NWA (JCP) World Championship Wrestling (August 30, 1986)

 

Original Airdate: August 30, 1986 (taped August 24)

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

Dick Murdoch v Mike Rose: I still can’t believe they billed a guy ‘Captain Redneck.’ What a world. Looks like they got a fresh, blue mat on the ring this week, but this studio still looks so low rent and shitty to me. I get that it was a different time though, and for the fans who grew up in that era, it’s incredibly nostalgic. Just as the early 90s WWF sets are to me. Murdoch at 1:48. DUD

New NWA National Champion Wahoo McDaniel is out, fresh off of defeating Tully Blanchard for the title in Los Angeles. Jim Crockett comes out to congratulate him, and also announces that the vacant NWA National Tag Team title is going to renamed as the United States Tag Team title, and that new champions will be crowned soon. They put it over here as a ‘renaming,’ but it started a new lineage in the process

The Kansas Jayhawks v Alan Martin and Randy Barber: The Jayhawks with a combo at 3:48. Bobby Jaggers should have formed a brother tag team with Michael Hayes. Afterwards, the Jayhawks swing by the desk, throwing a challenge out to the Midnight Express. DUD

Dick Murdoch is back out, and he definitely looks like the captain of rednecks, that’s for sure. He lives up to it. He’s gunning for Ric Flair’s NWA World title, which Cornette laughs off, imagining him nailing it to the back of a pickup truck

Wahoo McDaniel v Tony Zane: The NWA National title is not up for grabs here. Wahoo with the knife-edge chop at 2:39. DUD

The Midnight Express are out, and apparently Cornette has made up with Baby Doll, and he’s even letting her decorate his house

Sam Houston v Jack Weathers: Houston has had the weirdest will they/won’t they relationship with jobberhood. Sam with a bulldog at 3:17. DUD

Buddy Landel and Bill Dundee are out, and they’re a team now. Deal with it

The Rock 'n' Roll Express v Phil Brown and Lee Peek: The NWA World Tag Team title is not on the line for this. The Express with stereo dropkicks at 2:22. DUD

NWA World Champion Ric Flair is out, and he’s gotten Baby Doll matching aviators. Flair laughs off Murdoch’s challenge, since no one who calls himself ‘Captain Redneck’ is a threat to him

Buddy Landel and Bill Dundee v Rocky King and Vernon Deaton: Dundee practically takes the entire match just to get out of that complicated entrance getup he’s got. Bill with a flying seated senton splash at 3:43. He almost landed right on the poor dude’s head there. DUD

Retired baseball player Warren Spahn is out to say that he's having a fun time. Noted

The Russians are out, and man, it’s really lucky Barry Darsow got the Smash gig, because he never would have gotten over anywhere without it. So the drama this week is that Nikita Koloff got knocked out by Ron Garvin on a recent show, but it was just a sucker punch, so he’s not worked up about it

Jimmy Garvin v Rocky Kenodle: Two Rocky's?!? Kruger would have never allowed this shit. Garvin with a brainbuster at 7:34. How did he never kill anyone with that thing, wow. This was just so fucking long. Afterwards, Garvin swings by the desk to throw bad vibes at Magnum TA. DUD

Magnum and Dusty Rhodes are out, and they’re calling everyone whores. Baby Doll, Precious - all whores. Also, Baby Doll is fat. Babyfacing is something of an art, they say. Apparently 

Jimmy Valiant v Art Pritts: Valiant is now the ‘disco king.’ In 1986. How fun. Valiant with a backelbow and an elbowdrop at 2:01. DUD

Tully Blanchard and JJ Dillon are out, fuming over the loss of the National title

Arn and Ole Anderson are out, and they’re not too happy that the NWA is sanctioning the new US tag title, considering they were the final National tag champions, and they only ‘lost’ them because Ole got hurt, and they couldn’t defend

Arn Anderson and Ole Anderson v Henry Rutley and Italian Stallion: Cornette’s analysis: Stallion shouldn’t bother tagging out, because Henry looks like such a jobber, he’ll get slaughtered. Man tells it like it is. He was always an entertaining commentator, though so much better suited to this promotion than when he was calling WWF shows. Ole with a submission at 3:31. On Henry. Jim called it. DUD

The Road Warriors are out to hype an appearance in Columbus, Georgia tonight

Ric Flair v Mike Jackson: The NWA World title is not on the line here. Flair with the figure four at 8:09. Endless. Afterwards, Ric keeps the hold on so Baby Doll can come in and stomp Jackson to cement her heel turn, which is fun. ¼*

Nikita Koloff v Dave Spencer: The NWA United States title is not on the line for this. Koloff with the Sickle at 0:53. Nikita was good and pissed this week, just how we like him. DUD

Paul Jones and his Army are out, and check out the hat on Shaska. I like this dude. Anyway, they’re gonna shave heads everywhere they go. They should start charging money, could have a real Scrappy Coco thing going on in no time

Six-Man Tag Team Match: Shaska Whatley, Baron von Raschke, and Teijo Khan v Mark Cooper, Charles Freeman, and Johnie Cook: Well, at least they’re shuffling all the Army guys into a single match, because I am not about Baron single matches. Fuck that shit. Khan with a (sloppy) powerslam at 2:36. DUD

Murdoch is back out, and he one ups Dusty by calling Baby Doll a horse. Well, still nicer than what Dusty was saying, frankly. That draws the Horsemen out to stand up for her, but here come Rhodes, Magnum, and Ron Garvin to even the odds - and we get a big brawl to close the show

BUExperience: I just feel like shouting ‘GET TO THE FUCKING POINT ALREADY’ with this show pretty much every week. That’s not a good sign.