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Tag Team wrestling. I love it. Lots of focus on the tag team division. Great stuff. The other matches revolving around championships makes this a really fun show. Adding the second card with THREE more tag team matches....insane, but in a great way in my eyes. I look forward to see what else will happen going forward.

I like the mix of talent. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in the next few weeks.

Thank you for the feedback gentlemen. I appreciate it. Now that I've gotten my first weekend of shows done. I will be going through more of the other territories and catching up on the last few weeks of those shows and give my opinions here and there. I hope I can be as positive with my words as you both.

Mid-South Wrestling Monday, January 16, 1984 Civic Center Lubbock, Texas All matches are one-fall with a 15-minute time limit, unless otherwise noted. Steve Williams vs Raul Castro Fans get excited to see Steve Williams, just based on his look. Match starts and Dr. Death gets a quick start with his power moves. He doesn't get paid by the hour, and crushes Castro to the mat with a vicious power slam for the 3-count. Winner: Steve Williams Time: 3:01 Steve Lombardi & Dennis Stamp vs Rick McGraw & Scott Casey The fans give loud boo's to the tag team of Rick McGraw and Scott Casey. They enter the ring, looking cocky and ready for action. Lombardi and Stamp are already in the ring, waiting patiently for the ring bell. The start of the match sees Casey and Stamp exchange side headlocks. Casey uses his power to bring Stamp into his corner, and they double team on Stamp. McGraw gets a tag and he takes Dennis down with a drop toe hold and works a couple of forearm shots to the back. McGraw and Casey work over Stamp for a few minutes before Stamp is able to sneak a quick dropkick from nowhere on Casey. Stamp makes the tag and Lombardi storms the ring, hitting lefts and rights to Stamp's face. He nails an impactful clothesline that sends Casey out to the floor. Lombardi grabs him through the ropes and tries to bring him back into the ring. McGraw uses the opportunity to sneak in and lay a big knee to the back of Lombardi, and Rick quickly escapes. Casey rolls into the ring and tags McGraw. Casey grabs a bulldog on Lombardi, and as he gets up to leave the ring, he nails Stamp to the floor, then takes his leave of the ring. As the referee is ushering Casey back to his corner, McGraw drops Lombardi with a piledriver to pick up the win. Winners: Rick McGraw and Scott Casey Time: 6:19 Krusher Kruschev vs S.D Jones Krusher is accompanied by the Russian's to the ring area. The distract S.D. Jones before the match, and Krusher takes advantage. He lays a vicious forearm to the back and sends Jones to the floor. As he attempts to go to the floor, the referee holds him back, and that gives the Russian Nightmare the chance to kick S.D. and send him into the post. Then he tosses him into the ring. Kruschev kicks at Jones' head. He's bleeding from the post shot. Krusher gives him a number of right hands to the cut on his head. The crowd is yelling at the referee and the Russian's. They won't let up. Krusher picks up Jones, and drops him with a bodyslam for a 2-count. He pounds on the head a few more times with some right hands. Krusher lets Jones get to his feet, grabs him and whips him into the ropes, bends over for a back body drop, but S.D. kicks him right in the face. Krusher goes down to one knee, Jones gives him a knee lift to the face sending both men to the mat. The Russian’s outside the ring are mad and yelling into the ring. Krusher already starts to get to his feet, S.D. uses the ropes to pull him up. Krusher runs at him, Jones ducks and Krusher sends himself over the ropes. He lands on the apron, and not on the floor, but he is still hurt. Jones comes over and tries to suplex him back into the ring, but Boris pulls Jones leg, causing him to lose control and Kruschev lands right on him. Both men get up, Krusher lays in a violent Russian Sickle for the win. The Russian’s celebrate by kicking Jones a few times and tossing him from the ring. Winner: Krusher Kruschev Time: 9:32 Masked Superstar vs Moondog Rex This is a very back and forth match. Masked Superstar starts off slow, but Rex takes the early advantage. He works over the left arm and shoulder of Superstar. Superstar even misses a shoulder block into the corner and rams his shoulder into the post. Rex drops a knee on the shoulder and wrenches on the arm, but Superstar won’t give it up. You can feel the desperation