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Previously on the Best and Worst of NWA World Championship Wrestling: The Commodity Tully Blanchard made true on his promise to become National Heavyweight Champion by cheating to beat Dusty Rhodes, sending him into a complete mental breakdown involving sudden nudity. Also, Road Warrior Hawk announced he’s more popular than Ric Flair because he’s [checks notes] good at cunnilingus.
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And now, the Best and Worst of NWA World Championship Wrestling for March 15, 1986.
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I think it was the NEXT time the MX wrestled “Phil What’s His Name”, that features the hilariously non-PC exchange….
Cornette: “Here’s Phil What’s His Name Again!”
Tony or David “Phil Brown!”
Cornette: “He sure is!”
I need more context for the Valiant make out gif. Did Valiant often make out with refs? Was he actually trying to bite him? Were bath salts a thing in ’86?
He was a pansexual tweaked-out drifter, so he just kinda hooked up with/made out with everyone. Miss Atlanta Lively, kissing Tony Schiavone, kissing refs, etc.
he was kind of a proto Golddust.
Ohhhh, those weren’t jokes; that’s really what was happening. Wow, wrestling has always been weird.
The boogeyman loves everybody baby. He loves everybody, daddy. He loves everybody, baby.
“If you’re in the Bullet Club, you’re a Bullet Club guy.”
Only if your name is Hangman Page or Chase Owens.
To be fair, Page got to add another layer to his character through Being The Elite. This week we learned he’s actually a Penis Truther.
I wonder if Ryback is the bastard son of Jimmy Garvin?
Am I the only one really bothered by the Russians being from the eastern block rather than the eastern (soviet, really) bloc?
–it’s four months later and people are still chanting I Quit at Tully, which is delightful, needless to say.
–Cornette was tremendous all throughout the match, putting over the job guys as the toughest guys the Midnights have ever had. complete with a smiling Dennis Condrey crying “help!” to Jim. Jim replies “Go for the time-limit draw, Dennis!” Maybe my personal favorite Midnights squash.
–As to why the tournament is being held in the Superdome, which was mid-south/Watts country, during the post wrestlemania panic all the territories would feint towards working together but then they would freak out at the last second. The first Superclash was a joint AWA-Crockett production (Flair vs Magnum as the co-main) but Verne Gagne tried to cheat them by under-reporting the gate. This was probably a similar half-hearted effort at teaming up against Vince. I can’t speak as to who cheated whom in the end, but I suspect someone cheated someone.
–I am totally down with all the Mike Jackson praise, and whenever he was against a Cornette team, Cornette would call him the Alabama Junior Heavyweight Champion.
–the Wahoo video package has several images of Bruiser Brody, which is interesting because Bruiser and Crockett had some serious heat.
–Oh, it’s so sad to see the Jimmy Valiant and Manny Fernandez friends forever promos knowing what I know now. But we still have to get to Pistol Pez finding his roots before that happens.
–oh man, you are so right that Magnum totally saved a drowning Ron Garvin in that promo. I just, you know, the prestige, I got butterflies you know, butterflies in the stomach
Gold.