I way undersold this going through the set the first time. At the time I thought it was a fun if middling version of this pairing, but it's much better than that and probably somewhere in that second tier of your MX/RnR matches. So comfortably awesome, but a step below classic. The first half is a little slower than usual, takes a little longer to get going, and they work in more stalling than I'm used to seeing from them. Of course it was good stalling and some of the shtick was great. Morton hits this awesome delayed hurricanrana out the corner and Eaton complains about hair-pulling that clearly never happened. He tells Carl Fergie to ask one section of the crowd and naturally they tell him Eaton's full of it. Eaton gets him to ask another section, same result. And then another. Everyone is in agreement that Bobby Eaton be lying. So Eaton points to Condrey and Condrey confirms that Morton did in fact pull the hair. Every Midnights v Rock n Rolls match has a spot I've never seen before and this time Condrey grabbed hold of Gibson in the corner as Eaton tried to fly into a monkey flip, but of course Gibson moved and Eaton's momentum led to him monkey flipping his partner. This came after both MX members had already been monkey flipped by Morton, just to add another cool layer. When the Midnights take over they go to work on Gibson's throat and I'm always going to be a sucker for obscure body part work. It was mostly chokes and illegal blows under the chin, but you had distractions from every angle and the crowd being whipped into a frenzy. We also got a Bobby Eaton top rope legdrop and my goodness is Bobby Eaton's top rope legdrop a thing of beauty. Molten hot tag, hectic little finishing run, humongous pop at the end -- a fitting last go-around for this match-up in Mid-South. Luckily they wound up in Crockett together and we got one or two more.
Ted DiBiase v Terry Taylor (7/3/85)
Super energetic studio match, ultimately not the most memorable but the kind of thing you can never really complain about when it happens on a weekly episode of TV. Taylor working the arm early was solid stuff and I liked him keeping hold of it as he's body slammed, rolling DiBiase through with his momentum and going back to the armbar. Ted taking over with a killer right hook was a perfectly viable transition anyway because it looked so good, but I liked how it established that even a clean punch from DiBiase will turn the tide. So you know that when he loads up that glove it's curtains. I could've done without Joel Watts screeching towards the end, but I guess it put over how imperative it was for Taylor to mind the right hand.
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