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  1. GSR
    A special edition of Down & Dirty today and Dutch informs us that he has a pre-law background, a pre-med background and has some psychiatry courses behind him too! He thinks that if Smoky Mountain Wrestling are paying the bill for Kevin Sullivan's psychiatric treatment he may as well get in on the action. They're in a secluded place for this session (which is in fact the ring, where the only light is provided by a torch) with Dr Dutch, as Sullivan thinks that there are people following him. Sullivan says that Smoky Mountain Wrestling have tried to hinder him every step of the way, they've tried to block him and have people following him all the time. Dr Dutch tries to find out who these people are. Sullivan says that they are mindless, faceless people, he's probably seen them himself, they drive round in brown LTD's with a Missouri license plate. Dutch thinks he's seen them and that they could well be following him round too. Dutch runs down the types of match in the Russian Roulette death match and Sullivan comments on them all; Prince of Darkness, Stretcher, Handicap (Sullivan & The Nightstalker vs Brian Lee), Fire (includes clip of Mr Pogo vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga from Japan), Singapore Spike and Brian Lee's choice. Sullivan says what kind of choice could he have facing him? He repeats 'what kind of choice' over and over maniacally as Dutch ends the session.
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    Horner goes for an O'Connor roll and Mark Curtis leapfrogs both men to get out of the way and as they hit the ropes Cornette cracks Horner in the head with his racket. Eaton then covers him and gets the win to be the new Beat the Champ TV champion. As others have said, tremendous leapfrog from Curtis but the match was nothing up to this moment.
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    Anthony claims to be training in Central Park ‘right in the middle of New York City’, when he is in fact out in the woods somewhere! Ron Wright has sent him to train hard with the chain and make him proud because Wright never lost a chain match in his career and he doesn’t plan on being the man to bring shame upon the chain. Anthony destroys a bag of flour (that reminds him of Tracey Smothers’ lily white guts) with the chain, before obliterating a melon (that reminds him of Smothers head), a pineapple (he’s heard Smothers likes his women thorny and a little bushy) and a beer bottle. He tells Smothers that this is what’s going to happen when he shows up for the chain match, he’s going to beat his skull out and stick his chain down his throat! Good intensity from the Dirty White Boy here and great way of showing how dangerous the chain is and the damage that it can cause.
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    I'm upto the 3/27 episode of TV in my watching and just making notes on what stuff is on the Yearbook for the next month to comment on. Nancy definitely appears in the first couple of these therapy sessions as 'Nurse Kratchett' and doling out cranium massages for Sullivan (if you pause the first clip as soon as you enter you can see it's her, despite the efforts to only film her from the neck down). I'll comment when I've watched this (which should be within a couple of days), but every likelihood that this is her.
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    I'll have to check what I wrote about Rogers vs Horner as I have no recollection of it, though both Rogers and Horowitz are tremendous as 'competitive' enhancement in the first few months. I'm thinking it's the follow up to the angle of Rip doing squats for the duration of the show, but Horner was always a struggle upto where he's paired off with the Dirty White Boy. Agree on that six man and it was a shame the Wild Bunch only appeared for that one TV taping.
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    Arn says that he just witnesses a 21 year old kid from Japan get wheeled out of here and it's probably going to take 200 stitches to sew him up. It made him a little sick; he thought he had seen it all, but what Jim Cornette does in the ring is no different to what just happened to that kid. Maybe no-one had their head or arm split open to that degree, but what he's done is prey upon all these people in the surrounding areas. He preyed on their wants, their needs and he preyed on the Rock & Roll Express, but he always did it four on two. The Rock & Rolls didn't call for someone with a good heart to help them out, they called for the dirtiest player in the game and I'm just as capable of going to you and your guys what you witnessed happened to that kid. He tells Bobby Eaton that he betrayed him, that he never cared for Stan Lane or his partner and he begs Cornette to what himself or the Express. You may never see this team again, one of the Four Horsemen with the Rock & Roll Express, but one way he is going to get to Eaton and no man who has never had a jockstrap on in his life is going to intimiate him or his team. Morton then tells Cornette that it'll all come to a head in Knoxville and he better be ready as they'll be waiting for them. This is soooooo good! Anderson's third promo in the territory (after the reveal and one local interview) and another belter. The way he linked what happened to Kanemura to the upcoming six man is something only the best can do. Real shame that he doesn't stick around for long as a prolonged feud between Anderson and Eaton here (with Cornette doing his talking) would have been something pretty bloody special.
