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  1. garretta
    Nice final blowoff to the valet portion of the feud. It's kind of sad that Kim and Tessa had to try to work a match, as neither one of them can do a blasted thing in the ring. Whatever happened to Tessa, I hope she had a happier life than we've seen these past few months. She tried her best, but she really didn't seem to belong in the business, whether it was with Tatum or Dundee. We got to have our cake and eat it too, in a sense, as Kim gets stripped by Lawler and Dundee's new valet Vicious Vicki, who sounds like she's been taking promo lessons from her new employers. She looks like a female version of Dundee more than anything else, and she's just as tough as the Superstar. I wondered if she could be a relative of Bill's for a moment or two, but she doesn't have a Scottish accent like he does. The resemblance is uncanny, though. I'm guessing that WMC was a lot more tolerant of things like nudity when it came to wrestling programs than KTVT was of violence against women, since there were no threats against Jarrett that I know of for Kim being stripped. I could have done without both, to be honest, but at least the long-promised stripping was finally delivered. Maybe now we can focus entirely on the men.
  2. garretta
    It was a bit jarring to see such a brutal match followed by the whole comedy bit with Granny Gilbert's hair elixir, but Memphis can pull stuff like this off without breaking a sweat. I like Sam Lowe's professional look, with the nice suit and the sunglasses. (By the way, if that's not Sam, who is it?) I'm kind of glad they didn't have Idol turn on Lawler; it would have been way too predictable, plus this feud doesn't need that kind of twist at the moment. Maybe a little later on if Idol sticks around, but not right now. I love Dave's reaction to Doug's wig, which actually isn't all that horrible. As great as Lance is, I think Dave handles comedy like this a bit better.
  3. garretta
    Okay, copy and paste fouled up on me again, so here we go longhand. By the way, this promo is actually from August 4; where you got August 29 from I have no clue. This is Eddie's and DWB's answer to the Lawler/Dundee promo earlier. Eddie claims that Sam Lowe is his friend, and that the coffee Anthony threw in Sam's face a couple of weeks ago was cold. He then offers his services as a peacemaker in the Middle East, since his plans always come to pass. Then we get a decent promo from Kim about the stripping match with Tessa. Eddie may be the one Memphis heel who can go word for word with Lawler, and Kim's not the worst promo in the world, either; she's much better than Tony at this point, in fact. I just wish that the stripping hadn't been teased so often, because I'm really tired of it being promised and not delivered. I'm not a big fan of stripping angles to start with, but if you promise it for weeks and weeks, you eventually have to go through with it. Let's hope this is the week. \
  4. garretta
    The date here is a complete mess, guys. Unless they ran a primetime special no one knows about, there's no way Memphis wrestling aired on WMC on a Wednesday (August 29). Do you mean August 25 or September 1? I've hunted for this promo all over and can't find it on either Disc 20 or Disc 21.
  5. garretta
    You have to give Champion credit for living this bizarre gimmick to the best of his ability. That said, did he have to sound like his costume was full of helium? I realize that it might have killed the gimmick for him to speak in his normal voice, because even at that time smart fans could have heckled him for dressing up in a freakin' turtle suit, but there had to be a happy medium somewhere. I notice that Champion wrestles Eddie Gilbert later this month in a match that made the set. It'll be interesting to see just how well Champion moves around, and also how seriously Eddie takes the match.
  6. garretta
    Kim/Tessa has surpassed Toni/Jeannie as the best female feud in the USWA. These promos are good by any standard, but tremendous for two women who don't usually make their living talking. And we don't need obviously fake pictures or National Enquirer-style gossip-mongering to keep this feud hot, either. These two ladies are seriously looking to hurt each other, and although it's almost a given that the actual match won't live up to the hype, the hype itself is classic. Anthony and Gilbert are next, and their intensity is off the charts as well, particularly Anthony with his promises of broken bones. I think he's actually better than Gilbert here, as he compares himself favorably to Saddam Hussein, which seems only slightly less tasteless from him than it does from Slaughter. He'd have made his point better if he'd said that he and Anthony were going to roll over Lawler and Dundee like the U.S. eventually will over Saddam, if he felt the need to mention Saddam at all. If Loss ever builds his time machine, can he make room for a passenger?
