Match # 119: Bill Dundee, Jeff Jarrett & Jimmy Valiant vs. Robert Fuller, Jimmy Golden & Tommy Rich (9/17/88) This doesn’t give me cause to write much. It was an okay match. Classic southern booking and lay out. Nothing wrong with that. Also nothing really to write home about. These AWA tapings in Memphis without Lance [...]
Friday, March 20, 2009
Match # 117: Bill Dundee & Brickhouse Brown vs. Jimmy Golden & Robert Fuller (9/18/88) A very by the numbers heel/face tag match here. It suffers having the AWA announcers after all that time hearing Lance Russell tell the stories. It’s odd seeing the AWA present Memphis wrestling, as this is from the AWA on [...]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Match # 104: Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (No DQ, Loser Leaves Town) (7/14/86) There’s no big build up for this one, but it’s freakin’ Lawler and Dundee. Need I say more. We’re promised the match in its entirety at the beginning, but we only get about 16 minutes of a 24 minute match. It’s decent [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Match # 102: Jerry Lawler & Dutch Mantel vs. Bill Dundee & Buddy Landel (3/10/86) This was one of those really well built up matches that had months of angles and development behind it. We get a few of these with every ballot. The footage is there to show the build up in the extras, [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Match # 101: Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (No DQ, Loser Leaves Town) (12/30/85) Wow. The first one was so good they just had to do it again. Hell, the second one (more angle then match) was pretty damn great too. They built this as Dundee putting up the Southern title and his hair – [...]
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Match # 98: Bill Dundee & Sherri Martel vs. Koko Ware & Candi Divine (10/26/85) A mixed tag match featuring the ladies. Sherri would become famous after her AWA run as Queen Sherri with Macho King Randy Savage, and later in WCW managing Harlem Heat.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Match # 96: Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (10/19/85) This match starts with an angle. Tag team poster boys are in studio doing a promo and mention Dundee and Lawler. Dundee comes out saying that the Lawler/Dundee team can be the Fabs and they need a match. The Fabs politely explain to they weren’t challenging [...]
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Match # 94: Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee vs. Tom Pritchard & Pat Rose (10/12/85) Pritchard give a pretty amusing promo beforehand about the Armstrong Brothers. I don’t believe it has anything to do with this match, but he had a wet towel he pretended he’d been crying into. Guess you had to be there.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Match # 53: Bill Dundee vs. Tommy Rogers (11/7/83) [EWY-14] This is some nonsense title match up. It’s a junior belt that every fed had. What’s more important is the match up, which looks good on paper.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Match # 48: Bill Dundee vs. Assassin #1 (9/25/83) [EWY-9] No idea who Assassin # 1 is, but you gotta love the generic wrestler gimmick in Memphis. For the record this is outside of the studio or the Coliseum. This is a spot show somewhere with a lively crowd. We start off clipped already in the [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Match # 45: Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (Loser Leaves Town) (6/6/83) [EWY-6] This match, from the pre-fight build to the execution and finish, is just amazing. Essentially Dundee goes heel on his partner Lawler, though he retains some of his own fans. They disovle the tag team and have a war of words for weeks. [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Match # 41: Bill Dundee vs. Terry Taylor (4/4/83) [EWY-2] Decent 10 minute match that never really gets past 2nd gear. It built well for the ten minutes the match lasted, but then abruptly ended in a DQ finish when Dundee kept kicking at Taylor while his leg was tied up in the ropes.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Match # 41: Bill Dundee vs. Terry Taylor (4/4/83) [EWY-2] Decent 10 minute match that never really gets past 2nd gear. It built well for the ten minutes the match lasted, but then abruptly ended in a DQ finish when Dundee kept kicking at Taylor while his leg was tied up in the ropes. It began [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Match # 39: Bill Dundee vs. Adrian Street, Miss Linda & Jim Cornette (Lumberjack Strap Match) (2/6/83) Dundee pulled off a brilliant handicapped match earlier in the set against Wayne Farris and Tojo Yamamoto. This one would seem to be a bit more difficult, but might actually turn out more entertaining giving the two non-wrestlers [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Match # 35: Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantell & Terry Taylor vs. Bobby Eaton, Sweet Brown Sugar, Rick McGraw & Sabu (12/4/82) A super face team of Memphis, plus Terry Taylor, takes on the first family, plus (not that) Sabu. Sabu looks like one of the Wild Samoans. Eaton and Brown Sugar look king-sized early [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Match # 34: Bill Dundee & Jerry Lawler vs. Adrian Street & Apocalypse (11/27/82) Only in wrestling. We see the intro vignette for Apocalypse. Very goofy stuff shot in the woods. He’s a paramilitary man who dresses in fatigues and evil face paint, with a whole back story on training. The King and the Superstar [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Match # 33: Bill Dundee & Bobby Fulton vs. Bobby Eaton & Sweet Brown Sugar (11/15/82) Interesting note is that this feature half of the future heel greats the Midnight Express (Eaton) and half of the less famous but solid babyface unit, The Fantastics (Fulton). Dundee and Fulton are your faces, and Eaton and Sweet [...]
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Match # 25: Bill Dundee vs. Bobby Eaton (7/24/82) Lance Russell lets us know right away there was a special agreement on the time limit so they could fit it into TV time. I like the Memphis structure that everything must fit into TV time instead of the fake “we’re out of time” TBS way [...]
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Match # 23: Bill Dundee vs. Sweet Brown Sugar (2/3 falls, Scaffold Match) (6/21/82) As a rule I don’t usually enjoy or like scaffold matches. I find it an antiquated gimmick that’s short on action and usually just disappoints while it injures wrestlers. There’s usually little reason for the gimmick storyline wise and the result [...]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Match # 16: Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee vs. Masa Fuchi & Atsushi Onita (8/1/81) Studio match time. A very young Onita is on the heel foreigner side. Onita would go on to reinvent himself as a cult hero in FMW doing death matches at stadium shows. Fuchi actually debuted in 1974 against Onita in his [...]
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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