Cleaning out the inbox: Non-Sports Passings

The inbox list of recent passings sadly picked up its pace this weekend and there is suddenly enough for a non-sports only version as well.

Goodbye to Ric Ocasek at the age of 75, when he was found in his home from natural causes.
Ocasek was the lead singer and the "face" of The Cars, who were the first new wave group to hit it big in mainstream music.
Ocasek, who was older than I really thought he was, used many small things in his music that was more of a nod to 60s pop than one would think from a new wave band.
The Cars first hit "Just what I needed" the charts in 1978 and my favorite Cars song was always first.
The Cars changed their sound a bit in the '80s and they were one of the first bands to adapt to the importance of music video at the time, with Ocasek's sunglass-wearing visage often seen on MTV.
I always liked the earlier Cars than the more pop-oriented later style, but it was that version that was often on the radio in my high school years and of course, the influence of MTV made them even more of an "80s" band looking back than they arguably were.
The Cars were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, which was well overdue (Don't get me started on that process and who gets in and out!)
Ocasek transitioned to a producing role for many bands after the Cars breakup in 1988, including Weezer and their classic "Blue Album".


Goodbye to Eddie Money at the age of 70 from esophageal cancer.
Money had several hits from his first album in 1977 through the late 80s with several of those hitting the top ten.
Money was one of those performers that settled into a certain style, never deviated from that style which has its positives and negatives from and as a result, most of his hits sounded very similar to each other.
Money's hard-driving, "regular guy" style was never going to make him a favorite among rock critics, but the fact that his songs were from the same genre' did this for him- if you liked Eddie Money, you were probably of the opinion that his entire catalog was great and he never dropped off in quality.
If you didn't, you more than likely think everything he did was subpar and there was likely large numbers of fans and haters, with few in between.
Me? I'd say I'm a fan, but not a fanatical one.
My pick as my favorite? Let's go with "Take Me Home Tonight", mainly because of the presence of Ronnie Spector.


Goodbye to Valerie Harper at the age of 80 from brain cancer.
Harper, who starred in two of her own shows "Rhoda" and "Valerie", both of which had successful runs, but is best remembered as "Rhoda Morgenstern", the upstairs neighbor from"Mary Richards" on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
The Rhoda character was spun off into her own show and ran for five seasons on CBS and Harper playing that character won a Best Actress and three Best Supporting Actress (on the MTM show) Emmy awards.
Harper's role in MTM (a longtime TRS favorite and I'm getting ready to watch the entire show as it was a birthday present from my ladies here at home) was a key one in establishing such a classic that made so many supporting actors successful enough to have their own series as the lead ( Ed Asner, Ted Knight, and Gavin Macleod all would star in their own shows along with Harper after MTM).
Rhoda was a huge hit for its first two seasons with the pilot episode holding a record that it holds alone to this day as the only premier episode to finish as the number one Nielsen rated show for the week ever and the wedding episode in 1974 was the second highest-rated episode of the 70s second only to the finale of Roots in 1977.
Rhoda would drop badly in its final three seasons when in season three, Rhoda split with her husband and "Joe" would state that he only married her due to her pressuring him.
The show's ratings would never recover from that decision.
I wasn't a big fan of Rhoda, but I did like Harper's return to television in NBC's Valerie, which was more of a family comedy but was built around Harper and her three children (including a young Jason Bateman) with a mostly absent airline pilot father.
Harper would wind up losing the show when she would enter a dispute over per episode earnings and eventual syndication wages after season two and she was written out of the show after a car accident.
Harper would never have her own show again, although she would do occasional guest roles on network shows and would work on Broadway.

Goodbye to Jack Perkins at the age of 85.
Perkins spent 25 years with NBC News as a reporter and commentator and was involved with live coverage of the JFK assassination for NBC.
Perkins is likely better known as the affable host of A&E's Biography series from 1994-99 with his long and often rambling introductions and conclusions.
It sure seemed like Perkins was with Biography for longer, but reading about the show, the Perkins run was during a time that Biography was making five new episodes for each week, which makes sense with why there seemed to be so many episodes with Perkins as the host.

