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Kerry comes to the ring for the ‘final showdown’ with Matt Borne. Borne’s music plays but there is no sign of him as Percy Pringle is walking out on his own. As Pringle walks around ringside Craig Johnson asks where Mr Borne is, and Percy replies ‘why don’t you ask horse face where Mr Borne is?’ He says that just because he’s Fritz Von Erich’s son, he’s got all this money and was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that Kerry really thinks he’s something. He’s just been on the phone to Matt and he’s stranded in Nashville as his flight got grounded and he was pulled off the plane. Percy is convinced that Kerry is behind it and used his connections to make that happen. He tells horse face that he may be in Nashville now, but he’s coming to Dallas, and when he does he’s going to kick his pony boyo face all over the building. As Percy is about to leave Kerry says that Matt Borne’s scheduling problem is nothing to do with him. He signed for a wrestling match and if it can’t be him, it’ll be you. Percy tries to run away but Kerry grabs hold of him. He starts pummelling him until Percy ducks out the way of a discus punch and Kerry hits the ringpost instead. They enter the ring (with Percy falling over the ropes!) and Pringle starts attacking that hand. Kerry sells the hand for all over twenty seconds before another discus punch and then the Iron Claw. Gary Young, Sweet Daddy Falcone and the Dog of War run out to save Percy and they triple team Kerry until Jeff Jarrett and Billy Joe Travis make the save. Having seen he had matches in the NAWA on the Yearbook, my guess when he never showed for the match was that Matt Borne had left and the other posts confirm it. I thought they did as well as they could here up until Kerry stopped selling the discus punch to the ringpost. I appreciate Pringle is just an overweight manager come announcer and he really shouldn’t be getting the better of the top face, but it was ridiculous having him stop selling it so quickly. Have go Kerry left handed instead? I’m sure he could handle Percy with one hand quite comfortably. Alternatively don’t bother with him hitting the ringpost at all. The finish was Devastation Inc. saving Pringle and jumping Kerry, which could easily be achieved just by Kerry beating up Percy until they come to his aid. Reading the posts it also transpires this was Kerry’s last appearance before he left for the WWF. On knowing that, he definitely deserved better than this.
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Craig Johnson refers to Steve and Jeanie as the most dangerous pair in wrestling. He says how last night at the Sportatorium the TV cameras may not have been here, but a pair of handcuffs were. Austin says that they had the match and Chris wanted the stipulation that if any of the girls interfered it would be a $10,000 fine. Toni the beep that she is, tried to instigate something with Jeanie so that they would have to pay the fine, but that didn’t work. What did happen was that Chris Adams bought some handcuffs to the ring as he thought he was going to need them, but something happened during the match and he ended up getting handcuffed to the ropes with his own cuffs. On July 4th a mixed tag team match has been signed between himself and Jeanie, the future of the USWA, and Chris & Toni Adams. He owns Chris so he’s not worried about him, but Toni was raised on a shrimp boar, is trash and is probably pretty tough, but despite this they are both very confident for the match. Jeanie says how Chris got a big kick out of wearing those handcuffs and she knows he enjoyed giving her that spanking as he always did like it to sting a little bit. She has been receiving more letters from all the husbands out there, this time wanting a lock of her beautiful long, naturally blonde hair. She also has another photograph with her, this time of her ex-boyfriend Sylvester Stallone, but they had to keep it a secret as they didn’t want Bridget to find out! Come the mixed tag team match when she gets her hands on her she’s going to tear Toni apart and it’ll all be her own fault as she made the decision and she wanted the match.
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Percy is out for an interview with Craig Johnson and he tells him that he looks like a microphone stand, so earn his $25 and hold that microphone for him as that’s all he’s good for! As far as the fans go though, he hasn’t worked out what they’re good for yet? They’re driving him insane and he can hardly sleep at night. They can’t be as stupid as they look, they’re has to be a few intelligent ones left? What do they want from him? Do they want an apology? Do they not remember how he started the big write in campaign to bring back Eric Embry? How he tore down the World Class banner? All while he’s going off on them, the crowd are chanting ‘Go home Percy’ at him. He says that it doesn’t matter what any of them think though because the man of the hour is Matt Borne. On Independence Day it will be ‘the last battle’ between Matt Borne and Kerry Von Erich, as the USWA have said that there will be no more rematches after this. He tells Kerry that Matt won’t pull any stops because everyone saw what he did to his daddy, and talking of daddies, Kerry, Kevin and Chris have shamed their daddy. Pringle then just abruptly walks off! I’m trying to work out what’s going on with Pringle as he’s back to crazy, deranged Percy again here. Are we meant to believe that there are almost ‘two’ Percy’s? You have Percy the crazed heel manager, but when he’s called to be an announcer/interviewer he’s straight laced, face Percy? Kinda like you have to suspend your disbelief and just treat them as two different characters even though it’s the same person. It’s a strange one for sure! Either way, another good interview from Pringle here.
