Saturday Night's Main Event (29/11/86)

Saturday Night's Main Event
29/11/86 (Taped 15/11/86)
Los Angeles, California


Intercontinental Champion Randy Savage fought Jake Roberts to a double disqualification in a decent bout. Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura played it off like two hated heels were in battle but the crowd were clearly behind Roberts... We were shown footage of Slick selling Hercules to Bobby Heenan... Hulk Hogan defeated Hercules to retain the WWF Heavyweight Title in a straight forward Hogan-formula match. The crowd was of course hot... Bob Orton Jr claimed he was used by Roddy Piper in an interview with Ventura... Piper pinned Orton in a match that could've been good but was quite short. Once again the crowd was hot... The Killer Bees beat The Hart Foundation in a really good match. The Harts dominated until The Bees donned masks to perform an illegal switch and win the bout. I thought it was the heels who were meant to be the cheats? ... Koko B Ware pinned Nikolai Volkoff in a short, rubbish match... Don Muraco beat Dick Slater in an awful contest.

Results
Randy Savage (c) fought Jake Roberts to a double disqualification. Savage retained the Intercontinental Title (9:24) **1/2
Hulk Hogan (c) pinned Hercules to retain the WWF Heavyweight Title (6:23) **
Roddy Piper pinned Bob Orton Jr (3:47) *
The Killer Bees def The Hart Foundation by pinfall (8:39) ***1/4
Koko B Ware pinned Nikolai Volkoff (2:25) 1/4
Don Muraco pinned Dick Slater (2:18) DUD

Saturday Night's Main Event (04/10/86)

Saturday Night's Main Event
04/10/86 (Taped 13/09/86)
Richfield, Ohio


Jesse Ventura returned on commentary... Roddy Piper was told by a doctor he couldn't wrestle due to an injury suffered recently at the hands of Adrian Adonis and Don Muraco. Piper went nuts... Hulk Hogan beat Paul Orndorff by disqualification to retain the WWF Heavyweight Title. Orndorff had famously turned on Hogan back in July. This was a decent enough brawl with great heat. Adonis ran in to prevent Hogan hitting a piledriver on Orndorff for the DQ finish. Piper hobbled down and nailed Adonis with a crutch. Orndorff bailed before Hogan and Piper had a brief stare down... Ricky Steamboat defeated Jake Roberts in a "Snake Pit" match (no disqualification basically). Roberts had Damien the python in his corner while Steamboat had his Komodo dragon in his corner. They had a good little match with intensity and a nice pace. Steamboat won with a crucifix pin which even Vince McMahon pointed out was a fast count. The pets had an embarrassing 'showdown' after the match which the dragon 'won'... Pedro Morales was about to take on the Iron Sheik in place of Piper but Piper hobbled down and insisted on wrestling. The injured Piper then beat Sheik with a small package in less than a minute. Bad night for the Sheik... The British Bulldogs defeated The Dream Team in a best two out of three falls match (2:1) to retain the World Tag Team Title. Greg Valentine beat Davey Boy Smith clean with the figure four. Dynamite Kid then pinned Valentine with a diving headbutt off of Smith's shoulders. Smith then scored the winning fall with a fisherman's suplex on Brutus Beefcake. It was a good match but not quite to the level of their Wrestlemania scrap... Finally Kamala beat Lanny Poffo in a naff two minute squash.

Results
Hulk Hogan (c) def Paul Orndorff by disqualification to retain the WWF Heavyweight Title (10:21) **1/2
Ricky Steamboat pinned Jake Roberts (6:22) **3/4
Roddy Piper pinned Iron Sheik (0:45) SQ
British Bulldogs (c) def The Dream Team in a Best 2/3 Falls Match [2:1] to retain the World Tag Team Title (14:33) ***1/4
Kamala pinned Lanny Poffo (1:44) 1/4