Goodbye to Franco Columbu at the age of 78 from drowning.
Columbu won the Mr.Olympia competition in bodybuilding twice and was a long-time friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the pair's days in bodybuilding.
Columbu also acted in a few of Arnold's films and was known as the strongest bodybuilder of his time.
I remember Columbu best from the inaugural World's Strongest Man contest, where he finished fifth of eight overall in 1977, but dislocated his knee during the refrigerator race.
The injury would keep Columbu out of action for three years and the organizers of WSM would pay Columbu one million (a huge amount in 1977) as compensation for the injury.


Sadly, we have enough for a list of recent sports passings that can be posted later this week.
Back with the Browns Monday night visit to New York as they attempt to bounce back vs the Jets.

Boxing Challenge: Fury slashes by Wallin

In a surprisingly strong battle, Tyson Fury survived a very ugly cut over his right eye and won a unanimous decision over little-known Otto Wallin in Las Vegas.

The cut pumped blood constantly throughout the bout after Wallin landed a looping left that ripped open the face of Fury in the fifth round and several times Fury's eye was checked and the bout was in danger of potentially given to Wallin via TKO.
Fury managed to continue and eventually would wear down Wallin with his superior size and strength to win most of the second half of the fight other than Wallin's desperate attempt to knock Fury out in the final round.
I agreed with the closest of the three cards scored for Fury at 116-112 on my personal card.

Some notes on this fight.
First, I'm not sure how comfortable I am with the ESPN crew telling the Fury corner that the cut had been ruled (rightfully so) from a punch and not from a headbutt as Fury's team believed at the time.
ESPN is walking a very dangerous line between making news and reporting news as it felt to me that the network was making sure that the fighter that they have the investment with had every possible edge.
It's not illegal, mind you, and no rules were broken, but I'm not sure that I like the look and especially with how it occurred.
From my perspective, it appeared that blow-by-blow commentator Joe Tessitore was coaching reporter Bernardo Osuna (who I really like) to give Fury's corner information which could have swung the fight result.
Here's how- Fury's cut was severe, and the doctor checked the cut several times to observe Fury's vision.
Almost on every occasion, if the fighter says I'm having trouble seeing- the doctor will stop the fight then and there.
If Fury's corner thinks that it was caused by a headbutt, the fight would then be decided with the scorecards, on which Fury would have been well ahead and could have conceivably said "I can't see" knowing they would win.
By giving them that information, they knew they couldn't play that card and knew that their fighter needed to say he could see, even if he couldn't.
I would not have had a problem telling the corner the truth had they asked, but it felt to me that ESPN was trying to protect their guy.

Second- it showed the dangers of fighting squash matches instead of "marinating" fights.
This isn't on Fury, it's on Deontay Wilder, who insisted on fighting a Luis Ortiz rematch before the agreed-to Fury rematch (BTW, I still haven't seen a date for Wilder-Ortiz II), but no matter the blame, it shows just how quickly a big check can go away no matter the opponent.
It should have been Deontay Wilder in the ring with Tyson Fury this fall, not Otto Wallin.

Third- It'll be interesting to see just how the career of Otto Wallin develops.
Will he be this generation's Axel Schulz, who was equally as unknown as Wallin when he was robbed of a decision that he won against George Foreman and other than losing to Michael Moorer for a title vacated by Foreman was rarely seen on the world stage again?
Or will this be a jumping-on point for the Swede, who will build off his first fight against world-class competition and stick around as a viable contender?

