[1995-11-25-USWA-TV] Jeff Jarrett vs Jesse James Armstrong

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Clip of a match from MSC, with Brad Armstrong playing heel at ringside for his brother. Brad Armstrong runs in and hits a Russian legsweep on Jarrett and takes a few other bumps. I will just say that even though I find Roadie in Memphis to be too over the top and trying too hard to heel, he is way more enjoyable for me here than anywhere else, really. We get more of this than we normally do arena clips, and the action here is a bit overbooked, but fun. BOB ARMSTRONG COMES OUT OF THE CROWD to help his son win a match, and it doesn't get much more awesome than that. Plus, what great parenting! Seeing this also makes me think Jeff Jarrett may have been more likely to get over as a babyface on a national stage, but his biggest problem was always that he pandered too much for heat, which was a turn off, so that would have hurt him either way. But he was really good in the ring.

[Tim Evans]

Who was the big fat guy in the Gimp mask? I thought it might be Vic Grimes but he wasn't around till 98 and it's too big to be Don Bass.

[PeteF3]

Overbooked to hell, with run-ins from EVIL BRAD ARMSTRONG, Tracy Smothers, the Smoky Mountain Massacre (some fat guy in a mask--I'd have bet money that it was one of the Kongs but no one seems to have a clue who he really was), Bullet Bob, and Downtown Bruno. After a million swerves and false finishes it ends with Jesse taking the match with an assist from Dad, thus giving the Bullet part ownership of the USWA.

 

Brad Armstrong, the Rock 'n Roll Express, and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi as the Bizarro World Heels is the great lost Survivor Series team of 1995. Is this the only instance of Brad working heel as himself?

[ajtroma]

The Smoky Mountain Massacre was, in real life, William Stapleton who was also....later became...okay, I have no idea of what he did other than this here.