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    I wrote this from the point of Sarjeant when I was watching his stuff for the GWE project. I don't give star ratings, but if I did it would be nowhere near 4 1/2 which seems overly generous to me. It's a shame that of the seven matches on film that this is one of them. Sarjeant is a replacement for Johnny Saint here, and sadly this match does nothing for him. In fact he's the weakest of the four and it's more a showcase for Grey who at one point pulls out this fantastic double top wristlock reversal into a dropkick on both Cooper and Boscik. It was a decent match up until the first fall with some good double teaming behind the referee's back from the heel team, especially from Cooper who was someone that I've never really cared for in the past. The match went completely to pot after the first fall with Grey getting the equalizing pin in 27 seconds, then the heels were DQ'd in the third fall at just 37 seconds. It's actually pretty heated in the crowd at the end with an old lady trying to pull Boscik off Grey, someone sliding into the ring and grabbing referee Max Ward's leg and another member of the crowd throwing punches at the prone Cooper! One for the Sarjeant completists only, and I'm glad that I know it'll get much better for him from now on.
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    Who are they ? Ric's daughter. Neidhart's daughter. Snuka's daughter. Tully's daughter. Who else ? Paige is the daughter of Ricky Knight and Sweet Saraya. Sure, they may not be as big a names as those mentioned but she's still second generation. Robbie Brookside's daughter Xia is another, and I imagine it won't be too long until she's off over to WWE and NXT.
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    Tony Anthony & Ron Wright have talked to the Commissioners and the Board of Directors, and at Thanksgiving Thunder the two of them will be facing Bruiser Bedlam and Jim Cornette in a tag team match. The Dirty White Boy says it will be an honor to team with Ron and he promises to take care of the Bruiser and will leave Jim Cornette all to him. Ron says that he’s never looked forward to anything as much as he is this match that is coming up. He calls Cornette a droopy dawed, puny looking, pus bellied, potato muscled idiot and tells him that when he gets through with him his own momma isn’t going to be able to recognize him. He’s going to rub Cornette’s nose in the mat, break his face and they’ll be carrying him out of there an ambulance! He and the Dirty White Boy will walk out of that match two happy men, you can take that to the bank! I’ve missed fired up Ron Wright promos but not too sure I want to be seeing him wrestle. He’s not looked good at all (bar throwing a mean looking punch) on the few occasions he’s had to do anything physical, and I would rather have a singles match between the White Boy and Bedlam, where Wright gets to strap Cornette if the White Boy wins. Bob Armstrong will be facing Abdullah the Butcher at Thanksgiving Thunder, but before we get some comments from The Bullet they’ve got a video package of Abdullah. Set to War Machine by KISS (the same music they used for The Nightstalker on his music video) we get plenty of clips of Abby in Puerto Rico bloodying up jobbers, facing the likes of Carlos Colon and Bruiser Brody and a pretty grim looking clip of him getting his scarred forehead stitched up. Jim Ross narrates over it and says how the Butcher has not been pinned in the United States in over ten years and how the likes of the WWF and WCW won’t touch him. Armstrong never dreamed Cornette would get Abdullah the Butcher. He’s had a good run, has beaten everyone Cornette’s bought in and thought he could do it all. What do you do though with a man that weighs 450lbs and is a raging bull from the Sudan? The only thing that is keeping him going is knowing that should he get past the Butcher, Jim Cornette has got to crawl across the ring, and in front of thousands of people kiss his feet! Cornette will be the biggest Thanksgiving Turkey of all and having him kiss his feet is worth more to him than a million dollars! A very effective piece for getting Abby over as this deranged and crazy madman, although Bob seems far too excited about the prospect of having Cornette kiss his feet!
