Saturday, August 04, 2007

Memphis Wrestling TV Report 8.04.07

----Corey Maclin welcomes everyone from the Autozone Park. Jerry Lawler interview with Queen Renee/Princess Leslie. Lawler introduced Redbird players Rick Ankiel and Tagg Bozied and Redbird hitting coach Rick Eckstein fully equipped with baseball bats. He said they would help him later tonight with Johnny Rotten, because Rotten/Vicious always like to have people run in.

----Johnny Dotson/Tatt2 beat Derrick King/Shawn Shultz with Rashard Devon. It was raining. Heat on Tatt2 with hot tag to Dotson. Not much of a match as it was raining real hard. Nothing wrong, but it was like they went home quick.

----"Sam's Town" "The Finale" advertised are Dutch Mantel, Bill Dundee, Jimmy Valiant, Jerry Lawler vs Sid Vicious, "Midnight Express" [Dennis Coundry/Bobby Eaton] with Jimmy Cornette and will feature all the local talent. Oh, I almost forgot - one of the big names listed was also Corey "Mr. Ego" Maclin.

----Mr. Hughes interview. Mr. Hughes beat Dustin Starr in a quick good match. Hughes gave more to Starr than he usually gives anyone. Hughes pinned Starr using the ropes.

----Spellbinder beat Kevin White with a roll up when White tried for a figure four leglock. A good short match. Spell looked good here. He did a few fireballs from his hands and one from the skull pole before getting in the ring.

----"Too Cool 2" [Tim Grind/Flex] interview. Koko B Ware comes out in full gimmick with Frankie with Kid Kash. Rockey The Redbird [Redbirds mascot] comes out with his family of mascots and Ware dances with them.

----Southern Tag Team Title Match: Kash/Koko beat TC2 by DQ when Grind was caught using one of the title belts. Heat was on Ware, but very little. Hot tag to Kash. Grind slid in the first belt thru Flex' legs and Kash hit Flex with it. He had him down for the pin, when Grind jumped in. Good hold to hold stuff with Kash/Flex early, and then they did a spot where it looked like Grind/Flex got confused. Why did they not edit that out?? After the match the family of Redbird mascots jumped TC2 and put redbird feathers all over them.

----Jerry Lawler with Renee/Leslie/Redbirds beat Johnny Rotten. Lawler says, "Like Cena says, if you want some, come get some." LOL Rotten interview with him putting down the Redbirds and asked Lawler if he was trying to hire all the Platinum Plus [strip club in Memphis]girls?? Finish had, after a ref bump,Rotten used a chain on Lawler. Rotten is celebrating when Redbirds coach Rick Eckstein (brother of STL. Cardinal's player David Eckstein) climbs to the top rope and does a flying body splash on Rotten to knock him off his feet and then the King rolls up Rotten for the win. Lawler did his classic comeback with pulling down his strap and a fist drop, but Rotten kicked out of it. Lawler grabbed Rotten in a headlock that lead to the ref bump. Typical big man vs Lawler bout. Mr. Hughes tried to help Rotten, but the players run him away.

----Notes: Cornette has not showed up at least 3 times when he was advertised. Not sure if this was Maclin or Corney's fault??...How can Maclin actually consider himself a wrestler and be announced in the same breath as Lawler, Dundee and Valiant???...Maclin was beyond horrible during the commentary for the main event. He made up like 4 new words. LOL…Princess Leslie looked real young…Not a good shot of the crowd while wrestling was going on and it looked like less than were there. Rain pouring down made everyone move around – there was over 4,000 left to watch wrestling though...Thanks to Shawn Jenkins who actually sent us an error in reporting as mo_vols had reported that White won his bout vs Spell, but it was the opposite.