Can’t believe this one has slipped through the cracks all this time! This is a rather famous squash from the early days of Raw and features the 1-2-3 Kid who had just started to come into prominence thanks to a legendary match where he beat Razor Ramon. To say that started a snowball for a LOT of things in the business is an understatement, as he wound up pal’ing around with not only Scott Hall but the rest of the clique as well. But that’s not what we’re here to talk about today. We’re here to talk about THIS MAN…
…whoever this geek is they pulled from the crowd to do ring announcing. You thought it was going to be “LORD ALFRED, IF YOU PLEASE”, right? How the mighty have fallen.
Actually, we’re here to talk about the guy in the red tights with the most spectacular mullet you ever did see. That would be Chris Hamrick. Keep in mind this was like 1993 and he’s looking like the love child of Ricky Morton and Edgar Winter. I absolutely LOVE it.
So Kid takes the early stages of the bout, but it isn’t long before Hamrick turns things around and gives him a good ol’ fashioned hip toss! Could Hamrick be setting up to upset the Kid as the Kid had done to Razor? The answer to that would be an emphatic no, as he comes off a criss cross at a million miles an hour only to be tripped by the Kid and go absolutely flying out of the ring and straight to the floor.
HOLY CRAP!
Kid doesn’t give his poor foe a moment to breathe, jumping out of the ring with a kick to the mush then throwing him right back inside. For all the folks that say how folks used to legit sell stuff, I’d like to present that as evidence that we’ve all become the old guy we used to mock in the Apter mags.
More hong kong phooey stuff comes next, we kicks a plenty before Hamrick throws up an emergency boot in the corner dropping Kid back down.
Hamrick goes for one more Irish whip, but thankfully just winds up getting suplexed instead of deciding to throw himself out the other side of the ring.
Kid wins with a wacky submission maneuver of which I have no memory of whatsoever. And while I’m sad that Hamrick put his body at severe risk and never made it really big, you know who wasn’t? The geek doing the ring announcing! Let’s hear it for the 1-2-3 Kid!