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    Prior to the 'whipping match' commencing the Dirty White Boy introduces his surprise for Jim Cornette, Mr. Ron Wright! Cornette trips the White Boy and Wright makes his way round the ring after him. Cornette gets up on the apron to try and get away from him, but Mark Curtis is over to try and get him back down. Bedlam goes to the fallen White Boy, but with Curtis distracted Wright pulls a foreign object out his pocket. He nails the Bruiser in the head with it knocking him out and allowing the White Boy to get the pin. As per the pre-match stipulations they handcuff Bedlam to the turnbuckles and he takes his five lashes, however they only have one pair of handcuffs (I wonder what’s going to happen here?). The Bruiser is released, but before they can put the cuffs on Cornette he attacks Ron Wright. The White Boy forgets about Cornette and goes after Bedlam, but all this does is give Cornette the chance to pull out some powder which he then throws in the White Boy’s face temporarily blinding him. Superman Cornette puts the boots to the Dirty White Boy before decking Mark Curtis and taking the handcuffs from him. Bedlam cuffs Anthony to the bottom rope and then Cornette starts on Wright. He takes the strap and proceeds to repeatedly whip him with it until Tracey Smothers, Brian Lee and Lance Storm come out for the save. Post match promos and the Dirty White Boy says that Ron Wright is like a father to him and Jim Cornette messed up when he put his hands on him. Ron says that he may not be able to wrestle these top names anymore, but he’s going to get Jim Cornette in a match somehow. Even if the Dirty White Boy has to roll him out there in a wheelchair he’s going to take his head off and he’ll be taking a trip to the hospital! About as good as you’ll get from a match involving Bruiser Bedlam. The Dirty White Boy was real good here making it more than watchable, especially on his comeback stretch, but the Bruiser is still terrible. The match was kept short enough that it didn’t drag, and I liked the ending of Cornette getting his comeuppance after being outsmarted by Wright. The post-match angle was great, but Cornette booked himself way too strong here and while I knew it was coming, the fact that he avoided being strapped himself is a further example of him not adhering to stipulations. It’s always nice to see Ron Wright and we get excellent promos from him and the White Boy who finally has a bit more focus after seemingly treading water since the Jake Roberts feud.
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    Security video footage of the Rock & Roll Express attacking The Gangstas at a bar. Okay little brawl but not too sure why The Gangstas friends didn’t try to help them and just flapped around trying to separate the two teams? Surely they would’ve been getting involved and throwing some punches and boots to the Rock & Rolls? One thing I do like is how there is always a plausible, legit reason for them having video footage of events that happen outside of the arena. They did it when The Thrillseekers were jumped by the Heavenly Bodies in the car park and they did it again here. The Rock & Roll Express are back in the studio and Ricky says that The Gangstas came into Smoky Mountain Wrestling and said that they’d beaten every tag team across the United States but hadn’t beaten the Rock & Roll Express. They come to SMW and they beat them, but after the match they jumped them with blackjacks. They then had a title match with them, which they again won, but The Gangstas got themselves some hot shot lawyer and they had to hand the belts over to them. Finally there was the incident where he got bumped at the side of the road, and while The Gangstas might be the SMW tag team champions, they still haven’t beaten the Rock & Roll Express. He said that they were going to get them and they did. The Gangstas claim that they are these tough street fighters from California, so they go to a bar to fight them and what do they do? They have them arrested. Ricky then challenges them to ‘their’ kind of match, a ‘ghetto street fight’ and if they’re as tough as they claim they’ll bring it on. Good stuff from Ricky here but Robert is silent as ever and doesn’t say a thing.
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    Confrontation w/ Jim Cornette & Bob Armstrong - Confrontation is hosted by Jim Ross and appears to be a replacement for Personality Profile which was an almighty letdown after Down & Dirty w/ Dutch. Cornette wants Armstrong to promise that he’s not going to hit him, but Ross tells him that he’s got nothing to worry about as The Bullet is a man of his word, it’s just a shame he can’t say the same about him! Armstrong says that a while ago he gave up the Commissionership as he figured he had a job to do, but now he figures he’s just about got that job done. At Night of Legends and Fire on the Mountain his team beat Jim Cornette’s, a team that consisted of two former world champions and the strongest wrestler in the world, he busted up his Union and even got his hands on Cornette himself. He’s done all he had to do, and as of 12/1 he will once again be the Commissioner of Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Cornette says what do you mean ‘again’? He’s still the Commissioner, he just can’t get any proof and doesn’t believe this hokey story about a new Commissioner, it’s a con job! He tells him that he can’t do it as he’s finally got the man who can beat him (not again!), he couldn’t get him until now but he’s got to give him one last shot. Bob says that there is a new Commissioner, and no matter Cornette may say he’s not the Commissioner, he’s just upset because he hasn’t been able to find out who it is. Whether he likes it or not, as of 12/1 he will be the Commissioner once again. Cornette is desperate at this point and tells Armstrong if he gives him one more shot before 12/1 to get rid of him he’ll agree never to challenge him or darken the Armstrong doors again, all he wants is one more chance. If his man wins then he will have to leave Smoky Mountain Wrestling for good, no returning under a mask as The Bullet, no hokey stuff with the Board of Directors and he’ll do anything if he gives him one more chance to get rid of him. Armstrong thinks about it for a bit and says does he remember back in February when he bought Terry Funk in to face him in a Texas death match and if he lost he had to crawl across the ring and kiss Cornette’s feet? Well if he gives him this match, and he wins, he wants Cornette to crawl across the ring and kiss his feet. Cornette reluctantly agrees and the match is set for Thanksgiving Thunder. Will this feud ever die? It feels like I have seen this all before, time and time again. Why is Armstrong agreeing to this? Does he not remember when he is faced mystery opponents in the past (see ‘the Ninja’)? Does he not remember when he faced people Cornette bought in (see Terry Funk and Dick Murdoch)? Why is he agreeing to Cornette’s stipulations when all he gets in return is Cornette kissing his feet? Is he Mel Phillips in disguise? I have so much apathy for this feud it’s beyond true. Cactus Jack (iv) he didn’t come here to cause any problems, he came here for one reason, a mission of mercy because in Boo Bradley he senses a kindred spirit. He senses that maybe he’s not being treated so well and Cactus Jack knows what it’s like to be mistreated and he knows what it’s like to be slapped around. For all the times he dove off ring aprons and had what’s left of his brain splattered on the concrete floor, the most difficult move he ever made in his life was to stand up to scum like Kevin Sullivan and say he won’t take it. Yes it was difficult, but Boo Bradley can stand up too, he doesn’t have to take it and he’s a man on a mission in Smoky Mountain Wrestling to help him. Good little interview from Cactus.
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    I enjoyed Guleen when he was on Terry Simmes' podcast so looking forward to this. Hopefully it will mean an end to the Guleen sound bytes now as they've really started to grate over the past few episodes.
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    Handheld footage (Mark Curtis had his video camera with him!) of Ricky Morton in the dressing room from after last week’s show being tended to by Robert Gibson, Tracey Smothers and Mark Curtis. He’s dazed and beaten after being attacked by three men on his way to the arena and while not sure, he thinks one of them was from The Gangstas posse. Rock & Roll Express (iv) Ricky Morton says that ever since The Gangstas arrived in Smoky Mountain Wrestling all they’ve talked about is the Rock & Roll Express and getting their hands on the SMW tag team titles. When The Gangstas first appeared they came to the ring using blackjacks, they got them in a match where they beat them and then they used blackjacks, and when on the way to the arena last week he was jumped from behind but got too see what it was, he got hit across the back of the head with a blackjack. He tells The Gangstas that they better start looking under their beds and behind the shower curtain to make sure they’re not there as they’re coming to get them and that’s a promise. The Gangstas & D-Lo Brown (iv) Jim Ross asks The Gangstas if they had anything to do with what happened to Ricky Morton recently? New Jack says that somebody called him up and told him that Ricky had got beaten up at the side of the highway but he was at home asleep. The police did come to his house and question him like they always do but he had nothing to do with it. He tells Ricky not to blame himself getting drunk and hitting his head on a table in some nightclub in Memphis on him and Mustafa as they didn’t do anything to him. They told these red neck, hillbilly, Uncle Tom, Negro sellouts that they would get the job done and now look who’s the tag team champions. He doesn’t care if they like it or not but they’re here to stay. Great stuff between Ricky Morton and New Jack but it really does feel like a feud between the two of them with Robert and Mustafa just along for the ride.
