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Lumberjacks and fat men all over the place. It’s One Man Gang and Buck Robley in our seventh edition of the Mid South Diaries.
Match # 7: One Man Gang vs Buck Robley (Lumber Jack Match) 9/15/82

Gang has all his hair here. He’s also got Skandor Akbar in his corner, so he’s an UBER-heel in my book. I feared Skandor Akbar and his Devastation Inc. as a child watching WCCW on ESPN. I still shiver when the old man speaks. Buck Robley is a Col. In the army according to his name title. He’s apparently Funk’s neighbor in Amarillo. He looks like Necro Butcher’s lazy uncle, if that’s possible.

If Buck wins he gets to fight Akbar the next week. Old wrestling was such great episodic TV. Even late 90s had great week to week stuff, and now it seems so self-contained. The story here is chop down the giant heel, and early OMG just kills Robley. He looks like WCW’s Lock Ness character.

My God, the lumberjacks actually serve a purpose!! Who would have thought they serve a purpose.
Robley gets an advantage. I’m not into these two as wrestlers, but the story is there, and the effort is too. It’s like Pat Patterson booking for limited guys. I’ve noticed that booking/agent work in several matches already (JYD). The lumber jacks push OMG when he tries to roll away from pins to the outside. Watts on commentary puts over the jacks and how some would love to see Buck Robley win.

Cool spot where Robley jumps on OMG’s back with a sleeper hold and gets dumped over the top. They put over that he hit the concrete, but the lumber jacks are there to put him right back in the ring.

Unfortunately, it meant nothing. Robley hits One Man Gang from the top robe with a brace on his arm for the pin. I thought Watts booked banded the top rope in WCW, so I assumed it was banned in Mid South. I’m realizing now that Watts wanted it in moderation in WCW, usually behind the refs back, so the “ban” was storyline. He probably let it go in Mid South feeling he had control of it.

Again, I liked the story, but the match was awful. This makes three of seven so far where the story held up a match, though in one in was more Dibiase holding up JYD in a tag. That said, AGAIN the crowd ate it up. 2 stars and 3/10.

To find other opinions on this match (definitely different than my take), go here.