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Bill Dundee and Tessa join Craig Johnson and he wants to talk to them about his match the other night with Jerry Lawler, but before he does they have some words from the Unified champion himself. A taped Lawler promo and he says that Bill ‘Superstar’ Dundee is a name that insignificant low life insect pinned on himself to try and impress all these idiots. It may impress the people in this backward state of Texas, but it doesn’t impress him as he’s Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler. ‘The King’ isn’t a name that he just pulled out of the air, it’s a name he earned by knocking off every contender that ever got in front of him. Bill Dundee sat one night and thought about what he could do to try and make these people respect him? What he can do to pull the wool over their eyes, so they can’t see through him and realise what a wimp he really is. He doesn’t need a light to see through him, he knows exactly what he is, and that’s nothing! He’s never beaten anyone of any stature, he’s never won any title that has ever meant anything and most of all, he’s not championship material. Dundee couldn’t beat him if he came to the ring with a gun in one hip and a straight razor in the other. He’s the World Champion and Bill Dundee is struggling to get where he is, but while there is breath in his body he will make sure he never gets there. Back to the Sportatorium and Johnson says how Dundee has a World title match against ‘The King’. Dundee jokes that Lawler must block out all of his losses as he never mentions them! It took a negotiations, but John Tatum did him a favour when he put that bounty on his head. Jerry Lawler came to collect it, but he never got the job done. What he did do was shoot his mouth off like he does every week about what he was going to do, but he did nothing and that makes him the number one contender. He tells Lawler that if he doesn’t like coming to Dallas don’t come, just bring that belt one more time, leave it here and they don’t have to look at him ever again. The bounty with Tatum is still outstanding and he then kisses Tessa telling Tatum that he’ll never get to do that again. He finally says that when he beats Lawler to become the World Champion, that will give him the right to choose his first opponent, and he picks Tony Anthony (who is managed by that Ronnie ‘Porky’ Gossett). Anthony is not going to put his hands on Tessa again, and he doesn’t like men that go around beating up their wives and there’s a lot of them out there! He thanks John Tatum, tells Jerry Lawler he’s going to beat him and says the Dirty White Boy is his next opponent, before laying a smacker on Tessa. Lawler’s promo looked like it was taped the same time as the one where he was talking about bringing in The Inhuman to collect on John Tatum’s bounty. I don’t have any problem with Lawler running Dundee down, but saying that he’s never won any titles of importance when they are former AWA Tag Team champions together just doesn’t wash with me. Good promo from Dundee and he’s able to talk about three separate programs smoothly, while at the same time bringing them together.
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Anderson and Windham are accompanied by tuxedo Sid, while the Road Warriors have Paul Ellering in their corner. This wasn’t the best and that’s not down to the efforts of the Horsemen. Arn and Barry tried and bumped for all they were worth but the Road Warriors, in particular Animal (look out for a dreadful double clothesline) were bad. The match also isn’t helped by Animal being reluctant to sell, and when he does sell it’s only briefly. The crowd were pretty hot for this so who knows what they would be like if the Road Warriors actually let the Horsemen get some heat on them. The finish was botched, as Sid gets in the ring and starts attacking Hawk right in front of referee Randy Anderson. Anderson calls for the bell and DQ’s the Horsemen but the match just then continues. Ole Anderson comes out to support the Horsemen and Ross and Cornette cover for the botch claiming that Sid didn’t make contact with anyone when he entered the ring (even though he quite clearly did). All four men are in the ring, Ole and Sid interfere to help the Horsemen, and this time they are disqualified. It’s a Horsemen beat down until Sting and Paul Orndorff come to the Road Warriors rescue, with the Junkyard Dog not far behind, and Jim Ross proclaiming that ‘there is unity in the NWA’. I imagine Sid got a little excited and was early on his interference and they just had to cover no matter how bad it looked. -
Arn Anderson and Barry Windham are scheduled for a match with the Road Warriors, but before that they are out for an interview with Jim Ross. They are accompanied by Sid Vicious and he’s still not got out of that tuxedo! Arn says very shortly that their suspicions are going to be proven. For the last six years the Road Warriors have been the greatest team with the exception of one unit, the Four Horsemen. They beat them all, but that fire that used to burn in their belly to be the greatest of all time, he doesn’t see it in their eyes any more. When he looks into their eyes he sees two human beings and any human being can bleed, can be hit and can be beat. The Four Horsemen of the 90s are bigger, stronger, with more experience and they’ve been reborn into the finest unit of all time. In a few short minutes they are going to show them why they are the elite! Windham says how the Road Warriors have considered themselves invincible for quite some time. They challenged the Horsemen to a match right here on national television, but as a Horsemen he has never backed down from any challenge and they are going out to show the Road Warriors how evincible they really are. As the Horsemen prepare for their match, Ric Flair joins Jim Ross and says that in a short period of time the Horsemen are going to put the Road Warriors in their place. Hawk and Animal have jumped on a lot of people in their career, but today at the hands of Arn Anderson and Barry Windham, they will find out what it is to stay all night and stay a little longer!
