NWA (JCP) World Championship Wrestling (August 16, 1986)

 

Original Airdate: August 16, 1986 (taped August 8)

From Atlanta, Georgia; Your Hosts are Tony Schiavone and David Crockett

Jim Cornette is out, swearing revenge on Dusty Rhodes for putting his hands on Big Bubba Rogers

Bobby Jaggers and Dutch Mantel v Bill Mulkey and George South: The big news this week is that Ric Flair has regained the NWA World title from Dusty. Jaggers scores the pin here after a bearhug/flying clothesline combo at 3:37. That’s like a cool Doomsday Device/Hart Attack combo that somehow ends up coming off less devastating than either. DUD

The Russians are out, reacting to Magnum TA tying up the Best of Seven Series with Nikita Koloff

Jimmy Valiant is out, and he is so confident that he will shave Paul Jones’ head before 1986 is out that he will retire if he can’t get it done. Don’t tease us, Jimmy

The Road Warriors v Tom Pittman and Pablo Crenshaw: The Warriors blitz the jobbers, and Hawk finishes with a clothesline at 1:09. No team could steamroll dudes like the Road Warriors. DUD

We get clips of Dusty beating Flair to win the world title, but then get destroyed by a chair wielding Tully Blanchard

Tully is out to laugh it up about Dusty

Clips of Flair winning the title back in St. Louis

Flair is out to do some proper gloating and celebrating. Based on the suit choice this week, I’m guessing the celebration was fueled by cocaine 

The Road Warriors are out, fuming about the Horsemen

Bill Dundee v Vernon Deaton: Some baseball player from the Houston Astros is shown in the crowd for this, and man, if you thought the ‘average’ JCP fan looked like a redneck. If Dick Murdoch is ‘Captain Redneck,’ this guy has got to be the general. Bill with a flying elbowdrop at 3:46. DUD

Recently, Bill Apter sat down with Dusty Rhodes, who is swearing revenge on Tully. Lot of that going on this week

Paul Jones is out to react to Valiant’s promise earlier, which he laughs off

Six-Man Tag Team Match: Tully Blanchard, Arn Anderson, and Ole Anderson v Sam Houston, Italian Stallion, and Todd Champion: Champion eats a combo from Arn and Tully at 6:57. Yes, seven minutes. ¼*

Dick Murdoch v Tony Zane: Murdoch wastes no time here, knocking this fool out with a brainbuster at a brisk 0:21. DUD

Arn Anderson is out, and he thinks Dusty should flush his feelings down a toilet. Gosh, he’s lucky Dusty didn’t go to HR after that kind of talk

The Midnight Express are out, and man, they need to replace those belts with the more modern Reggie Parks style ones already

Six-Man Tag Team Match: Nikita Koloff, Ivan Koloff, and Krusher Kruschev v Paul Garnet, Randy Barber, and Clement Fields: Nikita ends this one quickly with the Russian Sickle at 0:59. DUD

Clips of Magnum TA defeating Nikita Koloff in Asheville North Carolina to get a tie in their Best of Seven Series for the NWA United States title

Magnum and Baby Doll are out, and Magnum is ready to finish it

A look at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express hanging out with (see: kissing) the girls who won the contest to hang out with them. Literally none of this feels appropriate in 2024

The Rock 'n' Roll Express v Bill Tabb and Art Pritts: The Express with dropkicks at 1:50. DUD

The Horsemen are out to repeat the same shit they’ve already said, like, three times on this episode already

BUExperience: Sometimes this show is good, and I enjoy it. But it feels like things have really dulled since some of the hot episodes earlier in the summer. There’s stuff going on, but it just doesn’t feel super exciting, and there’s way too much repetition.