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[1993-07-03-SMW-TV] Interview: Tammy Fytch and Brian Lee


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Hilary must have been a big heel magnet is Smokey Mountain area in 93. Tammy has found herself a wrestler to manage. Lee does a heel promo with clips shown in between of what built up to the turn. Still really like that clothesline Lee gave Smothers who was sitting in a chair. Decent promo by Lee.

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Fytch's whiny bitch character is falling into place. Lee's logic in turning makes perfect sense, as he points out that Tracey Smothers had every babyface in the locker room watching his back when the DWB put a bounty on him, but Lee didn't get the same benefit with Kevin Sullivan. And he points out that Smothers impeded himself in Lee's business and got the title shots at DWB that Lee was entitled to. Then we get some stunningly innuendo-laden stuff involving Fytch--"he's so big!"

 

Very good piece of business, and instantly Lee's best promo ever. On 1/10 the budget this is better put-together than anything WCW has done this year.

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Lee has been pretty damn awesome since turning heel and feels like a bit of a lost worker of the 90's as he shows potential. Fytch continues to fit into her role and we get a shot of her in a bikini to show how she controls her charges at the end of this vignette.

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Lost worker in the fact that he was given an opportunity really early in SMW to be a main player and delivers pretty consistently. I think he had great presence here and in his initial heel beatdown and it was refreshing to see from someone that based on his career arc the rest of the 90's, I had assumed he failed pretty tremendously in any opportunity he had to be near the top of the card.

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Tommy Noe is outside an apartment in the affluent part of Knoxville as this is where Tammy Fytch is residing during her stay in Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and she has called a press conference to announce who she will be managing. Noe knocks on the door and is greeted by Fytch who is in her gown and she tells him to go round the back as this is where she will be holding the conference. They’re poolside and Fytch tells Noe that her man has some topics that he wants to discuss, so don’t ask him any questions as he won’t answer them. Fytch says how these hillbillies round here have been saying some bad things about her, knocking her a bit and whilst it got to her at first, she then realised that Hilary Clinton’s first 100 days were just like that too. Everyone knocked her, but now she is settled in the White House and ready to govern the country. Fytch says she is now ready to become the first lady of Smoky Mountain Wrestling and introduces her first charge and next SMW Heavyweight champion, Brian Lee. Noe can’t believe it, but Lee says that he is tired of being a big man living in a little man’s shadow. He says that Tracey Smothers gets everything handed to him, while Brian Lee never has anything handed to him. When Tracey Smothers was cheated for the title Smoky Mountain Wrestling held the belt up, yet when he was cheated for the belt they didn’t even recognise it happened! When the bounty was put on Tracey Smothers the Rock & Roll Express, Tim Horner and the Armstrong’s were all out to watch his back. Where were they when Kevin Sullivan put the bounty on him? Nowhere. He was put in hospital and laid up for two months and no-one watched his back, well now he will be watching his own back. He then plays footage of him defeating the Dirty White Boy for the Beat the Champ title, but claims Smothers was only out there to try and steal his thunder and hog the limelight. He talks about how Smothers interrupted his interview time when he had become the first undefeated TV champion and he did that because he was jealous of him. Lee says that he is the top dog in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and got tired of that glory hound Smothers and gets them to show the video of his attack (the heel turn) on him. He tells Smothers that he is a pushover, is going to get the $20,000 bounty, the Heavyweight title and he’s going to regret the day that he crossed Tammy Fytch. Fytch says that you do a few favors for a man and they will do anything for you! When Now questions her about how will she be able to control a man like Brian Lee, she says that she has no problem controlling any man before stripping down to her bikini.

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This was very good. I liked how Tammy stayed in the background except at the beginning and the end; this was Lee's chance to explain his turn on Smothers, and he did an excellent job. The only clip where his reasoning may have been a bit fuzzy was the TV title match, where he would have been screwed out of the title if it wasn't for Smothers. But what good is being a heel if you can't have a delusion occasionally?

 

I love how Lee accepts the fact that he's basically Tammy's boy toy happily and without complaint. As long as she gets him what he wants- the SMW title and the bounty on Smothers' head- he'll be perfectly happy.

 

Along the same lines, seeing Tammy swoon over Lee was tremendous. I especially loved how she turned from confident businesswoman to giggly teenager to sexpot in the space of about ninety seconds. She needs experience, and she hasn't learned how to be truly hateful yet, but she's got all the tools to be the best young manager in the business.

 

Tommy Noe's subtle facial expressions help make this too. If you didn't notice him (and it's hard to do that with Tammy onscreen), he's good for an eyeroll every time Hillary's mentioned, and his disgust at the idea of Brian and Tammy being together in both the personal and professional senses is evident but understated. In a wrestling world where all the newer announcers tend to come across as cookie-cutter broadcasters who don't have a clue what they're doing, it's nice to see someone who's actually helping to get an angle over for once instead of crapping all over it (I'm looking at you, Jay Sulli!).

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