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    Ole & Bryant Anderson (iv) Bryant says that Tracey had a week to think about things and does he remember him yet as he sure remembers him. Bryant goes back to running up and down the hill and Ole says how he’s had Bryant in amateur wrestling programs since he was five years old. When he got to high school he was the high school champion, the state champion and was on the junior national team. He was 171lbs when Tracey saw him in college, now he’s 250lbs and knows, lives and breathes Anderson wrestling. Bryant says he’s coming and he’s going to do it the Anderson way, it’s not pretty but it works. He’s been working on a special hold for Tracey Smothers and when he clamps it on he’ll never be the same. Tracey Smothers should start sweating because the Anderson’s are coming to Smoky Mountain Wrestling. The Gangstas (iv) New Jack says he told Robert Gibson that he’s nothing without Ricky Morton. He’s lucky they pulled him off because he was going to try and kill him! He knows that this isn’t the end of it and if he’s man enough, Robert will come back out and face the music. If he doesn’t get him tonight he’ll get him in the next few days as he’s got some surprises in store for him. Gibson runs back out and jumps at The Gangstas and the three of them start fighting again. The show goes off the air with Brian Lee, Lance Storm, Mike Moraldo, Steve Skyfire, Boo Bradley and The Infernos all trying their best to keep them apart. The Gangstas interview comes off the back of a TV Battle Royale that came down to Robert Gibson and New Jack. Shitty ending (what in SMW, never?) saw the bell just start ringing as the two of them were exchanging punches. Mark Curtis tried to separate them both but just got thrown down, then Mustafa was out to help his Gangstas partner double team Robert. All the participants in the Battle Royal then came rushing back out to try and keep the three of them apart.
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    Bob Armstrong & Rock & Roll Express (iv) - Bob says that everyone saw on TV last week what took place at the Tennessee Valley Fair, it’s embarrassing for everyone but something unprecedented happened and the Rock & Roll Express are no longer the SMW tag team champions. Rather than explain everything, he plays the footage of the end of the match so that every can see it for themselves. After the footage has finished the Bullet says that in the past week they had to give the belts to The Gangstas. It was the Commissioner who asked him to watch the match and when he saw The Gangstas cheat he went down to ringside and told the referee what happened. The referee then restarted the match like he should, and the Rock & Roll Express ended up winning. The Gangstas got upset about things saying that they won the match first, although conveniently forgetting about their cheating in the process. They went down to Atlanta and got themselves a civil rights lawyer who had connections in New York and California and threatened Smoky Mountain Wrestling with all kinds of lawsuits unless they could prove that they weren’t discriminating against them. He’s seen the papers and we’re talking about millions of dollars. While they could go ahead and bankrupt the company they don’t want to do that, they want the Rock & Roll Express to have a shot at getting their belts back. The Gangstas are walking around all proud after having the belts handed to them, and rather than fight this he’s leaving it up to the Rock & Roll Express to do what they want to do. Although he was only doing what the Commissioner asked him, he does feel partly responsible and will do whatever he can to help them get the belts back. Morton says that they don’t blame him, they blame the Gangstas. Over their career they have been World tag team champions, US tag team champions, SMW tag team champions, Southern tag team champions, Mid-South tag team champions and every time they’ve lost the belts it was in the middle of the ring, no-one has ever just come and took the belts from them. The only way to get even with The Gangstas is to fight their way and on their terms. If they had won the titles the way The Gangstas did he wouldn’t be able to show his face around Smoky Mountain Wrestling, he’d be too embarrassed. Robert and he are going to return to the way that the Rock & Roll Express used to be, when they’d take that rule book and throw it out the window because they don’t care anymore. They got cheated out of the SMW tag team titles and before it’s over they’re going to have more than respect for the Rock & Roll Express. The Gangstas video - they are giving us the privilege of letting us hang out with them for a minute, showing us how gang bangers and head splitters do it! They’re in an area of town where you’re liable to see some old women cutting her husband up for doing something wrong, where you’re liable to see a drive by as they see it every day, Ricky and Robert couldn’t last five minutes in an area like this! Interesting little point is that on the TV show the interview with The Bullet and the Rock & Roll Express aired prior to The Gangstas video.
