POLL RESULTS!!!
----Cheap Heat Radio Survey: Which wrestler came off as knowing the LEAST about the business?? The visitors have spoken and it looks like Leveigh came off looking worse than anyone on the radio show. As I said, I thought he was doing pretty well at the first, but then he started to get real cocky. He scored 52% of the vote with the four other guys 48%. In his defense Anton is younger than any of the other guys and has a lot to learn about this business.
Anton Leveigh – 52%
Dustin Starr – 17%
Loose Cannon 14%
Derrick King 10%
Stan Lee 7%
NEW POLL!!
----Dave Meltzer stated a day this week about himself working on a story for this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Meltz stated, “We are working on an Observer story, kind of stemming from next week's Greensboro story, looking at the most famous/important wrestling match by city. For those of you who are long-time fans, I'm interested in your feedback on, in your city (limit it to fairly major wrestling cities), what is remembered culturally as the biggest or most memorable wrestling match, and perhaps why. We're looking not for the best match, but for the matches that for, whatever reason, seem to have stood the test of time.” So I shot a few people that I consider big Memphis marks and we came up with these 5 choices. Well, actually Memphis historian Mark James [www.marksfiles.com] was a big help with dates and suggestions. So here goes…
*Sputnik Monroe vs Billy Wicks, Aug 17, 1959, attendance 13,749, former boxing champ Rocky Marciano was the ref. Held in Memphis at Russwood Park (local baseball stadium at the time.)
*1st Jerry Jarrett card after the split w/ Nick Gulas, Jerry Lawler vs Bob Armstrong in the main event, stretcher match May 20, 1977
*Jerry Lawler vs Bill Dundee (Bev Dundee loses hair): Sep 13, 1977
*Jerry Lawler vs Andy Kaufman (1st match): Aug 05, 1982
*Jerry Lawler vs Austin Idol (hair) Cage Match: Apr 27, 1987
*Jerry Lawler beats Curt Hennig for AWA World belt May 09, 1988:
