British Bulldogs vs Rock n Roll Express

British Bulldogs take on the Rock 'n Roll Express for the only time (to my knowledge) in this clip.

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Sports

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• wrestling
• bulldogs
• rock
• express

[TheToughBrets]

I see a lot of people commenting on this being a "classic" match, but beyond being the one meeting of these two legendary teams (and therefore being a piece of historical interest to wrestling marks), the match itself was massively disappointing.

[bigpoppanard]

Not entirely true, it was an AWA show from 1988, AJPW had a deal with the AWA for a talent exchange...I remember on the english version of this tv taping had stars from NWA Central States/WWA and a couple from the Memphis promotion. They also spoke to Bill Apter before the match saying this match was the "dream match" every fan wanted to see.

[Netriderceo]

@DiSte Are you sure that's not AJPW/AWA? It is after all, an AWA ring.

[Netriderceo]

@RevDarkehorse Verne was too cheap and had no sort of vision. Remember this is the guy that let Rick Martel, Curt Hennig, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels slip through his fingers in favor of Nick Bockwinkel and Larry Zybyzko. And yeah, Verne did have money but he didn't want to spend it.

[Netriderceo]

@1981CrueHead It was speed and team work of the Rock N Roll and Midnight Express teams that sold them as legitimate competitors to those bigger teams. It wasn't like Rey Mysterio vs John Cena where it you could tell the smaller guy had no business in the ring with the bigger one. I've watched their matches either live, on TV or on YouTube since at least 1984 and I can tell you they always worked well with the bigger teams.

[Netriderceo]

@TheToughBrets It wasn't a 5 star match but I think a lot of what was wrong with it had to do with the referee being too old, too slow, and NEVER in position when he needed to make a count. Believe it or not, a bad ref and throw off the timing of the wrestlers and cause other problems that hinder the quality of the match. Given the fact that the match took place in an AWA ring, they should have had a guy like Scott LeDouex (AWA ref and former boxer) ref the match instead of that guy.

[McMahonHater]

@mickdundee1973 Indeed a very cool bit of wrestling history.

[mickdundee1973]

Wow, never knew that these teams had ever met!

[rockytheyorky]

This match was not sanctioned by the WWWF at the time it was during the bulldogs leave from the WWWF that this took place,and The Rock N Roll Express were between contracts with Jim Crockett promotions.How can anyone say this was not a classic its the only match up of these two teams ever other than I believe one that took place in japan,which has yet to surface.

[kulditbeme]

This match was held on 02-02-89, at Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, I was in attendence with family, we sat behind the announcers table, Giant Baba blocked a lot of view, also on the card, Stan Hansen and Terry Gordy lost the All Japan tag title to Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu, Dory and Terry Funk was also on the card, I could not believe it did not sell out! I still have photos from the event.

[GLLWolf]

I love it when the Bulldogs played the heels...that was Dynamite's bread and butter