----Corey Maclin is joined by Jimmy Hart to co-host. They go to commercial and then come back with Maclin/Jimmy Hart/Jerry Lawler. They announce the death of Sputnik Monroe. Lawler reads a letter from Jerry Jarrett. Jimmy Hart tells how he had talked to Hulk Hogan and Hogan had told a story about Monroe talking to him about psychology. Lawler also read a letter from Billy Wicks, who was the main babyface vs the heel Monroe. Maclin read a letter next from Dave Brown. Lance Russell was also on the phone talking about Monroe. A video aired of photos of Monroe to “My Way”. 1st Class treatment for a Memphis legend.
----Clips of last week’s show of King/Rocker match with JR Title being held up. Derrick King comes out. JR title Match: King pins Rocker to regain the belt. They worked headlock spots for the first few minutes and then King started heat with a back suplex. Good short match. Finish had Reggie B Fine come out acting as if he was working on the ring, ref turned away and King hit Rocker with a foreign object for the pin and win. Camera was on ref and Fine, so it missed the finish.
----“Opening the Vault” with Lance Russell featuring Austin Idol this week. Idol vs Lawler – Hair vs Hair Cage Match. One of the greatest angles that Memphis ever booked. Tommy Rich under the ring comes out after a ref bump and Lawler gets his hair shaved. Clips of Idol video and interviews also aired.
----Jethro/”Insane Clowns”[Giggles/Bobo]/Fire/Flame beat “Picture Perfect” [Jon Michael/Chris O’Neal]/Eric Hayes/Matt Foley/Tatt2 in a 10 man tag match. This was rushed, but was fun. Fire/Flame looked better in their debut than “The Cowboys” did during their whole stint. Crowd was hot for this match!! Giggles used cotton candy on Tatt2 during the heat. That was funny. Hot tag to Hayes, but everyone got in the ring and ended with Jethro powerbombing Hayes. Fine comes out looking around and asks Hart, “Have you seen my billfold?? It had my food stamp card in it!!”
----Harold Ford JR interview with Maclin/Hart/Lawler at a political rally. Ford is running for US Senate. This is the kind of thing that you only see on Memphis Wrestling. LOL Not a bad piece and Maclin made me crack up at the end by saying, “I am Corey Maclin and I approve of this message.”
----“Too Cool 2” [Tim Grind/Flex]/Flash Flanagan/Jethro come out. Jethro says “Vote for Bob Corker” [Harold Ford JR’s opponent] during his interview and even says, “Who cares about Sputnik Monroe.” Jethro says that Nate the Rat had a heart attack and is not there this week. Flash even got to talk!! Lawler/Kevin White/Dustin Starr/Grady Watson come out.
----Lawler/White/Starr beat by DQ Grind/Flex/Flash when Fine jumps in and attacks Lawler. Another short match, but the crowd was so into it. Flash/Lawler did a few spots which lead to Lawler even pulling down his strap in the middle of the match. Not much heat, but it was on White. Hot tag to Lawler. Everyone in the ring as Fine jumped in for the DQ. Starr was never tagged into the bout. Lawler challenged them to a rematch for next week.
RassleNotes: Nice piece on Monroe. WWE needs to take lesson from them…Rocker vs King need about 30 minutes on TV. I know it will never happen, but they do work good vs each other…Austin Idol was never a great worker, but I was a big mark for him in the day. Tons of charisma!!!...Hart was putting over Fire/Flame and talking about how they looked like the old Assassins/Interns. The ironic thing is – they do look like them!! Same round bodies as Don Bass/Dirty Rhodes and they worked hard…Does anyone remember that Ford was part of a wrestling angle a few years back?? Click here to read about it...Thanks to the powers in charge for getting rid of the “The Cowboys”!!!...Hart was very critical of Grady Watson – on how he was dressed and how he got into wrestling. Hart said how it was easy to get into wrestling now - just come out of the crowd and be part of wrestling. It was obvious that Hart does not like Watson. He was even yelling at him about getting in to help the babys after Fine jumped in during the last bout…Speaking of Fine, he made three appearances and all three times he was wearing a different jersey. I have no idea what the significance of that was, but Maclin was making a big deal out of it…Brickhouse Brown was not there and since they taped two shows, half of the Southern Tag Team champions will be on next week’s show either…Another good show. As usual it felt rushed, but none of the wrestling looked bad. They left you wondering about where Nate the Rat was and have a rematch scheduled for next week.
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