It's Suicide the King Knows, He Tried it Twice

Jerry Lawler/Brian Christopher vs. Doug Gilbert/Reggie B. Fine, USWA 12/6/93 - FUN

ER: Fun match that if it had happened on Worldwide or Saturday Night I probably would have thought was one of the best matches in their run. This was a short 5 minute brawl worked Texas Tornado style, with interference and brawling through the crowd and all sorts of bullshit. I like how Lawler looked the same from 1979-1987, and then suddenly from 1988-1993 all the fashions and trends caught up with him so suddenly he's got neon green tights or a pink shirt under a white jacket with stubble beard. Christopher brawling around with Doug was a hoot and Doug levels Christopher with maybe the best punch of the match, then gets into it (a little too convincingly) with a black fan at ringside. Dougie can dog it sometimes but this was a real good Doug performance. Christopher tends to shine in matches with his dad, seems like he turns it up to try and outdo his dad. Memphis also shows how ahead of the times they were when it came to mid-to-late 90s wrestling misogyny when Christopher piledrives Toni Adams to a big pop.

PAS: Yeah this was a wild little brawl, the kind of thing Memphis excels at.  Dougie v. Christopher was the focus and really nasty. Reggie B. Fine looked borderline untrained, and not in a fun Moondogs way. That and the short length was what kept this from being anything more then a nifty curiosity. That piledriver on Toni Adams was especially vicious looking, he really planted her and the glee of the crowd was a little off putting.


Jerry Lawler/Brian Christopher vs. Doug Gilbert/Eddie Gilbert, USWA 12/13/93 - FUN

PAS: Another short arena tag, although this was a tease of Memphis bullshit rather then a tease of Memphis brawling. For a ten minute match they don't lock up for the first four. Lawler has a cameo more then anything else as most of the match is the Gilbert boys playing hide the rope and working over Christopher. Lawler just shows up for the finish. Some fun shtick, but you really want more from an arena match

ER: This is an 8 minute tag built around the Gilberts using the tag rope to choke Christopher. First punch gets thrown like 5 minutes in (although Eddie and Doug throw some doozies here), Lawler is on the apron until the last 30 seconds, the Gilberts always seem to go out of their way to get into it with the one black fan at ringside, an old man in a cowboy hat takes a swing at Eddie, Dougie looks, moves and wrestles the way I imagine Jimmy Wichard would wrestle (but man is Doug's DDT maybe the greatest DDT ever). This would be a fun and funny TV match, but kind of a downer this happened as an arena main event.

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