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    Bob Caudle is about to interview Yukihiro Kanemura and Mr Yamaguchi when they are jumped by Kevin Sullivan. Kanemura is busted open within 30 seconds and Sullivan does a number on him. Violent, bloody and Kanemura is a mess. He has a brief hope spot where he whips Sullivan into the turnbuckles, charges in after him but Sullivan meets him with the spike. Sullivan stabs him in the arm (this looks pretty disgusting), before the big red censored cross makes an appearance on the screen to try and obscure the carnage. Mark Curtis does a fantastic job with his facials selling the attack and how gruesome this is. Sullivan starts gouging the spike into his arm and The Nightstalker comes out to stop anyone from helping Kanemura. Larry Santo, Jeff Daniels and another jobber who try to help all get clobbered with chairs while Mr Yamaguchi gets in the ring to try and pull Kanemura to safety. Brian Lee eventually runs out to make the save and gets the Japanese out of there.
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    This comes across more of a fight with Smothers out for revenge after what has gone down previously between the two of them. Tremendously heated brawl and they get so much out of just exchanging punches with one another. Smothers puts a beating on the White Boy early and bust him open after ramming him into the ring post. Anthony ducks a crossbody and the momentum turns. Wright distracts the referee and the White Boy throws Smothers over the top rope to the floor, before hitting him with the title belt and busting him open as well. DDT from Anthony that Smothers kicks out of, small package from Smothers and the White Boy kicks out. The two continue to exchange punches, just trading back and forth with each other. Smothers drops Anthony with a double ax handle off the top for another near fall. Splash in the corner, super kick and Smothers again ascends the turnbuckles. Jawjacker and both men are down. The Dirty White Boy grabs the referee THEN RON WRIGHT GETS UP OUT OF THE WHEELCHAIR, WALKS OVER TO THE RING and nails Smothers with some brass knux knocking him out. Anthony covers him for the three and retains his title. Bob Caudle says that Wright got out of the wheelchair, he was walking! Whilst Dutch Mantel claims to have lost his contact lens and wonders what happened. Excellent ending and amazing that for over a year we've been led to believe that Wright is confined to that chair and can't walk. Really interested to see how Wright explains this one or if the chair will now be a thing of the past (I can half imagine him claiming it was a miracle or something!). Great dramatic match, heated and given plenty of time too (which is a bit of a rarity with these TV matches). Good stuff!
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    Kind of surprised that this segment didn't make the cut as it was a phenomenal promo from Anderson and the angle itself was tremendous.
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    The latest therapy session for Kevin Sullivan which is being paid for by SMW after a clerical error made by the secretary whilst Bob Armstrong was over in Japan. Sullivan is on beach feeding the birds calling them the names of different Smoky Mountain wrestlers, before pulling out his spike and going after them. Incidentally, this was the first therapy session video without an appearance from Nurse Kratchett, who was played by Nancy 'Woman' Sullivan (although she is always only shown from the neck down).
