----RassleTube this week features -- a video showing Jim Cornette’s collection, some CWA commercials, a Flash vs Batista bout, a Flash IWA video, and a Joe LeDuc video [one of my faves when growing up]. I also added a Fargo vs Lawler clip that I think is the first 5 minutes of the same bout they showed on “Opening the Vault”. Both Lawler and Fargo throw some of the best punches!!! These have all been added to MY FAVORITES. Memphis Wrestling clips include from 12.09.06: Fire/Flame/Jethro vs Picture Perfect/K Hill; Brooke and Hulk Hogan interview; “Opening the Vault” with Lance Russell – Bill Dundee; and “Too Cool 2” [Tim Grind/Flex] vs “The Posse” [Simon Reed/’Lil Chris]. From 12.16.06: Lawler & Corey shoot on Mid-South Coliseum.
----RassleChronicle covers the results of RAW/Nitro 10 years ago. This week is posted. I have also added a Herb Kunze Wrestling Tidbits column that was published at this time. This week Herb gives a review of the year 1996 with his thoughts and views. Interesting stuff.
10 Years ago in Memphis Wrestling - USWA: Bill Dundee turned babyface this past week. On the December 14th tv show, Dundee faced Jerry Lawler for the Unified title. PG-13 interfered and Wolfie D accidentally hit Dundee with a hubcap shot, costing him the match. Later in the show. PG-13 asked Dundee to join the Nation of Domination but he declined. Wolfie D then said that was typical, as he never does anything for his son (his son being Jamie Dundee, Wolfie’s tag team partner). Bill Dundee decked him and the two brawled out into the parking lot, where the rest of the NOD (including Jamie Dundee) jumped him and supposedly ‘broke his hand’. Jerry Lawler and Brian Christopher made the save for him…… Also on the tv show, Wolfie D won the USWA title from Brian Christopher, after a ton of interference from Randy X (Randy Hales), Queen Moishe (formerly ‘Miss Texas’, later Jacqueline in WWE), Akeem Muhammad (Reggie B Fine) and Jamie Dundee….. Great Meltzer line in this section: ‘The Hooters Girls are gone, which is a sign Jerry Lawler is no longer booking’…… Ian Rotten had started running opposition shows to the USWA in Louisville, across the street from them. He’d increased his weekly attendance from 55 to nearly 200 per week, through heavy bloodbaths and weapons matches. Credit: www.wrestlingobserver.com
