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They show footage where the Bodies and Cornette are about to start filming a promo in the locker room. Cornette doesn't want to do the promo with the Stud Stable, which is what the interview was scheduled to be. They end up having a word of words and things get heated.

 

Then they cut to a live interview with Cornette and the Bodies to talk about it. Bob Armstrong interrupts to tell them there will be a title match in two weeks on SMW TV with the Rock & Rolls defending against either the Stud Stable or the Bodies. He also tells Pritchard he's been watching him use his boot and will be doing an investigation, and if there's a problem with his boot, he's in trouble. He leaves by saying he's keeping an eye on his foot, which prompts this great Cornette line:

 

"Keeping an eye on a man's foot? Who does he think he is, Mel Phillips?"

 

Pritchard is SOOOO a Roddy Piper clone on promos.

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Clever "behind-the-scenes" setup for an angle, with Cornette and the Bodies in character preparing for a local promo (more hate for Beckley, WV!) There's even swearing to add to the unfiltered effect.

 

Funny promo follows--Cornette explains that they were never really friends with the Stud Stable to begin with. Bob Armstrong announces a title match in two weeks time, but doesn't disclose whether the Bodies or the Stud Stable get a title shot. I appreciate Cornette trying to get in a word about Killer Kyle in the TV title match, but Armstrong cuts him off to warn Dr. Tom about his apparently loaded boot and leaves.

 

Cornette and the Bodies are furious. The Bodies aren't as good in the ring as the MX but it's nice to see two of Cornette's guys cut loose on the mic--Lane in particular has been a strong, underrated talker.

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Bodies & Cornette are setting up a backstage promo when the Studds come in and generate some heel on heel heat. They start shoving each other and its quickly broken up. The Bodies deliver a promo looking for a tag title shot at the RNR, but Bob Armstrong is out to say that while the #1 contender will get a title shot in a few weeks, he'll decide who that is. Good furthering of the storyline here. More Studds!

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Video of a backstage altercation between the Heavenly Bodies & Jim Cornette and the Stud Stable. The Bodies are getting ready to cut a local promo (Stan is sporting a baseball cap, roll neck, leather jacket and the wrestler's staple, the fanny pack; hardly looking like the Gangsta of Love here!) when they are interrupted by the Stud Stable. Jimmy Golden tells them that they're afraid to do an interview with them, just like they're afraid to get in the ring with them. Cornette responds by saying that the only thing they're afraid of is them and Dutch Mantel having a heart attack, and that they shouldn't be called the Stud Stable, but the 'Over the Hill Gang'. It descends into a pushing contest between them all before they are separated.

 

Back in the studio and Cornette says that they don't appreciate the Stud Stable messing in their business and they were never friends in the first place, they just said that to try and make them feel good. They want their belts back, they want the Rock & Roll Express and are sick of the Stud Stable interfering in their title matches, trying to get on their nerves and trying to take their minds off what they're doing. Bob Armstrong comes out and says that in two weeks there will be a title match here on TV between the Rock & Rolls and the number one contenders. Cornette automatically believes that's them, but Armstrong says maybe it is, maybe it isn't, maybe the Stud Stable are the number one contenders but he's got two weeks to decide who is. Armstrong finishes by telling Tom Prichard that he's noticed he's been using that boot a fair bit, is going to do an investigation on it and if he finds anything up with it they're all going to be in a lot of trouble. He then warns him that he's going to be keeping an eye on that foot!. This elicits an hilarious response from Cornette 'Who does he think he is? Mel Phillips or somebody? Keeping an eye on the man's foot!' Cornette then believes it's the latest conspiracy from Armstrong ready to rip them off over the titles yet again, but Lane says that it doesn't matter as they're getting their title belts back.

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The Bodies-Studs pull-apart might have been better if one team had jumped the other from behind, but as I've said before, Corny didn't want to make either team a victim and thus turn them face. Within that restriction, the locker room stuff was done about as well as possible. There was a real backstage feeling to it, and from what I know about Corny, this probably isn't all that far from how he would act in a similar real-life situation.

 

Bullet Bob steals the live portion of this; he remains the most believable authority figure in wrestling today, although part of that may be because Watts isn't on camera much. I can see Corny's point too; it does seem at times as though the Bodies are getting short shrift, especially since they're the former champions, not the Studs. I'd have liked to see a number one contenders' match the following week to determine who gets the shot at Rock 'n' Roll, but you can't have a non-decision. Someone would have had to lose at least semi-clean, and that would have taken the edge off of the three-way feud before it ever really heated up.

 

I wonder if Corny had to apologize to someone in Stamford for the Mel Phillips line once he came to the WWF later in the year. It was funny, but it was also a direct shot at Vince, and he couldn't have taken too kindly to it.

 

That investigation Bullet Bob promised of Dr. Tom's boot sure took a while; I think he used the loaded boot gimmick for the rest of the Bodies' run in SMW. Does anyone know if he used it in the WWF too?

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