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-Originally aired October 4, 1986.
-Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon and Johnny V. What? NO! You fixed it! Remember?
KING HARLEY RACE (with Bobby Heenan) vs. ALLEN MARTIN
-Johnny V makes a joke about margarine and does the bad-comedian thing of ending the thought with “But, uh, you know…” Race suplexes Martin around while Johnny V moves onto a Richard Nixon impression. Cradle suplex by Race finishes before we can get Johnny’s thoughts on shopping cart wheels.
WRESTLER’S REBUTTAL
-The Machines cut a promo about sushi and “flied lice” that wouldn’t fly even five years later. This segment is still just the worst chunk of filler on these shows.
Giro d’Italia Stage Previews: Stages 5-8
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With four stages in the books, we can already say that we will have a unique and unpredictable Giro d’Italia, for a little while anyway. The twists and turns on display today will continue until the first rest day, and beyond. Let’s dive right in!
Stage 5: Modena Cattolica, 177km
What Is It? Flat, transitional day to give the climbers a breather (let’s not go overboard just yet) and bring the sprinters back onto the stage before their nightmares begin.
Detailed Description: A straight shot down a secondary highway, the SS9, until the race reaches the Adriatic shore in Rimini. Then things get ever so slightly more entertaining as the peloton rolls along the water to Cattolica for the final 20km, before a rather circular and maybe slightly tricky wind-up to the final sprint.
-Originally aired September 27, 1986.
-And it took only ONE taping for us to decide stuff wasn’t working, so your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan. It’s Heenan’s first week and he’s ALREADY doing the shtick where he tries to talk but they roll the opening instead.
-And Mel Phillips is your new ring announcer. Lord Alfred left some big shoes to fill, and hopefully Mel is up to the challenge of licking them.
KOKO B. WARE vs. THE GLADIATOR
-Koko introduces his new friend, Frankie the bird, and tells us that Bird is the Word. It was my understanding that everybody heard about the bird, Koko.