Lance Russell and Dave Brown are in the booth and they are broadcasting from the WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Footage of Doug Gilbert turning against Jerry Lawler in their tag team match against Brian Lee and Jimmy Harris at the Coliseum is shown. After this, a brawl broke out between Gilbert, Lee, and Harris against Lawler, Bill Dundee, and PG-13.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – May 27, 1995
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are doing commentary and they are taped from the WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Since Russell missed last week’s show, he is oblivious about what happened so Brown clues him in. That is not a good look to start the broadcast.
Russell interviews Downtown Bruno, who puts himself over as the best manager in the WWF. He says Uptown Karen will be Gorgeous George III’s new valet and he is forming a stable known as the Downtown Connection that includes George, Karen, the Gambler, Brickhouse Brown, and Johnny Rotten. Bruno runs down Miss Texas and challenges her to a match where the loser must eat dog food.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – May 20, 1995
Monday Night Raw
Date: January 23, 2006
Location: Bobcats Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina
Attendance: 7,900
Commentators: Jonathan Coachman, Jerry Lawler, Joey Styles
It’s the go home show for the Royal Rumble and that means it’s probably going to be time for a bunch of people to be thrown over the top in a big segment near the end of the show. Other than that we need Edge’s final night as champion before John Cena takes it back from him after three weeks. Let’s get to it.
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are in the booth and they are broadcasting from the WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Footage of Jerry Lawler defeating Razor Ramon for the USWA Unified World title in Memphis is shown. Ramon was initially declared the winner after decking Lawler with Jimmy Harris’ walkie talkie, but the decision was made to restart the match and when Sid distracted Ramon, Lawler schoolboyed his opponent for the victory.
USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion Brian Lee and Harris tell Russell that Lawler is a marked man.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – May 6, 1995
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are in the booth and they are broadcasting from WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Brown interviews Scott Studd, who argues that USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion Brian Lee will not give him a title shot. Lee walks out and says Studd does not deserve one.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – April 29, 1995
Footage of Jerry Lawler throwing a fireball in Mabel’s face at the recent Mid-South Coliseum show is played.
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are handling commentary and they are coming to us from the WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Brown notes that the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship is held up due to referee problems in Brian Lee’s matches with Brian Christopher.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – April 15, 1995
Today’s commentary is different as Dave Brown and Corey Maclin are in the booth and they are in the WMC-TV 5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – April 8, 1995
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are doing commentary and are in the usual WMC-TV 5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – April 1, 1995
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are in the booth and are coming to us from the WMC-TV 5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Russell interviews Wolfie D and he welcomes J.C. Ice back. Ice says that only he knows when his neck is ready and when it is he is going to make Doug Gilbert and Tommy Rich pay. Wolfie D hypes a piledriver elimination match and says that Bill Dundee is going to be his partner in this match.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – March 25, 1995
Like Super Saturday Night Fever, this card was taped from a fan in the crowd. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew 1,100 fans to Knoxville’s Civic Coliseum.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: Sunday Blood Sunday II
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are in charge of commentary and they are at WMC-TV 5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee. They hype a new look for today’s broadcast.
The end of last week’s USWA Unified World Championship match between Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee is shown.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – March 4, 1995
Jim Ross and Les Thatcher provide commentary for today’s matches, which are still airing from Lenoir, North Carolina.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: Smoky Mountain TV – February 25, 1995
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are sad to inform Memphis fans that Eddie Gilbert passed away in Puerto Rico of a heart attack. A video package to the tune of Garth Brooks “The Dance” honors Gilbert’s career in the region.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – February 25, 1995
Jim Ross and Les Thatcher do commentary and they are at a new taping location in Lenoir, North Carolina. According to prowrestlinghistory.com, the taping at the Mulberry Street Recreational Center drew 375 fans.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: Smoky Mountain TV – February 18, 1995
The show has a new introduction, with a knock off country song about SMW having the “biggest brawls” and “biggest stars” in wrestling.
Jim Ross and Les Thatcher call the action as they wrap up the television tapings in Sevierville, Tennessee.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: Smoky Mountain TV – February 11, 1995
As per usual, Lance Russell and Dave Brown call the action and they are from the WMC-TV 5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Brown lets fans know that Jerry Lawler is the new USWA Unified World Champion.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – February 11, 1995
(So I actually did have a copy of this show sitting in my home office, so we got a little ahead of ourselves in the SMW reviews by doing the February 4 television show. We will rewind to review this big event and then move to February 11 next week)
Smoky Mountain Wrestling never put out a VHS release of Super Saturday Night Fever so existing footage is from a fan cam. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show, which took place at the City Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee, drew 2,000 fans and a $16,000 gate.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: SMW Super Saturday Night Fever ’95
Today’s show features some of the matches that took place at Super Saturday Night Fever in Knoxville, Tennessee on January 28. Les Thatcher does commentary on the matches.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: Smoky Mountain TV – February 4, 1995
Dave Brown and Corey Maclin call today’s action from the WMC-TV 5 studio in Memphis. Macklin usually served as the ring announcer on these shows, but he would stand in for Lance Russell when Russell was absent. He was WMC-TV’s sports reporter.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: USWA Championship Wrestling – January 28, 1995
Jim Ross and Les Thatcher oversee commentary and they are still taped from Sevierville, Tennessee.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: Smoky Mountain TV – January 28, 1995