THE RESULTS
1. Derrick King, Dustin & Scott Starr beat Alan Steele, Johnny Dotson, & Nicholas Doom.
2. Shock beat Brandon Groom.
3. Jerry Lawler & Brian Christopher beat The Sexy Assassins.
4. XWF Cruiserweight Champ Kid Kash beat "The Convict" Jamie Dundee via DQ.
5. Memphis Wrestling Southern Champ Mabel beat Mordecai.
6. Jerry Lawler & Brian Christopher beat Robert Gibson & Todd Morton.
7. Jerry Lawler & Brian Christopher won a "battle royal."
8. Jerry Lawler & Jimmy Hart NC Kamala & Cory Maclin. After the match, Maclin was saved by numerous members of the Ford family (a prominent political family in Memphis).
NOTES
----Crowd was 3,758 with an average ticket price of $8.58; they had a gate close to $32,243. Wow!!
ANOTHER STORY
----Here is a story that was posted on www.1wrestling.com after the show.
MEMPHIS SHOW DRAWS 3758 PAID ATTENDANCE
By: 1Wrestling.com
7/12/2004 10:32:42 AM
A storyline that played out over several weeks on Memphis TV paid off with a paid gate of 3758 fans on Saturday night at the MidSouth
Coliseum.
For the past several weeks Jimmy Hart has been involved in a
storyline that turned Jerry Lawler heel and Kamala face. Hart had
hoodwinked Kamala into signing a recording contract with him and Cory
Maclin finally was able to show Kamala that the contract was heavily
tilted in Hart's favor with Hart taking 70% of everything Kamala
made. During the same time frame Hart was able to convince Jerry
Lawler to trust him and to allow Hart to manage him.
The main event for the Saturday night show was Hart & Lawler vs
Kamala & Maclin.
The show was promoted as "Throwback Night" and ticket prices were
reduced to $10 ringside and $5 general admission. Concessions were
reduced to $1, and the concession stand was totally sold out at
intermission. Promoters pushed the low prices to help attract local
fans back to the show.
The promotion, Memphis Wrestling, airs a weekly television show in
Memphis that consistently draws ratings in excess of 4.0.
The 3758 fans were the most to attend a local show in Memphis in
several years.
----As the week went by, The Fords being at the show was the most talked about thing.
Wrestling crass even for Fords
By Wendi C. Thomas
July 15, 2004
I have long labored under the belief that elected officials should
have a certain deportment.
Polite. Respectful. Articulate. Free from unseemly behavior that
could cast aspersions on the profession.
Sure, this dream was rattled by Dick Cheney's childlike declaration
that cussing sure does feel good.
We won't even talk about what Bill Clinton did with that woman and
cigar.
It's been hard to maintain this delusion in Memphis, what with folks
inviting colleagues to fight, and shooting out of cars on the
interstate, and declaring their butts genetically too big for cheap
chairs.
And now, caught on tape is the wrestling debut of the Ford family.
Toting around the hope-against-hope that pols act as if they have
good sense is hurting my back, not to mention my brain.
So I will do as the gospel song advises. I'm gonna lay down my
burdens, down by the riverside.
For those who missed the stunt, state Sen. John Ford, County
Commissioner Joe Ford, and Jake and Isaac Ford (two of Harold Sr.'s
sons) open a smallish can of whoop-butt at the Mid-South Coliseum
Saturday.
After the Ford family was spotted in the audience at Memphis
Wrestling's "Throw Back Night," someone came up with the brilliant
idea to lure them into the ring.
"I guess they wanted to add some excitement to it," Joe Ford said.
The tape shows Jerry 'The King' Lawler taunting Joe Ford. "If it
wasn't for that man right there, I'd be the mayor of this fine city
today," Lawler complains.
Well, that's not exactly true. Ford came in second and Lawler third
in the 1999 mayoral race. But I digress.
Promoter Jimmy Hart adds fuel to the fire, yelling, "Who wants to
drive a Ford when you can drive a Cadillac?"
Lawler and Hart were paired in the tag-team match, as were the
Ugandan Giant Kamala and promoter Corey Maclin.
When Kamala turned on Maclin, a Ford family friend, that was the
clan's cue to get to scrapping.
"That was the scheme, that we were going to (Corey's) rescue," Joe
Ford said.
Now, if County Mayor A C Wharton were to get in the ring, it might be funny. Such behavior would stand in stark contrast to his polished professional demeanor; the satire would be overwhelming. Not so much with the Fords, whose personal lives tend toward the messy.
Given that the public deems politicians only slightly more honorable
than used-car salesmen, why would four Fords squander even a smidgen
of credibility on a stupid stunt?
"Some people probably would say that, but everyone I've heard from
said, 'Congratulations, you won the match,' " Joe Ford said.
"It wasn't anything I was ashamed of."
Saving the Ford family from themselves (Harold Jr. excepted) may be a frustrating exercise in futility.
But for the rest of the local elected officials, I ask this:
If you're invited to make a guest wrassling appearance, just say no.
Contact Wendi C. Thomas at (901) 529-5896 or send an e-mail.
----Critics on the Mempho Yahoo board had this to say..
"Never figured on 4 matches though- almost every one! One Lawler match is fine. 4 is way too many!!! The younger guys need to be promoted a little more. If they don't, we'll all be seeing Jerry wrestle with his walker...LOL"
----That is strange since we still talk about this to the day. I also came across stuff that had LAW running everything weekend in Dyersburg, TN at the Entertainment Center and DCW had a big show planned in Selmer, TN with Lolipop, Danny B and more.
Credit: Mempho Wrestling Yahoo Group and www.prowrestlinghistory.com