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    Damn it, Loss, you posted what I came in here to post. Seriously though, yeah, I remember being super disappointed by this match. Does Savage vs. Warrior at SummerSlam count? Like we're seeing with AJ Styles and Gallows/Anderson now, they built up a big storyline (which one is buddy-buddy with Flair?) that ended up leading to nothing, and on top of that, the match ended in a DQ or something unsatisfying like that. I realize Warrior was no workrate king and Savage was past his prime by then, but they'd had a great match previously. (BTW, I realize the AJ and Gallows/Anderson stuff is ongoing, but I'll be shocked if it actually leads to much. At least, I don't think we'll end up getting either of the scenarios everyone wants - AJ reforming some version of Bullet Club with them or Finn Balor coming in and aligning with them as Balor Club. But we'll see.) Warrior hardly fits into the category of 'great' wrestler.
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    The Gibson leglock
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    Candido is very happy as not only did Boo Bradley avenge his loss to Lance Storm, but he’s also now the ‘Beat the Champ’ TV title holder. He got some revenge on Brian Lee by choking him out with the chain, and whomever that other guy was (Brian Logan) who wanted to get in his and Tammy’s way, he piledrove him through the mat. He’s the greatest wrestler in SMW! At this point they are joined by Bob Armstrong who is here to deliver a message from the new Commissioner. He says that Chris Candido violated the most basic rule in Smoky Mountain Wrestling, he piledrove a man and could’ve finished his career. The new Commissioner is a man who likes to put his foot down, doesn’t like people who break the rules, and as a result has suspended Candido for four weeks as of now. They’re not happy anymore and Tammy says that this isn’t going to happen and she’s going to call her lawyers!
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    Hoping this is the right promo as I'm watching TV and the dates for the Yearbook have been wrong recently. Dressing room from the Rock & Roll Express which opens by replaying The Gangstas and Rock & Roll Express match and brawl from Johnson City. Morton says that The Gangstas came into Smoky Mountain Wrestling and said that theyve beaten every tag team across the United States but theyve never wrestled the Rock & Roll Express. Every time theyve met The Gangstas theyve beat them in the ring, but theyve said they know we can beat them wrestling, but we cant beat them fighting. They proved in Johnson City that theyre just like they are, that they can throw the rulebook out the window and The Gangstas have started something that theyre going to finish. The Gangstas have come into Smoky Mountain Wrestling with no respect and they guarantee that when they get through with them theyll have more than respect for the Rock & Roll Express. Robert Gibson is just sat there and doesnt say a thing. At one point the camera even zooms in on Ricky as though it is his feud and not theirs.
