Smothers pre-match in ring promo is so fucking great. "I'm gonna scale that thing like Tarzan and stick that coal miner's glove up your butt and turn you into a popcicle" Great opening spot as Lee is on the floor so Tracy starts going for the glove. Lee comes into the ring so Tracy turns around hits a big cross body. Smothers hits a good baseball slide and some nice punches on the floor. Smothers dismissively throwing a cup of soda into Lee's face was cool. Tracy starts chasing Tammy and Lee tries to cheapshot but Tracy throws a blindside back kick. Smothers has the crowd going crazy for every little thing and is really working this gimmick for all it is worth, pointing to the pole, hamming it up, et. Smothers is beating Lee's ass and grabs the mic and says "you ain't so tough now are you faggot!" There is some brief back and fourth after Smothers gets caught going up the pole and this leads to a big bump in the corner from Smothers. Lee hits a good powerslam off the ropes and shortly thereafter another. There is an edit after a few cutoff spots, but I don't think too much is lost as they return in the same hold. Man they work several hope/cutoff spots exchanges all of which are good but I almost think there are too many to close together. Smothers bump off a flying body block looked dangerous as all hell. Lee has proven to be a good theatrical bumper himself and takes a huge bump off the ropes. Tracy races to the glove off of a corner charge but gets a huge crotch bump, which Smothers pays back a few seconds later. Lee manages to get the glove down but then Tammy holds up the ref while Tracy gets blindsided by DWB run-in. Good match, shitty finish. Post-match beatdown is good.

I thought this was a solid nomination. Smothers has another great outing. Lee was solid, and is much better as a heel. Smothers looks like he is about to spin out of control on a body press bump from the top. I thought Lee might have hurt a knee legit or his selling was good. Finish blew but advances the storyline. My main drawback was it got a little headlocky at time. Still a good solid match.

Coal Miners Glove for the SMW Heavyweight Title: "Primetime" Brian Lee © vs. "Wild Eyed Southern Boy" Tracy Smothers (8/14/93)

 

The fans are hot for Smothers with rebel flags flying in the crowd. Like the night before the micwork before the match was good especially Tracy who was awesome talking about sticking the glove up Brian's ass. Both men go for the glove early and often with some really good action mixed in especially by Smothers who was taking it to Lee with the crowd going nuts. Smothers while kicking ass gets on the mic and says "you ain't so tough now are you faggot" which popped the crowd and pissed off Lee who immediately went to work on Smothers with a big clothesline to the floor. Tracy would fight back in spots including missing a big splash in the corner where he almost hit the post headfirst but Lee would keep up the pressure with power moves before using a chinlock for quite a while. Smothers' hope spots are fun and his climb up top ending with a kamikaze twisting dive facefirst into the mat was awesome. We would get the crotch spot similar to the night before to kickstart the Smothers comeback which is also the same from the night before but at least they have the pole to go for ending up with both men taking good crotch bumps as they climbed up. Tammy would trip up Smothers allowing Lee to get the glove but Smothers would kick it out of his hand and took it himself as Tammy had Mark Curtis hemmed up. DWB would run out and used a steel chair on Smothers while putting the glove on Lee with Curtis turning around to see this and counted the pin. Fuck another cheap finish in a gimmick match but at least Smothers got his revenge in the post-match by spanking Tammy until Lee & DWB attacked him. Lee used the figure-four as DWB jumped on the leg until Mark Curtis promised to suspend them if they didn't quit. Funny seeing DWB & Lee work together after hating each other a year earlier. The match was pretty damn solid even with the putrid finish. Solid nomination.