1994-01-08-SMW-TV

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Smoky Mountain Wrestling

TV

Aired January 8, 1994

1. INT:  Sandy Scott & Tracey Smothers - Scott says that as the time limit expired in the last ‘Beat the Champ’ match and it ended in a draw, he thinks that the fans deserve to see a winner, so they’ve ordered a rematch for today’s show.  Smothers agrees with Scott that there should be a rematch.  While he likes the money that comes your way with the TV title, he wants to prove to everyone, and himself, that he can beat Chris Candido.
2. Rock & Roll Express vs The Hornet & Michael Collins
3. INT: Rock & Roll Express - Ricky Morton says that everyone saw what happened at the Survivor Series and there are two reason why they lost the Smoky Mountain Wrestling tag team titles.  First of all they didn’t know the rules of the WWF, and when Tom Prichard threw him over the top rope, Robert thought the match was over, second thing is that Jimmy Del Ray came off the top rope with a tennis racket on to Robert (clips of both instances air).  They’ve got a rematch upcoming, and after which they’re not going to be five time SMW tag team champions, but six time!
4. Mask vs Jim Cornette’s Hair: The Bullet vs Dick Murdoch (w/ Jim Cornette) (jip, from Knoxville, TN) - The Bullet with a headbutt to Murdoch and he covers him.  Cornette rolls into the ring and is about to break up the pin attempt but is met with a big right from The Bullet.  With him distracted, Murdoch takes a foreign object out of his trunks, puts it on his fist, drills The Bullet with it and gets the win.  Cornette and Murdoch take a seat in the ring and Mark Curtis unmasks The Bullet, but he has another mask on underneath.  The commentators try to paint it as The Bullet getting another one over on Cornette, but what a terrible payoff.
5. The Bullet vs Dick Murdoch (jip, from Johnson City, TN) - Murdoch holds The Bullet and for some reason Cornette climbs to the top turnbuckle, but before he can come off, The Bullet escapes Murdoch’s grasp.  He then throws Cornette off the turnbuckle on to Murdoch and cover him for the three.
6. INT: The Bullet - dressing room interview.  He says how James E. Cornette tried everything in his dirty bag of tricks to get rid of The Bullet, but he hasn’t done it.  He’s fighting for a friend of his in Bob Armstrong and they both know now, more than ever, that SMW needs a Commissioner as Jim Cornette has got himself a friend on the Board of Directors and he’s heard that there are some shady dealings going on.  Smoky Mountain Wrestling is not going to go down into the sewers and he doesn’t care what it takes.  If Jim Cornette names the stipulations he’ll take them, as Bob Armstrong is going to be restored as the Commissioner, he needs to be if Smoky Mountain is to survive.
7. INT: Chris Candido, Jim Cornette
8. Heavenly Bodies (w/ Jim Cornette) vs Chris Canyon & Rock Regal
9. Heavenly Bodies (w/ Jim Cornette) vs Mike & Doug Furnas (jip, from Johnson City) - all four men are in the ring when Doug and Tom Prichard head outside followed by referee Mark Curtis.  Cornette sees an opportunity and is about to whack Mike with his racket but he turns round just in time.  Mike turns his attention to Cornette and bodyslams him, but this allows Del Ray to get the football helmet out of the Furnas’ corner, hit Mike over the head with it and get the pin.
10. INT: Heavenly Bodies & Jim Cornette - say that they will go anywhere, it doesn’t matter.  So many teams come to Smoky Mountain Wrestling wanting things, the Steiner Brothers did, the Furnas brothers did and now the Rock & Roll Express do.  They went to the sold out Boston Gardens and defeated the Rock & Rolls for the tag team titles in front of the largest crowd to ever witness a SMW match.  Now they feel humiliated, their reputation has been ruined worldwide and they want a rematch, but they don’t care if they get a rematch.  If they get back in the ring with the Heavenly Bodies again it won’t be their reputation that they ruin, but it will be their health.  The only step they haven’t taken is running them completely out of Smoky Mountain Wrestling and that’s what this is boiling down to.
