September 1977

NWA Mid-Atlantic Champion Wahoo McDaniel vs Greg Valentine - JCP/MACW 9/7/77 Awesome TV slugfest sprint! New Japan boys take note this is how you do strike exchanges! Short bursts of impact! Wahoo was awesome in this. Loved the early technical acumen nice drop toehold and the ab stretch into a cradle. Valentine was at using cheating to set up his bruising. The best part was definitely mini-Wahoo comebacks when he would just chop shit out of Valentine. Those chop exchanges were electric. You can see the Mid-Atlantic style was pretty much in place. Hard-hitting, stiff- action-packed, competitive. Really avante-garde for the time. Wahoo's chop to Valentine's nose was tre…

Before the match, Rose is blindsided by Jonathan Boyd being named the special guest referee. Rose tries to pull the trunks of Youngblood for an early pinfall, but Boyd hilariously grabs his thumb. Beyond Rose’s wonderfully cartoonish bumping and stooging, there’s some great, athletic action between he and Youngblood here that wouldn’t look out of place in a match in 2024. There’s a delightful sequence where Rose repeatedly tries to Irish whip Youngblood, and Jay pulls his hair to keep him close. Rose tries to take a powder and immediately pays for it when Boyd’s fast count reaches eighteen. Youngblood steals the first fall with a quick pin attempt. Rose’s commit…

WWWF Heavyweight Champion Superstar Billy Graham vs Dusty Rhodes - WWF MSG 9/26/77 Apparently, I have this before a bunch because this made the Dusty Rhodes WWE DVD set, but I could have sworn I watched the Texas Death Match (2nd) and Bullrope Match (3rd). I am sure of the Bullrope, but apparently it is the Texas Death match I have not seen because that made the Superstar DVD. It is really interesting when you watch one wrestler consistently for a period of time and you really learn his tendencies and then watch as other bring different things out of him. You could feel much more Southern Style this is. There is a lot more action, but it also a lot more chaotic…