1993-08-14-SMW-TV

[GSR]

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

TV

Aired August 14, 1993

1. Bruise Brothers (w/ Jim Cornette) vs Larry Santo & Chris Comet - the twins are DQ’s when they throw Comet over the top rope to the floor
2. Recap of Bruise Brothers and Rock & Roll Express from last week
3. INT: Rock & Roll Express - say that they proved last week that the Bruise Brothers can be beat and the next step is to get those titles back around their waist and to represent all these people.  They are part of Armstrong’s Army and Bruise Brothers, Heavenly Bodies and Jim Cornette, there are a lot of dues to be paid and they’re going to get paid tonight at the Rage in the Cage.
4. Recap of Brian Lee vs Tim Horner from last week
5. INT: Brian Lee & Tammy Fytch - Fytch says that she is beginning to understand that Tracey Smothers can’t resist her and is so in love with her and she can’t blame him.  What with all they women in Kentucky that hang around him and look like they do, what choice does he have?  Lee says that yes Smothers does want to look like him, yes he does want his title, but the bottom line is he wants Tammy Fytch.  She looks better than anything up in the hills, he’s never had anything like her and never will.  He wants a ‘Coal Miner’s Glove’ match and that is fine with him as that’s exactly where he will be sending him, back to the coal mine. They’re coming in as champions and will be leaving as champions.
6. INT: Steve & Scott Armstrong, Bob Armstrong
7. Tony Anthony vs Joe Cazana - the Dirty White Boy is about to cut Cazana’s hair when out comes Bobby Blaze.  He doesn’t fare too well and Anthony quickly gets the better of things and cuts off a bit of his mullet before Tracey Smothers (and then Tim Horner) makes the save.
8. Down & Dirty w/ Jim Cornette - Dutch opens by playing some pre-taped comments from the Big Boss Man filmed at the prison again.  He says that big things are happening in Smoky Mountain Wrestling this week, law, order and justice are coming to town for one thing, and that’s Kevin Sullivan and he’s going to make sure he serves nothing but hard time.  There is also the Rage in the Cage, ten men go in, five men come out, he’s the keeper of the key and is there to make sure law, order and justice are served and that no-one interferes.  Finally, in Knoxville, TN this Friday night we’re having a Lumberjack match and may the best man win.  He tells Cornette that he doesn’t want him thinking that their past dealings will have any outcome on the match.  He has seen the light, and after Bob Armstrong gets through with him, he’ll be seeing nothing but light!  Back in the studio and Dutch says that he is glad he isn’t Jim Cornette right now as he has to be a very troubled man at this point.  Cornette says he has got hairs standing up on the back of his neck, he’s got chills going down his spine, he can’t sleep at night and the cause of all these problems is Bob Armstrong.  Every top name in pro wrestling from the past ten years has tried to back him into a corner from Bill Watts to the Road Warriors to Dusty Rhodes to Jerry Lawler and no-one has ever been able to do it, then ‘Bullet’ Bob Armstrong comes along and thinks he’s this great Commissioner of Smoky Mountain Wrestling.  Every time that he had the Heavenly Bodies ready to dominate he would stick his nose in and con Jim Cornette out of what he wants.  Finally he’d had enough and gets him just where he wants in that Rage in the Cage as referee.  His boys crucify him in the cage and he beats him half to death and enjoys every minute of it.  So what does he do?  He doesn’t retire like he should, but he goes back to the gym, gets in shape, gets his boys and they all come up here and start waging war on him, the Heavenly Bodies and the Bruise Brothers.  Now he has gone and used his pull with the Board of Directors and got a Rage in the Cage match.  He wants to get every member of his team handcuffed to the cage and leave him all on his own against all five members of Armstrong’s Army, and to make sure he gets what he wants, he’s gone and got the Big Boss Man as special referee.  If it’s not bad enough that he’s putting him in a cage like some kind of animal, he gets him alone in Knoxville at the K-Town Showdown.  He works it so he gets a lumberjack match with the members of Armstrong’s Army and Cornette’s Criminals all around the ring, each one carrying tennis rackets, and he gets the Big Boss Man as special referee in that one too.  He’s gone even further by putting thousands of dollars on the line, and saying that if he doesn’t send Jim Cornette to that hospital, in that ambulance, just like he did him at Volunteer Slam, then he’ll refund the money of everybody that buys a ticket to the K-Town Showdown.  