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Jim Ross introduces a great athlete from West Texas State University, a tremendous football player, but a man who’s always had a problem with discipline. He’s 6’3”, 320lbs and is a man that has basically been exiled from US wrestling, Stan ‘The Lariat’ Hansen. Hansen joins him chewing on tobacco and carrying a cowbell. He says that he’s been out there fighting in the third world because all these promoters in the United States want someone who’ll say ‘yes sir, no sir’ and Stan Hansen has never been a ‘yes man’, he does what he wants! He’s done what he wanted overseas, but now he’s back in the NWA and all the other wrestlers are going to have to deal with him. Ross wonders why is he back? Is he after anyone in particular? He says that he’s back due to the statute of limitations. They tried to suspend him, they barred him from the United States, they took food off his table, but he’s back because there are laws to protect someone like him, and he’s back to run rough shot anyway he wants too. Ross says that he finally has to talk about ‘the lariat’, the most feared hold in all of wrestling. Stan says that everybody is using it, everybody is trying to perfect it, but he’s the one who started it, and he’s the one who was kicked out of the US because it is the nastiest and most vicious of holds. I thought this was a good debut promo from Hansen and that he came across as a crazy, wild man. I think this was the period where he was getting disqualified against jobbers on TV for just destroying them in matches.
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Pretty cool footage from New Japan of Vader terrorizing fans as he walks to the ring and shooting smoke out of his helmet, all while a spooky soundtrack plays over the top.
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‘Since the dawn of time man has desperately sought the ability to communicate. Civilization only increased its desire to get the message across. Today there is the Wrestling Hotline! Call 1-900-909-9900’ Rick Steiner draws on a cave wall and the Samoan Savage bashes a log with some bones as if it’s a drum while the above audio plays over it.
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‘The King’ explains the meaning of ‘delegating authority’ for all the clod kicking, tobacco chewing, breathe stinking, dirt farmers out there, and says that it is something he is very good at. His close personal friend, John Tatum, has a job he wants doing and he wants Bill Dundee eliminated. He doesn’t care who does it or how they do it, but he’s prepared to pay a nice amount of money to whomever gets the job done. While he could go out and squash him like the minute little roach that he is, he doesn’t feel like dirtying his hands on something as slimy and trivial as Bill Dundee. What he does therefore, is get someone to do it for him and still collect the money. He’s found a man that will do the job, and he’s called ‘The Inhuman’! He’s 6’4” and weighs over 400lbs, but he has the brain the size of a black eyed pea. This man is going to be more than glad to do his dirty work then hand him over the money because he’s not that smart, just like Bill Dundee’s fans! He’s a little bit too stupid to realise when he hurts somebody, so don’t expect any sympathy from him. He doesn’t have any compassion to feel sorry for you. If he breaks your arm or snaps one of your little legs he’s just going to get a sadistic little smile on his face because he knows he’ll be making him happy, and that’s all he cares about doing. The Inhuman is going to do away with Bill Dundee once and for all and then he’s going to collect all that money from John Tatum
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Back in the studio and Jerry Lawler is out to talk with Dave Brown about what we’ve just seen. He heard the Snowman running his mouth about how he’d beat his brains out, but last time he checked he didn’t know someone could walk and talk without a brain, and he’s out here walking and talking so he obviously still has his brain! Snowman ran his mouth so much about what he was going to do and if you watch that tape he didn’t do diddly squat! Before he talks any more about Snowman he wants to bring out his good friend Van Wayne Bright and his masked bodyguard from Magic 101. The two of them will be at the Mid-South Coliseum on Monday night, and Bright has this bodyguard not to keep