Posted December 27, 200817 yr comment_5436523 1. Jimmy Jack Funk, Tony Falk, + Steve Simpson vs Beauty, Cactus Jack, + Skandar Akbar - Texas tornado match This is rather ho hum. It also has battle royal rules. 2. Bill Dundee vs Gary Young - Texas death match Some of the falls are not convincing. Dusek while commentating put the reasoning on why the falls were so easy. I thought this was godd, but not a nomination. 3. Chris Champion + Mark Starr vs Buddy Brooks + William Thompson - Memphis tv - Skandar Akbar + Gary Young promo 4. Eric Embry vs PY Chu'i (nc) int: Skandar Akbar 5. Al Perez vs Mike Graham - Florida tv 6. Jeff Jarrett + Matt Borne vs Robert Fuller + Brian Lee The Studd Stable are a good heel tag team. Fuller has some neat stooge spots. Jarrett was real good in his FIP role. The Stable was good at building the heat, and giving Jarrett enough hope spots. The hot tag was the shits for me and this just ended up not being a nomination. - recap of the state off WCCW; the situation between Eric Embry + Tojo Yamamoto Extra - Bill Dundee video 7. Kerry + Kevin Von Erich vs Iceman Parsons + Brickhouse Brown - losers leave town match I love the Blackbirds. What we got was fun, but how did Harris drop the fall. The Blackbirds would have been awesome in Crockett working the Rock N Roll or the Fantastics. int: Percy Pringle 8. Chris Adams vs Cactus Jack This is good stuff with both wrestlers working the neck and throat area. That Race bump that Jack took was king sized. He looked like he was going 100 MPH. Overall this was a lot of fun and a low end nomination. Both men worked well with one another. Plus we get a nice piece of business in the post match. 9. Dutch Mantel vs Mike Masters - Memphis tv 10. Jeff Jarrett + Matt Borne vs PY Chu'i + Sheik Braddock Hickerson is just so damn entertaining. Braddock is the total opposite. This was mediocre int: Bruiser Brody 11. Red River Jack + Spike Huber vs Jeep Swenson + Warlock Nothing much to this.
February 2, 200916 yr comment_5436994 Texas Tornado Battle Royal: Tony Falk, Jimmy Jack Funk, & Steve Simpson vs. Beauty (Terrence Garvin), Cactus Jack, & Skandor Akbar (6/23/89) This had an interesting concept but was really nothing special. Texas Death Match: “Gorgeous” Gary Young vs. “Superstar” Bill Dundee (6/23/89) Dundee takes the first fall really quick then goes to the floor so he can punch Akbar and then it wouldn’t be a couple of minutes more before Dundee won the second fall. Dundee would keep up the pressure with some good punches but going after Akbar would catch up to him as Young nailed him on the floor followed by Akbar posting him. Young just starts pounding on Dundee using everything from a coke cup to Akbar’s riding crop but Dundee would counter though with a kick to the balls followed up by some awesome punches. Young would counter that though with a high kneelift and by the way this was all on the floor. Dundee would start back throwing bombs once back in the ring but he would dropkick Young into Bronko Lubich allowing Cactus to bring out a coal miners glove that Young would use to KO Dundee. Young would hit Dundee as the 10 count was going behind Bronko’s back to seal the deal and this was fun stuff. I really liked this and this goes on the block. Next is a Wild Side squash from Memphis. Akbar & Gary Young then cut a promo “Flamboyant” Eric Embry vs. PY Chu-Hi (Phil Hickerson) (6/23/89) This was nothing but a fight both inside and outside the ring using chairs and the house mic. PY juices here as both men just pound each other with punches but Dusek calls for the cameras to be cut because he doesn’t want to show blood. Total bullshit but this needs to go on as an extra due to this being their first formal match in this great angle. Akbar comes out offering a contract to Al Perez to join Devastation Inc. which he accepted. Then we get clips of Perez vs. Mike Graham from PWF TV featuring Gordon Solie & Diamond Dallas Page on commentary. World Class Tag Titles: Robert Fuller & Brian Lee © vs. Maniac Matt Borne & Jeff Jarrett (6/30/89) I liked the heel stooge work early by the Stable especially Lee’s reaction after doing the Nishimura headscissors spot only to be met with a punch to the face and Fuller’s reaction to Borne biting his leg which went from the ring to the floor as Lee does his best to pull him off only for Jarrett to chase him off. The heels would finally get the advantage working over Jarrett with illegal double-teams and this was good stuff as Jarrett was pretty damn solid playing the FIP. Borne got tired of this so he decided to enter the ring after a blind tag and stayed making it a 4-way brawl as referee Tony Falk did nothing about it. Lee would throw Jarrett to the floor forcing a double team but Borne would hit a cross body block on Fuller as Jarrett tripped up Lee from the floor. Jarrett would eventually hit a flying cross body block on Lee to win the titles as the crowd erupted. I liked this match more than Shoe did and I think it deserves to be on the block for consideration. Next is a recap of the Embry/Tojo war and this is extra material. Then we get a Bill Dundee video. Losers