1986 CROCKETT CUP TAG TEAM
TOURNAMENT 4/9/86 [24/7] (3 Disks)
Disk 1
First Round
1.
The Fabulous Ones v. The
Fantastics
2.
Koko B. Ware & Buzz
Sawyer & Rick Steiner
3.
Brett Wayne & DJ Peterson
v. Black Bart & Jimmy Garvin
Second Round
4.
Midnight Express (Eaton &
Condrey) v. Nelson Royal & Sam Houston
5.
Ron Garvin & Magnum TA v.
Buzz Sawyer & Rick Steiner
Disk 2
1.
Road Warriors v. Wahoo
McDaniel & Mark Youngblood
2.
Jimmy Valiant & Manny
Fernandez v. Ivan & Nikita Koloff
3.
Rock & Roll Express v.
Sheepherders
4.
Tully Blanchard & Arn
Anderson v. The Fantastics
5.
Tigermask II & Giant Baba
v. Black Bart & Jimmy Garvin
6.
Road Warriors v. Midnight
Express
Disk 3
Quarter Finals
1.
Steve Williams & Terry
Taylor v. Ivan & Nikita Koloff (Draw)
2.
Sheepherders v. Fantastics (DDQ)
3.
Tigermask II & Giant Baba v. Ron Garvin & Magnum TA
4.
Jim Duggan v. Dick Slater (Mid South North American Title match)
5.
Ric Flair v. Dusty Rhodes (NWA World Title Match)
6.
Road Warriors v. Ron
Garvin & Magnum TA (Because quarter-finals matches 2 & 3 ended without a
winner, this
match became the final match in the tournament.)
CROCKETT
CUP '86 (VERY GOOD QUALITY) 2HRS
No
Sound
1.
Wahoo McDaniel & Mark Youngblood vs. Bobby Jaggers &
Mike
Miller
2.
Sam Houston & Nelson Royal vs. Bart & Brad Batten
3.
Jimmy Valiant & Manny Fernandez vs. Barbarian & Baron Von
Raschke
4.
Terry Taylor & Steve Williams vs. Buddy Landel & Bill
Dundee
5.
The Sheepherders vs. Hector & Chavo Guerrero
6.
The Fantastics vs. The Fabulous Ones
7.
Rick Steiner & Buzz Sawyer vs. Koko Ware & Italian
Stallion
8.
Jimmy Garvin & Black Bart vs. Brett Sawyer & D.J. Peterson
9.
Midnight
Express vs. Sam Houston & Nelson Royal
10.
Magnum TA & Ron Garvin vs. Rick Steiner & Buzz Sawyer
11.
The Road Warriors vs. Wahoo McDaniel & Mark Youngblood
12.
Ivan & Nikita Koloff vs. Jimmy Valiant & Manny Fernandez
13.
Rock-n-Roll Express vs. The Sheepherders
14.
Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard vs. The Fantastics
15.
Tiger Mask II & Giant Baba vs. Jimmy Garvin & Black Bart
16.
Midnight
Express vs. The Road Warriors
17.
Ivan & Nikita Koloff vs. Terry Taylor & Steve Williams
18.
The Fantastics vs. The Sheepherders
19.
Tiger Mask II & Giant Baba vs. Magnum TA & Ron Garvin
20.
Jim Duggan vs. Dick Slater (no DQ match)
21.
Ric Flair vs. Dusty
Rhodes
22.
The Road Warriors vs. Magnum TA & Ron Garvin (Road Warriors
win 1986 Crockett Cup)
CROCKETT
CUP 87 RAW FOOTAGE (VERY GOOD
QUALITY) 3HRS
Match
listings & descriptions by Chris Tabar
Oh
yeah, now we're talking! What we
have here is 3 hours of raw footage shot by an NBC affiliate in the DC area in
preparation for a couple of
pieces
they did on professional wrestling. There are backstage interviews with
wrestlers - which end up being used in the piece, which is included
along
with a bunch of complete matches from the Crockett Cup tourney.
These matches are far more complete than what's
available on the
commercial
tape of the show, as you get the entire quarterfinal, semifinal, and final
rounds. This is truly a must-have
for the old-school fan,
no
question about it! The matches are
shot by a single, pro-quality, stationary camera.)
1. Interviews w/Ric Flair, Mike Rotundo, Jim Cornette, Magnum TA, some NWA exec, Road Warriors
2. Pez Whatley & Teijo Khan vs Road Warriors
3. Midnight Express vs Ron & Jimmy Garvin
4. Kevin Sullivan & Arn Anderson vs Bob & Brad Armstrong
5. Brad & Bart Batten vs Tully Blanchard & Lex Luger
6. Interview w/Barry Windham (Windham basically breaks kayfabe, talking about his departure from the WWF, his partnership with
Mike Rotundo, the fact that Rotundo is his brother-in-law, etc. Good stuff.)