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He ended up moving in with them as they were 'worried' about him living on his own. It started back when Wright put a bounty on Tracey Smothers, and there was a dispute over who should've got the money, either the Dirty White Boy or Brian Lee (it took place at Fire on the Mountain which I didn't watch). Basically Tammy used her charms to get Ron to give them the money (lots of neck rubs for 'Ronnie', kisses on his forehead) and then continued to schmooze him knowing that they could continually exploit him and get more of cash. He eventually moved in with them so Tammy could keep an eye on his medication, give him his neck rubs when he needed them etc. The White Boy was concerned with what was going on, but Wright had just had his head turned by an attractive young lady and didn't realise what her alterior motives were. -
Before the match begins an emotional Tatum gets on the mic and tells Tessa he’s written her poems from the bottom of his heart, has sent her the finest gifts money can buy and can see it in her eyes that after he wins the title and beats Bill Dundee’s brains in, that she’s going to come back to him. Tatum continues to insist that he’s a changed man, but his actions in the match with the closed fists and eye rakes don’t indicate that at all. Tatum reverses an Irish whip into the turnbuckles and ‘The Superstar’ comes off the middle one with a reverse crossbody. Tony Falk is too close to the action and the wrestler’s crash back into him. Dundee makes the cover but Falk is still down and clutching at his leg. Tatum kicks out and Dundee with an O’Connor roll. Falk finally gets back to his feet but as he’s coming around to count the pin, Tatum kicks out again shooting Dundee forward and headfirst into Falk who gets bumped for a second time. Tatum rolls up Dundee, grabs the tights, Falk crawls over to count the three and he’s the new Southern Heavyweight champion. After the match he superkicks Dundee in the back of the head and goes outside to plead to Tessa. She tells him that she’ll never come back to him and that it’s over. When she walks away from him he SUPERKICKS HER IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD which appears to completely stun the Sportatorium audience. He casually then makes his way to the back with Tessa laid out unconscious on the arena floor and Craig Johnson saying how this doesn’t look good. We return from a commercial break and Dundee is with Johnson. He says that although he’s lost the Southern title, that’s not the main issue right now. John Tatum said how he loved Tessa and that everything he did for her and everything that he was doing for her came from his heart, but we’ve just seen what kind of heart he has. Winning wrestling matches and belts is one thing, but when you take your spite out on a woman, that isn’t right. He says that he’ll do whatever it takes to get him in the ring and although he wants that belt back, that can wait as he’s now fighting for Tessa’s honour. I found the match to be disappointing and not that heated at all considering how hot the angles and build up have been. I was expecting full on Tatum ‘changed man’ playing by the rules, or ‘angry, pissed off Tatum’ doing whatever it took to win the title. As it was, we got something in between. The superkick to Tessa was a holy shit moment and seemed to stun everyone as the Sportatorium just went quiet. It was something that I remember reading about in the Apter mag’s, but this was the first time I’d ever seen the footage. I agree with garretta about Falk, and it’s as though he has to get bumped in every match. We hadn’t seen him being bumped for a while so he makes up for it here by getting done twice! After the Dundee post-attack interview I’m pretty excited for whatever’s next between these two.
