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Post by chronocross on Oct 15, 2019 15:59:16 GMT -5
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 15, 2019 21:51:42 GMT -5
Has any UWF era Mid South been uploaded yet?
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Post by cjh on Oct 15, 2019 22:00:37 GMT -5
Has any UWF era Mid South been uploaded yet? Just two episodes of the B-show Power Pro. No episodes of the main show after the name change are up.
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Post by BRAINFADE on Oct 16, 2019 2:09:17 GMT -5
Brilliant news, I'm currently loving watching Mid South (I'm currently a few weeks removed from the Dibiase heel turn in 82), so knowing it'll last a bit longer is great.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 16, 2019 3:23:44 GMT -5
The next half year or so is legitimately my favorite time period of any promotion, ever. Y'all are in for some treats.
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Post by BRAINFADE on Oct 16, 2019 5:23:01 GMT -5
The next half year or so is legitimately my favorite time period of any promotion, ever. Y'all are in for some treats. I've heard so much good stuff about it, can't wait to watch it.
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Post by cabbageboy on Oct 16, 2019 12:28:50 GMT -5
Yeah this is what I'm talking about. I've been going through a Mid-South withdrawal since I finished the current batch of episodes. I do have to admit Mid-South seemed to hit the wall a bit after the Duggan/Dibiase zaniness. It was like Dundee was out of ideas as booker. We'll see if it picks up a bit. The only thing I've seen from the 2nd half of 1985 is the Dibiase/Flair deal. Does he ever have a reconciliation with Duggan?
When did Mid-South move the tapings to Oklahoma? I've seen bits and pieces of it and the production was better but it lost a certain gritty charm. And let's face it, without Boyd Pierce it just wasn't Mid-South (which I guess is appropriate since they changed to UWF).
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Post by chronocross on Oct 16, 2019 12:49:23 GMT -5
Yeah this is what I'm talking about. I've been going through a Mid-South withdrawal since I finished the current batch of episodes. I do have to admit Mid-South seemed to hit the wall a bit after the Duggan/Dibiase zaniness. It was like Dundee was out of ideas as booker. We'll see if it picks up a bit. The only thing I've seen from the 2nd half of 1985 is the Dibiase/Flair deal. Does he ever have a reconciliation with Duggan? When did Mid-South move the tapings to Oklahoma? I've seen bits and pieces of it and the production was better but it lost a certain gritty charm. And let's face it, without Boyd Pierce it just wasn't Mid-South (which I guess is appropriate since they changed to UWF). I think they started to move out of the Boys Club in late 85-early 86 to bigger arenas which came across really well on TV as the crowds were hot for just about everything.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Oct 17, 2019 18:20:26 GMT -5
The next half year or so is legitimately my favorite time period of any promotion, ever. Y'all are in for some treats. Word! In fact for many years here my screen name was "UWF circa 1986"
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Post by cjh on Oct 20, 2019 14:01:31 GMT -5
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Post by wrestlefan2 on Oct 20, 2019 18:02:03 GMT -5
This drop takes it to the last show at Irish McNeil Boys Club as I have seen that episode and it is mentioned in the broadcast and it is the last of the 101 volume Mid South set the Watts family sold before selling to WWE. So by my count that leaves only 12 Mid South shows before the change to UWF so perhaps next upload they may do the last 12 and then the first 20 or so UWF
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 20, 2019 20:31:36 GMT -5
Mid-South Wrestling 06/29/1985 [Duration: 00:42:07] Ted DiBiase & “Dr. Death” Steve Williams put their Mid-South Tag Team Titles on the line against the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express. “Dirty” Dutch Mantell challenges “The Snowman” for the Mid-South TV Championship. Plus, General Skandor Akbar’s team of Kamala & “The Zambui Express” Kareem Muhammad put their dominance on display. I have not watched it since the day it aired, but I'm 99% positive this is the first time I ever saw wrestling on TV outside my own home. Fairly certain it was at my friend Kerry's house, but that Kareem/Kamala squash is the first moment it dawned on me that other kids - and kids I knew - were watching this stuff too.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 15, 2019 14:12:50 GMT -5
If WWE would ever get up all the Mid South/UWF tv on the Network I would subscribe for months to watch it all again. I got a huge collection of Mid South/UWF tv. Lots of it made from my old betamax recordings that I got transferred to DVD. But being able to watch Mid South/UWF tv complete easily would make me spend money on WWE stuff for the first time in years.
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Post by cabbageboy on Jan 19, 2020 19:17:27 GMT -5
The next half year or so is legitimately my favorite time period of any promotion, ever. Y'all are in for some treats. I just got to the famed Nov. 1985 shows and even 34+ years later the Dibiase/Flair match and the angle left me emotionally stunned when it was over. But there were so many moving parts leading up to it that the match just being on the Mid-South DVD didn't do it justice. They had dropped kernels of stuff here and there for months: Dibiase refusing Flair's bounty money to take out Terry Taylor earlier in the year ("I want Flair's title not his money!"), Murdoch's subtle heel turn over the previous 2 months (cutting off Butch Reed in a promo, the two men brawling over a misunderstanding, frustrations over losing the North American title to Reed), Flair putting the bounty on Reed and Slater's "Is he or isn't he collecting?" bit. I might have had a bit where Gilbert and Nightmare took out Al Perez to pave the way for Reed to face Flair on the one show where Flair and Slater took out Reed. As it is Perez just...wasn't there? There definitely was a change in booking around that time, since I think Dundee went back to Memphis in either late Sept. or early Oct. 1985. The show got very serious and darker in tone, more adult, even early use of expanding things into showing backstage areas and brawling in the back of the arena. To be honest I think Dundee was a bit out of gas as a booker by then, since they missed the peak of the whole Duggan vs. Akbar and Co. angle (just have Watts and Duggan get rid of Akbar and his men at the Aug. Superdome card, and don't do the silly bit of Watts as the Midnight Rider, which went nowhere). I notice they always kinda miss the peak with the Akbar angles though. His guys run roughshod and then just sorta leave. I swear on the one episode when Jake Roberts brought out the bag I thought "Whoa, is the debut of Damian?" But no, it was just a wacky hockey mask to combat Lord Humongous.
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