1993-07-24-SMW-TV

[GSR]

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

TV

Aired July 24, 1993

Council High School, Council, VA

1. Rock & Roll Express vs Jimmy Jannetty & Jeff Daniels
2. INT:  Rock & Roll Express - Robert Gibson says that he heard Dutch Mantel refer to them as ‘former’ champions, but that will only be for a short time as they’ve got something called the double dropkick, and when they hit that to the side of someone’s face they will go down.  Ricky Morton says that the Bruise Brothers might be bad, but bring it on any time, any place cause they want their belts back, the fans want the belts back and they are going to get them back.
3. Tracey Smothers vs Brian Lee (w/ Tammy Fytch) (jip, from Johnson City, TN) - Lee charges at Smothers who moves and he goes crashing into referee Mark Curtis.  Dropkick from Smothers who covers Lee, but he then spots Fytch climbing into the ring.  She goes to spray him in the face with some hairspray, but he grabs her arm and in the process she throws her handbag towards Lee.  He takes a glove from the bag and puts it on his hand.  Smothers puts Fytch over his knee ready to spank her but Lee stops him.  He takes a swing at Tracey who ducks, gives Lee an atomic drop and as he rebounds off the ropes he clocks Smothers with the glove.  Fytch rolls Curtis back into the ring (he had been bumped to the floor) and we have a new Heavyweight champion.
4. INT: Brian Lee & Tammy Fytch - dressing room interview.  The interviewer questions them about the black glove that they pulled out of the handbag, but Fytch denies this and says they beat Smothers fair and square.  She says now that she has the Heavyweight championship, she is now the first Lady of Smoky Mountain Wrestling and will be making some changes round here.  Lee and Fytch are both very proud of themselves here and in full on gloating mode.
5. INT: Tracey Smothers, Bob & Steve & Scott Armstrong
6. Bruise Brothers (w/ Jim Cornette) vs Mike Sampson & Robbie Eagle - the twins are DQ’d when Cornette nails Sampson hard in the back with his tennis racket.
7. Bob Caudle says that they have heard again from Kevin Sullivan’s attorneys demanding that all promotions from around the world reinstate him and allow him to wrestle.  Sullivan is pressuring Smoky Mountain Wrestling to show the tape of his match against Yukihiro Kanemura from Tokyo, but SMW are sticking to their guns and refusing to show it as they say it’s too bloody to air.
8. INT: Tracey Smothers - he says how everyone knows he got Brian Lee started in this business and it’s a shame to see what he has turned into.  Brian Lee maybe the champion, but when he hit him with that glove he says he has never been hit so hard.  It is clear to him that it is loaded with something and therefore has a challenge for him, a Coal Miner’s Glove match.  If Lee accepts this challenge then he will again be the Smoky Mountain Heavyweight champion.
9. Heavenly Bodies & Jim Cornette vs Bob & Steve & Scott Armstrong (edited, from Knoxville, TN) - Cornette immediately sprays Scott in the face with something as soon as the Armstrong’s get in the ring to take him out of the match.  With the heels having a 3 on 1 advantage (Steve had been thrown over the top rope to the floor), Scott runs back to the ring wearing an eye patch and carrying a baseball bat.  He chases the Bodies out and around the ring leaving Bob and Cornette to it.  The Bullet is in clear control at this point.  However with Cornette down and Bob kneeling over and slapping him, Tom Prichard enters back in the ring and nails Armstrong in the back with a chair.  He then rolls Cornette on top of him and Mark Curtis counts the fall to give them the win.  Armstrong attacks Cornette after the match, but the Bruise Brothers come out to help their manager and they double team the Bullet.  The Rock & Rolls Express make the save and an almighty fight ensues until The Bullet clears the ring with the baseball bat.  Good stuff.
10. INT: Heavenly Bodies & Jim Cornette - dressing room interview. Cornette is blown up and his back hurts but he says he has never felt better.  He’s now not only sent ‘Bullet’ Bob Armstrong to the hospital, but he’s also beaten him in a wrestling match.  He’s a bad man and is ready to take on anyone.  He doesn’t care if it’s even Hulk Hogan, he’ll beat them all!  Armstrong was a Marine, a fireman, has been a wrestler for 25 years and he beat him in the Knoxville Coliseum, his second home.  He’s the greatest of all time! Very funny interview.
11. INT: Bob & Steve & Scott Armstrong - Bob says that he has been wrestling for over a quarter of a century and no-one has ever done to him what Jim Cornette did.  He’s taken a lot of beatings and has always come back and is not letting this one stand.  One way or another he is going to find a way to get to Cornette.
12. INT: Ron Wright - he’s so happy at the moment!  Not only is he almost out of his wheelchair, but it looks like Brian Lee is going to go out and take care of Tracey Smothers and collect the $20,000 bounty that is on his head, whilst the Dirty White Boy is TV champion once again.  They’re ready to defend that belt and make themselves another $1,000 right now.
13. Tony Anthony (w/ Ron Wright) is in the ring ready to face Tim Horner in his ‘Beat the Champ’ TV title defense when Horner comes out but still in his street wear.  He is ‘limping’ and says that although he doesn’t miss many opportunities to get his hands on the Dirty White Boy, he pulled a hamstring while lacing his boots up.  Dutch Mantel on commentary is shouting “bogus, bogus” and doesn’t believe him one bit.  Horner then says he has got a suitable replacement and introduces ‘Underdog’, who is clearly a masked Bobby Blaze.
14. Tony Anthony (w/ Ron Wright) vs Underdog - Anthony takes almost all of the match, but towards the end when the Underdog finally has an advantage and looks like he may win the title, the ring bell starts ringing.  The camera pans to the timekeeper’s table and it turns out it is Ron Wright ringing the bell.  Dutch speculates that the time had obviously expired and the timekeeper had gone to sleep.  The Dirty White Boy DDT’s the Underdog a couple of times leaving him laying as he makes his exit.
15. INT: Brian Lee & Tammy Fytch, Jim Cornette
16. INT: Tim Horner - he is joined by Chris Candido who says he feels embarrassed for Horner as last week he pulled his trunks down on TV and a few weeks ago he beat him with a chain.  Despite this he still got the win, but then they reversed the decision.  He says he was ready to stay in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and beat him up “Jersey style”, but is getting sick of people calling him a crybaby so is taking his belt and going home.  Candido makes out as though he is leaving but blindsides Horner in the back of the head with his belt.  He then pulls out a baby bottle and tries to put it in Horner’s mouth.  Horner says it was all a joke at first but now it’s serious.  You don’t come out and humiliate him in front of all his fans.  He tells Candido he should’ve left because after this, when he gets through with him, he’ll wish he had.

Bold matches are PWO recommended