The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 05.03.86

The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 05.03.86

It’s Crockett Cup fallout week! The Road Warriors have beaten Magnum TA & Ronnie Garvin to claim the trophy and $1 million.

Taped from South Carolina

Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Johnny Weaver

Jim Cornette joins us to start and wants to stress that the Road Warriors didn’t beat the Midnights, so their win proves NOTHING. Also Dusty Rhodes’ fanbase is a bunch of welfare cases, and Jim wishes that Dusty’s father was still alive so he could stamp his welfare card and send him on his way.

Wahoo McDaniel v. Mike Simiani

Wahoo puts him out with chops at 0:30.

Tony Schiavone joins us to recap the Crockett Cup and we get still photo highlights. Or you can watch mostly the full show right here on the WWE Network or whatever it’s called these days.

National champion Tully Blanchard v. Rocky Kernodle

Rocky gets some shine on Tully and slugs away in the corner, setting up a flying headscissor takedown for two. But then he chases after JJ like a moron and Tully nails him from behind and puts him away with the slingshot suplex at 1:00. So much for all the offense that Uncle Ivan gave Kernodle last week.

Arn Anderson joins us and calls Ricky Morton’s brutal beating “a candygram to the rest of the world” and Tully points out that Rocky Kerndole was getting too uppity and needed to be slapped down and taught a lesson.

NWA World tag team champions the Midnight Express v. George South & Ron Rossi

After a brief flirtation with matching gear a couple of weeks back, Bobby and Dennis are back to doing their own thing again this week. Dennis drops Bobby on Rossi with a legdrop to finish at 0:53.

Dusty Rhodes is NOT AMUSED at Jim Cornette taking shots at Dusty’s dead daddy, who is off plumbing in Heaven right now. So Dusty takes us back to the Omni, as the Horsemen face the Rock N Roll Express and Dusty in an elimination six-man, with Flair and Morton the last two. And Morton pins Flair with a small package to win the match clean, at which point we cut to the dressing room afterwards as Flair attacks the Horsemen rub Ricky’s face on the concrete, smearing a line of blood on the ground. Hence why Ricky was wearing a facial appliance for the next while.

Jim Cornette joins us again, and he’s pretty sure that the Midnight Express were both born in America, so how come THEY’RE not “America’s Team”?

Ronnie Garvin joins us, having reinjured his hand in the Crockett Cup, which is why they lost the match to the Road Warriors.

The Rock N Roll Express v. Vern Deaton & Tony Zane

Ricky isn’t even dressed to wrestle, sporting bandages on his face like he’s Darkman, so Robert gets to work this one by himself. He controls Deaton with a facelock and slugs away in the corner before taking him down with a chinlock. Zane seems to have not appeared for the match, so I guess this is just a singles match. The announcers never really address that, and Robert finishes with the Ricky Gibson cradle/Last Supper at 3:08.

The Rock N Roll Express joins us and Ricky shows off his badass bandaged face and he’s pretty sure Ric Flair is JEALOUS because Rock N Roll is here to stay. To be fair they were both still working on a regular basis 20 years later so really they were both here to stay in a manner of speaking.

Ric Flair offers his rebuttal, and now we get a real good looking man after having to look at the scarred freak in the last segment. Basically Ric notes that it’s Morton’s own fault for trying to leave his lane and challenging Flair. And if he wants to keep getting in Flair’s business, he can ask Big Dust how it felt to get carried out on a stretcher on a broken leg. And now Morton is so ugly that the all the girls will holler Space Mountain instead of Rock N Roll.

Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin v. Todd Bradford

No Precious this week, so Garvin doesn’t have his usual gear for the entrance, what with no one to remove it for him. Bradford, who I believe is the future Todd Champion, works a headlock on Garvin, but he misses a blind charge and gets pinned with a rollup at 1:13. Kind of a weird finish to a squash match.

Ronnie Garvin joins us again and he wants to touch Flair’s body in a manner that Ric isn’t gonna like. Perhaps he’s been too nice. Perhaps he’s been too much of a sportsman and it’s time to beat their faces in with a 2×4. Well that would certainly be a change from sportsmanship.

Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin joins us and Precious has been sitting out at the reservation waiting for Wahoo to show up for FIVE HOURS so he can sign the contract. But he hasn’t shown up yet. But he’ll keep us updated.

World TV title: Arn Anderson v. Don Kernodle

The announcers point out that Kernodle is something of a step up from Arn’s usual TV title opponents on this show, mostly because he’s ducking the big stars. Also they begin working the new “NWA Pro Wrestling” name in again as this show comes to a close in two weeks. Kernodle goes after the arm on the ropes and works a headlock, and then puts the boots to AA and follows with a back suplex. Arn takes him down and beats on the arm himself, but uses more cheating to do so while Tommy Young does a wonderful job of acting befuddled by everything going on around him. Kernodle catches Arn with a sleeper, but they end up in the ropes to break it. Kernodle with a suplex and he drops a knee for two. Arn dumps him to buy time and they slug it out back in the ring as TV time expires at 7:35 to end the show. Decent match, didn’t really go anywhere.

This week was all about Ricky Morton as Mid-Atlantic winds down for good with 2 weeks left before the changeover.