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    Cornette says that he heard the Rock & Roll Express talking about this 'mystery partner', but they aren't worried because he knows that they can't find anyone who would give the Heavenly Bodies a fight. He then says how they had the gall to claim that either one of them could beat anyone of his guys individually, 'but neither one of them could beat half of us with the other one helping'! At this point the Rock & Rolls come out, soon followed by Bob Armstrong. Ricky Morton says again that either he or Robert could beat any one of them at any time and Cornette tells him to prove it. Morton responds by telling him that they'll prove it right now, there is a ring right there, just pick someone? Armstrong says that if they want to go one on one that is up to them, he'll take care of the rest. Cornette picks Bobby Eaton to face Morton and Armstrong says he's going to ensure it's one on one, and gets security to take everyone else back to the dressing room. I felt the match itself was nothing special (a phrase I'm tending to use a fair bit whilst watching the SMW set) and the fact that it started so late in the show meant that you kind of knew that it wasn't going overly long (although in the past they have gone off the air with matches still in progress). The Stud Stable and Dutch Mantel interfere for the cheap DQ finish, attacking both men and leading to the match being thrown out. Gibson and the Bodies come out to help their respective partners, soon followed by Killer Kyle. Larry Santo, Lynn Fields, Rip Rogers, Reno Riggins and Dixie Dy-No-Mite all rush out to try and separate everyone, but this appears just to be an excuse for Cornette to start waffling them with his tennis racket! The post match here is great and a really wild and chaotic scene with everyone fighting amongst each other. Things only start to get restored when Bob Armstrong (sporting a fluorescent yellow cap) comes out saying that's enough and tries to calm the situation.
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    Smothers says that everyone saw what the Dirty White Boy did to him last week, he cost him $5,000 and cost him the TV title. He says that he has carried the rebel flag since he started in professional wrestling and a lot of people don't like it. To him, the confederate flag brings back good memories, it reminds him of where he came from, where his father came from and his father before him. Some northerners always try to make them look like dumb, backwards hillbillies, but we're proud of our home and by carrying that flag it was a message to those who knock them that we're proud of where we're from and we love where we're from. There is no place on earth that he would rather be than here in the South and the Dirty White Boy tried to take that away from them. He then tells the White Boy that Southern people will treat you like you treat them and that he's messed with the wrong man.
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    This is a number one contenders match for the tag team title and Jim Cornette provides commentary whilst the Heavenly Bodies and Bobby Eaton show up at ringside with chairs, drinks and popcorn to get a better view of the action. Ricky Morton and Jimmy Golden collide and Golden takes a fall outside of the ring right in front of where the Bodies are sat. Eaton throws popcorn at him and he responds by snatching the bag off him and hitting him with it. The popcorn goes everywhere and Eaton takes a pretty funny bump backwards off the chair. Eaton picks up a drink, throws it at Golden and Morton schoolboys him for the pin. Fun finish and the match itself was okay, nothing special or anything. Agree with the comments that it was often hard to concentrate on with Cornette's comments and the Bodies and their antics at ringside.
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    There was also Jay Steele and Bob Closson's excellent Mat Results newsletter, which was a mixture of news, results and clippings. Probably my favourite newsletter outside of the Observer and goes back to I think 1983.
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    The only thing I remember Doring for would be the ridiculous names that Joey Styles would give his moves; the G-Spot Sweep, the Panty Drop, Lancaster Lariat of Lust etc. Wouldn't make a top 100 tag teams let alone a top 25.
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    With Smothers in control Tony Anthony runs back out, gets his attention and in full view of him starts cutting up the confederate flag. This distraction allows the Nightstalker to hit the powerbomb and become the new TV champion. The Dirty White Boy rips up the flag and then gets in the ring to attack Smothers. He handcuffs him to the rope, the Nightstalker blocks the dressing room door so no-one can come to his aid and Anthony burns the confederate flag in full view of Smothers. The Rock & Roll Express and Tim Horner eventually break through and carrying an extinguisher they put the fire out and see the Dirty White Boy off.
