1993-05-08-SMW-TV

[GSR]

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

TV

Aired May 8, 1993

Knox Central High School, Barbourville, KY

1. Dixie Dy-No-Mite vs The Avenger - Tammy Fytch comes down to ringside to scout Dy-No-Mite)
2. INT: Tammy Fytch & Dixie Dy-No-Mite - Tammy has just had a brilliant idea.  In this article that she is reading, Hilary Clinton saw the greatness in Bill before anyone else did because she’s a genius, like her.  She figures that she’ll sign up a wrestler with not much obvious greatness, take him from the bottom and see what she can do with him.  She hands Dixie a contract, tells him to sign it and she will take him straight to the top.  Dixie tells her “Hell no!” and she responds that it takes a real man to be led by a woman.
3. INT: Rock & Roll Express - tonight’s the night for the Rage in the Cage.  Morton says that they know when they step in the cage the Heavenly Bodies are going to do all they can to injure one of them, because next week is the ‘Loser Leaves Town match’.  He tells Jim Cornette that they’re here to stay and it will be one of his Heavenly Bodies that he will be carrying back to the dressing room tonight
4. Video for the ‘Last Tangle in Tennessee’ Loser Leaves Town match on 5/15
5. Tony Anthony (w/ Ron Wright) vs Bobby Blaze - Wright is at the commentary desk and says that since they’ve moved up North they’ve realized how sorry, trash and lowdown these people in the South are.  It’s no wonder they lost the war.  If all the Southern people back then were like Tracey Smothers they probably tucked their tails, turned south and hid somewhere!  After getting the win, the Dirty White Boy starts to spray paint a yellow streak down Blaze’s back until Smothers rushes from the back and slides into the ring to stop him.
6. INT: Rock & Roll Express, Tracey Smothers
7. INT: Tracey Smothers - says what the Dirty White Boy tried to do to Bobby Blaze just now, a young man who is just getting his start in the business, was a cowardly thing.  They replay the video of Smothers getting sprayed from last week and he says it makes him sick seeing that and has never met a man with lower morals than the Dirty White Boy.  He has been called many things but no-one ever called him a coward, and if he wants a fight he’s got it with the ‘Coward Waves the Flag’ match.
8. The Nightstalker vs Paul Lee
9. INT: The Nightstalker
10. INT: Kevin Sullivan - video interview. Sullivan is in the woods tied to some trees in the crucifixion position and is wailing.  He wanted to change, he wanted to be good, but they're sending him into a cage, the Rage in the Cage, so how can he be good?  He went back to the valley of the Abbuda Dein and he's strapped himself to the Tree of Woe.  The buzzards have been flying all night and the vultures have been plucking at his chest looking for weakness because the Nightstalker turned his back on him.  He says that he was on the line of maybe being a good boy, but there is no goodness in his heart, it is black.  He has laid with lepers, dined with beggars, gone to the valley of the dead, bathed in the River Ganges and has got rid of all the niceness that the Doctor tried to instil in him.  He tells Commissioner Armstrong he may have been cured at one time, but he's the one that drove him back over the edge.  He's gone to the Seventh Pyramid and walked up the 13 flights, he's dined with the Lady of the Third Eye (and enjoyed it immensely), so put him in a cage for the Rage in the Cage and all hell is going to break loose.  Probably one of my favorite Sullivan promos so far and almost straight out of a horror movie.  Sullivan, strapped to the trees, wailing and with his promo comes across as a complete maniac.  He's not much when the matches get going, but I doubt there is anyone better and more believable at convincing you they are a legitimate mad man.
11. INT:  Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden - Golden is going to make Fuller proud when he faces Stan Lane on today’s show.  He’s never seen him in the ring without four or five guys around him and this time it’s going to be just the two of them.  He tells Cornette that he has hit him with his racket for the final time.  When he last got in the ring with one of his men, Bobby Eaton, he cost him the match, this time he will not and will put Stan Lane out.
