Jim Cornette Plays Guess The Program

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]All right, we are back.

[00:00:09]>> Good lord, you almost gave me a heart attack.

[00:00:12]>> I told you you don't have to call me the good Lord, but it's nice that you do.

[00:00:16]Jim, before we get to more modern wrestling, you saw a couple things on Raw and we have this big AW pay-per-view to review.

[00:00:24]>> Let's have a break in between. Let's do a little guess the program. Is that okay with you? Oh, there you go. There you go.

[00:00:32]>> All right. Why don't you explain the rules while I pull these up here?

[00:00:35]>> While you whip those out, I'll explain the rules is that Brian is going to go through his voluminous program collection and is going to read me a lineup from one of said programs. that I in my borderline mystical way am going to try to figure out the place and the year unless he tries to screw me around and throws me these curve balls try to swerve me around >> and I think more than that in some cases we try to get you to get even more precise the month and sometimes you even could get to the week so why don't we aim for that let me start with an easy one for you right in your wheelhouse oh in a flywheel.

[00:01:18]>> I would say on a scale of 1 to 10, this is a one. This is a one for you.

[00:01:22]>> Okay, here we go.

[00:01:23]>> The opening contest, Dutch Mantel and Pork Chop Cash versus Rick Gibson and Tommy Gilbert.

[00:01:32]The second event, Plowboy Frasier versus George Wagner.

[00:01:39]The third event, the Southern Heavyweight title on the line. Rocky Johnson versus David Schultz.

[00:01:49]A grudge tag team match demanded by Rich and Dundee. Phil Hickerson and Dennis Condre with Rock Hunter >> versus Bill Dundee and Tommy Rich. And finally, following an intermission, the main event, special challenge, Jerry Lawler versus Andre the Giant.

[00:02:13]Oh, okay.

[00:02:16]Well, I'll go through the participants.

[00:02:19]Uh, Dutch Mantel, obviously everybody knows Pork Chop Cash at the time was a single heel. There was just kind of teamed with different people. And this is the Memphis territory, by the way.

[00:02:34]Uh, it was kind of teamed with different people or working singles. And then as I believe well it might have been later on the next year but they switched him baby face and he was quite the gimmick baby face. That was in 78. This is 1977.

[00:02:51]Ricky Gibson obviously Robert's older brother. Tommy Gilbert is Eddie's father who was a big name in the Tennessee territory from the late 60s through the 80s.

[00:03:04]Plowboy Frasier, more noted to the WWF fans as Uncle Elmer, but uh he'll always be Tiny Frasier to the boys in Memphis.

[00:03:16]And this was, by the way, one of the I'm going to say five or six times ever that Plowboy and Andre were on the same card together. I actually saw them and it was in Louisville uh that I saw this six-man tag match where they were on opposite sides, Andre and Plowboy and and there's a famous picture that Mike Shields took and I'm thinking it may have been on this night of Plowboy and Andre standing next to each other and Frasier was always build as seven feet tall but he was really about 6'9 and Andre was 7'4 and he was really about 610 plus his afro.

[00:04:04]So they were almost the same height. And Vince always McMahon senior always discouraged Andre having pictures taken with basketball players or whatever because he didn't want to be too close. Anyway, >> eventually discouraged him from having pictures taken in the Memphis territory.

[00:04:22]>> Yes.

[00:04:24]>> Never worked out.

[00:04:25]>> He didn't work in the Memphis territory anymore.

[00:04:29]uh plowboy working with George Wagner was Gorgeous George Jr.

[00:04:35]because it he came in and it was wild actually he and Lawler he Gorgeous George Jr.

[00:04:43]debuted in uh at in Louisville at least. I'm not sure what they did his first week in Memphis, but he debuted in the main event against Lawler for the Southern title and they had a competitive match and ended up doing a short little program where they traded the belt back and forth. And from the start, Gorgeous George Jr. Even with the valet, Miss Susette had been a baby face against Lawler and but then he switched heel and they had gotten together somehow by the end of the year because they were all heels. And then he turned on Lawler when Lawler had cut the promo on him that his father died broke and penalous and a with a whiskey bottle in his back pocket and a gutter somewhere and George came out and cried and said his father wasn't a drunk and an alcoholic like Lawler said. He was a good man and he becomes George Wagner because that was Gorgeous George's real last name or real name George Wagner.

