Superstar Sleeze Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 Taped in Dallas TX, March 8, 1985. Aired on WCCW TV 3/16/85 American Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey) with Jim Cornette vs The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers) The previous week, the Midnight Express defeated Brian Adidas & Johnny Mantel and they really hyped this main event showcasing a video package of the feud up until this pint and how the MX had stole back the belts from the Fans. Were the Midnights married to the Fantastics for their entire World Class run? It would be a crying shame if we never got MX vs Kerry & Kevin. Does that exist? Corny also has “Crippler” Rip Oliver and Sunshine is going to be bringing in a mystery man to clean his act up. Awesome TV main event here not quite as good as what we would get in Crockett in '88 but this is still really fun, energetic, character-focused work. Tommy Rogers shows up Eaton to start. The crowd is nuclear as Texas crowds almost always are. They are shitting all over Corny and rooting hard for Tommy. The MX bump & run and stooging work never gets old. They create obstacles for Rogers to overcome and he quite literally punches right through them with the climax being trying to trap them in the corner. Condrey tags in and it doesnt get much better for him. The Fantastics do some really fun high energy arm work where Fulton traps the arm and then Rogers running and leaping comes crashing down on it. The MX do some misdirection and when Condrey gets a blind tag, he DECKS him with a clothesline. Very good MX heat segment. The biggest difference between the Condrey & Lane is in the heat segment. Condrey delivers a much grittier heat segment. Lane usually the heat segment is cooler with more killer moves. Condrey Snake Eyes on Rogers, steps on him, Eaton delivers the sneaky, hard punches, they throw him to the outside that kinda grimy shit. Eaton does bring the “cool” when does he not? He delivers a killer backbreaker/bodyslam combo. Condrey clobbers Rogers on another misdirection spot and Eaton delivers the elbow. Fulton gets the hot tag for a very short house afire, where the camera misses Corny pulling his leg. Fulton kicks out and recovers into an O’Connor Roll. Corny wallops him with the racket for the DQ and seemingly to retain the tag titles. After the break, David Manning said after three controversial finishes, the Midnight Express has been stripped of the titles! I love it! I really love the three strikes and you're out policy. I thought this was almost as good as all their other World Class stuff the very short hot tag where Fulton didn’t get to do much and was really just two spots, the leg trip and racket shot was a bit underwhelming. The shine and heat segment were classic Fantastics vs Midnights. ***3/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul sosnowski Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 There was a match with Kevin & Mike vs Midnights. (not taped). There were two six man tags Kevin, MIke & Kerry vs MX & Kamala. And one with Rip Oliver as the 6th man. None of them were taped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted August 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 Thanks for the info, brutha. Thats a bummer. The Von Erichs vs Kamala & MX sounds really interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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