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    Jim Ross thinks that Ric Flair was lucky to walk out of Wrestle War as the World Champion, but Jim Cornette says Lex Luger’s fatal weakness is human compassion, and that’s what led to his downfall nothing else. They air the end of the match from Wrestle War and Cornette says again how Luger couldn’t get the win because of that fatal human weakness, he should’ve forgotten about Sting and forgot about everything except winning that World title. Gordon Solie caught up with Lex Luger after the match and Luger says that he’s all business when it comes to wrestling, he doesn’t try to win any popularity contests, but sometimes you react on instinct. He may try to take people out, but when he does it he does it by himself, not two guys against one on crutches. He tells Ric Flair that this isn’t the end of the match, it will be continued, but this will be the final chapter. Ric Flair’s reign as World Heavyweight champion is coming to an end, that’s not a threat, it’s a promise. Jim Ross announces that a rematch between the two has already been signed before we get some comments from Ric Flair. Flair and Woman are with Gordon Solie and obligatory comment about how stunning Woman is looking here! Woman says that if Luger couldn’t get the job done tonight he’s never going to get it done. Flair says that wehen your name is Ric Flair, are stood with Woman and Gordon Solie and are holding the World Heavyweight title, you don’t care what anybody has to say. He knows he is both Luger and Sting’s master. Tonight Sting came close to losing that leg and if he continues to pursue the World title, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. He then tells Luger that if you ride with Sting, you die with Sting. I really like the visual of these interviews, with both men tired, exhausted and sweaty after the rigours of the match. Gives everything a much more authentic feel to things, like a sports contest. Wrestling should do it more often.
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    Lawler doesn’t even change into his wrestling gear for this, wrestling the match in his black T-Shirt, jeans and boots that he’s been wearing for the duration of the show. A quick squash that Lawler wins after a fist drop.
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    Chris Champion comes out and he’s wearing a neck brace as the doctors have said that he’s got a couple of compressed vertebrae and a concussion. He says that he’s not going to come out here and cry as he’s been beaten up before, but never to the extent that Jerry Lawler tried to beat him up last week. He tried to kill him! He want to wrestle but the doctors won’t release him, as if he takes a blow to the head he could be killed. He tells Lawler that when the doctors do release him he’s going to get him and it doesn’t matter if it’s in a mall or in a 7-11, he’s going to get him as it’s gone beyond wrestling, it’s personal. Lawler joins them on set and Dave Brown explains what Chris has been saying and tells ‘The King’ to leave him alone. Lawler thinks that Champion should change doctors because you have to have a brain to have a concussion so that can’t be right!! He then says how the doctors have said if he gets hit on the head it could be fatal? Lawler tells him that he’s safe as he doesn’t want the death of Chris Champion on his hands, but he really shouldn’t come to a wrestling program where people are going to be hitting each other as he may get hit by accident. Lawler then open hand slaps him across the face, beats on him and nails him in the back several times with a chair. He tears off Champion’s neck brace, rolls him into the ring and is about to piledrive him on a chair. Jerry Calhoun gets there just in time to stop him and Eddie Marlin tells Lawler that if he does piledrive him, he’ll never wrestle in that ring again. Lawler refuses to leave the ring and steps on Champion a couple of times while Marlin is trying to get him out of there. Marlin gets hold of a chair and Lawler only finally leaves when the dressing room empties and bunch of guys from the back come out to help Eddie. Finally as they are carrying Champion to the back, ‘The King’ gets in one last lick, throwing one of the stools at them. Tremendous stuff from Lawler here who is in full on heel mode. There are some very small subtle touches such as the stepping on Champion in the ring and claiming it to be accidental, and the throwing of the stool at the end is the coup de grace. I didn’t have any problem with Champion here and thought he was fine on his promo and then in the role of punch bag for ‘The King’. These first few months of Lawler as a heel in the studio has been a revelation.