Masked Superstar feels with the injured arm. He is able to slow down Rex with a rake of the eyes. Superstar sends him to the floor, as he tries to get a minute to get feeling back into the arm. Rex rolls into the ring and is met with a big knee drop to his head. Superstar reaches down and locks in a figure-four leglock. Rex is in pain, but you can tell Superstar is just buying some more time to heal the arm and plan a better attack. Rex is able to get to the ropes to cause the break. Both men start to get to their feet. Superstar uses his good arm to clothesline Rex to the ground. Now that Superstar is feeling better with the arm and shoulder, he focuses his attack on the leg he started to injure on Rex. He drops a couple of knees against the side of Rex’ knee. He pulls Rex to the ropes and places the leg on the bottom rope. He leaps and comes crushing down onto the knee. Rex is now in some real pain. Superstar works over the leg more, slowly bringing himself more offense with that arm, but still favors it throughout the offense. Superstar grabs that leg, whips around for another figure-four, but Rex reaches out, pulls him into an inside cradle for a very close 2-count. Superstar rushes to his feet and clocks Rex with a back elbow. Rex falls into the corner buckles. Superstar rushes in for a body tackle, Rex catches him with his own back elbow. Superstar stumbles back into the middle of the ring. Rex is slow to follow really favoring that leg. He grabs Superstar for a bodyslam, but the leg gives out, Masked Superstar falls on top, but only gets a 2-count. Superstar realizing this is his shot, grabs a Boston Crab, locks it in deep, but release the good leg and really locks in the half crab on the injured leg. You can tell Superstar is favoring that arm as well, keeping him from locking in the full Boston Crab. He really wrenches on it, Rex is stuck, but refuses to give up. Superstar doesn’t let go, sitting back hard. Rex finally gives it up, as he is just in too much pain. Winner: Masked Superstar Time: 14:22 Intermission Boris Zhukov vs El Bracero We return from intermission and the Russian’s are in the ring, running down America. El Bracero enters the ring for the match, and is immediately attacked by Boris Zhukov. The others leave the ring, but Bracero fights back immediately. He nails lefts and rights, pushing off Zhukov, leaping and nailing a dropkick, that sends Boris against the ropes. He leaps with a second dropkick and Boris falls into the ropes again. El Bracero leaps with a third, but Boris gets out of the way and he crashes hard to the ground. Boris leaps and drops a heavy elbow onto Bracero. He continues his slow, hard-hitting offense. Bracero keeps fighting back, getting a move or two in, but gets cut off a number of times by the Russian. Boris whips Bracero into the ropes, Bracero ducks under a Sickle attempt, bounces off the ropes, leaps with a cross body…Boris catches him, but can’t hold him as he falls back, Bracero hooks both legs and gets the surprise pinfall. The Russian’s jump into the ring, but he is able to scramble away from the attack and head to the locker room. Winner: El Bracero Time: 8:11 Don Muraco vs Moondog Spot These two lock up and start the action very fast. Pushing and shoving, then forearms back and forth. Spot starts to get the better of the back and forth. Spot then football tackles Muraco to the mat. He climbs up onto him and start pounding away on Muraco’s forehead. Spot is ready for some action. Muraco pushes him off and takes a leave to the floor. As Spot follows, Muraco slips back into the ring, and as Spot rolls into the ring, Muraco tries to take him down with an elbow drop, but Spot stops and rolls back out, as Muraco lands hard to the mat. Spot gets back into the ring and lands his own elbow drop for a 2-count. Muraco slips out of the ring again. Spot waits for him this time. Muraco takes a long count, but steps back into the ring. As he locks up with Spot, he pushes him into the corner. The referee calls for the break, but Muraco cheap shots Spot. Spot bounces right back with forearms to the chest. Muraco falls back to the middle of the ring. Spot suplexes Muraco for another 2-count. Spot pulls Muraco up to his feet and picks him up for a bodyslam, and drops him onto the mat. He runs against the ropes and drops a big leg drop, but for another 2-count. Muraco rolls to the floor and Spot follows him out. They brawl on the floor. Muraco is able to turn a whip around and Spot crashes into the rails. Muraco climbs into the ring to get a breather. Spots follow inside the