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    Rock & Roll Express are out cutting a post match interview and Ricky Morton says that the only thing on their mind is to get the SMW tag team titles round their waist. Jim Cornette may talk about the Heavenly Bodies being a corporation, but it doesn’t matter to them as they’ve been through a lot with the Midnight Express, things haven’t changed, just the name. He then tells Cornette any time, any place he wants to put the belts up they’ll be ready. They’re interrupted by Cornette who is in the ring with the Bodies and Bobby Eaton and he challenges them to get in the ring right now. Bob Caudle says that they’re outnumber 4 on 2, Cornette calls them yellow and Morton responds that ‘sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do’ and they make their way to the ring to accept the challenge. It doesn’t take long before the Bodies and Eaton gain the advantage, then Cornette joins in the attack with his racket and laying the boots into the Rock & Rolls. Robert Fuller, Jimmy Golden and Dutch Mantel come out and the Studs start clobbering the Bodies with chairs (Prichard and Lane protect themselves, but Eaton takes some pretty brutal shots from Fuller). When the Bodies flee, they turn their attention to the Rock & Rolls, destroy them with chair shots and leave them laying in the ring. Good angle, the Stud Stable finally will get their acknowledgement and after the attack on the Rock & Rolls there is no way they will be turned face (which at times looked as though it could have happened with this storyline)
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    Dutch starts off by saying that in one of the most serious breaches of wrestling etiquette in history, the feud between the Heavenly Bodies and the Rock & Roll Express has spilled over into other territories. At a recent WCW TV taping the Heavenly Bodies invaded WCW looking for the Rock & Roll Express and Dutch then plays footage of that ‘invasion’. Jim Cornette, Bobby Eaton and the Heavenly Bodies are out with Bill Watts and Jim Ross on an episode of WCW Saturday Night. Cornette says that he and Stan Lane walked out of WCW two years ago because the people that run this company tried to make the Midnight Express look like idiots. After they left they found Dr Tom Prichard and formed another tag team the Heavenly Bodies, went to Smoky Mountain Wrestling where they appreciate wrestling talent and became the SMW tag team champions. Then all of a sudden, like some sort of cancer, the Rock & Roll Express appear and steal their tag team belts! Next thing he knows he is sat at home watching TV, and Bill Watts is showing the Rock & Roll Express beating their brains out on national TV. He tells Watts that he is not going to stand for it, he broke up the Midnight Express because he didn’t want TBS to make them look like idiots and he’ll be damned if he’ll let them do it to the Heavenly Bodies especially when they don’t even work here. He says that he bought back Bobby Eaton, a man that they have used and abused for two years, and they got their titles back. He tells Watts that he wants a public apology for showing that video to everyone, for trying to make them look like clowns and if they don’t he’s going to file a suit against Watts, TBS, WCW and Ted Turner if he has to! Watts says that there are a lot of people he would apologize to but Cornette isn’t one of them. He says that he has been working with Bob Armstrong to get all the necessary releases required to show that footage and next time he butts in on their show he’ll get Doug Dillinger and Atlanta’s finest to escort him straight to jail. Cornette responds that he should get the Rock & Roll Express arrested and put in jail for murder as last week they came out and killed his ratings! The Rock & Rolls come out and Watts tells them if they want to settle it in the ring they can do so in their ring, on neutral ground. This leads to an impromptu match between the teams with all participants in their street wear. The Rock & Rolls hit the double dropkick on Prichard when Eaton interferes for the DQ. The three of them plus Cornette then beat on the Express, while a bunch of lower level WCW guys try to help but just get beaten down themselves. After airing this segment Dutch has a summit meeting in the dressing room with Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden. Golden isn’t happy that the Heavenly Bodies and Rock & Roll Express are only concerned with each other, they’re going off into other federations, when are the Stud Stable going to get an acknowledgement round here? Fuller then tells Cornette they’re going to get their attention and he better be looking out for it, because if they don’t, they’ll just get them from behind
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    Dave Taylor

    GSR replied to Dylan Waco's topic in Nominees

    Of all the guys who have appeared on WOS that have been nominated for the project Taylor would rank right near the bottom (if not bottom) for me. Whilst his WWE tenure is something that I missed, there is nothing from his WCW days that adds to his resume. If people are passing on the likes of Grey, Cortez, Jones, Haward etc. I can't see how they could nominate Taylor?
