March 18, 201114 yr Author comment_5467591 Arn Anderson! He does an excellent promo as a segue from the Sullivan/Kanemura angle to the feud with Cornette and the Bodies.
July 17, 201114 yr comment_5476961 Another great promo from Arn. We really get a ton of great promos from Arn. Did the reveal of Arn being the mystery partner under the sheet not make the cut?
July 16, 201312 yr comment_5552249 Nice that Arn makes reference to the last match. It's a minor thing but him being shocked at what happened just adds more to the previous segment.
November 15, 201311 yr comment_5572632 Another great promo from Arn. We really get a ton of great promos from Arn. Did the reveal of Arn being the mystery partner under the sheet not make the cut? It didn't, which is too bad. Jim Cornette's sell of that is terrific, and he drops a priceless line before taking the hood off, about how the rednecks in the audience were probably used to seeing people walking around in white sheets! Arn proceeded to call out Eaton for abandoning him while he was hurt in favor of the Bodies, while acknowledging that he didn't like Ricky & Robert either. Here, Arn lays it down regarding the previous attack on Kanemura, which is awesome. Arn's heart is on vacation, and he's here to do to Cornette & the Bodies what they've been doing to everyone else, and it may mean repeating what happened with Kanemura. Standard killer promo from Anderson. Ricky and Robert stand nearby.
December 19, 201410 yr comment_5646152 Anderson says he's dirty and capable of doing to the Bodies just what Sullivan did to the Japanese kid. Typically great promo from one of the best.
February 25, 201510 yr comment_5656066 What a great promo by Arn. They way he was able to put over the previous angle and segue it into his current feud was masterful. It took a lot of skill to still be portrayed as menacing while acknowledging that he couldn't go to the extremes Sullivan just did.
September 6, 201510 yr comment_5697467 I want an alternate timeline where Arn gets fired/quits from WCW along with Flair in 1991, somehow ends up in SMW. He would have fit in perfectly.
October 29, 20159 yr comment_5707525 Another great promo from Arn. We really get a ton of great promos from Arn. Did the reveal of Arn being the mystery partner under the sheet not make the cut? Kind of surprised that this segment didn't make the cut as it was a phenomenal promo from Anderson and the angle itself was tremendous.
October 30, 20159 yr comment_5707718 Arn says that he just witnesses a 21 year old kid from Japan get wheeled out of here and it's probably going to take 200 stitches to sew him up. It made him a little sick; he thought he had seen it all, but what Jim Cornette does in the ring is no different to what just happened to that kid. Maybe no-one had their head or arm split open to that degree, but what he's done is prey upon all these people in the surrounding areas. He preyed on their wants, their needs and he preyed on the Rock & Roll Express, but he always did it four on two. The Rock & Rolls didn't call for someone with a good heart to help them out, they called for the dirtiest player in the game and I'm just as capable of going to you and your guys what you witnessed happened to that kid. He tells Bobby Eaton that he betrayed him, that he never cared for Stan Lane or his partner and he begs Cornette to what himself or the Express. You may never see this team again, one of the Four Horsemen with the Rock & Roll Express, but one way he is going to get to Eaton and no man who has never had a jockstrap on in his life is going to intimiate him or his team. Morton then tells Cornette that it'll all come to a head in Knoxville and he better be ready as they'll be waiting for them. This is soooooo good! Anderson's third promo in the territory (after the reveal and one local interview) and another belter. The way he linked what happened to Kanemura to the upcoming six man is something only the best can do. Real shame that he doesn't stick around for long as a prolonged feud between Anderson and Eaton here (with Cornette doing his talking) would have been something pretty bloody special.
October 30, 20159 yr comment_5707745 Here's the Anderson reveal clip for anyone interested. I love the attention to continuity in Anderson's interaction with Eaton.
July 3, 20169 yr comment_5758466 You can tell that Arn was really stoked to be in SMW. This may have been his best promo work ever under the circumstances. I vaguely remember watching the Sullivan-Kanemura match on Will's set (I'll get to it on this disc when I have rime) and there are no words to describe it. Arn knew that the crowd would have trouble forgetting what they'd just seen, so he used it as a segue like no one else in wrestling could have, and in the process made Corny and the Bodies seem almost as evil as Sully in their way. For once in his life, Ricky was the second-best promo in a segment, and that takes some doing, especially during this run. The use of Bobby's "betrayal" was interesting, and leads me to believe that Corny thought that the SMW/WCW crossover was going to continue at the time this was taped, with Arn and Bobby's feud being played out over both promotions in addition to Rock 'n' Roll/Bodies. The possibilities that this would have opened up over the summer of '93 would have been tremendous, including an appearance by Flair and the other Horsemen once the group was reformed. (Corny says he once tried to get Flair to come to SMW, but it didn't work out.) As it turned out, not only was the crossover dead, but I don't think Arn and Bobby's feud ever got off the ground in Atlanta, either. Off to watch the reveal promo, which certainly should have made the set.
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