Tim Horner v. Buddy Landell (I Quit)

 

There is a front end edit on this and then we get a really brief segment with Horner targetting the leg and then another edit. Boy that is going to piss me off with this SMW stuff. Landell ends up with Horner on the ropes after second cut screaming into the mic "who's your daddy" and other assorted shit talk. Both guys appear to be selling well, but the problem is with the clipping the context really isn't there at all. Landell is cutting answering machine messages on the house mic mocking Horner which is pretty great. This is an I Quit match, but watching the middle of this it really comes across as a battle over access to the microphone as both guys fight for control of it and all of the best spots revolve around it. I especially loved Buddy's selling of Horner using the mic chord as a whip. Also I always enjoy watching Landell take bunches as he sells them in a really unique way where his whole body sort of rattles with each blow. Landell using his elbows to quasi-crabwalk out of the ring and over the announcers table to break the Scorpion legdrop was really awesome. Really loved Landell grinding his knee into Horner's joints after a figure-four spot. Horner wins after Budro falls off the top and gets caught in an Gibson leglock. Landell was really awesome in this but the clip jobs hurt this a lot.

 

Ron Garvin v. Paul Orndorff (Piledriver Match)

 

Clip after some Orndorff stalling and they come back to a top wristlock battle that ends with a double knockout spot after a shoulder tackle spot. Orndorff goes for the piledriver and Garvin essentially falls into a sprawling stance and back drops Orndorff who ends up selling a right from Garvin by falling on the table on the floor. Orndorff comes back in and ends up getting backed into a corner with Garvin going into his boxing stance. Garvin opens up with some jabs and though none of them looked like they landed that clearn Orndorff's sellling was really great and then we got the awesome jumping headbutt from Garvin and a great bump from Paul who spills to the floor yet again. Orndorff ends up taking over off of another corner spot where Mark Curtis gets in between them and he ends up hitting a cheapshot. Strangely Orndorff's run is somewhat short. Garvin ends up taking over after a corner flurry and knee shot to the nuts from behind which is not something you see every day. He ends up trying for the piledriver on the floor but Orndorff back body drops him. Orndorff chokes Garvin with an electric chord and Garvin goes into a mini-Terry Funk sell twitching on the floor. Then he uses a cup of some sort as a grater on Garvin's eyes. Garvin comes back into the ring with chord still around his throat and takes over with a turnbuckle ten count spot with Orndorff taking the face bump better than most. Then we get a Garvin Stomp to a really awesome reaction from the crowd, followed by his dumping head butt and leaping punch. Garvin goes for the piledriver, pulling Orndorff's tights completely up his ass in the process but Orndorff still escapes. Gavin keeps going for pinfalls and then Garvin goes for another piledriver but Orndroff leaps up and headbutts him in the balls. Garvin's selling is really great during this Orndorff control segment as he sort of stumbles around and wobbles at the knees in such a fashion that he really think he's finished. Ref bump off of a piledriver attempt. Finish to this involves foreign objects, a non-existent piledriver, Danny Davis running out, et. I thought both of these guys worked hard but man the finish pissed me off as there was no real cause to overbook shit that much. I promise I'll stop doing play by play type shit as this goes along.

 

Rock N Roll Express v. Studd Stable

 

Studd Stable bumping around like crazy early. God damn the RnR were over. Studd Stable are really great at taking an asskicking and being made to look like fools without loosing any of their bad ass flavor. Golden gets his leg worked over early, but that's really just a vehicle for Gibson and Morton to take potshots at Fuller and get the crowd really going. Ricky ends up working FIP (shocking!) after Golden kicks out of a leg lock sending him into the heels corner. It is really crazy to watch how smoothly Morton transitions from offensive dynamo, to victim as he immediately starts selling his off and fucking blades himself for Fuller's awesome punching barrage. The heels end up posting Ricky on the floor and then Golden just punts him full tilt in the ribs. Damn the Stable are so great at cutting off the ring and adding extra umph to every fucking blow. Fuller hits a really strange looking delayed spinebuster for a nearfalls and the crowd is going bonanzas for Ricky who is selling a fucking bearhug like they have his nuts in a vice. Ricky's hot tag is well done and Gibson makes a good house of fire as usual. Golden is about to eat a pin after a double dropkick when Fuller pulls the ref out of the ring. Finish is a switcharoo as Gibson has Golden in a sleeper hold when Fuller comes off with a double axe. He tries to get the ref to count the three but while he is pleading Ricky comes in and puts Robert on top for the three. This pretty much had everything you would want out of a Southern tag involving these guys and a good post-match Studd Stable beatdown to boot.

