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BVV: Mid-South Wrestling with Ted DiBiase’s return

Posted on by Vincent Verhei

With TNA airing an all-promo Impact last Thursday, let’s return to the glorious world of 1984 Mid-South Wrestling for this week’s Big Vinny V Show.

And what an episode this was.

  • Ted DiBiase made his return to the promotion and immediately destroyed Hacksaw Jim Duggan, though the circumstances of that destruction are not clear
  • Buddy Landel joined General Skandor Akbar’s army and Akbar’s other weapon, the Missing Link, wrestled a horrible match
  • Hacksaw Butch Reed faced Brickhouse Brown in a grudge match
  • Ernie Ladd challenged Magnum TA for the North American title
  • The Rock n’ Roll Express demonstrated the straightjacket they are going to put on Jim Cornette with a shocking conclusion that nobody could possibly have seen coming…except every single fan in the building

Come join the fun on the Big Vinny V Show!

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B&V: Mid-South Wrestling S6:E27, plus Granny!

Posted on by Bryan Alvarez

The Bryan & Vinny & Granny & Craig Show is back with tons to talk about including our weekly chat with Granny, advice for Bryan and Vinny as they hit 50, the wrestling and soap opera reports, trivia, and more! Then the boys review Mid-South Wrestling S6:E27! A fun show as always so check it out~!

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Bryan & Vinny & Shawn: Mid-South S3:E50, plus Granny!

Posted on by Bryan Alvarez

The Bryan & Vinny & Craig & Granny Show is back with tons to talk about including limericks celebrating Shawn’s and Vinny’s birthdays, Granny’s wrestling and soap opera reports, trivia, and more, then the boys review MID-SOUTH WRESTLING STARRING ERNIE LADD S3:E50 from December 1981. A fun show as always so check it out~!

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March 19, 2007 Observer Newsletter: Ernie Ladd & Black Shadow pass away, TNA Destination X

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

Ernie Ladd holds a number of unique distinctions in the sports world, as well as the pro wrestling world.

As one of the most famous players in the history of the old American Football League (which later became the AFC in its merger with the NFL), he is, along with Bronko Nagurski, the biggest dual sports pro wrestling/football star who ever lived.

There were ex-NFL stars who were as big a star as he was, like Dick the Bruiser and Wahoo McDaniel, but they were not the caliber of football player he was. Leo Nomellini was a better football player, but not nearly as big a national wrestling star. Ladd and Nagurski were the only close to Hall of Fame caliber performers in both sports. In his heyday of the 60s, where he played football and then wrestled during the off-season, he was the biggest man in one and bordering on the biggest in the other. Grizzly Smith of the Kentuckians tag team, the father of Jake Roberts, was roughly as tall, and heavier, although Smith was hardly the sculpted athlete with a 52 inch chest and 39 inch waist that a young Ernie Ladd was.

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