  7. garretta
    For someone who actually grew up in Memphis, Bruno doesn't do a bad Pittsburgh accent; take it from a Pittsburgher. Maybe he had family in the area. Fort Duquesne Boulevard isn't exactly the red-light district Bruno claims it is, but it's an exotic-sounding name that evokes mystery and danger, and besides, who in Memphis is going to know the difference? As for what we saw here, Jeff Gaylord is the walking stereotype of the professional wrestler. He is what all the detractors of this business claim that every professional wrestler is: a muscleheaded screaming goon who walks around with a bloody face (made that way by blood capsules, naturally) and chronic bug eyes, with intelligence that would fit on the head of a Q-tip. Can you imagine the number of people who might have happened upon that one segment and were turned off of wrestling forever, satisfied that everything they might have heard about it was true? Seriously, this isn't bad for a bunch of midcarders, and I'm probably judging Gaylord a bit too harshly. But his performance seemed so in line with everything that was laughed at about wrestling at the time (and still is now, quite frankly) that it stood out to me.
  8. garretta
    Great promo from Gilbert and Anthony, with Eddie really pouring on the hatred of Evansville. I found AJ's story about Eddie Marlin and the Evansville announcers a bit surprising. Did Eddie really think that all the fans in the area got WMC, or should have? Did he think that AJ was asking something that he had no business asking? Was there a problem between the promotion and either the announcers or the station they worked for at the time? Even for people dedicated to maintaining kayfabe, the identity of the Evansville announcers seems like a strange thing to keep a secret.
  9. garretta
    After all that Kim's put Lawler and Dundee through in this feud, Lawler threatening her seems almost justified. Not right, certainly, but justified. This is another type of match that I've never seen, but sure would like to. I'll say this for Memphis: whoever was in charge of coming up with inventive stipulations for matches sure worked overtime!
  10. garretta
    Count me in with those who'd like to see these six guys in the cage, or anywhere else for that matter. I noticed that they forgot to mention who Gilbert and Anthony's partner will be, but given the history of this feud, Tatum is a logical assumption. I also noticed that the USWA cage is billed as being three feet shorter than the WWF cage. I've always heard that twelve feet is much closer to the real height of the type of cage used in wrestling. Could someone tell me if this is true?
  11. garretta
    Great answer promo by the heels for the upcoming stretcher match. I love the thought of each of them driving one of the ambulances they're going to send the faces out in!
  12. garretta
    I've never heard of or seen a multi-man stretcher match, but it sounds like a hell of a match to take to a secondary town like Evansville. I wish the footage existed! Who is this friend that Lawler referenced at the start of the promo? Did he ever become someone we should know?
  13. garretta
    I've jumped the gun on starting topics before, but I think this is one we missed. This in Eddie and DWB's answer to the Lawler/Dundee promo earlier. Eddie claims that Sam Lowe is his friend, and that the coffee that Anthony threw in his face a couple of weeks ago was cold. He then offers his services as a peacemaker in the Middle East, since his plans always come to pass. Then we get a decent promo from Kim about the stripping match the following Monday with Tessa. Eddie may be the one Memphis heel who can go word for word with Lawler, and Kim's not the worst promo in the world either; she's much better than Tony at this point, in fact. I just wish that the stripping hadn't been teased so often, because I'm really getting tired of it being promised and not delivered. I'm not a big fan of stripping angles to start with, but if you promise one for weeks and weeks, you eventually have to go through with it. Let's hope this is the week.
