The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 03.27.82
By gawd, tonight I can only review one show, and that’s the one featuring a true patriot and his privates. It’s only right. See what I did there?
Mid-Atlantic
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 03.20.82
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 03.20.82
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Roddy Piper
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 03.13.82
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 03.13.82
Sponsored by…
I’m ready to Kiss 2020 Goodbye myself.
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle, Ray Stevens & Johnny Weaver. That’s quite the crew. And Weaver stuck around on this show for FOUR YEARS!
The SmarK Rant for NWA Final Conflict 83 – 03.12.83
The SmarK Rant for NWA Final Conflict 83 – 03.12.83
OK, people have been asking me for my opinion on the Slaughter & Kernodle v. Steamboat & Youngblood match, so I figured I’d take a look at the full(ish) card that’s up on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripeKNwLGp4&ab_channel=4WrestlingFans
Taped in Greensboro, NC, drawing 16,000 or so people, with the footage apparently saved by Private Jim Nelson/Boris Zhukov. Bob Caudle provides commentary, with David Crockett joining later, and it’s pristine footage shot with multiple cameras. So this show was MASSIVE, with stories of a sellout of the building and then traffic backed up for miles from people trying to purchase walkup tickets.
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 03.06.82
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 03.06.82
Time to head back for a deeper dive into the mysteries of Sgt. Slaughter’s Privates.
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Roddy Piper
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.27.82
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.27.82
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Roddy Piper
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.20.82
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.20.82
I know these have never been particularly popular, but after watching that episode of All-Star Wrestling, I thought I’d once again journey back to North Carolina to compare what the opposition was like at the time compared to the garbage being pumped out by Vince Sr.
The SmarK Rant for Mid-South v. Mid-Atlantic – 06.15.85
The SmarK Rant for Mid-South Wrestling – 06.15.85
Hey let’s try something different with the review this week.
Taped from Shreveport, LA
Your hosts are Jim Ross & Joel Watts
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.08.86
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.08.86
Time for some more Crockett.
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Johnny Weaver
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–02.01.86
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.01.86
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Johnny Weaver
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–01.25.86
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.25.86
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Johnny Weaver
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–01.18.86
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.18.86
Well, these don’t do great, but I love watching them.
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–01.11.86
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.11.86 (01.04.86)
I feel like I abandoned this run after just doing the one show, so we’ll pick it up again. Again, please note that dates are off by a week on these due to indexing silliness, so this would actually be the January 4 show.
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–01.04.86
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.04.86
Yeah, so they just dumped a shitload more Mid-Atlantic onto the Network, 43 episodes in total, and now I can jump to the year that’s more in my wheelhouse: 1986. For context’s sake, we’re well past the point when Crockett’s crew has taken over TBS from Vince again after Black Saturday, and this is quickly going to become the lame duck show after World Championship Wrestling and Worldwide Wrestling.
Seriously though, why no Worldwide?
And for our cold open, we’ve got Don Kernodle putting a headlock on Dennis Condrey in a singles match! THAT’S GOOD SHIT!
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–02.06.82
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.06.82
I just figured it might be fun to jump back to 1982 again with these, and the main event here is pretty intriguing.
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–02.02.85
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 02.02.85
Haven’t checked out of these out in a bit, so let’s get back into it.
Taped from what literally appears to be a high school gym somewhere in South Carolina.
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–01.26.85
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.26.85
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Johnny Weaver
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–01.19.85
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.19.85
Taped from Charlotte, NC
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Johnny Weaver
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–01.12.85
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.12.85
Taped from somewhere in North Carolina.
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Johnny Weaver
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling–01.05.85
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling- 01.05.85
So I wanted to go back to Mid-Atlantic, but the tag team tournament was boring the pants off me, so let’s jump ahead to the era we’re all more familiar with, starting in early 1985!
We’re now in an arena instead of the studio shows from the earlier run.
Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Johnny Weaver