Dusty Rhodes vs. Tully Blanchard - WTF is Dusty wearing??? This starts off slow wih Dust just casually working a leg hold. The fans try to get themselves interested and start chanting "BREAK IT, BREAK IT". The tide turns and then Tully begins to work on Dusty's leg that the announcers point out was recently broken. He even breaks out the Figure Four on Rhodes who reverses it ending the leg work. Once the leg work is over, Dust breaks out the MOVES with a backbreaker and belly-to-belly. End stretch sees Dusty getting frustrated ith Tully and JJ finding ways to get the foot on the rope during pinfalls. It ends in a draw which was fine with me. The match was pretty good but the corwd has been really subdued tonight. I'll throw this on the block for discussion but it is a low level nomination.

I'm going no on this one. We see Dusty work Tully's leg for a good portion of the match. Dusty eventually takes a bump and is selling his injured limb. Dusty is great at selling a leg injury. Eventually Dusty makes a comeback. He shitcans all the work on the leg and it's really bothersome because Dusty was selling it big time. Then we get to a draw. A so so match.

National Heavyweight Title: "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes © vs. Tully Blanchard (2/2/86)

Dusty coming out to HELLO DOLLY by Louis Armstrong is AMAZING.......and he was wearing one of his old 70's robes and hats. Dusty went after Tully's right leg early on which was interesting because in wrestling it was always the left side of the body that got worn down. Dusty would come off the ropes though bad on his left leg and Tully immediately went to work on it. The first half of this match was all legwork from both men which was fun but the 2nd half saw the action pick up with Dusty breaking out a belly-to-belly at one point on Tully for a nearfall. Dusty would get a controversial nearfall as he got Tully in a suplex but Dillon put Tully's foot on the bottom rope to save him. Tom Miller starts counting down by the minute now so they are telegraping the draw but Tully is slugging away on Dusty and he looks like he is about to put him away but Dusty keeps fighting back. Dusty though isn't showing any urgency nor really should he since he was the champion. Dillon would trip up Dusty and Tully covered for a nearfall but Dusty recovered to continue pounding on Tully. Dusty would lock on a Boston Crab with 30 seconds left and the time ran out for the draw. Dillon ran in after the match and Tully used that to piledrive Dusty right on his head and then Dillon grabbed the National belt giving it to Tully and they walked off. I thought this was a pretty good match and I liked the different legwork early in the match. I'm pushing it forward as a low-end nomination.