Barry Darsow: Magnum TA Car Accident & Best of 7 Series w/ Nikita Koloff
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- Опубліковано 20 лис 2014
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Barry Darsow (a.k.a Krusher Khruschev, Demolition Smash, Repo Man, Blacktop Bully) was part of one of the top heel tag teams in the NWA. During the mid-late 1980s, Barry Darsow teamed with Ivan Koloff and Nikita Koloff, to win the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. After being featured in top-notch feuds against teams like the Road Warriors and the Rock n' Roll Express, plans for the Russian team took a turn over some suspected bogus payoffs. In this Title Match exclusive, hear what Barry Darsow says about the best of 7 series between Magnum TA and Nikita Koloff. Also, how Darsow remembers that fateful night when Magnum TA had that career-ending car accident. It was an accident that would alter the course of wrestling history.
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Oct 14, 1986: The day that changed wrestling history. Magnum TA was being groomed for an NWA world championship, many say he could have been as big as Hulk Hogan or Ric Flair.
don't know if he'd have been that big. he definitely would have gotten the CHANCE to though. I at the time saw a short to medium term title reign of a few months and then back to flair!!! don't forget with the possible exception of Bruno in the 70's most of your big money matches were going to be with a babyface CHASING the title not being the champ!!
That's repo man!!
he would have been at least as big as Flair. Hogan,maybe not so much since neither was Flair (generally speaking anyhow) Flair was big in wrestling but not much more. Hogan was over with the public that didnt even watch wrestling. I dont see Magnum getting to those heights but definitely as big as Flair.
allen collamore Actually, during this same time period the WWF was setting the world ablaze with some babyface champ.
He wasn't as polished as those guys but was still a promising work in progress. I would have loved to see him over take Flair, who for me was a snore to watch with his same shtick by the 90s.
Watching Barry over all the years, all the different characters/tag teams, good guy, heel, damn good wrestler,
and a good long career! Never heard a bad word said about this man in or out of the ring, says a lot about a person! And Magnum, what a horrible end to what I believe was gonna be one of those really special wrestling careers, he had a really good run though, and nice to hear Barry speak so respectfully of Magnum, sooooo hard it was 32 years ago going on 33, wow!
Hard to believe it's been 32 going on 33 years ago that Magnum was in the accident that is!
Underrated
that magnum accident made me cry as a kid. magnum was one of my first heroes. Especially because it was my fav promotion. NWA JCP
I used to watch ALL of the NWA shows. I didn't like WWF as much as NWA, the heels were better and the talent seemed better.
+TheWarDog11 i agree; eventually WWF went after the NWA big players to sign them
I always been a fan of NWA wrestling
Ric Flair especially said this was the future of wrestling. Magnum TA was awesome and it's sad he never got to reach his potential.
The thing I've learned about wrestling low these many years is, it's like so many pro sports, you're only one devastating injury away from being a use to was. But in all reality, there has always been a passing of the generational torch as time marches on.
NWA was always better than WWF.
For adults
1,000%
Even as a kid WWF was too childish for me
Vince McMahon has been known to call WCW/NWA a "Clown circus". Vince McMahon has no room to talk!
Now look at what they've got going on. Their Ratings are right around 0.50 or so, and it's not getting any better. Plus he loves to call WWE "Sports Entertainment".
Who's the Clown now, Vince McMahon?
You are!!!!!
He Would Have Been World Champ If Not For The Car Wreck.
By '86 the NWA title meant nothing.
@@subzero8679 That's not true.
I was 15-years old, Magnum would of been NWA champ.
I seen both those guys in mid south in alexandria louisiana...both guys gave great performances every time
That Minnesota accent. 😂
We didn't get much if any NWA up here in Canada at the time..you really had to search for it ..you could order the tapes in the magazines , angelo mosca tried to co-promote a local show and ended up getting a local spot on TV during crocketts second last year, or you could try to watch it on the snowy buffalo TV with an ariel ..I followed all the angles religiously through the PWI mags . Actually had this issue of the Wrestler.
Darsow might have made a NY sized paycheck if he could have feuded with Magnum after Nikita's one wrapped up shortly before the accident
Smash / Repo Man Legend
He was also Krusher Kruschev in the NWA.
Travis Sloan He turmed heel and changed to Krusher Kruschev in the Mid South territory
Haven't read all comments. But I've heard Magnum was being pushed to attract the female audience.
RoddericK ITS TRUE... HE HAS A MASSIVE 11 INCH PENIS WITH A GIANT 6.390 INCH MUSHROOM HEAD.... THERES STORIES THATS HES MAIMED AND OBLITERATED VAGINAS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY... HES A REAL HERO TO ME
Can u imagine the matches TA would have had. Mag vs sting. Mag vs lex lugar steel cage. Mag vs Barry. Mag vs Bret hart steel cage. mag vs steamboat. Mag vs flair. For tittle. Mag vs Dusty on a heel turn. Etc etc etc
Wonder who would have been the heel in a Magnum TA vs Sting feud?
bertmustin Good question. Maybe Sting if he stayed with the Horsemen?
Barry Mr. Hole In One Darsow was the best gimmick ever
gginct
Deserves Hall of Fame on that gimmick alone!
I think the lineage of the top face went something like this ...Steamboat/Windham then Magnum then Sting ..I do know Magnum was brought in when Wyndham left and Sting obviously really started getting his push after Magnums accident.
Magnum and Windham were there at the same time.
ta would have gone to the wff and be a big star he could have feuded with macho or rude and the snake and most likely won a championship
I remember though that the heels were called rule breakers and the faces fan favorites.
The faces were also called "scientific wrestlers."
Don't forget the extras the shit wrestler's just there to put the Stars over!!!
despite what people think Manama
he was good yes,the looks.the image,but lacked some in mic skills to carry the business in a way flair and hogan could for many years to come.
Yeah, but he was so young his mic skills would've improved, just like Shawn Michaels. His mic skills were so-so early on, and then he became a great talker, so no reason to think Magnum couldn't have become good on the stick.
Magnum had an intensity, a certain realness that I think compensated.
I'm not sure if you necessarily need to be a great talker. For example, Brett Hart wasn't that great of a talker but he he was good enough.
Some people have double chins, but he has a double face.
Loved Magnum TA but he was nowhere near the greats of Hogan and Flair on the mic ...!!
Biz ProQuo I agree, he wasn't as animated on the mic as Flair but he could wrestle and he had the support of the fans. There's a good video of Flair wrestling Sam Houston where Magnum is with the announcers calling the action and Flair seems more concerned about him than he is with Houston. Turned out to be a good match to watch.
paganism