[1977-08-13-Joint Promotions] Alan Sarjeant & Steve Grey vs Zoltan Boscik & Sid Cooper

[Microstatistics]

Amazing exchanges + awesome character work + lightning pace = classic **** 1/4

[GSR]

I wrote this from the point of Sarjeant when I was watching his stuff for the GWE project. I don't give star ratings, but if I did it would be nowhere near 4 1/2 which seems overly generous to me.

 

It's a shame that of the seven matches on film that this is one of them. Sarjeant is a replacement for Johnny Saint here, and sadly this match does nothing for him. In fact he's the weakest of the four and it's more a showcase for Grey who at one point pulls out this fantastic double top wristlock reversal into a dropkick on both Cooper and Boscik. It was a decent match up until the first fall with some good double teaming behind the referee's back from the heel team, especially from Cooper who was someone that I've never really cared for in the past. The match went completely to pot after the first fall with Grey getting the equalizing pin in 27 seconds, then the heels were DQ'd in the third fall at just 37 seconds. It's actually pretty heated in the crowd at the end with an old lady trying to pull Boscik off Grey, someone sliding into the ring and grabbing referee Max Ward's leg and another member of the crowd throwing punches at the prone Cooper! One for the Sarjeant completists only, and I'm glad that I know it'll get much better for him from now on.