Found Footage Friday: HANOVER 86~!

Hanover 

9/86

Franz Schuhmann vs. Steve Wright

MD: Four shows. Mainly the layperson appeal is Bull Power against all of these guys but it's nice to see some shows not even on wrestlingdata with guys we've been watching in 80/81 and some others. They fit 4 hours onto this tape and we'll see how many shows we make it through this week. We have dates for the subsequent shows but not this one but it's probably the first few days of September 1986.  Everything is clipped but you tend to get the flow and a lot of fun spots. 

For instance, you get a lot of Wright really stymieing Schuhmann here with his meticulous precision, Even when Franz has a good counter, like looping one leg over the other to turn Wright over, Wright just moves into a cartwheel to get out of it. There's some fun bits where they hang onto holds through escape attempts (there Wright lets Franz hang on even as he does a scooping hip takeover for instance). Some fun pin exchanges too where they both end up laying there. If this boiled over we don't see it but as things progress to rope running, we've seen Wright win enough times that even without the actual finish, we can imagine it.

ER: It's too bad this is so heavily clipped. Weight looks extremely spirited all match and I love when he tries out tricks. The clips mean we miss on some of Wright's move application, and I like seeing how he gets into and out of things. He works his way into several inventive and firm submissions on Schuhmann, but we never get to see how Schuhmann gets out of most of them, nor how Wright maneuvers through them. We get to see a lot of Wright getting into things, and that in itself is great. He is a clever Dean Malenko, a Dean Malenko with follow through and natural progression through holds. I don't have any experience with 80s Franz Schuhmann. I've seen plenty of mid 90s Schuhmann but no mid 80s. This match doesn't offer much insight, it's clipped into a Wright highlight reel, but I loved the way Wright maneuvered him through sequences. A series of rolling Malenko nearfalls actually felt like something, and ended with both men lying flat on top of each other, a rest neutral position that hasn't been seen in pro wrestling in 40 years.  

Tony St. Clair vs. John Quinn

MD: Quinn had superior size but got plenty of heat by going with inside shots or hair pulls to keep St. Clair on his back leg as well as just bullying him around. Nice Tony chant here. He always had a connection with these German crowds (as early as 86 we can see now). Tony would finally get one over on Quinn and use a  headcissors and they'd do the Gotch Lift style spot but out of the headscissors which you never ever see and is really the damndest thing. We get this a number of times but the clipping means it's never QUITE as clear as I'd like. They take it out of the ring and then back in from the apron, working in and out of it. A very cool spot (and way to spend a few minutes). Quinn bullies St. Clair some more, tossing him out, but St. Clair comes back with a number of nearfalls en route to the time limit draw.

ER: Quinn kicked ass here. There are very few men today who look like John Quinn and none of them are trying to become wrestlers. I like Quinn, a worker I don't think I'd seen before Matt and I started writing about Germany, but this is the coolest I've seen him. He's a monster, a sadist. I don't remember him being so sadistic in the '81 footage we've written about. This was mostly Quinn beating St. Clair's ass, as viciously and as stiff as I've seen him beat someone. He's a hard hitting bully, hitting St. Clair hard enough that St. Clair gets loud reactions any time he's in control (which isn't much, that we saw). Everything Quinn does looks mean. Kicking Tony in the back with a scoff, hammering him several times with punches to the stomach that St. Clair sold as if he didn't think he was actually getting punched in the stomach, headlock punches so good that you realize it's been ages since you've anyone do a headlock punch even thought they're literally always good. Holding a headlock away from a referee, unleashing your inner Nolan Ryan just once, elevating yourself as a wrestler to all who see? Easiest shortcut to looking like a great wrestler, right there for the taking. Headlock punches, gone. Why don't you see brown cars anymore? 

Eddy Steinblock vs. Bull Power

MD: This isn't 89 Vader here. He's only been wrestling for about a year and he's been a babyface for a lot of that, even if he had another tour of Germany before this. He's out with the flag and a trucker hat and windbreaker type jacket and American flag, shoving fans away before the bell. Also attacking Steinblock with the flag before the bell, which gets the exact right reaction from the get go. 