[00:05:51]Uh Rocky Johnson, the southern champion, defending against David Schultz. This was Schultz the start of Schulz's second full year in the business, but he had already been used in the Tennessee territory on in a number of top positions and was already a good worker and actually was a lot more not mobile, but when he was younger, before he became the badass that he would become, Dr. D and got even bigger when he was like 225 230. He was dropping these wild elbows off the top rope and all kind of [ __ ] But he was he was younger then. Uh Rich and Dundee in a program with Hickerson and Condre for the Southern tag team title. Tommy Rich and Bill Dundee were the most popular babyface tag team. I would say in between uh probably Tommy Gilbert and Eddie Marlin in 7374 and then when finally Lawler and Dundee would start teaming up in 78, Rich and Dundee were were the the [ __ ] the monkeys. They were the Teeny Bopper idols. And Rock Hunter for just a brief period of time managed Hickerson and Condry. And I didn't I didn't never really get Rock Hunter as a manager or just you know he had a great face and he you know but he just h little bland.

[00:07:25]And of course, the main event with Lawler and Andre was the first and only singles match that those two guys would ever have with each other, which means that this is the Louisville Gardens on April 5th, 1977.

[00:07:40]And you you tried to get one by on me there.

[00:07:43]>> Well, jackpot, >> the bell time of 8:00.

[00:07:47]>> April 5th, 1977, Louisville wrestling at the Louisville Gardens. Watch professional wrestling every Saturday on WDRB channel 41 in Louisville and get your advanced tickets at Louisville Gardens on the day of the matches.

[00:08:02]And here's the thing, thinking about this just real quick. Not only was there no ticket master in those days or no way to buy tickets online, there weren't even any ticket outlets in Louisville. Some cities for the wrestling matches they'd have, you know, sponsors where you could go into like in Indianapolis, it always seemed to be furniture stores or men's clothing. You can go into Ross and Babcock or Ross and Young on whatever Meridian Street, pick up your advanced tickets. In Louisville, the matches, let's say, were every Tuesday night for the sake of argument.

[00:08:42]Sometimes they went Sunday, blah blah blah. But every Tuesday the box office was open usually Monday between 9 and 5 and then Tuesday or 10 and 5 and Tuesday 10:00 until match time. And then when they figured out that not a lot of people came to get the tickets the day before the sometimes that because they had to pay right extra the you know ticket seller. So they just have the tickets on sale the day of, but the night of the matches, they would take a fiveminute intermission after the first match because advanced tickets would be on sale for next week's matches then and people would hit the [ __ ] lobby and they would miss the second match getting tickets for [ __ ] next week. So between the people that had the the first two or three rows reserved in their names for years and years and then the people that bought their tickets for next week after the first match, then 85% of your crowd, they came by either on Tuesday if they happen to be downtown or they just came and bought at the door and it was a [ __ ] flood. Try to get those people in.

[00:10:03]>> All right. Well, let's go to our next program here. Jim, >> abs, I can see you're thrilled.

[00:10:08]>> This is great wrestling history, but we have a long way to go.

[00:10:13]>> Jim, the first event, Doug Gilbert versus Renee Goule.

[00:10:19]Okay.

[00:10:20]>> The second event, Jose Lefthario versus Tokyo Tom.

[00:10:26]The third event, Ivan Furo versus Dory Funk Jr.

[00:10:34]The semifinal, Ricky Romero versus Dandy Jack Donovan.

[00:10:40]Two out of three falls, 45 minute time limit. And finally, >> Vern Bottoms in his corner.

[00:10:45]>> It does not say that she was there, but the main event, two out of three falls, 1 hour time limit.

[00:10:52]Jake Smith and Luke Brown versus Iron Mike, which would be Iron Mike Debiosi and Jack Kane.

[00:11:01]Good lord.

[00:11:04]Okay. Well, we are Well, first of all, let's go down the participants. When you said Doug Gilbert, I was immediate.

[00:11:10]Well, it's another Memphis program from 10 years later. And you said Renee Goule. I said, "My god, he would have been 70."

[00:11:17]So this was the Doug Gilbert from the 60s who I think his real name was Doug Lindsay and Renee Goule was the man who wrestled as Renee Goule then became Sergeant Jacques Goule of the French Foreign Legion and then was Renee Goule the agent for the WWF for years and years.

[00:11:36]>> What do you like better Renee or Jacques for him?