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    Lawler is in his recliner when Nate returns with a glass of milk and a chocolate pie to cheer him up, as that’s what Paula sends him out to get if ever ‘The King’ is in a bad mood. Nate cuts him a slice, but Lawler says how he doesn’t appreciate him talking about his personal life out here on television, as what he does at home is his business and nobody else’s. He says that if he wants something he’ll ask for it and he never asked for this pie. Seeing as Nate went and got this pie, he figures that he must want it. He then throws the pie in Nate’s face and throws the milk at him, before telling him again that if he wants something, he’ll ask for it. This has cheered ‘The King’ up though and he’s in a better mood! Nate quits, but Lawler tells him he’s not quitting, he’s going to clear all this mess up and then he’s fired. Lawler shoves him, but Nate shoves him back. Bad move as ‘The King’ attacks him, hits him with a chair and puts the boots to him. Eddie Marlin and Jerry Calhoun end up coming out to put a stop to things. Great stuff. Nate the Rat isn’t the most sympathetic of characters so you don’t really feel that sorry for him, but Lawler is awesome in this. Constantly picking on Nate and finding fault with what he does, when all Nate is concerned about is trying to cheer him up. Loss sums it up perfectly when he describes Lawler as ‘an arrogant jerk’.
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    A Southern Rockers music video set to ‘Nothing But A Good Time’. I’ve never really understood Rex King as this sex symbol type that he’s portraying in this team. All the clips appear to be from just two matches; a squash in the Sportatorium and a studio match against the Stud Stable. Jimmy Valiant pops up after the video to tell us once again that the belt belongs to him and the people of Mempho, Tennesee!
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    Royal Furniture turn up with a desk and a reclining chair for ‘The King’, much to Dave’s surprise as he didn’t think he was on the phone to anyone! He’s a bit happier now, although Dave is a bit miffed that he only got the one chair. We see a different side to Dave as he sulks and decides not to use the desk to lean on and just sits on his stool that he was using previously.
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    Lawler is out with Nate the Rat and he’s got his oversized phone with him again. Dave Brown wonders if Christie Brinkley is going to call and offer some sympathy for him no longer having the belt! There is no set after ‘The King’ destroyed it last week and Dave just has a couple of bar stools for them to sit on. Lawler wonders isn’t Dave a bit embarrassed to be out there like this? It’s been seven days and couldn’t he have organised or got them to build another set yet? He asks couldn’t he get Eddie Marlin to go out and buy one, before stopping himself and saying that Eddie Marlin is so cheap that he paints his ankles black to keep him from having to buy socks! Lawler calls his friends at Royal Furniture (nice bit of advertising!) and asks them to send something for him to sit on as quickly as possible. ‘The King’ is in a lousy mood though and wants Jimmy Valiant bad as he’s got something that belongs to him. He asks Dave how he can call Jimmy Valiant a World champion when he saw him use a foreign object and when even the announcers on the tape admitted it? When Dave questions that he got that object from Lawler in the first place, ‘The King’ says he took it in the ring because he knows what kind of snake in the grass Jimmy Valiant is, but he never used it once. Valiant pummelled him all over the ring with the chain but did the referee disqualify him? No. He then says how when he threw fire and it hit Frank Morrell, he should have been disqualified! Everyone knows you can’t lose a title on a disqualification, so by rights he should still be the champion! He blames Eddie Marlin for sending Jerry Calhoun out there to count the pin, claims that in most people’s eyes he is still the World champion and he wants Jimmy Valiant today. Dave tells him that he’s not here but they do have some tape from him. ‘Handsome’ Jimmy is the happiest man in the world! The belt doesn’t belong to him, it belongs to the people of Mempho, Tennessee baby. He tells Lawler that he’s got once chance next week in a rematch and that’s it. Valiant has got a second/manager with him (who was ringside for the title match) but is someone who I don’t recognise. Back in the studio and Lawler tells Valiant he better get his picture taken with that belt as he’s going to join the long list of seven day wonders like King Cobra, Tommy Rich and The Soultaker. The fans start heckling and getting on Lawler’s case and he just stands there with a face of thunder and his arms crossed. We return and ‘The King’ is still in a lousy mood. Nate says he knows how to cheer him up as he knows what Paula does for him. Dave hopes that whatever it is works, as he prefers him making smart comments as opposed to doing nothing! The advertising for Royal Furniture here was very smartly done and no doubt led to a sharp upturn in business for them. Liked Dave getting his digs in at ‘The King’ especially the line about Christie Brinkley (we never did get that tape of Lawler with her did we?). Lawler trying his best to explain why he should still be the champion was superb and the part about that ‘he’ should have been disqualified for throwing the fire was very clever.
