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Superdome Extravaganza 7/76. July 17, 1976 in New Orleans, LA. The Superdome drawing 17,000 ($75,000) Pat Barrett pinned Tom Jones. Ted DiBiase & Jay Clayton beat Randy Tyler & Bobby Jaggers. Nelson Royal pinned Ron Starr.
Mid-South Wrestling. July 17, 1976 – Superdome Extravaganza in New Orleans, LA at The Superdome: Pat Barrett b Tom Jones, Ted DiBiase and Jay Clayton b Randy Tyler and Bobby Jaggers, Nelson Royal b Ron Starr, Grizzly Smith b Sigfried Stanke, Bobo Johnson and Farmer Pete b Little Tokyo and Billy the Red, Dick the Bruiser vs Abdullah the ...
Sep 16, 2023 · Mid-South Superdome Highlights. April 16 1983. The Vintage Wrestling Channel. 7.24K subscribers. 1. No views 3 minutes ago. Mid-South Wrestling. 1983 ...more.
- 13 min
- The Vintage Wrestling Channel
- The Rise and Fall of Mid-South Wrestling Association
- "Cowboy" Bill Watts
- Jim Ross in Mid-South
- Standout Mid-South Wrestling Stars
- The Junkyard Dog
- The Midnight Express
- From Mid-South Wrestling to The Universal Wrestling Federation
- The Demise of Mid-South Wrestling and The Universal Wrestling Federation
Much like other promotions in that part of the country, Mid-South Wrestling brought a hard-hitting style of wrestling to its fans. Led by the example of the irascible "Cowboy" Bill Watts, the ground and pound ethic of the roster was not only a key to its success but a keystone to its legacy. Some have described it as a "wrestling boot camp," where ...
Born in 1939, William Watts Jr. grew up in the dust-blown state of Oklahoma around the horse ranches and cattle herds that would lead him to adopt his familiar nickname of "Cowboy." He took to wrestling early on and became a journeyman in the ’60s, traveling all across the United States, and out to Japan as he learned his craft. He was so over with...
Jim Ross initially held the job of referee for the first three years of his time at NWA Tri-State but became a member of the broadcast unit after Bill Watts took the company over and changed it to Mid-South Wrestling. Ross was soon promoted to the familiar play-by-play spot that would highlight his career in professional wrestling. Ross also took o...
Ted DiBiase had returned from a short-lived run in the WWF, just after Vince McMahon Jr. had taken over the promotion from his father. DiBiase went on to have a long run in Mid-South in both tag teamand singles action, and he was famous for winning matches after hitting his opponents with a "loaded" black glove he would brandish when the ref was lo...
Sylvester Ritter had started his wrestling career in Tennessee and then ventured to the cold north of Canadaand Stu Hart’s Stampede Wrestling, where he had made a bit of a name for himself as Big Daddy Ritter. It wasn’t until he came to the office of Bill Watts in Shreveport, Louisiana, that his professional wrestling career transcended to another ...
In 1983, Bill Watts started a talent exchange with Jerry Jarrett at the CWA. He took the amazing, established tag teamof the Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton (The Rock’ n’ Roll Express) and several other wrestlers, including a trio of talent that he would bring together as one of the most notable tag teams in wrestling history and give the R’n’R Expr...
In the late ’80s, Mid-South Wrestling underwent an attempt at a nationwide expansion when Bill Watts secured television time on the Superstation, TBS, after Ted Turner had a sour business dealing with Vince McMahonover the content that McMahon was supplying him. Watts was poised to take over the two-hour slot occupied by the WWF when Jim Crockett a...
After suffering financial losses, mounting near $500,000 from the attempted expansion, Bill Watts was forced to sell the UWF to Jim Crockett Promotions on April 9, 1987. Despite promises by Crockett to keep the promotion going, the UWF folded and was absorbed by his Mid-Atlantic Wrestling promotion just six months later. All of the UWF titles were ...
Mid-South Wrestling. Type: Event. Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Arena: Louisiana Superdome. Attendance: ca 22.000. :::: Not recommended yet. Singles Match. Luke Graham defeats Chic Donovan (5:00) :::: Not recommended yet. Singles Match. Carl Fergie defeats Kelly Kiniski (10:00) :::: Not recommended yet. Singles Match.
Oct 21, 2021 · This week Throwback Thursday returns to Bill Watts’ innovative Mid-South Wrestling with a truly classic edition of Mid-South Wrestling, as seen on the WWE Network on Peacock, that aired 39 years ago this month! Nearly four months after one of the biggest Superdome Extravaganza cards in the territory’s history, Bill Watts was preparing to ...