[00:11:39]>> Oh wow. because I guess he was a dashing young baby face in his day, but when I first saw him, it was him and Don Fargo as the legionnaires for Bruiser and I, oh, this is the greatest thing. He he had the accent for real, right? He's the clown is down.

[00:11:57]Uh, so and and with the French Foreign Legion outfit on and everything and the riding crop. Oh, yeah.

[00:12:05]Uh, Jose Lethario and Tokyo Tom. Jose obviously people know as Shawn Michaels as trainer and the guy that he ignored on television for that that run. Uh Jose was a huge baby face in the southwestern states and this was probably be still before the majority of the best of his run is in Houston and places like that. Tokyo Tom was a guy who worked this territory that I don't know much about.

[00:12:40]Dory Jr.

[00:12:42]being on the card against Ivan Furo and I'm trying to think did they I know that Pampiro Furo worked under a couple of different names but is the timeline doesn't add up unless they just changed his gimmick when he was already kind of established or is this a is this a a furo a member of the furo family, but it ain't Pampiro.

[00:13:17]Or you're not going to tell.

[00:13:18]>> I'm not going to answer that. No, I'm not going to answer that.

[00:13:20]>> Well, all right. Ricky Romero was the most popular baby face in the West Texas territory of Amarillo, which this is where we're at. That wasn't a member of the funk family. And Dandy Jack Donovan, of course, famous for a a [ __ ] halfway shoot in Louisville with Tojo Yamamoto when he got pissed that ended up with him getting a [ __ ] kicked out of him at TV station in Nashville the next day.

[00:13:49]And Iron Mike Debiosi, Ted's father, still alive with Jack Kaine, who was Dory Senior's brother-in-law. Correct.

[00:14:02]Am I getting the relationship right?

[00:14:06]I think >> and who didn't he didn't really wrestle any place else I don't think but there was a period of time where he went to be the booker for the chic and then ended up trying to take the Detroit territory away and some of the talent and run opposition or whatever. Uh, and Jake Smith and Luke Brown, obviously Grizzly Smith and Luke Brown were the Kuckians.

[00:14:35]And because that's the thing is this is the Amarillo territory. And I'm just going to say Amarillo because it could be Luk, but probably not.

[00:14:48]But I can't see this would have I would say this would be like say 1966 or ' 67 but I don't know that Ivan Furo would be or Pampiro Furo would be Ivan Furo then. But I'm going to say Amarillo in 1966.

[00:15:11]>> Close.

[00:15:13]Lik.

[00:15:14]>> Oh god damn it. All right.

[00:15:16]>> Fair park Coliseum. Fairgrounds December 1st, 1965.

[00:15:24]Wrestling every Wednesday night at 8:30 p.m. Hold program tickets for a drawing and intermission. 14B Farm Pack Ham to be given away tonight.

[00:15:37]Let me open this up here. A few things.

[00:15:39]>> So, I I was I was basically one month and 70 miles off.

[00:15:45]Son of a gun.

[00:15:47]The box office is open every Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. This gives an opportunity to those wishing to purchase tickets in advance. All ticket prices $1,150 and $2 are for sale every Wednesday afternoon.

[00:16:05]Well, we just talked about that with Louisville, how they handled advanced tickets. Here's how they did it in Levik.

[00:16:12]as I turn to page.

[00:16:14]>> Yes, that that was how they that was how they did that.

[00:16:18]>> World champion world champion Luz, North American champion Ricky Romero, North American tag team champions are Dory Fun Jr. and Ricky Romero. Wahoo McDaniel completing successful football season will return to wrestling. So that's on the horizon. And then also >> yeah, Wahoo was still playing football at that point. uh during the football season he'd wrestle off season when when we went to it wasn't Labok it was Midland I believe Midland or Odessa it's a Twin Cities one or the other but we were there for a show one time for WCW and Wahoo was one of the agents and a guy brought a newspaper and showed it to just one of the fans showed it to Wahoo.

[00:17:05]It was a story of when he was a standout high school football star there at Midland Odessa or whatever school they had. And then at the bottom of the page where he's the headline and talking about all of his football exploits, there's an ad appearing live. So and so opening act Elvis Presley.

[00:17:30]>> Crazy. Wow.

[00:17:31]>> He was like, I was bigger than Elvis.

