1994-07-16-SMW-TV

[GSR]

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

TV

Aired July 16, 1994

Northwest Ashe High School, Warrensville, NC

1. INT: Tony Anthony - he’s the new SMW Heavyweight champion (phantom title change as Jake Roberts had no showed a number of live cards).  He’s proved, not only to himself, but to all the fans and especially the Dirty White Girl that he was the better man, and any time Jake the Snake wants another shot at him all he’s got to do is slither back into the ring.  On 8/5 in Knoxville, TN he’s facing Terry Gordy and the very next night on 8/6 in Johnson City, TN he’s taking on Dick Slater.  He’s fought long and hard to get this belt back around his waist, so Gordy and Slater better lace them up and get ready for some action.
2. Steve & Scott Armstrong vs Chris Hamrick & Steve Skyfire
3. INT:  Steve & Scott Armstrong - they say that Night of Legends is one of the biggest nights in the history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling and it’s a little disappointing to not be part of it and be their father’s partner in the six-man tag team match, although their goals remain the SMW tag team titles.  As of 8/5 their father won’t be Commissioner and maybe that’s held them back in the past from getting title shots as he didn’t want to be accused of showing favouritism, but now they’re finally going to make sure that they get those belts around their waists.
4. INT:  Bob Armstrong & Tracey Smothers - Armstrong & Smothers along with a mystery partner will be facing the Terry & Dory Funk Jr. & Bruiser Bedlam, with Jim Cornette in their corner, at the Night of Legends.  Bob has some stipulations for this match, but as usual, so does Cornette.  He did want a ‘Coward Waves the Flag’ match, but Cornette said he wouldn’t do that unless they agreed to something in return.  Les Thatcher says that they have a videotape from Jim Cornette and plays it so everyone can hear what he has to say.  He is sat in his Union headquarters and has finally got what he wanted as Bob Armstrong has resigned as Commissioner of SMW and effective of 8/5 he’ll no longer be Commissioner as he wanted to get back in the ring and get his hands on his Union.  He received some communication from Armstrong in the post that he wants to take Tracey Smother as his partner and face the Funks and Bruiser Bedlam.  When he questions that would be 2 vs 3, they said how he wants a mystery partner to be his third person, so he started thinking that Armstrong must have something up his sleeve.  The contracts arrived and ‘Bullet’ Bob wants it to be a ‘Coward Waves the Flag’ match, but says that he wasn’t born yesterday and Jim Cornette has conditions on everything and Jim Cornette gets what he wants.  He then put a clause in the contract and the only way he’ll agree to it is if there are two six-man tag team matches and not just the one, because if Armstrong gets the kind of match that he wants, he also wants to get a match of his choosing, that’s the only way he’ll agree to things without knowing who their partner is.  On 5/8 at the Night of Legends in Knoxville, TN it’s a ‘Coward Waves the Flag’ match and he doesn’t know who they’ve got waving their flag, but he doesn’t care about his men’s health so he’s certainly not going to wave the flag because he doesn’t want to lose.  The next night, 8/6 it’s Fire on the Mountain in Johnson City, TN and it’s going to be a ‘Texas Death’ match; the Funk family invented it, there are no rules, you fight with everything you’ve got and the only way to win is to beat your opponent down so bad they can’t continue and they have to wave it off.  This way he gets what he wants and Bob Armstrong gets what he wants, but he still wants to know who he’s turning the Commissionership over to and who this mystery partner is?  Back in the studio and Thatcher wants to know who is going to be in their corner and waving the flag for them?  Armstrong says he thought about who they needed and it turns out Tracey and he were thinking of the same person.  Tracey says he’s the toughest, meanest man the Lord ever put on the earth and even if their arms were cut off he wouldn’t wave that flag.  Bob says that his man has put knots on his head, scars on his face and is the meanest man to come out of the Smoky Mountains, Mr Ron Wright (who is looking rather dapper in his white tuxedo).  Ron says they can guarantee they’ve picked one of the meanest men in the world with the worst temper, and they better not get in that ring and think he’s going to wave the flag for any reason, as they could take their heads off and he still wouldn’t wave it.  In fact he’s going to take the flag, dip it in concrete and it’ll be wrapped up so solid that it will be impossible to wave, although if Jim Cornette gets involved in the match he may wrap it around his head!.  Thatcher says that it sounds like they are planning on making this one of the worst nights in Jim Cornette’s life, but they have some video of what may very well be one of the worst nights in his career.  That night is Starcade ’86 ‘Night of the Skywalkers’ and we see the awful bumps that the Midnight Express and Cornette take from the scaffold.  Armstrong decides that it’s about time they told everyone who their third man is, and it will be Road Warrior Hawk.  Cornette and Bruiser Bedlam are watching from the dressing room and they head straight to the ring on the announcement.  Cornette is irate and besides himself banging on the ring saying that they can’t do that!  Excellent segment and although I’d had enough of the Cornette and Armstrong feud, this and the previous week’s promo where Bob relinquished the Commissionership has got me interested in these matches at least.  Great to see Ron Wright back and cutting promos as I’ve missed him, whilst Cornette and the Bullet are tremendous as you would come to expect from these two by now.
