[1993-11-20-SMW-TV] Interview: Jim Cornette & The Moondogs

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

The story is that the Moondogs can't wrestle on TV because they're too dangerous. Cornette does a really annoying and great job explaining this. The Moondogs rush the ring and start beating up security and preliminary wrestlers. Finally, the Rock & Rolls come out to brawl with them and try to put a stop to this.

[El-P]

Seriously Cornette, the Moondogs are alll about stiff chair shots to the heads and back, breaking blunders and blood. ECW ! ECW ! ECW !

[Kevin Ridge]

Cornette flaunts his dislike of authority by setting the Moondogs loose. They beat up some jobbers. Both Dutch and Cornette make fun of SMW security force. Express hit the ring later and they brawl using a stop sign. Not the crazy violent stuff from Memphis from the Dogs.

[PeteF3]

Not quite as spirited as the USWA stuff, but this picks up a bit when the Rock 'n Rolls hit the ring. The luster's been off the Moondogs for too long for this to be as big of a deal as it could have been.

[GSR]

Jim Cornette & The Moondogs were fined $5,000 for what happened on TV last week, but all $5,000 is to him is a phonecall home to mother and she sent in a cheque and paid for the damage that the Moondogs did. Smoky Mountain Wrestling are once again trying to discriminate, trying to protect the Rock & Roll Express and the people they like. They dont want the Moondogs wrestling on TV and will even send in SMW security to prevent it from happening. Cornette says that they are going to laugh in the face of authority, they are going to ignore the TV ban that the Moondogs have on them and are going to the ring. Let security and the wrestlers come on out as he would love to see somebody try to get them to leave.

 

Moondogs head in to the ring and its not long before security comes out to try and get them to leave, although Dutch says those guys couldnt even throw out his grandmother! The Dogs attack the security men and then a bunch of jobbers come out to get beaten up as well. Lots of trash can and stop sign shots to the head as per, but at least no full force chair shots like last week. The Rock & Roll Express eventually come to the ring to stop the attack and use the Dogs weapons against themselves. Its not long before they get the advantage back and go to work on the Rock & Rolls and they only finally stop and leave when Tim Horner and Tracey Smothers make the save.

 

On the previous week's show the Dogs absolute destroyed two poor job guys and stiffed them with unprotected chair shots to the head, hard chair shots to the back, hit them over the head with trash cans and other weapons and just brutalized them. That beat down was on a par with what they were destroying in the USWA in 1992, although it would appear that someone told them to calm things a little, as this was almost like a watered down version.

[garretta]

Or maybe Corny realized that he wouldn't have any jobbers left if the Dogs kept trying to kill them.

 

Honestly, Corny's the star of this, as he usually is. I love heels who deliberately defy authority, and this is a prime example. The idea is more that the Dogs would dare to show up after being ordered not to than the damage that they actually inflict, which isn't very much. Without Bullet Bob at the helm, there's no one with any authority who's willing to come out and put a stop to this, and the rent-a-wrestler "security force" (who look like just two more poor stupid jobbers to me) are damn poor substitutes. Where was Sandy Scott, who's acted as authority in the past when Bullet Bob was otherwise engaged? Even if he couldn't have physically stopped the Dogs, he surely could have threatened fines and suspensions to them and to Corny if they didn't leave.

 

The best we get is Bob Caudle, and forgive me, but he sounded pathetic here. The best he could offer in terms of indignation is "We have rules ​here, Jim!" Of course we do, and he's just stated he's going to break them, so what good does your weak-voiced (literally; he sounded like he had a cold) protest do? They may have been going for shocked disbelief, and when Bob Caudle is your voice of authority as an organization, all is just about lost anyway. Dutch was no help, not that anyone expected him to be, and he was right: If those two punks we saw at first are SMW's idea of security, it is ​a great big joke.

 

As for Rock 'n' Roll, here's a tip, guys: When you're brawling with the Moondogs, whatever you do, don't hit Larry Latham (Spotty) in the stomach. If you do, don't blame him for not selling what he can't feel. I'm way overweight myself, but when you're so fat that you can believably no-sell a shot to the midsection with a stop sign, God's trying to tell you something.

 

The rest of this wasn't terrible, but it wasn't anything earth-shattering either. As some others have said. the Dogs did this better and more heatedly in Memphis, mostly because 1) Jeff and Lawler were more willing to bump and bleed and 2) the Dogs were the main issue, not a couple of mercenaries brought in to protect someone else (in this case, the Bodies). That's ​the matchup the fans still want to see, no matter how many jobbers the Dogs almost kill with their trash cans and stop signs.

[soup23]

Moondogs and RNR is a fun feud. I liked Cornette explaining that he was able to pay the $5000 fine by calling his mom.