When did Mid South start to peak?

[MikeCampbell]

1984 was Mid South's best year for business, so that's the short answer, which others already covered in great detail.

 

What I think is getting slept on though, is how much better a deal that Watts got in the talent trade with Jarrett. Watts got Bobby and Dennis, Ricky and Robert, Terry Taylor, and Bill Dundee. All of whom already had at least five years experience and were developed as workers. Cornette only had about a year, but he'd had the chance to work in Georgia as well as work with, and learn from, Jimmy Hart, so he wasn't fresh off the boat or anything.

 

Jarrett did some good stuff with Rude, but he was a few years away from becoming a good worker. Neither Higgins or Neidhart ever got very good. Denton and Anthony's Memphis run was rather unremarkable compared to how the rest of their careers panned out, and they were back with Watts by 1985.