Posted January 16, 200817 yr comment_5427158 Dusty Rhodes vs. Tully Blanchard (6/6/87)- I think this might be the strongest of the Tully-Dusty matchups. It just has that big match feel. You have Magnum at ringside, Blanchard's money, almost as much hype as the WIndham-Flair 1/20 matchup. It also has that wonderful Dusty booking as Dusty appears to win with the slinshot suplex. JJ runs to the back with the money that Dusty thinks he won so Dusty chases him. Tommy orders the match to re-start and counts Dusty out. Before that, Tully bumps, stooges and sells for Dusty better than anyone and the crowd was relaly hot for this match which probably mkaes it better than it actually is. Still, I am nominating it to see where it goes.(NWA TV 5/87 - 6/87 Disc 2)
December 30, 201113 yr comment_5491322 This is pretty damn great. The crowd was hot but seemed to burn out a tad. Tully was a bumping machine. The booking was good, but Dusty did come across as a whiny bitch though. All of the interviews were pretty great afterwards. Low-end nom.
May 4, 20169 yr comment_5751140 NWA World TV Title & Winner Takes All $100,000: Tully Blanchard © vs. "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes (6/6/87)Dillon wants to get the money from Magnum himself but Magnum's cane says different. Dusty just tees off on Tully early and often here and this is really fun stuff as Tully was great at selling and bumping for Dusty's offense. Dusty focuses on working over Tully's right leg and does it inside and outside the ring even using Magnum's cane as a weapon. Dusty at one point even locked on the Figure-Four leglock on the floor as Tully was talking shit to Magnum. Tully though would recover and locked on his own Figure-Four leglock inside the ring but Dusty would reverse it fairly quickly. Tully still works over Dusty's bad left leg fiercely though before Dusty fights back until both tried a cross body block and ran into each other. Dusty got up first and then went back teeing off on Tully where he has him reeling. Dusty would hit Tully with his own Slingshot Suplex to win the title or so he thought, Tully put his foot on the bottom rope after the pin was counted but Tommy Young thought he had it before the count. Dillon steals the money and runs away with Dusty chasing him out of the building and Young counts Dusty out. Tony can't believe what happened and Magnum was looking incredulous at what happened. Dusty then cut an angry promo in the ring. This was a very strong match and an easy nomination.
