Black History Month DAY 27

Bill Dundee v. Big Red Reese 1/6/86

This was one of the famous promoting blunders of all time. This is the first Mid-South Coliseum show after Lawler lost the loser leaves town match to Dundee. For some reason on the next Memphis TV show they have Big Red Reese debut and run out in the last minute of the TV show to ruin Dundee's celebration, setting up this epic main event. I read on Wrestling Classics that this match only drew 300 people, which seems crazy low, but you could see rows and rows of empty seats, and it looked like the front row was only half full.

Out of all the morbidly obese black wrestlers of the 1980's Big Red may have been the fattest and most useless. Imagine a redbone Plowboy Frazier without Plowboys mobility, charisma and stiffness. Dundee tries hard, throwing some awesome looking punches, but Big Red can't bump and doesn't really sell. About three minutes in, Red does some of the most listless shucking and jiving in the history of wrestling cooning. Finally about five minutes into this Dutch Mantel runs in to end this mess.

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