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The Name on the Marquee: Smoky Mountain Wrestling (11.27.93)

August 17, 2016 | Posted by Adam Nedeff
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The Name on the Marquee: Smoky Mountain Wrestling (11.27.93)  

-Originally aired November 27, 1993.

-From Newton, NC.

-Your hosts are Bob Caudle & Dutch Mantell. Bob promises the best episode EVER! Your Beat the Champ contender this week: Kanyon!

-Chris Candido walks out, complaining about a neck injury he suffered after being struck by a pillowcase last week, and promises to be at ringside for Blaze’s match this week to make sure there’s no attempts by Blaze to use a foreign object.

BOBBY BLAZE vs KILLER KYLE
-And indeed Candido is at ringside for this one. Weird commentary from Caudle, who says Kyle has a 90-pound weight advantage in this match. These guys are exactly the same height and body type.

-Springboard back suplex by Kyle gets two. Kyle clearly thinks Blaze is out of his league and is doing all of his offense very slowly and lazily. It nearly costs him, as Blaze schoolboys him for two. Kyle drags him over to the corner and Candido CRACKS him with a closed fist behind the referee’s back. Bearhug by Kyle. Blaze punches out but gets powerslammed.

-Blaze begins fighting back with kicks from every direction. He goes to the top rope, but Candido whips him with the Jr. Heavyweight belt and Blaze falls right off and gets pinned.

-Promo from Kevin Sullivan at the beach. Really creepy opening, as Sullivan walks from a distance right up to the camera without stopping or saying anything, and it actually kinda freaks you out. He’s got the spike and says he doesn’t really want to use it on Bob Armstrong, but the voices in his head do…the voices that Armstrong could have prevented by paying for psychiatric treatment, like Sullivan asked.

-Jim Cornette warns that the Bruise Brothers are gonna find out how the Heavenly Bodies got a reputation for being the most dangerous team in Paintsville. Being street fighters don’t mean nothin’ in a town that doesn’t have streets!

-Brian Lee and Tammy Fytch are here. The Dirty White Girl has fleas, so Tammy has to go to her dermatologist because White Girl touched her. Brian Lee promises that if Dirty White Boy wants to see Ron Wright in the hospital, he can arrange the meeting.

BEAT THE CHAMP TV TITLE: TIM HORNER (Champion) vs CHRIS KANYON
-Horner snapmares Kanyon down. Kanyon, who’s actually been a pretty bland anonymous jobber to this point, is coming to life here, complaining about Horner cheating after absolutely every move, and it’s getting a reaction from the fans. Neat to see a guy finding himself like that.

-Kanyon throws elbows and backdrops Horner. Big elbow by Kanyon, but he does a lazy pin and Horner turns it into a crucifix for two. Kanyon goes for a kradle, but Horner reverses it. Kanyon is getting frustrated and misses a dropkick. Kanyon tries a corner charge, but Horner dodges and turns it into a natural bridge for three. Kanyon loses by being his own worst enemy. Nice little story told there.

DOWN AND DIRTY WITH DUTCH
-Dutch promises “the dirtiest segment ever,” and indeed, this segment of Down and Dirty with host Dirty Dutch Mantell features guests Dirty White Boy and Dirty White Girl. DWB promises that he’s bringing the chain to every venue in the Smoky Mountains and dares Brian Lee to take it from him. Between the two of them, DWB and DWG basically call Tammy a training bra-wearing prostitute, and DWB adds that he accepts Tracy Smothers’ challenge for after Thanksgiving Thunder, and he WILL be the champion that Tracy Smothers faces.

-The Bruise Brothers are gonna break every rule they can when they face the Heavenly Bodies.

“Wild Eyed Southern Boy” TRACY SMOTHERS & ROCK & ROLL EXPRESS vs HEAVENLY BODIES & “Prime Time” BRIAN LEE (with Jim Cornette & Tammy Fytch)
-Rock & Roll Express comes to the ring with the title belts via the miracle of pre-taping, but had actually just lost them three nights earlier at the WWF Survivor Series in one of the most bizarre PPV booking decisions ever, as Vince McMahon showcased two tag teams from a different promotion in a match that got absolutely no hype or angle on WWF-TV leading up to it, but what makes it even stranger is that they never mentioned it or built to it on SMW television either!

-Mantell sums up the way Cornette books pretty effectively here, noting that the Bodies and the Rock & Roll Express always hate each other, even though the Express is dealing with the Moondogs, who have a similar style to the Bruise Brothers, who are feuding with the Heavenly Bodies, and Smothers & Lee have feuded and are sort of feuding again, with the intensity of the feud dependent on the outcome of matches at Thanksgiving Thunder. Got it?

-Robert Gibson starts with Brian Lee, and there’s probably a story here, as Lee is wearing jeans instead of tights for this match and nobody notices. Lee gets caught in the wrong corner and gets pinballed around. Del Ray tags in and Ricky Morton hiptosses him around. Smothers enters without tagging, giving the camera a sly grin for not getting caught, as Cornette and Fytch complain.

-Gibson hiptosses Tom Pritchard back and forth and Morton adds a backdrop. Pritchard is heel-in-peril as the forces of good cut him off from tagging pretty well. Tammy Fytch is freaking out, hugging Brian Lee’s leg with a worried look on her face until the Bodies resort to good old-fashioned cheating. Snap suplex on Ricky Morton as Dutch Mantell, three days after the PPV, mentions both tag teams being in the WWF, and that’s absolutely all he has to say about it.

-Pritchard powerslams Morton for two. Lee comes in and chokes him out. Del Ray stays on Morton and goes to the top rope for a diving headbutt. He pulls Morton out at two, which is probably going to cost him. Donnybrook breaks out, and Cornette panics and blows his whistle, which brings out the Moondogs. Moondogs attack the Rock & Roll Express and they brawl on the floor, which leaves Tracy Smothers in the ring to get beaten to death by all three opponents, until the Bruise Brothers make the save.

-Brothers and Bodies brawl on one side of the arena. Express and Moondogs are brawling on another side of the ring. Brian Lee stays with Tracy Smothers, but now that it’s a fair fight, Smothers just beats the crap out of Lee and clamps on the figure four. Fytch clobbers with the loaded purse to knock out Smothers. Lee tries to capitalize with a move off the top rope, but Dirty White Boy runs in and slams him off the top. He clotheslines Lee out of the ring and Lee gets the hell out. That leaves DWB and Smothers in the ring, and the crowd BEGS them for a handshake in a pretty great moment…but Smothers just can’t bring himself to do it. GREAT segment!

-Bruise Brothers and Tracy Smothers are ready for action in Paintsville!

-Mike Furnas is here to talk about his impending debut, but Jim Cornette is tired of hearing all this hype about somebody who hasn’t even had his first match yet. Cornette hates football too! Heavenly Bodies attack Furnas and hold him in place while Cornette gives him a few GOOD shots with the tennis racquet, and Furnas is left in a heap.

7.3
The final score: review Good
The 411
Three pretty decent matches plus rock solid angles equals a good week!
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