Match # 141: Ted DiBiase vs. One Man Gang (No DQ) (2/6/87) A rematch in Houston of a surprisingly good match from earlier in the set (Match # 135). This was follows the storyline as it now has a stipulation of No DQ and its Dibiase challenging for OMG’s UWF Championship. We begin…
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 # 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 [...]
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Match # 135: Ted DiBiase vs. One Man Gang (11/18/86) One Man Gang is now the champion? Things have gotten suddenly puzzling in an otherwise great 1986. Actually this may be when a Gordy car accident, combined with nagging injuries he worked through during the title reign, conspired to take him out of action for [...]
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Match # 133: Ted DiBiase & Terry Taylor vs. Michael Hayes & Buddy Roberts (Country Whipping Match) (10/12/86) This match comes out of the 8/31/86 lumberjack match I’d guess. Heel Freebirds are cocky when they come out. Faces come out to “Born in the USA” because we can’t have a face not come out to [...]
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 # 117: Michael Hayes & Buddy Roberts vs. Ted DiBiase & Terry Taylor (5/25/86) The production of the shows and tapings has gotten a lot better very quickly. Then again, everything I’ve been watching has been at the Houston tapings which are the big house shows with full matches so I haven’t seen a [...]
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 [...]
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 # 82: Ted DiBiase vs. Ric Flair (11/6/85) The most famous Mid South angle and turn and here it is. This link below will get you caught up on the details leading up to the match and the match itself, but it also ties in the rise of Butch Reed and the position of [...]
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Match # 79: Ted DiBiase vs. Bob Sweetan (10/13/85) Apparently the Houston match was not the blow off, and I’m wondering if this is going to be the same match, or another blow off. Considering I know that Dibiase is headed for great things with Flair in a month, I’m guessing the nomination committee just [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match # 77: Ted DiBiase vs. Bob Sweetan (Taped Fist) (10/11/85) Dibiase and Doc had turned on Sweetan because he was blamed for the stables loss of the tag belts. He seemed like he was being used short term by Dibiase storyline-wise anyway. Also, Sweetan is a chubby load so Dibiase has to be a [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match # 69: Ted Dibiase vs Butch Reed (7/25/85) This TV match starts out as Butch Reed facing a young Tommy Pritchard (Dr. Tom, a Heavenly Body and Bodydonna, as well as brother of WWE office man Bruce Pritchard). It never gets started because Ted Dibiase jumps in the ring and ring announcer Boyd Pierce [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match # 68: Ted DiBiase vs. Jake Roberts (7/22/85) Alright, this is awesome. Did I not just say I wanted to see more of these two? Here I thought I’d have to track down 1989-1991 WWF footage, and yet they give me the continuation of the feud we saw earlier. Williams is seconding the focused [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Match # 63: Terry Taylor vs Ted Dibiase (7/3/85) Boyd Pierce intros this TV match from Mid Ring. It’s actually a North American title match to start, with Terry Taylor challenging some generic masked man named The Nightmare. Having only heard of him, I looked it up, and it’s Randy Colley. You might know him [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Match # 59: Rock N Roll Express vs Ted Dibiase/Dr. Death (6/19/85) The first of a RNR Exp. Trifecta of matches. Should be state-of-the-art tag wrestling to go with the state-of-the-art Flair matches from earlier. My ballot is getting turned upside down this week, though I’ve since read others saw the Flair matches as more [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
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