A question I've been mulling over in my head recently - a lot has always been made of Flair's schedule as NWA champion, and his ability to make people appear to be viable contenders no matter who they were. I was wondering in general how many of his time limit draws actually made it to tape, considering I've never seen any at all, and I'm assuming the broadway finish was one that got used more than once.

Flair/Kerry from Hawaii is a good one. The '84 "Boogie Jam" match with Steamboat is one, but I haven't actually seen it yet.

Brody 2/11/83 in St. Louis

Jumbo 6/8/83 in All Japan

Steamboat 3/17/84 in Mid Atlantic

Reed 8/10/85 in Mid South

There's the iron man match with Bret from a house show in '93. And if we're counting "more than 50 minutes" as a broadway, then the Clash match with Steamboat counts too.

 

I'd assume that the vast majority of hour draws were at house shows, and thus unlikely to be taped. Especially considering how damn bulky and unwieldy the video cameras of the day were, and that many of them didn't even have the battery power to keep running for an hour straight without being plugged in.

There's one with Ricky Morton that made tape.

There's one with Ricky Morton that made tape.

When did Flair and Morton go an hour?

It's a handheld that shows about 35-40 minutes of one.

They had something like 9 broadways in 12 days or something insane like that. But yeah, on the NWA handhelds, 35 minutes of one of them made tape.

 

There's one with Ricky Morton that made tape.

When did Flair and Morton go an hour?

 

 

I've not seen the match in question (though I believe it's this one) but this is from Flair's book

 

 

In 1987, I wrestled Ricky Morton in eleven one-hour draws in nine days.

Yep, that's the match. GREAT match.

 

Near as I can tell, Flair didn't wrestle Morton at all in 1987, let alone 11 draws in 9 days. They wrestled a bunch of times in 1986 but no stretch of draws like that in 86 either.