He's raw but there's a lot to like. You don't want to look away a bit due to the rawness, not just in spite of it. He has brutal looking blows from every angle, plus the Vader Attack (with a big pose) and usage of the ropes or just wrenching his back over the corner turnbuckle. He'll just throw in a knee on Steinblock or lean on him with one. Some of it got a little repetitive since he only had so much stuff (the back elbow and Vader Attack hit multiple times) but it was all doing damage so you hardly cared. Steinblock came back with dropkicks and big sweeping blows (to huge crowd reaction since they cared about Vader already) but he missed a splash onto the leg and Vader never really looked back, crushing him with an Avalanche and a Splash for the win. Definitely a way to establish him for later, bigger matches.

ER: Not much Vader earlier than this. This is Vader at his most long haul trucker, with the perfect wrestling body and his sweet round face. He shifts side to side with soft polite eyes during the long in ring introduction ceremony with everyone from the tour, but when he's out for his match he's taunting everyone with an American Flag. An odd sized American flag, Vader's belly sticking out under his short, zipped, normal man's windbreaker jacket. Pointing to the flag, doing ethnic heel "How about that, huh? How about that right there!" Cheap heat diner brawler Vader, Bull Power, works the best Eddy Steinblock match I've ever seen, because he just beasts Steinblock's ass and makes him sell and bump. If it's not the best Steinblock match, it's the most compelling. I haven'y seen any 80s Steinblock, but I've seen plenty of 90s Steinblock where he's booking himself on top forever. It's wild to see him get punched around and beaten up bad by Vader. Bull Power doesn't have all of Vader's presence and size confidence, but he knows he can hit hard and throw his weight around. This man looked tough and out of place, a different cool version of a favorite.  

Axel Dieter/Steve Casey vs. Le Grand Vladimir/Rasputin II

MD: A feel good tag. We've seen a bunch of these now but the clipping made it seem even more so since you never really saw the heels on top. Maybe they never were even over two falls. This had heel miscommunication, Vlad walking into a bunch of spots (the best was when he armdragged nothing and was made to look the fool), Dieter playing the hits and Rasputin bringing size and energy in his bumping and Casey relative youth. You got some fun moments in here but it was harder than the other matches to get a real sense of things past Vlad's annoyance with Rasputin.

ER: We only have four minutes of this, but we see a lot in four minutes. Matt and I are the only two people in the world who talk about Le Grand Vladimir and this is the first I'm seeing him five years older, and he's somehow even better. This German style that nobody cares about that acts as a fountain of youth to older tall brutes. Vladimir works as stooging brute great at getting caught off guard by Steve Casey, a chance to nuanced bad partner bullshit with Rasputin, five years older but taking faster bumps to the floor than in 1981. I was blown away by how strong Casey's fundamentals were, admittedly more so when I thought it was Texas Steve Casey. No, British Steve Casey has the fundamentals and worked real strong as a babyface with heavyweight moving dropkicks and snug headlocks. Dieter is eternally loudly over, a god. Steve Casey looked like he belonged with Dieter in every big babyface moment, a natural fit. 

9/5/86

Franz Schuhmann vs. Hansi Rooks

MD: Rooks is kind of like if you merged Vader with Harley Race, in look at least. He's a real jerk. Schuhmann had a connection with the audience which reminds me of UFO and especially Sal to a degree and it made sense he'd be a top guy there for years after this. He went sailing out at Rooks' hands right towards the camera to start and then pulled back in. Then Rooks had the audacity to go for a handshake and kick him. When Rooks was beating on him on the outside and got a yellow card, he merrily waved to the crowd on the way back in. You have to like his style at least. Franz had some fiery comebacks including dropkicks that knocked Rooks out of the ring or that pinballed him, but Rooks eventually won it with a nice tilt a whirl slam.

ER: You're telling me that there was a big fat guy with Harley Race hair out there named Hansi Rooks?! Fans wanted to see Otto Wanz's body with the familiar blond curls of Harley, with a name honoring Razzle Dingley. I've never heard of this guy and neither have you. He's the perfect kind of brute for our German tent shows, a big heel who knows how to kick and punch and is a real bully. That's what they wanted to see and that's the 80s German heel style I've grown accustomed to. Rooks is not as good as Quinn or Vladimir or Wiskoski or Vader and he leans out of strikes but he is one of them and this was a fun, clipped look. His clubbing to Schuhmann's chest looked heavy and his finishing slam was cool, but this was just a glimpse. 

