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- THE ESSENTIAL MIDNIGHT EXPRESS & JIM CORNETTE - VOLUME 1 (1983-1984) (VERY GOOD
- QUALITY) 2HRS
- 1. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED NOVEMBER 23, 1983 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Dennis Condrey &
- Bobby Eaton vs. Ric Rude & Mike Jackson (Very first Midnight Express match)
- 2. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED DECEMBER 7, 1983 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Midnight Express vs.
- KoKo Ware & Mike Jackson (First Jim Cornette & Jim Ross commentary)
- 3. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED JANUARY 4, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Interview Mr. Wrestling
- #2 & Magnum TA--Cornette interrupts
- 4. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED JANUARY 4, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Midnight Express tar
- and feather Magnum TA
- 5. SAM HOUSTON COLISEUM FEBRUARY 10, 1984 (HOUSTON, TX) - Midsouth Tag Team
- Championship-Midnight Express vs. Mr. Wrestling #2 & Magnum TA (Listen to crowd
- reaction at end of match when Paul Boesch, fearing a riot, pulls Cornette off
- Magnum TA)
- 6. MID-SOUTH TV FEBRUARY, 1984 - Interview Jim Ross & Jim Cornette
- 7. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED FEBRUARY 18, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Midnight Express vs.
- Mr. Wrestling #2 & Magnum TA
- 8. MID-SOUTH TV FEBRUARY, 1984 - Interview Jim Ross & Jim Cornette
- 9. LAFAYETTE, LA. MARCH 13, 1984 MID-SOUTH TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - Midnight
- Express vs. Mr. Wrestling #2 & Magnum TA (Closing moments--Express win first Tag
- Team Team Title)
- 10. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED FEBRUARY 29, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Midnight Express vs.
- Rock & Roll Express (First ever Midnight-Rock & Roll match)
- 11. HOUSTON, TX INTERVIEW MARCH 1984 - Cornette with Jim Ross
- 12. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED MARCH 14, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Express party to
- celebrate winning Title--Rock & Roll Express put Cornette into cake)
- 13. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED MARCH 14, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Interview between
- Cornette and Jim Ross--Bill Watts interrupts and slaps Cornette
- 14. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED MARCH 14, 1984 - Midnight Express attacks Bill Watts
- 15. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED MARCH 28, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Bill Watts comes out of
- retirement for the Last Stampede--Interview with Bill Watts--Interview with Jim
- Cornette--Watts finds Stagger Lee--Promotional interviews with Cornette and Bill
- Watts
- 16. MYRIAD ARENA TAPED APRIL 22, 1984 (OKLAHOMA CITY, OK) - Midnight Express vs.
- Bill Watts & Stagger Lee (This match main evented each of the regular Mid-South
- Wrestling cities, and drew $1.2 million in 1984 ticket prices for 14 dates. It
- set gate records in every city but one, the New Orleans Superdome, where it fell
- $6,000 shy of the record with over 20,000 in attendence)
- 17. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED APRIL 11, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - MID SOUTH TAG TEAM
- CHAMPIONSHIP - Midnight Express vs. Rock & Roll Express (Cornette dresses as a
- woman)
- 18. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED APRIL 25, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - Midnight Express vs.
- Rock & Roll Express (Rock & Roll Express win Title)
- 19. MID-SOUTH TV TAPED MAY 23, 1984 (SHREVEPORT, LA) - TAG TEAM TITLE VS.
- $50,000 - Midnight Express vs. Rock & Roll Express (closing moments--Cornette
- uses ether to regain Title)
- 20. HOUSTON, TX. - Interview Ernie Ladd June 1984
- 21. HOUSTON, TX. - Interview Jim Cornette June 1984
- THE ESSENTIAL MIDNIGHT EXPRESS & JIM CORNETTE - VOLUME 2 (1984-1985) (VERY GOOD
- QUALITY) 2HRS
- 1. SAM HOUSTON COLISEUM JUNE 8, 1984 (HOUSTON, TX) - Midnight Express & Ernie
- Ladd vs. Rock & Roll Express & Jim Duggan
- 2. MYRIAD ARENA JULY 29, 1984 (OKLAHOMA CITY, OK) - Midnight Express vs.