In the co-feature, Emanuel Navarrete stopped Juan Miguel Elorde after Elorde's corner refused to allow their man out of the corner for the fifth round.
Navarrete knocked Elorde into the ropes in the fourth for a technical knockdown as only the ropes allowed him to stand and the corner's decision was the right one as it seemed their fighter had nothing left with a hard-punching champion waiting for him.
Navarrete retained his WBO junior featherweight title with the victory and with the other three titles at DAZN with WBA/IBF champion Daniel Roman (Matchroom) and WBC beltholder Rey Vargas (Golden Boy) building towards a fight with each other, would appear to be on the outside looking in.
However, a recent shoulder injury could sideline Roman for a while, and Top Rank and Golden Boy recently agreed to a deal for the vacant WBO featherweight crown between Shakur Stevenson and Joet Gonzalez, so could it be possible that a Navarrete-Vargas all-Mexican unification bout could be agreed on?
Steve Kim reports that Vargas was seen at the fight rather than the Golden Boy card on DAZN, so that does make me think something is possible in the future

The opener saw Jose Zepeda win a unanimous decision over Jose Pedraza in a junior welterweight fight.
Zepeda won the first six rounds on my card before allowing Pedraza to get back into the fight a little bit but never hurt Zepeda enough to challenge seriously for the duke.
I scored Zepeda a 97-93 winner and he could receive a rematch next year with WBC/WBO champion Jose Ramirez.
Zepeda gave Ramirez all he wanted in losing a majority decision in February and I wouldn't mind seeing the pair against each other again.
As for Pedraza, who has won titles briefly in two divisions, I'm not sure where he goes from here.
I don't think he seems strong enough at 140 and if making 135 is not an issue for him, he might be best served to drop back and hope that Vasyl Lomachenko gives up his titles sometime next year to be in the mix.

Update: Jaime Munguia stopped Patrick Allotey in the fourth round after knocking Allotey down twice in the third round and again in the fourth when referee Jack Reiss, nearing ten in his count, saw the Allotey corner signaling for the fight to end.
Considering the opposition (Allotey is a natural welterweight and had lost in two rounds in his only fight against notable opposition in Patrick Teixeira), Munguia looked strong in his first fight after his controversial majority decision win over Dennis Hogan but considering the quality of his challenger, I'm not going to give him too much credit, other than ending the fight early as he should against such an overwhelmed opponent.
After the Hogan debacle and it is Mexican Independence Day weekend, this was a showcase for Munguia and he took advantage of being showcased, which isn't a bad thing. but it didn't prove anything either.
Having apparently reached a dead end in the 154-pound division with the other three champions (WBA/IBF champion Julian Williams and WBC titleholder Tony Harrison) fighting with the PBC, unification is very unlikely, so Munguia is expected to vacate his title and move to the middleweight division, a division that is more friendly at this to the Golden Boy promoted boxer.

In the boxing challenge- I scored four points to Ramon Malpica's two to move my lead to 224-193.
The point difference between us was caused by Navarrete's KO win and the win by Jose Zepeda. 

Buckeyes take the bloom off Hoosiers 51-10

The Ohio State ground game chewed up and spit out the Indian Hoosiers to the tune of 306 yards, 190 of them by J.K. Dobbins as the Buckeyes grabbed their Big Ten opener 51-10 in front of Hep's Rock in Bloomington.

Justin Fields threw for three touchdowns with J.K. Dobbins running for one and catching a Fields pass for another for Ohio State.
The Buckeyes improve to 3-0 overall and 1-0 in the Big Ten.
Ohio State will host Miami, Ohio next Saturday.

Olentangy Offerings

1) The Buckeye ground game never allowed the Hoosiers a chance to settle in and make this one close.
J.K. Dobbins showed some of the running ability that made him such an impact back as a freshman,
averaging almost nine yards a carry with a touchdown run of 26 yards.
Against this level of competition this season, Dobbins is breaking tackles as he runs between the tackles and seems a cut above his sophomore season.

