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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,313 Views)
Scrooge McSuck
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Tim Horner has been cutting promos with sick kids lately during his feud with the Dirty White Boy. It's almost like he's the originator of Hustle, Loyalty, and Respect.
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I will give Tim Horner some credit. He did up his promo game for the Dirty White Boy feud. He wasn't good but he stopped stumbling over his words and got his point across.
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Scrooge McSuck
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He still has hiccups, but they're less obvious since he seems to have more passion behind his words.

The "Beat the Champ" Title is being introduced, and it sounds like a decent concept and seems almost like something WCW did in 89-90 where they had someone run gauntlets on the weekend shows for prize money. Basically someone wins the belt and then has to defend it 5 times against "randomly drawn" opponents, and wins $1,000 for each match, plus $5,000 if he wins all five.


1992 wraps up with Horner/White Boy over the SMW Title (Horner "stole" it and played stupid about it for a week or two), there seems to be a shoe-horned heel vs. heel angle with the Stud Stable and Heavenly Bodies with the RnR Express waiting for a top contender, Bullet Bob is trying to run Kevin Sullivan out of SMW, and Garvin/Orndorff is STILL a thing.


Interesting music video that seems to focus on almost everyone in SMW in 1992, including a laundry list of no longer used talent, including among others, Terry Gordy, Dutch Mantell (as far as in-ring, obviously), Doug Furnas, The Maulers, The Wild Bunch, Bob Holly, Buddy Landel, Hector Guerrero, The Koloffs, Barry Horowitz, The Batten Twins, and the Wild Bunch.
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My big goal for the summer and fall is to get all the Memphis TV footage 1979-1997 and start watching it all next year.
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Scrooge McSuck
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18 years worth of TV!? That's going to be quite the adventure to go through.
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Some of the early years aren't complete but I believe from 1984 onwards it is.
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I think TV is usually pretty easy to work through if it's just a single show. I think where I get bogged down is by things like WCW where a week of TV is 6 hours worth of shows. Memphis also tends to be a much quicker pace so I think that will help.
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Depending on the quality of the product, I think 3 hours would be the maximum of weekly TV (or 2 1/2 minus commercials since there was less advertisement time taken away), and even that would be a bit of a stretch to get through large chunks of time.
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I think it's okay at times in WCW. I sometimes like when you get weird matches on Pro or something but I tend to agree with you. A 2 hour A show and an hour B show should be the max.
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Scrooge McSuck
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WCW had way too many shows to follow. Early 90's version, you had World Wide, Saturday Night, Power Hour, Pro, and Main Event. Growing up in New York, we didn't get TBS, so the only TV I knew of (or could watch) was Pro. Years later when I got into tape trading/collecting, I was caught by surprise how much TV they churned out, and so many quality matches they presented. On WWF TV, Hogan almost never wrestles. WCW TV, Sting and Flair are wrestling every damn week.
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And shit got weird if you didn't have access to all the TV. Like Ronnie Garvin was never on Worldwide so it was weird as hell when he won the World Title.
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One Man Gang debuts on the next episode of Wrestling Challenge.
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Tracy Smothers becomes the inaugural "Beat the Champ" TV Champion, winning a 4-corners match against Killer Kyle, Jimmy Golden, and the Dirty White Boy (points to whoever put the SMW Champion in there, because he was greedy for the payday). His "southern love" is a bit excessive, but he's lightyears better on promos than everyone on the face side, with the exception of Ricky Morton and Bob Armstrong.


Bob Armstrong makes a comment about keeping his eyes on Tom Prichards feet, because he speculates that his boot is loaded. Jim Cornette fires back with the greatest joke since his last welfare joke, making reference to Mel Phillips. Actually, he just flat out said it. "Who does he think he is, Mel Phillips?!"


Did I mention the episode began with Dutch Mantell's cue-cards reading along the lines that Bob Caudle isn't gay? With one card devoted entirely to "GAY!"? Imagine trying to get away with this stuff now.
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I honestly had no clue Bobby Eaton popped up in SMW. I know his time in WCW wasn't sunshine and roses once the Dangerous Alliance split, but I didn't know he was let go.
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SMW and WCW have a working agreement at this time so some WCW talent will pop up for short runs.
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