Young Stallions

Well, high-flying at the time.

Yeah, and then I just have the Islanders, the Dream Team, Young Stallions.

These are all teams that were in the mix.

I mean, I don't think any of these guys were actually tag champions.

That's a nice way of saying a fucking weirdo.

Heart Foundation, Islanders, Demolition, Bolsheviks, Dream Team, and then on the other side, Strikeforce, Young Stallions, the Rougeots, Killer Bees, and the British Bulldogs.

Yeah.

Right.

Strike Force, which is Rick Martel and Tito Santana.

And The Young Stallions, which is Jim Powers and Paul Roma.

Jesus Christ.

So as you would guess, with this many people, it's a clusterfuck.

So, Hot Rod, Gorilla Monsoon in the studio, three exclusive matches this week, including... taped July 18th from the Worcester Centrum.

Powers of Pain defeating the Young Stallions.

Back together again, Jim Powers and Paul Roma.

And this may do it.

And I remember being completely floored that they lost the tag titles at that point.

It's interesting when you follow Arn and Tully and their arrival to the WWF.

They stick them with the Young Stallions for a month or two, which makes sense.

You're getting them over.

Uh, like I say, now I have 11 figures left that I haven't painted, and coming up soon, Johnny V and Adrian Adonis will be ones that I'll wanna paint.

Now, a couple other figures I got recently that I absolutely love, cou- couple figures that I, I never thought I'd see, are a couple Big Rubber Guys figures from Major, uh, Paul Roma and Jim Powers, The Young Stallions.

And so these guys, they're...

A, a lot of people don't see the importance of these figures, but if you're a big fan in, in '86 to '89 like I was, '86 to '92 was kinda my, my prime fandom, there was a couple years there, '87, '88, where these guys were, they were in the mix.

Um, a win over the, a team like The Bolsheviks isn't that big a deal.

Uh, they had some good matches where I, I can't remember if it was, uh, by pinfall in a non-title match or if it was DQ or count-out, but they did get, get a win over The Hart Foundation and in a non-title match at one point, uh, in '87.

And then the most surprising wins they got, to me, are Right before and right after WrestleMania 4, the last match before WrestleMania 4 that Demolition had before they won the titles from Strike Force was a match where they lost to the Young Stallions on a house show.

And then right after WrestleMania 4, which was March 27th, 1988, they did a European tour where in Switzerland on April 1st, the Young Stallions beat Demolition.

If their next round...

This is assuming they do Young Stallions again.

If their next round of Young Stallions have jackets, are you buying them?

Dude, I'm a cuck.

You know it.

I have more coming tomorrow.

The Young Stallions are showing up tomorrow.

It's insane.

And Paul Roman and Powers will be here, so.

It's fantastic, dude.

I did get shipping notification that the Young Stallions are on their way.

Excellent.

not actually Jim powers and Paul Roman.

So far, a lot of people are loving those young stallion figures.

Man, between the Mr.

Perfect LJN, the Hercules with the blue trunks and the chain and the Young Stallions, that's everything I wanted from LJN from 87 to 89.

What a time to be a collector, dude.

And then in November of '88, I got to see them at a Saturday Night's Main Event taping and Wrestling Challenge taping, the last live event that I went to, last WWF live event that I went to.

And this was right after they'd gotten their All-American Boys gimmick and had these flags with them, and they faced The Young Stallions and got a quick win on Saturday Night's Main Event over Jim Powers and Paul Roma.

So very happy to have these in the collection.

Uh, when I think of the Rougeaus, they, they came in in I think around February of '86, a little bit before I started watching.