[2000-06-10-MCW-TV] Jerry Lawler vs Reckless Youth

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Everyone comes out wanting a piece of the King as he gives his interview. This leads to Reckless and Lawler and they have a pretty fun 3-4 minutes before the run ins start. I did get a sense in this match of the atmosphere hurting MCW as the quiet crowd and dark lighting didn’t make this angle seem near as fun as the stuff that happened on PPW today even though Lawler and Youth are superior workers. *

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Lance Russell is in the ring plugging a house show in Memphis for later today, before introducing the current Southern Heavyweight champion, Jerry ‘the King’ Lawler. ‘The King’ says that he’ll be defending the title against K-Krush, when they’re interrupted by Reckless Youth. Youth can’t believe he’s giving a title shot to Krush, he beat him on TV last week and that makes him the number one contender! They’re joined by Bitty Little and he says how he did ‘the King’ a favour when he won the Southern title, giving up his own show to give it to him, and now thinks he deserves a crack at the belt. Hmmm, where have I seen this before… Lance points out how they both voluntarily gave up their shots (Youth to face Krush the week he defeated him) and now Krush is the next man in line. Lawler jokes how he though letting Bitty wear his crown and tights was repayment enough, but now he wants a title shot too? Krush and Jim Neidhart join them and Lance tries to calm the situation by saying how Krush is the one who’s got the title match this afternoon and that’s settled. After challenging Bitty to take on ‘the Anvil’, where if Neidhart wins he gets five minutes with his midget, he turns his attention to Lawler. He says how ‘the King’ runs his mouth too much, and when he was champion Lawler was constantly telling him that he needs to defend the belt, he needs to wrestle and he needs to put that belt up. Krush knows he can whip both their butts, but wants to see if ‘the King’ can whip Youth’s, and tells him to give Reckless a chance to win that belt from him. Lawler thinks it’s a bit weird as Krush could potentially lose his title shot later this afternoon, but because he came out here and ran his ‘fat lips’, that’s exactly what he’s going to do!

 

The match hasn’t even begun when Krush and Neidhart are back out to watch from ringside and make sure that nothing goes wrong before Krush’s match with ‘the King’ later today. Reckless takes Lawler down with an arm drag followed by a dropkick, only for ‘the King’ to mirror what his opponent’s just done on him. As Youth runs the ropes, Neidhart hooks his ankle from the outside tripping him up, and Lawler is over telling him to stay out of his match. Just like ‘the Anvil’ previously, Krush trips ‘the King’, and when he backdrops Youth over the top rope to the outside, Neidhart and Krush are both around putting the boots to him. Back inside and an accidental clash of heads sees both men go down. Neidhart gets up on the apron to distract the official, Krush with a double legdrop off the top, however nobodies home as Youth and Lawler move out the way. The two of them then team up together against Krush and ‘the Anvil’ as the ref calls for the bell. The Little’s also end up getting involved and no idea what the end result was (I’d guess no-contest), although the ref does raise Lawler’s arm.

 

The opening angle with everyone claiming they deserved a title shot was exactly what Power Pro did the week before, and that always smacks of desperation, even if you have got infinitely better performers like Lance and Lawler involved. Not a lot to say about the match itself as we didn’t get much before the interference started and subsequent teaming up of ‘the King’ and Reckless to take on Krush and ‘the Anvil’.