Trivia / The Midnight Express

• Old Shame: The New Midnight Express, Bob Holly and Bart Gunn, WWE 1998.
• The Pete Best: Norvell Austin, and to a lesser extent Randy Rose. The original Condrey/Rose/Austin lineup split in '83, and Condrey took the gimmick with him to Mid South Wrestling where he met up with Bobby Eaton and Jim Cornette. Condrey was in turn replaced a couple of years later by Stan Lane, and it's debated among fans to this day whether the Condrey/Eaton or Eaton/Lane version of the team was better. Rose avoided this a bit by joining Condrey for a tag team feud against Eaton/Lane over who the "real" Midnight Express was, but Austin is a footnote.
• Real Song Theme Tune: Giorgio Moroder's "Chase" (the theme from Midnight Express)
• What Could Have Been: Cornette has claimed that, after Condrey left, he originally wanted Tom Prichard as his replacement.
  • During his time on the WCW booking committee, Jim proposed that he would “sell” the Midnight’s contracts to Woman, who was managing Ric Flair, thus reforming The Four Horsemen with Flair, Arn Anderson, Eaton and Lane. The committee and everyone involved agreed to go ahead with the plan, Jim went on vacation for a few days, and returned to find that Jim Herd had nixed the deal out of nowhere. This was the incident that caused Jim to quit the booking committee in disgust, since he had suggested the angle largely to foil Herd’s plans to split the Midnight up into singles competitors.
  • Cornette wanted to bring The Midnight Express to his own promotion, Smoky Mountain Wrestling. As Bobby Eaton's contract expired in 1991, Cornette expected to be able to do so early on in SMW. However, Eaton was so popular with the WCW locker room that even WCW management, who wasn't fond of The Midnight Express in general, extended Eaton's contract, preventing this reunion. Cornette had to settle for forming The Heavenly Bodies instead.
  • Cornette stated on his Bobby Eaton memorial podcast that four members of the Midnight Express— Eaton, Lane, Condrey, and Cornette— were going to do videos for the website Cameo as part of their 40th anniversary as a team.