----Corey Maclin opens the show with “In Memory” of Keith Eric. Eric was a jobber for Memphis in the 80’s. Apparently he had been suffering with cancer for a long time. Eric was a super nice guy that I met at a wrestling convention in Memphis where he actually won a trivia contest. He was a big time fan.
----Maclin shows Tom Nunnery [one of Lawler’s friends and from the 80s Memphis band “The Nunnery Brothers”] who was getting fans to sign a card for Jerry Lawler’s mom, who has been sick.
----“Insane Clowns” [Bobo/Giggles] with Rashard interview. Clowns beat Kidd Kastle/Flash Flanagan, when Flash turns on Kastle. Heat was on Kastle when he accidentally runs into Flanagan. A double down after Kastle hit Bobo with an awesome looking belly to back suplex. Hot tag to Flash and ends up on the floor and grabs a teddy bear from Rashard, which he uses on Kidd. Bobo pins Kastle for the win.
----Derrick King comes to do play by play with Maclin. Tatt2 comes out to challenges King for the JR title. King says he can beat Tatt2 in 5 minutes. JR Title Match: Tatt2 vs Derrick King ended after the 5 minutes. This was a very good match. King couldn’t pin Tatt2 after 5 minutes, so Tatt2 had the belt in the ring. DK jumped him and took it away and then smashed Tatt2 in the head with the belt. Everything was real good.
----Tom Nunnery comes out with the card. Grady Watson comes out with flowers. Nate the Rat comes out and says he does not believe Lawler’s mom had a stroke. Nate takes the card and rips it up. Nunnery/Watson go after Nate, but Jethro comes out. They put the flowers on Nunnery’s head and then Jethros throws him into the ring. Jethro does an awesome piledriver on Nunnery. He then goes after Watson, but the security and some of the other workers come out. Jethro chokeslams JD McCain and kicks Neil Taylor out of the ring. Good angle.
----“Picture Perfect” [Chris O’Neal/Jon Michael]/Mr.America won by DQ over “The Cowboys” [Ricky Murdoch/Bill Nasty]/Humongous II. Good shine for PP, and then they got the heat on O’Neal. Hot tag to America. America is coming back on Nasty, when Murdoch jumps in. They hang Michael/O’Neal with their bullrope cowbells as Huey holds down America. Everyone looked good in this match. Good angle.
----“Opening the Vault” with Lance Russell. This segment was about Jimmy Hart. Hart and “The Gentrys” showing a b&w clip from the 60s of them. Russell says that Hart was a good amateur athlete. Clip of Lawler inducting Hart into the WWE Hall of Fame. They also aired the WWE produced piece on Hart’s history.
----“Too Cool 2” [Tim Grind/Flex] interview. $5,000 vs Southern Tag Team Titles: Kevin White/Brickhouse Brown vs Flex/Grind ended No Contest. This match was all over the place and not much time given. This was less than 5 minutes for a bout they built from last week. White/Brown couldn’t pin either Flex or Grind. Finally, Grind/Flex jumped out of the ring and ran out with their money. There was nothing wrong with bout until they were being rushed into the finish and it was a total clusterfuck. Brown messed up a couple of moves and it looked horrible.
FINAL NOTES: Giggles mask almost fell off during their match…King is good on the mic. Tatt2 is not…Crowd was so hot for the Tatt2 vs DK bout…The Nate angle with him ripping the card for Mrs. Lawler was just like old time Memphis wrestling. Maclin also did a great job selling this angle. I loved it…Maclin still called Jon Michael “Christian Jacobs”…Humongous is now Humongous II. I think because he does not look like the Humongous that Memphis fans remember. They were expecting a big tall muscle head. The ironic thing is that Gary Nations has being doing this gimmick longer than anyone else. Nations also looks like he has lost about 20 lbs or more…Main event was too rushed. Other than that, this was a good show. They need to stick with a 3 match format and the “Opening the Vault” and it will give everyone plenty of time.
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