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 pairing [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Match # 83: Tommy Rich vs. Moondog Rex (4/22/85) Lou Thesz on the mic at ringside with Lance Russell. Very cool for me as a fan who read the guys book and respect the history of wrestling. This is a rugged old school southern match up and even the lock ups are stiff. I’m a [...]
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Match # 68: Tommy Rich vs. Masao Ito (7/9/84) This match is joined in progress, but thankfully only about a minute or two are clipped. I’m a mark for head lock to pin and back combos, and that’s how this starts. It’s worked very light, but I mean that in a good way. No need [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
Match # 65: Tommy Rich & Eddie Gilbert vs. Phil Hickerson & The Spoiler (Tennessee Street Fight) (6/25/84) Not really a tag match so much as a fight with four men that can go anywhere. Somehow the rules are you have to rip off the other man’s clothes to win. Memphis could have a lot [...]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Match # 63: Tommy Rich & Eddie Gilbert vs. Pretty Young Things (Falls Count Anywhere) (5/18/84) It’s Memphis and Falls Count Anywhere, so you know it starts with a brawl. Rich and Gilbert, as talented as they are, aren’t as fluid as the original Fabs. Gilbert comes off better then Rich though, as Rich never [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Match # 60: Eddie Gilbert & Tommy Rich vs. Pretty Young Things (4/12/84) Gilbert and Rich are the (ill suited) new Fabulous Ones. Fab originator Jackie Fargo did an interview from his living room couch (no joke) explaining that Stan Lane and Steve Keirn wanted to go all over the place and not stay 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 # 5: Bill Dundee vs. Tommy Rich (8/23/80) Tommy Rich would go on shortly from this time period to have a short NWA World Title reign and later have a notable feud with Jerry Lawler. I saw him for the first time a decade ago as a washed up chubby manager in ECW, but [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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