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Post by elliott on Dec 11, 2017 21:13:23 GMT -5
Jerry Lawler & Dutch Mantell vs Bill Dundee & Buddy Landell (Memphis - 3/10/1986)
Another classic Memphis tag that clocks in under 15 minutes that still manages to rise to all time classic status in my eyes. Again, this is just wrestling the way I like it. This is an intensely personal fight with all 4 guys just killing each other as the crowd does absolutely insane. This has a real shot to make my list ahead of some of the more typical high end tag matches people talk about.
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Post by Cap on Dec 13, 2017 18:36:10 GMT -5
Second
I don't have much to add. It is a memphis tag match that does memphis tag stuff, and I mean that in a really good way. I am not sure my list will have room for it. This (and many like it) have a chance if through this process I realize I like Memphis even more than I thought and i start really leaning heavily on matches from this time and era.
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Post by superstarsleeze on Dec 27, 2018 17:27:20 GMT -5
Third this. This will be making the Pro Wrestling Love countdown for Memphis Wrestling. Just beautiful old school babyface vs heel tag team wrestling. Bill & Buddy steal the show here. Wont be making the final list but this is a top ten Memphis wrestling match of all time.
Jerry Lawler & Dutch Mantell vs Bill Dundee & Buddy Landell - Memphis 3/16/86
Going into watching Memphis, this is exactly what I expected! Chaos! Violence! Energy! Hatred! I thought this match was dripping with even more hatred than either of the Loser Leaves Town matches thus far. Dundee was a lunatic in this match. Throwing chairs into the ring, shoving Lance Russell around, tossing tables. Dundee's eye is half shut going into this match maybe retribution for what happened to the King in December. Dutch had a falling out with that little Aussie Prick and has joined forces with Lawler. Lawler and Mantell are crazy in this match chasing the heels around and kicking ass. I love Lawler parading around when Landell accidentally punched Dundee. He looked like Martel or Flair with all that energy! The heels jawing, cowardice and general blundering is awesome. Landell pinballing and then Dundee running away scared was hilarious. So many damn great punches in this match. Lawler teases the piledriver, but settles for a uppercut. He goads Dundee into the match only to move when Dundee tries to drop a leg. Lawler finally gets what he wanted. He tees off on the Superstar. I love Mantell with one foot in the ring at all times ready to pounce on Landell. Lawler kicking ass. Dutch makes sure to get his licks in. Dundee has tapped a gusher. This is a great revenge match. I am really digging it. Dundee throws a wild kick to the Royal Family Jewels and there is a quite cry of anguish. Dundee falls on his ass and is able to tag out to Nature Boy. Landell and Dundee do a number on the King throwing him into the table and kicking Dirty Dutch in the balls. Dundee and Mantell brawling out on the floor, this is chaos. Dundee has the friggin rope and is choking Lawler. Love it! Dundee gouges Lawler's face, but Mantell pulls him off. Dundee is firing away, but it is not having any effect. Dundee goes for the chain, but nails Landell who is now busted open. Tag to Dutch and it is a WAR! Dutch and Dundee brawl on the outside. Lawler and Mantell beat the living shit out of Landell while they take turns throwing Dundee out. The ref realizes Landell is not defending himself and calls the match for blood.
Awesome, awesome tag match. I thought it had even better energy and hatred than than Loser Leaves Town. The match is hurt by an anti-climatic finish that does not let you fist-pump in an excitement and the finish stretch does get a little long in tooth as they just keep kicking ass and throwing Dundee out. Enough complaints, this was badass and was one of the best Memphis matches I have ever seen and one of the best tag team matches of all time.
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Post by wrestlingfan on Jan 22, 2019 17:34:05 GMT -5
It won't make my list. Too chaotic. I'm not staying I didn't like it but still. My issue with that kind of tag matches is that too many things happen in the same time. So, I'm not able to see well everything that happens.
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Post by mvz on Oct 12, 2021 1:35:56 GMT -5
For a feud that is regarded as an all timer with some memorable moments, this match flies under the radar. I don’t know if this makes the cut, but it is certainly a favorite. these kinds of short heated chaotic matches are the type that I expect to fill out the bottom of my ballot.
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Post by mvz on Jun 11, 2023 8:47:27 GMT -5
Considered doing a strongly recommend 10 matches post just of mid 80s Memphis tags. Top 100 is tough to crack as we can tell by the comments here but this match is absolutely great.
3 others that have threads and potentially overlooked
Fabs vs Sheepherders (cage)
Savage/Poffo vs Rock n Roll Express
Rich/Gilbert vs Hickerson/Spoiler
But you can’t go wrong w a nominated tag from around this time with Lawler, the Fabs, etc.
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Post by KB8 on Jul 1, 2023 7:57:31 GMT -5
First match I've watched post-GME deadline and it is indeed a scorcher. Dundee was a fucking wildman in this, running around irate, picking fights with Lance and Randy Hales and fans and everyone else. Clearly Lawler being back in town didn't sit well with him. People are obviously going nuts and Dundee shouts at Lance to tell them to shut up and Lance responds with "how am I gonna tell them to be quiet, Bill?!" He'll also randomly drop off the apron and shout something down the mic or pick up a chair and fling it in the ring, flip a table, grab one of those metal rods and start swinging it. The word I'd use is unpredictable and unpredictable men can be the most dangerous. The call-backs to the Lawler/Dundee LLT from December were great, with Lawler making a point of punching Bill right in the eye and ramming him into posts and tables. Initially it was more traditional babyface shine and Dundee and Landell were stooging and pinballing everywhere. That was great because they're awesome pinballs and who's going to provide better punches to pinball off of than Lawler and Mantel? But then Dundee gets cup open and there's nothing light-hearted about Lawler exacting this particular brand of revenge. Lawler was even biting the cut at one point and I don't remember too many occasions where the King resorted to that. Dundee taking over by just punting Lawler in the balls and whomping him with a chain-wrapped fist was the perfect sort of desperate transition for what had come before. Dundee somehow gets even more maniacal after that and chokes Lawler with the safety rope, and I loved how when Mantel came around to stop it Dundee just booted him in the balls as well! Lance was mid-sentence about Dundee ripping Lawler with a punch and Dundee spun around, flipped the table causing Lance to scatter, and then he flung Lawler face-first into it, an amazing payback from when Lawler did the exact same thing to him back in December. I loved the way they worked the big comeback. Usually you'd get the tried and true hot tag with Mantel coming in to clean house. But this was all about Lawler and Dundee. Lawler is bleeding and absorbing shots, clearly ready to drop the strap and go bonkers, so Landell comes in and grabs him. Mantel jumps in to even things up but Calhoun puts him back out, and while this is happening Dundee wraps a chain around his fist again, goes for the big home run shot on Lawler, but Lawler ducks and Bill cracks Buddy. Landell is covered in blood and from there it's basically one long festival of babyface punches until Calhoun calls for the blood stoppage. Dundee was so great down that last stretch as well, repeatedly getting clocked by Mantel or thrown out the ring just to get back up, run face first into another punch, get chucked out, bounce up, go again, fully driven by instinct.
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