The crowd goes absolutely NUTS – fist pumping, jumping up and down, all of it.Ĭaptain Lou Albano Interview on Losing the WWF World Tag Team Titles (TNT #1 5/29/84) Most of this match airs on TNT #1, this is just the finish which sees Johnson and Sika taking the stupidest most choreographed bump to setup Albano hitting Afa with a chair by mistake and Atlas getting the win. Tony Atlas & Rocky Johnson (finish only 11/15/83) No DQ Match – WWF World Tag Team Title: The Wild Samoans w/ Captain Lou Albano vs. The bad guys steal the win when Saito comes off the top with a CHOP as Garea has Fuji in abdominal stretch. This is real basic stuff that mostly worked – classic Martel and Garea fired up babyface work plus a hilarious hulk-up by Atlas. Kal Rudman is a god damn riot on commentary: “Oh he’s dirty, he’s dirty!” he says of Albano, and later of a dropkick: “In the mouth, in the mouth – he kicked him in the mouth!” Monsoon says Albano was one of the first managers to also wrestle and I don’t think a fact check is necessary. Monsoon prefaces this match with a Fun Fact: every guy in it is a former WWF Tag Team Champion. Tony Garea, Rick Martel, & Tony Atlas (clips 2/20/82) Saito distracts the ref, Fuji throws salt in Jules’ eyes, and Fuji hits a falling headbutt for 3. This is just the first fall of the match which was 38 god damn seconds. Chief Jay & Jules Strongbow (first fall only 7/13/82) 2/3 Falls Match – WWF World Tag Team Title: Mr. Martel chokes Lou with a rope and he bails, though on the voiceover commentary he says, “I think I was runnin’ back there to get a glass of water to recuperate.” Very short match but HEATED.ģ. Martel is just this incredible babyface wrestler who is selling BIG – an eye gouge leads to THREE wild swings at nothing by him. Rick Martel (JIP 6/20/81)īy this time Albano had longer hair and a longer beard and is just full-on dirty heel: he throws Martel outside, slams him into the buckle on the apron, and hides a foreign object. Albano bleeds but wins when Angelo misses a knee in the corner.Ģ. Angelo does this great spot where he jabs Albano’s gut in the corner repeatedly and just seems so pleased with himself. Regardless, the ROLLS in this match are overwhelming. And so is Captain Lou, though in the 1960s he was not quite as rotund as he’d become. Gorilla Monsoon hosts and says Captain Lou Albano is most influential figure in professional wrestling.
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