Author: Halbert Richardson

The Midnight Express, along with Jim Cornette, had long been considered one of professional wrestling’s greatest tag teams. They had two different incarnations, the first with Beautiful Bobby Eaton and Lover Boy Dennis Condry. Sweet Stan Lane replaced Condry, but both versions won tag team gold in various promotions in the southeast. True tag team specialists Midnight Express didn’t invent tandem offense, but they honed it better than most; they had more than two or three tag team finishers to take out opponents. The Midnight Express – Elite Before Elite Trending In the era of pre-taped shows and studio wrestling,…

Junkyard Dog, or “JYD” as most fans greeted him, was one of the most charismatic superstars of the eighties. He worked for Mid-South Wrestling and “Cowboy” Bill Watts before going to the World Wrestling Federation in 1984. ___________________ Born Sylvester Ritter on December 13, 1952, he was a college football player who gained great acclaim as an All-American Honorable Mention while playing for Fayetteville State University. Though the Green Bay Packers drafted him, injuries derailed his professional football career before it ever really took off. After debuting in Tennessee, J.Y.D. worked for world-class promoters like Jerry Jarrett and Stu Hart…

When WWE Champion Kofi Kingston and Randy Orton battled at SummerSlam 2019, it brought memories of a feud they shared years earlier. They were both early in their WWE careers. More specifically, a brawl, not an actual match that took place between the two in 2009 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. in what would be a signature moment in his very young career, Kofi Kingston delivered a massive Boom Drop to Randy Orton, who had been laid out on a table. Kofi claimed that Randy Orton used his backstage influence to quell any kind of upward momentum for him…

The Fabulous Freebirds were one of professional wrestling’s most original groundbreaking tag teams trios. They debuted in 1980 for Georgia Championship Wrestling. The original team included Michael “P.S” Hayes, Buddy “Jack” Roberts, and Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy.  Early Years Though they debuted in Georgia Championship Wrestling, they achieved most of their success with Fritz Von Erich’s World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW.) in Dallas. Their feud with the Von Erichs (David, Kevin, Kerry, and Chris) in the mid-’80s was one of wrestling’s greatest rivalries. They also had brief stints with Bill Watts’ Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF.), Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association…

Caprice Coleman retains AML Championship. The main event of AML Presents Mass Hysteria featured its champion, Caprice Coleman, defending his title against the ACEGAWD Arik Royal.Coleman would make an early and unscheduled appearance on the card during an undercard match between Brad Attitude and JB Cole. Brad clearly had Cole defeated but pulled his opponent’s shoulders off the mat to break the referee’s count. He then mounted and started to pummel Cole relentlessly. The referee called for the disqualification bell, but Brad didn’t care. Caprice Coleman hit the ring to make the save. The champ kept Royal off-balance with an…

The main event of the evening saw AML Future Stars Division Champion Zuka King defend his title against Gustavo Aguilar. Gustavo brought the crowd to its feet with his electric entrance. The Latin sensation also passed out a few flowers to some of the young ladies in the audience. In what may have been the biggest “aww” moment of the night, a young fan walked up to get a flower from Gustavo, who’d just given out his last; realizing he was out, he took off his derby and handed her the flower that had been pinned to it. That got…

The wrestling conspiracy theorists can continue their coverage on that topic. However, it is impossible to talk about WCCW without mentioning them, seeing as though their father, Fritz Von Erich, ran the promotion and booked his boys in the main event every week. Viewing WCCW in this sort of time bubble also helped me remember and appreciate the simplicity of professional wrestling’s storytelling back in the 80’s-straight-up good guys versus bad guys. Here we discover the evolution of tough Terry ‘Bam Bam’ Gordy. ______________ Terry Bam Bam Gordy – The Evolution of Tough The Fabulous Freebirds were comprised of Michael…

Monday Night Raw Rebound for 5/18/20 opened with a replay of Becky Lynch’s announcement from last week. Charley Caruso was in the ring and talked about Randy Orton’s challenge to Edge the previous week. Randy Orton came to the ring and reiterated what he told Edge last week. Orton was not the better man at WrestleMania, but he is still the better wrestler. He said that the WWE stands for World Wrestling Entertainment, so his challenge to Edge for a straight-up wrestling match isn’t so fetched. Edge came down to ringside to answer the problem. He said wrestling was Randy’s backup plan,…

Monday Night Raw opens with a video montage of the results of last night’s Money In The Bank pay-per-view. Smackdown’s Otis and Raw’s Asuka won the men’s and women’s briefcases respectively. And we’ll close out the show with an Orton & Edge face off in the middle of the ring! All this and more in the RAW Rebound edition for 5/11/20.Raw Women’s Champion “The Man” Becky Lynch came out with the Women’s Money In The Bank briefcase. She told the WWE Universe that she had to go away for a while. Asuka came out screaming at her for stealing the…

Monday Night Raw comes to us again from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando. The last Raw before Sunday’s Money in the Bank Pay-per-view opened with MVP. in the ring ready to conduct his VIP Lounge.  Asuka, Nia Jax, and Shayna Baszler were his guests and will represent Raw in the Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match after winning their qualifying matches last week. Murphy vs Drew McIntyre is the featured match on tonight’s episode. Will Murphy vs McIntyre spell the end of the Scottish Psychopath tonight? MVP asked each of the women about how they planned to win…