ring. Muraco takes the advantage from here. Muraco uses his power to control Spot. Slams and strikes wear down Spot. Muraco then locks in a bear hug to wear down Spot. Spots tries to fight out, but Muraco tightens his lock. Spot finally head-butts his way out of the bear hug. Muraco breaks his hold and stumbles back. Spot holds his ribs and back from the pain of the bear hug. He punches Muraco, then another punch. Spot head-butts Muraco one more time. He bounces off the ropes, giving him some momentum and before he can attack, Muraco steps up, catches Spot, lifts him up, and drops him throat first along the ropes (Hotshot). He covers Spot and picks up the win. Winner: Don Muraco Time: 12:21 Russian Nightmare vs Thunderbolt Patterson Russian Nightmare enters the ring, and charges Patterson but gets caught with a boot to the face. The Nightmare crashes to the mat. Patterson leaps and lands a big splash for a 2-count. The fans thought it was all and explode, but realize it was only a two count. Patterson questions the referee, letting the Russian Nightmare to get back to his feet. Patterson comes at Nightmare, but Nightmare catches him with a quick, but impactful powerslam. Nightmare picks him up and drops him with a running powerslam now. 2-count after the slam. The Russian doesn’t seem to care. He picks up Thunderbolt and whips him into the corner buckles and follows in quickly with a shoulder to the body. He keeps him locked in the corner, thrusting his shoulder into the body of Patterson over and over. The referee calls for the break. Nightmare backs off, rushes in with a forearm to the face. Patterson is hurt. Nightmare shoulders his body again, but the second shoulder is met with a knee to the upper body of the Russian Nightmare. He stumbles back, shocked by the knee. Patterson gets a moment to get his head back into the match. He’s still hurting from the quick pounding he has taken. Patterson kicks and punches at the Nightmare. Nightmare blocks the last punch, nails his own, gets a real quick burst and shoulder blocks Patterson down to the mat. Nightmare rushes the ropes, gaining a ton of momentum and takes off Patterson’s head with a Russian Sickle for the big 3-count. Winner: Russian Nightmare Time: 6:07 Main Event – One Fall with a 45-minute time limit Rick Rude vs Jose Lothario These two are no strangers, and they start off hot and heavy. Rude tries to power Lothario down, but Jose uses his quickness to evade the power, keeping Rude at bay with some quick strikes and some nice leaping kicks. A headsissors sends Rude to the floor. Jose steps onto the apron and runs off the apron and leaps into Rude with a bodyblock. Jose grabs Rude and sends him into the ring. He climbs up the ropes, leaps with a cross body block, but only gets a 2-count. Rude scrambles to the ropes, as Jose comes for him he grabs the tights and pulls Jose out to the floor. Rude now follow him out, grabbing Jose and ramming him into the apron face first. Then he whips him into the ring post, which Jose gets busted open on. He’s bleeding pretty bad. Both men work their way back into the ring. Rude works over Jose for a few minutes with some power moves, wearing him down. Jose tries to battle back, but is still weak from the blood loss. Rude grabs Jose and locks in an over-the-shoulder backbreaker. Jose is in pain, but won’t give it up. He’s battling hard, wiggling hard, finally getting himself free, grabbing a big atomic drop sending Rude over the top rope and crashing hard to the floor. Jose crumbles to the mat, still feeling the beating he has been taking. Rude gets himself up and slides under the bottom rope. He gets to his feet, as Jose gets to his feet. The rush each other and hit a double clothesline. Both men crash to the mat. They both start to get the count, and eventually battle to their feet. Rude pushes Jose against the ropes, Jose bounces back with a knee to the upper body, sending Rude into the far ropes, Jose leaps up, getting on Rude’s shoulders (Electric Chair) and falls forward with a victory roll, and gets a very close 2-count. The crowd thought that was it, but pop when Rude escapes. Rude rakes the face off Jose as they get close. The referee warns Rude, then goes over to check on Jose. Rude pulls Brass Knuckles from his tights. He goes to put them on his hand, but Jose sneaks up with a school boy, but the referee gets another close 2-count. Rude quickly gets up but is met with a dropkick that sends him back to the mat, but he bumps into the referee. Jose sees the knuckles. He picks them up and puts them on his hand. He swings and clocks Rude. Jose tosses the knucks. The referee wasn’t hurt badly, just a fall to the mat. He is already up, but missed the illegal punch. Jose covers Rude and gets the three-count. Rude is busted open from the shot but it out cold as Jose celebrates the victory and leaves the ring. Winner: Jose Lothario Time: 19:16

