1980s Wrestling review #432

Been looking at some footage from the late 1980s and these are some random observations. 1. Wow, 'King' Harley Race was still championship material in 1987, there's a Maple Leaf Gardens match from Prime Time Wrestling where he and Koko B. Ware just killed it for over 20 minutes and stole the entire show. 2. Randy Rose was criminally underutilized by any major promotions. What a strong, solid talent - good on the mic, too. His best run was probably as Deep South champion. But that brings me to ... 3. The Original Midnight Express (Rose and Dennis Condrey) were a fantastic tag team. It's a little ironic that the feud with the other, more well known Midnight Express doesn't showcase that nearly as much as an AWA match with Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty did. 4. Doggone, why wasn't Steve 'The Brawler' Lawler a star in either New York or Atlanta? That guy was the man. 5. Deep South Wrestling wasn't ever the same once Southern Championship Wrestling from Georgia opened up. The promotion had gone through a period where the TV shows were repeated for months and the talent and production had dropped quite noticeably once we started getting new stuff. It was packaged for awhile with matches from Global Wrestling (GWA) out of Florida and Wild West Wrestling from Texas. It was still very watchable, but never close to being as good as it was months before. 6. The Masked Nightmares (Ted Allen and Billy Star) were great, may have been a better team than Ken Wayne and Danny Davis (the other Nightmares) even. Can't really say that though as they didn't get the diversity of top caliber opponents to work with. 7. As much as I loved Continental, Deep South, and SCW/Georgia I feel that they ultimately served to hurt each other every bit as much as the WWF and NWA hurt each of them in markets where they were all visible and attempted to promote.