Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains

Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains Review

I'll be honest from the start & let you know that I never saw Mid-South Wrestling growing up and the only exposure I had of them was "The Missing Matches" VHS series that came out close to 20 years ago that had footage of both Mid-South & Memphis Wrestling. But I'll tell you that this was good look at wrestlers (and Jim Ross himself) in their early days before the went to the big time stages of "sports entertainment" in the NWA/WCW & WWF. And this is footage that your getting direct & don't have to wait for WWE to put out on their various DVD sets because they don't own it.

The DVD itself is nothing but archival footage from the territory. It's not a historical look of the promotion or anything of that nature & the matches are not even in chronological order. None of the matches or footage goes longer than around the 10 min. mark. Most things here are actual complete matches but there are around 2-3 cases where the footage is just a segment that happened such as Flair's only appearence where he's suppost to face Ted Dibiase but a short fight breaks out between him & Dick Murdock so Flair doesn't end up wrestling afterall. Besides these things, you get Hall Of Famers (Andre, Junkyard Dog, Bob Orton Jr., Paul Orndorff, Dusty Rhodes, Wild Samoans, Tony Atlas, Nikolai Volkoff, Jim Ross, Ernie Ladd) & other popular wrestlers of the past & present (Butch Reed, Jim Niedhart, King Kong Bundy, Kamala, Jim Duggan, Magnum T.A., Rick Steiner, Rick Rude, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, One Man Gang, Tully Blanchard).

Various Matches Include:
Nikolai Volkoff vs. Terry Taylor
King Kong Bundy vs. Junkyard Dog
Ted Dibiase vs. Paul Orndorff
Butch Reed vs. Rick Rood ("Ravishing" Rick Rude)
Junkyard Dog vs. One Man Gang
Tully Blanchard vs. Paul Orndorff
Butch Reed & Jim Niedhart vs. Dusty Rhodes & Jim Duggan
"Dr. Death" Steve Williams & Rob Ricksteiner (Rick Steiner) vs. Jim Duggan & Butch Reed
Dusty Rhodes, Junkyard Dog, Andre The Giant vs. Ernie Ladd & Wild Samoans

In the end, this is a good DVD for old school professional wrestling (not "sports entertainment") fans & being a old school wrestling fan, I highly recommend. Some of the biggest names from wrestling's glory days of the early 1980s appear in Mid-South Wrestling's first film release including Andr the Giant King Kong Bundy Junk Yard Dog Ravishing Rick Rude and Mr. USA Tony Atlas. These famous moments and classic grudge matches from 1980 to 1984 haven't been available since they first happened in the ring making this compilation a must-see for any true wrestling fan.System Requirements:Running Time: 150 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SPORTS/GAMES Rating: NR UPC: 881535700456 Manufacturer No: 8153570045