 

Brian Lee v. Dirty White Boy

 

JIP after introductions though I don't think much was edited out. I remember loving Anthony's bumping at the time but it really is impressive to watch a guy of his size and frame take press slams and big flat back bumps. Second edit comes at the five minute mark. Wright trips Lee coming off the rope and Lee ends up eating an over the ropes clothesline bump. Anthony has pretty solid offense as well and unloads with a lot of it on Lee. Lee ends up making his comeback after a DDT off the ropes that results in a wildly theatrical bump from DWB. Anthony ends up taking a bump to the floor and gets a foreign object from Ron Wright in the process. Really good jumping clothesline from Lee leading to a splat bump from Lee off the top. Lee ends up losing after interference, a true staple of SMW.

 

There is footage from an awesome backstage brawl involving the Fantastics and Bodies that really needs to make the set as an extra as it is about five minutes of all four guys plus Cornette chucking things at each others head, bleeding, et. Cornette takes an insane table bump and gets beat with his own racket which he virtually no sells but you don't give a shit because it's so chaotic. They follow that footage up with footage from another match that ends in DQ with the Bodies choking the Fantastics in a volleyball net which in some ways is even cooler. Then they have the plastic bag on Jackie Fulton's head angle which I actually remember. This whole montage should make the set really.

 

The Heavenly Bodies v. The Fantastics (Barbed Wire Cage)

 

Bob Armstrong is the guest ref. Lane is wearing the head gear from his "busted eardrum" and Cornette demands the crowd keep it down which of course they don't. Fultons end up chasing the Bodies into the Cage which is basically the same sort of contraption the Sheepherders and Fantastics worked in in there barbed wire match. There is a lot of sort of meaningless work before both of the Fultons get busted open on the barbed wire first. Man this is really slow moving and a whole lot of nothing for big chunks. This is a fucking Texas Tornado rules tag match in a barbed wire cage as the blowoff to a blood feud and it really lacks any urgency for the first ten minutes or so which is saying something because a match like this really has no business going much longer than ten minutes. Bullet ends up banning Cornette from ringside after he throws powder into Bobby Fulton's eyes. Lane ends up getting his head gear taken off, then there is a nearfall train and then Corny shows back up and they do a finish with Armstrong intercepting a racket and a flash pin for the title switch. This was easily the worst match on this show.

I Quit Match: "White Lightning" Tim Horner vs. "Nature Boy" Buddy Landell (8/8/92)

 

Landell with the no kneepads look here and all black colors looks like a flashier version of Dashing Cody Rhodes. Sure enough we get a clip right after the bell rings which is fucking ridiculous then we get some action then ANOTHER fucking clip. Jesus. I've already given up on this as a nomination so I'm watching for fun and Landell is fucking awesome on the mic here talking shit on Horner not even really asking him to quit. Landell should've done his own play-by-play during matches like Lawler did in WWF in 1996. Landell's selling here was awesome too and Horner was fun here as this was total Memphis style selling and horseshit. Landell's sell after Horner whipped him with the microphone cord was great. After some really good action Landell would quit as Horner used an Indian Death Lock with a bridge. If we didn't have the clip job from hell this would've been a nomination but I think this should be a definite extra.

 

Orndorff cuts a promo next about how he piledrove Andre the Giant & Hulk Hogan well he did do that to one of them.

