[1987-08-19-Joint Promotions] Skull Murphy vs Jamaica George

[GOTNW]

Good grief finding accurate dates for european matches (accurate as in them matching up in OJ's list and the youtube upload description) is nearly impossible half the time. I really like the way Murphy uses holds to control his opponents and how he will resort to cheapshots and grinding away at their face once he's in trouble. He's also really good at cutting his opponents off-him goading George into attacking him while he was playing to the crowd in the corner only to cut him off with a Back Elbow ruled as did his Clothesline. The spot where George countered Murphy ramming his head into the corner post because his head was too hard was neat but George wasn't that interesting on offence, some solid dropkicks and headbutts but the repetition of them wasn't compelling. Geore did do an amazing sell job to set up the Gator. Finish was interesting and a neat way to put over Murphy's finishing hold. ***

 

edit: I just found the site where OJ gets hit dates from and this is actually 8/19 oooooops.