Mid-South Wrestling Sunday, January 15, 1984 Amarillo Sports Center Amarillo, Texas All matches are one-fall with a 15-minute time limit, unless otherwise noted. Steve Williams vs Dennis Stamp Stamp doesn't get much offense in at all. Dr. Death gets the early advantage using his unbelievable power to gain control. A gut-wrench suplex takes Stamp down to the mat. Williams setup for a 3-point stance football tackle to send Stamp into the corner buckles. Williams pulls him out to the middle of the ring for a powerslam to get the win. Winner: Steve Williams Time: 4:22 Steve Lombardi vs Raul Castro Basic wrestling match between two lesser-known guys. Steve Lombardi uses a number of cheap tricks to get himself on the offense. Steve gets Raul down to the mat with a headlock and works that for a minute. Raul battles back, punches and kicks to get Lombardi off balance. Steve works himself into the turnbuckles. Raul runs in with a body splash, but Lombardi gets the knee up into the face, sending Castro to the ground, and Steve small packages Castro up, holding the ropes to get the win. Winner: Steve Lombardi Time: 8:13 Boris Zhukov vs S.D Jones Jones start off hot with some arm drags, locking in an arm bar to start the match. S.D. continues to work on the left arm for the first few minutes into the contest. A poke to the eye by Boris as the referee was moving around them, turns the momentum into his favor. Boris lays in some physical forearms to the upper body. He gets Jones on the second rope and begins to choke him on it, breaking the count before the 5. He lays down a couple of body slams, but can't get the 3-count. Jones gets a school boy for a 2-count, but gets a hard shoulder block to knock him back to the mat. A few hard kicks and a knee drop gets another 2-count. S.D. gets himself back to his feet, and battles back after a missed elbow drop. Jones leaps up and nails a sloppy dropkick for a 2-count. He gets to his feet, waiting for Boris to get up, Jones leaps for another dropkick, but Zhukov brushes him off. As Jones gets back to his feet, he is met with a vicious clothesline and pinned. Winners: Boris Zhukov Time: 10:53 Magnificent Muraco & Masked Superstar vs Los Conquistadors Muraco starts off with Uno. Muraco uses his awesome power to toss the Luchador around the ring. A high-impact body slam sends Uno crushing to the mat. He quickly tags Dos. Dos doesn't have much better luck, running at Muraco with a tackle, but getting sent to the match himself. He tags Uno back in. This time, Uno uses his quickness to get a small advantage, using a flying head-sissors to take down Muraco. Uno then leaps with a flying forearm, sending Muraco out through the ropes and to the floor. He kicks the ringside guard rail in frustration. Muraco takes his time getting back into the ring. He tags out to the Masked Superstar who slowly enters the ring. He stares intensely at Uno. They lock up, and the veteran takes control immediately. Superstar brings Uno into the corner, and he and Muraco work him over for quite a few minutes. Some moments where Uno gets a shot in and tries to make the tag, but gets cut off. After a few minutes of this happening, Uno finally breaks away and gets a tag to Dos. Dos comes in and gets a flying headbutt from Masked Superstar right away. Dos crumbles right to the mat. Superstar brings Muraco back in. Muraco drops Dos with a big powerslam. Muraco tags in Superstar, then runs across the ring and elbows Uno off the apron to the rails. Superstar grabs Dos and executes a violent swinging neck breaker for the three count. Winners: Magnificent Muraco & Masked Superstar Time: 8:30 Intermission Krusher Kruschev vs Thunderbolt Patterson The fans are really behind Thunderbolt Patterson before the bell rings. They are hot for the first match back from intermission and Krusher attacks early, getting a knee to the lower back against the turnbuckles. Krusher grabs a waist lock and rams Patterson into the buckles repeatedly. The referee steps in, threatening to disqualify Krusher if he doesn't break in the corner. Krusher has Thunderbolt hurt on the mat and works him over. He calls out to the crowd, calling them names and getting a ton of reaction. Krusher executes a very good back breaker for a 2-count. He yells at the