Memphis tv 2/1/86 Biggest news of the show was a horribly acted promo. The angle was that Bill Dundee because of beating Jerry Lawler in a loser-leaves town bout in December of 85 was trying to get a legal court injunction against Lawler and a video company out of New Jersey. Trying to stop them from advertising and selling a Jerry Lawler video on Memphis tv. It was shot on location in front of a court house with awful wooden actors playing lawyer's! Words do yet yes exist to properly covey how bad this was. Anyway the injunction was lifted so they can sell the video again! Hooray for justice.
They recapped the Dundee Koko Ware feud(I had no idea there was one to start with.) with a nice video package including Dundee interfering in Koko's NWA world title bout in Memphis vs Ric Flair and costing him the match. Plus Buddy Landell beating Koko for the International title in Louisvillie Ky. Again with the help of Dundee.
Speaking of Koko he had the stiffest one minute squash match with some guy in a mask I've ever seen! I don't know if the jobber pissed him off or something else did but he beat the SHIT out of the poor guy. He stiff clotheslined him, the crowd gasped. He stiff kicked the guy in the ribs and back. Gave him a scary looking "Brainbuster",and slapped him silly while putting a knee on him for the pin! In other action the Fantastics beat mega loser Tony Faulk and another job guy to take Faulk's record on TV to 0-39! Dirty Rhodes and Rick Casey won a squash match and Dutch Mantell and Buddy Landell beat Billy Travis and Tracy Smothers in two straight falls.
NWA worldwide 2/1/86 Two big angles on this show.1st the Russians attacked "America's Team" of Dusty Rhodes and Magnum TA. Magnum and the late great Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff(may he rest in peach, one of the best most "Over" Heels in the long history of pro wrestling! He had scary real heat) were in the midst of a match. Magnum had just hit his belly-to-belly suplex. Nikita and Von Raschke on the outside could take no more. They run in, while Ivan and the Baron hold Magnum Nikita hits the Russian Sickle on him. BabyDoll runs in the ring and starts pushing and "punching Nikita with her tiny balled up fist. They hold her and it looks like they are gonna give a woman the same as Magnum got.(those evil commie bastards!) When here come Dusty to save the day! He takes the shot(pushing Babydoll out of the way) Then the evil threesome(or 2/3rd's of them anyway) hold Rhodes up so Nikita can come of the ropes with a chain Sickle! The heroes are left laying! In dueling promo's The Russians say that Magnum was cheating and Dusty attacked them! While Big Dust and TA vow vengeance and blood. Dusty says they will pay for trying to hurt a lady! Magnum says they tried to hurt him but they didn't get the job done!
In the other big event The Midnight Express attack The RNR Express(yes again) and lash Robert Gibson with a belt! They seem to do this every two weeks, but it was maybe the hottest program in the country, so it worked even if it seems repetitive! Flair, AA and Blanchard all had great interviews(big shock)! Good show overall!
Jerry Blackwell vs Bruiser Brody AWA TV taping Oshkosh Wisconsin Less a match and more a downright pier six brawl! This was a bout/angle to set up the supposed to be main event of WrestleRock 86(Gagne's odd half-attempt at a Mania like event!) (sadly Blackwell had to be replaced by Jimmy Snuka, if I recall correctly Blackwell had to be subbed for due to pneumonia, I could be wrong it has been 31 years! I was nine if you know for certain let me know)! Sheik Adnon and Brody attack Blackwell before the bell rings and bloody him up! Blackwell gets hit with multiple chair shots and must be helped to the dressing room. Brody wanders around ringside for a bit with a steel chair in hand making people scatter like crazy!( when Brody was in character you had to scatter it was much safer that way!) He spots Greg Gagne at the commentary table and grabs him and takes him to the ring(Previous to this in storyline Brody had injured Gagne's leg and sidelined him 8 months.)Gagne takes of his sport coat and he and ole Brody throw down! Greg takes his boot off and is just going toe to toe with the big man! Brody catches Gagne with a big boot knocking him down flat on his back. Brody's manager Sheik Adnon runs around the ring and holds Greg down while Brody drops three legs on his prone body! (Unlike Hogan, in my Opinion Brody did one hell of a leg drop). Gagne is "Dead" center ring. Blackwell comes back to the ring and Gagne gets better(miracle I say brothers and sisters a plain ole down home pro wrestling healing miracle!) The babyfaces clean house as Brody and Sheik scurry away. Blackwell and Gagne cut a hell of a fire filled babyface promo. Blackwell says they are the lowest form of life. Gagne says he has more heart in his pinkie than those two have in their entire G**Damn bodies(it gets bleeped!(I can't believe he said it! my mouth dropped open in 86 good Lord.......see what I did there?) Blackwell says he would be happy to whip their asses(2nd bleep in a minute who knew Verne was running ECW?) Really well done angle the crowd was losing their cheese loving minds!
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