 

Piledriver Match: "Hands of Stone" Ronnie Garvin vs. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff (8/8/92)

 

Two of my favorites here in a match that would've been even more awesome 10 years earlier. Sure enough we get a fucking clip to start the match and we come to Garvin trying to piledrive Orndorff who drops to the floor to stall for a bit. Garvin throws some great punches here as usual and Orndorff throws some solid ones of his own to set up his control section with Garvin fighting back with his unorthodox offense of scratches, punches, & bites. Garvin tries a piledriver on the floor but Orndorff would counter with a backdrop on the concrete then choked him with the camera wire which was a popular spot during this time of SMW. Garvin fought back and hit the GARVIN STOMP!!! for good measure before the jumping headbutt/KO punch combo to setup his attempt for a piledriver where used Orndorff's tights making it look like a thong. Paul got out though and this turned into a war of atrition with both men getting offense then selling the effects of their war. Sure enough we get a ref bump as Orndorff tried a piledriver and then he tried it again but Garvin backdropped him off the top rope allowing Orndorff to use his chain to KO Garvin then pulled up Mark Curtis saying that he put him out with a piledriver and Curtis called for the bell. Danny Davis then shows up and tells Curtis that Orndorff used a chain so Paul attacks him and gives him a piledriver for his trouble. Orndorff then brings a steel chair in the ring but Curtis pulled it out and as Orndorff pulled Garvin up he went to town on him with punches before Orndorff ducked and ran. Curtis then raised Garvin's hand for the DQ and this was a complete fucking bullshit finish. I thought the action here was really solid but that finish was brutal. I'm going to pass this along now but I don't know in the end how it will fare.

 

Garvin then cuts an angry promo afterwards.

 

The Rock n Roll Express (Robert Gibson & Ricky Morton) vs. The Stud Stable ("Luscious" Robert Fuller & "Gorgeous" Jimmy Golden) (8/8/92)

 

This was the first RnR match together in SMW saying this was the first time they teamed in two years which was a lie. They broke up in WCW in Spring 1991 then got back together in USWA a few months before this. RnR use the live version of Old Time Rock & Roll by Bob Seger in an homage to THE RISKY BUSINESS BOYS and the crowd goes completely apeshit when they come out. The brawl is on as soon as they hit the ring with RnR coming out on top and Morton tells the fans they have come to rock their asses off. RnR are great on offense to start here with Golden equally as great taking punishment and selling it like hell. The classic RnR psychology would come to form here as Morton gets caught in the Stud's corner and they take turns working him over along with getting juice from Morton which was a nice touch. Everyone is great here with the fans going nuts as Morton gets killed then you have Gibson on the apron going nuts wanting the tag and the Stud's are great as asskickers. Gibson would finally get the hot tag and he goes to war on the Stud's before the 4-way brawl gets going setting up the big double dropkick on Golden but Fuller pulls the referee out of the ring as he tried to make the count. Morton then attacks Fuller on the floor as Gibson has Golden in a sleeper allowing Fuller to hit him with a double axehandle and Golden falling on Gibson. Morton though turns the tables as Fuller is celebrating and the RnR gets the win. The attack continued after the match with the Stud's just beating the hell out of the RnR. This was awesome and is an easy nomination.

 

Studs then cut a great promo after the match.

 

DWB & Ron Wright then cuts a promo next and Wright is awesome.

 

Loser Leaves Town vs. SMW Heavyweight Title: "Primetime" Brian Lee © vs. "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony (8/8/92)

 

This is clipped up from the start and while the action was good here this suffered from having to follow the previous match which was so awesome. Lee & DWB both work hard here take some hard bumps and as Brian had DWB pinned someone who I can't remember their name came in and attacked Lee causing him to lose his title. This was okay but flat.

 

Lee then cut an angry promo afterwards about losing his title the way he did.

 

Then we get a retrospective of the Bodies/New Fantastics feud which is a definite extra.

 

Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match for the SMW Tag Titles - SR: Bob Armstrong: The Heavenly Bodies ("Sweet" Stan Lane & Dr. Tom Prichard) © vs. The Fantastics (Bobby & Jackie Fulton) (8/8/92)

 

This was kinda flat at the start which is nuts considering what the feud was before this and it just felt like 4 guys fighting to be fighting until we got blood from the Fulton's and they were juicing like crazy. The blood here makes the match but this went on longer than it should have then we got the total overbooking with Cornette getting kicked out after throwing powder followed up by Lane getting his headgear ripped off and the intensity has picked up as now we have blood from everyone then we get some nearfalls as Cornette returns with the tennis racket which gets taken away by Armstrong forcing Dr. Tom to get pinned and the Fants to win the titles. I liked this more than Dylan did but not by much and it's a shame this wasn't good enough for a nomination.

 

We do get a great angry promo by the Bodies & Corny afterwards and a happier promo by the Fulton's.