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    Lengthy highlights of a match from the Tennessee Valley Fair, Knoxville, TN. The match is held outdoors and there is no skirt on the ring apron so has a feel of being from a big outdoor show in Puerto Rico. Some nice double team maneuvers from the Rock & Rolls, but it does seem strange seeing The Gangstas trying to ‘wrestle’ and use moves like a bear hug. Double dropkick to Mustafa, but instead of counting the fall Mark Curtis tries to get Ricky Morton out of the ring. With Curtis distracted New Jack nails Robert Gibson in the back of the head with a blackjack and puts Mustafa on top of him. Curtis turns round, sees Mustafa on top, counts the pin and calls for the bell. Bob Armstrong comes down to ringside and tells Curtis what happened, who after also checking with the crowd, restarts the match. Morton then immediately rolls New Jack up with an O’Connor roll for the three count and the win. A decent match that was better than the first TV match between the two teams, but not as good as the parking lot brawl. I hated the finish as they did the exact same ‘stop/start/immediate’ pin just over a month ago in The Thrillseekers vs Heavenly Bodies match at Night of Legends. Another small point is that there is also no consistency in Mark Curtis’ officiating. Here he is in this match trying to get Morton out the ring after the double dropkick, but the amount of times the Rock & Roll Express have hit that move on an opponent and then they will both cover him for the pin. I doubt many would even notice, but something that irked me about this match. We get a post-match interview from The Bullet and the Rock & Rolls. Ricky wants to thank Bob Armstrong for coming out and letting them know what happened, as ever since The Gangstas have been in Smoky Mountain Wrestling they’ve tried to run over the Rock & Roll Express and use them as a stepping stone. Bob says not only was he watching because he was interested in the championship match, but the new Commissioner called him up and knowing the problems they’ve had with The Gangstas, asked him as a personal favor to watch the match and make sure nothing gets out of hand and that everyone gets a fair deal. The Rock & Roll Express didn’t get a fair deal, he saw Robert get hit in the head with a blackjack, and to him that’s not fair. They got the 1-2-3 in the end, they’re the rightful winners and they’re still the SMW tag team champions. This was actually from the 10/1 TV show and not the 9/17 by the way.
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    This match is from Johnson City, TN and is much better than the TV match (which was pretty much a straight wrestling match), as here we’ve got the ‘fight’ that New Jack had been promising in his interviews. The Gangstas hang Ricky Morton with a noose at one point, before Robert Gibson attacks them with a blackjack he stole from New Jack busting them both open. New Jack ends up with the noose around his neck and when Mark Curtis tries to regain some sort of order, Morton tosses him over the top rope to the floor (and he takes a great bump in the process!). The Hornet, Lance Storm, Chris Jericho, Chris Candido, Brian Lee, Anthony Michaels, Tracey Smothers, Killer Kyle and Tony Anthony all come out to try and separate the two teams and keep them from one another. They don’t have much luck and they continue to brawl all the way to the backstage area, hitting each other with whatever weapons they can get their hands on from 2x4’s to mops to door frames. The brawl makes its way out into the parking lot where all the wrestlers finally manage to separate them both. Tremendous stuff! We follow up with a Gangstas promo and New Jack says that he told those Caucasian white devils that they would get them and that it will no longer be a wrestling match but a fight. They’re going to get them again and next time he gets to put his hands round that punk neck of theirs, he’s going to choke the life out of them and they will see that he and Mustafa are not to be played. They’re the people they’re going to sit up and lose sleep about, they’re on a mission and that mission is to put the Rock & Roll Express right beside that big, fat, greasy haired Elvis Presley. Rock & Roll is dead!
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    Bob Caudle says that whatever way you look at it, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson are not going to be pushovers. New Jack says did the Rock & Roll Express think they were soft? That they were easy? That maybe they were cotton pickers? Wrong! Maybe they thought they had some homegrown Negroes? Wrong! Maybe they thought they would do to them what they’ve done to everybody else? Now they’re in for a fight, the fight of their lives and these folk better get a last look at the Rock & Roll Express because next time they get hold of them they’re going to hurt them. He doesn’t care what it takes or what he has to bring to the ring; he wants to hear some bones breaking, some eyes being pulled out of their heads and some teeth being knocked out. He’s not coming here to play, he’s coming here to get paid, but most of all he’s coming to put an end to a myth that Rock & Roll was created by some Caucasian with a guitar on a hill in Kentucky. Wrong, they created it, they just let them borrow it for a little while. They’re going to borrow the Rock & Roll Express and beat them like their slave owning ancestors used to beat them. They should kiss their ugly kids goodbye, smack their fat wives and get ready, because when they get them they’re going to know they’ve been got! Real good interview and Mustafa looks proper menacing for a change just carrying a noose and swinging it back and forth. This interview is actually from the 9/24 TV show as opposed to 9/10.
