LowBlowPodcast Posted July 20 Report Posted July 20 USWA show was nuts! Miss York’s bold move to buy the company with some mystery wrestler’s cash had Jarrett shook. Tommy Rich’s win was cool, but his beef with Lawler not wanting his help is getting spicy. The First Family’s promo for the 8-man tag was wild, with Jimmy Hart’s neckbrace stealing the show. Honky Tonk and Hart crashing Brian Christopher’s interview with cryptic jabs was super intriguing. Southern Justice’s creepy debut and Madusa hyping Stunning Steve Austin added big vibes, and that Midsouth card with Savage vs. Bossman looks fire! Can’t wait! Quote
spaldoni Posted July 21 Report Posted July 21 Well, we couldn't get this game into the 90s without the York Foundation. Great way to introduce Alexandra. That must have been some offer. So far Rich has been legit. Big 8 man main event is set. I laughed when Hart said Dundee was trying to kill him. Hart is so good. HTM calls Christopher out. I can't wait until next week to see how Christopher responds. IRL, I loved Tex and Shanghai. Adding Wild Bill to this gimmick makes it even better. The USWA is the perfect place for these guys. Akbar put a lot of pressure on the Grapplers. Medusa and Stunning Steve! What a pair. After his run in PCW, Steve has a lot of buzz coming in. This will be fun to watch. Dutch has no way out. I'm sure Gaylord will bring in a suitable partner. Dutch fuming is always a great way to end the show. Quote
kevinmcfl Posted July 22 Author Report Posted July 22 Monday, July, 21, 1990 Tommy Rich defeats Scott Taylor with a Thesz Press. Debut Match: Stunning Steve Austin with Madusa defeats Brad Armstrong with the Stun Gun; a devastating finisher where Austin picks up his opponent from the legs and drops him, neck first across the top ropes. Armstrong proved to be a perfect first opponent for Austin as he was so smooth and willing to take all the bumps and sell each of Austin’s move along with having some name recognition that the fans were impressed with the newcomer. Jeff Jarrett defeated “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff with a roll up after Mr. Wonderful thought he had the JJ in series trouble and started to antagonize the fans to get more heat. USWA World Tag Team Title Match: The Steiner Brothers © defeated The Grapplers with Skandar Akbar when Scott connected with the Frankensteiner for the win. The Grapplers are physical enough to give the Steiners a good match but the technical skill along with the entire bag of big moves by the Steiners has them clearly the best team in the USWA. Grudge Match: “The Missouri Tiger” Jeff Gaylord & ???? vs “Dirty” Dutch Mantel & The Angel of Death With Dutch and the Angel of Death already in the ring, Gaylord comes out all only and Dutch starts laughing and pointing at Gaylord because Dutch thinks The Missouri Tiger couldn’t find anyone to team with him. Suddenly, the speakers start to blare… “ Bomp, Bomp, Bomp… Another One Bites The Dust” and the crowd explodes… It’s the Junkyard Dog! Dutch and The Angel of Death look at each other and jump from the ring. Mantel’s bull whip doesn’t look as intimidating now with JYD swinging a long chain! Dutch starts pointing at the Angel of Death to do something, but he is anything but stupid and gives the Dog the center of the ring to do his little show. Eventually we get to the match where it is a very typical match! Dog and The Missouri Tiger start fast and control the opening segment until the Angel of Death uses some dirty tactics to gain control. Jeff Gaylord now plays the face in peril and when Angel of Death has inflicted enough punishment on Jeff, Dutch demands to be tagged in. Dutch continues to kick and stomp on Gaylord but eventually we get the hot tag and JYD goes nuts. The end comes when JYD connects with the big thump on Dutch! USWA Southern Heavyweight Title Match: Randy “Macho Man” Savage with Miss. Elizabeth vs Big Bossman What a match! Back and forth we go… momentum change after momentum change with many near falls. Bossman and Savage each connected with their finishers only to have the other get their foot across the bottom rope to stop the count. After the powerslam by Bossman, Savage was able to roll out to the Coliseum floor. Bossman followed him out and rammed Savage into the ring apron. Bossman was set to charge in and squish Macho Man against the steel barrier but for the second time in weeks, Savage grabs Miss. Elizabeth and uses her as a human shield! Bossman, not wanting to crush the valet hesitates. The two start to have words… finally, the Bossman hit a nerve and Savage shoved Miss. Elizabeth aside. The two rush at each other and we get a massive collision! Somehow, Bossman gets up first and he and heads back to the ring. Savage, now acting like he cares, goes to check on Elizabeth who was still on the floor. The bell sounds as the ref has counted out Macho Man. Savage goes nuts and starts screaming and pointing at Elizabeth like this is her fault. Bossman rushes back outside and the brawl is back on. Miss. Elizabeth, now crying runs up the apron. Main Event: The First Family (HTM, Greg “The Hammer” Valentine, Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart & Eddie Gilbert) with “The Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart (still in a neck brace) & Missy Hyatt vs Jerry “The King Lawler, Superstar Bill Dundee & The Southern Boys This one is simple… Wild action with the King getting the win after he hit HTM with the Piledriver. This one seemed personal for the King who was on a tear all match. Quote