the men from getting at him, but to keep the ladies off him! He’s bought some scantily clad ladies from Night Moods with him (they too will be at the Coliseum) and they parade around ringside. After this slightly weird interlude ‘The King’ returns to the matter in hand, The Snowman. Lawler can understand why someone like Van Wayne would need a bodyguard to keep the lovely ladies off him, but as ugly as he is, ain’t no ladies want to be around Snowman, so why does he always have to surround himself with bodyguards? Snowman is on the other side of the ring with some friends, and Lawler says that proves what he just told everyone, that he’s a gutless wonder scared to go anywhere by himself. He always wants to have a couple of goons hanging around in case it gets a little hot in the kitchen! He says that he didn’t back down from him, all his big muscles don’t impress him and he’ll take him on anytime, anywhere, anyway he wants and doesn’t care who the referee is. Eddie Marlin is out again and Lawler tells Snowman that he ran his mouth, he put his fist down it, and that’s exactly what he’s going to do again Monday night. He’s going to shut him up once and for all! Snowman makes his way towards ‘The King’ and he says that they don’t have to wait until Monday and can do it now. Marlin tells Lawler that they won’t be wrestling on TV and he jokes about how now The Snowman has Eddie Marlin protecting him, but he won’t be able to protect him Monday night. Lawler is to wrestle Freezer Thompson on TV. For some reason Downtown Bruno is at ringside taking notes on the match, while Snowman is sat back in the audience with Eddie Marlin in close proximity to stop things from getting out of hand. Of course Lawler is feuding with a black man over the premise of race so the jobber has to be black! The crowd sound like they start a ‘Snowman’ chant at one point during this. There is a great bit where Lawler has Freezer in the corner and he’s peppering him with lefts to the jaw and the stomach. ‘The King’ gets the pin after the fist drop and he and Snowman continue to argue with one another after the match, but Marlin and security are between them to prevent anything physical from happening.
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The Snowman and Lawler circle around each other, almost like it’s a boxing match and they’re feeling each other out. Snowman with some lefts and then he engages with Lawler, but ‘The King’ throws him to the floor with his absolutely beautiful takedown and gets in some shots of his own. And this already is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in a wrestling ring! They continue to take each other down and the Snowman is on his back kicking his feet up as if it’s MMA to stop Lawler getting to him. They start circling again and Snowman has a finger extended as if he’s signalling that he’s prepared to rip out ‘The King’s’ eye. Lawler with a flurry of punches to the mid-section and then one to the ear. Snowman tries to engage but Lawler takes him down and Jerry Calhoun is having a tough time getting them separated. Snowman lands a few big shots and Lawler fires back dropping him and then Snowman is almost pulling guard. He reverses position and Calhoun again tries to separate them. He pushes Snowman back to the corner, but Snowman nails him with a right for the DQ. Lawler and Snowman go back at it again and they exchange more punches. Lawler takes him down and then starts going for the eyes before we return to the studio. This was incredible. I had not read any of the comments so didn’t know what to expect but what transfixed by this. I’m not someone who is into ‘shoot style’, but this looked like one of the most legitimate fights I’ve ever seen in a wrestling ring. From the way they held their first, to the takedowns, to indicating they were going for their opponent’s eyes, to actually going for their eyes, to kicking their legs up when they were down to stop the opponent getting at them. These two were doing MMA before the term had ever been coined, and to think, this was in Memphis and Jerry Lawler! MUST SEE STUFF and what is even better, there is clearly plenty more from these two to come.
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I didn't manage this. I got towards the latter part of '94 and then got burned out. Tried coming back to it a couple of months later but couldn't even finish an episode. Maybe by this time next year...
