- Highlights of Power Pro Wrestling from 3-14-85. Brickhouse Brown-Josh Stroud vs. Hercules Hernandez-Steve Williams. Brown is by my count Watts' fifth try (and failure) to make a "new JYD." FYI, one through four, perhaps out of order, were Sonny King, Master G George Wells, Iceman Parsons and Butch Reed. Here Brown fights off two top heels with little help from jobber Stroud and pins Hernandez. How well does it work? The fans boo Brown for his stunning upset. Leads to ...

- Brickhouse Brown vs. Jack Victory. Brown is DOA, booed in his intro. The females of MSW 1985, who love all the pretty boys, like Reed and even cheer Stroud enthusiastically, cheer for Jack Victory. And the men, outnumbered five to one by the women, loudly boo everything Brown does. Who can blame them. Brown is a pre-Johnny B Badd, Little Richard gimmick and his matches in MSW weren't good. This one has about four blown spots at the end, although they all seem to be from Victory running the ropes poorly. Brown wins and everyone boos him. Never one to admit defeat, Watts would be back with the Snowman soon enough and a young Ahmed Johnson after that.

- Highlights of Taylor-Kamala from last week. Watts is great here selling that everyone expected Taylor to get creamed, and he not only didn't, but won. Boyd just smiles at the world according to Bill. Leads to Kamala vs. Shawn Michaels, which never happens as Kamala is so mad with rage he just pounds Shawn into the mat for the DQ. Horner and Daniels try for the save and get handled. Then Terry Taylor hits the ring and he too is ousted by Kamala. But outside the ring, Taylor blocks an Akbar posting (countering last week's spot) and piledrives Friday. Kamala immediately stops beating the JTTS and attends to Friday. Good stuff. Besides the Taylor push, this leads to an "uncontrollable" Kamala without his handler.

- The Barbarian vs. Mike Jackson. The Rev. Jackson tries to do for Nord what he did for the Road Warriors. It worked for me then. Not so much now.

- Ted DiBiase gives a "I'll be back for you in 30 days, Jim Duggan" interview in which he says, "I'll be back for you in 30 days, Jim Duggan." No, really, he did. Truth be told I think he lost the match the day after this was taped although it was canned, not live, and hence, not given away.

- Tom Prichard-Terry Daniels vs. Chris Adams-Steve Williams. For some reason the website lists this as Hercules not Adams. Adams is better. Prichard, one week from a low card heel turn (against Tim Horner in the TV tournament) that really suited him, is very good here. Adams nails a super kick out of nowhere on Daniels for the pin.

- Kerry Von Erich vs. Thor. This match is priceless for two reasons. One: Crowd reaction. The crowd is mostly female and they scream for Kerry, louder than they have screamed for Ricky or Magnum or Terry or Shawn or Tim or all of them put together in the last year plus. The men, fairly evenly spaced through the crowd, and older than the young women, look like dads with their daughters and their daughters' friends. When the screeching goes up for Kerry, the men, almost in unison, don't make any noise, but get sick-to-their-stomach looks on their faces. I kid you not, and let's be honest, daddy probably knew best on this one. Kerry wins with the claw and everyone reacts to it. Jake the Snake hits the ring and gets into it with Kerry. Kerry goes down, makes a big comeback. Two: out of nowhere Chris Adams appears with the best superkick I have ever seen! All these years later, I still have never seen better, and this too made the opening credit montage. Adams snaps Kerry's jaw perfectly, makes a loud pop and in what seems to be a lucky fluke, stumbles and falls toward the camera. he catches himself almost in pushup position and looks briefly into the camera which seems to be right in his face. Meanwhile Kerry is stunned. Taylor saves and looks to take Kerry out, but it is a fake, as they come back and clear out all three heels, right after Watts says, "even Terry Taylor has to retreat from these odds." Ha. Next week, Terry and Kerry together.

- Tim Horner-Brad Armstrong vs. Dirty White Boys. As far as I know this is Watts first time reuniting the former National tag champs. They'll get no glory as a team in these rings until Dusty's revenge. Len Denton gets the pin on Horner with the Samoan drop. Again. He must have the book. But Dutch Mantell is looming. Good match. The crowd is again a riot as the females cheer for the hot tag Horner never makes with, "go, Tim, go," to which the men add, "home,” in time.

- Steve Casey vs. Paul Brown. Casey is an odd fit for MSW, with his European style. He wins here--with a surfboard submission--and the women like him, but his push doesn't last long. Next week is a TV title match with Adams.

- The world according to Bill Watts, part two. Coming soon Eddie Gilbert, the Nightmare and Dutch Mantell. Plus the MS dream team of Kerry and Terry. Then Watts testifies his Faith to his audience. No, I am not kidding. Boyd gives him the same smile he gave him on the Terry Taylor speech. That was the Cowboy. And we're out.

- Overall review: I like my other MSW tapes. I love this one. Great story telling, very good wrestling, fascinating, hot crowd reactions and a couple of classic angles. Highly recommended.