Otto Wanz vs. Col. Brodey

MD: I'll be honest that part of the appeal of the 80-81 shows is that there's just a bit less of the familiarity we've already had with later 80s German footage. Guys like Brodey and Guajardo. They're fine and generally functional but I've liked getting to know Morowski better for instance. 

So this felt familiar, almost stereotypical. It was, of course, a nightmare of a time for Brodey. Wherever he tried to go, whatever he tried to do, Wanz was there. He'd go for a full nelson and Wanz would butt butt him. He got whipped into the corner and belly attacked. Wanz would throw these brutal looking hamhocks or take him down with a swank tricked out armbar takeover. Once or twice Brodey would pry off a leg and have some hope but Wanz would just kick him across the ring or propel him that way out of a pin. When he hit the flip senton and the splash it was a mercy, even if Brodey's ineffectual kicking might have said otherwise. Obviously, the crowd loved it all of course.

Bull Power vs. Axel Dieter

MD: We're lucky to have this footage. It's very good, even if Leon was just figuring it out still. Dieter was not and he knew exactly what to do, charging in right at the start and doing some damage. The ref wasn't going to let him go wild so early though and Vader used that distraction to snatch Axel's throat. He'd do these lifting hanging tree chokes, put him down and just clobber him. It looked great. He had plenty of Vader attacks and back elbows and a tendency to move Axel around by his throat. Dieter would come back when he could, either throwing desperate shots, or after Vader missed a corner charge or he could duck a back elbow. The place went nuts as he just laid into him with uppercuts and punches. All it took was one shot from Vader to turn things right back around though. Both men went over the top once or twice (with Axel able to use Vader's weight against him) and things devolved on the floor. This was raw but well worth watching.

Klaus Wallas vs. Eddy Steinblock

MD: Wallas was a judoka in the 1976 Olympics which more or less made his pro career and got him runs in New Japan. He picked up a thing or two there like the enziguiri he used at the end of one round. he was 43 and at the tail end of his career but he had presence and confidence as he moved around. My favorite thing he did was this little duck around to whack Steinblock in the back to cut him off. The first time we see him do it, he does it in the lower back with an outright slap and it looks nasty. Steinblock would come back which would mean mostly whips into the corner and mares for Wallas. I get the sense he wasn't taking too many big bumps anymore, but the fans ate it up anyway. I liked the finish which had Wallas whipped, do a little do-si-do where he hooked the arm to whip Steinblock back the other way, where he caught him in that European arm drag slam that ended so many matches.

Steve Wright/Klaus Kauroff vs. Rambo/John Quinn

MD: This got time and actually had a decent amount of heat. It's one of Rambo's first tours of Germany, if not the first. Apparently he had come in through working for Delaporte in France. Of course, the heat wouldn't start until Wright clowned these guys, absolute menace that he was. Fun bit with Quinn where Wright would cartwheel off of whips and Quinn would just walk off of them, refusing to run. Wright also did the multiple kip ups deal with Rambo, and then a great chinlock bit where he worked up to a fireman's carry, got cut off by Quinn, did it again, and then when Quinn came in whacked him with Rambo's feet on an airplane spin. Big pop for that. Heels controlled with a lot of illegal cutoffs and even when Wright came back after ducking a second double clothesline, Rambo kept breaking up pins until he got red carded. You need to do a finish like that now and again to get over the rules, really.

 

9/7/86

Bull Power vs. Steve Wright

MD: This feels like a real find honestly. We're just looking at 86 Bull Power here, but you watch him against a guy like Wright who was such a master of his craft and Vader comes off like a huge monster, a huge star. He nails Wright before the match with the American flag and the image of it made me wish he had worked the whole match with his hat. Ah well. Wright dodges a Vader corner charge at the bell, and follows up, knocking Vader all the way out of the ring. Vader comes back and press slams him over the top rope. They really don't look back from there.

There are cool bits in here where Wright, who is usually a menace to everyone, just can't get out of a wristlock and he keeps monkey flipping Vader who just hangs on. You get all the stuff you'd expect, Vader Attacks, and corner charges, and just the meatiest shots from Vader. Wright comes back by throwing his entire body at him and choking the life out of him desperately, no funny tricks here. Vader's able to shut him down with one shot though. Ten shots from Wright equal one from Vader. They go quite a while and we get a sense of it even with the clipping, before Vader KOs him with one, slams him, and hits the big splash for the win. It's a very good match where Wright took but only at a high cost and when it made the most sense. Mostly it was giving. They were still building to the Otto match here.

