Lex Luger vs. Dick Murdoch (Power Hour 11/10/89) Jim Cornette and a more sports oriented, less hyperbolic Jim Ross on commentary. Talk about a dream team, and they helped paint the match’s picture completely for me. The first few minutes is as simple as punches and wrist locks, and the story works so perfectly. You [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
A new compilation disk has arrived with fun goodies, so I figured I’d post some thoughts on the lot of random matches. Here’s the first…
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Match # 109: Koko B. Ware vs. Eddie Gilbert (2/28/86) The first of four from the same Houston card. Four matches making it to a 150 match best of the decade review? Must have been a hell of a card. Then again, I’m sure a lot of great cards have happened over the years where [...]
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Match # 107: Ted DiBiase & Dr. Death vs. Dick Murdoch & Masked Superstar (2/14/86) They cut TV promos beforehand. Murdoch was an average to decent promo, but had he been a great promo we would all be remembering him on the level of Dusty Rhodes or above. Superstar is the sidekick who doesn’t say [...]
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Match # 104: Ted DiBiase, Dr. Death & Jim Duggan vs. Masked Superstar, Dick Murdoch & Buzz Sawyer (1/31/86) Just in the first minute you see the level of greatness you’re dealing with here. With the exception of Bill Eadie (Sorry Masked Superstar), who isn’t horrible either, this is a solid main event level gathering [...]
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Match # 100: Dick Murdoch & Masked Superstar vs. Brett Sawyer & Al Perez (1/19/86) Masked Superstar is a pre-Demolition Bill Eadie. He’s not very intimidating in that shirt though. Thankfully for me his partner is the great Dick Murdoch! Sawyer and Perez are very good smaller faces that never made it, but are very [...]
Monday, August 18, 2008
Match # 95: Ted DiBiase vs. Dick Murdoch (No DQ) (12/31/85) These two are probably my two favorite workers on the whole set. The feud that was set up between them was a great angle, and the first match was good, but it wasn’t all that I was hoping for. This one better bring the [...]
Monday, August 18, 2008
Match # 91: Ted DiBiase vs. Dick Murdoch (12/27/85) Why! Why would you start one of the biggest feud matches off in the middle of the match, halfway through the heat? The answer I’m sure is that you had to go to the house shows to see it, but being such a big fan of [...]
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Match # 80: Butch Reed vs. Dick Murdoch (10/14/85) The rematch of one of my favorite Mid South matches on the set (Match # 75). If Reed holds up his end I’ll be very pleased because that would be three in a row in my mind. Not sure if Murdoch is full heel by now, [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match #75: Dick Murdoch vs Butch Reed 9/22/85 Match # 75 was already posted a month back. The link can be found here. It’s an amazing match that will finish in my Top 5 come ballot time. Here’s the link.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match # 73: Dick Murdoch vs. Dr. Death (9/20/85) A TV match with Dr. Death Steve Williams as the heel, complete with Bob Sweetan in his corner. He’s challenging the babyface North American Title holder, Dick Murdoch. I am pumped. A heel Doc and a face Murdoch. Why can’t this be arena footage!?
Friday, August 15, 2008
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 [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match # 67: Dick Murdoch vs. The Nightmare (7/14/85) Still think Eddie Gilbert’s Nightmare is kinda lame, even if the wrestler himself is a good one. I love Murdoch’s old time intro music. Charming stuff, like an old Marx Brothers movie. Last match was our first look at Murdoch, who as actually a staple of [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match # 66: Hacksaw Duggan & Dick Murdoch vs. Kamala & Kareem Muhammad (7/14/85) Muhammad, who I’ll be calling Kareem from this point forward, is just a fat black guy in US Army camo colors. It’s Mark Henry if he stopped his lifting training or greatly reduced it. Kamala is typical Ugandan Giant Kamala, complete [...]
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I’m gonna break down the fourth wall and let everyone know that hasn’t figured it out – the Mid South 80s ballot and review ended last night at midnight. I was one of dozens who participated, and while we are at Match # 30 on the site, in actuality I’ve watched and judged all 150 [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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