Post by Mickey Yarber on May 4, 2017 3:13:51 GMT
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
Wednesday May 03, 1988
Civic Auditorium, Kingsport TN
In the opening bout, the high flying Terry Snuka pinned Rip Rogers with a superfly splash from the top rope in 9:40.
The Brooklyn Brawler pinned Mark Starr at 8:18 after a back drop suplex.
Ole Anderson remained undefeated after he pinned Bugsy McGraw after a knee drop across the throat from the middle rope in 10:01.
The team of Scott Armstrong, Johnny Rich, and freshly turned Phil Hickerson fought The Wild Bunch (Black Bart, Joel & David Deaton) to a double DQ/Countout at 13:44 when all six men were brawling around ringside. It was a wild affair that saw all six men going at full speed.
In the Russian Chain match, Corporal Kirchner put up a good fight early, but Pietrov was not going to be denied. At the end, he wrapped the chain around both fists and delivered a Russian Hammer blow to Kirchner, and that allowed him to touch the remaining corner he needed to at 12:33. After the bout, Ivan Koloff announced that no man can beat Pietrov! He said that he will face, and defeat, any man who gets in the ring with him. Koloff said for everyone in the world to know, that this is an open challenge to anyone who wants to get in the ring with “The Russian Hammer”. He said Pietrov will be here next week, and wants competition, so anyone brave enough should come to Kingsport and wrestle Vladimir Pietrov. He threw the microphone down and the two Russians left.
Smoky Mountain Tag Team Title:
The Jive Tones def. The Rock & Roll Express to win the titles! It was a back and forth grudge match that saw both teams working hard to win. In the end though, Ron Wright threw Shaska Whatley a foreign object that he used to blast Robert Gibson with and get the pin in 17:25.
Non-Title, No DQ Match – The Pile Driver is Legal
“Hacksaw” Jim Duggan defeated Smoky Mountain champion, “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff at 20:02 after three consecutive running clotheslines. Both men bled in this one, and they both took their opponent’s best shots throughout. It culminated when Orndorff went for a pile driver, but Duggan back flipped him to the mat, and then hit the three winning clotheslines.
Working on it now.