10 Legendary Pro Wrestling Rivalries

#8 The Rock N Roll Express vs. The Midnight Express

If you started humming the Midnight Express theme song when you saw this pic, you are a diehard old school wrestling fan.

Tag team wrestling was super, super hot during the 1980s. Shows headlined by the team of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson, better known as the Rock N Roll Express, tended to draw just as big of a crowd as those headlined by world champion Dusty Rhodes.

The Rock N Roll Express was a hot tag team, but so was the Midnight Express. The tandem of Beautiful Bobby Eaton and Sweet Stan Lane stood out because of their supreme technical wrestling skill, Lane's Karate skills and Eaton's ability to fly off the top rope.

When the two teams met, it was magic in the ring. Both teams were smaller, quicker athletes than the norm for wrestling of that era, and put their athleticism to good use. Often times the Midnight Express would pummel the living daylights out of Ricky Morton until he finally made the hot tag to partner Gibson, who would proceed to clean house.

Their rivalry was so intense, it culminated in one of the most dangerous gimmick matches in wrestling a Scaffold Match. You can watch the scaffold match on the WWE Network, but here is a fine contest where the two teams contested for the coveted NWA world tag team championships.