Sid Justice & Hulk Hogan (w/ Brutus Beefcake) vs. Ric Flair (w/ Mr. Perfect) & The Undertaker (w/ Paul Bearer)
Sid and Hogan debate who will start the match. Sid cajoles Hogan into stepping out to the apron so that he can start. Heenan talks up dissension, and Vince pretends that everything is just fine.
Sid vs. Flair to start. Flair rakes the eyes. Sid reverses a corner whip and hits a backdrop coming out. Hip-toss sends Flair sprawling, and he slides out of the ring for an early breather. As he re-enters, Sid plays to the crowd and tags Hogan. Hogan kicks Flair in the gut, whips him into the corner, another backdrop/hip-toss sequence like what Sid did. Undertaker comes in, and Hogan does the same to him. Sid looks on, visibly unimpressed. Hogan tags Sid, Sid comes in to take on Undertaker. Sid blocks a Taker bodyslam attempt and slams him instead.
As Hogan offers a raised boot in the corner, Sid slams Taker's face into it. He tags Hogan in, and Hogan takes on both heels, clearing them out and posing to the crowd. Taker re-enters, Hogan grabs him into a hold and then tags Sid. They work together on a double-team, but once Hogan leaves, Taker stops short on a backdrop and hits an uppercut. Tag to Flair, double clothesline by the heels, and Hogan breaks up a pin attempt. Double atomic drop by Flair and Taker. Again Hogan to the rescue on the pin.
As the double-teaming continues and referee Earl Hebner just lazily observes, Hogan stays in this time to help Sid fight them off. They hit a double big boot on Flair and then a double clothesline that knocks Undertaker out of the ring. Hogan celebrates to the crowd, and Sid looks on with clear annoyance that Hogan is taking credit. The show cuts to break.
Back from break, Undertaker hits an uppercut on Sid, then smashes his face into the turnbuckle and tags Flair. Flair enters with chops and punches, then runs distraction on Earl Hebner as Taker strangles Sid in the corner. We're in a full heat segment here, with Flair and Taker getting their shots in. Sid is able to launch a comeback when he grabs the heads of both men and knocks them into each other. Hot tag to Hogan, who punches both men as well as Paul Bearer for good measure. Perfect grabs Hogan's ankle from the floor, allowing Flair to come take a cheap shot from the blind side at Hogan's knee, injuring it. Flair kicks Hogan's leg out of his leg, then jumps on it and slaps on the figure-four. Rather than entering to help out, Sid slowly turns his back on Hogan and adjusts his kneepad.
Hogan reverses the hold, causing the break, and as Hogan desperately tries for a tag, Sid won't reach out to him. Undertaker cuts Hogan off from behind, Irish whip, flying clothesline, tag back in to Flair. Hogan catches Flair climbing the ropes and tosses him off. He's got a new opening now, heads over to try to tag, and again Sid won't reach out. He smirks as the fans boo him. He cups his ear to the booing and yells out, "Music to my ears!"
Flair chops Hogan in the corner, and Hogan no-sells and begins hulking up. Taker in for the assist to Flair, but Hogan manages to clothesline both. Hogan crawls over one more time, pleading for a tag. Sid again won't take the tag, and after mockingly reaching halfway for a split-second before dropping down to the floor and beginning to walk off.
Brutus Beefcake tries to confront Sid, who threatens to punch him. This is post-accident reconstructed Beefcake, so Heenan trots out that line about how, "It's gonna be like a hockey game, it will be a face-off!" Beefcake backs down, Sid walks off to a chorus of boos, and Hogan has been left in a functional handicap match. Hebner tries to get one of Flair or Taker to leave the ring, but Flair flings Hebner to the mat, causing a disqualification.
Result: Hulk Hogan & Sid Justice via DQ
Beefcake jumps into the ring to try to come to Hogan's aid. He at least works as bait for Flair and Taker, allowing Hogan an opening to attack and clear both out of the ring. Hogan and Beefcake hold the ring to a big pop. Beefcake explains to an upset Hogan what Sid just did in abandoning him. Hogan scolds Beefcake for putting himself at risk like that.
That's the scene as we head to the back for an update.
My Rating: **
Meltzer Rating: **1/4
Last edited by LKJ; 01-27-2018 at 07:50 PM.