Autistic Dragon Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 Rich with a solid opening win. Steve looks Stunning in his first match in Memphis. Orndorff's ego costs him. The Steiners out-grapple the Grapplers. The Junkyard Dog in in Memphis and sinks his teeth right into Dutch. Savage looks downright bipolar in his treatment of Elizabeth. The king appeared to be taking something rather seriously tonight. Quote
LowBlowPodcast Posted July 23 Report Posted July 23 Great show on the 21st - Stunning Steve is prime time and ready for big things. The King is laying down the law in the 8-man. The Steiners are near top form and then Jeff Jarrett and Paul Orndorff are two I wouldn't mind seeing go toe to toe IRL. Makes me want to see if there's a match out there. Quote
spaldoni Posted July 26 Report Posted July 26 Rich remains on good behavior and kicks the show off with a simple win Brad Armstrong was the perfect guy to get Austin over here. Smart booking JJ gets a tremendous win over Mr. Wonderful. We're seeing prime time Steiners right now. This might be the end of Akbar's relationship with the Grapplers. JYD has arrived! I know his better days are behind him, but you put him in a perfect spot here. The fans still love him and he could be a popular and strong mid card presence fighting cowardly heels like Dutch. Really good job Damn! Savage and Bossman tore it up. I think we're going to get a lot more. Bring it on! The King ends the night on a high note by putting HTM down with the piledriver. Quote
kevinmcfl Posted July 28 Author Report Posted July 28 Aired on July 26, 1990 Highlights from this week’s TV Show Ms. Alexandria York has to wait to get her answer! The show started with Jerry Jarrett joining Lance Russell and Dave Brown where Lance showed a video from last week when Ms. Alexandria York appeared on set and said that her company, the York Foundation has partnered with a wrestler who has come into some new and serious wealth. She went on to say that her and the wrestler who has decided to remain anonymous for now, are looking to buy the USWA. Jarrett replied that the company was not for sale but Ms. York proceeded to give him an envelope with the Foundation’s offer inside. As the show closed, Jarrett opened the envelop and went a little wide-eyed at the offer. This week, Lance asked Jerry about the offer but all that Jarrett would say is that it was a significant offer and that he has asked Ms. York to appear later in the show to get her answer. Devastation Inc. is no more? Skandar Akbar gave a short interview where he told Lance and Dave that he was in the wrestling business for one reason… to hold championship gold!! He admits that so far his men have failed him miserable so he has disbanded his current stable of wrestlers and is set to make a journey around the world and he will not return until he has found the perfect wrestlers. He does anger the Memphis crowd when he tells Lance that after being in the United States for as long as he has, he is quite certain that he will have to go abroad to find this talent as he has seen how weak in both mind and body the Americans are. The Tag Team Division Continues to Explode! The Steiner Brothers, the USWA World Tag Champs, continue to be on top of the mountain as they destroyed two more jobbers on TV this week. While they are clearly fan favorites, even Rick and Scott couldn’t avoid being a little arrogant this week after they put the Grapplers in their place last week and there doesn’t seem to be any other teams ready to challenge for the titles. Southern Justice (Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce along with Wild Bill Irwin) continued their rise up the tag team ranks with a violent win over Steve Simpson and Sam Houston. In their post-match interview, Lance brought up the fact that last week, they mentioned they might have a problem with the Southern Boys. Bill Irwin: “Not might… we do have a problem with the Southern Boys. Look at these two clowns coming out here wearing Confederate Uniforms. Is this what the people of the South want to look up to? Two idiots wearing Halloween costumes that show the South at the worst time in history…. When the South got crushed by the North. If you look like losers, you are losers. Now look at Tex and Shanghai …. This is what Southern Justice looks like. If we want something…. We’re going take it…. And we’ll take it however we want! Southern Boys…. We’re about to take you out! Southern Justice will be dealt… harshly. The Dirty White Boys made their return to Memphis and easily handled Verlon Biggs and Seve Downing with the end coming with The Bucksnort Blaster by Dirty White Boy #1! Lance asked us to take a look at one of those videos set to music to hype up the incoming talent and the video was of none other than The Rock n Roll Express!!!! The video, with a lot of double dropkicks, fast cars, hair, and beautiful women wanting a piece of Ricky and Robert, ended with the RnR Express putting the Southern Tag Team Champions (The Anvil and the Hammer) on notice. The First Family Seems to have accomplished their goal but at what consequence! Last week, Jimmy Hart and the First Family (HTM, Anvil, Hammer & Eddie Gilbert) took offense to Lance Russell giving an interview to Brian Christopher after he pinned Jimmy Hart after Bill Dundee had nailed the “Mouth of the South” will a piledriver. Jimmy Hart claimed to have some big secret about Brian Christopher and that he would reveal it if Brian Christopher ever showed up again in the USWA. This week, the Anvil & the Hammer defended their Southern Tag Titles on TV in a squash match where their post-match promo not