After Mr. Wrestling II & Magnum T.A. had taken care of Butch Reed & Jim Neidhart, a newly arrived team quickly started to make noise about wanting a title shot. The Midnight Express, Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey, had made the Mid-South scene a few weeks earlier. The duo, along with their loud-mouthed manager Jimmy Cornette, had turned the tag-team scene on its ear. I still remember the first time I saw them work. It was unreal how they totally understood how to work a tag-team match. It was all quick tags and some spectacular double team moves. They truly broke new ground in the Mid-South area. Plus, they had the man that was perhaps the greatest manager in the history of the sport in Jim Cornette. Cornette was something new in the Mid-South area as well. In one of the many great moments of this feud, Bill Watts himself pointed out the difference between Cornette and other Mid-South managers. Until Cornette's arrival, the managers in the area tended to be former wrestlers, such as Ernie Ladd, Skandor Ackbar, Rock Hunter and Gary Hart. But Cornette was the first guy who came in specifically to act as a manager. Cornette's character was a spoiled momma's boy who had gotten money from mom and put together a tag-team that would win him a title. And Cornette played his role to the hilt. Cornette was also one of the best talkers around. When he got on the microphone, it was always entertaining. During the segment with Watts that I mentioned above, Watts was interviewing Cornette. The whole point was that Watts was completely disgusted with this little wimpy momma's boy. But, with Cornette throwing out one-liners like a rabid Henny Youngman, Watts almost broke kayfabe by laughing at Cornette. Jimmy was truly one of a kind.