Pay-Per-View Rewind of: NWA/WCW Halloween Havoc: Settling The Score 28/10/1989 Match 2 Part 2 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: NWA/WCW Halloween Havoc: Settling The Score 28/10/1989 Match 2 Part 2 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

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Match/Stipulation: "The Toughest Man in the World" "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, “The Greatest Combination in Wrestling" The Midnight Express; "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton & "Sweet" Stan Lane [with Jim Cornett] vs. The Samoan SWAT Squad Team; Fatu, Samu & The Samoan Savage [with "The Big Kahuna" Sir Oliver Humperdinck;] Six-Man Tag Team Match

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 9/10

Match Storyline: 9/10

Crowd Participation: 10/10

On Commentary: Jim Ross & Bob Caudle 9/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 10/10

Recommend Watch: 10/10

Match Total: 57/60 - this match is lots of fun

Comments: I will try and do this in chronological order; excellent engaging entrance The Samoan SWAT Squad Team; Fatu, Samu & The Samoan Savage [with "The Big Kahuna" Sir Oliver Humperdinck;]we have some fantastic commentary from our team for this match and potentially foreshadowing and a little later it gets mentioned again [yes as of here and now I don't know what will happen later, full disclosure even though I do work from the pay-per-view web page yes I know the results but what actually happens I don't know,] but I digress being mentioned on commentary Jim Cornett is managing another tag team on this card as well by the name of The Dynamic Dudes; Shane Douglas & Johnny Ace and the commentary is enthusiastic and passionate even though Ross has quite a few very tiny bloopers he missed a name it wrestler at the very early stages of this match you are looking for a back body drop being taken by Fatu, but Ross says it is The Samoan Savage, he does it again quickly and a little time after this; then again a little later he calls The Samoan Savage Samu and then does it again quickly after and then again making reference to The Samoan Savage but it is Fatu [I should point out two key facts; Fatu is the only one not wearing the identical wrestling attire as the other two at this point in history; this possibly may, actually I am sure using common sense, but I don't know indicating taging more in a tag team in the ring and Ross says all three are brothers, yes they are related but after a lot of research The Samoan Savage is a cousin [speculation on my part, being kind there is a possibility Ross was having difficulties remembering which wrestler was who or I have to say this very carefully, because of their wrestling gimmick it was perhaps easy to get them confused and I refuse to be highly critical or critical on Ross, yes I should still pointed out as I have and no I haven't re-watched this entire match to see how many times he did it if at all and in fairness and balance in a nutshell at some point; Ross does correct himself on the legal man, Savage no it is was Fatu and on top of that at another point he does praise a camera shot as well, but I was looking for another spot in this match, it was just fortunate I picked this all up when I did and the reason why I am not going to be too critical is simply based on the level of enthusiasm and passion he puts in, you can somewhat overlook them in fact I didn't pick them up on the first time around.] But moving on how shall I put this; there is a reason why the Anoa'i family are a cornerstone of wrestling; they manufacture a wrestling dynastie generation after generation case and point The Bloodline that is just some of them minus Sami Zayn.

I found the spot I was looking for; now we have Savage as the legal man for his team, in their corner Fatu gripes his cousin to do this peptalk thing the Referee [Tommy Young] takes it as a tag, because Fatu has touched his partner, but then Fatu puts puts up his first finger just say or indicate " We are having a peptalk" firstly he is breaking his character, because this is nothing racial this is how things were back then I am not condoning it, but I'm just saying it as it is. They are low IQ Samoan characters and on top of that and on top of that I am under the impression that the referee was meant to enforce the rules and not allow wrestlers to dictate their rules and the cherry on top of the cake Fatu touched his cousin again, so if he wasn't tag in before he is now but on the other side of the coin, you could kind of say Savage is now the legal man again.

Finally; the closing stages of this match is perfect, for those that have been around wrestling for some time, it is on its own something standard, but for here and now and what was discussed on commentary about Cornett managing two tag teams it feeds into the idea that there may be problems ahead, but also everyone is protected and looks better for having this match hence why I said it was perfect.

Basic Result: The Samoan SWAT Squad Team; Fatu, Samu & The Samoan Savage [with "The Big Kahuna" Sir Oliver Humperdinck] are your winners here.

Briefly things to know:

* Replay of closing stages with the winner's entrance music playing

* Gordon Solie: Interviewer Terry Funk with his manager Gary Hart [Designated Terminator for his team]; they build up tonight's main event match which is The Thunderdome Cage Match

* "The World's Most Dangerous Announcer" Gary Michael Cappetta: Ring announcer introduces the next match.