Match # 62: Rock N Roll Express vs Midnight Express (6/30/85) Cornette and the Midnights are already in the ring doing mic work and getting heel heat to start the festivities. I love this heel move on Cornette’s part, and I’ve seen it on this set a few times. It’s very cool. I’d like [...]
Monday, August 11, 2008
NOTE: Since the ballots are in and the winners of the DVDVR Mid South 80s matches are being released, I’m going to stop dragging my feet and post reviews and real-time thoughts for the rest of the set (#46-150). Match # 34-45 will be along soon enough. Be prepared for ALOT of Mid South 80s [...]
Monday, July 7, 2008
Match # 30: Butch Reed vs Skip Young 9/23/84 I’m at a loss as to who Young is, but Reed was deep into a major heel run in Mid South by this print. This is a solid NOTHING match. That’s right – solid, yet nothing. Reed is a good, but not great, heel. [...]
Friday, June 27, 2008
Match # 27: The Fantastics v. The Midnight Express (8/9/84) Nice. Watching the last match I was hoping for a straight tag without Duggan/Cornette. We get an arena match-up to boot.
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 [...]
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Match # 20: Midnight Express vs Rock N Roll Express 5/24/84 As research for this match I watched the first ever meeting of the MNX and RNR. This was in February of the same year, shortly after the arrival of all four Memphis area talents, but a week or two before the Midnights won [...]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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 [...]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Match #18: Midnight Express vs Bill Dundee/Porkchop Cash (4/6/84) Well, we know who the heels are. Here’s a hint: They get to have Cornette run interference on the outside. Faces are two old Memphis workers, Dundee and Cash. In fact, all these men came as part of a Watt-Jerry Jarrett trade. Watts made out [...]
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Match #16: Magnum TA/Wrestling II vs Midnight Express 2/10/84 Here we go! The original heel Midnights. Well, Karl Stern would disagree, but we’re splitting hairs. I grew up on the Stan Lane version in the late 80s. I’ve seen a little of the original via World Class and NWA tapes, but this is my first [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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