[00:17:34]You asked about Tokyo, Tom. It's Ray Orbano, the uh original great Kabuki.

[00:17:39]>> Oh, okay. I truthfully did not know which which Tom was from Tokyo there.

[00:17:47]>> Fritz von Eric sends a message to Tokyo Tom. Fritzvon Eric, by the way, spelled E R I C K.

[00:17:56]The man that has been so outstanding with his unique claw hold has informed your promoter that he has taken the only worthwhile hold in all the oriental science of combat and perfected it as no one else in the world.

[00:18:12]He is out to prove it by defeating every Japanese wrestler he can find. Fi ne.

[00:18:19]Every Japanese wrestler.

[00:18:20]>> They meant well. I mean, it's a good story. They just can't spell it. He wants Tokyo Tom in the lick ring. And by the way, the match between Doug Gilbert and Renee Goule. Since there was no decision in their match last week, these two return to face each other again. The winner will be the one chosen to meet the undefeated law man here next week.

[00:18:44]The law man in love, Texas. This must be early on when he was wrestling. I guess >> Don the law man Slatten so named because he had the bail bonds place out there and ran what was his town [ __ ] uh Don A not Abene Abene >> Aberdine Abene not Aberdine he wasn't Scottish >> Abene >> Abene the prettiest town we ever seen tried to steal Harley Race's title in Abalene Go ahead.

[00:19:18]>> All right, Jim. Our next program here.

[00:19:20]Interesting card. Let's try to go for some accuracy.

[00:19:23]>> Uhoh. The missing link versus Mike Reed.

[00:19:29]Junkyard Dog versus Camala for the American tag title. I'll just name it. The champions Brian Adas and Iceman King Parsons versus Super Destroyer number one and number two.

[00:19:48]Chic Abbar versus Iceman King Parsons.

[00:19:54]A 10-minute intermission followed by Buddy Roberts, Michael Hayes, and Terry Gordy versus Kevin David and Carrie von Eric.

[00:20:07]Kevin crossed out. Mike written in Mike Phil.

[00:20:11]>> Oh my god.

[00:20:13]>> Black Gordman versus Johnny Mantel.

[00:20:17]Two more matches.

[00:20:20]>> Two more.

[00:20:20]>> Ric Flair versus Mike Von Eric.

[00:20:25]To win, world champion Ric Flair must defeat Mike in 10 minutes and remain unpinned himself, followed by another intermission for 15 minutes. And finally for the vacant American Heavyweight Championship in a caged ring, Chris Adams versus gorgeous Jim Garvin.

[00:20:49]Oh, good lord. Um, well, we are in the in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas. Uh, obviously, and just going down the card, missing link was Dewey Robertson, but that was his, you know, best run. Dewey Robertson had been a wrestler for 20 years when he became the link and that's what got him over. Uh JYD would be appearing on loan from Midsouth Wrestling as would possibly Camala at this point as well.

[00:21:25]Uh the American tag team title. Brian Adas, of course, best known for going to high school with Devon Erics and Iceman Parsons against the Super Destroyers, who were that was Scott and Bill at that time, right?

[00:21:39]>> I believe so.

[00:21:41]>> Uh, we talked about how underrated both those guys were, but then Akbar working with Parsons, I think Akbar was probably managing the Super D's at that point in time. and there's some ti type of gimmick going on where you know he Abar has to get in the ring with Parsons but after the tag match or whatever basically as we've talked about Dallas didn't mind asking a [ __ ] to work twice in one night even on the Texas Stadium shows it was like oh yeah you'll have this match and then there's a 10-man tag or whatever the [ __ ] >> and then you're working with Ric Flair >> yes you're also working with Mike Reid of the Freeirds against the Von Erics with Kevin Crossed out and Mike put in um indicates that this is the the 83 or 84 time period and because uh Mike substituted in that and then was also working with Flair and he must must win in 10 minutes That was a deal where that they were doing where they were trying to introduce Mike in as palatable a way as possible. But I say, "Okay, we know that Flair could beat him eventually, but can he beat him that quick?" Right? That type of thing.

[00:23:09]And Gordman and Johnny Mantel, bless him, were there to give somebody a breath. And then Chris Adams and Garvin had a hot deal going on at that point in time. when Adams was still a baby face.

[00:23:25]So based on when they introduced Mike, I think this is 1984 and I think it's early on in the year. I It sounds like it would be a reunion arena card, but then also it this may have been a Star Wars thing they did at the Tarant County Convention Center.

