Mid South Wrestling Partial Episode 04-02-1981
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- Just under 32 minutes of very rare Mid-South Wrestling television footage.
Matches were taped in Shreveport, Louisiana, on April 2, 1981. Includes two local promos for a card in Chalmette, Louisiana.
Contents:
Opening montage
00:34: Opening comments: Boyd Pierce & Bill Watts
02:03: Singles Match: Mike Hudspeth vs. Don Diamond
06:32: Tag Match: Larry Booker/Hans Van Brauner vs. Dick Murdoch/Junkyard Dog
08:43: Local Promo: St. Bernard Civic Center, Chalmette, La.: Ernie Ladd & "Bad" Leroy Brown (with Reisor Bowden)
11:42 Tag Match: The Grappler (North American and Mississippi State Champion)/Super Destroyer with Frank Dusek vs. Kelly Kiniski/Ashura Hara
16:57: Local Promo: St. Bernard Civic Center, Chalmette, La.: Dick Murdoch & Junkyard Dog (with Reisor Bowden)
19:52: Louisiana State Title Match: "Bad" Leroy Brown vs. Jim Garvin (champion)
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This stuff was lightning in a bottle!! Action! Emotion! People who you invested in on a deep level, and the theme music-! My heart would be in my throat. It was special.🙏🏾❤️
Everything you said!! We didn’t know what we had!!
Thank you sooooooo much for posting these videos. It takes me back to my childhood when I became a wrestling fan. So many memories!! Wow!!!!
Pls play more of these very vintage Mid South Wrestling
It's questionable whether they exist anymore. Many early episodes were wiped because videotape was too expensive at the time to keep, so the tapes were reused instead. A number of 1981 episodes were licensed to a company which aired them on ESPN about 30 years ago and have not resurfaced since. Many other early episodes were taped off the air by people in the New Orleans area, who didn't digitize them before losing them to Katrina.
Back in those days pro wrestling was in EVERY small town in Mississippi and Louisiana. Watts was an excellent promoter. He realized he needed a black babyface to be way over with fans in the deep south. He had JYD. JYD would sellout the Superdome in New Orleans. In those days 20,000 people at a wrestling match was amazing. Ernie Ladd was a tremendous heel that knew the business and how to put people over.
This is when I started watching Mid South. I remember when it opened with We Are the Champions. I was so hooked as kid
That's what I'm looking for more of. The We Are The Champions episodes. When Paul Orndorf was a baby face and Buck Robley was teaming up with JYD.
I just love old school wrestling! Thanks for uploading this!
Episodes from this time are hard to find. Great upload!
I thought I would NEVER see this classic intro again!!! Thanks Sparks3rdCoast. I would come from Chicago to Jackson MS to visit my grandmother and one highlight was watching OG Mid South Wrestling on WJTV 12 and later WAPT 16.
I hated it when WAPT took it over due to us nat having cable and the educational channel out of Bude interfered with it.
This better today wwe. Back mid south bill watts wouldn't put up with trash like c.m punk. He threw match with big boys like Brody . or jyd. .or slap slapped him himself. Watts didn't put up with body.
@Fredicago Illanoise Thanks for your comment, I enjoy learning about the history of the constantly evolving landscape of pro wrestling on TV. This era of Mid-South was well before my time, but knowing the history of Mid-South on Jackson TV gives my experience new perspective.
I also had grandparents in Jackson, and we visited them once every summer. I was the only one in the family that watched wrestling. My grandparents might watch Lawrence Welk or Grand Ole Opry on a Saturday, but I never knew them to watch any wrestling. After I became a teenager, I started bringing a portable B&W TV on vacations, and a typical Saturday in Jackson circa. 1999-2000 would look like:
WXMS-LP ch. 27:
WWF Metal and WCW Worldwide, 12:00 pm-2:00 pm
WBMS-CA "UPN 10":
ECW Hardcore 5 pm-6 pm
Ultimate Pro Wrestling (classic territory matches) 8:30 pm-9:00 pm
Memphis Championship Wrestling 9:00 pm-10:00 pm
NWA Wildside 10:00 pm-11:00 pm
Xtreme Pro Wrestling 11:00 pm-midnight
Then at 2 am, WXMS replayed WWF Metal, followed immediately after by Jakked. (Before WXMS got WWF and WCW programming, I know from old Clarion-Ledger clippings that WLBT had WCW Worldwide Saturdays at noon, and Fox 40 used to run WWF Metal Saturday at 9 pm).
