[1980-06-07-CWA-TV] Bill Dundee & Tony Boyles vs Wayne Farris & Larry Latham

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[SAMS]

1980-06-07
CWA
Bill Dundee & Tony Boyles vs. The Blonde Bombers (Wayne Farris & Larry Latham)
WMC Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
★★★

Boy this was frenetic. Dundee was a one man show, whizzing all over the ring. He was breaking up pins, dragging Boyles over to their corner for the tag, on offense he was controlling either one of the Blonde Bombers and at times both of them at the same time. Boyles was basically a prop here, used to give Dundee a partner, but Dundee was directing him the whole way and there wasn’t much to say about him really.
The Blonde Bombers were having some synchronicity issues and they ran two separate spots where Farris inadvertently ended up attacking Latham. The first was weird as it involved a rope running sequence. Farris got involved for seemingly no reason and it just ended up with them colliding which I didn’t care for.
After 10 minutes the Bombers were finally able to get Boyles isolated and diffuse the dynamo that was Bill Dundee. As they slowly worked him over Dundee was getting more and more frustrated and he began venturing further and further away from his corner. This brought the referee’s attention and thus directed it away from the Bombers and the action in the ring. As Dundee got caught up with Davis at ringside the Bombers were able to hit a Spike Piledriver, which they actually botched the timing of terribly, but either way when they hit it, it did look like it could have paralysed Boyles, so job done there I guess.
Things didn’t stop there however and we had 10+ minutes of extras. First, despite winning the match, the Bombers weren’t satisfied and continued to work over Dundee and Boyles. Dundee eventually had blood just pouring from his face and they left them sprawled as they mouthed off to Russell about how they deserved the title shots that Dundee was getting.
We went to commercials and when we returned Dundee was hot. He wanted them back in the ring and a 1v1 match. Davis turned up to jaw back and Dundee just grabbed him, flung him into the ring and proceeded to absolutely destroy him. I mean, Dundee just starts teeing off on this manager. The punches are savage and he’s getting obliterated. The Bombers arrived and gained the numbers advantage again. Eventually Eddie Marlin got in the ring to try and help but got chalk/salt thrown in the eyes for his troubles. Then Jerry Jarrett got into the ring and he was swarmed by the Bombers too. He did manage to get his belt off and started swinging it violently to send his attackers fleeing and finally things calmed down.
This was a really chaotic angle with an unusually strong escalation of violence, especially for TV. Dundee looked great here. He looked pretty great during the match but they lost and he was beaten down afterwards however the fire he displayed when he came to generated that heat back from the crowd and his assault on Davis was truly memorable. The Bombers then came in and beat down on him some more so that they would get their heat back. Really this was great booking to position everybody perfectly. Dundee looks legit, the Bombers don’t look weak but instead dastardly. One of the best segments on TV all year no doubt.