Midnight Rockers In Memphis - Part 1

The first in a series of clips from Memphis Wrestling. The Midnight Rockers - Shawn Michaels and Marty Janetty - make their first appearance in Jerry Jarrett's CWA promotion. Here they face The Assassins.

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[bassrocker35]

Was this about 86-87?

[jlowry71]

The Rockers were in Memphis from October 1987 to I believe it was February or March of 1988

[jonbeez]

This was after the Rockers had been fired by the WWF for partying too much. They worked Memphis & in the AWA until they asked for long term contracts and Verne Gagne turned them down. Not long after Vince offered them a 2nd chance and they took full advantage.

[Cap285]

3 people like 'Sports Entertainment'.

[boydgrl36]

Thanks For Posting This I'm A Huge Fan Of Shawn Michaels And Marty Jannetty!

[MrKooldaddykool]

classic

[soln4suhreborn]

True because St. Louis Wrestling Club was an NWA territory and Pacific Northwest was also. The CWA/Memphis area was NWA affiliated before it aligned itself with the AWA.

[108Stars]

It takes time to figure out the nature of the NWA not having been the predeccessor-promotion of the WCW but rather an alliance of many small promotions cooperating, with NWA champions travelling through all of the small member promotions defending their title.  I only understood thx to the internet, because in Germany nobody ever explained the NWA.

Anyway, this is nice footage!

[SashaNein]

1-time NWA Central States Tag Team Champions

[RSXemperor]

The two biggest NWA members in the 80's were JCP and All Japan.

[bigpoppanard]

Note: those are NOT the Original Assasins, these guys are a regional version of that masked tag team that were made of enhancement talent. There were teams of them in the AWA, CWA, Georgia (after the original ones left), Florida and Deep South around that time.

[bigpoppanard]

You are right about that. Alot of people get confussed about JCP/WCW being the "entire NWA" because they were the largest member during the mid & late 80s. But thye have to remember that the NWA was and still IS a GLOBAL organization.