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    The bout is joined in progress and Lawler with some great looking punches that have no effect on Valiant. Lawler reaches in his tights for the chain but Valiant is on him and gets hold of it first. He nails ‘The King’ and disposes of the chain at ringside before Frank Morrell can find it on him. Valiant with the sleeper, and reminiscent of the Dallas bout, Lawler shoves him into the referee who goes down. ‘The King’ goes to throw fire at Valiant (which Nate the Rat had just passed to him), but ‘Handsome’ Jimmy moves and the fire hits Morrell instead. Lawler goes over to Morrell, seemingly trying to apologise for what happened, Valiant rolls him up from behind, Jerry Calhoun slides in the ring to count the fall and we have a new Heavyweight champion.
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    I’d never seen the Wrestle War rap before this Yearbook. Third time around and I think I know the words already!
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    Paul E. is in the control room and says that the biggest disgrace he’s ever seen in his life is that Mrs Apollo got pregnant just a few months before Roe vs Wade was passed, and that’s the only reason why Phil’s family plagued America with the ‘Fabulous’ Phil Apollo. Dangerously’s co-host apologises for the comments and says that if he had his way, if he owned ICW, Paul E. would go the way of every other organisation he’s worked for, he’d throw his butt out of here! Tony Atlas interview that opens with some footage of him in action. Atlas says that it’s taken him a long time to get where he’s at and you’ve got people coming in thinking they can beat ‘the man’? What happens though, defeat all across the board! When you put somebody in the ring with a man such as himself, you’re wasting your time. He doesn’t even know why he comes out to talk to these filthy necked geeks? Any man that thinks he can handle him is stupid. Every time a woman looks at her husband, she wishes she had a man like him, while every time a champion in another territory sees a man like him, they wish they were him. A lot of people wish they were him but that’s just wishful thinking and wishful thinking gets you nowhere. Hard work and dedication is what it takes and no-one helped him get anywhere! He doesn’t like anybody, doesn’t care if anybody like him, hasn’t got a girlfriend and doesn’t want one. He only needs a woman for two hours, then so long honey! He’s the man and he’s the only man in wrestling that everybody is jealous of. Between the horrible audio and Atlas’ accent this was tricky to make out. Atlas has some OTT mannerisms and facials, whilst he certainly thinks a lot of himself! Interesting to see how this develops as it’s a different Atlas for sure that I remember from seeing him in early/mid 80s WWF. Paul E. ‘the paranoid’ one is still in the control room, and the co-host says how he owes everybody an apology for his comments earlier in the show. Heyman says that he doesn’t owe anyone an apology and if someone should make an apology it’s that little tadpole that swam upstream and gave us Phil Apollo. Apollo shows up in the control room and confronts Dangerously but the footage cuts out. Paul E.’s comments scream of someone trying way too hard.
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    Valiant takes an age with his entrance, much to Lawler’s chagrin, seemingly wanting to slap the hands of every fan in the Sportatorium. He kisses referee Tony Falk before the bout even commences and Lawler wants him disqualified and his hand raised. Valiant walks over to ‘The King’ and starts thrusting his pelvis at him leading Lawler to once more wanting him disqualified, before tickling Falk on the backside, and yes you’ve guessed it, Lawler wanting him disqualified again. Valiant turns his attention to the cameraman, kissing him, and they eventually then lock up. Lawler complains about Falk’s slow counts, so on the next fall he speeds up, only on this time it is ‘The King’ who is being pinned. He’s not happy and Falk tells him that if he puts his hands on him he’ll be disqualified. Lawler pulls an object out of his tights, but despite Valiant and the crowds best efforts Falk can’t find it, with Marc Lowrance claiming that Lawler is ‘a master of concealment!’ He nails Valiant with the chain and resorts to using it a second time when ‘Handsome’ Jimmy is starting to gain some control. Valiant with a sleeper and ‘The King’ shoves him into Falk knocking them both down. Lawler misses a diving headbutt (!!!) off the middle turnbuckle, Valiant covers him, but Falk is still down. He goes over to revive him, Lawler pulls another chain out of his boot, clocks the Handsome one and gets the pin. As Lowrance is wrapping up Valiant gets hold of the chain from Lawler and starts to get a bit of retribution as the show goes off the air. I’m sure I’ve seen this finish somewhere? This wasn’t anywhere near as bad as I was expecting. Heavy on schtick (especially the early portion of the match) and that was without doubt for the better. Valiant throws a lousy punch and can do little but sort of bump, so heaven knows what he’d be like in a straight up wrestling match. I don’t think this feud is over just yet either. A very pleasant surprise!
