Memphis TV 2/8/86 Action packed show! A new Wrestler Abdul Kadaffi made his debut in the area. He won a squash match. Later in the show the Fantastics won their match with the masked "job team" of the Undertakers(no Mark Calloway here trust me). During their post-match interview Bill Dundee comes out and tells Bobby Fulton to stop acting like Him(shaking his ass no shit this beef is over ass shaking......Memphis folks!) Fulton says Dundee can't tell him what to do. Bill slaps him, Fulton lands a shot and Dundee scurries away. Kadaffi runs up and throws powder in the eyes of Tommy Rodgers. Dundee comes back in from a side door and blindsides Fulton and Pours something in his hair from a bottle(dye paint syrup who knows what) The Fantastics fight them off and tell Lance the war has just begun.
Bill Dundee and Dutch Mantell face Dirty Rhodes and Tracy Smothers The story of this match is simple the beat the LIVING HELL OUT OF SMOTHERS! They blast him with chair shots to the back, drive his head and back into the ringpost repeatedly. Dundee gives him a hard bodyslam on the floor. Every time Dirty comes around to help one man diverts his attention while the other continues the beating! Dundee and Mantell eventually get Dq'd for backdropping Smothers over the top rope. The mauling continues post match as Dundee Piledrives Tracy on the floor and hits him across the back 3 more times with the chair! They go to break when they come back Rhoades, Eddie Marlin, and referee Jerry Calhoun have Smothers on two chairs flat on his back(they are using them as a makeshit stretcher for Tracy.) During all this Dundee and mantel are in the ring taunting them. As the pick Smothers up Dundee comes flying of the apron and puts both of his feet right in the mid-section of Smothers(perfect timing). Dirty Rhoades and Rick Casey(who just happened to be there....I guess?) start brawling with Dundee/Mantell and finally send them packing. The Spoiler(Frank Morel) and Billy Travis have an interview Morel unmasks and says that he will have Travis back! Travis was "trained" by Phil Hickerson, long time partner of Hickerson. Tony Falk and Pat Rose Come out. Travis gets slapped and the Heels get chased away. Lance says "What a day" in a very frustrated tone(I concur!) Also happening THE MOD SQUAD with manager JD Costello did a taped promo about coming to the area. Lance said their would be "THUNDERDOME" bouts coming soon(bunkhouse Stampede matches). Buddy Landell and Larry "Thunderbolt" Hamilton also won matches!
Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling 2/8/86 This will be an ultra quick review They announced that the Midnight Express were new tag champs. Arn Anderson had a fairly competitive bout with " The Italian Stallion defending his TV Belt. Nothing else happened! Interviews and very quick squashes. That's it that's the review!
NWA Worldwide Wrestling 2/8/86 Nothing much happened on this show either. Babydoll did come out during a Double AA promo and threw a leg cast at him! As a reminder of Dusty's threat/promise to put Arn out like he did Ole. The squash matches were longer than Mid-Atlantic that's about it honestly! Dusty phoned in the booking this week!
Mid-South Wrestling 2/8/86 Show starts before the opening titles even with 30 seconds of a KOKO Ware hype video. After a Joel Watts intro we go to the ring where Jim Ross is interviewing "Sir" Oliver Humperdink about his new staple member Tarus Bulba(who had just lost a loser-leave-town match the week prior as a member of the Sheepherders to the Fantastics in Memphis!) With Sir Oliver is "Hotstuff" Eddie Gilbert another "House of Humperdink member. After the Bulba squash Humperdink is talking about how Bulba is going to hurt everybody in the Area. Eddie Interrupts and says "Actually Sir Oliver.....and then Bulba Attacks Humperdink leaving him laying mid-ring. Ross wants to know what the hell is going on? Gilbert says he has been waiting a whole year for this to happen. He says he is Bulba's manager, the two walk off laughing! (More happened in one segment here than two hours of NWA this week!) Next up Dick Slater does an in-ring interview before his match with Ricky Gibson. He says Jake Roberts needs to be run out of Mid-South for DDTing Dark Jouney. The match was the best I've seen all day. No shock as Ricky Gibson and Dick Stater were great workers. Gibson controlled a big part of the bout using a head scissors to great effect. He went for a brackdrop Slater dropped an elbow and scored with a nice Gourdbuster for the win. Next up was supposed to be Al Perez vs "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer. Buzz is in the ring stomping around, but Ross announces to the crowd that Perez has had transportation issues and is not there. Out walks(with 2X4 in hand) "Hacksaw Jim Duggan! Buzz makes a beeline for the dressing room. Hacksaw says we was in Japan and saw in a wrestling magazine that Sawyer was saying he ran Duggan out of Mid-south! Duggan said there was not a man alive who could run him out of his home. If Sawyer wants a fight he can come get one! The debuting Koko Ware and Sheepherders(Luke Williams and Butch Miller) both have winning debut contests Jake Roberts defends the TV title. The main event six-man barley gets in the ring(Murdoch Sawyer and Masked Superstar vs Williams Dibiase and Duggan) before the show goes off the air!
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