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Dibiase says he has already proven what a complete total idiot the Big Bossman was at school, and now he’s here with his old football coach ‘Coach Batten’, on the very field where he supposedly played football. He enquires to Coach whether the Bossman played football here and he says ‘if you want to call it that. He was on the team!’ When Dibiase wonders about his co-ordination for playing the game, Coach gets frustrated and throws his cap to the floor saying that he couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time, and that he used to think he had lace on his panties! He says that you have to be tough to play football, you have to be a ‘hitter’ and he asks what kind of ‘hitter’ the Big Bossman was? Coach says that he couldn’t even crack an egg, which leads to Dibiase speculating if he couldn’t crack an egg and wasn’t a hitter, what position did he play? Was he a guard? Coach says that yeah he was a guard, he guarded the water bucket and watched the cheerleaders! Dibiase claims that he’s proven once more that the Bossman is a hick, from a hick high school, in a hick town, in a hick town and the Big Bossman has a price for the Million Dollar Man, just like all the other hicks in this county here. As he is saying this Virgil brings out the dollar bills in front of Coach’s face, and he was another who had his price. Coach was a bit too hammy here and overacting throughout. It was clearly an actor pretending to be a ‘coach’, doing all the stereotypical coach mannerisms like spitting and throwing off his cap. Dibiase and his laugh were great, but he’s kinda proved his point by now and I’m hoping there aren’t any more of these.
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It’s an exclusive for the Danger Zone as members of the Four Horsemen are his guests this week on the show. Paul E. says how everyone is coming after the Horsemen, but Ole tells him that on July 7th there is no way the title belt is changing hands and it will be coming back to the Horsemen, you can bet on it! Windham says how Jim Herd keeps coming up with these new stipulations and is threatening to add new ones to their matches, but nothing he does will change the way they do things, and it won’t change the outcome of the match either. Arn states that the politics of this business has been their adversary from day one. It’s always been a political scheme to step on the Horsemen because they can’t find four or five guys with the talent to beat them. Stipulations or not, everything will be just like it started and they will remain on top of the game. Flair says how it is no secret that there is animosity between him and the NWA, and that they try to lay down guidelines and new rules every day. It’s a resentment based on one thing, the Four Horsemen and the fact that they’re the four best wrestlers in the sport today. The Naitch then takes off a shoe and tells Sting that he pays a grand a pair for these, they’re alligator, they’re custom made, and on the best day of his life Sting wouldn’t be able to wear them. Baltimore, MD has seen him wrestle every great athlete alive, come out victorious each time and Sting is next. Heyman says that this is why Ric Flair is the greatest living human being in the world today and the gets on his knees, kisses his hand and thanks him! Where was Sid? Great go home interview from Flair for the Bash and good stuff from Arn here too. Whilst Ole was not at his best here, it’s fair to say that of the four best talkers of the year so far, three of them are in the Horsemen.
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Apparently many of their fans have requested that they perform their million selling, gold record hit that’s sweeping the nation! Monsoon quips that they probably only had two requests, but ‘The Brain’ tells him to ‘shush!’ Honky is on lead vocals for ‘Hunka, Hunka, Hunka, Honky Love’ with Jimmy Hart and Greg Valentine providing backing. Hart looks like he’s enjoying himself, but Valentine looks like he would rather be anywhere than here right now.
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Dawna’s back! And with her is the man who’s been chosen to be wrestler of the month for June, Mr G.Q. Madison. She’s got some questions for him that have been sent in by the viewers, and these are every bit as trivial as the ones she had for Super Mario. Someone wants to know what ‘G.Q.’ stood for, and he says ‘Gentleman’s Quarterly’ as he used to model for them. Dawna even tries a joke at this point telling him that she thought she’s seen him before! Another person wants to know what his most prized possession is (his family) and the final person wonders what his future career ambitions are (to make it in the wrestling business). Dawna congratulates him again for winning the award, thanks him for stopping by and says that she’ll see us later. I think Dawna might have been slightly smitten with Mr Gentleman’s Quarterly, although I did like her attempt to crack a joke. She’s also taken to looking at the camera instead of the person she’s interviewing for some reason!
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The Dudes consist of the Junkyard Dog, Sting, Rocky King and Paul Orndorff, and they’re all there with Jim Ross. King tells the Horsemen that their days are numbered as they’re going down! Sting says he’s finally got it how he wanted, with the Dudes around the ring and Ole Anderson handcuffed to El Gigante. No-one is going to get ripped off this time because it is one on one and there will be a clear winner. JYD says that he’ll be on guard dog duty around that ring and if anyone steps out of line he’s going to take a bite out of them! Unfortunately we don’t hear anything from Orndorff here.
