Saturday, April 18, 2009

Memphis Wrestling TV Report 4.18.09


----“Memphis Wrestling is a paid program that contains content that does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of this station.” Announcement opened the show and I am not sure how long they have been doing that, because I usually fast forward thru the opening.

----Corey Maclin opens the show announcing everything he is airing today including Lawler vs Hennig and other stuff. They then air a music video of clips from last night at Minglewood Hall [not this past Thursday]

----From WWE, Edge/Christian vs “Too Cool” [Brian Christopher/Scotty Too Hotty]. A fun bout. E & C were really good at this time. Brian C/Scotty wins WWE Tag Titles with help from Joe C – Brian pins Christian. This was from May, 2000.

----“Too Kool 2” [Tim Grind/Flex] beat “The Posse” [Simon/Lil Chris]. No contest when TK2 ended up fighting outside the ring with Dustin Starr and Tatt2.

----Video of Jimmy Hart. He says he is going to “drop the bomb” next week with news.

----“Opening the Vault” with Rock’n’Roll Express vs The Grapplers with Jimmy Hart. Grappler #1 pins Ricky Morton after he loads his boot to hit Morton. Dutch Mantell and Stagger Lee came out and snitched – reversed the decision of the fall.

----Jerry Lawler vs Curt Hennig. This match was from the USWA days with Lawler defending his Unified Title. Vampire Warrior comes out to interfere, but backfires as Hennig knocks him off the apron. Warrior/Hennig beat up on Lawler – Jeff Jarrett makes the save.

NOTES

----WWE footage looks so bad – because the tracking is off on the video tape…What happened to TK2 and The Posse?? Two top teams in this area during 2007 and haven’t did anything much since then??…Rock’n’Roll were a good team and everyone knows that. But, The Grapplers [Tony Anthony/Len Denton [pictured above] under hoods] were better at this stage of their careers. They would later become the “Dirty White Boys” without hoods. Two really good workers…Hennig match was ok, not one of their better ones. Crowd popped big with Jarrett saving.