Superstar Sleeze Posted November 15, 2020 Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 NWA National Heavyweight Champion Dusty Rhodes vs Tully Blanchard - JCP WCW 3/8/86 Joined in Progress as Tony/David bring us the title switch from some house show footage with Flair on commentary. Tully vs Dusty was the big feud of the opening part of 1986. Tully is working the leg and Dusty is selling like a million bucks. This crowd is RABID for Dusty. Crockett crowds are just on fire at this time period. Dusty gets a couple hope spots but Tully snuffs them out. TULLY HITS THE SLINGSHOT SUPLEX!!!! 1-2-NO Hugh sigh of relief! Insane nearfall for the 80s. I dont know if I had ever seen Tully hit that move on a non-Jobber before. Here comes Dusty. The crowd loses their shit. We are talking he puts on a Sleeper and you would have thought everyone had won a million dollars they went bezerk. They do a more convoluted Savage/Tito finish which happened just a couple weeks prior. JJ throws in the knuckledusters as Dusty is attacking JJ. Tully actually misses and ends up outside. Flair puts the knuckledusters back on Tully. Then they do the exact same Savage/Tito finish to switch the National Title. Baby Doll is incensed and starts wailing on Flair. JJ yanks her down by the hair. She smacks him into next week. The Horsemen take Baby Doll down by the legs and hold her down so that Flair can hit the Bombs Away Kneedrop. This is fucking insane! Magnum/RnRs save. That was crazy and the way Baby Doll was resisting made it very uncomfortable. Very enjoyable match, great heel finish. One of the better Dusty matches, wish we had the whole thing. ***3/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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