So, I'm not sure what the 601 is like today, but historically it has been a hotbed for pro wrestling, probably thanks a lot to the creative mind of Bill Watts and his roster of athletes.
I'd love to see the original intro also.
@@mc12358 Do you remember a promotion named Deep South Wrestling? It ran during the 90s and many of the old Mid South talent gravitated to it. It didn't last for long but it seemed they tried to bring back the old magic we once enjoyed when Mid South was in it's prime.
Haven't seen this opening in years. THANK YOU!!!!
You took the words out of my mouth!! My cousins and i would sing the song by Queen along with the intro. I'm from Chicago and the AWA and Bob Luce were good but not nearly as wild and entertaining as Mid South. I would go to Mississippi to visit family during holidays and to spend summer vacation and NEVER missed an episode. Iwould tell my classmates "you haven't seen wrestling until you've checked out this Mid South...but it's not on up here....HAHAHA!!"
There were some really good feuds in Mid-South around this time. Everyone hated Ladd and Leroy Brown, but their interviews were legendary and were usually talked about for days. People were furious that all the belts were held by the heels as Garvin lost it soon after this taping. The Grappler held the North American title seems like for years, but he and JYD had some classic matches. That was one of the few times I saw JYD get pinned cleanly by a heel. I really miss this time in Wrestling and feel lucky to have seen all of this first run and in person at house shows.
The Grappler was the greatest. He had the greatest move.."HE'S LOADING THE BOOT!!!!". He would just kick the ground to position the "hidden steel in his boot" to move it from the heel to the front of his boot......such a simple gimmick...genius!....My dad and i would crack up when he would do it..we'd both yell out "HE'S LOADING THE BOOT!!!"....when we would play wrestle I would do that on him and he would laugh...hed go "oh no!!..HE'S LOADING THE BOOT!!!"
You are lucky to have such a cool dad. My old man would stutter step into the den all drunk and look at the me,look at the TV and see wrestling. He would get that drunk snarl and say,”you’re watching that stupid fake bullshit again?” I would have to leave so he could watch the only TV for the 5-10 minutes it would take for him to pass out. Then I would sneak back in and put Mid-South back on. Good times!
Boyd Pierce wearing one of his classic outfits.
Reeser Bowden doing the local promos
10:36 Anybody notice the announcer corpseing when Big Cat mentioned washing Murdoch?
JYD & Murdock...The ORIGINAL Dudley Boys! 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for posting this! I had a memory of one of the wrestling shows when I was little having "We Are The Champions" as the intro. I wasn't sure if it was Mid South or Southwest which both aired in my area. I mainly caught up with Mid-South in 83 when they had a different intro. This is cool!
Just three months before this taping, Don Diamond was wrestling Tatsumi Fujinami at MSG. Interesting how he had such a powerful push for such a brief time yet pretty much faded into obscurity.
I haven’t heard his name in forever. I found this clip,watched it and it brought back memories. Don Diamond! What ever happened to Don Diamond?
@@lodi70005 A reply to the same query on FB said that he did prison time. I don't know any more than that.
This is great!!! Thank you!! I was at that match in Chalmette they were talking about. JYD!!!
Great stuff
Wow ! This is real old school ! Early 1980s !
Awesome!!
any more midsouth from this era?
Awesome! Please tell us you have some more Mid South from this period!
Mickey Burgess Unfortunately, I do not.
Keep em going
The Super Destroyer is Wild Bill Irwin's older brother Scott .
The Dog 🐕 got New Orleans. Murdock got Chalmette. Because even Chalmette loved JYD!! Understanding the territory, freakin genius!!!
Don't you mean Charlotte?
That was a really "odd" shaped territory before they added Oklahoma and Arkansas---just Louisiana and Mississippi
It was just two states until around 1982 was then Oklahoma and later Arkansas added to the territory going north and south in Louisiana back was herrendous between Shreveport and Lafayette before Interstate 49 was built up to Alexandria, Louisiana you had to use US 167 and La Hwy . 1 . But it was a great wrestling territory . I have some great Superdome shows, Municipal Auditorium was jumping back in the day , plus St Bernard Cultural Center too later the UNO Lakefront Arena also had wrestling shows there too .
Another footnote they expanded in Oklahoma after Leroy Mc Guirk went out of business when they were running Oklahoma City and Tulsa by 1981.
@@lesliemiros6743 To this day--they still haven't built a "diagonal" interstate highway from Shreveport to Oklahoma City, and probably never will. That would/would've solved a lot of logistical problems!