11. Down & Dirty w/ Brian Lee & Tammy Fytch - Dutch starts by airing highlights of the Brian Lee vs Tony Anthony vs Tracey Smothers triple threat match from Christmas Chaos.  Lee and Smothers clash heads and Tracey ends up taking a tumble out of the ring.  Lee distracts Mark Curtis and Chris Candido rushes out and gives him a brainbuster on the arena floor.  He rolls him back in the ring and Lee gets the pin to eliminate Smothers from the match.  It’s down to the Dirty White Boy and Brian Lee and the White Boy (who was taken out of the match early) is busted open.  Fytch takes out the Dirty White Girl off camera and when Curtis sees her knocked down on the floor, he for some reason decides to forego the in ring action and go out to check on her.  The White Boy with the Bucksnort Blaster, but no referee.  Tammy sprays something in his eyes to break up the pin and Lee schoolboys him for the win and remains the Heavyweight champion.  Curtis is such an idiot!.  The White Girl goes for Lee after the match but she doesn’t fair well and he ends up holding her so that Tammy can hit her with the purse.  With Anthony out of it, Smothers comes back out to save the White Girl, beats down Lee and puts him in the Figure Four.  Fytch this time hits Smothers with her purse, Lee goes outside to pick up a steel chair and is about to waffle Tracey with it but the Dirty White Boy grabs it off him and nails Lee in the head with it instead.  Back on Down & Dirty and Lee and Fytch have now joined Dutch.  Lee says that they underestimated him, but it goes to show he can beat Smothers like a drum and beat the Dirty White Boy six days a week and twice on Sunday!  He’s interrupted by Anthony and the Dirty White Girl, and the White Boy says he’s got the time, this is the place and an unscheduled match between the two just starts.
12. Brian Lee (w/ Tammy Fytch) vs Tony Anthony (w/ Dirty White Girl) - Anthony ducks a Lee clothesline and he hits Mark Curtis who gets taken out of the match (shock, horror!).  Bucksnort Blaster and with no referee the Dirty White Girl gets in the ring and makes a three count.  Fytch clocks the White Girl with her purse KO’ing her, and as the White Boy stalks Tammy, Lee nails him from behind.  He holds him as Fytch starts to slap him, but the White Girl picks up the previously dropped purse, throws it to the White Boy and he starts hitting Primetime with it.
13. The Moondogs vs Bruise Brothers (jip, from Johnson City) - one of the twins is covering Spot, but no referee (really!) as Mark Curtis was knocked into the ringpost on the outside.  Rex nails the twin over the back with a ‘Stop’ sign and Spot rolls on top of him just as Curtis recovers to count the pin.  The twins attack the Moondogs after the match and they brawl all the way to the back and beat each other with whatever weapons they can get their hands on.  Very reminiscent of the Fantastics/Heavenly Bodies backstage brawl from ’92.
14. INT: Jim Cornette - he has a letter from the SMW Board of Directors who have made a ruling on the Moondogs/Bruise Brothers situation.  It was spearheaded by his good, close personal friend, Harry White of St. Louis, a Board Member who is currently on a cruise in the Bahamas on his mother’s yacht.  It says that the SMW Board of Directors feel the Bruise Brothers instigated the incident in Johnson City as they followed the Moondogs to the back of the arena where all the damage was done, and therefore they have suspended them for six weeks pending further review.
15. INT: Bruise Brothers - they say how Jim Cornette brings them up to Tennessee to take care of business but he can’t control them.  They step out on their own and he can’t handle it, so he gets the Moondogs but they can’t control them either.  He then gets his buddy on the Board of Directors to give them a six week suspension, but most of the time when they get in trouble they get 60-90 days so this is nothing.  All it does is give them time to prepare and they’re coming back for the Moondogs.
16. Tony Anthony music video - ZZ Top ‘Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers’
17. INT: Tracey Smothers, Tony Anthony & Dirty White Girl
18. Tracey Smothers vs Chris Candido - Candido takes a foreign object out of his trunks and puts it on his fist.  Smothers evades a couple of punches, but when he lifts Candido up, he finally nails him and falls on top to get the win and become the new ‘Beat the Champ’ TV champion.

Bold matches are PWO recommended