- Fantastics (First Express-Fantastics tag match)
- 3. FAIRGROUNDS COLISEUM DECEMBER 2, 1984 (OKLAHOMA CITY, OK) - SCAFFOLD MATCH -
- Midnight Express vs. Rock & Roll Express (The Midnight-Rock & Roll) Scaffold
- match series was the second highest grossing series in Mid-South in 1984,
- running behind only the Last Stampede)
- 4. WORLD CLASS TV TAPED DECEMBER 3, 1984 (FORTH WORTH, TX) - Interview Cornette
- and Express (Debut in World Class Wrestling)
- 5. WORLD CLASS TV TAPED DECEMBER 17, 1984 (FORTH WORTH, TX) - Interview Cornette
- and Express
- 6. REUNION ARENA - WORLD CLASS TV TAPED DECEMBER 25, 1984 (DALLAS, TX) -
- AMERICAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - Midnight Express vs. Fantastics
- 7. FORT WORTH, TX FEBRUARY 1985 - Two interviews with Jim Cornette and Express
- 8. SPORTATORIUM - WORLD CLASS TV TAPED MARCH 8, 1985 (DALLAS, TX) - AMERICAN TAG
- TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - Midnight Express vs. Fantastics
- 9. FORT WORTH, TX MARCH 1985 - Interview with Cornette
- 10. WORLD CLASS TV TAPED APRIL 1985 (DALLAS, TEXAS SPORTATORIUM) - Interview
- Cornette, Express, Fantastics, and introduction of Little John
- 11. FORT WORTH, TX APRIL 1985 - Interview with Cornette & Rip Oliver
- 12. TEXAS STADIUM - MAY 5, 1985 (IRVING, TX) - AMERICAN TAG TITLE--2 RINGS--2
- REFEREES - Midnight Express w/Cornette vs. Fantastics w/Little John (The 2nd
- Annual David Von Erich Memorial drew over 20,000 fans and a quarter of a million
- dollar gate to the home of the Dallas Cowboys)
- 13. FORT WORTH, TX MAY 1985 - Cornette skirmish with Sunshine
- 14. FORT WORTH, TX JUNE 1985 - Interview Cornette and Sunshine
- THE ESSENTIAL MIDNIGHT EXPRESS & JIM CORNETTE - VOLUME 3 (1985-1987) (VERY GOOD
- QUALITY) 2HRS
- 1. WTBS STUDIOS JUNE 29, 1985 (ATLANTA, GA) - Midnight Express vs. Larry Clark &
- Dale Williams (The Express and Cornette debut both on the Superstation and for
- Jim Crockett Promotions)
- 2. Interview Jim Cornette following--Cornette's first TBS interview
- 3. THE OMNI FEBRUARY 2, 1986 (ATLANTA, GA) - NWA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP -
- Midnight Express vs. Rock & Roll Express (on the first-ever TBS prime-time
- wrestling special, Midnights win World Tag Title for the first time)
- 4. CHARLOTTE COLISEUM APRIL 12, 1986 (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) - NWA WORLD TAG TEAM
- TITLE--CORNETTE IN CAGE ABOVE RING - Midnight Express vs. Rock & Roll Express
- (This was the final match of a four-match series in Charlotte which set
- attendance and gate records. On February 2, the Expresses main evented and sold
- out the Coliseum for the first time since 1978, drawing 12,000 fans and $100,000
- to see the Rock & Roll win a reversed decision. February 23, the Expresses in a
- co-main event were on the card that drew another 12,000 and $100,000 to wee the
- R&R win by DQ in two out of three falls. On March 2, over 7,000 paid $73,000 to
- see the Midnights win two of three. On this night, April 12, 12,000 paid
- $100,000 to see this card live, and another 1,000 more watched down the street
- on closed circuit. This match aired on Japanese television.
