singles wrestler was going to smoke the "tag specialist" then Michaels gets his dropkick and puts together a series of moves. You can see him grow with confidence with each side headlock takedown. DiBiase gets his foot up in the corner and actually has a pretty focused heat segment on the back. He does linger in the chinlock quite a bit, but he does seem to moving pretty well. Shawn gets a roll-up in a hope spot so he tosses Shawn out. Virgil runs distraction while he drops Shawn throat first across the railing. Shawn does a great job selling throughout the heat segment. Shawn back body drops out of the piledriver, which surely would have been it. DiBiase regain control only to miss the Tenryu elbow and takes a great back roll bump out of it. Shawn is on the comeback trail with a reverse atomic drop. I agree with the comments that Shawn didnt have much offense at this point and it felt pretty generic. He was never the offense of the Rockers team and Im sure someone would argue his offense never really got that good. Still, his babyface offense was fine and he hit a nice cross-body from the top to get a two. Virgil trips him up and Jannetty gives chase only to be leveled by DiBiase. They kill time until everyone comes in for the schmozz. The Rockers send everyone home happy with the double team moves to clear the ring and they announce it is a double disqualification. I am sure Shawn was over the moon to get to wrestle singles against the Million Dollar Man in his hometown. He did a pretty decent job for his major singles outing in the WWF. I don't think it was as good as Bret's match with Ted the year before, but Bret was a much more seasoned singles wrestler. Shawn has proven to me to be the better tag wrestler. It was a good TV match that gave a little more credibility to The Rockers and gave DiBiase something fun to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Like Kevin, I was expecting a rather decisive win for Teddy, so this match surprised me. Shawn looked pretty good for a so-called "tag team specialist", and that label and the way the WWF was faintly patronizing with it annoyed me back then, and still does. No other team was ever labeled that way, although as a rule tag team wrestlers very seldom had singles bouts in the WWF. Lord Alfred in particular made it sound like Shawn would be completely helpless in the ring against DiBiase, and constantly says that Shawn will be looking to tag Marty. I know he's not supposed to be on Jesse's, or even Heenan's, level as a commentator by now, but this was just ridiculous. At any rate, we also see Teddy looking solid when he's on offense, and Virgil's getting more physically involved as they slowly get the fans used to seeing him in combat. Of course, Teddy's big issue here is with Bossman, and we find out that Lord Alfred actually takes Teddy's side in the feud, which is interesting. The double DQ was a different finish than was usual in these bouts. Mike McGuirk, who never really got good at ring announcing, messes up so badly (by calling the finish a double countout) that even Gino calls her out on it, which is rare. As for his comments about Joey, he has a point; even though it's a fun spot to see when refs push wrestlers out of a pin that's assisted by the pulling of tights while in a headlock, they really aren't supposed to get physically involved in that way. Of course, I've seen Gino throw chops and give the heels bodyslams when he was a guest ref for Senior back in the late seventies, so maybe he doesn't have much room to talk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew wardlaw Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 Wow one of the better wwf matches so far. Shawn shows great fire from his tag experience. It seems like it might be easier to go from tag to singles than singles to tag and be successful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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