Holy shit, this match…if you can even call it that. Pure carnage. It's the Texas Chainsaw Massacre without the chainsaws. Stan Hansen is a
relentless killer, beating the pulp out of Terry with his nasty knees, hard
chops, and those clobbering punches. The way he repeatedly bashes Terry’s face
into the corner turnbuckle or those knee drops where he just sits on Funk’s
head. Terry put on the performance of a lifetime putting Hansen over as a
monster. Even when he gets in little bits of offense, like that bodyslam, he
sells the immensity of Hansen. He works in this almost despairing way, chopping
at Hansen’s knee, trying to get him on the ground so he can work the leg and
set up the spinning toehold. But with each attempt, Hansen boots his way out of
it, at one point busting Terry open with clubbing shot.
Once Terry’s bleeding
like a stuck pig, the match transitions into a gritty horror film, with Hansen
looming blood-spattered over Terry. There’s a final glimmer of hope as Funk
tries once more for the spinning toehold but Hansen proves to be too much to
contain and atomic drops Funk onto the ropes. The finish…or lack thereof is
scary. Hansen follows Terry out of the ring with the turnbuckle cord in hand
and drags Terry back to the ring with the cord round his throat, only to
continue beating the shit out of him. The Japanese fans are freaking out as
their beloved Amarillo son sells like death the way he’s strung up by the
turnbuckle cord. Hansen doesn’t let up, despite the referee throwing out the
match, until Dory Funk Jr. makes the save looking like an Enterprise Rental Car manager. A fantastically brutal beat down and one of Terry's career-high performances.
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