- 5. NWA TV TAPED MAY 6, 1986 (SPARTANBURG, S.C.) - Interview Cornette and VTR of
- James Boys (Dusty Rhodes and Magnum TA) attacking and lynching Cornette. (This
- "lynching" was edited for tv as it was deemed too "graphic" to show the very
- end)
- 6. NWA TV TAPED MAY 27, 1986 (GREENWOOD, SC) - Interview Cornette, Midnight
- Express, and Bubba Rogers--unmask fake "James Boys"
- (Big Bubba Rogers' first appearance with the Midnight Express)
- 7. WTBS STUDIOS JUNE 1986 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Cornette and Big Bubba
- Rogers
- 8. MEMORIAL STADIUM - JULY 5, 1986 (CHARLOTTE, NC) - Midnight Express & Jim
- Cornette vs. Dusty Rhodes, Magnum TA, & Baby Doll (Part of the fourteen-city
- Great American Bash Tour, this even drew over 20,000 paying $234,000. Copyguard
- protection distorts some parts of this match)
- 9. DORTON ARENA JULY 6, 1986 (RALEIGH, NC) - NWA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP -
- Midnight Express vs. Road Warriors (This Raleigh event drew a sellout and city
- gate record of $75,000, and Baby Doll knocks Cornette legitimately goofy at the
- end)
- 10. WTBS STUDIOS TAPED SEPTEMBER 7, 1986 (ATLANTA, GA) - Midnight Express vs.
- Rock & Roll Express (Joined in progress--Dusty Rhodes commentary--brawl with
- Expresses and Dusty)
- 11. WTBS STUDIOS TAPED SEPTEMBER 20, 1986 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Jim Cornette
- (Paul Ellering interrupts) Midnight Express attack Road Warriors and injure
- Animal
- 12. WTBS STUDIOS TAPED SEPTEMBER 27, 1986 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Cornette.
- Midnight Express vs. Art Pritts & Paul Garner (Cornette color commentary &
- interview with Express)
- 13. WTBS STUDIOS TAPED OCTOBER 12, 1986 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Cornette
- regarding The Road Warriors
- 14. NOVEMBER 1986--Midnight Express workout on Scaffold
- 15. THE OMNI NOVEMBER 27, 1986 (ATLANTA, GA) - STARCADE '86--NIGHT OF THE
- SKYWALKERS--SCAFFOLD MATCH - Midnight Express vs. The Road Warriors (This event
- was the highest-grossing wrestling event ever by Jim Crockett Promotions--over
- 15,000 paid $300,000 in Atlanta for half the matches, 16,000 sold out the
- Greensboro Coliseum for over $300,000, another $70,000 was paid for a closed
- circuit showing in Greensboro, and eight more closed circuit locations in 6
- states brought the gate to almost one million dollars. The home video was the
- first wrestling tape to go gold. Cornette's right knee was destroyed in the
- fall.)
- 16. CHARLOTTE COLISEUM NWA TV TAPED FEBRUARY 14, 1987 (CHARLOTTE, NC) - UNITED
- STATES TAG TITLE - Midnight Express vs. Barry Windham & Ronnie Garvin (Cornette
- sets Garvin on fire)
- THE ESSENTIAL MIDNIGHT EXPRESS & JIM CORNETTE - VOLUME 4 (1987-1988) VERY GOOD
- QUALITY - 2HRS
- 1. WTBS STUDIOS MARCH 21, 1987 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Cornette regarding
- Ronnie & Jimmy Garvin
- 2. WTBS STUDIOS APRIL 4, 1987 (ATLANTA, GA) - Jim Cornette introduces Stan Lane
- as the newest member of the Midnight Express, two interview with Express
- 3. CIVIC CENTER APRIL 10, 1987 (BALTIMORE, MD) - JIM CROCKETT SR. MEMORIAL CUP -
- Midnight Express vs. Ronnie & Jimmy Garvin
- 4. CIVIC CENTER APRIL 11, 1987 (BALTIMORE, MD) - Midnight Express vs. Road
- Warriors
- 5. CIVIC CENTER APRIL 11, 1987 (BALTIMORE, MD) - Midnight Express vs. Dusty
- Rhodes & Nikita Koloff (The Crockett Cup was a two-day, 24 team tournament--as a
- seeded team, they drew a bye in the first round, defeated the Garvins by
- countout in the second round, the Warriors by DQ in the third round, and lost to
- eventual winners Dusty & Koloff in the semi-finals. The event drew over $300,000
- and over 18,000 fans for both days.)