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Good for him! Maybe if he had bothered to do a bit of research before they started taping the show then he wouldn't have needed to be googling about things as it was being recorded? When I listen to Between the Sheets it's for the insight of the hosts and the guests, it's for learning about things I never knew, it's about hearing things to go out and check, match recommendations etc. If the guest is having to google things (and I don't just mean the occasional thing here and there) as it's going on, what is the point of having them on? What insight can they add if they don't know what is being talked about? Anyway, as least I listened to all of this episode which automatically puts it above the dreadful episode where 'Les Moore' was a guest.
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Between the crackly audio, Warrior’s hushed tones and speaking with his back to the camera I couldn’t hear the majority of this. I’m pretty sure that was for the better!
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‘Arrogance, the man’s cologne that primes pistons, that makes spark plugs go hotter and that improves your engines performance. Put the brakes on the mundane and accelerate into the fast lane with Arrogance!’ Martel picks up a woman and drives off with her all while making car based references about his fragrance.
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Brother Love would like us to welcome his guests, ‘Brother Brain’ Bobby Heenan and ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude. Heenan informs Love that he made a big mistake and Rude is to be introduced from here on as ‘the next WWF champion’. Love is most apologetic and corrects himself. Rude says that the Warrior might have shown the rest of the world that he’s worthy of being called the World Wrestling Federation champion, but he’s got to prove it to him and that’s not going to be so easy. He has the ability to make some people feel real good, and he has the ability to make some people feel real bad. Heenan then announces that there will be no more Rude Awakenings until Rude becomes the WWF champion. As much as I liked the perm, I think Rude looks much more threatening with the short hair and serious stuff from him and ‘The Brain’ here. No more messing around with the women, and if it hadn’t been clear from the vignettes, everything is focussed on winning the gold.
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The feud that everyone has been waiting for! Boris sings the Russian national anthem and in case anyone was wondering who the face is here, Nikolai follows by singing the Star Spangled Banner. Predictably he doesn’t get to finish it as Boris jumps him from behind while he’s still singing. Zhukov puts the boots to him and a couple of headbutts see Nikolai take a tumble outside to the floor. Boris throws him into the steps, rams him into the ring post and then tosses him back into the ring, before taking off his boot and clobbering Nikolai with it. A bunch of referees come down to get Boris out of there and he makes sure to spit on Volkoff before he goes. Nikolai ends up regaining his bearing and charges back up the aisle and after Zhukov. No official decision is given but I’m guessing Zhukov was DQ’d. Match was all the better for being kept short, but the indecisive finish means that there will be a rematch!
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I really enjoyed the lumberjack match, but felt that this was the worse of the three Borne vs Von Erich bouts on the Yearbook. A lot of this had to do with one Percival Pringle III (who is now managing Borne) who was suspended above the cage on some sort of platform. Some bright spark thought it would be wise to mic Pringle up so the crowd could hear him, but it detracted greatly from the match. I found it difficult to concentrate on the action when all you can hear is Percy in that whiny voice going ‘come on Matthew!’ for the duration, interspersed with ‘oh my God’, chants of ‘Go Matt Go’ and him even talking to the crowd on occasion (‘what are you laughing at?’). Borne gets busted open pretty bad and for some reason Percy has a chain attached to some rope. Instead of just throwing the chain to Borne, he proceeds to lower it via this rope and dangle it ready for Borne to grab. This all was rather drawn out and Kerry ended up getting hold of the chain, wrapping it around his fist and KO’ing Borne for the 1-2-3. Due to a pre-match stipulation the win allows Kerry to get his hands on Pringle, but they have to winch him down manually and while only taking a couple of minutes, it feels like hours. As Kerry tries to get Percy off the platform he throws a loaded sock to Borne who clobbers Kerry with it. He continues to beat on him with the loaded sock and Percy blocks the cage door to prevent the officials from getting in there. Borne ends up opening the door an attacks one of the security men as well as Tony Falk until Kevin Von Erich finally makes the save. I wish there was a DVD commentary option for switching Percy Pringle off here! I also kinda feel like I should watch the match again with the audio muted to see how much of a difference that would make. Post-match with Borne going crazy with the loaded sock was excellent.
