1993-05-01-SMW-TV

[GSR]

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

TV

Aired May 1, 1993

Knox Central High School, Barbourville, KY

1. Tracey Smothers vs The Avenger - Tony Anthony is out to provide commentary while Ron Wright watches the match from ringside to do a little prospective scouting.  Smothers gets the pin and the Dirty White Boy rushes the ring but Smothers sees him coming.  He gets in the first shots in and dropkicks the White Boy out of the ring.  Anthony gets some brass knux off Wright and he slugs Smothers.  He posts him and drops a leg before motioning to Wright to pass him something.  Wright produces a can of spray paint and the Dirty White Boy paints a yellow streak down Smothers' back until Tim Horner comes out and Anthony leaves.
2. INT:  Tracey Smothers & Tim Horner - Horner says that the Dirty White Boy may as well have painted a stripe down his back too because they’re like brothers.  He’s not going to even unroll that flag now, let alone wave it.  Smothers says that the battle rages on and the problem is that in the Smoky Mountain Heavyweight title he’s got the one thing that the Dirty White Boy cherishes more than anything in the world.  He’s not a coward, Tim Horner is not a coward and Tim Horner is not going to wave that flag 
3. INT: Brian Lee - he says that he's getting prepared for the ‘Rage in the Cage’ at Volunteer Slam when they're interrupted by Tammy Fytch.  She says that he seems to have some potential but needs a bit of guidance and if he signs this contract with her she will tell him every move that he needs to make.  Bob Armstrong comes out and although their lawyers have asked him to give her some leeway because of the lawsuit, he can't allow her to come out, interrupt the wrestlers and ask them questions that they're not interested in.  Lee says to Armstrong to let him answer her question and he tells her that if he wanted a woman to tell him what to do he'd get married...and she isn't his type.
4. INT: Ron Wright & Tony Anthony - Bob Caudle has a hard time believing that Wright could watch the Dirty White Boy, see him suffer, get beat up and not raise that white flag?  Wright says that when he comes out for the match the flag will be rolled up, stuck down in cement and locked up, so there will be no way that it can be waved.  The people just got a glimpse of what will happen to Tracey Smothers, it’ll take ten men and seven ambulances to pick all his body parts up and maybe there’ll be a doctor good enough to put him back together.  His real colors just came out and everyone saw that he’s got a yellow streak a mile long.  Wright says that anyone who comes better have a strong stomach because it’s going to be bloody!
5. INT: Rock & Roll Express
6. Rock & Roll Express vs Scott Campione & Paul Lee
7. INT: Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden - they got the match they wanted with the Heavenly Bodies, and they’re not worried about Kevin Sullivan, his sidekick, Jim Cornette, the Bodies or anyone else when it comes to the ten man tag.  They’re going to be the Rock & Roll Express’ partners this one time, but don’t go expecting them to carry the load.  After the Rage in the Cage there is the big loser leaves town match and one of the losers is going to be out of here.  The winners of that match will be the greatest losers though, as they’re going to have to meet the biggest, baddest team ever to appear in the Smoky Mountain area, the Stud Stable.
8. INT: Rock & Roll Express - they don’t want to be partners with the Stud Stable as much as the Stud Stable don’t want to be partners with them.  They’ll hold up their end of the deal, but if they double cross them there will be hell to pay.  Morton then tells them to be ready if they want the winners of the ‘Loser Leaves Town’ match as that’s going to be them.
9. Video for the ‘Last Tangle in Tennessee’ Loser Leaves Town match on 5/15
10. Down & Dirty w/ Kevin Sullivan - Dutch says that a lot of people think Kevin Sullivan is sick, but he just thinks that he is misunderstood.  They then sit down in the ring for another psychiatric session and Dr Dutch does a little word association with Sullivan.  Dr Dutch says words like “butterflies” and “flowers” and Sullivan has evil thoughts, when he says “cage” he has peaceful thoughts, but when he says “Rage in the Cage,” those peaceful thoughts turn to evil.  Dutch asks him how he intends to deal with a man like the Nightstalker who betrayed him, and he tells him to remember that “he's The Master, and you're the pupil.”
11. Heavenly Bodies (w/ Jim Cornette) vs Bobby Blaze & Robbie Eagle
12. INT: Jim Cornette & Heavenly Bodies - Cornette runs down the rules for ‘Rage in the Cage’.  There are five men on each team; the Heavenly Bodies & Kevin Sullivan & The Tasmaniac & Killer Kyle vs Rock & Roll Express & Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden & Brian Lee, there will be five singles matches and the team that wins the majority of them will gain the advantage in the ‘Rage in the Cage’.  When that match starts, each team will choose one man, and they will go in the cage and wrestle for five minutes.  At the end of that five minutes the team with the advantage sends another man in and it is 2 on 1 for the next two minutes.  Every two minutes thereafter, someone new comes into the match.  The match can’t end until all ten men are in the ring and then it’s either submission, or there will be five sets of handcuffs on each side of the cage so you can handcuff every member of a team, and you can win that way.  Six days later it’s the ‘Last Tango in Tennessee’, where the Heavenly Bodies will face the Rock & Roll Express to settle things once and for all.  He has waited ten years to say that his team is responsible for getting rid of the Rock & Roll Express and this is the closest that they’ve ever been.  There is one thing that still grates on him though, and it’s Bob Armstrong.  He’s done everything he can to stack the deck against himself and the Heavenly Bodies.  Armstrong comes out and says that at the Rage in the Cage it’s anything goes, there will probably be more violence than they’ve ever seen in the Smoky Mountains, but someone has to be there to raise the winner’s hands.  He then informs them that he will be the referee and that he will be watching them very closely.  Cornette has a fit and chases after Armstrong.  Masterful stuff from Cornette in running down the rules for the Rage in the Cage.
13. Bobby Eaton (w/ Jim Cornette) vs Brian Lee - Eaton takes a great bump outside the ring from a Lee body check before taking a backdrop on the gym floor.  He avoids a crossbody off the top and lays a few shots in on Lee before whipping him into the ropes.  Lee ducks an Eaton clothesline and comes back with one of his own to score the pin, become the new Beat the Champ TV title and send Eaton packing to WCW (Bob Armstrong had found out that he never got his release and the moment he lost the TV title he was sending him back there).  Cornette shoves Lee after the match, who then grabs him by the neck and takes him down but Eaton whacks him in the back with the racket.  The Heavenly Bodies come out and they all go to work on Lee while Cornette throws Mark Curtis out of the ring.  The Rock & Roll Express make the save and Cornette calls for more back up in the shape of Killer Kyle.  Cornette’s team do a number on the faces with Cornette himself getting involved in the action.
14. INT: Jim Cornette
15. INT: Brian Lee & Rock & Roll Express - they’re joined by Jimmy Golden who enquires as to whether the Stud Stable are going to have to bail them out one more time like they wished they had done a few minutes ago?  He then warns them that they better hold up their end of the deal.  Morton tells him that they will do, but they better not double cross them.

Bold matches are PWO recommended