Remember how we said earlier that WrestleMania 2 never really gets mentioned because the shows either side of it are so big and important? That is all true, but what we didn’t mention is that WrestleMania 2 just isn’t that good. In fact, I’d go as far as saying that if someone came up to me and said that the worst WrestleMania of all time is WrestleMania 2, I wouldn’t disagree with them to be honest. 

But despite how bad this show is as a whole, there had to be some sort of silver lining, and this was that silver lining. Full transparency, this match is good at best. It’s not going to make any “Greatest WrestleMania Matches” lists or anything, but there are certainly worse ways to spend 15 minutes. 

Starting off with The British Bulldogs, it’s only when you go back and watch a match like this right after watching something from the modern day that you realize that they were truly ahead of their time. Dynamite and Davey have got such creative offense for the time, they utilize the quick tags, they cut off the ring, basically all of the fundamentals of tag team wrestling can be found in The British Bulldogs, but they’ve mastered the fundamentals to the point where they can flesh out their offense to make it stand out at the time. Dynamite especially has an explosiveness that we would go on to see from so many people who got their big breaks in Japan.

Valentine also puts in a great performance here as the workhorse of the match, never really tagging in Beefcake and taking the bulk of the punishment here. It’s not his greatest performance or anything like that, but for being the heel and bumping all over the place to make challengers look even more credible was very well done. Beefcake is the weakest in the match, but even then that’s not saying he’s bad here, he just doesn’t get the spotlight enough. Funnily enough, the little detail of him trying to break up the pin that would win The British Bulldogs the titles, but getting his boot caught in the rope so he just falls over was a nice touch. It did look like he tore his ACL trying to execute that detail, but it worked like a charm.

Davey and Dynamite get the win here with Valentine being thrown into Dynamite (who takes a nasty spill to the outside), which knocks Valentine out and Beefcake can’t make it in to save the day. We have new champions at the end of what was a good match. However, what we did get was Ozzy Osbourne chewing his gun so hard that his jaw was at all three WrestleMania venues on this night when celebrating with Dynamite and Davey. Ozzy holding the belt upside in celebration, and Cathy Lee on commentary saying things like “I’ve never watched wrestling, but my dad really did like that Gorgeous George,” because of course we did, it’s WrestleMania. Seek out this match if you want, just don’t watch the rest of the show.