Leave Town: Kerry & Kevin Von Erich vs. The Black Birds (Brickhouse Brown & Iceman King Parsons) (6/30/89) This is clipped up but a lot of fun although the finish was pretty shitty as Harold Harris took the fall and not the Black Birds proper but they explained this as he was an official representative of the Birds thus could be pinned. This should be an extra. Percy Pringle comes out and talks about Eric Embry who was injured on 7/7/89 by PY and had to have knee surgery. Pringle then cuts a great promo about Braddock turning heel and Embry’s imminent return. “Gentleman” Chris Adams vs. Cactus Jack (7/14/89) This had some really good fast paced action by both men with Cactus really starting to come into his own here as a wrestler and working against guys like Adams was very good for his career. Cactus taking the wild bump from being thrown into the ringpost to the floor was fucking great. Adams hitting a reverse cross body block from the middle rope for the clean win was also a plus as Young was seconds late interfering. The heels would then spike piledrive Adams on a steel chair to finish him off. Very solid match and a nomination. Next is a Dutch Mantell squash from Memphis. World Class Tag Titles: Maniac Matt Borne & Jeff Jarrett © vs. Sheik Braddock & PY Chu-Hi (Phil Hickerson) (7/14/89) Hickerson doing the sumo routine is pretty funny. This was a heated match and the faces were fine here but their opponents not so much especially Braddock. The heels would destroy the faces affter the match with the kendo stick until Eric Embry came down on crutches throwing them to the faces who cleaned house with them. This was decent at best but the post match is a definite extra.
March 21, 201015 yr comment_5448523 Texas Tornado Battle Royal: Tony Falk, Jimmy Jack Funk, & Steve Simpson vs. Beauty (Terrence Garvin), Cactus Jack, & Skandor Akbar (6/23/89) I'm kinda surprised you guys were so down on this match. I will grant that it was really poorly shot, as the first two eliminations and a few other key spots were pretty much missed by the cameras. Still, opening six-man brawl was great, and once it gets down to two-on-two, things get a bit more focused, and the cameramen seem to have an easier time following the action. Akbar is usually terrible in the ring, but he gives a really good "wily heel relying on hidden foreign object" performance here. The story of Akbar and Cactus seemingly having an advantage over Simpson and Funk because they work together as a team while the faces work it more as a straight battle royale was well-done. Loved Cactus pulling Simpson off of Akbar and dropping him with that huge deadlift backdrop. The faces get their shit together, and Cactus ends up taking a big Estrada bump over the top to get eliminated, and Akbar, realizing the gravity of the situation, just bolts out of the arena. All in all, this was really good stuff, and I am putting it on the block. Texas Death Match: “Gorgeous” Gary Young vs. “Superstar” Bill Dundee (6/23/89) The finish was absolutely ludicrous. I've talked about the idiocy of booking matches with No DQ rules to end with ref bumps that allow the heel to sneak in a foreign object shot before. This has the added stupidity of Young hitting Dundee with the glove again when he's getting back up and Lubich is counting him, and then trying to hide the glove again even though there was no way that Lubich didn't see it, it wouldn't be illegal even if he had, and that all of this apparently doesn't merit restarting the count. So, yeah, that kinda sucked. Fortunately, everything leading up to that wall banger was fantastic. I back this as a strong nomination. “Flamboyant” Eric Embry vs. PY Chu-Hi (Phil Hickerson) (6/23/89) Extra. World Class Tag Titles: Robert Fuller & Brian Lee © vs. Maniac Matt Borne & Jeff Jarrett (6/30/89) Lee was perfectly fine here, I think his performance was as strong as anyone else's. I actually really dug the hot tag/false tag subversion, as Falk tells Borne he didn't see the tag, but Borne says "fuck it" and charges in anyway. I don't get why Falk decided to let that go, otherwise I don't see anything wrong with this match, and I do see a lot of things right. I second the nomination. Losers Leave Town: Kerry & Kevin Von Erich vs. The Black Birds (Brickhouse Brown & Iceman King Parsons) (6/30/89) So, was there any point to the whole Harold Harris thing? Like, at all? Anyway, pointless angle and shitty finish aside, the clips shown here are really good, and this could be an extra. int: Percy Pringle Percy is on fire here. This could be an extra. “Gentleman” Chris Adams vs. Cactus Jack (7/14/89) This was a blast. One of the best bump freak performances I've ever seen from Foley, and think of the ground that covers. Not just the big bumps out of the ring, but stuff like his high backdrop bump were really incredible looking, too. Both guys also had some great brawling offense, and the post-match stuff was good, too. This moves forward easily. World Class Tag Titles: Maniac Matt Borne & Jeff Jarrett © vs. Sheik Braddock & PY Chu-Hi (Phil Hickerson) (7/14/89) This was spirited, but not much more than that.