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Ole and Flair are with Jim Ross and Ross goes over the match stipulations for the Great American Bash. Ole tells El Gigante that if he makes one wrong move he’s going to have to worry about him, and as for the ‘Superdudes’ around ringside, he doesn’t know if they will be enough to take care of the Horsemen. He tells Sting that he may get a look at the belt, but when he does he will be lay on his back, because the belt is going to be around the man who is champion now, and that is going to be the champion until he decides differently. Flair says how it may appear on the surface that Sting has everything going his way. Wrong, because he still has to beat Ric Flair, he still has to rise to the occasion and he still has to beat the World Heavyweight champion! In Baltimore, to be the man, he has to beat the man! Nice to see Ole back on form after those previous segments he was involved in with Jim Herd.
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‘Charismatic’ Jim is here to go over the stipulations for the title match on 7/7. He invited all of the Horsemen to join him, but only Ole Anderson showed up. Herd is taking no guff from Ole ‘I invited you here to listen, not to talk’, and says that the ‘Superdudes’ will surround all corners of the ring to negate any interference from the Four Horsemen. In regards to Ole, the fans have been writing in about him ever since Capital Combat, and Herd confirms that due to what happened there, he will never be a commentator on any of their wrestling shows again. Ole accuses him of trying to take his livelihood away from him, but Herd tells him that his livelihood depends on how well he can discipline himself and the Four Horsemen to work within the parameters that World Championship Wrestling sets! The stipulation for Ole is that he’s going to be handcuffed to, at which point Ole interjects and says he couldn’t care who he’s handcuffed to, El Gigante. In walks Gigante and Ole’s attitude quickly changes, he’s not so carefree and happy now! I wasn’t keen on this as it was almost as if Ole was playing it for laughs. This was supposed to be some big announcement, almost stacking the deck against the Horsemen for the match at the Bash, but it didn’t come off or feel that way at all. I guess we can add ‘Superdudes’ to ‘Superheroes’ and ‘Dudes With Attitudes’ now too.
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The Dirty White Boy and Dirty White Girl are out having demanded an interview. Tony Anthony says how the White Girl slapped Tessa around, beat her brains out Monday night and that Bill Dundee had to drag her out of there. He asks Dave Brown if Dundee and Tessa are in the building, and when he tells them that they’re not, he wonders how they can talk about how big, how mean and how tough they are if they can’t come here to back it up? He and the White Girl are here so why aren’t they? If Dundee wants to fight they’ll do it Monday night, because that’s his middle name and he’ll stomp his brains out. The Dirty White Girl then calls Tessa a witch and says that she’ll also be there Monday night and they’ll see who scratches whose eyes out. Considering that she’s been a valet much longer than both Jeannie and Toni she’s not a patch on either of them as a talker. As much as I like the White Girl she’s never really been good in that aspect and that’s evidenced in one sentence here. You would’ve though with Tony Anthony being such a strong and solid promo that something would’ve rubbed off on his wife but it just never did.
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This is the ‘boxer vs wrestler’ bout from Mid-South Coliseum, with The Snowman in Leon Spinks’ corner and we join the action in ‘Round Five’. ‘The King’ hits two fist drops on Spinks and makes the cover, but The Snowman puts his foot over the bottom rope to break the count. Lawler goes outside and the two exchange stares before Lawler drops him with a right. He goes back in the ring to continue the match with Spinks but it’s not long before The Snowman interferes again, this time getting in the ring himself and attacking ‘The King’ for the DQ. The two of them proceed to double team him, each taking turns to knock Lawler to the canvas then lifting him back to his feet to let the other have a shot. We return to the studio and Jerry Lawler is sat with Dave Brown. Dave says that there was no doubt about it, there was outside interference from The Snowman in that match. Lawler says that he isn’t going to take anything away from Leon Spinks. He’s seen George Foreman, who is older than him make a return to the ring, and he’s going to make a comeback himself. He can also testify that he still hits hard! What makes things unfair though is when you are in there with a man who has defeated Muhammad Ali, and you have to deal with The Snowman (who is again in the audience) as well. Lawler is convinced that Spinks and The Snowman spoke before the match and came to some sort of agreement that if he was in trouble, The Snowman would come to his rescue. He’s been in that situation before and should know what to expect from a jerk like The Snowman. It’s broken down to one more match, and in all there other meetings, both sides were never happy with the referee; one would be happy with the official, be it Jerry Calhoun, ‘Big’ Lou Winston. Kerry Von Erich or Leon Spinks, but the other would not be. As a result, this time there will be no referee in the ring. The referee will be on the outside and will only enter the ring to count the pin, and one man will then leave the true undisputed champion. There will be no excuses, there won’t be anyone else to blame, and The Snowman won’t have anything to cry about after it. ‘The King’ then turn his attention to the ‘welfare stooges’ who are sat with The Snowman, and says how all of his cronies don’t impress him. He also wonders when one of them is back in Woolworths with that suit he’s wearing! The match was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting as Spinks sold well when we joined the action and threw a believable looking punch in the post-match attack. Considering I was fearing the worst after seeing his interview, there wasn’t much wrong with this at all. The interview certainly gives the impression that Lawler has turned face with his acknowledgement and putting over of Spinks (and I’m guessing The Snowman interference and post-match attack and double team is the indication he’s now a heel). It does feel like they’ve have turned several times already in this feud, when I this is in fact the first time.
