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 [...]
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 # 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 # 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.
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 of [...]
Monday, August 18, 2008
Match # 97: Dick Slater vs. Hacksaw Duggan (12/31/85) The first of a block of three matches involving Dirty Dick Slater, the heel with Dark Journey as his manager. I’ve said before I’m reminded of Tracy Smothers when watching him (Smothers came after Slater, but I saw Smothers first because of my age). I’d also said [...]
Monday, August 18, 2008
Match # 92: Buzz Sawyer vs. Jim Duggan (Dog Collar Match) (12/27/85) This is a blood feud that surprised me not only for its intensity and also my own interest in it. Dog collar matches are big risk-big reward in terms of quality, so let’s hope they continue to impress. I’m usually not gung ho about [...]
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Match# 84: Hacksaw Duggan vs. Buzz Sawyer (11/11/85) Alright, I took a break of a day before this one. After all the greatness on this disk we get two guys I’m not a huge fan of work wise. Sure, Duggan was in my tentative # 1 match, but that was an anomaly. I don’t assume [...]
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 and [...]
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 with [...]
Monday, August 11, 2008
Match # 48: Jim Duggan vs Ted Dibiase (No DQ, Loser Leaves Town, coal miner’s glove on a Pole, Tuxedo, Cage Match) 3/22/85 Some specifics looking over the entire feud. -April 21, 1983 was when Dibiase turned on Duggan when Duggan argued about Dibiase aligning with Akbar. That same TV taping Duggan broke a [...]
Monday, August 11, 2008
Match # 47 Ted Dibiase vs Jim Duggan 3/8/85 (No DQ) The build up as per the extras disk on our Mid South set: -we begin with Dibiase’s return, brokered by “Business Associate” Skando Akbar. This same association and stable led to the Butch Reed turn we’d already discussed. Here, Steve Williams is suppose to [...]
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. [...]
Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Fantastics & Duggan vs. Midnight Express & Cornette (7/20/84) I’m not doing a big write up for this. Sometimes I feel I must for a match; sometimes I enjoy it, and sometimes it just happens. But the point of this journey through the Mid-South is exploration and fun, and I just don’t think a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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