[00:23:51]But maybe was it?

[00:23:54]Well, but they wouldn't have done a reunion Arena early in ' 84. It would have been either Thanksgiving, Christmas 83.

[00:24:02]Was this Thanksgiving 1983 at Reunion Arena?

[00:24:06]>> Oh man, you talked yourself out of this.

[00:24:09]>> Did I?

[00:24:09]>> That's when Mike Vanerick debuted, I believe, was [ __ ] >> Thanksgiving.

[00:24:15]This was Monday, January 30th, 1984, 8:00 p.m.

[00:24:21]Tarant County Convention Center World Class Wrestling Star Wars.

[00:24:26]>> Son of a [ __ ] And that's cuz they did that in January. Uh, I was on the 1985 version. What do you think about the fact let's talk about Ric Flair and Mike von Eric because Ric Flair is one of the more popular is not the right word but when you think about the Von Erics and feuds and opponents he wrestled every one of them.

[00:24:46]>> Yeah.

[00:24:48]>> It's one thing when it's Carrie it's one thing David one thing Kevin you could point to I guess David early success in St. Louis over Harley race when David was very skinny. But what was Flair thinking coming into town being told you have to work with Mike and by the way the result is written in draw and you're not beating Mike by the way. You have to work with Mike who's been wrestling two months and you can't win. You're the NWA world champion.

[00:25:15]>> What do you mean?

[00:25:15]>> He knew he he knew.

[00:25:19]He respected the, you know, Fritz's business and the other boys in terms of the money they had drawn. He didn't respect uh their, you know, personal habits or sometimes the ordeal you had to go through to work with one or more of them. And remember, this was a much more professional version of Flair than we might get these days back then to begin with. But he knew what the deal was. And you know, go 10 minutes on the big show with, you know, Mike and get a giant payoff and that's the way it's going to be.

[00:25:59]It it everybody knew from the time I won't say every not the fans, but everybody in the business knew at the time that Mike debuted kind of what his ceiling was going to be and that he was going to be there as long as the Von Erics were there in Dallas, but that he wasn't going to be a commodity that they could market to other territories like Carrie had gone and David had gone and Kevin had gone.

[00:26:29]Mc Flair went in. So, okay, this is part of the deal. I got to help help the Dallas office, so I'll do this.

[00:26:38]Well, Jim, let's uh go to our next one.

[00:26:40]By the way, that's one of the rare programs because it's only a limited period of time where David was alive and Mike was active. So, it was a very short period of time where you had all four of the Von Era kids on the same shows or at least build to be on the same shows.

[00:26:55]Jim, this next program, the opening match, Frank Hickey 260 out of Chicago.

[00:27:01]>> Oh, good lord.

[00:27:02]>> Versus Charlie Lei. Or actually, excuse me, Charlie Ly 230, Knoxville, Tennessee.

[00:27:09]>> Well, it it's a it'll it's Lei. That's a uh a typo. Dynamite Lei is who it was to his friends. in a special event gym.

[00:27:21]Andre Drap 225 from France versus Evan Marian 216 Montreal, Canada.

[00:27:31]A five-minute intermission followed by a tag team match.

[00:27:37]Taro Myaki and Tojo Yamamoto from Japan versus Hay Stacks Calhoun and Ray Wilmer.

[00:27:49]a 10-minute intermission. And finally, the main event, a return match. No time limit, no disqualification.

[00:27:58]Masks and title at stake.

[00:28:03]Assassin number one and assassin number two versus Eddie Graham and Dick Steinborn.

[00:28:11]Oh, good lord.

[00:28:17]Alrighty.

[00:28:20]Tojo being on the the card almost almost put has to put it in the Tennessee territory, but some of the other things don't stack up in that. Well, Frank Spaceman Hickey was of course legendary in the wrestling business for being one of those characters. And he's the one that used to live at the Wigwam Village on the side of Interstate 65 down in near Cave City, Kentucky that the boys would go visit him. He had all of his old costumes from the days he was on the Dumont Network on mannequins in his little [ __ ] wigwam room.

[00:29:04]Uh, Charlie Lei, Dynamite Lei, was a a big baby face and a local hero in the Knoxville territory.

[00:29:12]Andre Drap was a baby face with, I believe, as I remember, a nice physique that worked the Southern Territories.

