[1991-02-09-USWA-Memphis TV] Interview: Jeff Jarrett

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Jarrett is accompanied by Curtis Thompson and Chris Walker, who look hilarious in their ring attire. I keep expecting them to start stripping. Their team is even The U.S. Males, come on, it's perfect! Jarrett is disgusted by 1990 Rookie of the Year Steve Austin. He talks about the feud with Chris Adams and says Adams should have slapped her upside the head at some point! Jeanne interrupts him and says she's not scared of him one bit, even slapping him across the face. Eventually Austin runs in, and the two have an impromptu brawl. It's a shame Steve Austin held an 8-year grudge because Jeff Jarrett once made an innocent joke in passing about his paycheck.

[shoe]

Yea this was a great segment. You can feel these guys could have had really strong matches with one another.

[PeteF3]

The U.S. Males--a mailman and a Tarzan knock-off, together at long last. Incredible. Walker and Thompson are here to go after the Dirty White Boy and Doug Gilbert. Meanwhile Jarrett will be defending his Southern title against Steve Austin at the MSC. Jarrett takes issue with Austin's BLASPHEMOUS MERCHANDISE association with Jeannie. Jarrett pretty much says outright that he'll pop Jeannie one if he gets the chance. Jeannie rebuts and boy was she missed. She CREAMS Jarrett with a slap. Jarrett stays calm and blocks a second slap attempt, and that brings out Austin.

 

A good segment in theory but one that probably shouldn't have come on the same show as the Lawler/Gilbert stuff. It's not any less heated with the studio audience, though. They do change things up by going to the ring and using wrestling moves.

[Kevin Ridge]

We got someone doing a postal service gimmick. Jarrett thinks Adams should have slapped his ex-wife Jeannie upside the head. Ugh. Well it is because Jarrett doesn’t think she is a lady so it’s okay to do it. Jeannie slaps Jarrett in the face for those comments. Well deserved. Austin saves and we have some brief action in the ring but no official match.

[soup23]

Another good promo and I liked that they mixed up the brawl to make it different from Lawler/Gilbert by throwing in more wrestling moves inside the ring.

[ajtroma]

Walker & Thompson were, for a week, known as "The U.S. Male Revue", which if that isnt a name for a traveling strip show, I've never heard one. I figured Walker would be a bigger star than he was (he did make it to WWF for like 4 months) with his David Coverdale head on Ultimate Warrior body. Thompson would continue his Essential Services Gimmick Motif a few months from this by becoming a Firebreaker.

 

Austin and Jarrett had fine matches here and I wonder if looking back, Jarrett would have treated Austin differently.

 

I mean, really, Jeff. You were making the same money Austin made per week at the gimmick table before intermission was over. You had to be a snot, didnt you, Mr. BMOC? Bit you in the ass, didnt it?

[garretta]

Yet another wild scene, as we get Austin and Jeannie in Memphis like we probably should have months ago. Austin's challenging Jeff Jarrett for the Southern title, and Jarrett wants a clean match with no interference from Jeannie. Here's a tip, Jeff: telling a woman that her ex-husband should have slapped her upside the head is no way to make friends with her. At least Papa didn't tell Sonny to hit Jeannie back when she slapped him. At any rate, once Jeff blocks a second slap, here comes Austin, and we get a teaser for Monday night. I don't know if Austin and Jeannie stick around long enough to work with Lawler, but it's a shame if they don't, because they're booed lustily right off the bat here, like they were in Dallas, and Jeannie's just as good on the mic. It makes me wonder why Steve needed Heyman as a mouthpiece in WCW.

 

As for the U.S. Males, if ever two wrestlers were all but openly auditioning for Vince, these were the two. Unfortunately for Walker, there were too many muscleheads to go around, and a wrestling mailman was too hokey even for Vince, especially with that "we've got a surprise package" tagline. (I'm reminded of a prediction in one of the old PWI year-end issues that the WWF would debut a mailman gimmick in 1987. The predictor's choice to be said mailman? None other than Jerry Lawler.)