1993-01-30-SMW-TV

[GSR]

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

TV

Aired January 30, 1993

Newton Recreation Center, Newton, NC

1. Tim Horner vs Dark Secret
2. INT: Paul Orndorff - says he’s beaten Ron Simmons, Ron Garvin and Hulk Hogan, he’s done everything that a wrestler could possibly do, but there are certain people here in Smoky Mountain Wrestling not giving Mr Wonderful the respect he deserves.  He says that someone is going to get hurt real bad until he gets the respect that he needs.
3. INT: Brian Lee - he has bought a couple of videos with him and asks for them to be played; it is footage of him getting busted open on two previous occasions at the hands of Kevin Sullivan.  He says that he has been to Commissioner Armstrong and said that he needs to take care of his problem with Sullivan once and for all, so he has granted him a first blood match against him on 2/19.  Falls don’t count and the first man to bleed loses the match.  Kevin Sullivan may have drawn first blood, but he’s doing to draw the last.
4. INT: Tracey Smothers, Rock & Roll Express
5. Kevin Sullivan (w/ The Nightstalker) vs Johnny Kidd - during the match Dutch Mantel says that Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden haven’t arrived yet, he left them at the hotel in Charlotte but assures everyone that they will be here.  Sullivan gets DQ’d in the match for relentlessly beating on Kidd, and the Nightstalker has to come in the ring and cover his eyes to calm him down and stop the attack.
6. INT: Kevin Sullivan & The Nightstalker - Sullivan says that he really isn’t a bad guy, it’s just that persecution makes people do bad things.  Commissioner Armstrong tried to keep him out of Smoky Mountain Wrestling because of his violent past, but we all make mistakes, Armstrong sees four of his every time he comes down for breakfast!  When he couldn’t keep him out of SMW he hired the Mongolian Stomper but he couldn’t get the job done, then he got Brian Lee out of his sick bed, but Mr Lee’s head met the golden spike and it split like a pineapple.  He then tells Armstrong that he is getting into his personal life as he was sitting with his analyst the other day and there was a fly in the room which landed on his hand.  In the past he would’ve swatted that fly or pulled its wings off, but he did nothing and they all said look at him, he wouldn’t even harm a fly now, but now Bob Armstrong wants Brian Lee to draw blood on him in the first blood match?  Sullivan then starts to rant and the Nightstalker covers his eyes to calm him down and takes him away from the interview area.
7. Down & Dirty w/ Ron Wright - Dutch has asked him here because today is the day that Reno Riggins is going to give him an answer.  Dutch brings Riggins onto the show and Wright says that we already know what the man’s going to say, “he can’t turn the famed Ron Wright down!”  Riggins says that he though over the offer long and hard these past few weeks, has spoken with his family, his friends and even some of the fans.  However his father told him if you can’t do something on your own then just don’t do it at all, so he’s going to stand alone and will have to turn the offer down.  Wright is livid “You’re turning down the great Ron Wright?  I’m the walking, talking living legend in wrestling.”  He can’t believe this, he’s never had anyone turn him down in his life.  Wright says that he could take a man off the street and teach him enough in five minutes to whip that lame brain idiot, he doesn’t even know why he made him the offer in the first place.  Mantel has to calm Wright down as he starts clutching at his heart.
8. Bob Caudle has been handed a note saying that the Stud Stable still haven’t arrived so Dutch Mantel goes off to investigate
9. Tracey Smothers vs Brad Batten
10. INT: Jim Cornette & Sandy Scott - note: it has been announced that Bob Armstrong is Japan for a few weeks on business as Smoky Mountain Wrestling has been getting a lot of coverage in the wrestling magazines over there recently. Cornette thinks that Scott does a great job and would hate to see these fine viewers of Smoky Mountain Wrestling be deprived of a title match that they were promised.  He asks Scott if the Stud Stable don’t get here on time and as he’s promised the people a title match, “Hey, false advertising is very bad,” could the Heavenly Bodies then take that match?  Dutch Mantel comes back and enquires about what is going on.  Scott says that they’ve told the fans that there will be a tag title match here tonight, and if the Stud Stable don’t get here on time then the Heavenly Bodies can have it.  Cornette starts jumping up and down and laughing, whilst Dutch insists that they will still be here.
11. Heavenly Bodies (w/ Jim Cornette) vs Rock & Roll Express - The Rock & Rolls dominate the early part of the match until the Stud Stable show up at ringside in their street clothes.  Dutch (who is superb on commentary here) questions where they have been and Robert Fuller says that they've been changing their car tyres at the Motel in Charlotte.  He says that they've been trying to shaft them, Bob Armstrong is in Japan so they bought in this bogus “Bob Armstrong impersonator” (Sandy Scott) that no-one has ever seen before and they took their match away from them and gave it to the Heavenly Bodies.  Lane catapults Morton over the top rope to the floor when referee Mark Curtis is distracted with Robert Gibson and Cornette hits him with his racket.  The Bodies go to work on Ricky, who eventually makes the tag and all four go at it in the ring.  Lane whips Morton into the ropes and Cornette hooks his leg tripping him.  Curtis steps outside the ring on to the apron to have words with Cornette.  Morton escapes a bodyslam from Lane, Oklahoma roll, but they collide with Curtis who takes this great flying bump from the apron to the arena floor.  Morton has Lane rolled up and Cornette gets in the ring and is about to blast him with the tennis racket when Gibson stops him.  The two of them fight over the racket, Gibson gets the upper hand and just tosses the weapon aside.  Morton decks Cornette, double dropkick to Lane, Gibson covers him but no referee.  Morton goes to get Curtis who is still KO'ed at ringside, Cornette calls out Killer Kyle and he levels Morton in the head with a blackjack knocking him out.  The Stud Stable return and go after Kyle, Gibson sees what's happening and that Morton is out, thinks the Stud Stable have done it and goes out after them and gets it on with Jimmy Golden.  Dutch vacates the commentary desk to go and see what is happening, Prichard loads the boot but Dutch grabs his foot, pulls off what he had loaded it with and stops him using it.  Mantel throws the weapon to Morton, he decks Prichard and Gibson covers him.  Lane and Morton start fighting when Bobby Eaton shows up, Alabama Jam to the back of Gibson's head and he puts Dr Tom on top of him.  Mantel rolls the referee in the ring, oblivious to what has just happened, Curtis counts the three and the Bodies are the champions again.  One of the problems with SMW is that there is a tendency for matches to be needlessly overbooked, but this was anything but the case here.  Everything that happened in the match made perfect sense, nothing felt contrived in the slightest (heck, even Mark Curtis took a realistic bump for a change) and it was like an old Bill Watts booked Mid-South angle where everything that happened was for a reason and not one hole in what was booked.  Very good match and just a wonderful closing stretch with the run ins.  Genius!
12. INT: Jim Cornette
13. INT: Jim Cornette & Heavenly Bodies & Bobby Eaton - Cornette is happy that they are the champions again and says that it shouldn't be a surprise “as Jim Cornette gets things done,” not only that but Bobby Eaton is now back where he belongs too.  He tells the Rock & Roll Express and the Stud Stable that the two greatest tag teams of all time have combined into a single unit, they're together, are the champions and will remain as so.  Stanfield says that it is the greatest day of their life when out comes the Stud Stable and Dutch Mantel.  Cornette says that they were scared, that's why they didn't show up and made this cock and bull story about four flat tyres over at the motel... at which point Fuller says “four flat tyres!  You son of a bitch!” and the Studs attack the Bodies and Eaton.  The Rock & Rolls return to join in the fight and a wild brawl between all three teams takes place.

Bold matches are PWO recommended