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I'd say yes to Shibata/Goto.
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Brother Love says that there have been many Intercontinental champions, but never a ‘perfect’ Intercontinental champion, and his guests this week are Mr Perfect and Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan. Perfect says that Love is correct in calling him the ‘perfect’ Intercontinental champion, but let’s not overlook the ‘perfect’ manager, Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan. Heenan says that if you had a child and it grew up, would you want it to look like Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake with ripped tights, a mediocre physique and ratty looking hair, or like Mr Perfect? 6’3”, 235lbs of rock hard agility and muscle, with beautiful white teeth, beautiful blue eyes and beautiful blonde flowing locks! Perfect says that what Beefcake and all these people would like more than anything else is to see his beautiful blonde locks fall to the ground at the hands of the Barber’s scissors. He then says that Beefcake is just like everyone else though, and that it is the Intercontinental title around his waist that separates him from everybody else in the WWF, including Brutus Beefcake. He’s not only the greatest wrestler of all time, but the greatest wrestler of modern times. Brutus Beefcake is never going to cut his hair, and never going to win the Intercontinental title! Amazing that six months after the Royal Rumble that this feud is still going and doesn’t appear to be showing any sign of slowing down. Good promo from Curt here.
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Tatum accidentally outs himself saying ‘whomever sent that necklace, oops, that gift to Tessa’ surely must be a rich man and must really love her too! He tells Dundee that if he’s ‘a long drink of water’ does that make him a ‘sip’? He knows Dundee doesn’t want to put up his belt against him next week but he has to. He then gets all emotional and tells Tessa that he loves her and that he’s also written a poem for her ‘Roses are red, violets are blue, Tessa I love you!’ He’s going to beat Dundee to death next week, win that title and then give it to Tessa. He says that he’s stopped drinking (as he developed a drinking problem after she left him!), is sleeping well and is looking real good as he’s got a tan and had his hair done for her! He loves her more than anything in the world and wants her to please come back to him. His face with his bottom lip quivering is a picture! He gives the cameraman a hug and tells him that he loves him, followed by one for Percy. He takes off his jacket ready for the match, but before he gets in the ring gives a fan at ringside a hug, another for Percy (Percy wanted another!) and then one for another fan who he borrows a cowboy hat from that he puts on. Each of the ringettes are next for a Tatum hug and he tries to give one to Bubba Fangman but he’s not interested. Neither is Bronco Lubich, but he manages to give him one anyway! Tatum offers Fangman his hand, which he accepts, and when he does he pulls him in for that hug! Another mainly scientific match with Tatum obsessively wanting to shake his opponents hand again after every move. That is until Tatum breaks an arm wringer by grabbing the ropes and when he offers Bubba his hand, he kicks him in the stomach instead. A chop to the chest, a superkick followed by the Shininomaki sleeper for the win. After the match Tatum gets on his knees and says that he didn’t mean to hurt him. This was hilarious and Tatum continues to be a joy to watch. Him putting on the cowboy hat that he took from that one fan and then giving the ringette’s hugs had me in stitches.
