Best of Memphis 12/1982-5/1983 Disk 2 Part 1

Best of Memphis 12/1982-5/1983 Disk 2 Part 1

Elimination match for #1 contender to Southern Heavyweight Title - Jacques Rougeau, Terry Taylor and Bobby Fulton vs Bobby Eaton, Crusher Broomfield(One Man Gang) and Sweet Brown Sugar:

Jacques gets dropkicked

Elimination: Jacques got eliminated at 6:56 when Eaton hit him on the side while he was on the middle rope and fell. Koko pinned him.
Elimination: Rougeau tripped Koko soon after and Fulton pinned him.

Sugar goes after Jacques

Eaton and The Gang

Elimination: Broomfield pinned Fulton at 13:07 after an elbow.
Elimination: Taylor pinned Eaton at 16:10 after Broomfield hit Eaton with a chop on accident.

Elimination: Taylor pinned Broomfield right after with a roll-up.

This wasn't a good one. It went very slow and nothing at all happened. Rating: Dud

Jesse Barr vs Dutch Mantel - Mid America title - I wasn't able to get any screencaps for this one because there was honestly nothing to take caps of. This was a pretty boring match and the focus was more on Bobby Fulton and Jim Cornette chasing each other around ringside than anything else. Dutch Mantel won this in about 16 minutes after he used his whip.Definitely skip this one. After the match, Fulton and Cornette got even by choking out Mantel with his whip:

Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler vs The Sheepherders(Luke Williams and Johnathan Boyd):

Dundee flies!

This one was over quick in 5:10 when Boyd used the wrist protector on Dundee for the win. What was shown was pretty much all brawling, but good brawling. However, it barely even got going so it's hard to put any rating on it. That's too bad too as this should have been a war. Skip it.

Crusher Broomfield and Jesse Barr vs The Fabulous Ones:

According to Lance Russell, this was Cornette's first chance at a title, but I think that's incorrect since Cornette led Barr to the Mid-America's title. However, since I do not know the date on this, it is possible.

Keirn is about to become a pancake

This was another quick one at only 7 minutes. Lane beat Broomfield with a flying forearm. This match was mostly The Fab's dancing around and Broomfield looked pretty weak going down so easy. This was another dud.

That's my reaction to this too.

Lumberjack match - Jackie Fargo vs Jimmy Hart:





Hart throws powder and then gets lit up by Fargo

Fargo grabs the bell

The Fargo Strut~!

Fargo strips Hart

Pics don't really do this one justice. This one was a real trip. This was obviously a total squashing of Hart but it was alot of fun. Fargo won here easily. Rating:*

AWA Southern Heavyweight Title vs Lawler's Hair - No DQ - Nick Bockwinkle (c) vs Jerry Lawler:

Lawler uses Bock's towel against him

Ref bump

Lawler drops the strap

Bock could bump

Lawler wins!

This was a heck of a match. This was about 20+ minutes of just straight punching and brawling. If you thought Lawler could throw a good punch, you have to see Bockwinkle, as he could dish it out just as well. This was a total bumpfest too as both guys took great falls. This was really a heck of a match and highly recommended. I don't think I could find a flaw in this even if I tried. Rating:*****

Stick around for part 2 coming soon!

Best of Memphis 12/1982-5/1983 Disk 1 Part 2

Best of Memphis 12/1982-5/1983 Part 2
Jesse Barr cut a promo:

"See all these medals? These are real medals."
"I was taught to have respect for the rules and stuff in wrestling and since I turned professional, no one in this area has any respect. And the worst one of them all, I wrestled last week here, that's Dutch Mantel."
"He doesn't know what a rule is. If someone gave him a rulebook, he'd probably use it to wipe his table off."
"If he was to wrestle me in a match where you couldn't break any rules, he'd have as much chance as a snowball's chance in hell." - Jesse Barr

"If you break one rule, I'm the winner of the match." - Barr
"We'll wrestle it your way and I'll show you, you can't beat me no matter what you do." - Dutch

We then got Dutch Mantel vs Jesse Barr:

"Two and a half minutes gone and I don't think a rule has been broke yet." - Dave Brown

Barr gets frustrated and wants to hit Dutch

Barr again wants to nail Dutch

Barr then spit on Dutch and Dutch took the bait and hit him. Similar finish to the Austin/Keirn match. They had a pull apart brawl after.

Then they showed clips from Rougeau vs Taylor for the Southern Heavyweight Title:

"I got out of the ring and tried to help him away from the post, then he ran into the post." - Rougeau

Things quickly broke down as the two partners got rough. Jacques won with a middle-rope dropkick.

"How can you look yourself in the mirror and say you're the Southern Heavyweight Champion?" - Taylor
"In front of all these people right now, I just think you're a sore loser, Terry Taylor." - Rougeau
"I'd like to punch him out right now, but it wouldn't give me the belt back." - Terry Taylor

"When I went into that match, I thought you were my friend."
"Well you made your move, you said what you were going to do. I'm going straight for you." - Terry Taylor

They showed clips from Barr/Dutch with Barr cheating to win the Mid-Americas title.

We then got clips from a Coal Miner's Glove match with the Sheepherders vs Jacques Rougeau and Terry Taylor:



This match was inadvertently dangerous. The ring ropes were super shaky, so the wrestlers were trying to gain footing and slipping everywhere. In the second pic, Rougeau is dangling from the pole. The pole didn't look that stable either.

Rougeau gets the glove

THE GLOVE~!

This looked so-so. Pole matches are pretty limited and this definitely was. Naturally Rougeau only got a backfist on Boyd before the glove was taken, so it was pretty useless overall. Cool glove though.

We then flipped to The Fabulous Ones vs Dream Machine and Bobby Eaton:

The Fargo Strut

Hart tries to interfere and decks Dream with the cane

The First Family ended up interfering and got the win for Eaton/Dream.

Next up was...
Jim Cornette and Jesse Barr vs Jimmy Hart and Sweet Brown Sugar

Hart lays the smackdown!

Now that's how you sell a punch.

More nice selling

Jim Cornette laying the smackdown!

Manager on manager violence!

Ah, the booking on this sucked. The whole point of this was to see the mangers go at it and what happened? We got no more than 10 seconds of them going at it before they chased each other to the back. Barr then rolled up Koko for the win. Stupid and cheap.

We then jumped to a Jim Corntte promo:

"I don't have a family, Jimmy Hart has a family. I am starting a dynasty, Lance. And you can make sure one thing, whenever me or one of my men comes through Tupelo, we will hopefully leave as quickly as possible and victorious." - Jim Cornette

We then jumped to Jimmy Hart and Sweet Brown Sugar vs Jerry Lawler:

Most of this match featured Sugar getting beat on then trying to tag Hart who wouldn't tag in. So he had to chase him around.
Lawler won with a battering ram here on Sugar and then got some shots on Hart after.

Overall thoughts: Some of the finishes on this disk were really bad. Good first half, terrible second half. Watch Part 1 of it and some of Part 2.