Lawler relentlessly shit talking an eighty year old lady in the front row and nearly getting her to hop the guardrail was so great it almost pisses me off as you fear the match can't live up to it. Then Landel comes down and sits ringside after shaking Lawler's hand. More shit talking from Lawler and Buddy gets involved and gets chased around the ring by DWB with the old blue hair that went after Lawler pelting him in the head with something at point blank range. Lawler loses the first couple of exchanges via punch and ends bailing to the floor and getting relentlessly taunted by the old bitty which is so god damn great. Lawler ends up hiding on his knees behind Curtis after another punch from Anthony. Lawler then complains about a hair pull on a back body drop of all things while Buddy shit talks over the house mic from the timekeepers table. Lawler complains about another hair pull and DWB pleads his case while Lawler goes to his tights which begins the foreign object game. Of course Lawler is the master of this and Mark Curtis is a really great playing off of him and the crowd as Lawler shifts the gimmick all over to avoid discovery. Lawler ends up popping Anthony off of a test of strength spot and it just goes from there with Lawler working the gimmick every chance he can and Curtis just missing it time after time. Budro ends up handing the title to Lawler who sits it in the corner and bashes DWB's head into it while Landel distracts the ref. Anthony ends up making a come back in the corner and Lawler takes a face plant after a turnbuckle series. DWB hits the blaster and Landel rings the bell claiming the sixty minute time limit has expired. Curtis "fires" Landel as time keeper and they go to a finish with a ref bump, Buddy interference and a Lawler pin. This had some small edits and suffered a bit from a lack of depth, but watching Lawler interact with the SMW crowd is such a treat that I feel this really has to move on.

Lawler is of course great on the stick and got big time heat. Landell was great as the guest timekepper. DWB was over and threw some great punches. The Bullshit throughout here was great. Lawer might be the greatest ever at getting heat from a crowd. Lawler's hide the foreign object spot is always entertaining. Landell calling the 60 minute at the 20 minute mark was glorious. Still, I'm undecisive on this. I'll 2nd the nomination though.

SMW Heavyweight Title: "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony © vs. Jerry "The King" Lawler (1/28/95)

 

Finally Lawler has come to SMW and his pre-match promo is fucking great. I also loved he came out to Gonna Fly Now instead of his WWE King music. Lawler going after the granny who was at all the Knoxville shows was tremendous and this was truly a kingsized performance. Landell as the special timekeeper was great then Lawler continued killing the fans and this was so awesome I was dying laughing. Landell saying that the Dirty White Girl was in the parking lot with The Gangstas was the icing on the cake. This match is already awesome from the start as Lawler has worked the crowd into a frenzy especially granny who he was jawing with and almost had her coming over the rail. This breaks out into a punching match which is blurred a little but you can see the fists flying before Lawler hides behind Mark Curtis. Landell then taking a bow after announcing the 5 minute mark to the crowd was god damn awesome. There is an edit but I don't think we missed anything because Lawler was still doing his test of strength/hide the chain act. Lawler continues to use the chain where Curtis couldn't see it and he pounded on DWB until asking Landell for the belt which he would get and smashed DWB's head into before giving it back to Landell who placed it nicely back on the table. Lawler then does pushups before going to pin DWB for a nearfall and that was also awesome. DWB makes his comeback after getting bashed in the corner by bashing Lawler in the head who dropped the strap before doing the Flair bump. DWB had Lawler pinned when Landell rang the bell saying that the time limit had expired like 2 minutes after he gave the 15 minute time limit announcement so Mark Curtis restarts the match then fires Landell as timekeeper. Lawler then knocks off Curtis and Landell piledrives DWB putting Lawler on top for the win. GOD DAMN I LOVED THIS, was the match a classic in ring match hell fucking no but Lawler & Landell were fucking masters here and this was phenomenal. Grand Slam Nomination.