WWF 305 Live: Twin Towers Explode! Hogan Battles Afa!

Hulk Hogan vs. Afa WWF All Star Wrestling 4/14/84 - FUN

ER: There's no good reason this couldn't have been a couple minutes longer. Almost every 305 match that I've rated FUN/SKIPPABLE have only been rated that low due to lack of time. This match is two minutes long, and you can only do so many fun cool big man things in two minutes. Give any two large men 4-5 minutes in a ring, I will almost always love it. The biggest guys moving around each other is always fun! But there's no reason Afa should only be able to last two minutes against anyone, especially with Albano and Sika interfering at ringside. Afa bumps big for Hogan, and the crowd loves every second of Hogan bumping him around, and Afa was bumping so big so early that I was just waiting for that ankle grab from the floor so that he could take over for awhile. Instead, that didn't happen, and Hogan punched him a few times, hit the axe bomber, then the legdrop. After, he punched Sika and Albano off the apron, knocked Afa to the floor, and punched Albano and Sika again. Also, Afa was announced as Samoan #1, and Okerlund kept calling him Samoan #1 on commentary, while Vince only referred to them as Afa and Sika. I don't know what was going on. Match narrowly avoids SKIPPABLE status just because Hogan and Afa had really good chemistry. Wish we could have seen more of it. 

Big Boss Man vs. Akeem WWF WrestleMania VI 4/1/90 - FUN

ER: Here's another in WWF's weird habit of keeping big men to 2 minutes when they were more than capable of going longer. This show had WAY too many matches and the entrances took way too long because of the size of the Skydome, so you wound up with several sub 3 minute matches on a WrestleMania. Akeem looks incredible doing his One Dance, swimming in place on the ring entrance cart while Jive Soul Bro blares (Jive Swimming?). Boss Man gets jumped by Dibiase and takes a great beating on the floor, with a hard back bump off a Dibiase lariat, takes a hard bodyslam, and gets tossed hard into the barricade (no small feat as the ring was up on that big show stage and Boss Man had to cover the gap). It's a drag that the match proper was under 2 minutes, as the two minutes we got were filled with smooshing. Boss Man comes back with a great atomic drop (and an atomic drop isn't the kind of move I expect from two 350+ lb guys so I really loved its use here) and a Boss Man slam gets the easy pin. This was one of the matches on the show that actually had storyline reason to be happening, with a two year tag team now on opposite sides and a big Dibiase revenge mission against Boss Man, so it's brutal that it got less time than something like Rude/Snuka or literally every other match on this card. Bad time management robbed us of an excellent 6 minute Twin Towers explosion. I wanted to see the full collapse and implosion of the Twin Towers and this would have been the perfect place for it. 

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