Match # 131: Terry Gordy vs. One Man Gang (9/21/86) This interested me on paper because One Man Gang was always a heel. It’s confirmed here too. He has Skandor Akbar with him and a flag. I assumed something Middle Eastern, but it looks like a pirate flag. Why didn’t Doc come out and slap [...]
Friday, August 22, 2008
Match # 130: Terry Gordy vs. Dr. Death (9/15/86) Gordy is the UWF Champion. Doc is the babyface challenger. The match is in front of a hot Tulsa, OK crowd at a TV taping with Jim Ross and a very bias Michael PS Hayes on commentary.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Match # 129: The Fantastics vs. Sting & Eddie Gilbert (9/7/86) This is for the held up UWF tag team belts. Gilbert has his whole faction out there. Missy and Tatum should keep me interested if the match does not. Should be fun to see a young StingThe Fantastics take forever to get to the [...]
Friday, August 22, 2008
Match # 128: Ted DiBiase & Dr. Death vs. Michael Hayes & Buddy Roberts (Lumberjack Match) (8/31/86) Christ the Freebirds were awesome in the 80s! If you saw World Class from ’82 through ’85 and then this run, you know why Shawn Michaels wanted to be Michael PS Hayes and the rest of the Kliq [...]
Friday, August 22, 2008
Match # 127: Hacksaw Duggan, Terry Taylor & Bill Watts vs. The Fabulous Freebirds (8/17/86) It just dawned on me that in the last year the Mid South/UWF management figured out how to curtain off and maximize the arena in Tulsa to look good on TV. Good job. Tulsa has a real hot crowd most [...]
Friday, August 22, 2008
Match # 126: Terry Taylor vs. John Tatum (8/17/86) Taylor is your vanilla babyface here, and John Tatum is your heel. I know so because of his strut, the great heat he gets for doing it, and the fact Missy Hyatt is on his arm. Tatum looks like a tanner version of Buddy Landell. Terry [...]
Friday, August 22, 2008
Match # 125: Terry Gordy vs. Hacksaw Duggan (8/3/86) Seems like yet another match from the TV tapings in Tulsa. Always a great crowd. Dibiase seconds Duggan while Hayes is with his “Big Brother”, Terry Bam Bam Gordy. This match is for the UWF title. Booker Ken Mantell comes out to make Dibiase and Hayes [...]
Friday, August 22, 2008
Match # 124: The Fantastics & Missing Link vs. Eddie Gilbert, John Tatum & Sting (8/3/86) Dark Journey is a face now and Missy Hyatt makes an appearance with the heels. She’s slept with everyone but Sting on the heels side… maybe Sting too. Neat.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Match # 123: Hacksaw Duggan, Terry Taylor & Bill Watts vs. The Fabulous Freebirds (7/20/86) This match was set up by the last match we saw, with Cowboy Bill Watt’s coming out of retirement. Seems like the show was promoted as “The boys are back in town”, which cause mean the good guys with Watts [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 122: Terry Gordy vs. Dr. Death (6/22/86) Hell YES. Something you need to know: I’m a huge Doc and Gordy mark via their ECW run in 1996. When I finally got into All Japan in late 1997 and saw all the great stuff they did a few years before, these two became legends [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 121: Terry Gordy vs. Terry Taylor (6/17/86) Thankfully this one starts out from the beginning. Gordy is still the champion and Taylor the TV champ. Only the big belt is on the line tonight. I’m curious if this is still Houston. It does resemble the Houston venue, though in the last half year [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 120: Terry Gordy vs. Terry Taylor (6/13/86) This match is a shining example of why this debate and list is fun, but by no means true or complete. We’re about to get into some serious Gordy at this level, and Gordy is one of the best big men of all time. He was [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
After Eight 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. [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 119: Chavo Guerrero vs. Buzz Sawyer (6/13/86) We start out in progress (a minute in) from Houston. Boesch is giving us the details. I like the match up on paper. Chavo Guerrero is a hot head with good work ethic and Buzz is a wacko character that also has a flare for entertaining. [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Disk 8 Rankings 1. Dick Slater vs. Jake Roberts (No DQ, Dark Journey In A Cage) (2/28/86) [TB-9] 2. Ted DiBiase, Dr. Death & Jim Duggan vs. Masked Superstar, Dick Murdoch & Buzz Sawyer (1/31/86) [TB-1] 3. Koko B. Ware vs. Eddie Gilbert (2/28/86) [TB-6] 4. Ted DiBiase, Dr. Death, Terry Taylor & Hacksaw Duggan [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 118: Terry Taylor vs. Buddy Roberts (6/8/86) How crazy is it that after the last match I watched (Hayes/Roberts vs Dibiase/Taylor) the match up I’d rather see at this moment is Dibiase vs Taylor. I’m not crying about this one by any means though. Hayes is at ringside and JR mentions right away [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 117: Michael Hayes & Buddy Roberts vs. Ted DiBiase & Terry Taylor (5/25/86) The production of the shows and tapings has gotten a lot better very quickly. Then again, everything I’ve been watching has been at the Houston tapings which are the big house shows with full matches so I haven’t seen a [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 116: The Fantastics & Terry Taylor vs. The Sheepherders & Jack Victory (Barbed Wire Cage Match) (5/25/86) Faces are in the ring and the crowd is hot right off. Weird thing is this “cage” looks like something that more trade-related backyard wrestlers would construct. It’s a 2×4 castle that looks like the start [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 115: The Fantastics & Terry Taylor vs. The Sheepherders & Jack Victory (5/9/86) Another bullshit nationalistic angle. Bobby Fulton leads the crowd in the pledge of allegiance. I know some people like nationalism in their own lives, but I don’t, and certainly makes my skin crawl in wrestling. Nationalism in wrestling tends to [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Match # 113: Dick Slater vs. Hacksaw Duggan (4/11/86) Well now this match looks a lot better on the marquee. Slater is challenging for the belt because Duggan somehow acquired it, but apparently Duggan never beat Slater for it. Sounds good.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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