Jim Cornette on The Build-Up To Tully Blanchard vs. Magnum T.A. At Starrcade '85 

the match had a level of realism that is rarely touched in wrestling. you thought these two legit hated each other, wanted to legit hurt each other, and would legit bleed to death before quitting

I always loved the loophole that Tully STILL uses....He always says that he never actually said "I Quit" which is true..Lol

The build up to this tremendous blow-off match between NWA U.S. Heavyweight Champion, Tully Blanchard vs. Magnum T.A. at Starcade '85 in a steel cage with "I Quit" rules is the best thing ever in NWA/JCP/Mid-Atlantic History! The hatred started in June between the two when Magnum was announcing and getting involved physically in Tully's World TV Title defenses. In July, Tully takes away the belt from Magnum when Baby Doll, dressed as a security guard, handed Tully a roll of quarters in which he used to knock out Magnum and cover him for the pin. That led to great promos by both men, led to bloody and brutal matches all across the country between the two, and finally we got Starcade 85! Best match on the card, and that match has gone down in history as the best "I Quit" ever!

"Mr Crockett ... Canceled Checks ... Dusty Rhodes ... Money Above ... It all fits together now" - Tully Blanchard

Underrated part of this......The Barbarian actually thinking Miss Atlanta Lively was really a woman😅

I Quit match in a Cage, is that what Jim would call "a hat on a hat" ?

I love that build started with Dusty vs Tully a year earlier.

Lol at manny Fernandez trying to say the Mexican death match was supposed to be the main event. Uh, no.

To bad Magnum had his career cut short. They were prepping him to the next face of the business.

oh for the good old days!

When wrestling meant something!! When wrestlers had talent and integrity,!! Now look at today's scene

Magnum TA was my favorite wrestler growing up.

People forget that when Tully turned up at JCP, and Dusty became booker, JCP's business was in the toilet. Then TB got Nickla in '85; Started feuding with Dusty "Tip My Hat to a Lady??" (Nobody made Dusty look better than Tully) then the Fued with Maggy; Baby Doll goes Face, Tully Blanchard Enterprises; The start of the Four Horsemen; Then all the talent that started to join Crockett, like The Midnight X; Road Warriors, Rock n Roll X, Rude & Bull etc; Because business was Booming. Lex Luger arrives, joins T4H. Barry Windhams's Heel turn. Then the guaranteed contracts for Lex & Road Warriors gets leaked, and Two of the company's Top Heels, TB & AA are left out? Tully gets banned from the Jet Bc he told Turner's people of their profligate spending (WWF has MTV; Dusty spends a Dollar to make 70 cents with David Allen Coe) So TB & AA jump ship to the WWF; and finally WCW also goes in decline....Funny how Tully wasn't "That Important" to Crockett...

Oh Jimmy, Back in the day where the heels “ most of the time” would call the match, set the pace, pull the high spots, grabbing the heat, pulling in the crowd with the intensity every time the ref would grad the microphone and the double switch on the ending with babydoll tossing in the chair, Tully breaking off that vampire style stake magnum getting the upper hand and getting Tully to say” and here is the catch” Yyyeeeessssss! Yyyeeeessss! But never did he say “ I quit “ so in a textbook cage match, never to this day has it been duplicated you had a classic. The only other two cage matches that are talked about as much as this are Dan Morocco versus jimmy Snuka and not necessarily a cage match but Undertaker vs mankind hell in a cell. That is how much impact that starcade match had.

I mean Tully said it in a promo and my 12 year brain bought it. He said “if you don’t like violence don’t come.” Damn. Bob Giegel said The NWA wouldn’t sanction the match

Jim is great

Tully vs his ex wife new husband Magnum Ta in a I quit match. They should've had that on the marquee.

Tully should have ask the ref if he quit!

wait... when jim’s going over results, he says dusty d. flair via dq? i thought ‘85 was the year w/joe frazier as ref & flair winning via blood stoppage?

I love these watch alongs..great after a blunt inhaling your dinner and watching along and laughing at Jims reactions

Isn't magnum ta with tullys ex wife in real life

You know if this was now and they both still wrestled it would be Tessa on a pole match.

Magnum ta is awesome

Ive did an extensive search in 1985 involving the Mid Atlantic HW Title. Its said Buzz Tyler abruptly left the JCP vacating the title after summer of 85. But as the the Starrcade 85 match between Krusher Krueschev defeating Sam Houston in "tournament final' for the vacant MA title. I think it was a one on one deciding match, not a drawn out bracket tournament. I find NO information, results or records of any kind involving ANY other than those two involved/involving a tournament.

Magnum TA and Tully Blanchard the Best I quit match of all time at this point this match was the best coolest most awesome feud Coming to a head at Starcade 85 I quit match in a cage there are a lot of feuds That stand out to me this feud was very special for one thing it was a Long feud the way feuds Should be told I quit matches of recent wrestling promotion AEW and WWE We’re by no means even close to the quality of this match Magnum TA and Tully Blanchard We’re so much better performers and workers than the wrestlers up today there’s just no comparison 🧐🤔🤘🩸 and the blood 🩸 was done right but old-school wrestlers bled almost every night if not every night 🧐🤔🤘 that’s what I mean by better performers and better workers way more pride in their finished product 🤘

Lord Humongous. I haven't heard that name in a while. I liked him as a kid, just because of his look.

Rocky king for hall of fame

the match: www.dailymotion.com/video/x32jse

RIP Nikita Koloff, 1988

Had he not had the accident, I would have loved to had seen a Magnum vs Rick Rude feud. No doubt the ladies would have gone crazy for that one.

If I ever did a Cornette Cameo, I just want him to say I “…used my left & right turn idicators.” That is the compliment

YESSSSSSSSSSS! YESSSSSSSSSSS!

And this is the greatest match of all time.

Jim always was just a worker

That match STILL unsettles me, and I've seen matches that look a bit nastier

First

And then Tully chased his wife with a crowbar, she had an affair with a lawyer from the ski slopes, and married Terry aka Magnum and Tully moved down the street and stalked them for a few years while running the phony evangelist work while refusing to mention Gino or what happened to him for 34 years and counting. He'd be lying anyway so not a big loss

I love Jim’s stories, but I can’t believe he actually thinks that anybody over 12 thought wrestling was real even in the 80s. Maybe things were different in the 60s/70s but even then I find it hard to believe that “the masses” thought it was real

Unfollowing. You post too many snippets. I'll just pop back now and then to find the podcasts.