"Come on, Jerry! Do it outside!" Nobody, and I mean nobody, does righteous indignation better than Lance Russell.
@oldgoat1424 жыл бұрын
Ain't that the truth. Rumor is Mr. Russell didn't want to know the outcome of anything so he could just react to it.
@hossdawg97663 жыл бұрын
He was the best.
@torrencemonroe12337 ай бұрын
These studio brawls were always my favorites! Back when wrestling was GREAT! I love it! 👍👍
@MitchellShelby6 жыл бұрын
Me being from Memphis and watching wrestling every Saturday morning at 11:00 am, I remember this just like it was yesterday.
@scenariomckinney3 жыл бұрын
Me too!!
@haroldpuckett9196 Жыл бұрын
Yep every Saturday morning
@77-ty7gb Жыл бұрын
And you support this? Jerry attacked an innocent man with a broken leg and you think thats acceptable??? Well let me tell you something, it isnt. And what the man did to Andy Kaufman is down right despicable!!!
@MitchellShelby Жыл бұрын
@@77-ty7gb Sir, Sir, Sir this is wrestling, entertainment, nothing more, and nothing less.
@torrencemonroe12337 ай бұрын
Being from Atlanta, we saw late Saturday night. 👍
@Panwere365 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Hart is actually a decent person in real life. He was just gifted with a talent for making people want to beat the hell out of him.
@jbj75992 жыл бұрын
Facts! He knew how to play that shtick up really good! He knew how how to help draw money!
@Panwere362 жыл бұрын
@@jbj7599 , precisely.
@norms3913 Жыл бұрын
That was his persona
@Panwere36 Жыл бұрын
@@norms3913 , precisely. He would have been the main heel manager in WWF at the time if Bobby Heenan hadn't been there.
@norms3913 Жыл бұрын
@@Panwere36 there was a couple more heel managers too mr. Fuji and slick
@mercoid2 жыл бұрын
I love the ringing of the bell in situations like this. It really adds to the chaos by way of how ineffectual it is in establishing/restoring order. A small but crucial part of the whole angle. This era of wrestling was a beautiful thing. I love it.
@theflorgeormix2 жыл бұрын
And from parts unknown and stuff like that...good to see Chick Donovan speak
@khriscaplinger45062 жыл бұрын
I really miss the good ole days of Memphis wrestling I don't care what anybody says Memphis wrestling was the best wrestling ever
@77-ty7gb Жыл бұрын
And you support this? Jerry attacked an innocent man with a broken leg and you think thats acceptable??? Well let me tell you something, it isnt. And what the man did to Andy Kaufman is down right despicable!!!
@donarthiazi24439 ай бұрын
Nah, before Vince destroyed both the NWA and the AWA... Mid-Atlantic championship wrestling was by far the best of the NWA territories.
@laylaw15074 жыл бұрын
"HE MOLESTED ME ON TV!!!" 🤣🤣🤣😂
@travissloan68644 ай бұрын
Lance Russell. WILL YOU GET OUT OF HERE. Here's to yesteryear.
@thisisam940 Жыл бұрын
Studio wrestling was the best back in the day. So much fun, so many angles, and a great vehicle to drive ticket sales to house shows
@stlpinstriping77727 жыл бұрын
That desk belongs in the Smithsonian.
@gl69965 жыл бұрын
And so does that bell
@wreckingKREW13 жыл бұрын
That desk sold better than half of the WWE roster today.
@jimcochran11282 жыл бұрын
Hilarious. Ol’ Lancer Russell kills me!😆 “Yeah, yeah, stop with the old home week!”😝
@nellbowie79868 жыл бұрын
For crying out loud Jerry!!!! Come on!!!
@billyrgaddjr.9106 ай бұрын
This brings back many beautiful childhood memories for me.
@Muertes-tf2oj6 жыл бұрын
The crowds at these old tv tapings were hotter than anything thats been seen on WWE tv in yrs.
@RSLindsay8 жыл бұрын
"Guys, you gotta stop doing this! Every time you get into a big studio brawl, it costs us a fortune to rebuild the commentary set!"
@davesmith88777 жыл бұрын
It looks like the desk was made of cardboard ;)
@princesstamika7 жыл бұрын
that;s still way too much money lol.
@Thor-Orion4 жыл бұрын
Dave Smith definitely particleboard.
