Rock N Roll Express vs. Ragin' & Ravishin' (TV 12/6/86)
- Damn, I would have loved a singles match between Morton and Manny. Early on, Fernandez gets frustrated by the RNR. After an extended RNR shine section, the heels work over Gibson's leg including a nice off the top rope knee from Manny Fernandez. Rude's leg work wasn't really inspired but it was great to see Robert give Rude a backdrop and collapse because of the weakened leg. Next up, after working over Robert's leg, they work over Ricky's arm. After an extended FIP, Gibson comes in and lights up Ragin' Bull. Gibson gets a roll-up but Rude gives him a vicious clotheline that whips Manny on top to give Ragin' & Ravishin' the pin and the titles. You really didn't get too many matches like this on free studio TV back in the day. The weakest point was Rude's offense or lack thereof as you could tell he was still findiing his way but the other three more than made up for it. Nomination.

(NWA TV 12/6 - 12/13/86 Disc 2)

This is just tremendous, and does a great job with using the injuries from the Starcade 86 cage match to work into the match. Fernandez was just awesome.

 

WWW 12/20-12/27/86

This was pretty damn great, I loved Morton slapping at his dead arm to get the feeling back, I thought the Morton FIP section was actually a bit long, but that is a small beef, Manny was a total killer here. Should definitely make a set.

NWA World Tag Titles: The Rock n Roll Express (Robert Gibson & Ricky Morton) © vs. Ragin & Ravishing (Manny Fernandez & Rick Rude) (12/6/86)

Morton's left arm is bandaged up heavily so you know what the heels are going to be going for. Morton & Gibson though come out firing on all cylinders to start just whipping the heels from pillar to post as the crowd and David Crockett goes nuts. The heels though would eventually wear Gibson down working over his bad left leg and Gibson was extremely solid here selling all the punishment. Manny & Rude were very effective here switching in and out to continue the pressure. Crockett was even more pro babyface than normal here rooting heavily for the Express especially when Morton got the hot tag. Morton comes in and wails away but they get him down soon enough where they focus on his left arm of course. Morton was tremendous here working FIP trying his best to fight to get the tag to Gibson while the pitbulls are eating him alive. Then you have the banter with Paul Jones telling Morton to find someone to quit for him and Morton said they would have to break his arm first. Morton would get a desperation inverted atomic drop on Rude which allowed him to tag in Gibson who ran wild here getting a sleeper on Bull. Rude would attack him but a one-armed Morton made the save as Gibson got Manny in an O'Connor Roll where Rude would nail him with a big clothesline causing Manny to roll over to win the titles. After the match we get a celebration promo from the heels. This was an AMAZING match and one of the best tag matches we will see on this set. Grand slam nomination.