Where Wrestling's Regional History Lives!
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- Edward Pardue 1986 was a banner year for Jim Crockett Promotions. From the very beginning of the year, it was action packed all around. There was NEVER a disappointing memory from JCP in my memory, and the year of 1986 was no exception. The roster of champions in JCP at the start of the year were... NWA World Champion... Ric Flair Richard Sullivan and I had a heated discussion about Buddy Landel on the KM message board. Mr. Sullivan stated that Dusty Rhodes won the National belt from Landel in a "phantom" switch (i.e. they took the belt away from Landel due to "personal problems" and canned him). However, I distinctly remember a match being shown where Dusty "wins" the belt. I will concede that more than likely this was an earlier non-title match, and that Mr. Sullivan was more than likely correct. Mr. Sullivan, my apologies if anything I said was taken wrong. Dusty Rhodes? Ahh... The American Dream found himself crippled by The Andersons and Ric Flair in Oct of 1985. Dusty and his new buddies, the awesome Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal, start 1986 off right, by crippling Ole Anderson. Do unto others as they have done unto you! That way of thinking wouldn't exactly get you citizen of the year (in SOME cases it would get you arrested...) but for an eleven year old watching JCP at the time, it won me over. I literally cheered with inhuman glee as I heard Ole's ankle snap! Ole was out until the summer, when he came back to form the greatest alliance of wrestlers EVER in the history of wrestling... the FOUR HORSEMEN! Ole, Arn, Ric Flair and Tully Blanchard. More on the Horsemen in a bit. Think the Road Warriors were happy injuring Ole Anderson? Well, they probably were (considering he signed the pay checks when they started in GCW... lol) but one injury just wasn't good enough. They had another target. Ivan and Nikita Koloff had been feuding with Hawk and Animal since the Great American Bash 1985, when the Warriors defended the NWA belts against The Russian duo of Ivan Koloff and Krusher Kruschev in a title vs. title match (The Russians held the NWA belts at the time). Ivan and Nikita decided to LYNCH Hawk with their Russian chain in a match held on television. Oh... that was a serious mistake because they let Hawk live! Sam Houston was challenging Krusher Kruschev for the Mid-Atlantic Title on television. Kruschev had handed Houston his rear end in the finals of a tournament at STARRCADE 85 to become the champion, so I really didn't give Sam a chance. However, fate was to deal Sam Houston a couple of aces up his sleeve. More...
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