Pure entertainment
Leroy suge knight brown?🤔
Tony Charles was a 5'7" wrestling machine .
Do you have any more Mid-South you can upload? This is great. Most anything before December 1981 isn't in circulation, and there are very few local promos available, as well, especially before Spring-Summer '84. Thanks!
David Bixenspan I do have some local promos from ‘82 and/or ‘83 buried in my VHS stash, but I don’t know how much of it might be “new” to people. I’ve already passed some from this cassette on to the Booking the Territory TH-cam channel, though I need to upgrade the quality now that I can & have BTT repost them.
@@shawn12280 I'm not sure if Mike uploaded all of those? We'd all love to see whatever you have. Thanks!
Apparently Leroy Brown is a big, fat "flapoon"? Whatever that may be?! At least according to Dick Murdoch.
These promos just blow away anything that's put out these days.
So True!!
Good looking belt
I love the intro
It was used between 1979-1981before they started using Star Cycle .
Seen a shoot on Jimmy Garvin he bald and unrecognizable. Great wrestler.turned pilot still married to precious his real wife.
Getting olds a bitch . I kmow cuz I am old
His hair was short by 1995 then eventually lost his hair overtime.
Never seen a buffed out Jimmy Garvin...💪
Do you have the JYD/Kabuki match?.
I watched that on tv when it happened..i was like 11 or 12....that was big stuff back then.
Saw Stagger Lee vs Kabuki in Chalmette once, and Lee spit Red mist on Kabuki and won...
Murdoch took Dog to a Clan meeting
OMG LOL! 😂😂😂
well..he was in the klan.
There is all kind of Louisiana inside lingo in that promo. Murdoch mentions bringing JYD to his stomping grounds in Chalmette,La. Chalmette is the area known in the New Orleans metro area as being the White Trash capital. When Murdoch talks about “whipping” Ladd and Brown then letting his friends “whip” them,I can hear those dog whistles going off. The thing is Ladd was the smartest man in that company. He didn’t care as long as they drew a big house. Ladd was probably way smarter than Watts and he should have owned Mid South as he was from Louisiana. However,a black man wasn’t going to have the friends in high places required to run a kayfabe territory back in the day. You needed small town political connections and I’m sure Watts spent lots of time flying people around in that personal jet he spoke of.
Then Dog took Murdoch to the Hood where he'd be lucky to get out alive. LOL
@@lodi70005 ? Ernie Ladd had connections to the Bush family among others
Oh wow, very wow. I'm shocked. Thank you so very much mate. Glad you uploaded it.
Also, I have never seen this opening before. Was that a legit opening?
Captain Cat That was the opening montage from late (at least September, because that’s when Grappler started loading his boot) 1980 through sometime in ‘81. They switched to the “Star Cycle” intro by December ‘81, but I have no idea when exactly.
I’m told there was another opening before this one that was identical except with different match clips. I would’ve been too young to remember or probably even notice.
That intro was used from 1979 to 1982 in tribute to the tag team of JYD and Buck Robley
Confirmed opening.. I think there was this song as the opening, then the guitar solo from ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid," and then Jeff Beck's "Star Cycle"
@@OnTheRun167 I wonder what the Blues-style music from 1985-87 was
@@OnTheRun167 "Just Got Paid".....I recognize that from Power Pro!
Trevor from nwa power looks just like his dad. I do miss the masked wrestlers
Trevor's actually no relation to Dick. He took Murdoch as a ring name after Harley Race pointed out the resemblance.
11:28, when you see your Black friend at the country western bar!😂😂😂
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creoleDJ:Charlie Pride?!!
@@mikethomas2641 uh...Ray Charles?!!!
@@mikethomas2641 mmm....Darius Rucker??!!!
@@creoleDJ Nah!! Placido Domingo.
8:45 > All wwe shit right now.
Does anyone recall a midsouth wrestler..a white dude..and he would do a slow stomp, one foot at a time, walking forward while he was being introduced. It wasnt a wrestling move...it was just a pre match move he would do. For the life of me I cant think of his name. He never got "mega famous" in wrestling or even in mid south wrestling...he was a mid level dude.
Baron Karl Von Krupp
@@bluelight3982 it was Precious Paul Ellering,
"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan (Doogan) or Paul Ellering .
@@lesliemiros6743 It was Precious Paul i was thinking of.
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en wrestling wasn t a car
When n wrestling was good