[00:29:22]I don't know who the [ __ ] Evan Marion was.

[00:29:26]Hast stacks Calhoun and Ray Wilmer as a tag team is odd.

[00:29:35]Taro Mayaki and Tojo worked as a team in the Tennessee territory. Memphis, Birmingham, Chattanooga, the these type of places.

[00:29:49]But Tojo didn't come into Tennessee until 6263.

[00:29:58]Hastacks Calhoun worked well in and out. Uh Eddie Graham and Dick Steinborn as champions against the Assassins.

[00:30:08]That doesn't necessarily have to be Jody Hamilton and Tom Reesto if this is the Tennessee territory because Nick could have just made some up.

[00:30:18]But Graham and Graham worked mid60s in the Tennessee territory, especially the Memphis end. But he had Sam Steamboat as his partner, not Dick Steinborn.

[00:30:36]Is this I'm just going to take a wild poke with a [ __ ] stick.

[00:30:42]Uh 1965 in Birmingham, Alabama.

[00:30:48]It's a wild poke. Jim, it's Friday, March 31st, 1962.

[00:30:54]Atlanta, Georgia.

[00:30:56]>> Son of a [ __ ] >> I thought you would have gone with Florida. That's why I was doing this one. I thought it was an interesting way to throw you off a little bit.

[00:31:03]>> I I I would not have put Tojo on a card, nor Frank Spaceman Icky.

[00:31:11]it. I But now I should have paid more attention to the main event, but I [ __ ] went down the Eddie Graham mid60s Tennessee rabbit hole.

[00:31:20]Oh well. So, I was 180 miles and three years off.

[00:31:26]Flash Freddy Blassie may be on his way to Atlanta sometime in the spring.

[00:31:32]Don Curtis, former AAU champion, will be here in a few weeks. It will be his first trip to Georgia.

[00:31:40]Championship Wrestling every Friday at the Aironditioned City Auditorium.

[00:31:47]All right, Jim. What will probably be our final program here today?

[00:31:50]>> All right, I'm revved up.

[00:31:52]>> The first bout is written in. Mike Monroe versus Carl Gotch.

[00:32:01]>> Carl Gotch written in.

[00:32:03]>> An extra added match. Carl Gotch was supposed to be in this one, but he was changed that first match. Mike Conrad versus Manuel Sodto.

[00:32:13]A bonus attraction.

[00:32:16]Pacific Coast champ Fred Blassie versus rough contender Beautiful Bobby.

[00:32:24]We have a special tag team match, Jim.

[00:32:26]Two out of three falls.

[00:32:29]Rugged Russian one and Rugged Russian two versus Renee Goule and Mike Papus which is written in for Mike Conrad who was written into the other match but anyway a Texas death match Jim Chief Jay Strongbo versus Stanley Stasiac.

[00:32:53]>> Oh good lord. Okay >> for the world tag championship two out of three falls. Tarzan Tyler and Luke Graham versus Gorilla Monsoon and Victor Rivera.

[00:33:06]And finally, the main event, Steel Cage Showdown for the World Championship. Pedro Morales versus Jimmy Valiant.

[00:33:17]WOW.

[00:33:21]OKAY, let's see here.

[00:33:25]Uh, I don't know about Mike Monroe and Mike Conrad or Robert Conrad or all those other people.

[00:33:35]Carl Gotch popped me being written in considering not only his personal picadillos about who he was. The god of pro wrestling got written in on the [ __ ] opener, but this was at a time where he was in the territory, which is of course the old WWF.

[00:33:54]Fred Blassie, the Pacific Coast champion.

[00:33:58]Blassie was the top guy in in the Los Angeles territory working for Mike Leel, but because the TV aired there on what was it, Brian? One of the Hispanic stations in New York, the Los Angeles TV.

[00:34:14]So they, you know, they imported talent sometimes. Beautiful Bobby was not Bobby Eaton, but the original Beautiful Bobby, who was Bob Harmon.

[00:34:24]And uh >> Smoky Mountain >> Yeah. Smoky Mountain legend Bob Harmon.

[00:34:30]He was living in Cincinnati and friends with Les Thatcher who had known him because Bob Harmon quit wrestling in the mid70s. But he came down to be Buddy Landell's manager just to kick him off when when Good Buddy came back after a long absence.