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    Chad's Boot Camp

    GSR replied to soup23's topic in 2016

    Grey matches that I enjoyed when I was watching things for this: Steve Grey vs Clive Myers (10.08.75) Steve Grey vs Johnny Saint (01.28.80) Steve Grey vs Jon Cortez (07.27.81 - my WOS match of the 80s) Steve Grey vs Keith Haward (02.05.85) Steve Grey vs Richie Brooks (05.14.86)
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    Ok. Can I see those lists ? Please ? (I'd love to have those references) Same here if you're able to pm me them.
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    What's your obsession with this Magee vs Anderson match? It's not the first time you've asked the guys for their comments on it.
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    Cornette is all happy that they are the champions again and says that it shouldn't be a surprise 'as Jim Cornette gets things done' and Bobby Eaton is now back where he belongs. He then tells the Rock & Roll Express and the Stud Stable that the two greatest tag teams of all time have combined into a single unit, they're together, are the champions and will remain so. Stanfield says that it is the greatest day of their life when out comes the Stud Stable and Dutch Mantel. Cornette says that they were scared, that's why they didn't show up and made this cock and bull story about four flat tyres over at the motel... at which point Fuller says 'four flat tyres! You son of a b*tch!' and the Studs attack the Bodies and Eaton. The Rock & Rolls return to join in the fight and a wild brawl between all three teams takes place.
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    The Heavenly Bodies are subbing for the Stud Stable who haven't made it to the arena on time for their match. Dutch Mantel is not sure where they are as he left them at a motel in Charlotte and they should be here by now. The Rock & Rolls dominate the early part of the match until the Stud Stable show up at ringside in their street clothes. Dutch questions where they have been and Fuller says that they've been changing their car tyres at the Motel in Charlotte. He says that they've been trying to shaft them, Bob Armstrong is in Japan so they bought in this bogus 'Bob Armstrong impersonator' (Sandy Scott) that no-one has ever seen before and they took their match away from them and gave it to the Heavenly Bodies. Lane catapults Morton over the top rope to the floor when referee Mark Curtis is distracted with Robert Gibson and Cornette hits him with his racket. The Bodies go to work on Ricky, who eventually makes the tag and all four go at it in the ring. Lane whips Morton into the ropes and Cornette hooks his leg tripping him. Curtis steps outside the ring on to the apron to have words with Cornette. Morton escapes a bodyslam from Lane, Oklahoma roll, but they collide with Curtis who takes this great flying bump from the apron to the arena floor. Morton has Lane rolled up and Cornette gets in the ring and is about to blast him with the tennis racket when Gibson stops him. The two of them fight over the racket, Gibson gets the upper hand and just tosses the weapon aside. Morton decks Cornette, double dropkick to Lane, Gibson covers him but no referee. Morton goes to get Curtis who is still KO'ed at ringside, Cornette calls out Killer Kyle and he levels Morton in the head with a blackjack knocking him out. The Stud Stable return and go after Kyle, Gibson sees what's happening and that Morton is out, thinks the Stud Stable have done it and goes out after them and gets it on with Jimmy Golden. Dutch vacates the commentary desk to go and see what is happening, Prichard loads the boot but Dutch grabs his foot, pulls off what he had loaded it with and stops him using it. Mantel throws the weapon to Morton, he decks Prichard and Gibson covers him. Lane and Morton start fighting when Bobby Eaton shows up, Alabama Jam to the back of Gibson's head and he puts Dr Tom on top of him. Mantel rolls the referee in the ring, oblivious to what has just happened, Curtis counts the three and the Bodies are the champions again. One of the problems with SMW is that there is a tendency for matches to be needlessly overbooked, but this was anything but the case here. Everything that happened in the match made perfect sense, nothing felt contrived in the slightest (heck, even Mark Curtis took a realistic bump for a change!) and it was like an old Bill Watts booked Mid-South angle where everything that happened was for a reason and not one hole in what was booked. Very good match and just a wonderful closing stretch with the run ins. Genius booking!
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    Where did you find this Masambula bout? Pretty sure the only things of his that aired on TWC were the singles bout against Tony Charles (which I've not seen) and the mess of a tag match between the Royals and the Black Knights.
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