NWA (JCP) World Championship Wrestling (February 28, 1987)

 

Original Airdate: February 28, 1987

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

NWA United States Champion Nikita Koloff is out right away, and he’s going so hard on the fake Russian accent this week that I honestly can’t even understand him. It’s just a bunch of rasping

Tully Blanchard and Lex Luger v Rick Sullivan and Chance McQuade: Crockett is very excited to compare Luger to various cats - in detail. They take forever with this one, before Luger finally ends it with a torture rack at 6:12. DUD

Jim Crockett Jr comes out to announce that, after many conversations with Jim Cornette’s mom’s lawyer, Jim will be reinstated. But, he’ll have to continue paying fines over the missing NWA United States title belts, and he’ll have to face Ron Garvin in a cage match

NWA World Tag Team Champions Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez, and they’d better be the number one seed in the Crockett Cup

Barry Windham v Thunderfoot II: Windham with a jumping clothesline at 2:58. DUD

NWA United States Tag Team Champions Barry Windham and Ron Garvin swing by, and Windham is ready to accept Jimmy Garvin as a friend. He’s Ron’s family, and that’s good enough for Barry

Brad Armstrong v Keith Vincent: The announcers are so hard up for stuff to talk about during this one that Crockett has to resort to saying hello to random people he met at recent live events. Armstrong with a Russian legsweep at 5:26. Afterwards, Brad and dad Bob swing by the desk, hyping up the Crockett Cup, which is coming up. DUD

Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez v Zane Smith and Jack Jackson: Rude press-drops one of the jobbers out of the ring during the opening blitz, and puts the other away at 0:26. Now that was a proper squash. ¼*

NWA World Champion Ric Flair is out, and kind of all over the map, but his main target: Precious. Who he’s fucking now, according to him

Tim Horner v Kent Glover: Crockett is back to talking about random fans, and I’m pretty sure he had an affair with a man in Pittsburgh. Horner with a bridging cradle at 6:04. Endless. DUD

NWA United States Women’s Champion Misty Blue Simmes is out, excited for the competition here in JCP

Jimmy Garvin v Thunderfoot: Garvin is a babyface now, but the gimmick hasn’t changed at all, which is kind of awesome, because it was such a hateable gimmick. It’s not like, say, Razor Ramon, where the gimmick worked even after a face turn, this is firmly a heel gimmick. Garvin takes way too long with it here, putting it away at 4:44. This needed to be a lot more impactful. DUD

Bobby Eaton v Larry Stephens: Dennis Condrey didn’t bail on the promotion until the next month, so I have no idea why we’re getting a Bobby Eaton singles match here. Bobby with a flying legdrop at 4:24. DUD

Recently, Crockett caught up with Dusty Rhodes in Pittsburgh, right after he’d won the Bunkhouse Stampede

Ron and Jimmy Garvin are out, and Jimmy is really glad to Ron is feeling better, because they’ve got some revenge to get. Jimmy also laughs off Flair’s claims about Precious earlier

Ron Garvin v Tommy Angel: Jimmy Garvin stays on commentary here, but he barely has time to say anything, before Ron knocks this sucker out at 0:27. DUD

Jim Cornette, Bobby Eaton, and Big Bubba Rogers are out, and Jim is cracking everyone up with his resort wear. You see, because he used his suspension as an excuse to take a vacation. Cornette notes that his cage match with Garvin may be signed on paper, but it doesn’t mean it’s ever actually going to happen

Big Bubba Rogers v George South: Bubba with a scrapbuster at 2:35, as Cornette sits in on commentary, and continues cracking everyone up. DUD

The Horsemen are out, gloating about all the fun they’ve been having out on tour

Arn Anderson and Ole Anderson v Randy Mulkey and Alan Martin: The Horsemen take forever, playing with their food, before Ole wraps up with an armbar at 6:40. Afterwards, the Horsemen go by the desk to continue their gloating, but things suddenly go bad when Tully Blanchard puts his foot in his mouth with Ole like he’s Billy Batts, and Ole decks him! JJ Dillon quickly gets between them, and we go to commercial, but obviously there is bad blood here. DUD

Misty Blue Simmes v Linda Dallas: The NWA United States Women’s title is not on the line for this. Misty knocks her around early on, but Dallas manages to get a headlock on. Misty makes the ropes, so Linda ropechokes her, and goes after the leg. A somersault cradles gets her two, and Dallas delivers a few facebusters from there. Misty gets an octopus hold on, but Blue escapes. Dallas climbs the ropes, but before she can dive, Misty slams her off, and then uses a snapmare into a chinlock. Dallas fights it off, so Misty gives her an airplane spin for two, and then goes back to the chinlock. Linda uses the hair to force a break, but Misty hits her with a dropkick, and a bodyslam gets her two. Back to the chinlock, as JJ Dillon comes out to complain that the announcers are ‘making a mountain out of a molehill’ with what happened earlier. Meanwhile, Misty scores the pin at  5:14 - though we don’t actually get to see it happen, since the camera is on JJ. They replay what happened earlier, but JJ again thinks that we’re all making too much of it, and that it’s all going to get smoothed over. ½*

Nikita Koloff v Vernon Deaton: The NWA United States title is not at stake. Not that Deaton has a chance anyway, as Koloff kills him with the Sickle at 1:03. DUD

JJ Dillon is back out, and he thinks this whole thing can be smoothed over if Ole just comes out here and apologizes to everyone for slugging Tully. Ole joins them, but instead of apologizing, he slaps JJ down too! That draws Blanchard back out to save, and it’s a big brawl as we go off the air

BUExperience: The Horsemen angle is interesting, the rest was pretty unimportant, but not dull.