Final Conflict- Cage Match for the NWA Tag Title 5 of 5

[32578daj]

YES, cool disco exit for sure....!



[2muchdeano]

16,ooo peeps were turned away at the gate that night. Think that would happen today.

[jdbankshot]

@2muchdeano ...and there was a snowstorm!!!! local cops had to call in state troopers cuz the freeway was blocked!!!! ahh, back when it meant something....kernodle looked legit f'd up on his way out of the ring...wish i had a time machine.

[michaeljackson1978]

Amen viletantrum!

[slimmsayton]

This match was a masterpiece. Wow!

[MrRegg69]

AWESOME! This is the shit right here.WWE is a big clownfest.TNA just die already.

[litehouse6]

Man I miss those days. Love how Slaughter and Kernoodle continued to sell how tough the match was after it was over as they walked to the back.

[muta157]

Thank you for uploading this. I've litterally heard about this match my entire life but never seen it.

[tidq]

Thank you so much for uploading stuff like this. I watched all 5 parts. On the Ricky Steamboat DVD, they mentioned this match a lot as one of the biggest/best tag matches he was a part of, but they left it off the match list! Maybe because of the missing seconds during the finish, but I'm still glad you did this so I can see it.

[wildstar145]

steamboat mentions on his dvd that over the next month that all of the rematches were cage matches each one more brutal the last one

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

Perfect timing for the glitch in the tape to hit. Right during the pin. lol

[Mase379]

Haha, i remember that music.. Thanks for the post!

[kevinhardy]

great match

[RayNDeere]

The Mid-Atlantic was a hot bed for tag team wrestling. It would be hard-pressed to find another territory that could sell a tag team title match as THE main event. Mid-Atlantic did it often. WWE has made its tag team division a joke now. The belts are barely defended.

[RSXemperor]

@RayNDeere The reason is it would take away from the next big Cena/Orton/HHH/Sheamus match that we have seen a million times.

[RayNDeere]

@RSXemperor I have to agree. Watching WWE is getting painful.

[carolinasown]

Look how everyone came in and congratulated the new champs. Thats when the titles meant something. Thats respect!

[DavidFullam]

Did Kernodle tap an artery? That was a sick blade job.

[pitdog34]

three counts are overrated anyway....... remember reading about this in the mags. kernodle must have hit a vein. one of the top five matches and storylines ever!!

[RevDarkehorse]

Helluva match!

[zisoul]

STARRCADE '83 was WRESTLING's 1st

ppv.I saw GORDON SOLIE showing all

the cilps of STARRCADE '83 and clips of

matches from the Omni same night on

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING

that ThanksGiving Holiday weekend.

[alcorderyjr]

This is what i love about YouTube, bcuz i live n Philadelphia, i was never able 2 see these great wrestlers n action bcuz the northeast back then was strictly WWF territory, but i stayed n the know by purchasing all the Bill Apter mags every month, The Wrestler, Inside Wrestling & Pro Wrestling Illustrated. I purchased the Inside Wrestling mag that covered this match at the corner of Wayne & Chelten avenues at a newstand, it had a pic of Steamboat & Youngblood holding the belts up, i remember!

[DVROFFMAN]

How funny to see Boris Zukhov celebrating with Steamboat and Youngblood.

[stansimms72]

i never knew footage of this match ever existed. what a match. i remember my next door neighbor telling me the morning after how great this match was. he told me the ring was a red color because of all the blood at the end of the match. he was right.

[andyrichcy]

this was an amazing match! Tahnk you so much for posting it!

[Lovelygal71]

Wow you talk about really great action, this match here was really great! I'm hooked and can't turn away, this was the stuff back in the day. I love it, sure wish that wrestling was still like this and I couldn't agree with any of you more. Geez I miss those days.

[Chrisdrumz]

I remember seeing the pics of this match in one of the mags(Inside Wrestling or The Wrestler) and being shocked at how bloody Kernodles face was.

[DVROFFMAN]

So do I. Unbelievable photos.

[miggy25]

this is the wrestling that i grew up on too...Ricky Steamboat OWNED tag wrestling and i loved his pairing with Jay Youngblood...they had such great chemistry u would think that they were brothers in real life....titles and PPV's DEFINATELY meant more than they do now...today's wrestling can't touch the quality of the sport back then

[talkingsports]

100% totally agree with your entire statement. Jay & Rick were the bomb. Was this in the first Starcade tho?

[miggy25]

no this match was in March of '83 I believe....Steamboat and Youngblood faced the Brisco Brothers for the Tag Titles at the first Starrcade in November of '83

[viletantrum]

This was the shit I grew up with. Man how I have a great affection for the matches from my youth. These matches you would remember for decades. These wrestlers were so talented. You just had to buy a ticket to these events for the pure spectackle of it. Any time the NWA rolled into town you got more than your money's worth. They made it an event and we ate it up!!!Thanks NWA of old for life long memories!!!

[chuckgan]

Great videos! I remember reading about this match in PWI. It puts the wwe to shame.

[songoku350]

The wrestling business is losing viewers day and month and year by year yet both companies refuse to get it. The closest thing we had to a well built up tag team wrestling feud was the Styles/Daniels vs LAX feud with both teams going at it for months with great promos. Wrestling little by little is becoming unwatchable with its lack of passion and hard-on for bullshit gimmicks and politics. Ring of Honor is the only wrestling feud left with any integrity.