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    Kevin Sullivan has put together a new group called ‘The Slaughterhouse’, consisting of himself, Cactus Jack and ‘Mad Dog’ Buzz Sawyer. He says that it’s not the most elite group in pro wrestling; they don’t drive limos, they’re the kind of guys that turn the limos over and reach in and grap the people that drive them. The crowd starts jeering them and Sawyer tells them to shut up, ‘the Mad Dog is talking’, before starting to laugh. Sullivan says how in this country you are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, Buzz says he was guilty and Sullivan says that he wasn’t supposed to say that, ‘Buzz was never proven guilty’. Cornette wonders ‘guilty of what?’, but Sullivan tells him it doesn’t matter and it doesn’t matter who it is, as when you meet ‘The Slaughterhouse’ you go to the hospital. I know that they’re supposed to be a group of uncontrollable mad men, but this was a mess and all over the place. Even Sullivan who is usually a good promo was struggling with this. Cactus and Sawyer were both acting as if they’re not all there, with Jack the simpleton and Sawyer as plain bat shit crazy. Despite the laughing and howling Sawyer does come across as one scary dude, although I don’t think he’s long for the NWA.
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    Ooh, some ICW! I’ve only ever seen 80s ICW so this will be completely new to me. The audio is horrible but some names like Vic Steamboat, Phil Apollo, Eric Sbracchia and Joe Savoldi that I remember from PWI. Paul E says that Apollo and Steamboat have met their match in his Lethal Weapons, Dennis Condrey and Doug Gilbert. He tells Apollo that he doesn’t have enough guts to come to the New York Sports Center and be in the building on the same day as he is. Paul E’s co-host (who I don’t recognise and whose name is never mentioned) says that Apollo is on the floor below them taping some promotional piece that he is contracted to do, and Dangerously’s demeanour all of a sudden starts to change. He’s concerned that Apollo is here and he doesn’t have Dennis or Doug with him. He’s like a sitting duck, thinks that someone has set him up and he wants Apollo thrown out of the building now! Pretty fun little segment if you can get past the god awful audio.
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    Jim Cornette and Jim Ross are on commentary and Cornette says that Luger is in the Danger Zone. He’s got this World championship match with Ric Flair tomorrow and the Horsemen have said where he is, they are going to be. This could get interesting. While Ross says the Horsemen have said they’re going to get Luger during this program. Lex racks Fargo and the Horsemen come down to ringside with Cornette saying how they are going to take him out before the match. The Steiners come out and Ross makes clear that they are here for the Anderson’s and are not Luger’s friends. The numbers are even and Luger gets on his knees and begs Flair to get in the ring, they don’t have to wait until tomorrow. The Horsemen aren’t so keen now they don’t have the advantage and retreat back down the aisle. The crowd have taken to face Luger pretty quickly. Best part of this was the Steiners coming to ringside and Ross saying how it is solely because they are after the Andersons and have a grievance with them (remember the interview where Ole talks about how the Steiners didn’t listen and now he doesn’t know where they are and doesn’t care?). It would have been too soon to have them come to help Lex, but this gives them the plausible reason to be out there and ultimately for the Horsemen to back off.