referee to count faster. Krusher turns over Patterson and pounds away on the lower back. The crowd is hot for Patterson, cheering for him to recover. Krusher tries to pickup Patterson, but he pops Kruschev with an elbow. Krusher hits him with a forearm. They exchange punches in the middle of the ring. Kruschev cuts him off with a kick to the gut. Krusher whips Patterson into the ropes, tries for the Russian Sickle, Thunderbolt ducks under, school boys Kruschev and gets the quick pinfall. After the bell, Krusher knocks Patterson down with a big double-panhandle shot. Then as he turns around, Kruschev lays in the Sickle to leave him laying as Krusher leaves the ring satisfied he's beaten down Thunderbolt. Winner: Thunderbolt Patterson Time: 9:00 The Moondogs vs Rick McGraw & Scott Casey The team of Rick McGraw and Scott Casey is hated among the fans. They cannot stand this team. The Moondogs get a good reaction when they are announced to the crowd. Moondogs work over McGraw early, brawling. They take control and keep him near their own corner. Rex body slams Rick hard to the mat, and dropped a leg drop to get an early 2-count. Moondogs tag and Spot comes in, they give McGraw a double-clothesline, but once against get a 2-count. McGraw rolls towards the ropes. As Spot walks over to pull him away, they get locked together in the ropes, as the referee steps in, McGraw uses a cheap trick to Spot and uses that opportunity to tag in Casey. They work over Spot for a few minutes, tagging in and out, working him over with good tag team wrestling. After a miscue, Spot ducks and they clothesline each other, giving him the chance to make the tag to Rex. Rex comes in a house of fire with lots of punches, knocking over both opponent's. Then all four wrestlers brawl inside the ring. The referee calls for the two illegal guys to get out of the ring. He steps in front of Spot and orders him from the ring. As they are arguing in the corner, McGraw rakes the eyes, setting up for Casey executing a piledriver and getting the win. Winners: Scott Casey and Rick McGraw Time: 10:49 Russian Nightmare vs El Bracero As El Bracero enters the ring, he is attacked by the Russian Nightmare. Vicious and brutal beating. Bracero doesn't get one move in for the first few minutes. Nightmare just pounds him with heavy blows. Press Slam onto the mat. Running tackles send him to the floor. Nightmare sends him into the ringside guard rail before rolling Bracero back into the ring. One Russian Sickle later and Russian Nightmare picks up the win. Winner: Russian Nightmare Time: 4:41 Rick Rude vs Jose Lothario The last match of the evening. starts off hot with some early brawling around the ringside. These two have had some battles in tag team action last month, and they pick up right where those left off. It starts with Rude trying to bail out of the ring and leave the match, but Jose catches him in the isle and the brawl around ringside begins. The referee is trying to gain some control, finally getting into the ring and begins the count. The referee gets to a 6-count before both men roll into the ring. Rude is able to get the advantage with a huge forearm to the back of Lothario's head as he returned to the ring. Rude begins to work the neck area. The lays down some forearm's and a nice vertical suplex for a 2-count. The climbs the ropes and leaps off with a flying fist drop between the eyes, but Rude still gets a two-count. Rude gets a little frustrated, and stomps on Lothario. A leaping knee drop to his neck gets another two-count for Rude. His frustration is showing as he begins to choke Jose. The fans are getting loud, clapping and cheering for Jose to battle back. Rude picks him off the ground and attempts a suplex, but Lothario blocks is and reverses it with his own suplex. Both men land hard. They battle up, Jose leaps with a headsissors, and another, then a big dropkick for a 2-count. Jose leaps with another dropkick that sends Rude to the floor. Jose follows him out, and sends Rude into the timekeepers table. Rude grabs the bell, but Jose doesn't see it, grabbing Rude and bringing him back into the ring. Rude gets caught up in the ropes, as Jose slides in under the bottom rope, as he reaches out to bring Rude back in, Rude quickly pops Lothario in the forehead with it, and tosses it back to the table as the referee gets into a better position to see what's going on. Rude slides into the ring and pins Jose to end the battle. Winner: Rick Rude Time: 11:12

Love the build to the big shows, Starrcade was fun, and I'm really looking foward to the Superdome show.