Johnny Sorrow

We jump back in, as Dundee is turning heel again, because he's feeling that some things never change, and Lawler always gets whatever he wants. It's "The Jerry Lawler Show" with his guests Eddie Marlin and Bill Dundee. Bill and Jerry both calmly explain themselves. Bill says there's just not enough room in the pond for both of them, while Lawler is saying he has no problem with Bill, he just doesn't want to team with him. This is the Nixon/ Frost stuff of hillbillies. And then it's a spot with Lance moderating a discussion between the two in front of a live studio crowd and ...it's gonna be a little different. And it's AWESOME. Lance opens by getting Lawler to talk about how he couldn't beat Flair in the match they just had. Lawler gives a great "I lost, but it was close. I let the fans down, but I'm still the Southern Champ and number one contender here, so I'll get another chance." Dundee steps in and tells HIS "sad story", since everyone's got one, about being called too small to ever be a wrestler, but here he is. And he tells Lawler that he was great in the match.......but he couldn't beat Flair in the end. And now he's gonna take that belt so HE can get a chance at the World Title. This all rules. Both guys are actually right and at the end of it Lawler, Dundee, The Southern Belt, and Flair are all put over huge. It goes now to where Lawler and Dundee had a match, I guess ended up having to fight off some heels, and now have put it all aside and are gonna be a team again. Lawler and Dundee cut the famous promo where Billy is so excited he calls out every team as being lesser than him and Jerry, cause THEY could conceivably beat the Road Warriors, and guys like the Fabulous Ones can't. The Fabs come out, take exception, as they never beat the Fabs. Billy takes that as a challenge to him and Lawler, and Lawler is basically trying to explain to Bill that they don't have to fight the Fabs and he doesn't want to because he DOESN'T LIKE MATCHES WHERE THE FANS HAVE TO CHOOSE WHO TO CHEER FOR. That is so great. A simple storyline explanation as to why guys didn't want to do face vs face matches. Billy is like an out of his mind cokehead here. He's flipping out, calling Jerry a coward, calling the Fabs punks, and the whole time everyone's just going "What the fuck is wrong with Dundee?" Bill's mad cause he's the only guy of the four with no belt, really. And Lawler eventually says, "Fuck it. We're not partners anymore." And Dundee goes crazy like a meth head on the loose. He challenges Lawler saying he'll put up his car against the Belt. Dundee is a GOD here as Lawler doesn't want his car, so Billy offers his hair! Lawler can't resist.

It's not illegal. I remember that Vince wanted Sarge to burn a flag but he refused. So they settled on the poster.

Kung- Fu had been off the air since 1975. It was more "everyone needs a gimmick" like you said, and Ninjas were hot in 1985.

That was hilarious. Bret's just saying what he thinks and Pat goes nuts. Pat asks where else Stomper drew than Calgary and Hayes says, "Knoxville." Pat gets all exasperated going, "KNOXVILLE? Who cares?"

So, British Matt put up a new site for all the archived WHATAMANOOVER! shows and the Good Will Wrestling shows. http://www.whatamanoover.tk/

I had the Fritz Von Erich Wrestling Buddy. I'd hug it and it would reject my love unless I wrestled.

I loved the whole Raven/ Kanyon "What a mark" shit from back then. It was funny.

I will be full of meatloaf and beer. Let's rock.

Oh Frankie by far.

Actually, of all the mid -Eighties promotions, it was World Class and Mid-South/ UWF that had TV shows with lots of top name matches.

How might someone else stumble onto this set?

JCP had more top matches on free TV than WWF, but not by much. JCP TV was mostly just Star vs Jobber matches just like WWF.

Bossman was in 6 months before Hogan and challenging for a title on Starrcade. Wow, I totally forgot that.

Yeah, I used Skype. But you have to have a skype account that you pay a few bucks for.

I'm free Friday night.

Personally, I like this place as much as I do because, more often than not, we can bust each others balls and goof on each other like a real gang of dudes.

I, actually being a God and a King, approve that.

These are the most Fem looking guys I've ever seen wrestle.

Beside the fact that I love that bit, here's the WWF doing something, no matter how dopey it is, with a guy like Bossman who WCW really was only interested in for a few months during the initial "Hogan and his Pals" influx and as an NWO body in the background.

Gonna try to skype in, if it doesn't work I'll call w/ the phone machine

Disc 2 Continues the Dundee face turn, and it's just fucking awesome stuff. All the lead up to Lawler finally agreeing to team up with Dundee against The Bruise Brothers is fucking fantastic. We skip to the beginning of Dundee's heel turn, and it's all so great. Everything makes sense. Memphis gets this rep as being over the top, cartoony, and "phony"...but every fucking angle makes total sense and they always cover all the bases as to why shit is happening. And Lawler/ Dundee is just the most epic feud/ relationship of all time in pro wrestling.

Continuing disc one. we have heel Lawler coming out on top with the belt. Hart doesn't really talk a lot here, as he's just started. It skips to the legendary Loser Leaves Town Match #1 where Lawler is a face and Dundee has turned heel and joined Hart. Everyone knows this match. It's fucking awesome. It's #2 on my best match ever list. I don't really need to go into it, as I'm sure everyone's seen it but watch it again. It's good for you. They cover all the cool shit where Hart figures out a way to bring Dundee back, highlighted by a giant get together of all the heels in the First Family including young Jimmy Cornette in his sailor hat. There's a great Lawler/ Dundee match here that's not from Memphis or Louisville. It's a typical match between the two, which is high fucking praise. Then they get into Dundee's face turn, as he loses to Lawler in Memphis thanks to some mis-timed Hart interference with a chain. Hart's pissed and fires both Dundee and Plowboy Frazier from the family, because they lost their matches. He makes an exception for Ken Patera. Disc one done. Man, I've never really seen much of Lawler as a heel from the Seventies and he's just fucking amazing.

That leapfrog into a Mad Dog power slam was sick. I loved this, it's two of my favorite guys ever. Cornette and Ross really were great together. Everything about "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer is awesome. His name alone is one of the best ever, a cool nickname AND a cool fake name. I love the crazed giggling, and he looks legit insane. Only thing missing are the big fuzzy boots.

Old blind hippie begging the audience for pot. Watch it pal. You see the size of those mitts?