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    Jim Cornette and Jim Ross are on commentary and Cornette says that Luger is in the Danger Zone. He’s got this World championship match with Ric Flair tomorrow and the Horsemen have said where he is, they are going to be. This could get interesting. While Ross says the Horsemen have said they’re going to get Luger during this program. Lex racks Fargo and the Horsemen come down to ringside with Cornette saying how they are going to take him out before the match. The Steiners come out and Ross makes clear that they are here for the Anderson’s and are not Luger’s friends. The numbers are even and Luger gets on his knees and begs Flair to get in the ring, they don’t have to wait until tomorrow. The Horsemen aren’t so keen now they don’t have the advantage and retreat back down the aisle. The crowd have taken to face Luger pretty quickly. Best part of this was the Steiners coming to ringside and Ross saying how it is solely because they are after the Andersons and have a grievance with them (remember the interview where Ole talks about how the Steiners didn’t listen and now he doesn’t know where they are and doesn’t care?). It would have been too soon to have them come to help Lex, but this gives them the plausible reason to be out there and ultimately for the Horsemen to back off.
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    Sting is wearing his ‘Roos’ whilst surfing and carrying a gold boombox! Oh no he’s not, he’s on some indoor simulator instead. A blow up shark tries to attack Sting but he swipes it away. The Road Warriors are in a junkyard taking sledgehammers to cars whilst wearing their ‘Roos. This was the best of the three adverts, not really that cartoonish and nowhere near as embarrassing.
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    I’ve never heard of ‘Roos’ before, but it turns out they are some kind of footwear. Rick Steiner is on all fours, carrying a bone in his mouth and wearing his ‘Roos’ on his hands. Oh yes, he’s the ‘Dog Faced Gremlin’! The advert ends with him sniffing at a fire hydrant, no doubt where a dog has urinated in the past! Poor Rick! Just think of the money, think of the money!
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    We literally get the last twenty seconds of this US tag team title change. Garvin tosses Pillman to the outside and then referee Randy Anderson tries to get Garvin out the ring and back on to the apron. Hayes has Zenk primed for a DDT, but Pillman springboards off the top rope with a clothesline to him and Zenk makes the cover for the win and title change. Incidentally there is a second referee on the outside when Anderson hands the belts to Zenk and Pillman. Why didn’t he tell him about Pillman’s illegal involvement that led to the pin? Not much, but one of those little things that niggles at me.
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    The Destroyer was scheduled to face Chris Champion but that isn’t going to happen due to what happened earlier. Jerry Lawler is back out, gets in the ring and spits water at The Destroyer and takes Champion’s place in the match. Not as much of a beat down as previously, but a squash that Lawler wins after a fist drop off the middle turnbuckle. Despite being a full on heel in this episode he’s still got a section of the audience cheering him on here.
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    Dave Brown says that he wouldn’t want to be in Ben Jordan’s shoes today after Jerry Lawler was embarrassed out here just now. Lawler is aggressive throughout this, taking everything out on Jordan. He tosses Jordan to the outside and starts beating on him out there when Chris Champion comes out to try to put a stop to things. Lawler tells him that it’s his match and to get out of there or he’ll get some too. Champion tells him not to take it out on this kid, but when he helps Jordan to his feet and with his back to The King, Lawler nails him from behind. Piledriver on the floor to Champion and Lawler says that he’s going to teach Champion not to mess in his business. Champion is busted open by now and Lawler continues to beat on them both. DDT to the floor on Champion and he pulls the announcing desk over and on top of him. Eddie Marlin is out to try and put a stop to things but doesn’t have much luck. Lawler drags Champion into the ring and DDTs on him on part of the now broken announcing desk. The locker room empties at this point and Lawler finally stops the attack. Before heading back to the dressing room he goes over to Dave Brown and says that Jimmy Valiant is his and he’ll be crying ‘mercy’ by the time he gets through with him. This was some beat down on Champion, leaving him a bloody mess and the kind of attack that ‘should’ see him out of action for several months. My only gripe was that Robert Fuller had already DDT’d Brian Lee on the floor earlier in the show, and in this day when it wasn’t an overdone transitional move, did Lawler really need to do the same move? The piledriver on the floor was brutal enough and he could have just gone from that to ruining the announcing desk over Champion’s body. Pissed off, angry Lawler is the best kind of Lawler.
