NWA '89 - US Champ Lex Luger vs. Kendall Windham

[bwbwall241]

I don't think Lex was nearly as bad as everyone claims.

[hoghash78]

@bwbwall241 Bruiser Brody would agree.

[RyanKBoman]

LOL!!! I forgot about the "Western Union Replay"

[johnissoevil]

I remember mistakingly thinking at first that Center Stage was a renovated Techwood Drive Studio with more seats and a bigger interview area added.

[lstn74]

HOW THE HELL DID THE FANS SIT SO CLOSE TO THE RING! Man I miss the old days.

[eatshatndie]

Kendall is what Lex would look like without roids.

[dbsommers1]

@eatshatndie Kendell is what Barry would have looked like if he had never worked out a day in his life. ^_^

[japanpro1]

luger was absolutely stunning and the camera is very good to us in this match. i was right on the aisle for his entrance at chi-town. whoa! he's at his hottest, though, absorbing punishment and always selling it beautifully. i think he loved that himself. takes more than a little 'willing suspension of disbelief' to see him worked by stickman kendall, whose career was all push.

[japanpro1]

kendall's career was sheer push. i was ringside at a match he had with great muta in florida, in which muta put provided the fireworks but kendall "pulled it out" at the end. i could never believe he got to this level.

[Leftysfive93]

Miss Jim Ross.

[litehouse6]

Luger's no selling became BS.

[JonathanVonErich]

Kendall was a good wrestler, However he didn't had the look to be a heel. He look like Greg Gagne, give me a break.

[Timotheus24]

search for a nowadays wrestler that is smaller than the ref^^

[heavymetalsoldier]

NWA Rocked!!!!! Stopped watching when they changed the name to WCW. Thats when wrestling died

[kimv020887]

@heavymetalsoldier hey dude the WCW's old name was Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP). 

[Shoethiefking]

Scrawny as fuck.

[jmoon219]

Why isn't good ole JR wearing his cowboy hat?

[xhemexx]

Kendall kind of looks like Stunning Steve Austin in this match.

[TheNyghtShyft]

this was my first Lex Luger match I ever saw

[mkl62]

From 1989. One of the few matches that I was able to watch since I was out of the country for most of 1989 (Navy). A good match between Kendall Windham and Lex Luger. Michael Hayes had just done a heel turn on Lex. Ironically, 2 months later, Lex would do likewise on Ricky Steamboat. I hope that there are more posts of Lex Luger from 1989 out there.

[Edgehead10075]

What a powerslam!

[Edgehead10075]

What a second powerslam for the win!

[everstijn75]

Lex has always been one of my all time favs, but Kendall is a total cutie in this.

[northsider707]

@everstijn75

you dum..

luger was just plane sorry in the ring.

the windham's were good.

[everstijn75]

@northsider707 I just reviewed this vid and confirms that Lex is awesome and looks amazing. It seems other people agree with me.

[northsider707]

@everstijn75

we all have our likes and dislikes.

maybe you see something he does well in the ring, well i dont.

i admit,, hes ok during this era but later on like mid-late 90's oh....

forget it. Luger got worse and worse basically

[MrFrenchHeritage]

Great victory for the package! Michael Hayes was hilarious with his "Neutral" commentary, and JR trying to control him was even funnier. Kendall Windham sucked.

[Lfdjake91]

Actually, I thought that Kendall greatly improved as a heel and was very underated as part of the W.Texas Rednecks in the closing days of WCW.

[Kjr0se]

The match was good, but the sound wasn't good, not enough clarity, the sound wasn't clear, it just wasn't good, I'd like to watch this match with much better clarity.

[xhemexx]

Hey if anyone wants a good watch. Someone should put up the match where Lex Luger first won the United States Championship in 1987 against Nikita Koloff in the cage at the Great American Bash. That was one of the most dominating matches that Luger was in and that I ever saw, Luger totally wipped the floor with him and kicked Koloffs ass.

[TheNyghtShyft]

@xhemexx Nikita was a monster too

[Buckeyecat2002]

Wikipedia: In 1990 Kendall Windham and his father Blackjack Mulligan were arrested by the US Secret Service in a joint investigation with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) for counterfeiting. The authorities found close to $500,000 in phony $20 bills.

[Lfdjake91]

Both Kendall & Blackjack did 2 years in federal prison for this.

[SheriffTankStoner]

@Buckeyecat2002 Well, Kendall's money may have been counterfeit but there was nothing phony about his skills.

[BlackLantern2841]

Classic TBS Saturday afternoon match! Great shows. I always thought it was more action packed than the old WWF.

[actionfigures95]

great stuff

[allie70611]

southernpurewrestling . com has launched

[Kjr0se]

Why were the bottom and middle ropes in reverse order? The white rope is suppose to be the middle rope and the blue rope is suppose to be the bottom rope, the way the crew that set up the ring didn't put the middle and bottom ropes in the right positions, it looked funny.

[neverbackdownneverqu]

does anyone have the match between ric flair and ricky the dragon steamboat at chi town rumble 1989

[mr10tomidnight]

Unless you are from a nudist colony don't get into the ring with Lex Lugar.Lugar was on a tight pulling terror.After he pulled Hayes tights to regain the US title he started pulling Rick Steamboats,Tommy Rich's anybody that got into the ring with him left with their tights pulled

[themightycelestial]

Are you sure it wasn't written in the scripts? I know alot of the plots written for these guys tended to be pretty formulaic.