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Bill Dundee and Tessa are out for an interview with Percy Pringle and Pringle has a package foer Tessa that was just handed to him by a man from Federal Express. Percy is like a child at Christmas wanting her to open it, but she says that its ‘personal’ and she’ll do it later. Dundee refers to Tatum as a ‘long drink of water’ and although he tells everyone that he’s changed, he hasn’t changed one bit and is still sick in the head. He says how Tessa is driving him mad, but if he’d treated her right in the first place she would still be with him. He’s got the Southern title back (not sure how) and says that with this around his waist it puts him further up the ladder and closer to the World title.
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Austin and Jeannie are out for an interview with Percy Pringle. After seeing Pringle all crazy and deranged last week, I’m not liking him back as an interviewer and especially so soon. It sounds like we are missing a match from the Yearbook as Pringle is talking about Jeannie wearing a black wig last night. Austin says that because Jeannie has been unjustly accused of interfering in his matches he decided that it was best she didn’t come out with him last night. He was all on his own for the match, but Chris Adams comes out there with his bimbo, tramp wife holding his hand all the way to the ring because he’s too scared to face him by himself. They have the match and Adams pulls something out of his tights and gets the upper hand. Jeannie, the innocent genius that she is, then comes to the ring and helps him get back on top. He says that it doesn’t matter how you win, just as long as you win and accepts Chris and Toni’s challenge for next Friday night. Jeannie tells Toni to don’t ever think that she’s a coward as she’ll take her on any time, any place! She says how she’s been getting lots of fan mail from all the ladies husbands telling her how much they love and adore her, and how beautiful she is. She has travelled the world and all these women could never compare, as she is far superior than them. She tells Toni that if she wants her next Friday night she’s got her, and if she wants to fight, they’ll fight, before blowing a kiss and winking at the camera! Austin then tells John Brozell to bring the contract out and they’ll sign it after he beats this punk. This punk is Khris Germany. Some horrible punches to open from Austin, but followed up with a beautiful release German suplex. This is a quick squash that only goes 43 seconds with Austin getting the win following a shoulder tackle. After the match he throws Germany to the outside and slams him on the floor. Pringle on commentary says ‘this is just a little bit too much’, but what on earth is a heel doing saying that? The crowd start a ‘go home slut’ chant directed at Jeannie, and Austin holds Germany so that she can hit him. Jeannie again lays the punches in and isn’t holding anything back. I really liked the way that after she threw a punch she would turn to the camera, wink and give the thumbs up and then punch him again! She has got an abundance of charisma that lady. John Brozell comes down with the contract and tells them to cut it out. The two of them sign the contract for the match, but as soon as it’s signed Chris and Toni run out to attack them. We have a really hot brawl as a prelude to Friday. You can sort of tell that they’re focussing on the women as they’re the ones who are getting it on in the ring. Jeannie accidentally hits Austin when Toni moves as he was holding her, then Chris nails Austin with a chair, and for once the Adams’ aren’t left lying in the ring as Austin picks up Jeannie and carries her to the back. Chris and Toni sign the contract and Toni tells Jeannie that it’s over for her. Chris says that the match is official and they’ll see them in the ring next Friday night. John Brozell also makes mention that the USWA will not be held responsible for what happens to the girls in the match. Fantastic segment and Jeannie might well be improving at a quicker rate than Austin. I’m a bit perplexed that some people are claiming that the Germany match is the best in ring we’ve seen of Austin so far? Not sure how you can claim that on a match that goes 43 seconds, not to mention how god awful his punches were at the start. The release German was lovely and a nice shoulder tackle, but best we’ve seen? Come on! Only a short promo by Chris Adams as the end, but probably the best and most animated one he’s cut in this feud and Toni continues to be great. I’m really not sure what’s going on with Percy Pringle. I thought it was bad enough that he was out as an interviewer, but he was clearly playing babyface on commentator. Has he turned or was he just doing what he wanted?