[00:34:48]Um, the Russians were Pedro Gdoi and I can't remember, but they were a mass team. And Renee Goule, we just talked about earlier in the program, he was a baby face at this point. And along with the flying Greek Mike Papus, who is famous for having that picture of the centerfold of wrestling world taken up in Andre the Giants arms because Papus was only like 5'4.

[00:35:19]Uh, Strongbo and Stasiaak. Strongbo was on his first run as the top baby, second to top baby face behind the WWF champion. Vince Senior loved him. some Strongbo. Uh, when did he become Jay Strongbo? What, 70 or 71?

[00:35:43]I You're not going to tell me because I narrow this down.

[00:35:46]>> Yeah.

[00:35:47]>> But, uh, Stjac, this was before his run as champion, which began on what was it? December 1, 1973, and ended on December 10, 1973.

[00:36:02]Uh, Tarzan Tyler and Luke Graham were the tag team champions when the it was the US tag team belts, I believe. Or were they the first WWF champions?

[00:36:17]Nevertheless, Monsoon and Rivera and Pedro in a cage as champion against Jimmy Valiant.

[00:36:24]I don't remember Jimmy Valiant getting a garden main event.

[00:36:31]But I may be wrong, but I'm thinking that this is probably the Philly Spectrum or the Boston Garden. But we'll know we'll say the Philly Spectrum in 1972.

[00:36:49]Very, very close.

[00:36:51]But sad we have to close out on this note.

[00:36:54]Jim, it's Saturday, November 13th, 1971.

[00:37:00]The promoter Abe Ford, the Boston Garden.

[00:37:03]>> Son of a [ __ ] I TALKED MYSELF OUT OF IT AGAIN.

[00:37:06]>> You had it. You had it in your hand and you let it go.

[00:37:11]>> Well, there you go.

[00:37:12]>> How about that? 1971 cage match main event against the world champion for Handsome Jimmy.

[00:37:17]>> That was his first big single run before there was a Valiant Brothers. It was.

[00:37:23]And he was actually sometimes teamed up with beautiful Bobby.

[00:37:29]>> Texas deathmatch rules. One, no curfew.

[00:37:33]Two, no time limit. Three, no holds barred. Four, no disqualification.

[00:37:39]Five, referee cannot award bout. Six, wrestler must be pinned or surrender.

[00:37:46]Seven, must be a winner.

[00:37:50]See Championship Wrestling on WKBGTV channel 56 Saturday 11 to 12:00 a.m.

[00:37:57]WSBK TV channel 38 Saturday 2 to 3 p.m.

[00:38:02]WPRI TV channel 12 Saturday 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. And finally, WUR TV channel 9day 2 to 3 p.m. Check your local paper for times as program presentation is subject to change.

[00:38:19]>> Four different television airings in the same television market over the course of day times and the weekend. They may have had an audience that approached half of what is watching AEW Dynamite on Wednesday nights in the whole country.

[00:38:38]>> And by the way, this is interesting.

[00:38:39]1971 steel cage rules. One, winner must go over top of cage or two, winner must go out steel cage door. Three, no referee inside steel cage.

[00:38:53]So here in the Northeast, even back then, 1971, you had to escape the cage, not get a pinfall in the cage.

[00:39:00]>> Yeah, I think they they started that with Bruno, did they not?

[00:39:05]>> I think that's the first guy I know of having those matches. Don't you know what in Boston it was? It was Bruno and Chic, wasn't it? Because that way >> Yeah, >> it was because that way Bruno could beat the Chic.

[00:39:17]>> Whatever the [ __ ] I don't know.

[00:39:20]>> Well, Jim, that was Guess the program.

[00:39:22]And of course, when we hear the uh sad state of your performance this week, other than getting the Memphis card, you talked yourself out of a lot of things.

[00:39:35]You know, you I think you could say talked yourself out of your pants. And of course, you recently sold your pants for half off.

[00:39:42]>> You're a mess right now, and you need something to COVER UP. I GUESS THAT'S the point.

[00:39:47]>> What are you talking about?

[00:39:48]>> What I'm trying to say is our friends at the perfect gene may have something so you can cover up and do more respectful next time.

[00:39:57]>> How about this? Why is that hard to understand?

[00:39:59]>> Well, I don't I I' I've just I'm flabbergasted is what I am. Here's here's what the thing is.

