TV Reviews 3/1/86 (Part One).......Memphis TV 3/1/86 Action show this time around. Show starts with Buddy Landell who was supposed to compete coming out and telling Lance Russell that he was too good to wrestle the jobber he was lined up against! "I won't even break a sweat"! Instead he shows a picture of himself with Ric Flair in the figurefour! He has another where he is holding up the NWA World Title. He Claims to be the uncrowned Champion. Then we get a taped interview with promoter Jerry Jarrett announcing his official retirement from wrestling do to age but mostly a condition he suffers from that has caused partial blindness. He says in the course of this interview that his young son Jeff Jarrett has decided to start training to become a pro wrestler and that he begins that process soon! They show a clip of a match where do Buddy Landell's interference Dutch Mantell loses a bout to Rick Casey. After the match Mantell and Landell get into a shouting match with Landell playing chicken shit heel and begging for forgiveness! Dundee runs out to play peacemaker, but when Dutch turns his back Landell makes like he's gonna nail him from behind. When Mantell turns back around Buddy quickly stops and starts begging again! Landell comes out and says Dutch is late again because he is probably laid up somewhere drunk! Dundee Says they have patched this up and everything is great! Dutch Comes in and Lance wants him to see the end of the tape we just saw where Landell was gonna nail him from behind! Dundee tries to mediate again but fails as Dutch and Buddy start to brawl. Dundee tries to pull Mantell off, so Dutch gets up and blasts him!  Dundee goes bonkers and slams Mantell into the announce desk(blade job) they beat on him until Promoter Eddie Marlin runs them away with fine/getting fired threats. Mantell was supposed to wrestle Billy Travis next. Landell comes out and says since Dutch got beat up by him he'll take his place. Dutch runs out head wrapped still bloody and Runs Landell off with a chair! He says he wants a tag match he and Billy Travis vs Landell/Dundee! trademark Intense Memphis booking!
  3/1/86   NWA Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling Nothing Happened solid work and interviews! Single wins by the regulars and a newcomer in Leo Burke!
      NWA Worldwide Wrestling 3/1/86 Nothing much to report in ring, but several storyline points! During a interview with Dusty Rhodes they showed footage of the Horsemen trying it re-break Rhodes ankle after a cage match in the Omni in Atlanta! Dusty was in the figurefour and Flair came off the middle turnbuckle with Dusty's boot down across his ankle. Rhodes said they didn't get the job done, plus some Ultimate Warrior level mystical bullshit about standing on a riverbank a 4 am every morning! After several viewings Dusty must have been huffing paint in the back, this was real silly! Magnum said that he signed the contract to wrestle Nikita for the U.S. Title on tv, it was now up to the Kremlin(just picture a room full of stern looking men in three-piece suits and those cute furry hats. Going over line by line a contract for a secondary wrestling title in America......WRESTLING folks!) Paul Jones Army had a tag squash and doing a 5 minute promo during this bout was?......Of course Jimmy damn Valiant! The Barbarian reading the  book of Revelations in Hebrew made more sense than this promo! He said something about knowing Jones Army was coming for him(why are the English Professors in real life?). Jimmy did another promo later where he came out with a wooden casket and said he was gonna be Jones Undertaker. Tony Looked Somehow bemused and horrified by this! Cornette did a interview bragging about his boys breaking Ricky Morton's arm. Robert Gibson had a singles match, due to Morton's injury and they said that Ricky was gonna have a cast put on and he would not be out of action long.(Odd thing is on the Mid-Atlantic show I just watched Ricky had the cast already on and wrestled in a match! These shows must have overlapped in many TV Markets! it was just weird!
      NWA TBS 605 Saturday Night show 3/1/86 Arn Anderson defended the World's TV Title Against Ron Garvin. Good match with these two(what else is new!) Anderson got the shit beat out of him early! With fists and chops and headbutts. Not to mention Garvin stretching him in ways that would make Gumby squeal! Flair came to ringside to support his fellow horsemen and "cousin." Anderson got the upper hand and used a bearhug as the ware down hold! Being that this was a TV title bout their was a 10 minute time limit(most of them are 20 so you know how it ended! The dreaded Time Limit Draw. As the bell Rang Garvin had AA in an abdominal stretch. After the bell flair ran up and distracted Garvin, that gave AA time to plant a knee in the back and lay Ronnie out with his gourdbuster. In other action Flair won a rare squash match on television. Plus the Midnight Express destroyed two jobbers! Bobby Eaton came off the top four times during this bout. Dedicating each one beforehand to Ric Flair, Tony and David doing commentary, AA and The camera people! Beyond mere talent!