I really hope we're able to get a lot more '80-'81 TV from Cornette because they seemed to have a bunch more of good longer matches at that point than they did later one. This goes about 10 minutes and was a good example of the 8-man workrate expiration of time matches. Non-stop action with a hot studio crowd and a cool ending, worth a nomination.

 

Who the heck were Joey Cagle & Rocky Sortor, though?

In the expiration of time 8 man what we got was fun. Dundee just takes a huge back body drop from Dream Machine. Dundee's FIP was top notch. The heels did a good job with the cutting off of the ring and just beating down of Dundee. Rick Gibson showed some flashes of brilliance. So did Keirn. Depending on the size of the set I can see or can't see this match squeezing in

Dream Machine, Nightmare #1 & The Heartbreakers vs. Bill Dundee, Steve Keirn, Ricky & Robert Gibson

- I can absolutely see this making the set. I think the difference between these early matches such as this and the Mitchell/Kirby tag and the latter matches is that we get clean results. Hell, even the Freebirds-Lawler/Dundee match went half an hour before running out of TV time. Something like this reminds me of those big 8-man or 10-man RAW main events where everyone gets to hit their spots, they keep the crowd into it and you get a clean ending.

 

(Memphis Masters #4)

Man alive was Dundee on fire here, he was just moving a million miles an hour through this whole thing, I also loved all the cheap shots Dream Machine kept taking. This feels like it should make it for sure

Date is 7/25/81

“Superstar” Bill Dundee, Ricky & Robert Gibson, & Steve Keirn vs. Dream Machine, The Heartbreakers (Joey Cagle & Rocky Sortor), & The Nightmare (Danny Davis) (8/22/81)

 

This was a great all-action match with everyone getting their chance to shine and Dundee as the overall MVP. This is a fairly easy nomination.