But their legendary arena, or house show matches, were never available on videountil now. Wrestling rarities midnight express dvd pro wrestling. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to collect everything there is to know about pro wrestling. Midnight express by billy hayes, 1977, popular library edition, in english midnight express 1977 edition open library. They spent some time in memphis before returning to secw. I said sorry to turkey billy hayes spent 30 years of his life trying to deal with the. Midnight express could have been a garden variety prison picture, except for several interesting plot twistsnot all factualthat place it above most films in the genre.
Wrestling eye march 1988 wwf wcw wwe tna ecw nwo nwa awa book pdf. The former nwa world tag team champions discuss their respective starts in the business, as well as the origins of the midnight express as a sixman tag team unit. Book and lash are brothers but shes not really their sister. After feuding with norvel austin and various partners, austin turned heel and joined with condrey and rose. Were trying to get all the wrestler pages to match a common template, like the one seen for. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became a worldwide bestseller and the academy awardwinning blockbuster film of the same name. It started in alabama when loverboy dennis condrey started teaming with ravishing randy rose. In late 1983 dennis condrey left alabama and joined midsouth wrestling where he formed his own midnight express with teammate bobby eaton and manager jim cornette. Nov 08, 2018 from kcs timeline history of wcw 1989 with jim cornette jim cornette.
The sheik, junkyard dog, the fabulous freebirds, the midnight express, bret hart, shawn. In tennessee, he worked as part of the bicentennial kings with phil hickerson, running roughshod over nick gulas s nashville promotion. From the author of big gold and ten pounds of gold comes a look back at the greatest faction in the history of professional wrestling. Midnight express is a harrowing tale of a naive american caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Cornette and the midnight express debuted on midsouth television on. Jun 27, 2008 this is the rarest of wrestling themes around the internet and trust me, it took me months to get hold of it. James mark jim cornette born september 17, 1961 is an american author and podcaster. A truestory style anthology, these insider tales will show the lengths that wrestlers went to uphold kayfabe the old carny term for the presentation of legitimate conflict as well as the noteworthy. The midnight express were a professional wrestling tag team from the 1980s. The real gem of the book are the letters from fans, expressing their extreme dislike to put it mildly of the midnight express and jim cornette. Wrestling raritiesthe midnight express dvd 2 disc set4 hours of action.
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Whether it was as a manager carrying his trademark tennis racket or in a role backstage, jim cornette has worn pretty much every hat in pro wrestling over the course of more than 30 years. The midnight express and jim cornette, rocknroll express, magnum ta, nikita koloff, and more. The late 1980s saw a new incarnation, consisting of bobby eaton and stan lane, compete in jcp and wcw and briefly feuding with the original midnight express of. This match is for the midnight express national wrestling alliance united states tag team championship. Bobby eaton, former jim crockettwcw star and one half of the midnight express tag team, was reportedly rushed to the hospital this week due to. Pdf download wrestler annual summer 1984 wwf wwe wcw tna ecw nwo nwa awa tony atlas bruno. For years, the classic tv and ppv matches of the midnight express in the nwa have been prized by tape traders and sought out on youtube.
Buy midnight express by hayes, billy, hoffer, william isbn. Simply called the draft and returning to a traditional format, it was the second draft of 2019, following aprils superstar shakeup. The midnight express condrey and eaton defeated the heartbreak express by dq. Jim cornette and the midnight express moved to world class championship wrestling the midnight express defeated the fantastics to win the world class tag team titles national wrestling alliance. Midnight express 1977 is a classic memoir of hayes time in a turkish prison, during which he was beaten, had a mental breakdown, and saw his sentence increased from a young william hayes did not think about that, the downside was years in a turkish prison the upside is this book. Best booker1993, 2001, 2003 best nonwrestler2006 best on interviews19851988, 1993 manager of the year19841990, 19921996 best pro wrestling book2009 midnight express 25th anniversary scrapbook. I limited the scope of this to pro wrestling, i did not include cook books, childrens books, financial books, or political books.
Online prowrestlings secrets and greatest moments are immortalized in this graphic novel from legendary wrestling personality jim cornette. Also featuring matt hardy, barry windham, ron simmons, jimmy boogie woogie man valiant, heavyweight champion flex armstrong, and a btw divas three way match featuring tessa blanchard the. This is the graphic novel that oldschool wrestling fans have been waiting for. From kcs timeline history of wcw 1989 with jim cornette jim cornette. The rock n roll express captured the nwa world tag team titles on four occasions, battling the likes of the midnights, the four horsemen, and the russian team. Jerry lawler vs ric flair nwa heavyweight title match part 2 the hustle duration. Big time wrestling spartanburg memorial auditorium. The midnight express was not new to the wrestling world. Randy rose, norvell austin, the mongolian stomper and ron starr had all once been members with rose, austin and condrey laying claim to the moniker for the longest, having worked the southeastern territory in alabama as the express and later moving to memphis. According to his book, brad davis had a drug problem of his own while.
The group started in the early 1980s with dennis condrey and randy rose and originally norvell austin. First, there was the painful revelation that americans, ignorant of justice systems abroad, can find themselves in trouble, with the us government andor its. Oct 02, 2008 buy midnight express by hayes, billy, hoffer, william isbn. The book is a much more accurate and much more compelling story of the arrest, imprisonment and escape of billy hayes in turkey and imprisoned for smuggling. The strange journey of americas unlikely sportshero. The rockers were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of shawn michaels and marty jannetty that teamed from 1985 to 1992. Banged up abroad, the real midnight express, is on the national geographic channel tomorrow night, at 9pm. The road warriors especially loved the mulkey brothersthat they would share some of their winnings from a match with the brothersrespect indeed.
