Double or nothing match with both belts on the line. This has some of your usual great Lawler in Texas stuff, including the requisite insulting of the crowd ("I wanted to get you all something for Christmas...something that you need...but I didn't know how to gift wrap a bathtub") and early stooging (Kerry grabbing a schoolboy for a nearfall while Jerry is on the mic insulting the ring girls) and Lawler playing "hide the chain" (with some assistance from Terry Garvin). This all gets a bit truncated, though, as they take that usual formula and then expand upon it. There's a lot of brawling on the outside, which Garvin gets caught in the middle of. Then we have a new take on the Lawler control segment, as he pulls an imaginary foreign object out of his tights and conceals in it his elbowpad, which he then uses as knux. Lawler goes to town on Kerry, but Kerry weathers the storm and is able to pull Lawler's legs out from under him while on the outside and attack his legs. Kerry makes his comeback, locking on an array of Claws, including the awesome abdominal claw where he lifts Lawler above his head while he has it on him. However, Tony Falk gets bumped, and Garvin tosses in his chair, allowing Lawler to blast Kerry with it a couple of times and score the win when Falk comes to. I'm thinking some people might balk at Garvin being as involved in the match as he is, but I thought this was as good as any match these two have had against each other, and a strong nomination.

SLL and I had a real disconnect here...

 

Jerry Lawler vs. Kerry Von Erich (Unified World Title vs. Texas Title Match) USWA Texas 11/89-12/89 #3

 

- Not nearly as good as their Memphis matches or even the Superclash match. They do some bullshit early on with Lawler choking Kerry with the chain. When we come back from commercial, Kerry has the claw on Lawler. Lawler still has sweet punches and makes the match but I don’t think this should be on the set. It was criminally short for Lawler-Kerry and didn’t really stand out from the pack. As the match I was looking forward to the most today, it was more disappointing.

Unified Heavyweight Title vs. Texas Heavyweight Title: Jerry "The King" Lawler © vs. "Modern Day Warrior" Kerry Von Erich (12/15/89)

 

Lawler is awesome here of course being the biggest dickhead around talking all kinds of shit and stalling like a motherfucker. Lawler would break out the chain of course before we get a clip in the action which we missed some stuff. Kerry would get the iron claw on Lawler who sells like crazy before taking it to the floor where he would throw a discus punch then grabbed some chairs prompting Garvin to hold him and Lawler to recover. Lawler then used a loaded elbowpad around his fist where he would work over Kerry but he would make a comeback getting a stomach claw picking Lawler up which was a cool spot. Lawler would throw Kerry into Tony Falk though and kicked him in the balls but Lawler would miss an elbowdrop so Garvin throws his pink chair to Lawler who used it 3 times to get the win. This was really fun and I liked this way more than Will did. This moves forward fairly easily.