[00:40:08]Maybe that'll take the perfect gene and wad it up and stuff it in your mouth so you wouldn't have to go through those convulsions you just went through. Now, what you're trying to say, Brian, is that the people at the perfect gene have built the perfect gene. And not only that, but other kinds of clothing like butter soft tees and polos that hug your arms and chest without strangling them.

[00:40:33]And they layer seamlessly under a light jacket for those cool May evenings.

[00:40:39]Friday night, it was late. I was walking you home. We got down to THE GATE AND I WAS THINKING OF my teas and how they really please when they grip my nipples.

[00:40:51]Okay. So softly and gently.

[00:40:53]>> Let's softly and gently get back to the cup.

[00:40:56]>> Yes. The perfect gene. Because if you want clothes that don't cut your circulation off or don't chafe your taint or don't crimp up your ass crack or don't give you horrible just lumps in your armpits from constantly sawing back and forth with the seam and the rough cotton and the horrible materials and the sharp edges of normal clothing. You want the perfect jean because they've done this without all of that stuff. They make blue jeans that don't look like stretch jeans, but yet they stretch and they look blue cuz they are.

[00:41:38]and they're comfortable enough to sit down without throwing up or bending over to pick up something without being cut in half like in some kind of horrible Saw movie climax where you bend over to pick up a dime off the ground and suddenly your top half falls off because the waistband of your immovable unstretchable pants has just sawed you in half like a goddamn trout.

[00:42:03]>> A problem.

[00:42:04]>> Brian, do you want to be sawed in half like a trout?

[00:42:07]>> No. a horrible thing, but let's just say a problem you won't need to worry about with The Perfect Gene. And that's one of the great things about The Perfect Gene.

[00:42:15]No horror film endings, just stretchiness. And you can bend over.

[00:42:21]Brock Lesnar has been looking for a pair of jeans like this his whole life.

[00:42:25]>> You can Oh, cuz you can F5 people. Just walk down the street and pick somebody up and give them an F5. You're not going to split the seat out of these pants.

[00:42:33]>> Don't do that. But you won't if you >> Well, you know, you won't if you did.

[00:42:37]But if you do, you know, at least you don't have to worry. It's just the person getting F5 that's going to have to worry.

[00:42:44]>> You may have to worry.

[00:42:44]>> But see, the thing is with the perfect gene and the associated clothing they make, they make it out of such incredible material that you can just caress yourself. Just walk down the street just rubbing yourself all over your body. They've got waists from 26 in to 52 in. So they can fit Javon Evans to Mason Rrook and they've got links from 26 to 38, which means they can fit short people into tall people. And you don't even have to worry about just having a measurement because also they ask you like a body type all the way from skinny to thick fick, including athletic, which some of you guys out there are. If you want to try to squat or workout or jump or crawl or whatever you people do in the gym, well, you can do this. And if you're fat, did I mention before, well, then you can just be fine because they'll stretch with all of your expansive rolls and folds and the waves that come over your body when no >> need to do. If you're a really fat person and you're wearing clothes, the clothes do not spread out andor expand and contract with the waves that your body makes when you sit down or stand up or try to touch your toes or wipe your ass or whatever the case may be. So, you don't have to worry about that. Again, fat or skinny or in between, it doesn't matter. The perfect jean sees no difference between people. just people that need jeans that fit, that are comfortable, that are stretchy, give you all the capabilities with that classic jean look. And of course, when we get past all the fun Jim Cornet stories, we're talking about at its core, a great pair of pants.

[00:44:34]>> And at and at your core, where your core won't be sore.

[00:44:39]See?

[00:44:40]Yeah. You were doing poetry over there a minute ago. Well, your core won't be sore if you no good [ __ ] If you get the >> Okay, you take it too far.

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[00:45:31]You can you can bend over, you can squat, you can you don't even have to unbutton them when you go for your third double bacon cheeseburger cuz they're already just stretching out. And if you are genetically mutated like from Chernobyl and you have plastic man or Mr. Fantastic Reed Richards abilities, well, these things stretch so you don't have to worry about ripping your pants off and being naked when you elongate your legs to battle some crisis.

[00:46:00]>> That's right. You don't have to worry about any of that and your worries again disappear with a good pair of pants, a good pair of jeans, the perfect jean.

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[00:46:36]No reason to be walking around with flat balls.

[00:46:41]>> That's what I always say. Once again, the perfect jean.