Superbouts 1 (Spring 1987)

 

Tully Blanchard vs. Brad Armstrong

- Not a good Tully match compared to his high-end stuff.

 

Bobby Eaton vs. Jimmy Garvin

- Great extra-curricular stuff i nthe beginning when Eaton rolls out off the ring and gets slapped by Precious. Cornette tries to go after her but gets sprayed for his troubles. Anything of importance in this match happened outside the ring as it was full of chinlocks and choking. I am interested to find out if this happened before or after Ron got fire in the eyes. POst-match has the MX attacking Jimmy until Ron makes the save.

 

Rock N Roll Express & Wahoo McDaniel vs. Ragin’ & Ravishin’ & Paul Jones

- This doesn't last long as Jones gets pinned after a RNR dropkick.

 

Arn Anderson vs. Ole Anderson

- Not much of a match but it was entertaining as hell while it lasted. I may include it as an EXTRA with the Ole out of the Horsemen angle.

 

Nikita Koloff vs. Vladimir Petrov

- No

 

Dusty Rhodes vs. Ric Flair (Incomplete)

- Less than 5 minutes shown.

NWA World TV Title: Tully Blanchard © vs. Brad Armstrong (3/14/87)

The $10,000 is also on the line here. Brad is on fire to start giving Tully a battle with Tully bumping hard for him. Brad then focuses on Tully's left leg but Tully would counter with a body scissors which gave Brad some trouble but he would fight his way back to working over the left leg. Even though Tully would get back to a standing base, Brad would find a way to get him back down to work that leg. Tully does a good job of selling and tries to go to the floor to recover but Brad runs out and brings him back in the ring which backfired as Tully kicked him right in ribs. Brad comes firing back quickly though until Tully grabbed him by the trunks and tossed him to the floor. Brad would get a sunset flip off the apron but Dillon would grab Tully's hand to keep him on top of Brad to retain his title. This was a fun match but you wanted better from these two so no nomination.

"Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin vs. "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton (3/14/87)

A rare Eaton singles match from this period. The crowd is red hot for Garvin & Precious especially when she slaps Eaton on the floor and threatens to fight Cornette. Garvin then decked Eaton and Cornette got caught in the crossfire as well and took a big bump on the floor. Garvin then would backdrop a running Eaton on the floor which was all concrete. The outside stuff was easily the best part of the match as once in the ring it was mostly chinlocks and headlocks. Garvin would get an inside cradle to get the win then we get Bubba & Condrey attacking him after the win until the Kansas Jayhawks made the save.

Chief Wahoo McDaniel & The Rock n Roll Express (Robert Gibson & Ricky Morton) vs. Ragin & Ravishing (Manny Fernandez & Rick Rude) & "Number One" Paul Jones (3/14/87)

Paul Jones was wearing a fucking Dinamita style mask here and it was awesome. Wahoo was fun here being Wahoo and the RnR were tagging in and out working over Manny's left arm. Wahoo would get isolated in the heel corner and they worked him over with Manny throwing some nice punches and it was odd seeing Wahoo work the FIP role. The credits start rolling as Jones comes in and eats a Double Dropkick so Wahoo could cover him to win.

Ole Anderson vs. Arn Anderson (4/3/87)

Ole goes to war on Arn to start beating inside the ring, outside the ring and bloodying him up pretty good. Ole is running wild now with the crowd going nuts then goes for his armbar after hitting the knee off the top rope but Dillon runs in the ring for the DQ. Ole then beats up Dillon and then a bloody Arn as he tried to come back for more. This is a definite extra.

US Heavyweight Title: "Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff © vs. Vladimir Petrov (4/3/87)

Nikita looked fine here but Petrov was terrible.

NWA World Heavyweight Title: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair © vs. "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes (4/3/87)

We only get a couple of minutes of this before the show goes off.

Yep none of these matches make the cut. The Arn and Ole match feels like an extra.