Axel Dieter vs. Le Grand Vladimir

MD: It might just be a selection of the footage we have but these two feel like lifelong opponents. I just went over to wrestling data on a whim, after having that thought, to see how many times they faced. I clicked on Dieter's opponents and there, at the very top of the list by a wide wide margin was Vladimir. I wouldn't have necessarily guessed that but I'm not at all surprised by it. So it's not the selection of matches we have. It's simply truth.

There's such familiarity and contempt in this match. They spend the first round trading mares and chinlocks and fighting out of them and cutting each other off, but as it gets going, Vlad comes in with his overhand hammers and his casual knee strikes and his stomps, and Dieter comes back by ducking a shot and catapulting him into the ropes so he lands on the knees, and ultimate finishes him off with mean whips into the corner and body slams. These two know each other, every cell, and it's almost like watching a married couple bicker on some level, the way it's obvious they're under each other's skin. It's a very lived in match, if that makes any sense, and it's fun to visit, especially knowing we get to go home and they're stuck with one another.

Kid Burgess/Steve Casey vs. Hansi Rooks/Klaus Wallas

MD: Burgess is George Burgess, also Jamaica George and "Coolcat Jackson" which is an amazing name. He passed away a couple of years ago. He was able to clown the heels by escaping things and especially (of course) with a preternaturally hard head. They were able to get their heat on Casey instead and leaned on him hard. After winning the first fall, the camera cuts to the crowd where some security guards have to force a guy back into his seat and I got the feeling people were getting upset. That's probably why Casey came back (as Rooks was trying to work over his ears) and won the second fall with a quick jumping back elbow that seemed to surprise Wallas on the apron in that he didn't move to interfere until it was too late. They did a lot of brawling outside of the ring in the third fall, probably to try to channel the energy elsewhere, so that when they worked over Burgess and Wallas won with a suplex, there wasn't a riot or anything. 

 

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Found Footage Friday: BREMEN '83

November, 1983 Bremen 

MD: We're a few months behind on the Germany stuff now and this is a Bremen November 83 tape that doesn't have some of the foreigner appeal as the 80 and 81 stuff, but that makes it almost all the more important to dig in and see what we get.

Indio Guajaro vs. Steve Paersey

MD: Paersey is Stephan Petipas (a Maritimes star). Guajaro could be a great stooge when he wanted to be. The first round is all him getting one-upped. He'd get thrown and then when he threw Paersey, he'd do a cartwheel. He'd get a top wristlock only to have Paersey take him over with a headscissors. He'd try for a monkey flip but Paersey would land on his feet and do one to him. The crowd was happy for all of it. Second round had Guajaro trying cheapshots or pulling the hair only for Paersey to get the better of him, including a recoil shot off the ropes, some big uppercuts, and stepping on his hair. Third round had Paersey hit a headbutt and take over with some mean stuff. Paesery came back and hit a back body drop and won it on that. This was a crowd pleaser that didn't outlive its welcome.

Wolfgang Saturski vs. Klaus Wallas 

MD: I mostly know Wallas from some mid 80s tours, but we do have other Europe footage of him. He was the heel here. This was chippy early with Wallas having an advantage (maybe not entirely clean) until Saturski dropkicked him out and did a Rick Rude like taunt (pre-dating Rude, of course). He ended the round with an endless full nelson slamming his head into the corner again and again. He took over in the second with a cheapshot in the ropes and controlled with bulldog like chokes and then ultimately a nervehold, slipping the choke back on anytime that Saturski tried to fire back, using the ropes when needed. Saturski had a big comeback culminating with him doing a catapult back off the ropes onto his knees and things sort of just petered out with Wallas deciding he was done and Saturski being declared the winner. They had the crowd but this ended up being a lot of the same with a few good moments.

Steve Casey vs. Dave Morgan 

MD: We come in JIP here. This is face vs face and they play into a lot of comedy bits where they roll around on pins or both pin each other and a very fun one where they do mares, hang on, roll around, and roll up the ref who was able to leap over them once but not twice. Good imaginative technical stuff all around. Casey hit a headbutt to the gut. Morgan hit his recoil headbutt in response. Casey won it with the arm drag slam out of nowhere after a few rounds of the back and forth. This was a fun one even if it never boiled over.  

