Dennis Condrey
After leaving JCP in 1987, Condrey reunited with Rose in the AWA, where they won the AWA World Tag Team Championship, and were managed by Paul E. Dangerously. In 1988, they went to Jim Crockett Promotions, and became known as The Original Midnight Express, since Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose first teamed up in 1980. Led by future Jim Cornette nemesis Paul E. Dangerously, Condrey and Rose set out to prove they were better than the new version. Condrey's and Rose's surprise appearance gave Dangerously's team the initial momentum in the feud, but the promising feud was cut short when Dennis Condrey left the promotion once more before a "loser leaves town" match at Chi-Town Rumble. Rose teamed with Jack Victory and took the pin, leaving the promotion. Cornette contends in a shoot interview that backstage politics and animosity between the Original Midnights, promotion head Jim Crockett and head booker George Scott led to the feud being cooled off and Condrey once again leaving the promotion.