The Rock & Roll Express Return to Shelby

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In July of 1985, the Rock & Roll Express debuted for Jim Crockett Promotions on a hot summer night at a national television taping at the Shelby Recreation Center in Shelby NC. They defeated Joel Deaton and John Tatum in their inaugural match on "Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling". But it was their match about an hour later that rocked the wrestling world. On their first night in the territory, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson defeated Ivan Koloff and Khrusher Khrushchev to win the NWA world tag team championships on "Wide World Wrestling".

Nearly 26 years later, on February 25, 2011, a few hours before they would win the Anderson Brothers Classic Tag Team Tournament in nearby Kings Mountain, Ricky and Robert returned to the site of perhaps their most famous victory ever for a special photo shoot with Eric Stace for an upcoming book. Eric was nice enough to share a couple of those photographs with the Mid-Atlantic Gateway.

 

 

"The Rock & Roll Express" Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson outside the Shelby City Park building (formerly the Shelby Recreation Center) in Shelby NC, February 25, 2011. (Photos by Eric Stace.)


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