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Tessa is now accompanying Dundee, but this doesn’t stop ‘The Superstar’ kissing female fans on the lips as he makes his entrance. ‘The King’ gets on the mic before the match and says that everyone in Dallas is a bunch of losers, and now they’re going to watch the wrestler with the biggest losing record in the history of the sport and he’s going to add one more loss to that column tonight. He then turns to Tessa and wonders what she is looking at ‘the slut’! Not one of Lawler and Dundee’s better bouts as the match was more a backdrop for continuing the John Tatum and Tessa angle. A commercial break in the middle of the match also greatly interrupted the flow of things, as we go to the break with Lawler down and struggling in the corner, but return to see him in charge and Dundee the one who is down. Tatum makes his way to ringside and heads over to Tessa pleading with her to give him another chance and swearing that he’s changed. Lawler even tells Tessa that Dundee is nothing but a loser and there is a real man for her. Tatum’s words clearly weren’t working, and he picks Tessa up to carry her away. Dundee goes over and grabs Tatum’s hair to stop him, but Lawler rolls him up from behind for the win. Tatum kidnaps Tessa and carries her off up the aisle, but Dundee makes the save and drags Tatum back to ringside. Lawler clocks Dundee in the back with a chair and the two of them beat on him until Jeff Jarrett and Chris Adams make the save. Tatum and Lawler try to grab Tessa one final time but the faces fight them off. Tessa was really good here.
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Atlas says that ‘Chief’ may be 400 and something odd pounds, and he does mean ‘odd’ pounds! He might be over 6’2” and might have been lucky enough to get himself in the ICW, one of the finest wrestling leagues anywhere in the world today, but there is one thing that he doesn’t have and that’s a brain. If a doctor wanted to give him a blood test he’d stay up all night studying for it! If they were to give him an IQ test they would realise his IQ is one point less than that of a banana! The reason he doesn’t have brains is because he stick his nose in his business the business of the champion, the business of the man and he’s the only man around here who takes care of business! He’s going to take care of Chief, he’s going to scalp him and when he gets through with him he’ll never stick his nose in his business again, and he’ll never mess with the man again! Think ‘Chief’ is a wrestler but that’s all I have. Nice to see some focus with an Atlas promo here, for as good as they have been, I was tiring of hearing him just talking about himself and ‘the man’ all the time.
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Flair says that behind his back the National Wrestling Alliance have signed a match for the World title at Clash of the Champions between himself and the Junkyard Dog. There are a lot of people in this sport he doesn’t like for professional reasons, but he doesn’t like the JYD for personal ones. He tells the Dog that he’ll never high five Michael Jackson, he’ll never high five Mike Tyson and he’ll never sit on Arsenio Hall’s show and say that he’s the first black heavyweight champion of the world. Over his dead body! He’ll not go in the record books at his expense! When Janet Jackson wraps her arms around him, she doesn’t say anything about the Junkyard Dog. When Paula Abdul grabs his arm and says ‘Ooh, champ’, she doesn’t say anything about the Junkyard Dog. At Clash of the Champions he’s going to thump him for a number of reasons, and number one being that he’s Ric Flair and no athlete on the face of the earth insults him. It astounds me how much race is being used as an angle in wrestling in 1990. I never twigged that the reasons Flair doesn’t like him for ‘personal reasons’ until he finished him promo. Then sadly, it became obvious. Unbelievable!
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Flair and Ole are back out and the World champion is demanding to be told what the surprise for himself and the Four Horsemen is. Ole isn’t happy that Rocky King knows and Flair says that if Ross doesn’t tell him he’s going to go down to the ring, grab King by the neck and find out himself. Stubborn Jim refuses to tell them ‘it’s a surprise, you’ll have to wait’, so the pair of them head to the ring. Cactus Jack is scheduled to face Rocky King when Ole and Flair interrupt the ring announcements. Ole tells Cactus to take a powder, he doesn’t have to wrestle and get out of there. Ole turns to King and tells him to relax, all they want to know is what this surprise is for the Horsemen? Rocky doesn’t give them an answer, just that they’re going to be surprised. Ole is losing patience now and tells King how they got rid of Sting, Luger and Norman and if he doesn’t want to end up with his head stuck somewhere the sun doesn’t shine, he better tell them what he knows. Flair calls King ‘boy’ and tells him that he can’t moonwalk with a broken leg so spit it out! The crowd start making some noise and the Junkyard Dog hops over the ringside barriers and into the ring. Flair is dismissive of the Dog and the idea that he is the one that’s going to take the Horsemen down. Ole tells Flair to show the JYD how they take care of people in Minnesota and makes out as if he’s going to hit the Dog, but suckers King instead. Ole is about to throw a punch at the JYD but the Dog gets in their first, and he handles both Horsemen clearing the ring of them. He then tells them that it isn’t 1935 anymore! As has been pointed out this does seem like a backwards step after Sting and Luger, but where else could they possibly go? Sting is still injured and they dug themselves in a hole with Luger saying that he would never ask for another match again if he didn’t win in the middle at Capital Combat. El Gigante isn’t ready, Steiners are feuding with Doom, Road Warriors are on the downer and outside of Pillman, I can’t think of one other credible challenger in the NWA. I thought it was strange that King got some promo time earlier in the show, but why is he the only other person who knows what the surprise is? Surely not because he’s black? Can’t say I was fond of Flair calling King ‘boy’ either.
