The Debut of "Piper's Pit" WWF Championship Wrestling 1/28/84 This is the beginning of the best/1st interview promo weekly segment ever! For the next three years almost every important angle came thru "The Pit! Roddy was simply made for this! The Old show " Victory Corner" and it's dead broom of a host Robert Derbord begin the segment and also mention that Victory magazine will now be called WWF magazine. Piper gets the mic, thanks this stammering fool, then calls him gutless a cowerd and stupid! Piper says He would rather hear Lassie bark than Ivan Putski sing,Putski often did this after matches on the house mic, a good line by Roddy. The 1st of many! He insults more guys and then just walks off! This is worth seeing!  https://youtu.be/is2DT3aKrLE Now for a dramatic change of pace, AJPW TV, 1/28/86 Match#1 We begin with what I now think of as "The Great Kabuki squash of the week" segment. This week's victim Steve O. They show Kabuki...

Mid-South Wrestling Tv, weekend of 1/28/84 As the show begins Bill Watts and Jim Ross talk about the fact that today on Television The Midnight Express will face Wrestling II and Magnum TA but, in a non title bout! Jim Cornette says in a pre tape promo that he was to happy to have the bout and his team signed the contract before they realized it was non-title. He said that fun and games were done and by the end of the match his team would be taken seriously!...The ring announcer Boyd Pierce deserves special mention here for two things, 1st when Cornette grabs the mic to introduce his team, Boyd shoots him a look that is half anger half disgust! It is subtle but great. 2nd When II/Ta hit the ring Boyd starts to introduce them but they attack and Boyd says" and I'm Leaving" into the mic you sense his honest fear for his safety! Such great stuff! The match is super "hot"with the crowd from the bell! After sending the heels out of the ring to begin on fire. II/TA...

Author's Note I somehow missed a NJPW match from 1/20/84, So let's start there! Match #1 Black Tiger/Cobra vs Davey Boy Smith and The Dynamite Kid If you know anything about these four grapplers you come into seeing it with high expectations. Those were met! Wow just constant action! Everybody was crisp and stiff and in the right place at the right time! Davey Boy really stood out in the match. At one point Cobra monkey flipped him and he landed on his feet right behind Cobra. It was a tremendous catlike maneuver. Then he presses Cobra over his head and hurls him out over the top rope with ease. My only real complaint about the match it had no ring psycology at all, guys would tag in do something devastating and let his opponent just make the tag! The one story of the bout was Dynamite Kid avoiding Cobra each time the white mask came in DK would tag out! Finish saw Davey and Cobra fight out past the safety rails. While in the ring Black Tiger sets up for what i believe was go...

Author's note: There was a little person tag match on this portion of the show I could not find. Commentators Monson and Patterson Match #1 IC title match Champion Don Muraco vs Tito Santana A very easy match to review. In a 20 minute bout after a few stalemate lockups, Santana put on a headlock for basicly 15 minutes! Muraco only got out twice for a half a minute eace time! Finally after Muraco got the upperhand they had a 5 minute brawl,(at one point Captain Lou, Don's manager got in the ring and got involed and the ref didn't call for a DQ(very odd) Santana sends Albanio out of the ring the match continues for another minute and then the ref signals DQ! Somebody messed this up badly! The fight on the floor Muraco grabs his title and takes off! Strange bout One very long babyface rest hold, almost non-existant heat then what lookled like a botched finish! Well here it is folks Hulk Hogan's WWF title match vs Champion The Iron Sheik! Long articles can, and have bee...

MSG House Show 1/23/84 Part 1 Commentators Pat Patterson and Gorilla Monsoon  Match #1 Tony Garea vs Jose Luis Rivera The opening match in front of a crowd of 26,282 in the garden.(not counting all the folks downstairs at The Felt Forum Watching via Closed Circut)! They tried to give the card a mat based face vs face opener! I gotta be honest it was not the best I have seen fron eithier man! It was clunky and badly timed in spots! There was one nice squence early on. A multiple headlock takeover escape repeat spot that was very good! However there was also a spot Were Garea was going for a backdrop and I assume Rivera got his wires crossed and tried a dropkick on a bent over Garea! This was bad Garea who took the awful dropkick attempt, still got up 1st! I think they called this match in ring! Rivera did hit a beauty of an O'Connor roll for a two count! Finish came when Garea rolled thru a blind crossbody from the middle turnbuckle by Rivera! The ref took around 8 hours to count ...

Mid-Atlantic Wrestling TV 1/21/84.....Match#1 The Assassins vs Rufus R Jones and Dory Funk JR,(the most random mis-matched tag team ever??) Very basic tv match but good crowd heat After JR makes the "hot"(In the very broadest sense of the term this was more lumbering luke warm tag.) He hits simple shoulder tackles(Johnny Weaver at ringside screams the Freight Train..The Freight Train). Rufus gets double teamed then and throw outside. Where off camera Paul Jones does "something to him..? By the time the camera gets there Paul Jones, the manager of the Assassins,  is smiling walking away and poor Rufus is in a heap on the floor. Meanwhile JR is getting just beat down by a double team in the ring. Out of nowhere Jimmy Valiant hits the ring,a longtime nemesis of Paul Jones army, Chashes Jones around the ring. Then in it, He lays waste to both masked villians then rips the mask off of one of thier heads! Paul Jones grabs this one covers his face with his coat and the heels ta...

Maple Leaf Gardens TV 1/21/84 This was an odd, flat really tired feeling show. I know Toronto was kind of neutral ground during the budding war between Vince and Crockett, but with things in that state instead of feeling fresh and new this show feels like an utter afterthought! Old well known veteran wrestler Billy Red Lyons does commentary over matches clearly taped for Mid-Atlantic Wrestling from God knows when(except for the last match and I will get to that and go off in a minute trust me). I like Billy Red doing play-by-play with Monsoon from MLG on prime time wrestling as a kid. He was however not giving two shits about any of the matches! I love move description commentary(I have done commentary quite a few times for indy groups  here in my home state of Kentucky and it is what I like to do! Make it seem sports based. But Billy red here drones on and on in a monotone and then will say nothing at all for what feels like hours! Plus the production here felt ICW low rent! They ...