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Black Scorpion is mentioned by Ross and they are expecting a statement. Ross is talking about the Falcons and Hawks. He can get a bit distracted when doing commentary by himself. Luger hits Arn low with the double knee. Both guys are drenched in sweat already. Must be hot as hell in the building. Arn survives the Torture Rack long enough for Flair and Sid to save him. Sting and JYD quickly follow to help Luger. JYD was slow to get to his feet. Sid could have stomped about twenty times.

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Nice little match here. These two headlined Main Event quite often during Luger's first face run in the summer of '88, and their matches were about like this one: good enough to make the audience feel like they were seeing something out of the ordinary, but not good enough to take away from their house show programs. There was no finish here, as everyone knew there wouldn't be.

 

What would have happened if TBS hadn't met the Black Scorpion's price to air that videotape, I wonder? :D

 

Look, I know we get on JR's case all the time for bringing up other sports a little too often, but brief mentions of the Falcons' kickoff dinner and the start of Hawks' training camp while Arn had Luger in a chinlock certainly doesn't qualify as being distracted, especially when the Hawks are a Turner property and JR works (or is about to start working) for the Falcons. We talk about promotions being trapped inside the wrestling bubble; at times, that applies to some of us (the fans) as well.

 

Can you imagine the phone bill someone could have run up if they'd called 1-900-909-9900 at 7:30 that night (the start of the Omni card) and stayed on until it was over? By my rough calculations based on a three-hour card, that's close to two hundred bucks. In most areas of the country, it would cost just as much to fly to Atlanta and buy tickets to see the card live. Talk about a racket!

 

For the general information, here's that Omni card according to Graham Cawthon. Would this have been worth two hundred bucks to hear over your phone?

 

Mike Rotundo pinned the Iron Sheik

Brian Pillman pinned Buddy Landell

Doom beat the Rock 'n' Roll Express to retain the World tag titles (Butch Reed pinned Ricky Morton)

Stan Hansen pinned Norman

JYD, Lex Luger and El Gigante beat the Horseman combination of Windham, Anderson, and Vicious (Luger pinned Arn)

Sting pinned Ric Flair to retain the World title despite interference from Arn and Windham

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