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.

I liked this. Both teams worked radically different styles but they meshed them together so well. All the commercials hurt the flow of the match but you could still tell how good it was. Rogers used a choice looking knee drop. The FIP section done by Rogers was well done. Both Sheepherders offense looked great. The Sheepherders just beat on Rogers. I loved all the double teaming by the Fantastics at the finish. Fulton's punches were gold. I think this should be on a disk.

I wonder how many Fans-Sheeps mathces we have. I'll have to look on my Fantastics comp. I am so used to seeing these guys bleed and brawl with one another that I don't kow if this match will stand out in a Mid South set. Yes but low level nomination.

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 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.