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    A combination sunset flip and dropkick from the Express on Mustafa sees them score the pin. The Gangstas jump the Rock & Rolls after the match and throw Gibson over the top rope to the arena floor. Their security then gets in the ring and the four of them start putting the boots to Morton and beating him with nightsticks a la Rodney King. Morton ends up getting busted open while they manage to keep Gibson at bay from helping his partner. Pretty lackluster match especially when you consider New Jacks promos leading up to this and how they were coming to fight with the Rock & Roll Express, the post-match beatdown was the highlight. Post match interview and New Jack says that they've set the tone for whats going to happen to the Rock & Roll Express in the days to comeif they make it that far. He told them that hes not someone to be played with and sooner or later hed get them. Sure, they may beat them wrestling, but not when it comes to fighting. Hes a bad man and this is only the beginning of a whole lotta lumps upside their head, the beginning of a whole lotta trips to the hospital and the beginning of seeing what happens when you run with someone from South Central. Theyre the wrong niggas to mess with and dont the Rock & Roll Express ever forget it.
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    A taped interview sent in from Atlanta, and Ole has Bryant running up and down a small hill before getting him to join him. What gets Ole these days is that everyone is dressed up in these fancy jackets, they’ve got all these great entrances with music, but the one thing that’s missing, and Smoky Mountain Wrestling is going to see it, is someone who wrestles and does it better than anybody else. There is one guy in particular that they are looking for, one guy that made a mistake when Bryant was in college, one guy who came down to try and show everybody how great he was, and that’s Tracey Smothers. Smothers better get ready to do a little roadwork himself because when the Anderson’s get to Smoky Mountain Wrestling, everybody is going to be in for a big surprise. Bryant can’t wait to take that amateur career that took him to the state championship, to the junior national team, to the AAU and apply all that wrestling knowledge along with the skill and knowledge that he gave him to Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Bryant says that he didn’t wake up one day and just decide that he wanted to be a wrestler, he didn’t play basketball or football in college, he wrestled and does it better than anybody else today. He’s got the scientific knowledge in his head, the heart and the body for it. Four years ago Tracey Smothers said something to him and he hasn’t forgotten, he made a big mistake and it’s time for Tracey to go back to school because the Anderson’s are coming. Good debut for Bryant who seems capable on the mic and appears to have a ton of potential. Certainly plenty more than someone like Mike Furnas who also came from an athletic, wrestling family and that they previously tried to heavily push.
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    To be fair, you can say that about a good 95% of their interviews!
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    Whilst I don't think they ever outright said it was 'forever', the implication and the way they built everything was that it would be. When the Rock & Roll Express are flat out saying that they will retire and quit wrestling if they lose this match because they don't want to wrestle anywhere else other than SMW, you get the impression that the losing team will be leaving the promotion permanently. On the back of Bob Armstrong losing a similar stipulated match and returning almost immediately with no hint of secrecy or mysticism as The Bullet, then The Bullet losing his mask in a match only to be wearing another mask underneath, you get tired fast of these stipulations not being honoured and wonder what the point of them in the first place is? Not to mention only a few months after this we get the Ricky Morton's hair vs Tammy Fytch's hair tag match debacle when Chris Candido got shaved that people believe they never really recovered from.
