[1999-01-09-MPPW-TV] Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee vs Sean Stasiak & Brian Christopher

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Stasiak destroys all the would-be prizes Lawler offered to give away before the match starts. Lawler and Dundee come out to attack them, so the match starts off as a brawl. Match doesn't last long as Baldo (Albert) and Vic Grimes (Mick Foley wannabe) run in. They end up locking Lawler in a cage then taunting him after the commercial break over it. They tease that since Stacy is home alone, they are going to go give her a visit.

 

Later in the show, Buddy Wayne shows up trying to break the lock. No one being able to do it for the entire show does advance the angle, but it also makes Power Pro look bush league. Meanwhile, a cameraman is in the car with Stasiak driving to Lawler's house where Stasiak pulls out a pair of scissors and wonders how attractive Stacy will be without long, blond hair.

 

Stasiak shows up at Lawler's house but she refuses to let him in, but in a rare moment for wrestling, Stacy is smart enough to watch the show she's on and saw the scissors. Stasiak threatens keying her car until she opens the door. Cops show up immediately and he takes off, jumping over a nearby fence.

 

Lawler finally gets out of the cage and goes after Christopher, who takes a few bumps before bailing. He tells Stasiak he's going to pay with his life.

 

This is a little too fancy and overdone for what's supposed to be territory throwback wrasslin'.

[soup23]

Christopher and Stasiak break the gifts Lawler was giving out. What assholes. That starts this match and the action is furious and Dundee and Lawler work well as a team this time for the few minutes it lasts before we get the run in by a very young Albert and Vic Grimes. Why is this random cage in the studio? This seems pretty contrived from Stasiak and Christophers part and just never worked. (*1/2)

[Tim Evans]

Nice to see Lawler buy the shark cage from 1970s detroit. This is the zenith of Randy Hales redneck attitude era. At least it's more realistic than throwing people in the dumpster every week. Also the cage is in the studio cause Hales and Brandon Baxter had a loser spends the taping in the cage a couple months before this and I guess they just kept it there?

[ajtroma]

Stacy's tiny little dog chasing Stasiak off was the highlight here. God bless dogs.

[PeteF3]

Well, I think Stevie Wonder could have seen that opening angle coming. Lawler doesn't cover himself in glory standing in the ring picking his nose while Christopher and Stasiak are at the desk.

 

Pretty perfunctory match, with an angle where Lawler is suckered into brawling into the back and locked in a shark cage. As we go to commercial, Christopher asks Stasiak if he remembers Lawler saying that Stacy was HOME ALONE. Christopher's Kevin McAllister face is kind of amusing, but we're kind of beating this home-invasion stuff to death.

 

Buddy Wayne and Harvey Wippleman attempt to break the lock...you know, it's not that hard to find big bolt-cutters for a lock like that. There has to be an Ace Hardware store that's at least as close to WMC as Lawler's house.

 

Stasiak's in the car and teases cutting Stacy's hair. Stacy, being a rare wrestling babyface with an IQ above her shoe size, tells Stasiak when he arrives that she's been watching him blow his big plan and naturally won't let him in the house. Stasiak tries to force his way in by keying her new car, but as soon as he grabs Stacy, the police show up and Sean bails. Maybe you shouldn't broadcast your plans to the nearest camera, guys.

 

There's no question who Lawler and the PPW brass were drawing influence from with this kind of show-long, sportz entertainment angle. It's more logical than a lot of Russo's recent on-location stuff, but still a little much.