2) However, the back that I really like is sophomore Master Teague, who isn't afraid to put his shoulder down and run over someone and yet his speed is more than enough to avoid tacklers as well.
Teague ran ten times over one hundred yards and ripped off a forty-yard touchdown run.
If Dobbins goes pro next season, Teague is going to be more than replacement level at running back.

3) Justin Fields impresses me more each week as he shows the discipline to not run.
Fields has seen many opportunities to put the ball down and run and yet he doesn't, which makes me think that he's been coached well enough and is smart enough to not take chances of injury in games that are decided.

4) Ohio State locked everything down in the final quarter, being happy to just run the clock out and avoid injury which is why they didn't score any added points.
Content to allow things to play out can be the smart decision over the long season.

5) Of all the plays in the victory, the play of the day was the final touchdown as Damon Arnette grabbed a Peyton Ramsey pass and took it 96 yards for the score.
Arnette broke up passes earlier in the drive and showed the ability to be a high draft pick next season.
Consistency has always been the issue with Arnette, never his talent.

6) Chris Olave continues to be a breakout level player on several levels.
Olave caught a 37-yard pass from Justin Fields for a score and blocked a punt that bounced through the end zone for a safety,
Combine that with Olave's return ability and you have someone with the skills to influence the game in several manners.

7) The Buckeyes did receive some bad news when Tyreke Smith left the game after the first half.
Smith was getting his first career start after a terrific game against Cincinnati and spent the second half in street clothes.
No word on how much time Smith could miss.

8) One takeaway from the defense was this- when teams can only score using gimmick plays, you could have a very good defense.
The only Indiana touchdown was scored on a 49-yard option pass from Donovan Hale to Peyton Hendershot and the other threats were snuffed out.
When teams have to go to that measure to be able to score, that shows that opponents have begun to believe that they are going to have severe issues scoring straight up.

9) One mild surprise to me has been the naming of Chris Chugunov over Gunnar Hoak.
I would have figured the depth chart would be the other way around, but Chugunov's system familiarity is the likely edge for him over Hoak.
I still think in the event of a Justin Fields injury, it would be Hoak getting the nod.

10)  When the worst thing that you can say about a game is that you got caught by an option pass once and your kicker (Blake Haubeil) missed a field goal, it is a solid outing.
Granted it's Indiana, who has defeated Ohio State twice in MY lifetime, but still, it's the type of performance that you like to see against teams like this for the future, but the competition will be tougher as we progress- but I'm hopeful.

Boxing Challenge;Haney's the one?

On a wacky Friday night in boxing that featured one fight canceled in one of the more bizarre manners even for a sport that often specializes in the bizarre, there was a star in the ring to allow thoughts of bigger things down the road rather than the absurdity of today.

DAZN and Matchroom presented the dazzling Devin Haney in another spectacular performance.
Haney did some serious damage to the face of Zaur Abdullaev in the fourth round and forced the corner of Abdullaev to halt the fight by not allowing their fighter to come out for the fifth round.
Haney wins one of those ridiculous "titles", but more importantly positions himself for either a future title shot for the unified lightweight title that will be held by Vasyl Lomachenko or the winner of the Richard Commey-Teofimo Lopez fight after their fight next winter/spring.
Haney was impressive with both his speed and power against the overmatched Abdullaev, who took a pounding without falling and was only going to continue to be battered had the bout continued.

Devin Haney continues to impress me and every time Haney fights, he makes me think that he will be the next dominant fighter in boxing.
Haney's done nothing to make me think otherwise and until I see a hiccup, I give him a small edge over Teofimo Lopez as the best prospect at 135 pounds under (I give that restriction to exclude the devastating Vergil Ortiz at welterweight).
Many compare Haney to Floyd Mayweather, but there is another fighter that he reminds me of as well.
Haney reminds me of prime Meldrick Taylor with power that can get an opponent out and speed that is dazzling and to date, Haney gets hit less than Taylor too.
For those of you that don't remember prime Meldrick Taylor, it was Taylor that was two seconds and a bad decision by a referee from handing the great Julio Cesar Chavez his first loss- Taylor was that good.


