If there was ever a stable I totally undersold when they were around, it was the Varsity Club. This group consisting of Mike Rotundo, Rick Steiner, and others managed by Kevin Sullivan was a lot of fun to watch…especially when they were squashing geeks like we’re about to witness here today!
The geeks in question would be Curtis Thomson and Bob Emery, and you really had to be paying attention to find that out as there ain’t no chyron for them, no sirree. And as much as I’ve come to love the Varsity Club, I do have to ask…wouldn’t this whole schtick worked a lot better if Sullivan was out there running Steiner and Rotundo through their drills and was dressed like a college coach instead of still wearing his devil worshipper garb?
So Rotundo starts us off and if you only saw him as IRS that’s a shame. He was a really good, get this, WRESTLER as we see here with him tossing his opponent around with old fashioned collegiate wrestling moves. That’s just fun to watch.
I mean, it’s not as much fun as Steiner coming in and tossing this poor schmuck into the air with a beautiful German suplex but I digress.
And Steiner does just that one move before tagging Rotundo back in, and he nails a sweet butterfly suplex and follows that up with a legdrop for the pin. These two would be pals for a very short period before Rotundo started ‘little brothering’ Steiner, eventually dubbing him the Dogfaced Gremlin and belittling him at every turn. That angle was fantastic and led to Steiner’s first babyface run. If I ever start WrestleGreat (ain’t happening), that would be an early induction as I loved that bit. I often think I must be the only one that remembers it as I don’t recall anyone else ever talking about it? If you remember it, leave your thoughts about it in the comments below!