[songoku350]

The Pay Per View has killed wrestling feuds as everything is built up in 2-3 weeks to get a big buyrate where as this feud was built up for months and thats why the crowd is so emotionally invested in this match. This rivalry and this match was like one long war.

Emotion and getting it from the crowd is a lost art. People no longer relate and emotionally invest themselves in a match hardly anymore.

[Wilkrn1975]

I agree, they had 4 big pay per views a year and that was it. Fueds and matches were built up for months b4 the PPV and that only made you wanted to see it even more. PLus title changes meant ALOT more back then. It was a big deal when someone lost or won a title.

[DVROFFMAN]

Weren't even PPV's back in 83. Closed circuit viewing at selected arenas up and down the Mid-atlantic was how fans were able to see this and Starrcade 83.

[miggy25]

what was the first official PPV? was it WrestleMania 1 or 2? I know WM 1 was shown via closed circuit tv i believe

[DVROFFMAN]

I'm going to say that in November 85 The WWF had The Wrestling Classic. Wasn't available on every cable provider but I'm pretty sure it technically was the first PPV. My cable company in D.C. began PPV's with Wrestlemania 4 and Starrcade 88 was my first NWA/WCW ppv.

[DVROFFMAN]

That entire Wrestling Classic was a 1 nite 16 man tournament and the entire tourney has been uploaded on PPV.

[Marquis103]

they just don't have fueds like this anymore

[Marquis103]

just went back and watched the whole road to greensboro...classic

[randy28146]

I'm actually somewhere in the second row at ringside. This event sold out, and it caused the largest traffic jam in Greensboro history because peope without tickets were also trying to get to the coliseum, not knowing it was sold out. Statements were being made on radio that if you weren't going to the event, to stay clear of the area. If you familiar with Greensboro, it took me one and a half hours to get from Holden Road at Interstate 85 to the coliseum.

[123soulman]

what ever happen to finishing moves like the piledriver. shoulder breaker, the kneelift,the butterfly suplex, neckbreaker,the belly2belly suplex, bearhug,fullnelson,russianles sweep, those was good finishing move, Now we got shit john senna use call f you, adamn stand up firemen carry and wins a match, but use a pile driver a guy kicks out hmmm do the math it don,t add up

[samsdaddy0525]

Talk about a pop from the crowd! They don't pop like that anymore.

[jerichofanforlife]

They popped like that for the new age outlaws in the wwf.

[Marquis103]

NWA was so real...u popped because u thought ur favorite wrestler or the "face" was really in trouble...

[Marquis103]

or triumph

[samsdaddy0525]

What more could be said about this? IMO, Steamboat was the best face ever, period! He was a great singles star and he and Jay were one of the very best tag teams ever. Props also to Slaughter (here in his prime) and Don Kernodle who was no slouch either.

[bacardilvr]

Now THAT was theater at it's best. The defeated former champions, even though they were the heels, the people respected that they were men, and that they walked out on their own two feet. The people knew that they had seen a war. Kernodle looks like he was in a car wreck.

[ccie12933]

You know what I really love? Slaughter and Kernodle selling the loss at the end. Great attention to detail.

The music's a nice touch, too. :)

[DocFarnoff]

popculturestu thanks to people like you the long dead sport of professional wrestling has been ressurected! I enjoyed the 20+ segments and the entire blow-off match. Its too bad no one would buy this kind of logical action today. Thanks again!

[ROHTNA1991]

A COMMENT LONGER THAN A FEW WORDS

[ROHTNA1991]

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY I CAN'T LEAVE

[okrabay]

The mat wars. 7 nights a week year after year...until Vince came along.

[CadillacL]

I was 12 in '83..I sure wish wrestlng was back to this.

[MomentManiac]

I've waited 25 years to witness what I knew in 1983 at the age of 12 that this would be my favorite match ever!!!! I still own the copy Inside Wrestling with the match deatiled. I've always tried to envision this 50 minutes of classic and graceful BRUTALITY and it was more than I ever expected. A flawless tag-team cage match that should be one of the blueprints on how it's done!!!!! Fucking amazing.

[1cpw]

I read that the whole storyline from start to finish was drafted by Slaughter and Kernodle themselves over the course of one of their long drives.

[Mase379]

OMG the memories.

[tiffanyminx]

i still have my old torn ticket stub from that nite.

[mikemike4315]

this is what wrestling was ment to be not like the crap of today i wish we could go back to this type of wrestling.

[krypton1]

That's Wrestling......Period

[catdaddy2006]

This is how you build a feud. Weeks of back and forth events, special stipulations, and a cage match to settle it all in one night.Awesome!! Tommy Rich and Buzz Sawyer had another great feud in '83 that ended in a cage match. It was put together well also.

[catdaddy2006]

Thousands of fans were turned away at the door that night. Sold out show! I feel like it was this event that paved the way for all super card shows. Pre Starrcade '83.

[Augustus212]

Exactly I read PVT Nelson talk about the bookings leading up to this event which paved the way for Crockett's idea for Starrcade.

[catdaddy2006]

If I were to write a wrestling story line, I would do my research right here. This was well done all the way around.

[zisoul]

Woo!This is what a Real CageMatch WRESTLING

sould be,unlike the blue latter type plastic

cages the wwe got.I wish Ted Turner would

bring NWA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING back.

He needs to put vince jr in his prop place.

[funkyflashman]

The couple of second gap is when Arn Anderson accidently tapped over the dvd of Jim Nelson's (Boris Zurkov)

[funkyflashman]

What a bloodbath!! Awesome!!

[retrogamah]

I like old cage matches! Thanks!!!