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Dennis Condrey is a professional wrestler, best known as being one half of the tag team Midnight Express.

Career

Dennis Condrey started wrestling in 1973 in the Tennessee territory. He moved on to Alabama's Southeast Championship Wrestling and formed the Midnight Express in 1981 with Randy Rose and Norvell Austin. They dominated the tag team scene there until Condrey left for Mid-South wrestling in 1984. Once there, he formed a new version of the Midnight Express with Bobby Eaton with Jim Cornette as their manager. They also started a legendary feud with the Rock 'N Roll Express that carried over into the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985.

In early 1986, Condrey and Eaton won the NWA World Tag Team Titles from the Rock 'N Roll Express and feuded with them until Condrey left the promotion in early 1987.

Condrey would reunite with former partner Randy Rose in the AWA under manager Paul E. Dangerously. "Loverboy" Dennis and "Ravishing" Randy called themselves "The Original Midnighte Express", and claimed the right to the name, which had since been used by Condrey and Eaton and later by "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton and "Sweet" Stan Lane) in the NWA.

They would defeat Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee for the AWA World Tag Team titles on October 26, 1987, in Memphis, TN. They would have a two month title reign, losing the titles to the returning "Midnight Rockers" (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) on December 27, 1987 in Las Vegas, NV.

Condrey and Rose resurfaced in the NWA (with Dangerously) in late 1988. During a television broadcast on TBS at the Techwood Drive Studios in Atlanta, Jim Cornette received an anonymous phone call. The caller ridiculed Cornette over Eaton and Lane's recent loss of the NWA World Tag Team titles to the Road Warriors. Cornette recognized the caller and baically asked him to come say it to his face. At that point, Dangerously and the Original Midnight Express hit the ring and proceeded to pummel Cornette and Stan Lane, who was wrestling in a singles match. By the time Bobby Eaton showed up, it was three on one. Cornette showed up the next week on TBS carrying his blood stained suit jacket and the feud was on.

The teams wrestled at Starrcade 88', but nothing was solved. The Midnight's vs. Midnight's would be the hottest feud in the NWA for months, building up to a 6-man tag match involving the managers on pay-per-view in February 1989. The one who got pinned would have to leave the promotion. However, the NWA was under new ownership and in transition at the time and many wrestlers were coming and going. At the last minute, Dennis Condrey decided to leave the NWA. Jack Victory was brought in as his replacement and the match went forward, but at this point no one really cared.

Condrey returned to Alabama (now known as Continental) in the Spring of 1989 and would win the CWF Heavyweight Champion. He would also form a short-lived tage team called the "Lethal Weapons" with Doug Gilbert before retiring from full-time action in the early 1990's.

Condrey came back to team with Eaton in 2004 and they have been wrestling as the Midnight Express in the independents and feuding with the Rock 'N Roll Express and The Fantastics.

Profile

Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight: 260 lb (118 kg)
Birthday: February 1, 1952
Hometown: Florence, Alabama
Trainer: -
Other Gimmicks: Danny Condrey, "Loverboy" Dennis Condrey
Managers: Jim Cornette, Baby Doll
, Paul E. Dangerously, Terri Runnels

Championships/Accomplishments

National Wrestling Alliance

1-Time NWA World Tag Team Champion (with Bobby Eaton
)
2-Time NWA Six-Man Tag Team Champion (with Al Greene & Phil Hickerson and Tojo Yamamoto & Chris Colt)
1-Time NWA World Brass Knuckles Champion

American Wrestling Association

1-Time AWA World Tag Team Champion (with Randy Rose
)

Southeast Championship Wrestling

15-Time NWA Southeast Tag Team Champion (with Randy Rose 10 times, David Shultz once, Don Carson once and Phil Hickerson 3 times)
1-Time NWA Southeast Heavyweight Champion
2-Time NWA Southeast Alabama Heavyweight Champion

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