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Rocky King getting promo time in 1990! Jim Ross says that King is a happy man because he knows the big surprise that they have for the Horsemen. King says that he sure does; he’s tall, he’s big, he’s bad and he’s from his side of the town. He’s his main man and he’s coming soon!
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A Luger interview with Tony Schiavone taped from Lex’s hospital bed on May 16th. Tony says that they’ve talked to Lex’s doctor and he’s had a temperature of over 103 degrees for the past couple of days and his leg doesn’t look good at all. Lex says that it will take more than a little discolouration and swelling in his leg to keep him from Capital Combat. The doctors have said he has a serious staph infection and that he may not be able to get in the ring, but even if he has to rip the tubes out of his own arm, crawl, take a bus, do whatever he has to do to get there, he will be in that ring at Capital Combat and Ric Flair’s reign of dominance will be over. He’s got him right where he wants him in that cage and he’s not going to let him slip through his fingers. This explains the Horsemen interview at Capital Combat, but why on earth is this airing after the event on Saturday Night? Surely they could’ve inserted it into the PPV somewhere?
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Jim Ross was about to talk about Mr Wrestling II when he’s interrupted by Ole Anderson and Ric Flair, who tell him to forget about Wrestling II as they want to talk to him for a few minutes. Ole says how Ross has been out here talking about a big surprise he’s got for the Horsemen and Ric Flair and wants to know what it is. Ross thinks being obtuse is the way to go and says that if he tells them the surprise then it wouldn’t be a surprise would it? Ole tells him to cut the crap and they just want to know what he knows that they don’t. Ross starts to beat around the bush again and Flair tells him that the Horsemen are busy people and wants to know what he and Turner have in store for them. Ross says that he would love to tell them but they’ve got to take a station break. Didn’t like Ross attitude in this. You’ve got the top heels wanting answers and here he is being all smug, standing up to them and back chatting. At least show you are slightly worried by their presence Jim!
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Lawler is out with Dave Brown and Dave recaps that ‘The King’ and The Snowman are both going to be at the Mid-South Coliseum Monday night, but that the match will be unsanctioned. Lawler says that he doesn’t care if the match is sanctioned or not, he gave the man an opportunity… when out comes The Snowman again. Snowman slaps him, Lawler retaliates with one of his own and, while only lasting a short time’ the two have one of the most legitimate looking ‘fight’s you are ever likely to see in wrestling. Eddie Marlin is out in double quick time to get between them and they go at it again before security drags Snowman out of there. Lawler says the Snowman is nothing and the only reason he’s never gotten a title match is because he’s nothing but a loser and he’s going to prove it Monday night. If that fight was anything to go by, this unsanctioned match could be something pretty special. Bring it on!
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Michaelangelo here! He’ll be at the Summer Gold Custom Car show all weekend signing autographs and posing for picture with the kids, while this Monday he’ll be at the Coliseum for the wrestling to have some fun and talk to the children. Make sure you come and see him! The promotion that is giving us the hottest angle of the year is at the same time giving us a gimmick of a man dressed up as a ninja turtle? I know they’ve given us Freddy in the past so really shouldn’t be surprised by anything in Memphis but… Chris Champion is the unfortunate soul in the turtle costume and one of the cheapest, nastiest looking turtle costumes you are ever likely to see.