Rocky Johnson Tony Atlas & SD Jones VS The Wild Samoans 12.26.1983 MSG

(2 out of 3 falls) From Madison Square Garden, New York. December 26, 1983.
Tag Team Champions Rocky Johnson & Tony "Mr.USA" Atlas, & SD "Special Delivery" Jones
VS
The Wild Samoans: Afa, Sika & Samu

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• classic
• wrestling
• 1983
• six
• man
• tag
• team
• rocky
• johnson
• tony
• mr
• usa
• atlas
• sd
• special
• delivery
• jones
• vs
• samoans
• samoan
• afa
• sika
• samula
• samu
• msg

[AngelofAnguish]

@lildwayne21 How come Atlas and Johnson never got along? Was a race issue? Money issue?

[lambert581]

@lildwayne21 Did you think either one had the guts to tell Andre to sit his fat ass down or get slapped?

[lildwayne21]

@lambert581 No, they didn't. They disliked each other so much that sometimes Andre The Giant had to pull them apart in the locker room area from ripping one another's heads off. Atlas and Johnson were the first African American WWF Tag Champs, but they didn't always get along. They managed......but it was tough. They did the best they could though.

[lildwayne21]

This was a damn good match. Hell it was better than Sheik/Backlund for the WWF Championship if you ask me. The adrenaline was flowing out there. ***. Good match.

[lildwayne21]

The crowd was still reeling from the Iron Sheik winning the WWF Championship from Bob Backlund in the main event. This match aired next to get the crowd pumped up again, because Backlund had his following. No question about it. You have to do things like this in wrestling. When your top babyface loses a Championship in the 80s, as a promoter you have to book a match that's going to pump them up again and reenergize them again, and whats they did here.

[lucky44124]

this was the best era of wrestling

[Tubewings]

For those that don't know, Samu is Afa's son.

[stevedrums]

@RAV52 The S.D. reference from Antigua was much later in his career. I always remembered him as being billed from Philadelphia.

[RAV52]

Shut your mouth, know your role and if you LISTEN at 3:21, you will hear the People chant his name....... ROCKY, ROCKY, ROCKY!! And what's up with SD Jones being billed from Philly? As far as I knew he was almost always billed as being from Antigua in the West Indies!!

[japanpro1]

i was standing shoulder to shoulder with atlas as a motel desk in 1984. i've always regretted i was too shy to introduce myself. this is a great gimmick, the chunky guys looking to kick the muscles guys' asses. love seeing atlas worked at length.