The problem for Haney might be getting fights after his last two performances and even if Lomachenko wins to unify the four lightweight titles ( he currently holds three), the naturally larger Haney just might be the impetus for Lomachenko to drop back to 130 pounds and not give away the edge in size to Haney.
Haney could be that good and should Lomachenko decide to make the return to junior lightweight, Haney's biggest problem could be finding a way to be involved with picking up a vacant title or two.

The co-feature saw heavyweight Michael Hunter add another minor title with a unanimous decision over Sergey Kuzmin.
Kuzmin basically plodded around the ring as Hunter controlled the distance and didn't allow Kuzmin to do anything on the inside and use his strength.
Hunter dropped Kuzmin in round five and although Kuzmin was not seriously dazed, he didn't seem overly interested in taking counterpunches to get anything done on the inside.
I scored Hunter a 118-109 winner (10-2 in rounds with a knockdown)
Hunter has an excellent chance of being a possible title challenger, should Anthony Joshua regain his three championships from Andy Ruiz with both fighters promotional connections being with Matchroom.

In the boxing challenge, Ramon Malpica scored three points (Two for Haney, One for Hunter) to my one for Haney's win.
Ramon cut into the overall margin to 220-191.

Boxing Challenge

The boxing challenge returns after a week off and despite DAZN hosting events on Friday and Saturday, it's ESPN plus with the biggest fight of the weekend.

DAZN's Friday night card comes to you from Matchroom from New York City with the main event being interesting as one of the top prospects in the sport takes a step forward in his maturation towards the elite of his division.
Lightweight Devin Haney fights for one of those ridiculous "interim" titles that basically means that sooner or later, the winner will be a mandatory challenger for the real champion-Vasyl Lomachenko.
Haney meets Zaur Abdullaev, who was a decorated amateur but will be fighting outside his native Russia for the first time.
Haney dazzled in his last fight with a spectacular seventh-round knockout of then-undefeated Antonio Moran and ranks with lightweight Teofimo Lopez and welterweight Vergil Ortiz at the top of the prospect list, while we don't really know what Abdullaev will bring to the ring, the amateur record at least shows that he has a strong background.

A crossroads fight at heavyweight is the co-main event as Michael Hunter faces Sergey Kuzmin.
Hunter has looked impressive in his four heavyweight fights (all knockouts) since moving up from cruiserweight after taking his only career loss to Oleksandr Usyk in a title challenge.
Kuzmin is undefeated but was pushed in his last fight against trialhorse Joey Dawejko in a majority decision victory.
The winner could be in line for a possible title shot sometime in 2020 if Anthony Joshua defeats Andy Ruiz in their rematch.

DAZN's Saturday card will be a Golden Boy promotion with their main event showcasing WBO junior middleweight champion Jaimie Munguia defending that championship against Patrick Allotey of Ghana.
Munguia looked like a destroyer in the making after winning his title from Sadam Ali and defending it against Liam Smith but hasn't looked the same in his last two fights, especially in a controversial majority decision win over Australian journeyman Dennis Hogan that I thought he lost.
Allotey has fought one person that you have ever heard in Patrick Teixeira and he lost to him in two rounds, so this looks like a chance for Munguia to get back on course.

In the other challenge matchup, social media star Ryan Garcia faces Avery Sparrow,
Garcia will try to continue to develop as he moves up the ladder against better competition after a close decision win a year ago against Carlos Morales.
Sparrow is 10-1, but his last two wins were against Jose Lopez (who Garcia defeated in his last bout) and durable veteran Hank Lundy, so Sparrow has a chance but will have to outbox Garcia as Sparrow has knocked just three opponents in his ten wins.

