Hey kids! Welcome back to another ‘Restling Rewind! This time I’m bring you all the way back 1981 with Mid-South Wrestling.


Each week Mid-South has a guest commentator with Boyd Pierce. This week we get Bob Roop who says he’s forgotten more about wrestling then most people will learn… okay.


Our first match of the night is a replay from several weeks ago. We get to view our guest commentator Bob Roop.


And he faces future “Nature Boy” Buddy Landell.


This match starts off being open.


But it’s not long before it becomes Roop just beating on poor Buddy. Roop puts Landell away with the shoulder breaker for the three count. Roop makes a comment that history never repeats itself but thanks to the magic of video tape we get to relive this moment again. I think we’re going to have very interesting commentary on this week of Mid-South Wrestling.


For our first real match of the night we get Paul Orndorff!


And he takes on Tony Charles who’s billed from South Wales. He’s also apparently “The Man of A Thousand Holds.” He had done a tour for New Japan Pro Wrestling in the ‘70s.

Roop  mentions that Paul Orndorff gives to charity and will pay a thousand dollars to anyone who can put Ted DiBiase out of wrestling. Well that wasn’t very nice. And he says that both men don’t have a lot of excess fat.


During the match Pierce say that fans could send letters asking Mid-South Wrestling for any dream match they want and the match most asked for would get on TV next month. He mentions Andree The Giant, Junk Yard Dog, Bob Roop along with several others.


This match is more open than I expected. I was thinking that Orndorff was going to squash Charles but he gets a lot of offence on the former North American Heavyweight Champion.


Things go south for Charles after Orndorff sends him outside the ring twice. The second time Orndorff stomps his arms and suplexs him back into the ring for the three count.


After a commercial break we have a match the features "The Polish Prince" Ed Wiskowski. You might know him as Col. DeBeers.


And he takes on North American Heavyweight Champion Ted Dibiase!


Bob Roop says that if he didn’t agree to be at the commentary table he would be slapping Dibiase. So a lot of this match is Wiskowski controlling the match with a headlock.


While Dibiase centers his attacks on Wiskowski’s left arm. Roop takes about how horrible Ted is for using closed fists.


The North American Heavyweight Champion looks to put his opponent away with a figure four leg lock but instead Wiskowski sends Dibiase into the turnbuckle.


Wiskowski goes high risk to the second turnbuckle and does a cross body on Dibiase, only to be rolled over and beat by the champ! It’s illegal to jump from the top turnbuckle by the way, just like when Watts was booking WCW years later.


It’s time for a Mississippi Heavyweight Championship match! Bob Orton Jr. is our defending champion.


And he’s defending against future World Class star Jim Garvin before he became “Gorgeous.”


I just got to say I love how Orton over sells Garvin’s punches.


Garvin early on controls the match with a headlock. He also does a bulldog thing, keeping hold of Orton and running up the turnbuckle and bulldogging him while keeping hold of the headlock!


Orton is able to take control of the match. Roop seems to ignore anything Orton is doing wrong while he blasts at Garvin for using closed fists.


Garvin tries to bulldog Orton a second time only to get it reversed and Garvin gets suplexed!


The Mississippi Heavyweight Champion then defeats his challenger using a piledriver! I think in this match the only lasted a few minutes Bob used more moves then Randy ever does.


Now we get a match where if Terry Orndorff losses to The Junkyard Dog he has to leave Mid-South Wrestling. Before the match he puts a mask on. Our ring announcer questions him about it, since before he stated he hated that mask. Terry says he does but he feels it must be lucky since he got a win while wearing it.


Junkyard Dog is the only wrestler to get an entrance on this program, as he comes out to Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust. JYD questions why Orndorff is wearing a mask and the referee checks him for weapons and finds nothing.


A bodyslam is the biggest offence Terry can get on Junkyard before the match turning into JYD beating up Orndorff.


Paul Orndorff comes out to give his brother a word of advice.


And attacks Junkyard Dog only to get body slammed. JYD pins Paul and for whatever reason the referee counts it.


Terry head buts JYD and knocks himself out of the ring. The announcers figure it was loaded. Someone else then takes the mask and enters the ring. Since they attempt to piledrive Dog they guess it’s Bob Orton Jr.


Junkyard Dog throws Orton over the top rope but the referee assumes it’s Terry Orndorff so Orndorff wins by disqualification. I don’t understand why. You would think this match would have been thrown out after Paul entered the damn ring and attacked Dog.


After a commercial break we get another match. The Iron Sheik doesn’t even wait for the ring announcer to introduce the men before he starts attacking King Cobra. Bob Roop assumes USA chants have drove Sheik to insanity.


King Cobra makes a comeback and tries a head scissors but gets thrown out the ring instead.


Iron Sheik goes outside and when Cobra tries to bring him back him Sheik’s boots gets caught on the ropes because they’re pointy. The announcers make a big deal out of this. At least they're not sounding girly talking about Sheik's footwear.


It’s not long before Sheik puts Cobra away with a elbow and celebrates with his manager General Skandar Akbar.


Now we get a tag team match. We get Jerry Novak and The Monk teaming together. You may remember The Monk when he was Bastion Booger in WWE. Novak is also a former AWA Southern Tag Team Champion.


They take on Frank Monte and Brian Blair. Blair would go on to become one of The Killer Bees in WWE.


Monte and Blair actually get most of the offence in this match. Looking at the size difference of the team I thought it would be the other way around. Plus unlike all the other babyfaces on this show Roop actually tried to put this team over.


TV Time runs out and this match is a draw. We’re told next week we’ll get Paul Orndorff vs. Ted DiBiase.

Well other then Junkyard Dog vs. Terry Orndorff this was an alright show. And at least this made you wonder what was going to happen next week. Everything other then the main event progressed a story. Despite some of the weird commentary from Bob Roop he did his job alright.

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