The Road Warriors vs The Midnight Express (Scaffold Match)

[mosset4]

when wrestling was wrestling

[TheCSXGUY]

25 ft = 2 1/2 stories high.

[crcracker1]

Back when wrestling was great, legendary match!!

[hbogart57]

Paul Ellering looks like Freddie Mercury.

[peterp21]

Scaffold matches were a big attraction of the days before every match being a stipulation or "diferent" match type. THey died a quick death when fans realized they suck and absolutely dangerous. Wrestling is relatlively safe because it's a controlled environment with guys doing stuff they know how to do properly. No one's going to piledrive someone on a scaffold on the chance they could slip and send their opponent plummeting to his death.

[ryanc22]

@peterp21 Exactly, that's probably the reason why WWE did not have any scaffold matches.

[blacksheep25251]

Cornette has a great interview on this

[blacksheep25251]

@blacksheep25251 :

youtube.com/watch?v=74f45Q_4I-­U

[mixer549]

hawk and animal were scared too

[sammys70]

It's is obvious bobby and dennis were really scared of being on that scaffold.

[TheCSXGUY]

@sammys70 Who would'nt be ?

[crcracker1]

Legendary Match, don't make em like this anymore, taking great risks being up that high!!

[mckendo83]

ECW had a couple good ones... well they used it twice in one night but it was supposed to be for one match - however they had tables stacked in the ring to break the fall for the actual match... perry saturn just decided he could drop an elbow from it...

[Amisbro]

seeing Schiavone on top of that scaffold with the camera looking up sells the match enough in my opinion and when you realize how high up it is you are thinking one thing

"Dear lord don't let me fall onto the concrete!"

Why? Think about it!

Fake or not you take a fall onto concrete from 25ft up you're getting either hurt or killed and NEITHER looks good in the long run!

[tracer28583]

why not have this in the wwe that would be cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kawuma1982]

@tracer28583 Do you realize how dangerous this is? Mans could have died falling off that shit. The real question is what wrestler would agree to a match like this?

[estigia]

@tracer28583 Simple answer for a simple question,WWE is for pussies! They care so much more about their image that they'll rather have pretty boy kiddey matches than hardcore stuff like in the old days besides WWF/WWE never cared for those type of matches the NWA always went that extra mile.

[raiderldp]

I remember the build-up for this match. I thought these guys were the craziest people on the planet! Awesome match for the time, and even now. No one would try this now!

[Kawuma1982]

@raiderldp That's what I just told dude above. How much do you think they got paid for this?

[deweese74]

this is hilarious!!! the Midnight Express were the dirtiest players in the game!

[The521Matt]

the roadwarriors have been the most badass team in wrestlingkellyjohnsonmocksvill­e

[woko1988]

cornette blew both his knees out because of this, ANd he was scared of heights lol poor guy, such a good match! you cna see why they didnt have any after this tho

[Shadowhoggy]

I read in Animals book that Cornette yelled,"Catch me Bubba" but Traylor missed then he yelled"I'm hurt Bubba".Classic

[Shadowhoggy]

fUCK THIS IS SO BADASS

[PLANETROCK21229]

I have not seen this since i was a 9 .and even back then my moms was not having it wit the ppv......thanks for the post

[Jessyleppert]

I wish WWE did Scaffold Matches.

[fatmanfiftythousand]

Tony Schiavone was the ring announcer too?