Match # 124: Jerry Lawler, Jeff Jarrett & Freddy vs. Dutch Mantell, Master of Pain & Ronnie Gossett (7/10/89) This match was shot on an old camcorder from the hard camera perspective out with the fans. Really crappy footage for following so many men, but I’ll forgive it because it has the Memphis Freddy gimmick [...]
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Match # 121: Dutch Mantell vs. Jeff Jarrett (1/28/89) Memphis has gotten a little low rent at this point. The studio show has a banner on the ring apron for a local car dealership. I always liked the small town feel of Memphis, but the local corporate sponsorship just has me bummed. Oh well, let’s [...]
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Match # 120: Dutch Mantell vs. Jeff Jarrett (Orchestra Match) (Late 1988) Wrestling is performance art at its core. This takes that to another level as they perform thing match on a stage with a symphony orchestra in front of a crowd. The wrestling is decent to solid. Nothing to fancy. The fundamentals are there, [...]
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Match # 115: Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell (5/29/88) This was a clever little match. Not great, but decent, and definitely worth inclusion on this set. These two are master workers for their style, and they know how to play to a Memphis crowd.
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, [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Match # 73: Dutch Mantell vs. Eddie Gilbert (9/17/84) The match starts around the 5 minute mark. First move that really catches me is a Mantell suplex bringing Gilbert back into the ring. Dutch is working a wicked head lock in there. He uses it as his base after a move or a pin attempt. [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Match # 54: Dutch Mantel, Koko Ware, Bobby Eaton & Jaguar vs. The Grapplers & Bruise Brothers (12/10/83) [EWY-15] One of the Bruise Brothers (Porkchop Cash) looks like Kimbo Slice. The Other Bruise Brother is Dream Machine in yet another incarnation. The Grapplers are muscleheads in masks. Koko is wrestling as Stagger Lee, the mask [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Match # 40: Dutch Mantell, Steve O & The Fabulous Ones vs. Adrian Street, Jesse Barr & The Sheepherders (Stipulations Match) (3/28/83) [EWY-1] It finished like it began, with a crazy brawl that ref Calhoun struggled to contain. In between we saw some hit and miss offense, good at times, awkward at others. The Fabs [...]
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 [...]
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Match # 24: Bobby Eaton & Sweet Brown Sugar vs. Dutch Mantell & King Cobra (7/19/82) Sugar and Eaton are your heels. Eaton is more famous for his Midnight Express team with Dennis Condrey and/or Stan Lane. I’ve never seen King Cobra before, but we’ve reviewed Dundee matches before. This is arena match footage.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Match # 20: Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell (No DQ) (3/22/82) A few weeks before this match Dutch Mantell turned heel on The King Jerry Lawler. Seems from the response at the Mid South Coliseum, the fans are hot for this feud and backing The King. Before the match, in the ring, Lance Russell announces [...]
Monday, November 3, 2008
Match # 21: Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell (Loser Leaves Town) (3/27/82) This looks like more of an angle then a match, so the debate of what is a great angle vs an actual great match will rage on here. I ranked the Empty Arena match well enough, but not the Tupelo concession Stand Brawl. [...]
Monday, November 3, 2008
Match # 22: Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell (Barbed Wire Match) (3/29/82) This is the big finish to the Dutch-Lawler trilogy. I should mention up front that my “home” promotion as a fan in the 90s was the original ECW, and after seeing Japanese, ROH, and ECW barbed wire matches I’m not sure how to [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Match # 14: Dutch Mantell vs. Kevin Sullivan (5/9/81) This is our second viewing of Sullivan as a Jimmy Hart sponsored heel. He’s cut to shreds, as they say, which is funny because when I finally got to see Sullivan weekly he was a fat short guy leading the Dungun of the Doom. Here he’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 1, 2009
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