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 gimmick [...]
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 were [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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