Smoky Mountain Saturday
WTVK Television
January 5, 2008 10:00am
Wrestling clips are shown…"Don't change that channel all that flippin' around! You're about to see the hottest show in town. The biggest stars and the biggest brawls, the biggest hits and the biggest falls. Non-stop action no messin' around, pretty soon we're comin' to your town. The way you like it way it used to be....Smokey Mountain Wrestling's on TV."
Big Jim Hess welcomes everyone to SMW Saturday…
Big Jim Hess descries the action from last night’s matches…
(brief video rolls featuring Ric Flair going over Bob Armstrong)…
(Flair)…three times…three times…three times…I defeated the LWA champion…but the LWA administration is afraid of me…the “Nature Boy”…woooo…wooooo…WOOOOOOOOO!
(Hess)...in last night’s SMW Tag action…Brute Bernard & Skull Murphy fell just short when Murphy was disqualified in action against the Heavenly Bodies…(brief video of Jim Cornette)…
(Cornette)…chair…foreign objects…choking….well…Bernard and Murphy…if that’s the way you want to play…you see, dimwits…the Heavenly Bodies don’t run from a fight…especially against cowards like you…
(Hess)…and in the continuation of a brutal war…just when it looked like Ricky Steamboat was about to beat Ole Anderson for the SMW Heavyweight championship…both were brutally attacked by Curt Hennig…(brief video rolls of Curt Hennig taped lat night)…
(Hennig)…Ole Anderson…wherever you go…whatever you do…look over your shoulder…and Curt Hennig…will be there…
Big Jim Hess welcomes Jim Cornette to the announce area…
(Cornette)…Now, Hess…let me have just a moment to speak to you about these two cowards that have infected the SMW like pimples on a teenager…you see, Hess…Murphy & Bernard…they know nothing about the great sport of wrestling…passed down from the ancient Greeks…kept alive by the names Hackenschmidt…Strangler Lewis…Frank Gotch…and today…Buddy Rogers…Harley Race…and Ric Flair…all these two-bit punks know…is bar fighting…pick up a chair…a whiskey bottle…anything available and crush their opponents with it…well everybody knows that Jim Cornette stands for one thing…Fair Play…but when someone blatantly flaunts the rules…
(Hess)…but, what about the times that you got involved in the Bodies matches flaunting the rules…
(Cornette…when I want your opinion….I’ll ask for it…now…despite the fact that these cowards leave a bad taste in my mouth…the Bodies will give these guys one more shot…this Friday…and…Bernard & Murphy…just to shut you up once and for all…this is going to be a bar fight…come as you are…and anything goes…and you’ll see…that the Bodies mean business…the Bodies are tough…and the Bodies are champions!
“Mr. USA” Tony Atlas & “Wildfire” Tommy Rich v “Russian Bear” Ivan Koloff & Iron SheikRich starts with an front elbow drop on Koloff…SLEEPER…LOU THESZ PRESS by Rich…1…2…kick out…tag to Atlas…big clothesline on Koloff…cover…1…2…here comes “Soulman” Rocky Johnson and Thunderbolt Patterson…Johnson & Patterson attack The Iron Sheik then set off after Ivan Koloff…Rich & Atlas are disqualified…Johnson is about to give Koloff a big right hand…when he’s attacked from behind by Tony Atlas…Rich rams Patterson into the apron…Koloff and The Iron Sheik take off to the back…leaving Atlas, Rich, Johnson & Patterson brawling…
As we come back from commercial, Tony Atlas and Tommy Rich are at the announce area…
(Atlas)…Rocky…Thunderbolt…you don’t stick your nose in our business…if ‘n you do…you’ll end up on the short end of the stick…
(Rich)…now, listen…I want everybody here…and everybody at home…you all saw what happened…Tony had Koloff down in the ring…we had the win…when Rocky Johnson & Thunderbolt Patterson come out here and attack the Russians…Johnson…Patterson…you keep out of our business…or you’ll have us “FARED UP” again like you did this morning…and that’s a promise!
