Kelly mentions that Lawler is going back to MPPW and they have to address that. Only a five minute match but a lot of action and Spanky in particular was flying around. Tracy is on commentary running everyone down as the TWA trainees have come together including Shooter Shultz. Tracy gets fed up with the match and interferes continuing the angle. A lot of stuff is being set up in MCW between Tracy and the set up of the merger with MPPW. **

 

Prior to the match commencing Kevin Kelly announces that Jerry Lawler plans on returning to the rival Memphis Power Pro Wrestling, although David Jett isn’t buying it.

 

After the wrestlers make their entrance, Tracey Smothers joins Kelly and Jett at the commentary table and explains what he did boiled down to money; titles bring money and Lance Cade cost him a title match against the Mean Street Posse. Dragon and Spanky with a handshake after the opening exchanges to reaffirm that they’re on the same side now and that there is mutual respect between them. Smothers is talking non-stop throughout the match and I like the way how he’s wording things, saying that he’s better than them, but at the same time not putting Dragon or Spanky’s talents down (“they’re great athletes, but they’re young punks who haven’t paid their dues”, “that’s a great move, they’re all great athletes, but he couldn’t have done that to me”). A headscissors sends Dragon out of the ring, where Spanky nails him with a springboard plancha to the floor. Slingshot senton back in, but Dragon powers out of the pin. He drops Spanky with a big boot before sitting him on the top turnbuckle. Spanky blocks the ‘suicideplex’, shoving Dragon backwards to the mat, and then hits a glorious swinging DDT, leaping from the top himself. Smothers has seen enough and leaves his position at the commentary desk to enter the ring and attacks both men with a steel chair until he’s run off by Lance Cade and Shooter Schultz.

 

Lovely swinging DDT by Spanky and there were no major issues on the work, it just felt like this was going nowhere and was backround whilst Tracey ran his mouth on commentary. When he ran out of things to say, then we got the expected interference.

Kind of a disappointment after their last match. Spanky does perhaps the best job I have ever seen of doing the cartwheel spot when Dragon uses the monentum from his legs to flip him out of a boston crab attempt. This was good enough in the short runtime.

 

*1/2