only dared the Rock n Roll Express to come and try and take their titles but also pointed out that Brian Christopher was a no show! Later, Honk Tonk was at the podium with Jimmy Hart (still in his neck brace) and they were having a great time talking about how much fun they had beating Brian Christopher all over the country and now the punk is so afraid he is in the witness protection program. Suddenly, Jerry Lawler appeared and he goes straight for HTM. Jerry Lawler: “Honky Tonk Man… Jimmy Hart… I’ve heard about enough of this. You know what you really want is me… You want to take me down… You want to take my title… you want to put me out of wrestling. How about I give you that chance right now! You and me Honky…. In the ring right now for the USWA World Title. Lawler walks over to the ring as Lance Russell calls for a ref. HTM with his guitar along with Jimmy Hart follow Lawler to the ring as ref Jerry Calhoun rushes in. HTM attacks Lawler from behind and has complete control. He is stomping, kicking and punching Lawler… this one looks real personal! After a good 4-minutes of a beat down, all the result of the Pearl Harbor job, HTM nails Lawler with a nasty back drop. As Lawler eventually staggers to his feet, HTM rushes in for a spear but the King jumps out of the way just in time! WHAM… HTM nails Jerry Calhoun with the spear. Calhoun is down and HTM is staggering from his own blow. Jimmy Hart is jumping up and down on the studio floor. Lawler simply walks over to the corner where HTM left his guitar and picks it up! WHAM… Lawler shatters the guitar of the head of HTM and covers him. Jerry Calhoun recovers just in time to make the three count! Lawler takes his world title and walks straight to the locker room. HTM is throwing a temper tantrum like a spoiled 3-year-old. At first, he was jumping up and down screaming at Jerry Calhoun that Lawler cheated by busting his guitar over his head but Calhoun simply shrugs his shoulders saying he didn’t see it. HTM is now kicking and screaming and finally sits down in the middle of the ring and refuses to leave until Calhoun does something. Lance Russell: “Yeah Lawler used the guitar but that’s only because HTM attacked him from behind before the match ever started. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander now get out of the ring Honky Tonk Man. Suddenly Tommy Rich comes out as he was to get ready for his upcoming match. Tommy points at HTM and asks him to leave but HTM starts screaming at Tommy. Tommy Rich: now with Lance “There’s an old saying Lance. Some win and some lose and some just sing the blues. I guess this wanna-be Elvis jerk is just singing the blues! Man that’s the agony of defeat sitting there in the ring right now! HTM: “Hey pretty boy… why don’t you just mind your business and shut up! Wildfire and HTM continue to yell at each other until Rich makes the mistake of turning his back on HTM… WHAM… from behind, HTM with another Pear Harbor job! Here comes the Anvil, the Hammer and Eddie Gilbert. The entire First Family is all over Wildfire. Eventually, Junkyard Dog, Jeff Jarrett, Superstar Dundee and Brad Armstrong make the save. While the damage was already done, there was a big promo from JYD who is making his first TV appearance here in Memphis in a long time and the fans are going Wild. JYD vows revenge as nobody does this to his old friend Tommy Rich. This continues to help Wildfire get over with the Memphis crowd even though Lawler is anti-Rich. Speaking of the King, he was nowhere to be seen after his match with HTM and never came out to check on Wildfire Tommy RIch. Huge Main Event on next week’s show! When Jerry Jarrett came back at the end of the show, he teased next week’s show by saying the main event will be Eddie Gilbert and Jeff Jarrett for the USWA World TV Title. Next he called out Alexandria York. Jarrett explained that he was shocked at the 2,000,000 offer to buy the USWA but he must decline as this is his life and he has big plans for the USWA. Alexandria York: “Mr. Jarrett, I must say that I am a bit surprised but it will be more fun this way. Jerry Jarrett: “I’m not sure I understand. What will be more fun?” AY: “Well instead of buying your little company, now, my partner and I will simply take it. Have a good day.” Quote
Autistic Dragon Posted Wednesday at 08:32 PM Report Posted Wednesday at 08:32 PM Akbar opts to rebuild Devastation Inc from the ground up. The Steiners are riding high but between the Southern Boys, Southern Justice and the returning Dirty White Boys they've got plenty of contenders. Rock n Roll is coming back to Memphis! Christopher is nowhere to be soon and Lawler is furious about it. Rich's smart mouth gets him in trouble with the First Family but while the king still isn't sold on him he's got a very loyal Dog looking after him. Jarrett turns down the money but it seems the York Foundation doesn't take no for an answer. Quote
spaldoni Posted Saturday at 07:44 PM Report Posted Saturday at 07:44 PM Will York gets the answer she wants? Never count Akbar out. I'm sure he'll return with an even more devastating devastation Inc The Steiners are at the top but man the USWA has a stacked tag division. And with the RnR Express returning, things are going to get even better Lawler makes HTM man pay. Rich has a good laugh but now he's made enemies with the family. Even though Lawler is still anti Rich, at least Rich has JYD backing him up. Great segment Jarret turns down the offer. I cant wait to see the fun York is going to have. Never a dull moment in the USWA Quote
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