Match #3: Bill Dundee vs. Paul Ellering (5/24/80) Ellering would go on to manage the Road Warriors. Here he’s just a gassed up bodybuilder type who I’ll assume is a power wrestler. Dundee comes into the studio sporting tights that read “Macho Man”. Considering that Savage is on this set and will always be the real macho [...]
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Match #2: Ricky Morton vs. Sonny King (4/26/80) This is a very young Ricky Morton before the days of the big mullet and teen girl adored Rock N Roll Express. I don’t know much about Sonny King but he’s got a territorial journeyman look to him. Very amateur style opening as they try a Greco roman knuckle [...]
Friday, October 3, 2008
Match #1: Bill Dundee vs. Larry Latham (4/19/80) We kick off the first match in studio with Lance Russell and Dave Brown announcing. Nifty sign of the times is the split screen of each man in their respective corners of the ring during announcements. Latham would go on to play a member of the tag team The [...]
Friday, October 3, 2008
10.24.04 CM Punk vs AJ Styles (IWA-MS) This is from the 8th Anniversary show for IWA-Mid South and stands as a great display of what CM Punk can do in the ring with the right opponent. Punk is a solid worker carrying too much weight in the WWE to live up to their standards. He [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
After all the fun I had doing the Mid South Diaries, I’ve decided to take a crack at the 1980s Memphis project being run at Death Valley Driver’s Message board. For any background just look up the Mid South Diaries at the top of the page, or through tags and categories. Jerry Jarrett took [...]
Sunday, September 21, 2008
PS With Honor? Johnny P and I put a post-script on ROH’s oldest annual event, and that’s no BS. Apologies for the audio quality; we recorded on my mp3 player, which was our back-up for John’s laptop, because that didn’t deal with the road noise/vibration well. Enjoy! [display_podcast]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Match # 148: Eddie Gilbert & Dick Murdoch vs. Terry Gordy & Buddy Roberts (6/25/87) Looks like the Freebirds get to be babyfaces for once. That’s a welcome change for me. Murdoch and Gilbert tries to take out Bam Bam’s leg. First Doc, now this? Crazy Gilbert! What were those two thinking? We shall see in [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Match # 147: Dick Murdoch vs. Dr. Death (6/13/87) This was set up a month before in a post-match TV angle we just covered in match # 146. Eddie Gilbert and Dick Murdoch tried to break Doc’s arm, with Murdoch stomping the arm into a steel chair from the top rope. Huge injury angle in those [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Match # 146: Eddie Gilbert vs. Dr. Death (5/17/87) Doc sprints to the ring for this TV main event. Eddie Gilbert is going to have Dick Murdoch in his corner. He tells me so in a promo he cuts with Captain Redneck. Murdoch says he showed the brainbuster finish and Gilbert acts like a goof. Priceless. [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Match # 145: Chris Adams vs. Terry Taylor (5/3/87) Magnum TA is announcing with Jim Ross. This must be post car accident. He shares the booth with Jim Ross for this rematch. Early on both guys struggle and escape holds like this is a shoot match. I love that. Back and forth to show they are quick, [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Match # 144: Chris Adams vs. Terry Taylor (4/19/87) These two men were partners and tag team champions recently. We reviewed one of their matches with Hot Stuff International. Now they’ve decided to be singles competitors, though I’m not sure if Adams has turned yet. I can almost bet cash it won’t be Taylor who plays [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Match # 143: One Man Gang vs. Big Bubba Rogers (4/19/87) A meeting of the future “Dream Team”, as Akeem the African Dream and The Big Bossman square off. Accept they go by Bubba Rogers and the One Man Gang here, and Slick is nowhere to be found. Doc is at ringside announcing with Jim Ross [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Match # 142: Chris Adams & Terry Taylor vs. Eddie Gilbert & Iceman Parsons (3/20/87) The story is Adams and Parsons were once tag team partners in a tournament in Mid South (apparently because of the World Class connections). They broke up and Parsons went heel, joining Eddie Gilbert’s Hot Stuff International. Hence this match.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Match # 141: Ted DiBiase vs. One Man Gang (No DQ) (2/6/87) A rematch in Houston of a surprisingly good match from earlier in the set (Match # 135). This was follows the storyline as it now has a stipulation of No DQ and its Dibiase challenging for OMG’s UWF Championship. We begin…
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Match # 140: Ted DiBiase & Dr. Death vs. Terry Gordy & Michael Hayes (Badstreet Match) (1/25/87) No need for a huge write up. We’ve seen many combinations of these four men in the ring during the last several Mid South Diaries. In fact, we’ve seen this exact match with this exact stipulation. Funny thing is [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Match # 139: The Fantastics & Dr. Death vs. The Fabulous Freebirds (1/18/87) Apparently storyline-wise Terry Gordy is to blame for all of this. Gordy attacked the Fantastics recently, and we know he’s had a longstanding feud with Death – Dr. Death Steve Williams. This allows Hayes and Roberts of the Freebirds to slide into a [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Match # 138: Ted DiBiase & Dr. Death vs. Terry Gordy & Michael Hayes (Badstreet Match) (1/9/87) It’s funny that Gordy and Hayes wear cut off T-shirts and jeans here as the cool heels, and a decade later Stevie Richards would do it as a “clueless putz”. I only bring it up because Gordy and [...]
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
After Nine Disks 1. Ted DiBiase vs. Hacksaw Duggan (No DQ, Loser Leaves Town, Coal Miner’s Glove on a Poll, Tuxedo, Cage match ) (3/22/85) [BR-14] 2. Butch Reed vs. Dick Murdoch (9/22/85) [BW-1] 3. Terry Taylor vs. Ric Flair (6/1/85) [RNRIK-7] 4. Mr. Wrestling II & Magnum T.A. vs. Midnight Express (2/10/84) [PTB-16] 5. Kerry Von Erich vs. Ric Flair (5/4/85) [RNRIK-4] 6. Magnum T.A. vs. [...]
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Disk 9 Rankings 1. Hacksaw Duggan, Terry Taylor & Bill Watts vs. The Fabulous Freebirds (8/17/86) [BSUSA-8] 2. Terry Gordy vs. Dr. Death (9/15/86) [BSUSA-11] 3. Ted DiBiase & Terry Taylor vs. Michael Hayes & Buddy Roberts (Country Whipping Match) (10/12/86) [BSUSA-14] 4. Terry Gordy vs. Hacksaw Duggan (8/3/86) [BSUSA-6] 5. Terry Gordy vs. Dr. Death (9/28/86) [BSUSA-13]
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Match # 137: Terry Gordy vs. Dr. Death (12/28/86) This is getting to be a fun habit between these two. They start out brawling. Gordy is the aggressor. Doc holds his own and eventually wins out. Good execution of a common early match formula. Gordy maneuvers out of a piledriver attempt, a big move many of their [...]
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