Rock N Roll Express vs. Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson (No DQ) (5:32)(5:46)(6:50)(4:59)(5:16)
- Gibson has a haircut here. Maybe this is when the RNR lost their mojo. The first ten minutes are wrestled pretty straight up with the RNR getting the shine. The first tease of a No DQ match came when Morton brought a chair into the ring but didn't actually use it. The RNR keep control of the match until Gibson does his Mid South tumble over the top rope. However, at this point, the most these guys have taken advantage of the No DQ is to choke each other on the rail outside. As a straight tag, this was pretty good. As a No DQ match, thissucked. It seems like everyone forgot that they could cheat and use foreign objects. WHy in the hell was Arn Anderson hidng a rope to choke Gibson? The end sucked too. Similar to the Luger match, Young counts the three but another ref comes in and the match is restarted this time. Fuck, pick a different ending! The only justification for the pin being reversed was that the wrong man might have made the pin. After the restart, all 4 guys brawl outside I am guessing for a double countout in the No Dq match. Fuck, I am torn here. I'll nominate it because the match was pretty damn good... until you consider the No DQ stip. If you take that into consideration, it made no fucking sense.
/ Rock N Roll Express Interview

(NWA TV 8/87 - 9/87 Disc 3)

I remember watching this a while ago, and was dumfounded at some of the stuff that was going on. It's a shame because the wrestlers got a ton of time in the ring to have a match. Also, this had some of the worst commercial breaks ever.

Because of the rep of the teams involved and amount of time given, I do think this should be included just to let people form their own opinions, but when I watched this, I wasn't overly impressed. Too much babyface offense, and felt more like a WWF house match than an NWA TV match because the heels weren't kept strong enough. I don't understand how this was supposed to build a feud when the Rock & Rolls dominated the match and seemed pretty confident post-match as well.

No DQ Match for the NWA World Tag Titles: The Rock n Roll Express (Robert Gibson & Ricky Morton) © vs. Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (9/13/87)

This starts out slow but they pick it up as the RnR pound on the Horsemen who are great taking the punishment. Morton throws some good punches here and since it's no DQ he brings in a chair which sends Tully running and he throws him liberally over the top rope. The Horsemen get some offense in here but it's the RnR show at the moment with Tully taking the most punishment. Gibson would take some big bumps getting thrown over the top hard to the floor a couple of times and that turns the tide for the Horsemen. Gibson takes a real beating now and Morton does what he could to help Gibson but it's not enough. I loved the Horsemen yelling NO DQ at Tommy Young when they were cheating. We miss the fucking hot tag though which was terrible editing on their part and now Morton is in getting shots off on Arn but the Horsemen would soon double up on him until he tagged Gibson back in who was still tired from earlier so he was an easy target for the Horsemen. Gibson though getting his ass kicked kept fighting back every time the Horsemen thought they had him beat. Morton would get another hot tag and he cleaned house until Gibson joined in hitting Arn with the Double Dropkick. Morton has Arn pinned but Dillon throws Tully his shoe which he uses on Morton and Tully pins Morton with Tommy Young making the count. Earl Hebner runs out and tells Young what happened and Young said that the match must continue which was extremely stupid since this was no DQ. Both teams would soon battle to the floor for a double countout in a terrible finish. This was a tremendous match marred by a terrible finish. It's still a definite nomination though.