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Post by mattsdmf on Mar 10, 2019 19:37:29 GMT -5
Ivan Koloff & Krusher Khrushchev vs Rock N Roll Express - JCP Worldwide 7/9/85
This is the RNR Express' debut in Jim Crockett Promotions and they're already treated like gods. This is one of my absolute favorite US tag team matches ever. This was a great strength vs. speed bout with the Russians trying to bully Ricky Morton around and Morton and Gibson moving and striking as fast as they could. There is great armwork on both teams and when Morton gets his arm hurt, the Russians zero in on him like sharks. While the RNR's make their comeback, David Crockett loses his mind on commentary and gives some of his best calls in his career. What a debut this match is! On top of that, they dedicate an entire hour on them showing up. This will be on my ballot and quite high.
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Post by mvz on Mar 6, 2021 6:26:16 GMT -5
It feels right to watch a classic like this with Jim Crockett’s passing. Watching the show with the prematch interviews sets this up as a big deal. Great selling and hope spots throughout by Ricky and Robert before the victory roll finish. This felt like a quintessential RnR performance.
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Post by elliott on Nov 2, 2021 19:57:58 GMT -5
Another one I'd encourage re-watching before the vote.
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Post by mrjmml on Aug 10, 2023 7:09:08 GMT -5
What hasn’t been said about the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express, they’re possibly the greatest tag team in wrestling history and matches like the one I’m reviewing today is one of the reason why they are so highly regarded among wrestling fans, their charisma as babyfaces is absolutely unmatched, they always had the crowd behind them, they were benefited by how their style interprets their role in the action but at the same time they were the best at it, the crowd loved them genuinely and that’s something almost impossible to recreate nowadays, everyone was behind them, doesn’t matter if it’s Mid-South, Jim Crockett Promotions or Smoky Mountain Wrestling in the 1990’s, they were always loved by the people in the stands and that may have something to do with their stellar selling, their struggle is grueling and the people empathized with them in a way only the Crush Gals could replicate with their fanbase of mainly japanese school girls, they screamed their lungs out every time Dump Matsumoto touched either Lioness Asuka or Chigusa Nagayo but The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express is different while they connected with every crowd they worked with the Crush Gals only had that level of success with the japanese crowds, when the Crush Gals went to México in a match I reviewed they didn’t have nearly the same level of success.
Nikita Koloff and Krusher Krushchev aren’t the most skilled workers ever, they were just big and untalented men ( at least compared to their opponents) with a racist gimmick but the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express made them look like the greatest heel team in history for thirty minutes on July 13th 1985 in a Worldwide taping, that’s what greatness is if you ask me, watch it if you haven’t doesn’t matter your preferences you’re going to like this, it isn’t as good as Tully vs Magnum but it is a contender for the greatest tag team match of that year (outside AJW).
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