Saturday, August 19, 2006

Memphis Wrestling TV Report 8.19.06

----Cory Maclin shows Lawler piledriving Nate the Rat from last week and says “Wham Bam Thank you Ma’ma” when Lawler is doing it. Yes, he said that.

----Maclin returned with a Nate The Rat interview. “The Cowboys” [Ricky Murdoch/Bill Nasty] come out and forearm each other on the chest. Murdoch/Nasty beat JD McCain [ JD McKay]/Neil Taylor in a squash much like last week with “Picture Perfect”. Taylor took the heat [no offense] and then hot tag to JD. JD threw a couple of punches and then cut him off for the finisher. Their finisher is Nasty does a sidewalk slam as Murdoch does a running elbow smash for the pin.

----“Too Cool 2” [Flex/Tim Grind/”Hot Topic” [Stan Lee/Derrick King] interview with King complaining about Jerry Calhoun should be fired for hitting him. “Picture Perfect” [Chris O’Neal/John Michael]/Tatt2/Jethro with Grady Watson beat Flex/Grind/Lee/King, when King went to grab Calhoun and Jerry called for backup. Mr. America came from the back and punched King right in front of the ref and Tatt2 rolled him up fast for the pin. Everyone looked real good here. O’Neal did a good series with Grind. Michael had a good spot with King/Lee doing a double neckbreaker to get the hot tag. Jethro did a double suplex on Grind/Flex and then a double chokeslam on King/Lee. They made him look like a million bucks.

----Grind/Flex/Lee/King – interview threatening Cory and Jerry Calhoun.

----Lawler with Renee – interview. Lawler was wearing a real cool cape with his hands going thru the cape. Hard to explain, but it looked like something a super hero would wear. Lawler explains that thru the years he has always stayed in Memphis, but worked WWE. He talks about how the WWE works so many days a week. Lawler says they are building Orton up to work Hogan, so he knew what they were doing. Lawler gets close to breaking kayfabe here. Lawler is good at explaining why he loses in WWE and is suppose to still be a bad ass here in Memphis.

----Brickhouse Brown/Kevin White interview – got a good reaction for the crowd. Rashad with “Insane Clowns” [Mr. Giggles/Bobo] does interview to build match. MW Southern TT Title Match: White/Brown beat Clowns, when Giggles hits Bobo on mistake with the bucket. Giggles slipped trying to go to the second rope to do the move, so he just slugged the bucket. Good match with heat on White & hot tag to Brown. Rude/Poker seem to be getting comfortable in the gimmick and are running with it. I am still not a fan of it.

----Jerry Lawler beat Humongous [Gary Nations] by DQ. Nate came out to promise Lawler going to the hospital. Lawler pulled off Huey’s hockey mask and started punching him. Huey still had a ninja looking mask only showing his eyes and nose. Cory sold on commentary that Huey was weakening because of the mask coming off. [nice touch] Cowboys jumped in to help Huey. Renee slapped Nate during the brawl and then Nate knocked her down. Renee got out of the ring and brought Lawler a chair as he was getting beat up by three guys. Lawler cleared the ring.

----Lawler interview finished the show challenging Nate to bring someone else. Next week will be the last live Memphis Wrestling show.


FINAL NOTES: I took a look at Bill Nasty this week and him/me could be brothers. He has chicken legs, no ass and a big belly. For shoot – he looks like he could be my brother. Now you know why I do not wrestle. LOL…Maclin, I thought, had finally got John Michael’s name almost right [he has been calling him Christian Jacobs] by calling him Michaels instead of Michael. But, guess what?? He called him Chris Michaels. LOL Cory is bad…Not sure, but believe this was JD McKay’s first ever appearance on Memphis Wrestling. Even though, MW is a just a shell of what it use to be, I do know that was always a dream of his going back many years. Congrats JD…I have heard people being very critical of the Nations version of Huey. Thought he did nothing wrong in the match. Nations looks to be too overweight to be Huey, but if you look close he looks like having that barrel belly old weightlifter type body. May need to lose a few pounds, but thought he did a good job…I have liked the last two weeks of Memphis Wrestling tons. Not too many matches and just the right build up. If they could keep doing this and give some of the other guys chances, it might do a turnaround for me…It would been nice of Cory to bring up the history of Lawler vs Huey. Cory needs to get names of the wrestlers RIGHT!!!...Clowns are being called “Insane Clowns” now, instead of “Wild & Crazy” as directed by the King.

----This same Memphis Wrestling TV report is posted every week @ www.wrestlingobserver.com.