  14. garretta
    This promo was done on the Memphis Saturday morning show; you have it listed here as being on the Dallas Saturday night show, guys. At any rate, this is fantastic mic work from Lawler as always, explaining the various matches we're going to see the following Monday and also the heel turn by Sam Lowe the photographer. Is there any other territory where a heel turn by a cameraman actually feels like something important? I can't think of one. The only thing Dundee does here is introduce Tessa's promo. It's weird that she refers to the man she supposedly loves as "Dundee", but to each her own, I guess. For what seems like the thousandth time, a stripping of one or the other of the two girls is teased, but I'll believe it when I actually see it, Eddie Marlin's decrees be damned. By the way, how many Tessa fans are there, really? It doesn't seem like there would be too many if she wasn't hanging around with the King and the Superstar. Don't let your head get too big, girl!
  15. garretta
    I wonder if this Luther turned into anything. I thought he was going to attack Fuller when Fuller called him "boy", but no such luck. Fuller, Borne, and the Nasties is quite the stable to reckon with in any organization. Fuller isn't a bad singer by any means. Does anybody else think he'd have been a better Honky Tonk Man than Wayne Ferris? He'd have been a much better worker than Ferris was under that gimmick for sure.
  16. garretta
    Larry's pre-match promo was nice, but it got a little confusing toward the end, when he started talking about Chris Berman and missiles scoring touchdowns. I liked that he called out Sting and Warrior, though. Everyone involved, including Lee and Verne, seemed like they wanted to get this stupid thing over with as quickly as possible and go somewhere where they could make some real money. Not much actual work was done, just a few punches for each man and straight over the top. Lee said in the intro that pinfalls and submissions count as eliminations, but none are even teased. In fact, I didn't even see referee Gary DeRusha in the ring once it started filling up. This thing was so sloppily done that they mentioned the name change from Sarge's Snipers to DeBeers' Diamondcutters once, then promptly forgot it for the rest of the match. No one even tried to explain the point-scoring system, which is supposed to be the point of the whole tournament. In fact, Verne just seemed perplexed by the whole concept, even though he presumably had approved the damn thing over a year before. A big whoops to the camera crew: After filming the whole postmatch interview where all of the other members of Larry's Legends froze Milliman out, they catch him and Zbyszko amicably shaking hands as each of them leaves. I know none of this crap means anything, and that there's probably only one TV taping left in the AWA's life (the one where Zbyszko wrestles Race), but it was still ridiculous to completely kill an illusion that was created not even five minutes before. I'm honestly surprised that one of the Big Two didn't take this concept and make something good out of it. The idea of teams fighting it out for collective glory as well as individual glory might have freshened up the booking in either the WWF or WCW if it was used the right way at the right time, which it definitely wasn't here.
  17. garretta
    An interesting look at Sam and Nickla. She's feeding him some of his answers, if you notice. I had no idea that Sam worked for the WWF this late, even occasionally. The friend he was referring to almost has to be Magnum T.A.
  18. garretta
    Not a whole lot of new ground covered here except for Austin's Pillsbury jokes, which lose their humor the second and third times around, though I liked the "have your biscuit and eat it too" line. So Jeannie beat Toni again, huh? Even taking Austin's interference into account, this is too much. The faces look like ineffectual dolts as usual, and I'm beginning to see Austin's point about wrestling them and beating them enough. Honestly, CVE vs. Percy is the only part of this whole thing that hasn't been completely beaten into the ground. I get that Austin had a lot more upside than Adams did at this point, but that doesn't excuse Adams being completely jobbed out to the point of ridiculousness. Either give Adams some sustained payback or end this feud once and for all.
  19. garretta
    It seems a bit counterproductive to show one of your top heels as a conservative family man who likes to play soccer with his son in the park, doesn't it? Maybe I'm not understanding these vignettes as well as I thought I was. Is it my imagination or was Masakre smoking a cigarette while standing in front of that sculpture with his son? I couldn't tell for sure.
  20. garretta
    I liked that they showed Llanes as a capable wrestler even though he's supposed to be a rudo. It's rare that American promotions emphasize that kind of thing in introductory vignettes, even with guys like Ted DiBiase and Curt Hennig, who are two of the best heel workers in the world. "The Maggot", eh? Sounds like an inductee for turncoat Slaughter's "Camel Corps". I'm enjoying these vignettes more than the lucha matches, believe it or not.