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Austin is not impressed with Craig Johnson’s long drawn out question that he didn’t really understand, but he doesn’t need to ask him any questions anyway because he knows what he wants to say. He says that last night he had a match with ‘Gentleman’ Chris Adams, but he’s a bit confused as to why he calls himself the ‘Gentleman’? After he defeated him in the middle of the ring, he goes and gets a steel chair with the intent of putting him out of wrestling. He’s only just started wrestling and the ‘gentleman’s’ going to try and put him out? He turned the tide though and gave him the beating of a lifetime with that chair. While they were playing musical chairs, his wife came out with a kendo stick and tries to beat up Jeannie! He’s tired of her interfering, and when Jeannie rolled into the ring to get away from her, he took that kendo stick off Toni and Jeannie beat her to within an inch of her last breath. Jeannie says what a wonderful time she had last night and even though Chris and Toni cheated, they still came out on top. She tells Toni that she shouldn’t be here in the first place, she should be at home taking care of her children and is in fact an unfit mother. She’s also going to start sending her the bills for some of her beautiful dresses, even though she can afford to go out and just buy some more. Jeannie is carrying a copy of the National Examiner which features a photo of herself and says how great she is before asking Toni how her ribs are. Interesting point from garretta about Steve and Jeannie’s interviews feeling separate. It’s something I hadn’t picked up on before, but he’s spot on. I’ve already watched the Austin vs Khris Germany match that is next in this feud and I was keeping an eye out for it there. It’s very much like Steve has been instructed to cut his promo, then Jeannie hers. That feeling is not helped by the fact that Austin usually walks off camera after he’s said his piece. Maybe if he just stood beside Jeannie instead it wouldn’t feel this way? There is just no interaction between them, it’s all very regimented. Compare them to say Bobby Heenan and one of his protégés and you can clearly see the difference. I still think the two of them are great, but just something that I hadn’t spotted until it was pointed out.
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Jimmy Valiant music video set to ‘Boogie Woogie Man’ by Charlie Daniels (cheers Pete). Some great clips in here including a fair few from Mid-Atlantic, plenty of dancing and Jimmy even kissing Dave Brown (poor Dave!). At one point Valiant appears to be picking up a prostitute with some rather ample breasts!
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Jerry Lawler is ranting about Jimmy Valiant (who has a title match with him) when Kerry Von Erich (wearing a ridiculous looking top with a cut off midriff) makes an appearance in the studio. He tells Lawler to quit shaking as he’s not here to beat him up, but as a ‘messenger boy’ for Jimmy Valiant as he has a present for him. Lawler tells ‘brain damage’ that the camera is ‘over here’ if he wants to turn around and look at it! He says that he doesn’t have to keep his eye on him, he isn’t going to jump on him from behind, he’s not a back fighter like him. Kerry goes to get the present, and while he’s gone Lawler says that ‘Handsome’ Jimmy should be here in person to apologise for even asking to take his title. It was probably a mistake and what he really wants to do is come here and be his partner! Kerry returns with the present but it’s a bucket of water all wrapped up that he dumps over ‘The King’. Lawler tells Dave to call Valiant on the phone and in a clever way to disguise that he isn’t there, Dave says that something got unplugged when Robert Fuller and Brian Lee were out here fighting earlier and we won’t be able to hear him on the other end of the line. He says that ‘Jimmy’ wants to know if ‘he’s cool?’ Lawler grabs the phone and tells Valiant that the first time he ever came into the town he cost him the World title against Harley Race when he hit him in the head with a bottle because he was jealous of him. The caring and forgiving person that he is, he forgave Valiant after that, they even became partners but he carried him on his coat tails. He took him to Japan and they won the tag team titles together. Now he wants to come in here, take his World title and have some brain damaged idiot like Kerry Von Erich do his dirty work for him and humiliate him in his home town. Their friendship is out the window and Jimmy Valiant is at the top of the list of people he hates. It transpires that Valiant hung up on ‘The King’ when he was having a go at him, and he then promises to do a number on him like he’s never had done on him before in his life. Nate the Rat returns with Lawler’s Big Mac at this point. Oh no, I have a hunch about how this might end up! His timing is terrible and ‘The King’ rubs the Big Mac in his face before shoving him over. Lawler is exceptional here, although Kerry sounds worse than ever. Between the gift and the subsequent phone call it’s a clever way to build and hype the match without Valiant actually having to be there. We get a serious Lawler promo for a match in the studio (they’ve been reserved for Dallas so far) and a nice bit of comedy with Nate at the end. I enjoyed this immensely.
