WWF Wrestling Challenge (October 19, 1986)

I’m doing something a little bit different and watching and writing up a whole-ass wrestling show mostly because I want to see the dark match that took place during that particular TV taping. The show in question is the October 19, 1986 installment of WWF Wrestling Challenge. Taped on October 7, 1986 in Rochester, New York and the Rochester Community War Memorial this show features the legendary Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee dark match.

NWA World Championship Wrestling (May 17, 1986)

There’s not really any reason that I watched this particular episode of NWA World Championship Wrestling other than the fact that I went looking for a random hour long studio wrestling show on YouTube and this one came up and had a pretty funny thumbnail so I went ahead and checked it out. Don’t really know what we’ll get here besides a bunch of squash matches and dudes with scarred up foreheads screaming hot bullshit at each other which is really all anyone needs in pro-wrestling anyway so let’s get to it.

AWA ESPN Championship Wrestling (March 4, 1986)

The redankulous AWA Team Challenge Series pilot filled me with such joy that I’ve decided to watch the other limited AWA offerings the WWE Network has available. This is a review of an episode of AWA ESPN Championship Wrestling that’s clearly only on the WWE Network because it’s got rookie of the year edition of Shawn Michaels debuting on it. So let’s check it out!

WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event (May 3, 1986)

The opening is a little different than the Saturday Night’s Main Event openings we’re used to since it’s pretty much just Mean Gene doing voiceovers about the card as we see the various combatants rather than the traditional promos of yore. We do get a couple soundbites from the wrestlers though. Adrian Adonis, for example, gets a couple seconds to talk about how he “always wanted” Paul Orndorff.

Hulk Hogan meanwhile…

WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event (March 1, 1986)

Saturday Night Live will not be seen tonight so we can bring you this special previously taped presentation of Saturday Night’s Main Event. Saturday Night Live will return next week with John Lithgow and Mr. Mister…

We begin tonight with Mr. T working over a heavy bag. Mean Gene shows up to ask him about his upcoming match tonight with Bob Orton. Mr. T calls Mean Gene a fool for interrupting a man during his workout and then says that when he gets done with Bob Orton he’s going to look like Mean Gene.

WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event (January 4, 1986)

Recorded on December 19, 1985 at the Sun Dome in Tampa, the fourth installment of Saturday Night’s Main Event aired on January 4 of the following year. As is the case with all of these shows we start with some random promos before the actual event gets underway.