Mid South Ernie Ladd and Magnum TA Local Promos for Houston July 1984 

Big Cat" Ernie Ladd 💛🙏🙏R.I.P. 🙏🙏🙏❤ I watched you growing up. You helped paved the road for many blacks in Football, and Pro-Wrestling. You were professional, and classy!!! One of the best heal wrestlers of his era. Loved his matches with Andre the Giant. You will be missed!❤

Before the Rock, there was Ernie Ladd

Before athletes and rappers, we had wrestlers to look up to in the 70s and 80s! It was amazing to see them perform both on tv and in person! I applaud professional wrestling for being the first to showcase Black Men in their genre!

Ernie Ladd was one of my all time favorite performers. He knew how to entertain and he understood the business. His promos are legendary and he was great at making young faces look great in the ring. Out of all the wrestlers that have passed away, I miss Ernie Ladd the most.

Ernie Ladd looks like Bill Withers without his beard.

The old school putting over the new school. That's true wrestling. This is like Magnum's graduate school. Survive this, hang with the greats, and you might be somebody. Show us what you've got.

That maybe the best magnum promo ever

JR looked EXACLTY like Louie Anderson!

Mr TV Announcer

Magnum looks like Randy West for the same era

Ernie Ladd is one of those guys who came too soon as his charisma and entertaining promos would have made him a superstar today. The fans would have turned him face.

This is maybe my favorite Ladd promo

Young Jim Ross aka Peter Griffin

I still love that North American Heavyweight belt!

That was a damn good Magnum TA promo. He was an intense dude. And The Big Cat? Well he's known to be a great talker

WOW! Big Cat said he will slap you in the face, abuse you and make you do things…. 😂 Man, Ernie was on one!

Dirty Rhodes! Nobody was like the Big Cat, the king of all Wrestling!

Ernie Ladd used to say come sit under the learning tree boy

Jim Ross 11 years old here, got that bowl cut and fat as a clown. He's smug and cool.

Love the video quality

Love me some Ernie Ladd

Around this time, Mr. Ladd had about a year or so left before he hung up the boots.

If Ernie Ladd was alive today he could teach some NXT and WWE wrestlers how to cut promos i see where the Rock got his mic skills from Ernie Ladd was a great wrestler

6'9 Ernie "Big Cat" Ladd : "When I slap your face and abuse you !!!!" (Ernie Ladd was 45 years young in 1984)

Jim Ross looks like Eric Cartman with a suit and without his hat on.

I was there that night. Decent match.👍

1:12, damn, Cat...ya plan on taking him in a cellblock?!😳

When I slap your face , lmao 🤣 ha ha ha ha Kool cat

Yak yak yak, yuk yuk yuk

You tell them Ernie they are just trying to keep the poor black man down

You know the difference between pro wrestling and sports entertainment is that pro wrestling consist of professional wrestlers while sports entertainment consist of entertainers.