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1986

The Rock N Roll Express take a trip down Badstreet U.S.A. 

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1986 Pro Wrestling Illustrated Tag Team of the Year

The Rock N' Roll Express

(Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson)

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Victory Sports Wrestling 

Fall 1988

Today In Pro Wrestling History (July 9th)

Title Changes for July 9

1963 – Bobo Brazil defeated Handsome Johnny Barend to win the WWWF U.S.A. Heavyweight Championship

1963 – The Crusher defeated Verne Gagne to win the AWA World Heavyweight Championship

1975 – Danny Hodge & Jay Clayton defeated Stan Hansen & Frank Goodish to win the NWA United States (Tri-State) Tag Team Championship

1979 – Angelo "King Kong" Mosca defeated "Iron" Mike Sharpe, Jr. to win the NWA Brass Knuckles (Tri-State) Heavyweight Championship

1985 – The Rock 'n' Roll Express defeated Ivan Koloff & Krusher Krushchev to win the NWA World (Mid-Atlantic) Tag Team Championship

2001 – The APA defeated The Dudley Boyz to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship

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The Dynamic Duo

(Al Snow and Unabomb ,now known as Kane)

SMW Tag Team Champions

(defeated The Rock N Roll Express April 7th 1995)

Match of the Day (NWA World Tag Team Titles)

NWA World Tag Team Title Match

July 9th 1985

Shelby,  NC  

Click here to read Mike Moonyham's column celebrating 30 years of the Rock and Roll Express

The Russians

(Ivan Koloff and Krusher Kruschev)

The NWA World Tag Team Champions

vs

The Rock and Roll Express

(Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson)

This was the first World Tag Title victory for the Rock and Roll Express

NWA Superstars on the Superstation 1986

This is the NWA (Crockett Promotions) first attempt at a nationally televised supercard that was taped Feb. 2nd 1986 and aired on WTBS Feb 7th 1986.

The card stacked up like this:

World Tag Team Title Match
The Rock N Roll Express (Champions)
vs
The Midnight Express w/Jim Cornette

The Road Warriors vs The Koloffs (Ivan and Nikita) w/Baron Von Raschke

NWA National Heavyweight Title Match
Tully Blanchard vs Dusty Rhodes (Champion)

NWA World Heavyweight Title Match
Ron Garvin  vs  Ric Flair (Champion)

The Four Horseman Series Parts 11 and 12

The Four Horseman

Your Tag Team Match of The Night

Rock & Roll Express vs Midnight Express w/Jim Cornette 

The Russians Attack!

Great American Bash 1987 on Tour

25 years ago this week the NWA was holding The Great American Bash on Tour and July 18th 1987 it was in  Charlotte  North Carolina at Memorial Stadium

Here is the match lineup
What you see in the video is the edited to 1 hour presentation on NWA Pro Wrestling TV

• Kendall Windham, Jimmy Valiant and LazerTron defeated Sean Royal, Gladiator #1 and Gladiator #2

LazerTron was Hector Guerrero and the Gladiators were Gary Royal and George South.

• Chris Adams defeated Black Bart (with Skandor Akbar)  (Not Shown)
• NWA Western States Heritage Champion Barry Windham defeated Big Bubba Rogers (with Skandor Akbar)
• Steve Williams and Terry Gordy defeated Eddie Gilbert and Dick Murdoch in a Bunkhouse match
• (Not Shown)
• The Fabulous Freebirds defeated NWA United States Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express (with Jim Cornette) by disqualification.
• NWA World Tag Team Champions The Rock 'n' Roll Express def. The MOD Squad
• Road Warrior Animal (with Paul Ellering) defeated Arn Anderson (with James J. Dillon) in a Taped Fist match  (Not Shown)
• NWA United States Champion Lex Luger (with James J. Dillon) defeated Nikita Koloff  (Not Shown)
• NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair (with James J. Dillon) defeated Road Warrior Hawk (with Paul Ellering) by disqualification to retain the title  (Not Shown)
• Dusty Rhodes (with Barry Windham) defeated Tully Blanchard (with James J. Dillon and Dark Journey) in a "lights-out" Barbed Wire Ladder match for $100,000.

Match of the Day

Today its the legendary Rock N Roll Express in All Japan Pro Wrestling to take on Tiger Mask II and Shinichi Nakano. The Express were at the height of their popularity in the US and were having a great run in the NWA/WCW, feuds with the Midnight Express, Rick Rude/Manny Fernandez and the Russians of Koloff,Koloff and Khruschev made them hot commodities.
Here they venture to Japan for a series of bouts for All Japan against one of the top teams at the time.