- 6. MAY, 1987 (CHARLOTTE, NC) - Interview with Cornette regarding cage match with
- Ronnie Garvin
- 7. WTBS STUDIOS MAY 2, 1987 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Ronnie Garvin, brawl with
- Cornette, Midnight, Windham
- 8. WTBS STUDIOS 1987 (ATLANTA, GA) - SUPER SCARY SATURDAY - Interview Grandpa
- Munster, Jim Cornette, & Michael Hayes
- 9. WTBS STUDIOS MAY 16, 1987 (ATLANTA, GA) - U.S. TAG TITLE TOURNEY FINAL -
- Midnight Express vs. Ronnie Garvin & Barry Windham (Joined in progress--match
- went the full one hour program--Midnight wins U.S. Tag Title)
- 10. Interview with Midnight Express as the new champions
- 11. MEMORIAL STADIUM JULY 18, 1987 (CHARLOTTE, NC) - U.S. TAG TITLE - Midnight
- Express vs. Freebirds Hayes & Roberts (The Great American Bash tour expanded to
- 26 events in seventeen states over 31 days. This event drew over 15,000 paying
- $175,000. This is the only straight tag match ever between the Midnights and two
- of the original Freebirds.)
- 12. LIVE ON WTBS MARCH 27, 1988 (ATLANTA, GA) - CLASH OF CHAMPIONS 1 - U.S. TAG
- TITLE - Midnight Express vs. Fantastics (On the very first Clash of Champions
- specials, the Midnights and Fantastics have a great match voted top three in
- Match of the Year polls. This event garnered the highest rating to date for a
- cable wrestling event and highest ever on WTBS.)
- 13. BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW - Jim Cornette and Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond)
- 14. CIVIC CENTER (NOW THE ARENA) JULY 10, 1988 (BALTIMORE, MD) - GREAT AMERICAN
- BASH ON PPV - U.S. TAG TITLE--CORNETTE IN STRAIGHTJACKET IN CAGE OVER RING -
- Midnight Express vs. Fantastics (This event drew a record $206,000 Baltimore
- gate and was the first NWA PPV with national coverage)
- 15. GREENSBORO COLISEUM JULY 16, 1988 (GREENSBORO, NC) - BASH ON TOUR -
- BUNKHOUSE MATCH 3 ON 2 - Midnight Express and Jim Cornette vs. The Fantastics
- (The Bashes in 1988 expanded to 38 dates in 42 days, coast to coast. This
- bunkhouse match appeared on 31 of those cards, and the Express faced the
- Fantastics as well in three regular tags and four scaffold matches to complete
- the most grueling tour in NWA history.)
- 16. WBTV-3 NEWS JULY 1988 (CHARLOTTE, NC) - Two-part feature on Jim Cornette
- THE ESSENTIAL MIDNIGHT EXPRESS & JIM CORNETTE - VOLUME 5 (1987-1988) (VERY GOOD
- QUALITY) 2HRS
- 1. MUSIC VIDEOS - Midnight Express vs. Fantastics (edited by Jim Cornette from
- TV matches Spring-Summer 1988)
- 2. WTBS STUDIOS AUGUST 1988 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview with Jim Cornette
- regarding The Four Horsemen and a confrontation between Cornette and J.J. Dillon
- 3. More Midnight-Horseman confrontations, VTR Lane and Cornette find Eaton
- attacked in locker room, interviews for match. The Midnight Express defeated
- Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson for the NWA World Tag Team Championship on
- September 10, 1988 at the Philadelphia Civic Center before about 7,000 paying
- $72,000. It was a non-televised event, and Tully and Arn left the NWA for the
- WWF the next day. The Midnights thus became the only team ever to hold both the
- World and United States Tag Team Championships at the same time, capping an NWA
- reign of World Tag Champs from February 2 to August 16, 1988--U.S. Champions
- July 10, 1988 to September 10, 1988 when they vacated the belts after winning
- the World Tag Title--World Tag Title September 10, 1988 to October 29, 1988--
- U.S. Tag Champs May 19, 1990 to August 24, 1990.
- 4. DOWNTOWN AUDITORIUM OCTOBER 29, 1988 (NEW ORLEANS, LA) - NWA WORLD TAG TITLE
- - Midnight Express vs. Road Warriors (Express loses title)
- 5. WTBS STUDIOS NOVEMBER 5, 1988 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Cornette & Express,
- Stan Lane vs. The Menace (Original Midnight Express Condrey, Randy Rose, and
- Paul E. Dangerously attack Cornette, Eaton, & Lane)
- 6. WTBS STUDIOS NOVEMBER 12, 1988 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Cornette & Express
- about attack
- 7. THE SCOPE DECEMBER 26,, 1988 (NORFOLK, VA) - STARCADE '88 PPV - Midnight
- Express w/Cornette vs. Original Midnight w/Paul E. (This would be the last
- Starcade appearance of the Midnights after appearing on the biggest NWA event of
- the year in '85, '86, and '87 as well. This event drew more than $150,000 live
- and was broadcast on Pay Per View nationally.)