Steve Paersey vs. Tony St. Clair

MD: Another gentleman's contest. Clean breaks and holding the ropes open. Cute exchanges early with cartwheels and rolls and placing the opponent to the apron either by lifting them or throwing one's own body. They moved into grittier stuff from there, with St. Clair controlling on the arm. That didn't mean we wouldn't still get the occasional cartwheel as he got out of the way to take back over a hold though. Overall, a lot of hanging on through attempts to escape like body slams, though Paersey finally got free with one to work the leg. St. Clair had a way of doing these sort of nonchalant nothing escapes where he just jammed a slam or popped out of a hold and it almost always got a laugh. Speaking of those, at one point, Paersey went for a roll up and St. Clair went right into lady of the lake position and got rolled around. Anyway, the tape cuts out right before a finish. This was fun overall but a little long, maybe wearing out its welcome just a tad. 

Dave Morgan vs. Steve Paersey 

MD: More of the same. Paersey had a spot he did where he tried to legdrop the arm and missed. He did it in the last match too. Fans seemed to like it. Second round (presuming we came in during the first) picked up the pace a bit. Morgan's recoil headbutt really is a cool spot because it's heatseeking. He won't just do it the same way every time but he'll go halfway across or around the ring to find you, hitting from all sorts of angles. He also had this sort of sweeping kickstand type kick I've never seen anyone else do where he brings the foot up and then back. Paersey just dropkicked him in the face for his trouble. Then Morgan returned favor with this really cool bit where he did the drop down and loop in like he was going to go into a cross legged headscissors and do a handstand but he just whacked him in the shoulders with his feet. Paersey somehow won this one with an atomic drop after all of that. This had sort of a WoS feel of course, but it was all a little looser, more of a house show, which makes total sense.

Mal Kirk vs. Rene Lasartesse 

MD: When I saw the card, this was definitely the weirdest looking match. What weird body types, Kirk lumpy and Lasartesse a skeletal figure, tall and looming. Kirk is the babyface and this is, of course, clipped to incoherence. A shame. We get a Kirk comeback which leads to Lastartesse escaping. A lot of action between rounds as music was playing which gave things a violent Benny Hill feel. Lasartesse takes some liberties on the outside and Kirk comes back in with a chair and clocks the ref with it and that's basically that. If we had more of this I bet it would have been interesting.

Steve Paersey vs. Klaus Wallas 

MD: I almost wish we could get this to Pettipas' family. He's all over this footage. And he's good. He really is. This was a draw. Wallas worked heel. He had a lot of stuff. A back brain kick, a neckbreaker, lots of chokeholds/chinlocks, a low blow down the stretch while he was being pinned and the ref was looking at the count, which you never see, and plenty of shots in the ropes. Paersay took it all well, had a great bump in the corner where he took a headstand on the top of the turnbuckle pad, mean comeback shots, and a good ebb and flow of working out of things and getting the crowd behind him. For all the matches to go long, this was a good choice. They had armwork and legwork that didn't really go anywhere but it was more about immediate comeuppance for Wallas than anything else.

Mike Shaw/Col. Brody/Wolfgang Saturski vs. Barry(?) Douglas/Tony St. Clair/Dave Morgan

MD: I'm not convinced all these names are accurate. This was fairly clipped too but it was novel for being a six man and for having Mike Shaw, who was already 26 or so. He was spry, had a decent sense of what to give and what to, and could taunt and work the crowd. This was chaotic and crowd pleasing for the most part. There was a fun bit early where the babyfaces traded off neckbreaker style holds one after the other. Brody got the biggest laughs/pops when he missed charges, first into the corner and later at someone who was tied up in the ropes. The babyfaces were constantly ending up beat down in the heels corner but then their partners would come in to toss the heels over the top. It was that sort of match but it cuts off before we get a finish.

Jon Harris vs. Wolfgang Saturski 

MD: This stuff is so stylized. Big sweeping, swooping folk hero wrestling. Just so over the top and bombastic with the shots. Everything is a big clubbing shot. Harris had an underhand sort of punch I've never seen before. It almost felt like the stooges deal where you hit the top of the hand and it goes all the way around to whack someone. They looked painful at times but not in conventional ways, but you just rolled with the fantasy. The crowd sure did. Harris got a few licks in but mostly he got his comeuppance again and again to everyone's delight. He'd get stuck in the ropes and charged at, catapulted back onto the knee, etc. Toward the end, after a round break, Saturski actually did the Franz Van Buyten bit where he launches himself across the ring to leap into a tencount position and I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone else do that. Anyway, this is one of those matches I'm going to try to force Eric to write about because he can do it more justice than I can. You wouldn't want to spend all the time with a match like this but it's fun to visit now and again.

