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, 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 [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
Match # 88: Jerry Lawler vs. Randy Savage (Loser Leaves Town) (6/3/85) These men actually had many matches throughout the first half of 1985 in Memphis. Savage was something of an early Brian Pillman Loose Cannon-type character at this time, terrorizing Japanese photographer Jimmy Suzuki and Lance Russell during different times at the studio show. [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
Match # 87: Jerry Lawler vs. Bruiser Brody (5/20/85) Now this is a big time monster of the week. Brody is your import this week to the Mid South Coliseum for Lawler to hulk up on after absorbing a beating. We’ll see if the story lends itself to a decent match up.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Match # 72: Jerry Lawler & Randy Savage vs. King Kong Bundy & Rick Rude (No DQ) (9/17/84) The comeback from a wild DQ finish in our last match. This time there’s no DQ, so I assume there must be a winner. We get a Macho/Lawler promo to start, just for fun. Macho is the [...]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Match # 71: Jerry Lawler & Randy Savage vs. King Kong Bundy & Rick Rude (9/10/84) This match is perfectly led into from our prior two matches, which is helpful in getting a feel for the feud and match itself. Also generally makes me like a match more. Lawler won about $7,000 dollars from Jimmy [...]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Match # 69: Jerry Lawler vs. King Kong Bundy ($10,000 Challenge) (7/16/84) This match starts awesomely, with Bundy doing a running splash into Lawler in the corner. He crushes the King’s crown! Bundy is listed as 460 lbs. He’s moving great in there. Bundy plays monster here so much better then with Hogan in the [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Match # 59: Jerry Lawler vs. Randy Savage (4/9/84) This one is at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. They claim it’s the home of Savage, and since I don’t know, we’ll go with it as the home court advantage for the Macho Man. Jimmy Hart is in Macho’s corner for this as well, as [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Match # 56: Jerry Lawler & Cowboy Lang vs. Plowboy Frazier & Little Tokyo (12/24/83) [EWY-17] This was Memphis at its finest. Lawler gets a ripped miget wrestler to be his partner in this studio tag. Plowboy Frazier, a very tall fat man, grabs an Asian midget to be his evil partner. Classic good meets [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Match # 55: Jerry Lawler vs. Randy Savage (Cage Match) (12/12/83) [EWY-16] Remember when Scott Hall walked onto a live NITRO and we were led to believe he was representing another promotion in 1996? That was pretty cool. Memphis actually had something just as cool 13 years before in 1983. The Macho Man came onto [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 # 30: Jerry Lawler vs. Nick Bockwinkel (No DQ) (11/8/82) Bockwinkel comes in as the AWA Southern (Memphis belt) champion and the AWA WORLD Champion. Lawler is still looking for that elusive world title win, and he’s your challenger. Lance Russell on commentary for this Mid South Coliseum arena match. This is a no [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Match # 29: Jerry Lawler vs. Nick Bockwinkel (10/25/82) The rematch from a week before is here. Bockwinkel is the Southern champ after sneaking a pin with his hand on the ropes for leverage then week before. This is another arena match from Memphis, though there is talk that this match is not the chronological [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Match # 28: Jerry Lawler vs. Nick Bockwinkel (10/18/82) Bockwinkel, or as I’ll call him “Bock”, is a polarizing wrestler. He worked heel every time I saw him in the past, as he does here. Many consider him boring or complain he never gets out of a low gear. I’ve always thought of him as [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Match # 26: Jerry Lawler vs. Ric Flair (8/14/82) Prepare to call me a hypocrite. While I rated the Lawler vs Funk Empty Arena match low because I thought as a match it was average –but loved it as an angle – I have a feeling that this famous angle I’ve seen before will probably [...]
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 [...]
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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