Match # 109: Jerry Lawler vs. Austin Idol (Hair vs. Hair, Steel Cage Match) (4/27/87) [MEMPTENN-4] This is one of the more famous matches in 80s Memphis history. Each man has put up his hair. There is no time limit and no DQ. It’s in a steel cage with Idol’s manager – a young Paul Heyman [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Match # 108: Jerry Lawler & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Austin Idol & Tommy Rich (Texas Death Match) (3/23/87) This is the reprise of the last match, with the rules of the Bigelow vs Lawler classic that started the set. Same basic pairings and same general feelings as the last match. I found the Bigelow/Rich pairing [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Match # 107: Jerry Lawler & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Austin Idol & Tommy Rich (Double Jeopardy Match) (3/16/87) Two rings with all four men going at each other at the same time. I guess each “match” is in a separate ring. You can trade at any time to switch the match up, but you [...]
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Match # 92: Jerry Lawler & Austin Idol vs. Michael Hayes & Terry Gordy (Badstreet Match) (8/12/85) So they were having a return match after all. I’m puzzled as to the finish of the last tag match these four had, but I’m glad the Birds are back. They got “their” match, too. Dug the last [...]
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Match # 90: Jerry Lawler & Austin Idol vs. Michael Hayes & Terry Gordy (8/5/85) Hell yeah. The Freebirds in Memphis. This was not their famed first run there, but a quick heel of the month stop in. And as we all know, if a big heel stops in for a week or two in [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Match # 62: Randy Savage vs. Austin Idol (5/14/84) Savage goes off at the start of this one. He beats down Idol with Angelo Poffo’s crutches, does the double ax handle off the top to the floor, and then does the elbow from the top rope. I’ve figured out what I don’t like about Idol’s [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Match # 61: Randy Savage vs. Austin Idol (5/7/84) Big time players in the big time arena with Lance Russell on the mic. It’s game time. Lots of little cat and mouse distraction to start. Macho finally catches Idol. Savage is quick and athletic as hell here. Oddly enough he drops the big elbow from the [...]
Friday, November 28, 2008
Match # 51: Austin Idol vs. Stan Hansen (Bunkhouse Match) (10/10/83) [EWY-12] Bunkhouse match means anything goes. This is a rematch from our last match, where a horrible finish had Idol winning after Hansen had already won. Russell: “Boy Hansen, spitting bullets tonight”. Classic.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Match # 50: Austin Idol vs. Stan Hansen (Texas Bullrope Match) (10/3/83) [EWY-11] Hansen set this up with Idol through our last match on the ballot. Hansen stalls to get heat, yelling that he doesn’t want the bullrope taped to his wrist. There is a cow bell in between the two in the middle of the [...]
Friday, November 28, 2008
Match # 49: Jerry Lawler & Austin Idol vs. Jesse Ventura & Stan Hansen (9/25/83) [EWY-10] Idol is famous in the Gulf Coast and Memphis areas, doing a gimmick based off his body and Superstar Billy Graham. Hansen is a legendary bad ass based much of the time in the AWA, but far more famous in [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Match # 7: Bill Dundee & Tommy Rich vs. Dutch Mantell & Austin Idol (3/12/81) This is a World tag title match with Dundee and Rich back together challenging for the titles. Mantell is a longtime high card wrestler in Memphis who you’ll see a lot of in these diaries. He’s one of the hairier wrestlers [...]
Friday, March 13, 2009
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