This time we’re checking out the Classic Wrestling Stuff channel. They have a ton of cool stuff (although they could stand to separate a few things with playlists). The is time we’re picking a couple of Mid South Wrestling house show matches and a 1990 episode of NWA Main Event after rifling through their videos, but you can also find some Houston, Florida, World Class, and Continental Wrestling there as well. 

Mid South Wrestling 08-26-1984: Bunkhouse Match: Hercules Hernandez & Butch Reed def. Dusty Rhodes & Jim Duggan: This match fucking ruled. They did a lot of great crowd work in the beginning because Dusty Rhodes and Jim Duggan were as over as nationalism and blow in 1984. Butch Reed was fucking phenomenal, bumping and selling so that the person in the highest row could tell that he was hurt. Hercules wasn’t quite at that level, but was also outstanding here, including taking a great bump on a Duggan beel out of the corner. They worked this tag rules, but it got pretty wild with Dusty getting hit by a chair and Duggan getting posted. It’s tough to tell for certain because of the combination of the arena lighting and VHS recording, but all four men may have bladed.  The crowd was on fire for the babyface comeback. Cornette threw powder in Duggan’s face, and he bumped like he threw a fucking brick in his face, taking this massive bump. Dusty had Reed pinned, and Herc booted Dusty in the head, allowing Reed to get the win at 12:35. This fucking ruled, and no one can convince me otherwise. ****1/4

01/14/1990 NWA Main Event 

We’re joined in progress with Ric Flair cutting a solid babyface pretape on Lex Luger for the house show series they were doing around the loop before the Flair turn. He mentioned the Horsemen, as they had just reformed at the beginning of the year. 

Lex Luger def. Mike Hart in 5:40. I’ve seen Mike Hart in a lot of good enhancement matches, but this wasn’t one of them. Besides being unnecessarily long, he fucked up Luger’s poeerslam before the torture rack twixe. The second time was so bad, Luger dropped him on his knee for a backbreaker, and didn’t even bother with a rack, scoring the win. Jesus. 

The Road Warriors cut a promo on the Skyscrapers while highlighting some very swap meet-looking Road Warriors t-shirts for sale. I doubt they sold a thousand of these across the country. The promo itself was okay. I thought the Roadies lost a lot of mystique by this point. 

Sting def. The Dragonmaster in 9:07. We’re heading towards the end of the J-Tex Corporation here, and Dragonmaster wasn’t too high on the pecking order anyway. There wasn’t a lot to this one, which included Sting putting some of the laziest leglocks on DM at one point. I did like the finish with Dragonmaster stopping a few Sting attempted whips into the corner, so that he avoided the Stinger Splash, but Sting surprised him by coming off the top with a crossbody at 9:07. *1/2 

Rock’ n’ Roll Express def. Freebirds by DQ in 12:47. The Rock’ n’ Rolls had just returned. As the announcers noted, this was the first time the Garvin and Hayes version of the team faced the R&Rs. This was mostly what you would expect, complete with Ricky Morton taking the beatdown, of course, but they also worked well together overall. Garvin pulled the top rope down while Gibson was running the ropes, sending him crashing to the floor. The Dynamic Dudes ran out like Boy Scouts and told the ref what happened, so the Birds got DQ’d. Fucking rats. The Midnights ran out, and a big eight-way brawl broke out to end the show. 

Recommendation: Thumbs Down. The main event was solid, but this was a rather bland and forgettable show 

Mid South Wrestling 09-04-1984: Killer Khan def. Chris Adams in 10:37. Khan was a great old-timey heel. He didn’t take a lot of bumps, but his shit looked good, and he’d occasionally throw in a menacing face to connect with the crowd. Adams worked a sleeper liberally early, but his comeback was awesome. He threw a superkick to Khan in the corner, one more after he fell on his ass, and completed the trifecta with one to Skandar Akbar to a huge pop. After trying to get the spike to the throat at different points in the match, Khan finally got one on Adams and finished him with a good-looking knee drop. This was fun for what it was. **1/4