Steel Cage Match – SR – Killer Karl Kox: “Dr. Death” Steve Williams vs. “Capt. Redneck” Dick Murdoch (2/86)

 

This was JIP from Oklahoma City and super fun and it sucks that it was clipped to death.

 

Kortsia Korchenko vs. Ricky Gibson (3/30/86)

 

Poor Gibson has no chance.

 

“Superstar” Bill Dundee & “Nature Boy” Buddy Landell vs. Sean O’Reilly & Brett Sawyer (3/30/86)

 

The Bill & Buddy Show return to Wattsland. This was really good stuff when Sawyer was in there and of course the heels were good. Sawyer hit some fantastic dropkicks and Dundee’s punches were awesome. Tremendous teamwork by the heels led to Landell hitting his corkscrew elbow for the win. Very fun competitive match when Sawyer was in there.

 

North American Heavyweight Title: Hacksaw Duggan © vs. Rick Steiner (3/30/86)

 

Duggan comes into this match with taped ribs and Steiner has Sawyer in his corner. Dick Slater enters the ring whining about losing his title by a loophole and eventually starts brawling with Duggan and uses his cowboy boot to work on Duggan’s ribs. Sawyer & Steiner stay on the floor until Duggan makes his comeback with a spear and it ends up being 3-on-1 until Terry Taylor & Dr. Death make the save and run the heels off.

 

Press Conference with The Sheepherders in their regular voices talking about winning the Mid-South Tag Titles and the debut of Jack Victory’s girlfriend Lady Maxine and the facials by everyone including Joel Watts in this is fantastic. This is a definite extra.

 

Mid-South Tag Titles: The Sheepherders (Butch Miller & Luke Williams) © vs. The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers) (3/30/86)

 

Fants make their return to Wattsland and get an immediate title shot thus starting their megafeud and the women of Tulsa go wild for their entrance. Fants dominate at the start sending both Sheeps to the floor at the same time as they go to a commercial break. Fulton & Luke are in the ring after the break with Fulton hitting dropkicks on both Sheeps sending them back to the floor again. Fants still have the control for the next few minutes until Rogers gets thrown to the floor and they go to another commercial break. The match comes back with Butch dropping Rogers neckfirst on the ropes from the apron so we probably didn’t miss much. Rogers gets the heat as the Sheeps just pound on him by keeping him on the floor with knee smashes from the apron and sending him into the barricade. Rogers finally gets the hot tag to Fulton and he is a house-of-fire as Rogers recovers to join him. Rogers gets sent back to the floor and the Sheeps pound on Fulton and as they irish whip him, Rogers comes off the top rope with a dropkick sending Luke into Butch and then they follow with a double dropkick. Tommy then press slams a running Fulton onto Williams for the 3 count and they win the titles. This was a very solid tag match and the crowd reactions was great making it good enough to go on the block.

First episode on this was the tribute to "Mantell"'s episode with RnR v Freebirds tag (with Dutch ringside), Jim Ross announcing wrestling old timers tribute with Ken Mantell, doing a second bumper segment talking about how tough Ken Mantell was, and then a Budro v Johnny Mantell match with Johnny taking 70 % of the offense.

 

Johnny Mantell vs Burdo is fun with Johnny being superfast, Killer Kox v Steve Williams is too clipped and the RNR v Freebirds we've seen before and has a cheap ending.

 

Second episode has:

 

-A really fun Budro/Dundee vs Bret Wayne Sawyer/Ryan O reilly competitive squash thats a nice showcase for Budro/Dundee's offense.

 

-Hacksaw v Rick Steiner that becomes a quick Hacksaw v Dick Slater.

 

-Sheepherders v Fantastics. This isn't really a brawl but rather a pretty straight match. And the best match between the two teams that I've seen on all these things. Sheepherdrs have really left me underwhelmed in everything that I've seen of theirs from Midsouth and the Sheepherders v Fantastics matches for a famous series hasn't really done a ton for me. This match was actively good. It was a weird match for an actively good match in that it was really almost worked like an 80s WWF tag match. First long section of face control really isn't built on the face offense so much as its just built on lots of heel stoogeing bumps and spots. Face in peril, heels in control segment wasn't based on the heels offense so much as it was really based on Tommy Rogers controling his own bumps. And then we move into faces take over finish where face shrugs off the face in peril segment. It's really worked like a WWF tag match. That said this is a really high end WWF style tag match. If we need to put a match between these two teams on a set this should be it. this is really good. I wouldn't be upset if it doesn't make the final set but feels like it should.

I really liked the Budro/Dundee match almost enough that I was wondering if I could justify nominating it, really couldn't but man was it fun

 

Mid-South Tag Titles: The Sheepherders (Butch Miller & Luke Williams) © vs. The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers) (3/30/86)

 

I liked this okay, but these two teams are known for bloody brawls, this is better then any of their bloody brawls, but as a straight tag match it isn't as good as you straight tag matches on this set. I am going to go no, on this and still hope we can find a bloody brawl I like.