Hey kids! Welcome back to another ‘Restling Rewind! This
time I’m bring you all the way back 1981 with Mid-South Wrestling.
Each week Mid-South has a guest commentator with Boyd Pierce.
This week we get Bob Roop who says he’s forgotten more about wrestling then
most people will learn… okay.
Our first match of the night is a replay from several weeks
ago. We get to view our guest commentator Bob Roop.
And he faces future “Nature Boy” Buddy Landell.
This match starts off being open.
But it’s not long before it becomes Roop just beating on
poor Buddy. Roop puts Landell away with the shoulder breaker for the three
count. Roop makes a comment that history never repeats itself but thanks to the
magic of video tape we get to relive this moment again. I think we’re going to
have very interesting commentary on this week of Mid-South Wrestling.
For our first real match of the night we get Paul Orndorff!
And he takes on Tony Charles who’s billed from South Wales. He’s
also apparently “The Man of A Thousand Holds.” He’s done a tour for New Japan
Pro Wrestling in the ‘70s.
Roop mentions that
Paul Orndorff gives to charity and will pay a thousand dollars to anyone who
can put Ted DiBiase out of wrestling. Well that wasn’t very nice. And he says
that both men don’t have a lot of excess fat.
During the match Pierce say that fans could send letters
asking Mid-South Wrestling for any dream match they want and the match most
asked for would get on TV next month. He mentions Andree The Giant, Junk Yard
Dog, Bob Roop along with several others.
This match is more open than I expected. I was thinking that
Orndorff was going to squash Charles but he gets a lot of offence on the former
North American Heavyweight Champion.
Things go south for Charles after Orndorff sends him outside
the ring twice. The second time Orndorff stomps his arms and suplexs him back
into the ring for the three count.
After a commercial break we have a match the features "The
Polish Prince" Ed Wiskowski. You might know him as Col. DeBeers.
And he takes on North American Heavyweight Champion Ted
Dibiase!
Bob Roop says that if he didn’t agree to be at the
commentary table he would be slapping Dibiase. So a lot of this match is Wiskowski
controlling the match with a headlock.
While Dibiase centers his attacks on Wiskowski’s left arm.
Roop takes about how horrible Ted is for using closed fists.
The North American Heavyweight Champion looks to put his opponent
away with a figure four leg lock but instead Wiskowski sends Dibiase into the turnbuckle.
Wiskowski goes high risk to the second turnbuckle and does a
cross body on Dibiase, only to be rolled over and beat by the champ! It’s illegal
to jump from the top turnbuckle by the way, just like when Watts was booking
WCW years later.
It’s time for a Mississippi Heavyweight Championship match!
Bob Orton Jr. is our defending champion.
And he’s defending against future World Class star Jim
Garvin before he became “Gorgeous.”
I just got to say I love how Orton over sells Garvin’s
punches.
Garvin early on controls the match with a headlock. He also
does a bulldog thing, keeping hold of Orton and running up the turnbuckle and bulldogging
him while keeping hold of the headlock!
Orton is able to take control of the match. Roop seems to
ignore anything Orton is doing wrong while he blasts at Garvin for using closed
fists.
Garvin tries to bulldog Orton a second time only to get it
reversed and Garvin gets suplexed!
The Mississippi Heavyweight Champion then defeats his challenger
using a piledriver! I think in this match the only lasted a few minutes Bob
used more moves then Randy ever does.
Now we get a match where if Terry Orndorff losses to The
Junkyard Dog he has to leave Mid-South Wrestling. Before the match he puts a
mask on. Our ring announcer questions him about it, since before he stated he
hated that mask. Terry says he does but he feels it must be lucky since he got
a win while wearing it.
Junkyard Dog is the only wrestler to get an entrance on this
program, as he comes out to Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust. JYD questions
why Orndorff is wearing a mask and the referee checks him for weapons and finds
nothing.
A bodyslam is the biggest offence Terry can get on Junkyard
before the match turning into JYD beating up Orndorff.
Paul Orndorff comes out to give his brother a word of
advice.
And attacks Junkyard Dog only to get body slammed. JYD pins Paul
and for whatever reason the referee counts it.
Terry head buts JYD and knocks himself out of the ring. The
announcers figure it was loaded. Someone else then takes the mask and enters the
ring. Since they attempt to piledrive Dog they guess it’s Bob Orton Jr.
Junkyard Dog throws Orton over the top rope but the referee
assumes it’s Terry Orndorff so Orndorff wins by disqualification. I don’t
understand why. You would think this match would have been thrown out after
Paul entered the damn ring and attacked Dog.
After a commercial break we get another match. The Iron
Sheik doesn’t even wait for the ring announcer to introduce the men before he
starts attacking King Cobra. Bob Roop assumes USA chants have drove Sheik to
insanity.
King Cobra makes a comeback and tries a head scissors but
gets thrown out the ring instead.
Iron Sheik goes outside and when Cobra tries to bring him
back him Sheik’s boots gets caught on the ropes because they’re pointy. The announcers make a big deal out of this. At least they're not sounding girly talking about Sheik's footwear.
It’s not long before Sheik puts Cobra away with a elbow and celebrates
with his manager General Skandar Akbar.
Now we get a tag team match. We get Jerry Novak and The Monk
teaming together. You may remember The Monk when he was Bastion Booger in WWE.
Novak is also a former AWA Southern Tag Team Champion.
They take on Frank Monte and Brian Blair. Blair would go on
to become one of The Killer Bees in WWE.
Monte and Blair actually get most of the offence in this
match. Looking at the size difference of the team I thought it would be the
other way around. Plus unlike all the other babyfaces on this show Roop actually tried to put this team over.
TV Time runs out and this match is a draw. We’re told next
week we’ll get Paul Orndorff vs. Ted DiBiase.
Well other then Junkyard Dog vs. Terry Orndorff this was an alright show. And at least this made you wonder what was going to happen next week. Everything other then the main event progressed a story. Despite some of the weird commentary from Bob Roop he did his job alright.
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