March 10, 201114 yr Author comment_5466835 Bill Dundee is leaving the USWA. So we get an incredibly sappy video to Barbara Streisand's "The Way We Were". There are some great clips of some really fun wrestling from the 70s and 80s included. Then he comes out for an interview. Dave Brown mentions that he has "accepted an executive position with another wrestling organization". Dundee promotes that he's going on tour everywhere the USWA will be for the next week.
March 12, 201114 yr comment_5467019 At first viewing I wanted the video to have different music, but now I think it is absolutely perfect.
September 28, 201113 yr comment_5483665 Awesomely cheesy music video, with great clips (including an awesome Guerrero/Malenko rollup with Tony Charles!) and it is really good to see how they handle his departure. It is a breath of fresh air from the typical injury angle/jobbing out that is commonly the way characters are written out of promotions when they leave. That is unless this is a swerve, though I'm pretty sure that Dundee did actually end up in WCW around this time.
October 21, 201311 yr comment_5568241 Sappy song but the action clips are tremendous. Dundee is going on one last tour to thank the USWA fans, and amazingly no angle results from this.
January 6, 201411 yr comment_5578717 Well, there kinda was. Masters of Terror and Mike Samples jumped Bill during his match with Mike Miller (where Dave mentions that Miller looks like he'd been in a fight during the week. Foreshadowing...). Dundee gets a stuffed/spike piledriver on the studio tile. A match gets set up for Monday night. For the syndicated tape, they implied that this caused Bill to miss out on his Farewell tour and Danny Davis is out for revenge.
January 15, 201411 yr comment_5580296 Clips of Dundee against various opponents. Dave Brown says Bill has accepted an executive position with another wrestling company. Really great video package.
November 27, 201410 yr comment_5642126 Loved the video and the clips spliced in. One thing I admire about Memphis at times is they don't shy away about people leaving and they treat them with respect on the way out. Dundee talks about what lies ahead and says he will have to be wearing a suit in his new position. He promises to run the loop one more time to give thanks to the fans.
June 13, 20169 yr comment_5756861 A classy but understated sendoff for the Superstar. I liked the video package, and it seemed like there was more care taken with it than usual. I also liked the short promo Bill gave thanking the fans. I wish we'd gotten more than four minutes out of it, but if anyone understands that the show has to go on, it's Bill. I don't think his job with WCW lasted too long; he was back in Memphis for a tour two months later, at least according to Wrestlingdata.com. My guess is that he was fired as an executive along with Watts (whom he'd booked for in Mid-South) then stuck around for a while strictly as onscreen talent to be Steve Regal's manager/valet. One glaring omission: I didn't recognize Lawler in any of the clips. They couldn't show ten seconds of the greatest feud of the modern era in Memphis, even if it's Lawler getting a win?
June 20, 20169 yr comment_5757547 I don't know where wrestlingdata.com got their info, but trust me as someone who was around these parts back then, that didn't happen. The only Bill Dundee sighting the whole time he was in WCW was in about January 1994. WCW has a casino-sponsored show in Tupelo and Dundee made a cameo to plug it on Memphis TV. This was during a Lawler interview which was odd seeing Lawler plug a WCW show, even while on "hiatus" from the WWF for his legal problems at the time.
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