12. Stan Lane (w/ Jim Cornette & Tom Prichard) vs Jimmy Golden - seeing Cornette and Prichard in Lane’s corner, Dutch Mantel goes down to ringside to keep an eye on things.  Golden has the Figure Four on Lane and Prichard gets up on the apron to interfere.  Dutch goes around to stop him whilst Mark Curtis tries to get Prichard down.  Lane escapes the Figure Four and Golden fires him into the ropes, he drops down, Lane jumps over and he crashes into Curtis.  Mantel and Prichard fight on the arena floor, Golden covers Lane, but no referee.  Cornette enters the ring and goes to drop and elbow on Golden but he moves and hits Lane instead.  Golden re-covers Lane and Bob Armstrong runs out to count the fall and declare Golden the winner.
13. INT:  Chris Candido - he’s the WWA champion and out of the goodness of his heart wanted to come to Smoky Mountain Wrestling to defend the title, however that old fossil Bob Armstrong is refusing to recognize the belt as the World Heavyweight championship.  He’s coming to SMW whether they like it or not, is bringing the title with him and will show everyone why he’s the best thing to come out of New Jersey.
14. INT: Jim Cornette - says that Bob Armstrong has gone way too far this time.  Ever since day one he's been against him, the Heavenly Bodies, everything he's tried to do and has done his best to try and run him out of Smoky Mountain Wrestling.  That's okay because he's done the same to try and get him unseated as Commissioner.  He is ashamed that Smoky Mountain has a stinking old redneck like him running it, but he's not the only one who is ashamed of him, even his own family is.  He then says that Dixie Dy-No-Mite is Scott Armstrong, his own son and he's so afraid of him that he wears a mask to cover his face.  He's ashamed to be a member of the Armstrong family, is ashamed to be associated with a crook like Bob Armstrong so wears a mask over his face like a criminal.  Dixie then comes out, says he's ashamed of nothing and pulls his mask off.  He's not afraid of his father, he loves him and the reason he wore the mask was to stop people like him running to the promotion claiming he was getting favoritism.  He didn't want any favoritism off anyone, so wore that mask because he loves him.  Bob Armstrong then comes out and tells Cornette not to talk about his family or these fans and if he's got something to say, have a little guts and say it to his face.  Cornette says that Armstrong is the lowest form of human he's ever know, he says he's the Commissioner, he makes all these rules and tells people what to do.  He's been trying to screw him since day one, but it hasn't worked and never will.  He says he's like a drill Sergeant hiding behind his stripes, a police officer hiding behind his badge, he's got that Commissioner's tie on and is hiding behind that.  Bob says that if the tie is bothering him so much let him solve the problem, and he pulls off the tie, unbuttons his shirt and tells him if he's got anything else to say let’s hear it.  Cornette tells him he that he's gone too far and it's the last time he'll try to best him.  He then starts talking about his family again and when he refers to Brian as “the World's biggest deserter” it is a step too far.  Armstrong grabs him by the shirt and warns him that if he ever says anything about his family again he will knock him out.  Cornette puts his hand on his shoulder, says that he can't talk to him like that and then he slugs him, knocking him to the floor.  Incredible segment and another master class from Cornette.  He doesn't give himself a nosebleed like a promo last year, but works himself into a sweat and the intensity is off the chart.  Bullet Bob is amazing and the coup de grace is him finally levelling Cornette.  Even Scott more than holds up his own here.  Must see segment and angle.
15. Killer Kyle vs Brian Lee - the Heavenly Bodies interfere for the DQ.  Jim Cornette clocks Mark Curtis and the four of them start beating on Lee.  The Rock & Roll Express come out to help, but they’re soon followed by Kevin Sullivan.  Scott Armstrong and Tracey Smothers even up the sides and the heels leave as we get a bit of a preview to the Rage in the Cage.
16. INT: Tony Anthony, Jim Cornette
17. INT: Bob Armstrong & Brian Lee & Rock & Roll Express - Armstrong says tonight he is no Commissioner, he is a referee and is leaving now to get there early.  Ricky Morton questions where the Stud Stable are?  They better not let them down because if they do something is going to happen and they’d hate to be the ones to do it.

Bold matches are PWO recommended