[1991-12-21-USWA-Memphis TV] Eric Embry vs Tom Prichard

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Clips from MSC. We see Miss Texas and CJ brawling at ringside, and Tony Anthony is there to neutralize Tony Falk. Pritchard gets DQd for using a piledriver, which the crowd LOVES. Looks like a fun match.

[Kevin Ridge]

Miss Texas with the flying shoulder tackle on CJ outside the ring. CJ should be no challenge for Miss Texas. Pritchard hit Embry with five piledrivers after the match. Embry best be showing up on TV with a neck brace.

[PeteF3]

Embry in a suit looked like Johnny V, and here he looks like Ken Patera having really let himself go. He gets a pin on Prichard with a piledriver behind Paul Neighbors' back as the match takes a backseat to catfighting between Miss Texas and CJ. Prichard levels Embry with five piledrivers of his own after the match.

[soup23]

Miss Texas and CJ cant stay apart and constantly go after each other. The match looked good but had a lot of starts/stops. Pritchard ends up piledriving Embry multiple times to the crowds delight.

[garretta]

Even though we don't have this on either the '91 or '92 Yearbooks, I wouldn't be shocked if this was one of Prichard's final matches in the USWA, and that the piledrivers led to some kind of indefinite suspension which cleared the way for him to go to SMW.

 

As is usually the case in Memphis, when there are women involved in a match or angle, they get most of the attention whether they can actually work or not. Fortunately, other than a few tackles and some hair-pulling they kept CJ away from Jackie, who could probably hurt her for real like she'd swat a fly, whether she means to or not.

 

I'd like to see how Embry sold five piledrivers in a row too, but he doesn't have any more segments on this Yearbook, and I don't think we see him again until mid-January. He probably left for a while to go home for the holidays, since I don't think he was a native Tennesseean. (Even if he brought his family with him, being piledriven five times is a perfect excuse to take a holiday vacation.)

[dawho5]

Five piledrivers is a bit much, but if we're sending Embry home for a few weeks it makes sense. The match seemed as much about making Miss Texas and CJ a feud as dealing with Embry and Pritchard. I can hope not for CJ's sake.