5. Rock & Roll Express vs The Infernos
6. Recap of the ‘Hair vs Hair’ contract signing from last week
7. INT: Rock & Roll Express - Ricky Morton says it’s all coming down to the ‘Hair vs Hair’ match at Fire on the Mountain on 8/6.  The night before they have a title match against Brian Lee & Chris Candido, and Tammy Fytch will be handcuffed to the legend Ricky Gibson.  They know that if they can beat them for the belts in Knoxville they’re already the winners when it comes to Fire on the Mountain in Johnson City.
8. Recap of The Thrillseekers pushing Jim Cornette’s face in a cake from last week
9. Fan footage of The Thrillseekers arriving at the arena and getting jumped by Jim Cornette and two masked men. A woman was filming her children getting some autographs and their picture taken with Mark Curtis, when the Thrillseekers arrived at the arena soon followed by Cornette and the masked assailiants.  This is very Bill Wattsesque in there is a plausible and logical reason for the attack being caught on camera.
10. INT: The Thrillseekers - they say that Jim Cornette can deny it all he likes but they know it was the Heavenly Bodies that beat them up in the parking lot, and thanks to that fan’s videotape they’ve got proof.  Lance Storm says that Chris Jericho took 18 stitches to the back of his head, while his face has looked better.  The Heavenly Bodies may be great but they’re not rolling over for anybody.  Jericho says that the Heavenly Bodies were banned from Smoky Mountain when they lost to the Rock & Roll Express at the Bluegrass Brawl and now they want to come back.  They could take it to the courts and file a grievance but Jim Cornette would tie it up for weeks, months and years and that’s not how they want to decide this.  The only thing they could think to do legally to get them back in the ring was talk to SMW, who in turn talked to the WWF, who in turn told the Heavenly Bodies that they have to come back to Smoky Mountain for a week.  If a week’s all they’ve got that’s fine because they’re not going to forget what the Heavenly Bodies did to them and they made a big mistake when they jumped them from behind.  Good stuff from Jericho here.
11. INT: Jim Cornette & Heavenly Bodies - Cornette claims that he’s getting accused of being responsible for things that he had nothing to do with.  The Thrillseekers got attacked in the parking lot, that’s not his fault, it was two guys in masks that did it, but now they’re claiming that he was responsible for it and it was the Heavenly Bodies who were under those masks and thanks to some snoopy lady with a video camera trying to get autographs for her snot nosed kids they’ve got tape of it.  It’s that kind of snoopiness in America today that got those fine upstandind Los Angeles police officers in hot water for trying to apprehend that convicted felon Rodney King!  He claims that the videotape shows him trying to pull the masked guys off The Thrillseekers because he knew they couldn’t take it, but they just wouldn’t let it lie.  They went to the promoters in SMW, they came to the WWF, and the result is that the WWF are not going to sign any matches for the Heavenly Bodies between the period of 8/5 and 8/13.  They’re going to force the Heavenly Bodies under threat of a heavy fine to go back to Smoky Mountain Wrestling to meet The Thrillseekers so that they can get their revenge.  They don’t want to do it in a court of law because they haven’t got any evidence, they want to do it in a wrestling ring.  Cornette says that the ban hasn’t been lifted, but for one glorious week the Heavenly Bodies are back in SMW to teach The Thrillseekers a lesson.  Despite how well this was done and explained, I can’t say I’m overly impressed with the Heavenly Bodies being back a little over four months after losing the ‘Loser Leaves SMW’ match to the Rock & Roll Express.  Sadly just another example of Cornette not adhering to stipulations, although the straw that broke the camel’s back is just around the corner now.
12. SMW Night of Legends update - Les Thatchers profiles Bob Orton Jr., Ricky Gibson and ‘Dandy’ Jack Donovan
13. INT: Tammy Fytch & Brian Lee & Chris Candido - Tammy thinks the entire world has something against her and she can’t understand why?  At Night of Legends she has to be handcuffed to Ricky Gibson and then at Fire on the Mountain it’s a ‘Hair vs Hair’ match and if her boys lose it is her hair that will be shaved!  She’s hiring the best lawyers possible to try and get out of these contracts but the problem with that is it’s depleting her bank account.  What she has done is start a legal defence fund so that all her loyal and gracious fans can contribute some money towards her defence, and help her to try and get out of those contracts.  She knows that all these wonderful people out there will send in plenty of money for her!  Funny segment but very reminiscent of the Ron Wright angle a couple of years previously where he wanted the fans to send in money for his hip implant surgery.
14. Tracey Smothers vs Brian Lee (w/ Chris Candido & Tammy Fytch) - Lee has Smothers on his shoulders and he spins round with him but accidentally knocks down Mark Curtis in the process.  Candido gets in the ring to interfere but this only brings out the Rock & Roll Express.  They pull Candido back out the ring, give the double dropkick to Primetime, roll out the ring themselves and as Tracey is covering Lee, Curtis comes back around and counts the three.
15. INT: Jim Cornette & Bruiser Bedlam - Cornette says that Road Warrior Hawk is a convicted murderer.  He’s a felon who attempted to take his life at Starcade ’86 when he knocked him off a 25ft scaffold.  If Smoky Mountain Wrestling allow him to come in for Night of Legends and Fire on the Mountain, then he and his Union of FITE will go on strike and they’ll bring SMW to a standstill.

Bold matches are PWO recommended