Jim cornette on the midnight express ring gear youtube. Four horsemen is a complete monthbymonth, yearbyyear, linear timeline of the horsemen, covering every version of the group and every member of each version over their thirteen years. So much so, that legitimate arguments broke out with teams like the rock n roll express, the midnight express, the road warriors etcas to who would get to wrestle the mulkeys on any given night. Cornette was also featured in an episode of the wwe network original series table for 3 alongside eric bischoff and michael hayes. Jim cornette led the midnight express eatoncondrey past the rocknroll express for the nwa world tag titles. The draft occurred on the october 11 and 14 episodes of friday night smackdown and monday night raw. The midnight express bobby eaton and dennis condrey beat bumpnuglies july 22, 2006 pro wrestling world 1. The midnight express versus rock n roll express series of matches was so well received by the fans that independent promoters all over the united states still book that match today, 30 years after the rivalry started.
Though they were not named after this movie, the professional wrestling tag team the midnight express first loverboy. The midnight express 25th anniversary scrapbook by jim cornette with tim ash june 21, 2019 unless you have zero interest in wrestling of the territorial and national expansion era, this is an absolute must. Behind the curtain real pro wrestling stories paperback august 20, 2019. Midnight express tells the gutwrenching true story of a young mans incarceration and escape from a turkish prison. Aug 10, 2015 july 15, 2006 juggalo championshit wrestling. The rock n roll express to be inducted into the wwe hall of. Cornette talks highs and lows from today and yesterday.
James mark cornette born september 17, 1961 is an american author and podcaster who has previously worked in the professional wrestling industry as an agent, booker. Midnight express 2nd theme note this is a loop version the track is more shorter then this. Billy hayes brad davis is an american tourist visiting turkey. The midnight express professional wrestling wikipedia. You can support the development of the website and database backend via patreon.
Oct 08, 2019 online pro wrestling s secrets and greatest moments are immortalized in this graphic novel from legendary wrestling personality jim cornette. The team worked for central states wrestling, the american wrestling association, continental championship wrestling, continental wrestling association and the world wrestling federation. Smith, randy quaid, norbert weisser, peter jeffrey and john hurt. Jim cornette midnight express anniversary book youtube. You may consider yourself a fairly seasoned wwe fan, but how do you think youd fair against the hardest wwe quiz in the world today we ask you to know your role and put your money where your mouth is as we determine if youre just hype or if you really know your stuff. Mary lee settle says in her book turkish reflections 1991 that the turks i saw in lawrence of arabia 1962 and midnight express 1978 were like cartoon caricatures, compared to the people i had known, and lived among, for three of the happiest years of my life. Coronavirus outbreak uk officials update boris johnsons.
Survivor tells the real story behind shocking cinema classic. Hidden gems digs deep into the archives on wwe network wwe. In 1970 billy hayes was an english major who left college in search of. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Jan 24, 2014 so much so, that legitimate arguments broke out with teams like the rock n roll express, the midnight express, the road warriors etcas to who would get to wrestle the mulkeys on any given night. The two teams feuded throughout 1984 in midsouth wrestling before the midnight express left the promotion to work elsewhere. Midnight express is a 1978 prison neo noir drama film directed by alan parker, produced by david puttnam and written by oliver stone, based on billy hayes 1977 nonfiction book midnight express. The rock n roll express to be inducted into the wwe hall. This is the rarest of wrestling themes around the internet and trust me, it took me months to get hold of it.
On march 31, 2017, jim cornette made his first appearance with wwe in 12 years when he inducted the rock n roll express into the wwe hall of fame class of 2017. Pro wrestling wiki is a fancreated website about the wwe and other pro wrestling franchises. The company was later rebranded the universal wrestling federation in an attempt to expand nationally in 1986, but watts was forced. Oct 23, 2015 wrestling eye march 1988 wwf wcw wwe tna ecw nwo nwa awa book pdf. The midnight express 25th anniversary scrapbook will be the primary product because it will pretty much be a record book of every match that the midnight express and i ever had. Its the wrestling version of the midnight express from the chase theme by the. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. It was a nontelevised event, and tully and arn left the nwa for the wwf the next day. In pro wrestling, there was a tag team known as midnight express. Dennis condrey had made his name as a tag team wrestler all over the south.
The good news is that i really enjoyed jim cornette and tim ashs book. In 1992, the team had a violent on screen break up that helped propel shawn. The first would be before the midnight express won the midsouth tag team titles from magnum ta and mr. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became the academy awardwinning blockbuster film of the same name. By the time the midnight express and the rock n roll express faced off on the april. Oct 03, 2010 banged up abroad, the real midnight express, is on the national geographic channel tomorrow night, at 9pm. In this interview highspots struts down memory lane with arguably the greatest tag team ofall time, the original midnight express. Watts took over the tristate territory in 1979 and began promoting under the midsouth name. The midnight express was a professional wrestling tag team of changing members, mostly under the management of jim cornette.
The express kept on rolling down the track and into smoky mountain wrestling in the early 1990s, where they captured the promotions tag team titles on 10 different occasions. On march 31, 2017, jim cornette made his first appearance with wwe in 12. Credit goes to wwe and mark hallman plus credit for craiguk for giving me the track please dont repost. Bill watts midsouth wrestling was a shortlived promotion that has become legendary for its great booking and hardhitting style. During the year 1983 a few other wrestlers came and left the midnight express including, the midnight stallion, ron starr, rick harris, wayne ferris, and the original three members. Cornette also became active behind the scenes working on the booking. Wwe, wcw, wrestling, poster, jim cornette, rare, new. The 2019 wwe draft is the fourteenth wwe draft produced by the american professional wrestling promotion wwe between the raw and smackdown brands. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. If you buy stuff from amazon using this link, we receive a minor promotional bonus from amazon, not from you. Wcw midnight express 2nd themewith custom tron youtube.
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