[3.0] "I think this show just felt kinda aimless and clunky besides the cage match. The IC bout is agented entirely out of order, the rest of the card is just some short bouts that are kinda just angles for mania 3 setup. Even the cage match is kind of just a worse version of the Bundy Hogan match the previous year."

[7.0] "Pretty good Saturday Night's Main Event again with a really enjoyable and eventful Hogan v Orndorff match in the blue steel cage where there was a great false finish, lots of fun drama and Heenan taking some good bumps before Hulkamania ran wild again. It's the only real good match on this event to be honest, but where it succeeded was the build putting things in place for WrestleMania 3 like the return of Ricky Steamboat and the controversial Adonis vs Piper match, where Adonis wins by spraying something in Piper's eyes and he's blinded long enough to be out for the 10 count. None of the SNME events are structured where the main event is on last as of yet and this did lead to a big flaw for me where Bobby Heenan and Danny Davis both took bumps in that cage match and yet they appear in matches later on in the show like nothing had happened. Also there was a pretty weak IC Title match and the last match was completely forgettable."

[6.0] "Sol8d show all around and great build for wrestlemania 3. You start to see mach nan and ricky being put into place and piper vs adrian. Show began with a fun steel cage match that was timed very well. Heenan selling hogan was fantastic. Not much of a match for the Intercontinental Championship but great for story. Jyd and harley race was fine aswell as piper and adrian which has been a fine fued and a filler match."

[4.0] "Very much a one-match show, but at least that match - Hogan vs Orndorff in the blue cage - was a good one. Savage wasn't quite able to draw a good match out of Steele at this point, but their match was more intended as build to Savage-Steamboat at Mania anyway. The other matches were all OK but very much came off as the filler TV matches that they were. Bobby Heenan had a standout night, bumping and selling like crazy in both the cage match and Race-JYD."

[4.0] "The show got off to a good start with this Steel Cage, but the rest was an addition of small, rather mediocre segments in which the wrestling was secondary. In-ring quality: 2/5. Angles and segments outside matches: 0.5/3. Bonus/Malus: none. Total: 4.5/10. Show seen on WWE Network."

[4.0] "This was not a great start for SNME in 1987. This show is pretty weak, and really peaks early with the Hogan/Orndorff cage match opener; easily my favourite thing of the night. Bobby Heenan was great on this show. My least favourite part of this show was Blackjack Mulligan vs Jimmy Jack Funk; I would give this match a zero if I could. Adonis vs Piper could've been good, but was short and an annoying Count Out finish. This is the first of three shows in a row where we get a trilogy of terrible; with Randy Savage being forced to face George Steel."

[4.0] "A bunch of short matches, but Hogan and Orndorff stole the show with their cage match, which saw an iffy finish and then get restarted. Savage and Steele continue to fight each other in short ineffective matches. It was a lackluster event."

[6.0] "Not a really great show, but the build-up to WM III started here, and they did a splendid job plotting the seeds for each match. The pacing was pretty good, as the show doesn't feel dragged in the slightest. Average edition of SNME, but easy to watch, much like most of them."

[3.0] "Just like the lest time this snme staryed out with its best part the difrnce ofc is that the best part of this show is much worse then the best part of snme 8 THE CAGE MATCH. It was ok. The firat false finish was nice but then the rest of the match gose and fucks it up by costly having the 2 deiced not to leave when they could cos they wana have some graps. (5/10). Savge vs gorge steel. Thismatch can only go one way and thats to the bin (2/10) Jyd vs king harly race was as good as you would think wich is to say not at alll (2/10) Adonis vs piper is fine for what it is tho vince is stil jsut the worst in adonis' matches (4/10) The mani event was fine (4/10) Overall this show was not much but it was still not the worst ez 3 outa 10. Mvp was heenan."

[5.0] "This really was a one match show. Hogan/Orndorff blowing off their feud in a cage match is the only reason to come back to this show."

[8.0] "Fun event, underrated like many SNME simply because it lacks an all time great match, but it's hard to match the fun, the big characters, the hot crowds. Hogan/Orndorff is quite good, there's a reason their feud drew enormous numbers, and Savage/Steele is enjoyable for how many moving pieces go into telling the overarching story. JYD/Race is decent and Heenan's bumping is incredible, and the Adonis/Piper sprint is my favorite of the night, a really excellent short match. The last match is a throwaway but that's typical of SNME. Fun show."

[7.0] "Hulk Hogan vs. Paul Orndorff - 8/10 Randy Savage vs. George Steele - 8/10 Junkyard Dog vs. Harley Race - 7/10 Adrian Adonis vs. Roddy Piper - 7/10 - too short to have much impact. Blackjack Mulligan vs. Jimmy Jack Funk - 4/10, just not a fan of Jimmy Jack Funk. This might as well been a dark match."

[5.0] "In my childhood's WWF lore, this steel cage contest that served as the culmination of a two-year feud between Hogan/Orndorff, was the stuff of legend. Watching it back some thirty years later, I marvelled at the mediocre work-rate and the lack of an interesting moveset from both competitors. But credit still should go for pulling-off a most memorable sequence of landing on the floor at indeed the same time... legendary! And it gave heel commentator Ventura a great line on how O should be declared the victor because his knees weren't bent like Hogan's. The other matches, outside Mulligan's, were put forth to set-up the card for WM III. Speaking of the Blackjack, how would it be possible in the slick era of late 80s WWF to recreate the magic Mulligan had in Mid-Atlantic during the 70's? He was always more over due to the vibrant virility of his hulking frame, he looked like a 40's-50's Hollywood star of cowboy television programming like "Bonanza, " and charisma than workrate... so how would an over-the-hill Mulligan be able to capture the fans ardor? ! Was that a G Scott or J Barnett decision? Back to the show, the Savage-Steele schtick was overdone by that point but it had a greater purpose even if the live crowd didn't sound programmed that well for Steamboat's return. Admittedly, I'm politically incorrect in appreciating the racial undertones of Race/JYD as well as Adonis's pink gimmick. 5. 25"

[6.0] "It starts well with the final act of Hogan vs Orndorff feud, a Steel Cage match with a risky moment for Hogan with the double escape. Savage vs Steele is the same of their other matches. Even Dog vs Race is acceptable. The final two matches are bad, even 3:30 minutes of Adonis are irritating to see. Still no André The Giant."

[4.0] "This one was really dragged down a bit by the opening cage match. It just reminded me too much of the King Kong Bundy vs Hulk Hogan cage match. They tried with the ending, but it wasn't something that appealed much to me."