6.8.90 Kenta Kobashi vs Steve Williams I believe this was held on the undercard of the first famed Misawa vs Jumbo match. Doc is awesomely intense here to start, going face to face with the young boy. Kobashi is The man yet, not even close, but the fans already love him. Doc was a good [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Match # 136: Terry Gordy vs. Dr. Death (12/26/86) Match starts in progress, which I hate, and it seems deep into the match at first. Thankfully it’s only four minutes in, though they are already into Gordy getting the heat. The match is slow and plodding in the early going. It’s basically one big bear [...]
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Match # 132: Terry Gordy vs. Dr. Death (9/28/86) They put a lot of people in a bull ring in Little Rock, Arkansas. They even put in two side by side rings. War Games? It wasn’t even done yet (first War Games was ’87). I’d guess a battle royal, back when that was a big [...]
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 # 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 # 103: Buzz Sawyer vs. Dr. Death (1/28/86) Buzz is such a heel he yells on the mic like a stereotypical wrestler, and then complains of hair pulls when they first lock up. The early head lock stuff is awesome. Anyone who reads my reviews knows I’m a sucker for a good head lock [...]
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Match # 89: Dick Slater vs. Dr. Death (12/18/85) Dr. Death has turned face by this point. His long-time partner is Ted Dibiase turned face in early November, and Steve Williams turned face soon after. I’m pretty sure this was after Doc saved people in a burning car on the side of a highway and [...]
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 # 72: Al Perez & Wendell Cooley vs. Dr. Death & Bob Sweetan (8/30/85) Starts out with the Barbarian and Jake the Snake in the ring confronting Sweetan and Doc. Jim Ross holds the mic. Jake does a very real sounding promo saying he’s tired of coming down and begging the heels for a [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Match # 65: Ted DiBiase & Dr. Death vs. Jake Roberts & The Barbarian (7/14/85) A lot of fun stuff here. Jake is so great with how he carries himself, and you can really see what Raven was trying to emulate with his ECW character in the late 90s. I actually enjoyed Raven more in [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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