Cornette then says it is down to all these fans who watch Smoky Mountain Wrestling that have made Bob Armstrong into a monster.  The adulation, the adoration, making him a hero, that’s what has given him this big head by thinking he’s got to ride in like some white knight.  He’s got to do something to get revenge, not only for himself and his family, but also these fans.  Don’t they have any pity or compassion?  The only thing he has ever done athletically is play tennis, Bob Armstrong has been a Marine, a fireman and a wrestler for 25 years.  What do you think is going through his mind knowing he’s got to get in a cage and a Lumberjack match with a homicidal maniac?  He wants the fans to ring, write, fax and get together a petition as they have to stop this before it’s too late.  The only thing that sticks in his mind and makes him think that maybe he has a chance is the Big Boss Man.  He’s not always been the man who keeps law and order, he used to know him when he thought about things differently.  If he can get to him, if he can speak to him and get ten minutes with the Big Boss Man, then maybe the Rage in the Cage and that Lumberjack match in Knoxville are going to turn out just a little differently.  Yes Bob Armstrong can kill him, but he’s just not convinced that he’s going to.  Awesome interview where Cornette runs down everything and now the outcome is not quite as much of a foregone conclusion as may have been originally thought.
9. Chris Candido vs Juicy Johnny - Candido puts a baby bottle in Johnny’s mouth after the match which brings out Tim Horner and the two of them get it on.  Great over the top rope dive to the floor from Candido.  They start fighting over the baby bottle and when Horner gets hold of it Candido scarpers and runs to the back with Horner in hot pursuit.
10. Recap of when Tracey Smothers was shooting a commercial for Redman Auto Sales and Brian Lee and Tammy Fytch showed up
11. INT: Tracey Smothers - says he was sat back and heard Tammy Fytch say that he was jealous of Brian Lee and that he is in love with her.  He says that he has turned down better girls than her.  She came into Smoky Mountain Wrestling and said she was suing them for sexual harassment, well he’s the one being harassed.  She couldn’t get to manage him so she managed his student, a man he got started in the business.  The ‘Coal Miner’s Glove’ match is coming down, the time for talking is over, he’s got everything to gain and nothing to lose and by the good grace of God, the support of these fans and a little bit of lady luck, he’ll be the SMW Heavyweight champion once again.
12. INT: Jim Cornette
13. INT: Brian Armstrong - Bob Caudle says that he is the youngest member of Armstrong’s Army and he is making his debut here in Smoky Mountain Wrestling.  Armstrong says it is an honor to be here in Smoky Mountain and he’s just got out of the Marine Corp where he’d spent six years defending his country.  He did go to Desert Storm and lived in a sand hole for 90 days of his life, so he has seen hard times and while this is a tough business he’s stepping into, he’s going to give it his all.  He thinks about Jim Cornette and he is an American, he fought for America but doesn’t look at it like that.  He risked his life for all these good people (the crowd) and not the likes of Cornette and his Mama.  He is here to give it 110% and to support his family in any way that he can.  Cornette and Killer Kyle join them and Cornette asks him did he come here to talk about his service record or professional wrestling.  He starts insulting him from behind Kyle’s back saying how Armstrong has three confirmed kills but they’re probably all due to his breath.  He asks him whether he has come out here to wrestle Robbie Eagle, Juicy Johnny or one of the big boys?  If he wants to get his feet wet he can get in the ring with Killer Kyle and they can see what he is made of.  Armstrong says that his father taught him to never back down from a challenge, so he will wrestle him and they’ll see if he has the right stuff or not.
14. Killer Kyle (w/ Jim Cornette) vs Brian Armstrong - Cornette stays at the commentary desk and he asks if the Heavenly Bodies want to come and join him to watch this.  Brian gets the pin after a Russian leg sweep but is immediately jumped by the Bodies and Kyle.  Steve and Scott Armstrong run out to help their brother soon followed by Bob Armstrong and then the Bruise Brothers.  The heels go to work on the Armstrong’s with Cornette’s tennis racket until the Rock & Roll Express make the save.

Bold matches are PWO recommended