- 8. UTC ARENA DECEMBER 7, 1988 (CHATTANOOGA, TN) - CLASH ON TBS - Midnight
- Express w/Cornette vs. Ric Flair & Barry Windham w/Dillon (The only match ever
- held between the Midnights and Flair and a partner)
- 9. UIC PAVILION FEBRUARY 20, 1989 (CHICAGO, IL) - CHI-TOWN RUMBLE PPV - LOSER OF
- FALL LEAVES NWA - Midnight Express & Cornette vs. Rose, Dangerously, and Jack
- Victory (Condrey had left due to dispute with management-Victory filled in on
- the undercard of the Flair World Title loss to Ricky Steamboat. Over 7,000 saw
- it live and it was broadcast nationally on PPV.) (Includes pre-match interviews
- with both teams)
- 10. WTBS STUDIOS JUNE 3, 1989 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview Cornette & Express
- (Express and Cornette return to WCW after two month hiatus due to contract
- dispute)
- 11. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND ARENA JULY 23, 1989 (BALTIMORE, MD) - Jim Cornette vs.
- Paul E. Dangerously (Includes prematch Cornette interview--the end of the
- Conrette-Dangerously rivalry was on the undercard of a War Games including the
- Midnights which drew a sellout of almost $200,000 live, and was broadcast
- nationally on Pay Per View.)
- THE ESSENTIAL MIDNIGHT EXPRESS & JIM CORNETTE - VOLUME 6 (1989-1990) (VERY GOOD
- QUALITY) 2HRS
- 1. WTBS SEPTEMBER 30, 1989 (ATLANTA, GA) - Interview with Cornette and Midnight
- Express (Dynamic Dudes begin to come between Cornette and Midnights)
- 2. RPI FIELDHOUSE NOVEMBER 15, 1989 (TROY, NY) - CLASH ON TBS - CORNETTE IN
- NEUTRAL CORNER - Midnight Express vs. Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace & Shane Douglas)
- (Cornette betrays the Dudes and returns to the Midnights on this Clash of
- Champions TBS Special.)
- 3. TBS MAIN EVENT NOVEMBER 20, 1989 (COLUMBUS, OH) - NWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT
- CHAMPIONSHIP - Bobby Eaton vs. Ric Flair (The first ever singles match between
- Eaton and Flair)
- 4. TBS MAIN EVENT DECEMBER 14, 1989 (PEORIA, IL) - NWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT
- CHAMPIONSHIP - Bobby Eaton vs. Ric Flair (The rematch, and the last Eaton-Flair
- match ever) (Includes prematch Cornette & Express interview)
- 5. GREENSBORO, NC COLISEUM FEBRUARY 25, 1990 (GREENSBORO, NC) - 1990 Wrestlewar
- PPV - Midnight Express vs. Rock & Roll Express (Includes prematch interview--
- Nearly 6 years after their first match, the two Expresses have the best
- broadcast match of their careers on this national pay per view.)
- 6. JOFFA MOSQUE FEBRUARY 28, 1990 (ALTOONA, PA) - U.S. TAG TITLE - Midnight
- Express vs. Brian Pillman and Tom Zenk (The Midnights injured Pillman's
- throat--includes prematch interview)
- 7. THE ARENA JULY 7, 1990 (BALTIMORE, MD) - GREAT AMERICAN BASH PPV - U.S. TAG
- TITLE - Midnight Express vs. The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers & Steve
- Armstrong) (The Midnights return to Baltimore and have what was widely regarded
- as the best tag team match of 1990 with the Southern Boys. In WCW's infinite
- wisdom, the two teams never wrestled each other again.)
- 8. UIC PAVILLION OCTOBER 27, 1990 (CHICAGO, IL) - HALLOWEEN HAVOC - Midnight
- Express vs. Ricky Morton & Tommy Rich (End of match only--the very last Midnight
- Express match--Lane and Cornette quit WCW after a dispute with management over
- the disrespect of the team, which remained possibly the best in-ring tag team in
- the sport to its last match, just under seven years after the original team was
- formed.)
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