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Watching Great American Bash 1988 and black glove clawhold Barry Windham should've had a run with the NWA title. Don't know how they would've gotten the strap on him but he was on fire.

Didn't they have a feud with a heel Rock & Roll Express at some point?

Haha, this is true. My wife used to have to travel to DC from Charlottesville for work pretty regularly. And the time of day she was able to leave DC was the difference between a 90 minute drive and a 5 hour drive due to the traffic. If she was able to get done by about 3pm, she could get home by 5. If she wasn't done by 4 or 5, she wasn't getting home until 8 or 9pm.

I live in C'Ville and it isn't super far from DC. It's only about 100 miles.

The best part of the Palumbo/O'Haire squash was Buff and Luger laying motionless in the ring for like 5 minutes afterwards until right before the next match. Reminded me of The Giant having to pretend to be knocked out by a belt shot for what seemed to be an hour after losing the title at Hog Wild so that Hogan could cut a birthday promo and beat up The Booty Man.

Buff Bagwell is a DIRTY MAN for dressing up like Bill Clinton for...reasons....and then hitting the referee with a slapjack

I'll give Hollywood Hogan points for at least trying to do the ultimate DIRTY MAN move of throwing fire.

Eddie was the best DIRTY MAN

How awesome is Tully in that first gif though? He's not even doing anything illegal. It's just a move you'd only do if you were a prick and a DIRTY MAN.

100% that's the senior in your class who got held back in 1st grade because his dad wanted him to be bigger than the other kids when it came time for sports so he looks older than 21, drives a Camaro blasting "That Smell" by Skynrd all the time and who buys the beer for parties but makes you pay an exorbitant "tax".

I posted in one of the monthly threads that my great-aunt would always chastise 6 year old me and my uncle (who's really closer to being a cousin to me as he's not much older) for rooting for the "dirty men" like Ric Flair and Tully Blanchard and wondered why couldn't we just root for the clean men like Wahoo and Dusty? In this thread, we celebrate the dirty men of wrestling and their dirty deeds!

No gif but go to about 5:15 in this video

I wish I could find a gif of it but I remember Animal ripping Bobby Eaton's head off with a nice lariat in the match where The Road Warriors won the titles from The Midnight Express in 88.

I remember this too. He used to blast people with clotheslines at times and it was pretty awesome (well for a viewer, maybe not for his opponent). My buddy and I used to do a weekly watchalong during the early months of the pandemic and we watched some older Cena matches. 04-08 main event Cena was a very different worker than post-arm injury Cena. He was a way bigger superstar from 08 on but I thought he was a much more interesting albeit less polished in-ring guy prior to that. That said, I remember him absolutely flattening D-Bry with a lariat in their Summerslam match and it was awesome.

Nigel McGuinness had a pretty awesome lariat

I remember him using it during his post WM4 face turn as well. I guess Orndorff was gone at that point (dead or running a bowling alley in Georgia depending on what rumor you heard at the time) so it was ok for him to use it as a finish again.

That was his pre-Sharpshooter finish actually. He got chastised for it when he used it during his brief pre-Foundation singles run though as it was Orndorff's finish at the time.