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  • 3 weeks later...

THIS is how you do a match with ref bumps and run-ins and make it work. So well-executed. It's a good match even before they get to the finish, but the finish is so well-constructed. Bobby Eaton ends up debuting in SMW and helping the Bodies win the SMW tag titles.

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  • 2 months later...

I loved this match. The face shine early was so damn good. The timing was great and so fast. The heat on Morton on working the neck was great as well. Of course with the Eaton gets the crowd to pop. Plus it's a WTF moment. Curtis ref bump was epic. All around great stuff.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Yeah, this was super fun stuff. I sat up for the Eaton run-in at the end, but there was a bunch of great stuff even before that, like the already mentioned ref' bump, the RnR's early run on top, the nutty finishing run with bodies everywhere, etc.

 

Pretty much everything I want in a TV match.

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  • 1 year later...

Dutch and Caudle talking about SMW team appearing on WCW show. Mark Curtis and Crush are competing for the most concussion blow to sell in 1993. Eaton makes an appearance on behalf of the Bodies! Heavenly Bodies become tag champs. Cornette lets us know that all three of them will be around. I think Jimmy Golden is trying to compete in the Ugly Sweater contest but he is not in the same league as McMahon/Heenan/Roberts from 91.

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Crazy overbooked match with almost too much to talk about. The Bodies are subbing for the Stud Stable, who didn't show up on time for their tag title shot due to a flat tire. Mantell is hilarious ranting about this, and ranting about Cornette without turning himself babyface. And Caudle is in his glory, egging Dutch on. Fuller & Golden show up with suitcases and street clothes, but are escorted from ringside. Great action follows, with some killer double-teams from the Bodies, including a wicked flapjack/gutwrench/powerslam thing. Then a crazy-ass finish--Mark Curtis gets creamed and knocked from the apron, we run through a bunch of teased finishes, then Killer Kyle runs in, then the Stud Stable come back out, then Dutch tosses a foreign object to Morton (!), then BOBBY EATON runs in and hits the Alabama Jam and the Heavenly Bodies are once again tag team champions.

 

Cornette delivers a great gloating promo--the two greatest tag teams of all-time are now one unit. Soon the Stud Stable are out to confront them and Cornette makes the mistake of bringing up the Stud's "four flat tires." And now it's on again! Holy shit, what an awesome brawl. The build to this 3-way match has been the best build of any match in quite some time, in any promotion.

 

This is not the #1 match for January, but this package as a whole is the single best thing to take place in the month of January. It's still a very good match, and the booking is absolutely masterful.

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Dutch is on commentary doing a fantastic job furthering 3-way feud with the Studds and these teams. Fuller & Golden out with their bags as they got arrive late b/c of a slashed tire and the Bodies got their match as a result. Caudle brings up the RNR signing to appear on WCW PPV. Things settle with Morton in his FIP role selling well. We get a ref bump and then all hell breaks loose with Cornette & Killer Kyle getting involved, Dutch & the Studds involved, before Bobby Eaton comes from out of nowhere to help the Bodies steal the titles.

 

Really fun and effective angle and a decent match, but this pales in comparison to the WCW tag title match.

 

**3/4

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  • 11 months later...

SMW has really impressed me in January building up this RNR vs. Heavenly Bodies match and it still feeling shockingly fresh. I think adding the third team to the mix was genius to keep things uneasy. Stuff becomes more complicated here as Bobby comes out and delivers a great Alabama Jam giving the Bodies the straps. Awesome. **3/4

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  • 9 months later...

