Midnight Express (professional wrestling)
| The Midnight Express | |
|---|---|
| Statistics | |
| Name(s) |
The Midnight Express The Original Midnight Express The New Midnight Express |
| Former member(s) |
Randy Rose Jack Victory Norvell Austin Bombastic Bob Bodacious Bart Rikki Nelson Stan Lane Dennis Condrey Bobby Eaton |
| Debut | 1980 |
| Disbanded | 2011 |
| Promotions |
AWA ECW JCP WCW WWF WCCW CWA SECW |
The Midnight Express was a professional wrestling tag team of changing members, mostly under the management of Jim Cornette. The group started in the early 1980s with Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose (and originally Norvell Austin). The late 1980s saw a new incarnation, consisting of Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane, compete in JCP and WCW and shortly feuding with "The Original Midnight Express" of Condrey and Rose. In the 1990s, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) combined Bob Holly and Bart Gunn as "The New Midnight Express". A combination of Condrey, Eaton and Lane occasionally compete as the Midnight Express on the independent circuit.
In 1980 a new team was formed in Southeast Championship Wrestling (SECW) when Dennis Condrey’s previous partner Don Carson retired. Condrey teamed up with Randy Rose and the two won the NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship shortly afterwards. The team started a feud with Norvell Austin, one of the regulars in SECW. Austin recruited various partners such as Paul Orndorff, who were successful in briefly capturing the Southeast tag team gold. In an attempt to throw Rose and Condrey off, Austin adopted the masked persona of “The Shadow” and together with Brad Armstrong defeated Condrey and Rose for the title on May 4, 1981. After losing the title back to Condrey and Rose on July 27, 1981, Austin turned on Armstrong and joined up with Condrey and Rose to form a stable (group) known as The Midnight Express. In the book The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams Condrey explains that the name did not stem from the movie Midnight Express (although later versions of the Midnight Express would use the film’s theme by Giorgio Moroder as their theme music) but from the fact that they all dressed in black, drove black cars, and were out partying past midnight.
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