“Nature Boy” Ric Flair joins Big Jim Hess…
(Hess)…Ric Flair…I know that you…and the rest of the SMW was shocked at the recent announcement that Buddy Rogers…LWA World’s Champion will defend his title against not you, Ric Flair…but, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper at the upcoming…Storm Warning PPV…
(Flair)…you know BI-YAG Jim Hess…being the humble man that I am…I was still appalled and outraged in this announcement…the “NAITCH-ure Boy”…the REAL Nature Boy, I might add…was left out…out in the storm you might say…why is that Hess…why do you think the LWA refused Ric Flair a championship match…one reason and one reason only…they do not want Slick Ric to walk off with the title…three time…I have defeated their paper champion…three times…I have proved to be the better man…three times I have shown who the REAL Nature Boy is…now…I have heard rumors that the LWA wants me to face Harley Race…hunh…well…I look forward to kicking Harley Race’s butt anytime I can get him in the ring…but know this LWA…know this wildfire…the REAL Nature Boy is coming, brother…and there is nothing…nothing that you can do to stop me…woooooo…
(Hess)…Ric Fla…
(Flair)…WOOOOOOOOOO!
“The Enforcer” Arn Anderson v Rick MartelMartel opens with a flying scissors…pendulum backbreaker by Anderson…Anderson Spinebuster…running cross body block by Martel…another Pendulum Backbreaker by Anderson…Anderson dumps Martel out of the ring hard…Tom Zenk comes out and helps Martel back into the ring…and starts pounding on the mat to fire up his partner…Anderson Spinebuster…stalling vertical suplex by Anderson…Anderson Spinebuster…GOURDBUSTER…Zenk up on the apron…Anderson approaches Zenk…Zenk with a still forearm staggers Anderson…Martel with a northern lights suplex…but, Anderson comes back with a Pendulum Backbreaker…stalling vertical suplex on Martel…Anderson Spinebuster…abdominal stretch by Anderson…Martel hip tosses him off…running crossbody block by Martel…cover…kick out…SUNSET FLIP…kick out…SUNSET FLIP…1…2…3…RICK MARTEL GETS THE UPSET!
Big Jim Hess welcomes SMW TV Champion, “American Dream” Dusty Rhodes…
(Rhodes)…look-a here, Big Jim…Now when the Dweam won the TV Title…I knew that I would have to face that the SMW has to offer…and week afta’ week…I have done that…Bobby Eaton…Tully Blanchard…Arn Anderson…The Iron Sheik…and now…this “Mr. 1derful”…last night…you might say that Orndorff ‘n’ me…we had a civil disobedience…and today…Mr. Orndorff…he gets his shot at the TV title…Orndorff…I earned this title with the sweat of my brow…the blood in my veins…and sometimes…my blood on the mat…ain’t that right, Big Jim…Paul Orndorff…if you want to take this title from me…you gotta come down here and show me you’re the better man…and brudda…I don’t believe you are!
“American Dream” Dusty Rhodes© v “Mr. 1derful” Paul Orndorff
SMW TV Title MatchOrndorff misses a clothesline…Bionic Elbow by Rhodes…shoulder tackle puts Rhodes down…full nelson by Orndorff…superplex on the champion…PILEDRIVER…kick out…PILEDRIVER…kick out…but Dusty’s in trouble…PILEDRIVER…1…2…3NO…Dusty kicks out…full nelson on Rhodes…Flip, Flop, Fly on Orndorff…Bionic Elbow by Dusty…Bionic Elbow Orndorff flying out of the corner with a clothesline leveling Rhodes…Orndorff screams and covers Dusty…1…2…3NO…Dusty kicks out again…PILEDRIVER…1…2…3…PAUL ORNDORFF IS THE NEW SMW TV CHAMPION!
Paul Orndorff comes to the announce area…
(Orndorff)…Dusty Rhodes,…you wanted me to procve that I was a man…well…you beer bellied washed up has been…who is the man now…who is the man!