The Heavenly Bodies are subbing for the Stud Stable who haven't made it to the arena on time for their match. Dutch Mantel is not sure where they are as he left them at a motel in Charlotte and they should be here by now. The Rock & Rolls dominate the early part of the match until the Stud Stable show up at ringside in their street clothes. Dutch questions where they have been and Fuller says that they've been changing their car tyres at the Motel in Charlotte. He says that they've been trying to shaft them, Bob Armstrong is in Japan so they bought in this bogus 'Bob Armstrong impersonator' (Sandy Scott) that no-one has ever seen before and they took their match away from them and gave it to the Heavenly Bodies. Lane catapults Morton over the top rope to the floor when referee Mark Curtis is distracted with Robert Gibson and Cornette hits him with his racket. The Bodies go to work on Ricky, who eventually makes the tag and all four go at it in the ring. Lane whips Morton into the ropes and Cornette hooks his leg tripping him. Curtis steps outside the ring on to the apron to have words with Cornette. Morton escapes a bodyslam from Lane, Oklahoma roll, but they collide with Curtis who takes this great flying bump from the apron to the arena floor. Morton has Lane rolled up and Cornette gets in the ring and is about to blast him with the tennis racket when Gibson stops him. The two of them fight over the racket, Gibson gets the upper hand and just tosses the weapon aside. Morton decks Cornette, double dropkick to Lane, Gibson covers him but no referee. Morton goes to get Curtis who is still KO'ed at ringside, Cornette calls out Killer Kyle and he levels Morton in the head with a blackjack knocking him out. The Stud Stable return and go after Kyle, Gibson sees what's happening and that Morton is out, thinks the Stud Stable have done it and goes out after them and gets it on with Jimmy Golden. Dutch vacates the commentary desk to go and see what is happening, Prichard loads the boot but Dutch grabs his foot, pulls off what he had loaded it with and stops him using it. Mantel throws the weapon to Morton, he decks Prichard and Gibson covers him. Lane and Morton start fighting when Bobby Eaton shows up, Alabama Jam to the back of Gibson's head and he puts Dr Tom on top of him. Mantel rolls the referee in the ring, oblivious to what has just happened, Curtis counts the three and the Bodies are the champions again.

 

One of the problems with SMW is that there is a tendency for matches to be needlessly overbooked, but this was anything but the case here. Everything that happened in the match made perfect sense, nothing felt contrived in the slightest (heck, even Mark Curtis took a realistic bump for a change!) and it was like an old Bill Watts booked Mid-South angle where everything that happened was for a reason and not one hole in what was booked. Very good match and just a wonderful closing stretch with the run ins. Genius booking!

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  • 8 months later...

Two things stand out about this one:

 

1) Dutch on commentary. I remember watching this match before and knew that he ranted throughout the whole thing, but I'd honestly forgotten why until I watched it again. I was thinking that it detracted from the match, but it didn't; it added to it, because he was absolutely right. This was the Studs' match, they were unfairly kept from it (by Corny's skullduggery, as it turned out), and Dutch knew that if the Bodies won, they'd probably never have a chance at another match, since they thought so little of the Studs. Of course, he gets no sympathy from Bob Caudle, who comes off as overly persnickety (in a good way) about the rules. Not only does Bob constantly twist the knife about the Studs missing the match, he jumps all over Dutch about the percentage he gets from the Studs and about how Corny's supposedly such a good friend of his, and how he could possibly call him (Corny) a liar, a snake, a cheat, and God knows what else. The classic Monsoon/Heenan vibe here is through the roof, only Gino seldom got a chance to tease Bobby about an angle while it was ongoing.

 

This all leaves Dutch fit to be tied and unable to commentate, so Bob has to pay extra attention to what's going on in the ring, which leaves him unable to listen to Dutch's complaints. To top the whole thing off, Dutch is inadvertently the reason that the Bodies get away with the whole ball of wax, as he's the one who revives Mark Curtis and throws him into the ring just after Eaton hits the Alabama Jam, which leaves Lane on top of Gibson for the final three-count. Dutch hasn't had this bad a day since the last time he couldn't find Stan Hansen! :D

 

2) The finish. In most promotions, it would have seemed way too chaotic to be believed. But with three different teams involved plus Corny, Dutch, Eaton, and Kyle, chaos is exactly what is needed and expected. Don't forget Mark Curtis, either. All three teams have a chance to come out on top (with the Studs doing so by costing the Bodies the match they never should have had to start with, at least in their view) and all three teams are a whisker away at one point. It takes a completely unexpected factor (Eaton) to turn the tide once and for all. It's all in the setup, actually; we've known that a confrontation of this type has been coming for at least a couple of months, so it's just a matter of when and where.

 

About the only thing that would make this complete would be the Studs now challenging the Bodies, but as I've said, Corny wanted to keep the fans hungry for Ricky and Robert to get revenge on both teams, so accidentally babyfacing one or the other, even briefly, would have ruined everything.

 

This is probably the most compelling angle in SMW to date, and it's a strong contender for the best angle in the first half of '93. I can't wait to see what happens next!

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