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9. The Midnight Express Wrestled The Rock And Roll Express
No, not "Sweet Stan" Lane and "Beautiful Bobby" Eaton, nor "Loverboy Dennis" Condrey and "Beautiful Bobby," either. But it was "Bombastic Bob" Holly and "Bodacious Bart" Gunn as the NWA World Tag Team Champions wrestling Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson during 1998's ill-fated "revenge of the National Wrestling Alliance" storyline that involved Jim Cornette and Jeff Jarrett, too. Taped on St. Patrick's Day 1998 in Tuscon, Arizona, the match was certainly not the barnburners of the 1980s, but still this one is oddly noteworthy.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
