• The wrestling. And it’s MANLY NWA wrestling too, ”back when men were men and women were trained” (© Jamie Dundee).
• Sting and Nikita Koloff (Enemies united by CHRIST) take on Anderson and Blanchard in the opener and that’s all you need to know. There’s been no recorded evidence of The Brainbusters ever having a bad match.
• The Fat Man Himself Dusty Rhodes works well with Barry Windham, even if he does look like Colin Baker on a jelly baby binge.
• Cornette’s antics before the The Fantastics vs. The Midnight Express begins are nearly as entertaining as the match itself. He has to be put in a straitjacket AND suspended in a cage above the ring and protests the entire time.
• ”I’m going up in the air!”

Bad Stuff!

• Only five long matches, which will likely not appeal to young ‘uns.
• The PPV aired on WWE 24/7 a week or so after the Benoit Stevie Richards Tragedy but they felt it OK to leave in the segment with Kevin Sullivan trying to kill Precious by choking her.

Wrestlecrap!

• Try and watch the Tower of Doom match and understand what’s going on. If you enjoyed that, I recommend David Lynch’s Dune for afterwards.
• The finish to Luger/Flair is still a running joke decades after the fact. Luger The All American Yappapi Eating Babyface loses his first major shot at the World Title to Evil Also American Ric Flair. That would be bad enough in itself (and it really was, NWA hadn’t grasped the appeal of PPV yet and used shows like this to get people to attend the live shows to watch Luger get his revenge on Flair rather than having it the other way around), but the finish sees Luger bleeding on the outside, getting back in the ring and putting Flair in the Torture Rack and the referee ringing the bell…because of Luger’s blood loss. Well, Luger only had a small trickle of blood (due to his shoddy attempt at blading) and was obviously still able to continue the match as he was just about to win which makes the finish even more asinine. In fact the blade-job was so poor that the blood on his forehead had pretty much dried off when Luger celebrated his apparent win. The finish was allegedly done as a joke on the Maryland State Athletic Commission’s real life rules on wrestling (which were strict on bleeding at the time) and it’s nice to know that making fun of them was a priority over pleasing the paying fans who weren’t in on the joke and just wanted to see Flair lose to Luger.

Overall!
Watch the three matches in the Good Stuff! section and laugh at the rest. Also fun to see the start of Luger’s choking, as he would continue this tradition by not beating Yokozuna at Summerslam 1993, not beating Yokozuna at Wrestlemania X, not winning the WCW Tag Titles in 1998…