06 21 1985 Ricky Steamboat vs Greg Valentine 2

[lildwayne21]

Lord Alfred Haye's style brought a lot more credibility to professional wrestling commentary than Mean Gene's commentary did once he became a permanent fixture of MSG commentary in July of 1986. Mean Gene Okerland's MSG commentary was ok at best. That's what people don't realize about Lord Alfred Hayes. Lord Alfred Hayes had wrestled all over the world. Now you can criticize the man all you want and call it boring but it brings more cred to product than having somebody like Mean Gene do the CC.

[Augustus212]

Valentine and Steamboat had a history of working with each other back in the Mid-Atlantic in the late 70's early 80's where these guys learned how to "work". great match. One month before Valentine dropped the belt back to Santana.

[oldschool6804]

@Augustus212 steamboat and valentine worked very stiff with one another  without a doubt very little light in any of this!

[lildwayne21]

@oldschool6804 Hell yeah. Especially Valentine. Valentine would potato you. When he delivered a chop or delivered a forearm, he layed it in. Valentine's shit was right. It had realism. I loved his stiff style. I prefer wrestlers with stiff, hard-hitting styles over wrestlers with safe styles that aren't meant to hurt you much. Dynamite Kid, Bret Hart, Greg Valentine, Ric Flair, Jake Roberts, Haku and Tama all had stiff styles! The stiffer the better in my opinion, but that's just me.

[lildwayne21]

@Augustus212 Exactly. You got it. These guys were NWA affiliates. They learned to work and perfect their craft through the territory system. The NWA was the shit. It was that deal back in the day. If you were going to recruit talent you had to recruit talent out of the NWA. The only promotion that rivaled the NWA in terms of workrate at this time was Stampede Wrestling.

[fran9860]

jimmy the mouth of the south takes it up the bootie.

[ateammember6]

I consider this bout a pay per view quality match because it was that great. This match deserves alot more credit than it gets. It's also sort of strange to hear Mean Gene commentate on a match.

I was hoping this match would have been on Ricky Steamboat's dvd Life Story Of The Dragon. Unfortunatley, it was'nt. Hopefully, It'll make it onto a future dvd set. Love this match. Thanks For Sharing

[Daftandsuch]

this match shows you how much talent the WWF had at the time...these two didn't even have a feud going and the match was still unbelievable...Just two phenomenal workers...

[datacipher]

That is true. Steamboat was the best worker of all time in my opinion...nobody ever looked better than when they wrestled him, and Valentine was one high quality veteran who knew his way around wrestling like very few do today.

[WecanWinJesse]

@Daftandsuch Ric Flair must have recommended Valentine to work with him. Steamboat was the man to work with, also Mr Perfect.

[carter2]

Mean Gene commentating is just wierd

[lildwayne21]

Mean Gene Okerland is clearly not in his element on commentary. He works better as a backstage interviewer.