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We skip ahead one week in our watchalongs (because there is no show from 09-13-86 available). In this episode, the heat between the Midnight Express with Jim Cornette and the Road Warriors with Paul Ellering heats up with a big angle that is going to culminate at Starrcade '86. Plus, the interviews from Dusty Rhodes and Magnum T.A. , Tully Blanchard, Ric Flair and Arn Anderson has more passion tha...

On this episode of World Championship Wrestling, the NWA announces that the National Heavyweight Champion Wahoo McDaniel and the US Heavyweight Champion Nikita Koloff will decide which title will represent the US.  Jim Crockett makes the announcement. Plus in action, Superstar Bill Dundee and Buddy Landel , the unlikely duo of Tully Blanchard and Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin , and a great tag match featu...

The National Tag Team Championship is rebranded and becomes the US Tag Team Championship. So says Jim Crockett and most of the program is used to promote the one night tournament in the Omni to crown the first ever US Tag Team Champs. Also, Wahoo McDaniel is the new National Heavyweight Champion with a win over Tully Blanchard at the Forum in Los Angeles, the Kansas Jayhawks confront Jim Cornette...

Big happenings on this edition of World Championship Wrestling from the TBS Studios.  Nikita Koloff wins the best-of-seven series over Magnum T.A. during the seventh match in Charlotte, North Carolina.  The Rock and Roll Express beat the Midnight Express in Philadelphia to become the new NWA World Tag Team Champions. And finally, Baby Doll turns on Dusty Rhodes and is now at the side of Ric Flair...

Ric Flair is once again the NWA World Heavyweight Champion! On this episode from the TBS Studios, we will see the footage from St. Louis where Flair defeated Dusty Rhodes to win back the title. We will also see footage of how Magnum TA beat Nikita Koloff to even the best of seven at three each as well as a look back at the some of the Rock and Roll Express Super Summer Sizzler Tour. Additionally,...

The Great American Bash is over and we move on to late summer in the world of the NWA and JCP. Later this same night, after this show aired on TBS, Ric Flair would win back the NWA World Heavyweight Title from the American Dream Dusty Rhodes in St. Louis. Flair will give a very good, serious interview on this show setting up the match. Additionally, we have footage of Flair and Dusty from Kansas C...

It's the last day of the Great American Bash 1986 as Saturday August 2, would be in the finale of the tour in Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium. This TBS show, done mostly in the studio, has some very special moments. Such as, the first interview with new NWA World Heavyweight Champion Dusty Rhodes and footage of Jimmy Valiant losing his hair to Paul Jones .  The show also begins to build new regula...

BACKUP LINK FOR THE HOMIES:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/18q5AMeKs502ALhW1VXJ7pQGszHo6H4_-/view It's all here! The much talked about Great American Bash from Greensboro on July 26, 1986. This is where Dusty Rhodes beats Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Title in front of a raucous sellout crowd. It is also where Jimmy Valiant loses his hair to Paul Jones , and Magnum T.A. and Nikita Kol...

LINK:   For the homies https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kFBSw2NMAPAeTLkKHORrDza-Ss7bQw1d/view?usp=sharing Our next stop, as we look back at 1986, is the fourth stop on the Great American Bash on tour: Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, NC. This is the original home of the "Bash" in 1985, but a year later it was the fourth on the tour after, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Memphis. A classic event, i...

Another 6:05 show that is taken out of the studio and on the road during the Great American Bash of 1986. This time, from Columbia, SC, a very loud and lively crowd will get to see, the Rock and Roll Express against Ole and Arn Anderson in a 30 minute time limit draw. But there is more, Don Kernodle is in action, Tully Blanchard against Sam Houston and the first couple of minutes only (sorry) of t...

A great show from the famed Dorton Arena in Raleigh that is completely different from the studio shows...and some great matches not normally seen on TBS.  We will see Black Bart vs Ron Garvin, Tully Blanchard vs Wahoo McDaniel, the Midnight Express against the Road Warriors and a Bunkhouse Match featuring the Rock and Roll Express and Dusty Rhodes against Ric Flair, Arn and Ole Anderson. WOW! Some...

It's the "go home" show for the Great American Bash . This episode of World Championship Wrestling originally aired three days before the first of the events:   Veterans Stadium, in Philadelphia.  However, on this show, David Crockett sits down with Dusty Rhodes and Magnum T.A. and discusses what "America" means to them. In action, the NWA Tag Team Champions , the Midnight Express defeat Sam Houst...