  21. garretta
    Seems like a neat biographical sketch, with footage of Jalisco riding a horse to boot. My college-level Spanish wasn't quite enough to pick up what the announcer was saying, but aside from Jalisco riding the horse with his mask on, which looked a tad weird even if it's customary behavior for a luchador, I could tell that this was done with serious intent. Good stuff.
  22. garretta
    Tremendous performance by Akbar here, as he pulls off the wounded victim stuff beautifully, making Jarrett seem almost heelish. The best part, though, is that Ak still sells his injury as he goes to the back instead of getting up and running around like he was fine all along. I don't believe I've seen any injury angles done quite like that before. The camera happens to catch the lighter in Ak's hand a couple of times, but that only adds to the sense of impending danger, as the fans watching on TV know what's in store for Jeff before Jeff realizes it himself. Craig does his best job yet, immediately running over with a towel to cover Jarrett's eyes and screaming for the director to go to something else. He seems to be hitting his stride at long last; it's a shame that there are only two more weeks of TV left for the USWA in Texas this year, if I have my math right. It's a shame that this angle most likely won't receive a proper payoff, too.
  23. garretta
    We're a bit mixed up here, guys. Lawler cut this promo after Terry Taylor no showed the tag match that had been hyped the previous week. There's another match scheduled for this coming Friday (8/31). Lawler basically tells Ak to save his money so he can get the best hospital room he can afford, because Jeff Jarrett and the King are going to send him there. This is a standard intense Lawler face promo; for whatever reason, Devastation Inc. is bringing out the best in him. I wonder if anybody ever thought of bringing Ak and his crew to Memphis. I realize that Eddie Gilbert and Tony Anthony were doing just fine and didn't need the help, but the Memphis side needed a credible heel manager desperately, and if Ak wasn't what he used to be at his peak, what he was was still miles better than the best Memphis had to offer, which was probably Downtown Bruno. More than likely, he simply wanted to stay in Texas; I know he was heavily involved in Global, both on camera and behind the scenes. I wonder why Taylor no-showed. Did he get a better offer somewhere else during the week of 8/19-8/25, or did he simply not like whatever payoff he was supposed to get from Jarrett?
  24. garretta
    Nice explanation of the upcoming bout from Chris. I've heard of matches like this before, and the heel almost always ends up getting themselves disqualified somehow. I've heard of and seen the penalty box in action too, and it's usually kind of lame. Basically, they're teasing the two girls being locked in a cage, but they just had that and Percy interfered. It's to the point now where we either need something extreme like a barbed wire........oh, wait, we had that all the way back in May. Maybe a mixed.......nope, we had those too. How about a cage......nope, just had that last week, as I said. Get the picture? What could have possibly blown this off if Jarrett had stayed on TV in Dallas? I doubt that even he knew at this point. I like the idea of Toni blatantly slapping the referee just so she can be locked in the box with Jeannie. Can you imagine Bronko Lubich anticipating this and trying to run away from a slap, only to fall over his own feet? It would be better comedy than a midget match! I'm fairly sure that if there had been an angle reuniting Chris and Toni, we'd have seen it. More than likely, Jarrett realized that a breakup would have made this whole mess even more confusing and simply junked the idea, hoping that the fans would forget about it. Wise choice.
  25. garretta
    Taylor's promo was nice, but no one can outtalk Lawler, who manages to take shots not only at Taylor and Ak, but a subtle jab at Bobby Heenan, as he talks about those who have gotten inside Taylor's head. Taylor's rebuttal has fire, but it doesn't really fit; Lawler's never been about his looks or chasing women, at least not on camera, and considering where Terry just came from and what he did there, he really doesn't have room to talk about winning matches either. Those who can barely squeak by Steve Lombardi shouldn't be throwing around win-loss records. Apparently this all came to nothing, as Taylor didn't show up for the tag match the following week, according to a previous thread. Hmmm. I wonder who took his place?
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