Match # 109: Jerry Lawler vs. Austin Idol (Hair vs. Hair, Steel Cage Match) (4/27/87) [MEMPTENN-4] This is one of the more famous matches in 80s Memphis history. Each man has put up his hair. There is no time limit and no DQ. It’s in a steel cage with Idol’s manager – a young Paul [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Match # 108: Jerry Lawler & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Austin Idol & Tommy Rich (Texas Death Match) (3/23/87) This is the reprise of the last match, with the rules of the Bigelow vs Lawler classic that started the set. Same basic pairings and same general feelings as the last match. I found the Bigelow/Rich [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Match # 107: Jerry Lawler & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Austin Idol & Tommy Rich (Double Jeopardy Match) (3/16/87) Two rings with all four men going at each other at the same time. I guess each “match” is in a separate ring. You can trade at any time to switch the match up, but you [...]
Friday, March 6, 2009
Match # 106: Jerry Lawler vs. Bam Bam Bigelow (Texas Death) (9/7/86) We’ve got a very green Bam Bam playing monster heel to Lawler’s home town dragon slayer. A perfect formula for a match that had a very good formula. They hide that Bigelow at this point in his career can’t do much. He sells [...]
Friday, March 6, 2009
Ballot After 7 Disks 1. Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (Loser Leaves Town) (6/6/83) [EWY-6] 2. Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell (Barbed Wire Match) (3/29/82) [BLUESKIES-8] 3. Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (No DQ, Loser Leaves Town) (12/30/85) [EYETIGER-10] 4. Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell (No DQ) (3/22/82) [BLUESKIES-6] 5. Koko Ware vs. Ric Flair [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Disk 7 Rankings 1. Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (No DQ, Loser Leaves Town) (12/30/85) [EYETIGER-10] 2. Koko Ware vs. Ric Flair (11/18/85) [EYETIGER-9] 3. Jerry Lawler vs. Rick Martel (Nashville 10/12/85) [EYETIGER-4] 4. Jerry Lawler & Dutch Mantel vs. Bill Dundee & Buddy Landel (3/10/86) [EYETIGER-11] 5. Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (No DQ, [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Match # 105: The Nightmares vs. Mod Squad (Wear a Dress vs. Make-up Session) (7/21/86) If the Nightmares lose they must wrestle is dresses on the following Saturday on TV. They look like total goofs anyway, so that’s a moot stipulation. The Mod Squad looks pretty bad ass here. There stip is that their manager [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Match # 103: The Nightmares vs. Fire and Flame (7/12/86) This is the negative side of Memphis to me: goofy gimmicks and shit managers. They can’t all be Jimmy Hart – not that I’m in love with him either – and they can’t all be classic tag teams. This may have the distinction of being [...]
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 – [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Match #100: Koko Ware vs. Ric Flair (11/18/85) Hell yes! Flair in Memphis. This is an arena match from Memphis. Dusty Rhodes, fresh off his win in the bunkhouse match, is at ringside as an adviser to Koko Ware. Flair is bother, of course. It starts basic and slow paced. They trade hard headlocks for [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Match # 99: Jerry Lawler, Dusty Rhodes & Magnum T.A. vs. Ole Anderson, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (11/18/85) The Four Horseman are in town, and Crockett has sent Dusty and his protégé to join Lawler. It’s a star studded gimmick match extravaganza. Bunk house match is jeans and t-shirts coming right up. They start [...]
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 # 97: Koko Ware vs. Masked Superstar (Jerry Stubbs) (10/26/85) This is a studio match with Ware as the babyface. Stubbs was also in Mid South under a mask as Mr. Olympia. He was also an early partner of Arn Anderson.
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 # 95: Jerry Lawler vs. Rick Martel (Nashville 10/12/85) This is for the AWA World Championship. It’s from an area in Nashville and the video quality is actually excellent. Jerry Calhoun is your referee. Lance Russell helped out doing the arena announcing. The crowd is up for this. That combined with Lance Russell on [...]
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, February 21, 2009
Match # 93: Rock N Roll Express vs. Ivan Koloff & Krusher Khrushchev (9/30/85) Rock beats scissors, and appropriately enough, Rock N Roller Ricky Morton’s speed beats muscled up Russians (fake ones too). They play with the speed vs the power throughout the match, making for a good concept. The Russians keep switching because in [...]
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 [...]
Friday, March 13, 2009
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