The biggest fight of the weekend will be held in Las Vegas on ESPN plus as "Lineal" heavyweight champion Tyson Fury faces Otto Wallin of Sweden.
Fury blasted out Tom Schwartz in two rounds in his last fight in June and Wallin like Schwartz was, is undefeated but has never faced even fringe contender level opposition.
Wallin is better thought of by European observers than Schwartz was, but who really knows the quality of Wallin entering this fight?

A side note on ESPN/Top Rank's and their relentless pushing of the "lineal" heavyweight title.
I don't really have an issue with the lineal title with the 'man that beat the man etc", but I do find it suspicious that only the heavyweight title is being treated in this manner because ESPN/Top Rank currently has a television relationship with Tyson Fury.
Would the lineal title be mentioned if it was WBC champion Deontay Wilder or WBA/IBF/WBO champion Andy Ruiz that ESPN was the home for their fights?
My guess is that it might come up from time to time, but not nearly as often as now.
I don't have a problem pushing it, but have the lineal records ready for other divisions as well and make sure you talk about them when needed.

The other two ESPN fights will match Emanuel Navarrete defending his WBO junior bantamweight title against Juan Manuel Elorde of the Philippines and another crossroads fight as Jose Pedraza faces Jose Zepeda in a junior welterweight bout.
Navarrete returns less than a month after his third-round knockout of Francisco DeVaca against Elorde, who is the grandson of all-time great junior lightweight Flash Elorde.
Pedraza, who has held titles in short reigns in two divisions, moves up to junior welterweight for the first time against Zepeda, who lost a close majority decision to Jose Ramirez for Ramirez's WBC title.
Ramirez has since added the WBO title belt as well.
This should be the best fight of the weekend and is a fight that could go either way.

I lead the challenge over Ramon Malpica 219-188.

Lightweights. 12 Rds
Devin Haney vs Zaur Abdullaev
R.L: Haney KO 6
TRS: Haney Unanimous Decision

Heavyweights. 12 Rds
Michael Hunter vs Sergey Kuzmin
R.L: Hunter KO 4
TRS: Kuzmin Unanimous Decision

Heavyweights 12 Rds
Tyson Fury vs Otto Wallin
R.L: Fury KO 7
TRS: Fury KO 10

WBO Junior Featherweight Title 12 Rds
Emanuel Navarrete vs Juan Miguel Elorde
R.L: Navarrete Unanimous Decision
TRS: Navarrete KO 9

Junior Welterweights.10 Rds
Jose Pedraza vs Jose Zepeda
R.L: Pedraza Unanimous Decision
TRS: Zepeda Split Decision

WBO Junior Middleweight Title. 12 Rds
Jaime Munguia vs Patrick Allotey
R.L: Munguia KO 7
TRS: Munguia KO 3

Junior Welterweights. 10 Rds
Ryan Garcia vs Avery Sparrow
R.L: Garcia KO 5
TRS: Garcia Unanimous Decision

PPM

The PPM slate is back with plenty of good games this weekend.

Last Week: 11-3
Overall: 21-3

College
Ohio State over Indiana 38-13
Texas Tech over Arizona 30-27
Houston over Washington State 50-46
N.C State over West Virginia 23-21
Minnesota over Georgia Southern 38-24
Louisiana Tech over Bowling Green 40-17
Duke over Middle Tennessee State 30-24
LSU over Northwestern State 66-3
Washington over Hawaii 32-27
Boise State over Portland State 42-14

Game of the Week
Central Florida over Stanford 32-21

NFL
Browns over Jets 27-10
Saints over Rams 37-31

Game of the Week
Falcons over Eagles 35-27

Buddy Rose vs Curt Hennig

I've seen thousands of pro wrestling matches in my day.
I've also seen more in the last few years than I've ever seen, simply because of the amount of footage that is more and more available from the WWE network and even more from YouTube with lots of matches from places that I had only been able to read about when they actually happened, but one match I saw when it was televised and never again was a memorable match between Playboy Buddy Rose and Curt Hennig from 1983.
I remembered Rose somehow rolling Hennig up for the win and Rose barely able to crawl out of the ring as the show went off the air.

