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 [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Match # 8: Bill Dundee & Dream Machine vs. Dutch Mantell & Wayne Farris (3/14/81) We’re back in the studio for this match. Dream Machine was a masked wrestler Troy Roland Thompson, who also wrestled without a mask as Troy Graham. He would go on to be part of the New York Dolls tag team a [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Match # 6: Bill Dundee vs. Wayne Farris & Tojo Yamamoto (3/7/81) We know Dundee and Farris by now. Tojo Yamamoto is a Japanese wrestler who played a stereotypical Asian heel. He was a long time Memphis heel. He died many years back, sometime in the 90s I believe. Dundee is again tagging with Tommy Rich, [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Match # 5: Bill Dundee vs. Tommy Rich (8/23/80) Tommy Rich would go on shortly from this time period to have a short NWA World Title reign and later have a notable feud with Jerry Lawler. I saw him for the first time a decade ago as a washed up chubby manager in ECW, but [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Match # 4: Bill Dundee & Tony Boyles vs. Wayne Farris & Larry Latham (6/7/80) Latham and Farris are the heels here, known as the Blonde Bombers. Farris is better known as the Honkey Tonk Man from late 80s WWF. To see him here you would not know it is the same guy. They’re managed by [...]
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Match #3: Bill Dundee vs. Paul Ellering (5/24/80) Ellering would go on to manage the Road Warriors. Here he’s just a gassed up bodybuilder type who I’ll assume is a power wrestler. Dundee comes into the studio sporting tights that read “Macho Man”. Considering that Savage is on this set and will always be the real macho [...]
Friday, October 3, 2008
Match #1: Bill Dundee vs. Larry Latham (4/19/80) We kick off the first match in studio with Lance Russell and Dave Brown announcing. Nifty sign of the times is the split screen of each man in their respective corners of the ring during announcements. Latham would go on to play a member of the tag team The [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match # 76: The Fantastics vs. Dutch Mantell & Bill Dundee (10/4/85) Another match built off the last disk. Match # 74 featured these same teams with the stip that the losers got whipped. The heels lost, but ended up taking very few lashes. Instead, Dundee whipped the Fantastics. So while the faces won, they didn’t [...]
Friday, August 15, 2008
Match # 74: The Fantastics vs. Bill Dundee & Dutch Mantell (9/22/85) It’s Bill Dundee and Dirty Dutch’s turn to bring Memphis heelin’ to Mid South. I look forward to them slapping around the silly ambiguously gay duo of The Fantasics. Well, not Tommy Rogers. The other one.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Match #18: Midnight Express vs Bill Dundee/Porkchop Cash (4/6/84) Well, we know who the heels are. Here’s a hint: They get to have Cornette run interference on the outside. Faces are two old Memphis workers, Dundee and Cash. In fact, all these men came as part of a Watt-Jerry Jarrett trade. Watts made out [...]
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