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.



CWA Memphis TV 4/10/1982

CWA Memphis TV 4/10/1982

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/cwa-memphis-tv-431982.html

"You know Lance Russell, if you had to tell the truth for once in your life, you'd say that the Express is the best tag team you ever seen in your life." - Dennis Condrey

"They won't even let us on tv. They say we too violent, we hurt too many people. We gonna open up some eyes. If we have to hurt people, it doesn't matter to us." - Dennis Condrey

"My boys done went through everybody in here and I run over Jerry Lawler like a mack truck."
"We gon' have to get some attention around here if we have to start hurtin' people, because the Midnight Express is #1, so put that in your pipe and smoke it, jack." - Norvell Austin
"We'll just see how #1 they are." - Lance Russell

Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose vs Rick McCord and Eric Embry

Austin with the cheapshot

More cheapshots from Austin

The finish

Condrey pinned Embry after the elbow off the top from Rose at 4:10. Good squash. Embry got punished.

Dutch Mantel vs Gypsy Joe

"We got all the makings of a hurtin' match here." - Lance Russell
" I don't know what the record is for most diqualifications in a career, but Gypsy Joe must be closing in on it." - Dave Brown

"GO DUTCH, GO!"

Dutch won here with an elbow in 3:30. This was alright and was "Brawl city" according to Lance. Mostly just punches and headbutts. Joe looked surprisingly strong here. Rating:*

Jerry Lawler vs Ernie Kirkland

Ernie Kirkland

Lawler with the one hitter quitter for the win

Lawler won here in 31 seconds after one punch. Jerry was mega over here.

We got clips from Eaton/Sugar vs Gibsons at MSC. The heels beat up on Bill Dundee at ringside and put some kind of alcohol/sulfur on the faces.The Gibsons threw in the towel when Robert Gibson was bleeding from both eyes. Eddie Marline took the belts away from Eaton/Sugar

We got a promo with the Gibson's:

"I went around for 3 days with my eyes burnin' Hart."
"If we have to do the same thing you guys do to get those belts, maybe we'll do it."
"Hart, you better load up because I'm gonna load up with every damn thing I got."

"Whatever you got Jimmy, bring it on down."

Norvell Austin vs Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers in his cowboy get-up.

Condrey came into interfere

Dutch came in for the save then Rose came in and triple teamed him. Lawler then came in to even it up.

Lawler tried to shake hands but Dutch pushed him down. Jerry, Dutch doesn't want to be your friend.

"I don't know if he's hard of hearing or what's a matter with him, but I don't want to be his friend."(Editor's note: HA, I told you.)
"He thinks it's over, but it ain't over Lawler. I ain't forgot you and I don't need his help. The farther off he stays away from me, the better off we'll both be."

"If they want attention, all they gotta do is put Roy and I together and they'll get all the attention they want."
"Roy, you gonna be alright buddy."

The Monk vs David Price

David Price

The Monk won quick here in 43 seconds with a headbutt and a splash. This was better by Monk's standards.

We then got a promo with The Monk:

"Eddie Marlin won't give him a chance. You know why?"

"Because the Keirn's and the Lawler's say, Eddie, whatever you do, please don't give us a match with the Monk. He'll hurt us. He'll put us out of professional wrestling."
"I said to Eddie, Jimmy Hart and the First Family, if you don't give The Monk a shot at the Southern Heavyweight Title, then we're leaving brother."
"We now got a chance at a championship match with Jerry Lawler"

Hart hits him and says:"He's gon' lay that fist upside yo head."

"He's gonna lay that foot upside yo stomach baby."

Hart hits him with the bat and says, "And you GOTTTA BE READY FOR IT."

"Take his head baby and I want you to squuuueze it. Give it everything you got."

Monk tries to pop it and fails, so they do a cut to a later scene.

"Look at it, its over Lawler. My dream baby.

"Look at it baby."

We then got a music video with Bill Dundee:

"That one-armed cowboy, tough little son-of-a-gun." - Lance Russell

The video was set to some song called "Blue Skies" with Dundee talking about how he was depressed and was upset about being injured. I'm not sure what the purpose of it was unless it was to make Dundee look like a sissy.

Expiration of time match: Stan Lane and Danny Davis vs Sweet Brown Sugar(Koko B. Ware) and Bobby Eaton

What in the heck is Stan wearing?

Davis went after Hart and JR Hart used a chair on him

Eaton won after hitting Davis with something in his hand and then they had a small brawl.

We got an interview with Lawler:

"Well, he's strong but he doesn't have both oars in the water, does he? He's not all there, obviously." - Lawler on The Monk
"We saw those videos of Jimmy Hart hitting him with a baseball bat...and it doesn't impress me. Jimmy Hart couldn't break eggs with a hammer."

Overall thoughts: This was an alright show. No great matches but The Monk's promo was fun and I liked the Dutch/Lawler stuff. Check it out if you have some time to waste.