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    Les Thatcher opens by recapping the Brian Lee & Chris Candido vs Rock & Roll Express match from last week and the post-match where Tammy Fytch fired Primetime. Back in the studio and Candido says everyone thinks it’s real funny that he’s wearing this hood to cover up his bald head. They beat Ricky Morton fair and square and if he was a real man he would’ve sat in the middle of the ring and shaved his head, instead he attacked him like a coward and tried to mutilate him. Now Morton wants these matches against him, where if he beats him he’s got to take off this hood and show all these hillbillies his bald head, but if he beats Ricky Morton then he has to shave his head (I wonder how this will end up!) He turns his attention to Brian Lee and says that he was a hindrance to him and that he carried that big goof on his back for six months. What he and Tammy Fytch need in a partner is someone big, strong and stupid, and whilst Brian Lee was all of those things, they’ve now got someone bigger, stronger and even stupider than him. When he was back in New Jersey there was this kid who was bigger than everyone else, meaner than everyone else and he knew him all the way through Grade school. Every day he was beating kids up, stealing their lunch money, stealing their milk money and when everyone would start getting on his case, while he could take care of one or two of them, when a whole bunch would jump on him, for the price of half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, this guy would come and take each and every one of them out. He kept in touch with him and when he went back home to New Jersey recently, he walked round the alleys of Asbury Park and found his buddy. He asks Tammy Fytch to bring him out, her new pet, his longtime buddy, a stupid idiot, a goof, a complete moron, but the toughest guy you’ll ever meet, Boo Bradley. Tammy has a leash round Bradley’s neck and he is crawling on the canvas and barking like he is a dog. Candido says that Bradley is his new tag team partner, he does whatever Tammy Fytch says, and they’re going to get back the SMW tag team titles.
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    Bob Caudle says how the Gangstas have gone to humiliating their opponents with an ‘x’ after they’ve beaten them in the ring. New Jack says that for 400 years his ancestors got humiliated. They were chained in the bowels of a slave ship and bought over here, but then they built this country up and now they want them to leave? That’s not going to happen and they’re going to stay whether they like it or not. The Rock & Roll Express have got to stop dodging them and put their name on the dotted line to face them. They may have beaten the likes of the Midnight Express, Doom and the Road Warriors but that was wrestling, they haven’t been in a streetfight yet and they want to fight them. Sooner or later they are going to have to get with New Jack and Mustafa. Rock & Roll is dead, Rap is in!
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    I'm up to August 1994 in my Smoky Mountain Wrestling watching and it's getting a real struggle at the moment. Where at one point I could easily work my way through several episodes a day, at the moment it is taking me several days to get through a single episode. Cornette's booking just seems incredibly lazy at the moment with the never ending Bob Armstrong vs Cornette feud going round in circles and a mere four months after losing a 'loser leaves SMW' cage match, the Heavenly Bodies are back in the promotion. His answer to everything seems to be a gimmick match of some description and the recent Summerblast tour was overkill with penalty box matches, piledriver matches, dock fights, cage matches and mixed tags. Despite what others say, Tracey Smothers is just someone who I don't get and struggle with, and when the Dirty White Boy's challenger and top heel in the promotion is Bruiser Bedlam, you know you're in trouble. FITE is one of the worst factions imagineable with Killer Kyle even worse than Bedlam, and Chris Jericho's injury means that we're now getting Lance Storm in singles matches and as the 'Beat the Champ' TV title holder. Brian Lee has turned face which is an incredibly strange decision when you think back to the beginning of the promotion, the Rock & Roll Express feel stale too and the loss of Dutch Mantel on commentary has been far greater than I would've thought. Thankfully there are a couple of bright spots. Chris Candido has been one of the best things in the promotion since he debuted and whilst his work has always been first rate we're starting to get plenty of interviews from him as well. Tammy Fytch is always entertaining, though I'm really not sure about Boo Bradley (who has just debuted on a Personality Profile segment), and New Jack's promo's are one of the highlights of each show. The Rock & Roll Express are just round the corner for them, so hopefully the Gangstas can breathe a bit of life into them. I was contemplating taking a break from this and watching something else instead (ECW from the start or the complete run of AJW Classics) as a way to recharge my batteries, but likelihood is if I give up on this I won't go back to it for some time, and it was always my intent to try and get it finished before the year is out.
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    Now I want to know if there's anything hugely interesting you've found not represented on Graham's site. Very much doubt it. I just like to have everything verified, be it through the Observer, Mat Results, Shedlock, PWI Weekly etc. There was a tendency for people to make results up and just send them in to Graham's site. Of course, people could equally have made them up back in the day and sent them in to the newsletters, but I just trust my own research as opposed to copying something off a website. I only go back to '78 with my results as opposed to the start of the WWWF anyway.
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