Posted November 10, 200717 yr comment_5423784 Jake “The Snake” Roberts vs. Jerry Grey (8/25/85) Jake looks good here. El Corsario vs. Pat Rose (8/25/85) Squash. Lord Humongous vs. Wendell Cooley (8/25/85) Cooley tried but got squashed in the end. “Superstar” Bill Dundee & “Dirty” Dutch Mantell vs. “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert & Mark Ragin (8/25/85) Dundee & Dutch talking shit to the female fans before the match was great. Poor Gilbert was being wasted at this time as a babyface jobber although it was fun here to see him here doing Lawler schtick to the heels who were in full on Memphis heel mode. Gilbert doing the Fargo Strut after popping both Dundee & Dutch on the floor was classic. Dundee & Dutch were phenomenal here in their heelness with the overselling, blatant cheating, interaction with the fans, and just everything in general. Ragin is the FIP here and takes a long beating especially a really great clothesline by Dutch. Ragin would finally get the hot tag to Gilbert at the 15:00 mark and it’s a 4-way brawl from here with Dutch chunking Gilbert over the top rope and Dundee dropping a leg off the top rope on Ragin for the pinfall. The problem with that was that Ragin wasn’t the legal man. This was a great performance by Dundee & Dutch along with Gilbert but as a nomination I’m on the maybe side leaning more towards no. Mid-South TV Title: “Hacksaw” Butch Reed © vs. The Barbarian (8/25/85) Butch and Jake would get into before the match with Barbarian trying to jump Butch but he would eat a flying shoulderblock and went to the floor for a conference with Jake. This match was mostly Barbarian on offense meaning a lot of restholds and power moves and was quite boring. Reed tried but Barbarian didn’t have his working shoes on here and Jake was working harder on the floor. Reed would finally mount an offensive run with 2 minutes left hitting a sick looking piledriver for a nearfall. Reed doing all he could to beat Barbarian in the last 2 minutes was really good but the match would end in a draw and it wouldn’t save it. Mid-South Tag Titles: Bob Sweetan & “Dr. Death” Steve Williams © vs. The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers) (8/25/85) This is from Tulsa. Good action early on with the Fants looking good as they were getting the better of the champs on offense and they were lucky as when Sweetan would get a shot in on one of them they were in their corner so a quick tag was made. Doc would get in and the tide turned when he put Rogers in a front chancery with the offensive attack beginning there. Doc threw some great punches here sending Rogers flying to the mat. The champs would quickly tag in and out keeping the pressure on Rogers and keeping him away from making the hot tag. Rogers would get a sunset flip on Doc near his corner for a nearfall but Doc got up and quickly pounded on Fulton making sure a tag wouldn’t get made. Rogers would run around the ring though and got the tag to Fulton who came in and started throwin the leather on the champs until Rogers was able to join him. Fulton would get a sunset flip on Doc for a nearfall then an O’Connor Roll out of a Stampede attempt. Dundee would show up to brawl with Fulton giving Doc time to load his armbrace to get the win. This was a fine match but short of a nomination. The Barbarian vs. Jerry Grey (9/8/85) Squash. “Maniac” Mark Lewin vs. “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert (9/8/85) This is the OKC version of their match as they worked in Tulsa on the same day as well. Lewin was complete garbage here doing nothing but stalling, getting one shot in at a time, working a nerve hold forever, then locking the sleeper for the win. Poor Eddie. Wendell Cooley vs. The Nightmare (9/8/85) Okay match nothing special but I liked the finish as Nightmare had Cooley in an Canadian Backbreaker but Cooley would spring off the ropes to reverse it. “Gentleman” Chris Adams vs. Brian Adias (9/8/85) This was a really good little match with some great matwork by both men and a great finish as Adias got Adams in an O’Connor Roll after a ref bump but would spring Adias off and then landed a Superkick flush for the win. Adias looked as good as I’ve ever seen him and like I said a pretty good match.
December 17, 200717 yr comment_5425496 “Superstar” Bill Dundee & “Dirty” Dutch Mantell vs. “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert & Mark Ragin (8/25/85) Yeah I loved this, but I don't think it makes the cut. You really needed Tony Falk or Jerry Grey instead Ragin. Man Dundee is awesome though. Mid-South Tag Titles: Bob Sweetan & “Dr. Death” Steve Williams © vs. The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers) (8/25/85) This kind of sucked, way worse then Sweetan/Williams v. Perez/Sweetan
