TV Reviews 2/23/86

TV Reviews 2/23/86 Mid-South Wrestling Eddie Gilbert started the show off doing an in-ring interview with Jim Ross announcing his "retirement" from active wrestling! Saying he had money and a beautiful new girlfriend. He will now concentrate on managing. (his new big "Russian" debuts in the show a big guy with a bad haircut, furry boots and a Soviet flag.) Dr Death and Ted Dibiase defended the Mid-South Tag Belts against Masked Superstar and Dick Murdoch. Good match Doc ran wild early with football tackles. Murdoch stopped him by hitting him with an elbow to the jaw when Doc tried one to many! Williams made the tag to Dibiase who hits a nice powerslam on Murdoch and locks in his figurefour! Another masked man hits the ring(Ross and Joel Watts god help us) called him a "second Masked Superstar. The three heels lay out the babyfaces with the help of the second Superstar's loaded mask! The main event saw the RNR Express go up against the Fabs! Stan and Steve worked heel complaining to the referee and subtly cheating. Robert took the babyface in peril roll. Shortly after he made the tag to Morton the show ran out of time without showing the finish! KoKo Ware, The Sheepherders, Jim Duggan and the team of Bret Sawyer and DJ Peterson won squashes!
     WWF All-American Wrestling 2/23/86 3 big things covered on this show #1 Hulk Hogan came on Piper's Pit and conned "Boxin" Bob Orton into signing a contract to have a boxing match against his good buddy MR T! #2 During a match between JYD and Terry Funk When Funk was tied up in the ropes and Dog was about to use his own branding iron on him. He was jumped from behind by Terry's older brother Dory Funk Jr(for some reason they called him Hoss for most of his WWF run! Beyond Dumb! They did call him Dory here!) While Dog was being held down by the Funks, Jimmy Hart jumped on him and scratched and punched him! By the way Dory hit JYD with his shoe, for some reason wrestlers sell this like they have been shot with a small caliber handgun! #3 They showed Savage beating Santana for the IC title(its been three damn weeks people)! There were a couple squashes matches thrown in!

     AWA Championship Wrestling 2/23/86 The big thing on this show was the Brody/Blackwell-Gagne brawl that I covered in a previous blog! A great angle for pure chaos! There were Squashes by Marty Jannetty, Nord the Barbarian/Boris Zhokoff  and a shorter one by Scott Hall! AWA Squashes were infamous for going on for much to long as 2 of these did!