Pro Wrestling Chronicle

Mid South Diaries: Match #127

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 of [...]

Mid South Diaries: Match #123

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 [...]

Mid South Diaries: Match #70

Match # 70: Jim Duggan, Dick Murdoch & Bill Watts vs. Kamala, Kareem Muhammad & Skandor Akbar (7/28/85) As if this set wasn’t white trashy and overtly misguidedly nationalistic to begin with, the next match opens with Captain America and Captain Redneck on a monster truck at what looks like a state fair. Jim Duggan and [...]

Mid South Diaries - Match #19

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 [...]