Match #100: Koko Ware vs. Ric Flair (11/18/85) Hell yes! Flair in Memphis. This is an arena match from Memphis. Dusty Rhodes, fresh off his win in the bunkhouse match, is at ringside as an adviser to Koko Ware. Flair is bother, of course. It starts basic and slow paced. They trade hard headlocks for [...]
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Match # 98: Bill Dundee & Sherri Martel vs. Koko Ware & Candi Divine (10/26/85) A mixed tag match featuring the ladies. Sherri would become famous after her AWA run as Queen Sherri with Macho King Randy Savage, and later in WCW managing Harlem Heat.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Match # 97: Koko Ware vs. Masked Superstar (Jerry Stubbs) (10/26/85) This is a studio match with Ware as the babyface. Stubbs was also in Mid South under a mask as Mr. Olympia. He was also an early partner of Arn Anderson.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Match # 64: The Fabulous Ones vs. Pretty Young Things (6/25/84) Now I’m confused. The Fabs had left and the NEW Fabs were feuding with the PYT. Now here stand Stan Lane and Steve Keirn, being awesome and doing what I’ve thought was lacking from the Rich/Gilbert team.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Match # 63: Tommy Rich & Eddie Gilbert vs. Pretty Young Things (Falls Count Anywhere) (5/18/84) It’s Memphis and Falls Count Anywhere, so you know it starts with a brawl. Rich and Gilbert, as talented as they are, aren’t as fluid as the original Fabs. Gilbert comes off better then Rich though, as Rich never [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Match # 60: Eddie Gilbert & Tommy Rich vs. Pretty Young Things (4/12/84) Gilbert and Rich are the (ill suited) new Fabulous Ones. Fab originator Jackie Fargo did an interview from his living room couch (no joke) explaining that Stan Lane and Steve Keirn wanted to go all over the place and not stay in [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Match # 54: Dutch Mantel, Koko Ware, Bobby Eaton & Jaguar vs. The Grapplers & Bruise Brothers (12/10/83) [EWY-15] One of the Bruise Brothers (Porkchop Cash) looks like Kimbo Slice. The Other Bruise Brother is Dream Machine in yet another incarnation. The Grapplers are muscleheads in masks. Koko is wrestling as Stagger Lee, the mask [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Match # 52: Koko Ware vs. Tommy Rogers (10/24/83) [EWY-13] Rogers insists that Jimmy Hart is not his manager, but Hart is already out at ringside in a seat waiting to watch the match. Interesting.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Match # 38: Bobby Eaton & Sweet Brown Sugar vs. Jacques Rougeau & Terry Taylor (1/1/83) My new favorite tag team of Eaton and Sugar. If only the young Cornette could have had these guys instead of Jimmy Hart leading them, my Hart would be content. Terry Taylor, a babyface here, would go on to [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Match # 35: Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantell & Terry Taylor vs. Bobby Eaton, Sweet Brown Sugar, Rick McGraw & Sabu (12/4/82) A super face team of Memphis, plus Terry Taylor, takes on the first family, plus (not that) Sabu. Sabu looks like one of the Wild Samoans. Eaton and Brown Sugar look king-sized [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Match # 33: Bill Dundee & Bobby Fulton vs. Bobby Eaton & Sweet Brown Sugar (11/15/82) Interesting note is that this feature half of the future heel greats the Midnight Express (Eaton) and half of the less famous but solid babyface unit, The Fantastics (Fulton). Dundee and Fulton are your faces, and Eaton and Sweet [...]
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Match # 24: Bobby Eaton & Sweet Brown Sugar vs. Dutch Mantell & King Cobra (7/19/82) Sugar and Eaton are your heels. Eaton is more famous for his Midnight Express team with Dennis Condrey and/or Stan Lane. I’ve never seen King Cobra before, but we’ve reviewed Dundee matches before. This is arena match footage.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Match # 23: Bill Dundee vs. Sweet Brown Sugar (2/3 falls, Scaffold Match) (6/21/82) As a rule I don’t usually enjoy or like scaffold matches. I find it an antiquated gimmick that’s short on action and usually just disappoints while it injures wrestlers. There’s usually little reason for the gimmick storyline wise and the result [...]
Friday, October 31, 2008
Match # 19: Stan Lane & Koko Ware vs. Eddie Gilbert & Ricky Morton (No DQ, 2/3 Falls) (10/81) This is an AWA Southern Tag Tile return match from a handheld camera at a spot show in Jonesbouro, Arkansas. Gilbert and Morton are your babyface challengers. No disqualification and two out of three falls wins [...]
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, February 25, 2009
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