The pair entered the WWF (Hennig in 1981, Rose in 1982, per John McAdam) from two different perspectives, yet both were arriving from the same territory in Portland, where Rose was the top heel and Hennig arrived as a young babyface moving to his first territory after his debut in his hometown territory in the AWA.
Rose and Hennig wrestled often in the Portland area, including Rose and various partners against Curt and his father Larry "The Axe" Hennig.

In WWF action though, it was different as Rose wasn't going to be the top heel, but a heel to be fed to Bob Backlund in title matches around the circuit, managed by the Grand Wizard before being lowered down the card.
Hennig was brought in to gain experience as he would occasionally win matches on television and in the arenas against similar-level opponents, but would lose to the bigger names although he was given his share of moments to shine on offense before losing the fall.
Hennig, like S.D.Jones and Eddie Gilbert on the "good guy" side and Johnny Rodz and Charlie Fulton on the "bad guy" side,  would have a few glimpses of glory, which was far more than the Steve King and Jeff Craney types that would never be given that much before the glorified tackling dummy was pounded into submission or pinfall.
That was how things were done in the WWF and with the very rare exception of an angle to be developed, things didn't vary from the gameplan.
Buddy Rose didn't care for that plan and when matched with Hennig, he had other ideas to make a competitive match from start to finish which would lead to this terrific battle that I remembered.

Watching this match after 37 years, I was struck by two different things that I didn't really recall properly.
The first was that I remembered Hennig dominating almost the entire match, which wasn't quite true although he clearly controlled more than Rose and the other was just how good Buddy Rose was and could have been in a later time.
Buddy Rose bumped around the ring, made Hennig look like a million bucks, had everyone thinking that this was the day a big star got knocked off, and after giving the fans such a memorable bout, what did Rose receive?

By doing something different, Rose was looked at as a lesser challenger to Bob Backlund because he didn't dominate the opponents that the other heels did and the fans didn't buy into Rose's challenge.
Rose also became notable for his challenges of Backlund for different reasons- to the best of my knowledge, it was Rose who was the first foe to showcase Backlund's new finisher- the chicken wing submission rather than his "atomic spine crusher" which saw Backlund pick up his opponent, run across the ring and drop the challenger onto Backlund's knee and led to a pin.
Considering the time in which a submission was shown as a sign of cowardice, Rose's submission again indicated that he was a lesser contender and not one to be taken as seriously as the usual challenger.
As a result, Rose's WWF stint was shorter than the usual heel and he returned to the Northwest as the big fish in the small pond.

Rose would return later and looked to be positioned to be at least somewhat highly thought of as he was given Bobby Heenan as a manager, but something must have happened out of the ring as Rose lasted only a month or so, before losing Heenan and moving to the dying AWA, where he would win their tag team championship with partner Doug Somers and having great matches with the Midnight Rockers (Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels in their first national exposure).
Rose would finish his career badly overweight and used in the role that Hennig started in this match- a guy that would give enough of a battle to a star on television, but usually lost for the WWF.
Rose died in 2009 at the age of 56.

As for Hennig, you likely know more about the future Mr. Perfect.
After leaving the WWF to return home to the AWA, Hennig would be one of the company's better tag team wrestlers, winning the tag team titles with Scott Hall on ESPN when the AWA was televised on the network and still had some big names in the company.
Hennig would turn heel and win the AWA world title from Nick Bockwinkel before losing it to Jerry Lawler to end his reign of just over one year.

Hennig moved to the WWF after finishing up in the AWA and would earn his lasting fame as "Mr.Perfect", holding the Inter-Continental championship, managing Ric Flair, and commentating at various times and would work for both the WWF and WCW in various stints.

Now here it is, Playboy Buddy Rose vs Curt Hennig in a match as good as I remembered after 37 years.
The Rose-Hennig match starts at the 40 minutes, 30-second mark and lasts about five minutes.