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[2000-10-07-MPPW] Derrick King & Alan Steel & Spellbinder vs Charlie Laird & Khan & Koko B. Ware


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Not much of a tag match but Derrick King looks good and it was pleasant to see him leading the way. The other main highlight was seeing Koko mix it up in 2000. Spellbinder and Charlies Laird are both decent. *

 

The big development happens when Lawler arrives in his Kia Sportage. Lawler gives a history lesson of wrestling coming from channel 13 to channel 5. This weaves into him getting to why he left Power Pro and the reason is rooted in the fact they had talent like Kurt Angle in the promotion but Randy Hales and Brandon Baxter were main eventing. He talks about how this aren’t the superstars that kids grew up with in Memphis of old. This was a great way to twist things around with Lawler as a heel but feeling justified. Baxter comes out to dispute things Jerry said. Derrick King also has some shots at him and Jerry says he looks like he is 159 lbs not 189 that Derrick claims. Lastly, Mo comes out and King says he ate his way out of a job with WWF. This brings out Koko who says he wrestled in 8 WrestleManias (fake news) and that Lawler is a nonfactor in WWF as mainly an announcer. A big ol brawl erupts with the entire roster going after Lawler culminating in him going through one of the windows for the doors to open the studio. King is bleeding from the shoulder as the show goes off the air. Fun angle.

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Koko’s team aren’t paying attention in the slightest and are attacked from behind by the opposition, with Spellbinder going straight for Koko. ‘The General’ doesn’t fare too well at all, and after rolling to the floor orders a rather reluctant Charlie Laird to get in there and take his place. Back elbow off the middle turnbuckle by Steel for two. Double backdrop as he and DK are working some quick tags. Laird tags out to Khan who manages to hit a tilt-a-whirl slam on King, turning the tide in their favour. Powerslam by Laird for a two count, while Koko and Spellbinder appear to be having their own private war of words on the apron. Lariat in the corner followed by a Russian leg sweep. Corey Maclin points out that the Spellbinder asked Ricky Murdoch to step aside so he can take his place in the match, so not only does Power Pro have a Dusty Rhodes take off (Austin Rhodes), but a Dick Murdoch one too! Double clothesline and both Khan and DK go down. King makes the tag to Spellbinder and he goes right for Koko again. The two of them end up on the outside where Binder launches the General head first into the announcer’s table. The other four of them are getting it on in the ring and Khan sidesteps a Steel double axe handle off the top and locks in the ‘Oriental spike’. DK breaks it up with a superkick, cover, but no referee who is trying to separate Koko and Spellbinder at ringside. ‘Twist of Fate’ by Laird and King only just gets a shoulder up, helped though by the ref being distracted by everything else that is going on and being late on the count. Laird levels DK with a clothesline, but flexes his biceps to the crowd instead of following up on it. Steel catches him with a spinning bulldog off the turnbuckles, somersault senton by Spellbinder and the face trio get the win.

 

We return from a commercial break and Bulldog Raines, Derrick King and Alan Steel are in the parking lot, seemingly waiting for the arrival of Jerry Lawler, when ‘The King’ pulls up in his motor. The three of them shake his hand before Lawler makes his way into the studio. He joins Corey who seems over the moon to have ‘the King’ back in Power Pro Wrestling. Lawler gives us a bit of a history lesson about how wrestling came to be on Channel 5, how they bought Dave Brown over from Channel 13 and how for years Memphis wrestling was the most watched wrestling show in the country. Not a day went by when he wasn’t proud to say that he was a professional wrestler and that he was proud to be part of Memphis wrestling, until that day did eventually arrive. They had Kurt Angle in Power Pro Wrestling, an Olympic gold medallist who will probably be the next WWF champion, yet when he was here it was Randy Hales and Brandon Baxter who were wrestling in the main events, people who should be nowhere near a wrestling ring. It was situations like that which made him feel he wanted to move on to something different. Corey kinda cuts him off and says that he’s glad ‘the King’ is back with them now though, when Lawler corrects him saying that he’s not back and is just here to explain why he’s not back.

 

Brandon Baxter joins the two of them and can’t work out why Jerry Lawler came out here in front of ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people on TV to cut him down? What has he ever done to him? Lawler goes on to say that while Memphis wrestling was at one time the most watched wrestling in the country, not any more. The ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people that he talks about is actually several thousand, and that’s all due to people like him, Derrick King (“who weighs 120lbs soaking wet!”) and Randy Hales pretending to be wrestlers, the people seeing them and then switching off the channel! King doesn’t take too kindly to his name being thrown around when this has nothing to do with him. After disagreeing with DK’s claims that he weighs 180lbs, ‘the King’ says how there are people at home in high school who wrestle in their back yards and want to be wrestlers that are heavier than he is. The likes of him and Brandon Baxter playing at being wrestlers led to the ratings going through the floor and that’s why he left. Rob Harlem is out and although he agrees that Brandon Baxter doesn’t look like a wrestler, that Derrick King is a ‘little man’, he on the other hand is 300lbs+, has been to the WWF and he knows that he’s a wrestler. Lawler jokes how he was Mo in the WWF a hundred pounds ago but ate himself out of a job! The fans in the studio liked that one! It’s a company full of wannabes, never was’s or has beens, and that’s why he got sick and tired of it. General Koko and Charlie Laird are next to take umbrage with what Lawler is saying and the General is surprised to see him in Power Pro, what with ‘the King’ being a commentator for the WWF now. He knows that he’s a big star up there, but he was a bigger star as he wrestled in the WWF and wrestled at eight Wrestlemanias (hmmm, I make it four Koko and that’s including a dark match). Lawler responds that he remembers him as a big star in the WWF, with Frankie on his shoulder and wrestling all over the world. Now he doesn’t see Frankie, he sees Charlie and he sees Koko B. Ware in an army uniform trying to do something ‘the King’ did back in in 1977. Like he said it’s wannabes and shouldn’t be’s when Brandon Baxter interrupts him. He’s had enough of Lawler talking to them like they’re paeons and tells him that there is five of them, they don’t want him here, the people don’t need him and what they should do is roll him in the ring, beat the crap out of him and then throw him into the parking lot where the garbage belongs,. ‘The King’ says that the five of them may be able to do that, then again they may not. If they decide to do that though, then next week he’ll bring all his WWF friends to the studio and they can try to lock the doors and bolt the windows, but they’ll kick them in and then kick the crap out of each and every one of them. Corey looks to calm the situation, when Baxter tells him they’ll take their chances and they all jump ‘the King’. Lawler holds his own against the five of them as well as Khan, until Slash is out and hits his neckbreaker on him. They drag ‘the King’ out to the parking lot (and he cuts up his shoulder on the glass of the door along the way), throwing him out the building like they said they would. Slash then warns Lawler to go and get all his WWF friends and they’ll do the same to them as what they did to him.

 

Enjoyable little six man kicks us off and King and Steel would’ve made a real good team had they gone down that route with them. The real crux of this though is the Lawler angle that follows. ‘The King’ does a tremendous job on his promo, and while I wasn’t keen on taking shots at DK (who along with Slash/Wolfie has being the wrestler of the year in Power Pro) I guess he needed to do/say something in order to unite Power Pro together. Lawler holding his own against the six of them until Slash’s arrival was a little much, but I genuinely can’t wait to see what happens next week and whether Lawler does show up with the MCW/WWF guys and what their response is.

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