{"id":55095,"date":"2019-09-29T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=55095"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:40:57","slug":"rock-roll-is-king-the-unlikely-2019-of-the-rock-n-roll-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/09\/29\/rock-roll-is-king-the-unlikely-2019-of-the-rock-n-roll-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock & Roll Is King: The Unlikely 2019 of the Rock N’ Roll Express"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirty-five years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better tag team than the Rock N’ Roll Express<\/strong>. Sure, other tag teams drew better, such as the Road Warriors<\/strong>. Sure, there may have been flashier tandems, like the British Bulldogs<\/strong> or The Rockers<\/strong>. But the team of Ricky Morton<\/strong> and Robert Gibson<\/strong> changed tag team wrestling in the United States forever, with their innovative tag team chemistry and being the “spot monkeys” of the US territorial days in the early 1980s. And in 2019, the multi-time tag team champions are having a resurgence like none they’ve seen since the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

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Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Robert Gibson was already a tag team specialist when he met a young Rick Morton in Memphis’ territory, Continental Wrestling Association (CWA)<\/strong>. Gibson had paired with his brother Ricky as The Gibson Brothers<\/strong>, capturing CWA’s tag team titles four times and the NWA Hollywood<\/strong> Americas tag titles once. In 1983, CWA’s Jerry Lawler<\/strong> paired the two together and magic happened. The veteran Gibson took the athleticism and charisma of Morton and helped create one of the most influential tag teams of their generation.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Pro Wrestling Illustrated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were frequent challengers in both Mid South Wrestling and Mid-Atlantic, feuding with such top opponents as Nasty Boys<\/strong> (Knobbs & Saggs), The Russians<\/strong> (Ivan Koloff & Krusher Krushchev), Arn & Ole Anderson<\/strong>, and The Sheepherders<\/strong> (aka the WWF’s Bushwhackers). But they are forever entwined as the fiercest rivals of The Midnight Express<\/strong>, a feud that went from NWA to American Wrestling Association (AWA). They were 5x NWA World Tag Team Champions and 3x Mid South Tag Team Champions, inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n