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Dave Brown introduces Jerry Lawler and The Snowman is in the audience again and Dave says how he will be facing ‘The King’ once again at the Mid-South Coliseum on Monday night, but this time Leon Spinks will be the special guest referee. Lawler says how The Snowman complained when Jerry Calhoun was the referee and he beat him, so they went out and handpicked ‘Big’ Lou Winston to be the referee and he beat him again. He cries about that and they go out and get Kerry Von Erich, the one man who hates him more than The Snowman does, and he beats him yet again. He cries so often that they should change his name from The Snowman to ‘crybaby’ because all he does is cry because he’s not man enough to win a match. Now Snowman gets to handpick his own referee, a man who is his personal friend, former World Boxing champion Leon Spinks, the man who beat Muhammad Ali. Eddie Marlin acts like he and The Snowman aren’t friends, but they’re probably in cahoots as he goes along with everything that The Snowman says. Lawler is already concerned that Spinks won’t referee the match fairly, but tells The Snowman that he couldn’t care less who the referee is as he couldn’t beat him if he had a knife and a gun, which he probably does! He says that is Spinks gets out of line one time, if he doesn’t count The Snowman’s shoulders when he’s got them pinned to the mat Monday night, he’ll knock what’s left of his teeth down his throat! If he thinks that Muhammad Ali hits hard, he’s never been hit until ‘The King’ puts his big right hand on him and knocks him into next week. He then tells The Snowman that after he beats him with his own handpicked referee, he won’t ever get another shot at his Unified title. Jerry Lawler vs Rex King from the studio and Lawler spends a lot of the match pre-occupied with The Snowman at ringside, mouthing off at him and even inviting him to get in the ring. Eddie Marlin ends up coming out to try and keep the peace and to prevent things from getting out of control. The Snowman eventually has enough of Lawler, gets in the ring and the two of them start brawling. Marlin is in there, and he, the referee and Rex King do their best to get them separated. They have a decent little fight, but I don’t think it was a patch on the original studio fight they had prior to the first match at the Mid-South Coliseum, primarily because you could see Lawler pulling his punches here. I really liked Lawler’s promo and with everything seemingly against him, and the infamous ‘if he doesn’t beat me he’s never getting another title shot’ line, I’m guessing we get the title change this week.
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Ted Dibiase and Virgil have returned once again to Cobb County, GA in order to expose the Big Bossman for what he really is. This time hes got one of his old high school teachers, Miss Cofer. She says that shes been teaching for twenty years and the Big Bossman was probably the worse student shes ever had. He only ever got Fs and was so bad that they kept him in the dunce corner the majority of the time, which has now been renamed the Big Bossman Corner. He wasnt even an honest child as he has to cheat to make the Fs! Dibiase finds it funny that the Bossman cheated, lied and still couldnt make the grade. He says that hes proven what hes said all along, that the Big Bossman is a big, dumb, illiterate hick from Cobb County, GA and just like the rest of the hicks from Cobb County he too has a price for the Million Dollar Man, hes just too stupid to realise it! I liked the bit at the end where Dibiase was saying how everyone in Cobb County has a price for the Million Dollar Man, then it cuts to Virgil flashing the dollars and Miss Cofer eyeing it up. You know exactly what happened here! Funny little segment.
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Gene Okerlund is still wearing his Hulk Hogan friendship bracelet, just like millions around the world are! He says that the Hulkster is feeling better physically, but emotionally and psychologically it’s going to take a lot of time. The cards and letters mean so much to him and they’ve a video from his protégé, Tugboat, to show some that he’s received. Tugboat thanks everyone who’s written a letter to the Hulkster, and it makes him feel so proud seeing the ‘big guy’ with a smile on his face after he read those letters. He’s in the gym pumping iron, taking his vitamins and saying his prayers. The guy that he’s always known is coming back and it’s because of all these people at home! He reads out a letter from a fan who loves the Hulkster, who cares about him, who is taking his vitamins every day and won’t take off his friendship bracelet until he returns. When he comes back to face Earthquake he’ll be there for him, just like Hulk Hogan has always been there for him. Tugboat says that it doesn’t matter if you’re a little Hulkamaniac or a great big one like him, they’re all on the same team so keep those cards and letters coming in! We then get some interviews from a few fans but it’s 50/50, with some wanting him to come back and get revenge on the Earthquake, but the others think he should retire so that he doesn’t get hurt any more. Gene gives us the address to send the letters to and says that there will be more on Hulk Hogan next week. This was a pretty cheesy piece and not a patch on the music video they did from the week before.