[1987-05-10-JCP-WCW Sunday Edition] Tully Blanchard vs Barry Windham

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NWA World TV Champion Tully Blanchard vs Barry Windham - WCW Sunday Edition 5/10/87

NWA was so hot that they had to go to another night! They have rekindled that Tully/Dusty feud now for the fourth time. It is officially getting old. The crux of the feud is money. Tully is bragging how he came from money and he is money. He dont care for the plight of the common man or any common man success stories. Dusty Rhodes is putting up Fifty Thousand Dollars of Common Man Money against Tully. Even if the feuds are recycled, Tully is in his prime. Windham spent the first third of the year as Flair's primary challenger. Flair is moving onto the Garvins, his promos have been great. Windham has been shunted back down. Stream of consciousness style, daddy:

This is in the TV Studio and there is $10k of Tully's money on the line. Lock up to start and into the ropes. We get a beak and then Blanchard falling out of the ropes. BW armdrag and Tully powders. Barry has filled out at this point of his career. He is a tall drink of water, baby. Short knee by Tully and some European Uppercuts and now to the breadbasket, BW comes roaring back. Big punch and stomps him out of the ring. Pretty basic shine thus far. Solid. Tully shoves BW as he is incensed & humiliated. Firefight. Barry gets the better of it. Ten count punch. We go to a break. We come back and they are tussling on the mat. Tully throws a wild left showing his desperation. Knucklelock but Barry creams him with a punch. Dropkick. Tully knees him in the side to break up the pin interesting way to do that. Tully is starts to build momentum until he sets BW in motion and gets nailed with a  reverse elbow. Lariat out of the corner. JJ distracts the ref for two. Windham catches a sleeper. Tully uses the hair and they tumble to the floor. Windham maintains the sleeper on the floor. This has been all Windham, baby. Back to commercial. We come back with Windham piston punches to Tully. Tony says it has been a see-saw battle. I dont know what match he has been watching. This has been all Windham. Tully uses the JJ's shoe and it only gets two! Wow! I bit on that nearfall hard. Tully nails the suplex. Standing elbow for two. Tully uses the tights to throw BW to the floor. Tully teases a piledriver on the floor, back drop out of it. BW Slugs Tully. Gutwrench suplex by Windham. Powerslam. 2. Barry is pouring it on. GO BARRY GO! Tully short knee and is thinking figure-4 but BW kicks off. Floatover suplex by the silky smooth Windham. Tony lets us know there is 1 minute to go! Dropkick, eyerake at 2 to break it up. I am like these physical break ups by Tully. They brawl on the outside as the bell rings as the time limit expired. 

Solid match. Nothing to really write home about. It was a very Crockett workrate, action-packed type match. Windham controls the majority and overcomes cheating, short heat segment and I liked that he poured it on as we went to the draw. ***1/4