We look back at a great show heading to the Great American Bash 1986.  It's a short one and the matches are VERY short as well, but it was not your typical two-hour broadcast. Ivan and Nikita Koloff ramp up the verbiage heading to the best of seven for the US Title.  The Four Horsemen do something that not many, if any, can say...they COMPLETELY lay out the Road Warriors leading to Ric Flair vs Ha...

As this episode of World Championship Wrestling took the air, we were less than one month away from the Great American Bash 1986 . A perfect time for the friction to be ramped up between Ole Anderson and Dusty Rhodes ! Plus, more information on the Rock and Roll Express Super Summer Sizzler Tour and the debut of Warlord , big and strong and not-too-mobile. Khrusher Khrushchev also makes his return...

In this episode, Magnum T.A. is reprimanded by NWA President Bob Geigle . And as a result, he attacks the president!  Thus, Magnum is stripped of the US title and the legendary best-of-seven series is set with Nikita Koloff . Plus, the rules of the Rock and Roll Express Super Summer Sizzler Tour are set! Don't fall asleep when Schiavone reads them down.  Finally, Ric Flair against Dusty Rhodes ! W...

It is all here! The contract signing between Nikita Koloff and Magnum T.A. (don't you talk about my mom); Ricky Morton receiving a broken nose from Ric Flair and the Horsemen and the debut of a man who would become a major star in wrestling:  Big Bubba Rogers! We take you back to Memorial Day weekend 1986, the Great American Bash and the summer are straight ahead, but things are already HOT in JCP...

1986 rolls along, and rolls toward the Great American Bash! Are you ready for the debut of Steve Regal ? No, not THAT Steve Regal. The former tag team partner of Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin in the AWA, makes his WCW debut. His tenure was short lived, but it began HERE.  Plus we have NEW NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Champions:  Dusty Rhodes and the Road Warriors . And to celebrate, Baby Doll comes out to c...

During this episode of JCP's World Championship Wrestling, we will find out more about the Great American Bash as Tony and Conrad have a debate as to when Ric Flair actually won the NWA World Heavyweight Title back from Dusty Rhodes during that famous summer. We also will learn about the 1987 Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Tag Team Tournament and have a foreshadowing about new World Six Man Tag Team Ch...

On we go into 1986! This week, Ric Flair and Arn Anderson are together and Flair gives a very serious interview. Plus, the James Gang uses a rope to get back at Jim Cornette and the visual is startling as well as politically incorrect. Plus Jimmy Valiant and the Ragin' Bull Manny Fernandez are looking for Paul Jones and his army, and be sure to remember the phrase "Bald Headed Geek!" And finally,...

On this very famous episode, the James Gang rides into the studios of TBS and causes quite a stir. Namely:  Jim Cornette , who goes on to hijack the show. Also, we will hear from Baby Doll for the first time since she was attacked and see not only the James Gang take on the Midnight Express , but will also see the World Champion Ric Flair in action. Also, two big announcements on this program abou...

The Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Tag Team Tournament is over, but the heat is turned up. We begin a feud between Ric Flair and Ricky Morton with a Horsemen attack in the Rock and Roll Express dressing room. Additionally, in what may be one of the most inappropriate episodes of 1986, Baby Doll is attacked by Jim Cornette and Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin and Precious make further fun of Wahoo McDaniel's herit...

NOTE: You may not be able to watch along thanks to the Peacock, but you still will have fun. It's the day of the Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Tag Team Tournament and Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes, heading into their battle at the Superdome that night, are in rare form.  "I don't do no jobs in front of 70-thousand!' So get ready! Plus, the war between Paul Jones' Army and Jimmy Valiant is heating up , th...

And then the Peacock arrived. Poof! Here is another watch-along from the great year of 1986. But can you watch-along? Probably not, since everything is on the Cock right now and the WWE Network is no more.  However, Conrad and Tony are here with the great interviews you remember and the stories from the past from the April 12th edition of WCW. So, even though the WWE wants you to forget the glory...

As we march through 1986, and move ahead to the Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament , Arn Anderson and Ron Garvin meet again for the World Television title, but this time, the Horsemen have a plan. Plus we will hear from Magnum TA, Jim Cornette, Dusty Rhodes and Baby Doll.  Plus. how many times has Wahoo McDaniel broken his nose? And Ron Garvin is proud to me an American! North Ameri...

You may have cheered for Pistol Pez Whatley , but that ends today. He turns on Jimmy Valiant and sets the stage for Shaska Whatley .  Plus, Jim Cornette, Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson, the Russians and the Road Warriors all weigh in on the upcoming Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Tag Team Tournament .  Additionally, over the past weeks, Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin has been asking for Wahoo McDaniel.  Well,...