Finally got to see Mission Impossible tonight in exchange for going to Barbie with the women in my household a couple of weeks ago. It was wonderfully ridiculous in every way and exactly what I wanted out of it. Plus the train sequence nearly gave me heart failure and I was having flashbacks to playing Uncharted. Highly recommended.
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Lance Russell & Dave Brown
I was going to carry on with Pro Wrestling USA today but it seems to have disappeared from the KrisPLettuce archive for some reason. So back to Memphis it is.
(The reason turned out to be that I was looking in the wrong place)
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Lance Russell & Dave Brown
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Lance Russell & Dave Brown
The SmarK Rant for Memphis Wrestling – 02.08.86
Well let’s see if I can get through this week without glossing over any famous squashes.
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Lance Russell & Dave Brown
The SmarK Rant for Jerry Lawler Volume 2: The Early Years
Hosted by Jerry Lawler
The SmarK Rant for Memphis Wrestling – 02.01.86
Time for a palette cleanser after a weekend of AEW.
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Lance Russell & Dave Brown
The SmarK Rant for Jerry Lawler: Wrestling Royalty
This was a videotape advertised on Memphis TV in 1986 a few times, which has thankfully been archived by someone on YouTube so I can review it. Direct to home video was of course rare in 1986 so this was a pretty cool idea for the time.
Hosted by Jerry Lawler, of course.
The SmarK Rant for Memphis Wrestling – 01.18.86
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Lance Russell & Dave Brown
The SmarK Rant for Memphis Wrestling – 01.11.86
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Dave Brown & Lance Russell
The SmarK Rant for Memphis Wrestling – 01.04.86
I love the Memphis stuff but it feels like 1979 is a little too far back, so let’s jump ahead to something that’s going to have more modern characters and start at the beginning of 1986 instead.
Also on my list of stuff to start in the KrisPLettuce archive: Global Wrestling Federation, and Continental Wrestling from the Eddie Gilbert/Paul Heyman era.
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Lance Russell & Dave Brown
The SmarK Rant for Memphis Wrestling – 02.24.79
Have I mentioned lately how I love this stuff?
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your host is Lance Russell, running solo this week.
The SmarK Rant for Memphis Wrestling – 02.17.79
Moving forward a few months in KrisPLettuce’s archive, as the first show available was from November 1978 and now we’re into the futuristic year 1979. For those who were asking after the first episode, this is shortly after Jerry Jarrett took control of the Memphis territory, about a year prior.
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Dave Brown & Lance Russell
The SmarK Rant for Memphis Wrestling – 11.11.78
Once again, THANK YOU to KrisPLettuce for the amazing Google Drive of awesomeness. Starting with these shows from as early as he’s got. Look him up on Twitter at @KrisPLettuce and for $12 you get access to EVERYTHING. ALL OF THE STUFF. Or just send to [email protected] via Paypal. Are you a wrestling nerd? You will not regret it. Plus then you can follow along with all the crazy reviewing tangents we’re going to be departing onto.
Taped from Memphis, TN
Your hosts are Dave Brown & Lance Russell
The SmarK Rant for The Best of Memphis TV Yearbook – Volume 1
OK so there seems to be some demand for me to check out this stuff on Tubi, so we’ll start here with one of the greatest runs ever, IMO.
The SmarK Rant for Tales from the Territories S1E1: “Memphis: Where Wrestling Was Real”
Man, this show is getting almost ZERO attention. Probably because it’s not hot button stuff like Dark Side was. So let’s give it a look and maybe show it some love! Plus, you know, MEMPHIS.
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are doing commentary for the last episode of USWA Championship Wrestling in 1995. They are broadcasting from the WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Russell and Brown inform fans that Jerry Lawler won the SMW Championship in Memphis from Brad Armstrong. They remind fans that Bob Armstrong will not be on the show because he is banned from the studio.
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are calling the action, originating from the WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Brown talks with Scott Bowden, who says PG-13 are not in the same league as the Rock N’ Roll Express. He shows footage of the feud earlier in the year between the two teams to make it seem like the Express dominated it.
Lance Russell is back from vacation and he reunites with Dave Brown in the booth to call the action from the WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Brown interviews Randy Hales, who announces that Bob Armstrong’s court injunction to prevent the USWA from acquiring total control of SMW is over. From this point forward Armstrong is banned from WMC-TV5 studios. Hales also announces a lumberjack strap match between Jeff Jarrett and Armstrong, a “loser leaves town” match between referees Gene Johnson and Frank Morrell, and a USWA tag team title match where Jesse James Armstrong and Tracy Smothers will defend against Doug Gilbert and a mystery partner. No specific date is given for these matches since there will be no card at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 18.
Dave Brown and Corey Maclin are calling today’s action from the WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Bob Armstrong comes out with Downtown Bruno, who is in a wheelchair and wearing a cervical collar. Before Armstrong says anything important the show cuts to commercial.