7. Interview w/Dave Meltzer (yes, Meltzer!)
8. "The George Michael Sports Machine" (this would be the reason that NBC was at the tourney filming in the first place)
9. Tully Blanchard & Lex Luger vs Bob & Brad Armstrong (***1/2 - good stuff)
10. Midnight Express vs Road Warriors (SLIGHTLY clipped)
11. Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez vs Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff ( JIP - I'm sorry, but it's just bad booking to have the reigning world
tag champs eliminated in the quarterfinals)
12. Tully Blanchard & Lex Luger vs Giant Baba & Isao Takagi (semis - you might find yourself wondering "how the heck did Baba & Takagi
get to the semis? Well, they had two byes and beat one jobber team - Royal & Brown - to get there. That's how. Crockett must've promised
Baba a semis push to get him to come over from Japan or something.)
13. Midnight Express vs Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff (semis - slightly clipped)
14. RIC FLAIR VS BARRY WINDHAM (GREAT match! 27+ minutes. Ric Flair matches are so much better when he's actually allowed to show
offense like he does here against Windham. Back and forth action that, amazingly enough, doesn't feature a bladejob by Flair. Weird thing is,
in one of the postmatch interviews done by NBC, he's sporting a band-aid anyway!)
15. The return of Magnum TA (TA's first wrestling appearance since his Oct 86 car wreck. This is truly one of the great moments of the NWA in the
mid-80s. HUGE pop and genuine emotion for TA. Great stuff.)
16. Tully Blanchard & Lex Luger vs Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff (Finals)
CROCKETT
CUP '87 (VERY GOOD QUALITY) 2HRS
(Commercial tape; All matches are
clipped unless noted otherwise.)
1. Bill Dundee & Barbarian vs Tim Horner &
Mike
Rotundo
2. Jimmy Valiant & Lazortron vs Pez Whatley & Teijho Khan
3. Ivan Koloff & Vladimir Pietrov vs Bob & Brad Armstrong
4.
Midnight
Express vs Ronnie & Jimmy Garvin
5. Big Bubba vs Ole Anderson (Cage)
6. Magnum TA's 3 Greatest Matches (For somebody who wasn't watching in 1985/86, it's hard for them to understand how big a star Magnum was.
This guy was *THE* star at that time. He undoubtedly would have won the NWA title many times and was already the most popular wrestler in the world
even bigger than Hulk Hogan - when he got in his car accident. This guy had it all - looks, workrate, mic skills, the whole package.)
9. Magnum TA vs Wahoo McDaniel (Cage - Magnum wins
US
title - complete)
10. Magnum TA vs Kamala, Bash '85
11. Magnum TA vs Tully Blanchard, Starrcade '85 (I Quit Cage)
12.
Midnight
Express vs Road Warriors (Cornette fireballs Animal)
13. Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff vs Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez
14. Tully Blanchard & Lex Luger vs Bob & Brad Armstrong
15. Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff vs
Midnight
Express
16. RIC FLAIR VS BARRY WINDHAM (JIP - Great match!)
17. Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff vs Tully Blanchard & Lex Luger (Finals - complete)
CROCKETT
CUP '88 (VERY GOOD QUALITY) 2HRS
(Commercial
tape; All matches are clipped unless otherwise noted.)
1. Jimmy Valiant & Mighty Wilbur vs Dick Murdoch & Ivan Koloff (complete)
2. Steve Williams & Ron Simmons vs Rick Steiner &
Mike
Rotundo
3. Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson vs Kendall Windham & Italian Stallion
4. Road Warriors vs Jive Tones
5. Fantastics vs Larry Zbyszko & Al Perez (Whatever happened to Al Perez?)
6. Lex Luger & Sting vs Dick Murdoch & Ivan Koloff
7.
Midnight
Express vs Sheepherders
8. Kevin Sullivan vs Jimmy Garvin (Prince of Darkness match)
9. Bunkhouse Stampede Finals
10. Road Warriors vs Warlord & Barbarian (complete - surprisingly good!)
11.
Midnight
Rider vs JJ Dillon (Bullrope - complete)
12. Lex Luger & Sting vs Warlord & Barbarian (complete)
13. Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson vs Fantastics (complete - I've said this before, I'll say it again - the Fantastics are the most underrated tag team of all-time!
If they had each been 3 inches taller, they would have been world champs many times over. I still say they were the best team of the 80s. Forget the
Road Warriors, Horsemen, Bulldogs, etc - the Fantastics were the best!)
14. Ric Flair vs Nikita Koloff
15. Lex Luger & Sting vs Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson (Finals - complete)
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