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    Jerry Lawler has got himself a lackey in Nate the Rat. Nate has fetched a Cola for Lawler but The King is not impressed that it took him so long and that he didn’t bring a crystal glass for him to drink it out of, ‘when have you ever seen me drink coke out of a can?’ Nate says that he couldn’t find a crystal glass but it was the best he could do. Lawler tells him that he’s not going to drink that so he better find him one from somewhere. Later in the show Nate returns with a crystal glass (on a silver tray!) and he pours Lawler’s coke out for him. The King takes a sip and it, surprisingly, meets with his approval. Lawler plugs his new cassette, ‘Jerry Lawler sings’, and says that he was on George Klein’s radio show earlier. Dave Brown says that he heard part of it, and Lawler quips that he only heard part of it because he didn’t know you could listen to AM radio in the afternoon! He’ll be doing another show on Monday and will be playing all of his songs on that show. The King is hungry and asks Dave whether he wants anything to eat, but he says ‘no’. Lawler says the only time Dave ever picks up a cheque is if his name is on it! He says that he’s paying but Dave still doesn’t want anything and he then orders Nate to go to McDonalds for him.
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    Brother Love says that recently the Million Dollar Man had some property stolen from him, but at Wrestlemania VI he’ll get his property back as he’ll take on his guest this week, Jake ‘The Thief’ Roberts. Jake looks pretty hot coming out and Love is straight in his face saying that he’s nothing more than a thief. Jake says that if a man dares him to do something… Ted Dibiase asked him to come and take it and he did exactly that. He doesn’t have to wait until Wrestlemania if he wants it back, it’s right in the bag, come and get it. Jake says the only reason he came on the show was to introduce the people to a man, a man who can’t be bought, a man that stands up for what he believes in, not a changed man, but a boss man, a Big Boss Man. The Boss Man joins them and Jake says how you can’t pay him a little cash and get him to roll over and do tricks; he stands on his own two feet. The two of them leave the stage and when he sees they’re gone, Love starts insulting them both. He says that one of the lowest forms of life is a snake, but there is one thing lower than a snake and that’s a law enforcement officer who won’t take money! The Boss Man clearly wasn’t far enough out of ear shot as he returns and Love tries to back track claiming that he wasn’t talking about him. Boss Man cuffs Love to a guard rail before going to the back to get a ball and chain. He uncuffs Love, drags him to the ring, gives him a slam before finally dropping the ball and chain on his chest. Nice way to cement the Boss Man’s face turn with the endorsement from Jake and then beating up an annoying and obnoxious character like Brother Love. Good promo from Jake here, but I wish the Boss Man had been a bit more careful with that ball and chain. When he returns from the back he drops it on the floor and you can see the ball bounce. If only Love had been watching as closely as me he wouldn’t have been quite as scared of it!
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    Robert Fuller says that they won the tag team titles like they said they would and came to Memphis to defend them against a couple of nobodies. Those nobodies came out with a bogus referee, like Memphis is famous for, and left with their belts. They won their belts back, but now the Southern Rockers want to fight Southern style. He promises them that by the time they are through with them they will be ‘Southern Rockers’, because Grandma is going to take them down south to Alabama, put them in a rocking chair with both legs broken and then they can rock all night, Southern style. Fired up Robert Fuller whilst Brian Lee just stands there. That’s probably for the best wit him to be fair!
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    Buster Douglas has had a blast tonight. Hulk Hogan is his kind of guy and the two of them are going to go out drinking; whole milk for him and butter milk for the Hulkster! Okerlund walks him through this but Douglas is no talker.
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    This is the conclusion of last week’s match. Lawler decks Dundee with a right then starts mocking him by staggering around. Dundee starts swinging but doesn’t connect and Lawler picks him off again before continuing to mock. He does it again but eventually Dundee catches him. Dundee unloads on him in the corner until The King retaliates with a jab to the mid-section. He climbs to the middle turnbuckle but misses a knee drop and Dundee follows up with a spinning toe hold. Lawler shoves Dundee with his other foot into referee Tony Falk knocking him down, then takes off his boot and clobbers Dundee with it. Falk comes round to count the fall while The King hooks the tights to retain the USWA title. I have a hunch I’m going to get pretty fed up with the ‘referee distracted/knocked out, Lawler nails opponent with an illegal object for the pin’ finish by the time the year is out. Despite hating the finish, what aired was really good. Especially liked the section when Lawler was mocking Dundee with the punch drunk staggering, Dundee was swinging for the hills until he eventually caught The King.
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