Match # 30: Butch Reed vs Skip Young 9/23/84 I’m at a loss as to who Young is, but Reed was deep into a major heel run in Mid South by this print. This is a solid NOTHING match. That’s right – solid, yet nothing. Reed is a good, but not great, heel. [...]
Friday, June 27, 2008
Match # 28: Dusty Rhodes/Hacksaw Duggan vs Butch Reed/Hercules Hernandez 8/19/84 This is from a Tulsa house show with StarDust in town. This is a street fight, or at least the street clothes and street fight rules were adopted. Typical character-driven grudge stuff with the booking of the time for M.S. [...]
Friday, June 6, 2008
Match # 24: Midnight Express/Ernie Ladd vs Rock N Roll Express/Jim Duggan 7/2/84 First of all, they clipped ten seconds “down” points here and there, so the flow is messed up. It’s small, but it really makes you feel like you are watching a home movie with jump cuts. Pulls you out of the moment [...]
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Match # 23: Rock N Roll Express/Duggan vs Midnight Express/Ernie Ladd 6/8/84 Another fun experiment on this disk – a six man tag where the first meeting (at least on the disk)and the second meeting are a month apart. It’s similar to the TA/Dibiase matches to start the set, but not the [...]
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Match # 22: Magnum TA vs Ted Dibiase No DQ (Tulsa 5/27/84) These two rematched in Tulsa for a night show just hours after the first match I reviewed (Match # 21). They boo Dibiase out of the building, but they love Magnum. I probably would have too in 1984. I was three.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Match # 21: Magnum TA vs Ted Dibiase (NO DQ) OKC. (5/27/84) Start of the second of ten disks. I’m going to attempt to the change up the reviews by watching matches first, then writing as I re-watch. I’ll also change the style and hopefully shorten the reviews (Writer’s note: That didn’t happen).
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Twenty Matches in, only 130 to go. Here is my ballot after disk one of matches as we follow the greatest matches of the Mid South territory.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Match # 20: Midnight Express vs Rock N Roll Express 5/24/84 As research for this match I watched the first ever meeting of the MNX and RNR. This was in February of the same year, shortly after the arrival of all four Memphis area talents, but a week or two before the Midnights won [...]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Match # 19: Midnight Express vs Bill Watts/Stagger Lee (4/22/84) In reviewing and ranking this match I find one of several dilemmas in this process. Several times on this first disk you read me mentioning in my reviews that I would love to know more about the backstory on some of the matches/angles I [...]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Match #18: Midnight Express vs Bill Dundee/Porkchop Cash (4/6/84) Well, we know who the heels are. Here’s a hint: They get to have Cornette run interference on the outside. Faces are two old Memphis workers, Dundee and Cash. In fact, all these men came as part of a Watt-Jerry Jarrett trade. Watts made out [...]
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Match #17: Buddy Landell/Butch Reed vs Rock N Roll Express 3/28/84 Now it gets difficult. We’re getting to the glory period of Mid South. It signals the arrival of the Midnight Express, as well as their foils, The Rock N Roll Express. The RNR just happen to be in this match. Ever heard of “playing [...]
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Match #16: Magnum TA/Wrestling II vs Midnight Express 2/10/84 Here we go! The original heel Midnights. Well, Karl Stern would disagree, but we’re splitting hairs. I grew up on the Stan Lane version in the late 80s. I’ve seen a little of the original via World Class and NWA tapes, but this is my first [...]
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Match # 15: Mr. Wrestling II/Magnum T.A. vs Butch Reed/Jim Niedhart 12/25/83 A few notes that will affect my viewing and analysis of this match. For the first time in viewing the set I’m watching a house show match without commentary. It has audio, so I’ll be able to hear the participants and crowd reactions. [...]
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Match # 14: Ted Dibiase vs Hacksaw Jim Duggan 7/29/83 I tried to watch this through without writing in real time. I hadn’t done that since we’ve started the process, so I figured it was a perspective worth trying. I got about six minutes in and had to start writing. This is a [...]
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The hidden gem of the set so far. Sick of watching Chavo Guerrero wrestle CM Punk? How about Eddies older Brother, “Chavo Classic” in a hot match with a heel Mr. Olympia? This match is so much fun Paul Boesch and Bill Watts held hands. That last part is a lie. It’s Chavo Guerrero (Sr.) [...]
Thursday, March 6, 2008
It’s guest appearance time in Houston. Two non-Mid South regulars wrestle for a non-Mid South belt in a building/territory which Mid South only shared. What? A rip off?! No, it’s Dusty Rhodes and Nick Bockwinkle showing you their traveling performance art from Houston.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
The Iron Sheik is used to put Mid South over WWF and America over Communism. That’s before we even see a real finish to the match! Plus, we begin to look at whether Butch Reed was forgotten talent or Internet oldtimer hype.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Junk Yard Dog and Olympia continue there feud with the Rat Pack. No hype, just the match. If you read the last few, this one ties in. Okay… that’s a little hype.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
The same angle and match up goes from classic to something else. It’s the continuation/progression of the big Rat Pack/JYD angle from our last Diaries. to much ice cream is never good, kids.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
How can you NOT read this edition of Mid South Diaries?! We’ve got Dibiase in all his glory, a very famous hot angle, a loser is leaving town, and a Paul Boesch guest appearance. Did I mention one of these men was the original Doink the clown? Come on!
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