Col. Brody vs. Steve Paersey 

MD: Brody looked very good here. The chain wrestling as they fought over arm advantages was excellent. Eventually it got more stoogy and Brody got comeuppance, but everything before that was slick. And Brody was quite the stooge (at least in 83) too, going over the top three or four times and the crowd loving it each time. He'd take liberties with a hairpull or cheapshot but the rounds nature of this meant that he never had advantage for long, even if they did get chippy between rounds once or twice. Things built to a big airplane spin which Paersey got the worst of (despite doing it) and everything spilling to the outside for some brawling and a slam as the tape cuts off. Nothing groundbreaking here but a very high level of craft and skill.

Dimitar Dimitrov vs. Dave Morgan 

MD: Excellent technical babyface match. These two were really going at it on the mat. I'd say this stuff would have stood up well to some of what we got from UWF the next year. Gritty, full of struggle, lots of clever technique and escapes. At one point Dimitrov put on a cloverleaf so quickly and from such an askew angle that you blink and you'd miss it. The roll up exchanges they did were really good because they were so deep. It didn't feel collaborative like almost every other roll up exchange I've ever seen. But they were also playful with the way they'd shoot an arm out to get out of a pin.Morgan showed a very different skill set than some of the other matches on the tape, even the clean babyface ones.They traded some great suplexes too including Morgan taking him over with a German that was hugely uncooperative and Dimitriv doing maybe the earliest fisherman's suplex I've seen? Finish had the first real rope running of the match and Dimitrov caught Morgan doing a leapfrog taking out the knee mid-air. He couldn't beat the count and that was that. There have been a ton of great spots and exchanges on this tape but you go so deep into these to find a match like this that no one would probably find otherwise. I did some digging and Dimitrov was "Don Kolov" who might have even trained Santino Marella? Anyway, I think this was a find.

Rene Lasartesse vs. Wolfgang Saturski

MD: Lasartesse is amazing. He's one of the only wrestlers in history that can get real true heat just by... walking slowly around the ring. And he has this sort of dispassionate passion. Saturski started the match by rushing over and clapping his ears and he was shocked but then decided to just ignore it, as if it was beneath him and it is its own form of selling. Then he did a bit where he hammerlocked Saturski and punched him in the gut and then pretended his own gut was hurt. That happened twice and then finally Saturski nailed him in the gut and pretended his was hurt and the fans loved it. 

Lasartesse has fascinating offense too. He uses every part of his body, slaps, punches to the gut, knees, kicks, stomps, chokes, but it all seems credible but also outlandish, like getting hit by a skeleton. His slap makes a huge noise. It's hugely credible as he's slamming Saturski's head into the turnbuckle connector over and over. Everything builds to him lurking behind Saturski in the corner waiting for the ref to leg him get his hands on him, lurking and lurking, a looming specter of death. Then Saturski gets him with the most obvious mule kick in the world in the groin and starts choking him with something (maybe the tag rope?) and the place goes nuts for it. Then he takes Lasartesse outside and starts hammering him (really hammering him) with the ring bell and it's quite the sight overall. Saturski apologizes his way back into the match but Lasartesse is able to take the advantage and tombstone him for the 10 count KO and boos.

Brody/Wallas/Guajaro vs. Gaetano/St. Clair/Rocco?

MD: We get a decent amount of this. It wasn't listed on the tape. We get to see all of the babyfaces play face-in-peril including Rocco which is just weird. Brody and Guajaro are experts at swiping at people from the outside which is something I think should happen more in six-man matches. Gaetano is a very interesting wrestler too as he has a lot of stylized flourishes but they're all a half step slow and sweeping and nothing is as tight as you'd want. But they're crowd pleasers. They did the bit where St. Clair grabbed Brody's mustache and Gaetano went off the top to whack it. Then he followed it up by making a hand-talking-yap-yap-yap motion to the ref when he complained which got a big laugh.The footage cuts after Wallas gets a cheapshot on St. Clair and then clocks him. Anyway, babyface Rocco is just strange (big corner bump and some nice missile dropkicks from him and St. Clair here, but strange).

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