@rustyshepperd9 жыл бұрын
Best wrestling, make that " Wrastlin" on tv. I couldn't get enough of this as a kid in the 80's. Jerry was and still is my favorite.
@AldenRDavis9 жыл бұрын
+Rusty Shepperd Jerry Lawler is my favorite, too.
@belldn35 жыл бұрын
Right off the bat, studio fight that leads right into a match.
@zeesproductions18343 жыл бұрын
Back then when you were convinced wrestlers actually had BEEF.
@paladin17265 ай бұрын
Its definitely devolved, in ring and out of the ring
@rodneystewart89585 жыл бұрын
This was Saturday morning tv at its finest
@gregfutrell77044 жыл бұрын
I never missed it. Fantastic
@Thor-Orion4 жыл бұрын
RedneckSpaceMan even back then WWF wasn’t as good as this. It was all characters at the top of the card. Beginning in the mid to late 80’s their midcard blew away the top of their card in match quality and characters. Look at DiBiase, Dusty Rhodes, Randy Savage, Curt Hennig, Hart Foundation, etc. The guys they poached from the other companies would CONSTANTLY outperform Hulk Hogan and his monster heel of the week at the top of their card.
@scottymoore91213 жыл бұрын
I’m from West Tennessee and this was as part of my Saturday mornings as my Saturday morning cartoons. The memories,the good ol days. No such thing as good Saturday morning cartoons anymore and no such thing as good wrestling anymore. That’s when it was great Wrestling at its best.
@tedroesch91332 жыл бұрын
In fact, Looney Toons was on just before wrestling, on another channel. I miss those days.
@kiimbel18779 ай бұрын
AGREED!!!
@shawnkirk271 Жыл бұрын
This was great. I've developed a love for this territory. As a kid in the 80s all I had access to was Mid Atlantic and Georgia. I've developed a love for 70s, especially 80s NWA Wrestling for 2nd in time in life, thanks to youtube.
@CM-fk3or7 жыл бұрын
"And now is no exception!!!". That was awesome.
@TomClooney3 жыл бұрын
Spent a good deal of time the past 5 years rewatching and catching back up with these classic Memphis wrestling shows and have to say, Lance Russell is truly the GOAT of announcers
@jonathankenton71822 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1971 30 miles from Memphis and had the privilege of watching this unfold every week. Rassling at its finest!
@JohnDoe-vy6ju14 күн бұрын
Classic sportscaster voice. Could've done any sport. Would've been world famous if he'd been doing baseball on the radio. As it is, he was perfectly cast as the exasperated normal mortal man just trying to do his job while surrounded by the craziness of professional wrestling and the chaos that inevitably erupts.
@kevinmasterson79926 жыл бұрын
These bits....were sent feom HEAVEN! Thanks for sharing!!
@teetime67922 жыл бұрын
I watched this stuff every Saturday. It always amazed me how Dave Brown made up the match times. Dave: 1 minute and 40 seconds after glancing at his watch to sell it. Pure Gold. Too bad Vegas didn't have prop bets on Dave's time calls.
@Sweetzandmore3 жыл бұрын
I live in Wisconsin now,but watching this when I lived in Memphis. It was so much fun going to Coliseum to watch wrestling.
@travissloan68648 жыл бұрын
Take it outside. I love Lance Russell trying to direct traffic as Jerry Lawler beats the shit out of Jimmy Hart.
@girthbrooks47308 жыл бұрын
Travis Sloan Lance & Dave were great. "Oh this is ridiculous." "Let's get some help out here"
@Darrencardinal7 жыл бұрын
I used to laugh my ass off, I mean fall on the floor, listening to Lance and Dave rant.
@girthbrooks47307 жыл бұрын
Darren McIntyre Good times. I'm convinced that either of them could run for mayor and win.
@nicoleknight94123 жыл бұрын
I remember when Lord Jonathan Boyd brought a snake 🐍 with him. Lance jumped out of his chair in horror. I can still hear him saying, "Will you get that damn snake out of here?!" RIP Lance , you were golden
@travissloan68643 жыл бұрын
@@nicoleknight9412 + Yeah, I remember that episode to. Old Lancer didn't like the wrestlers using profanity during their promos but Lance was cursing up a storm over that snake allright.
@williambanks22234 жыл бұрын
The look on Lance Russell's face listening to Jimmy Hart is priceless. If it had a thought bubble it probably would say "Why couldn't Lawler break his jaw again?"
@joeclements77507 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Hart was such a great heel.
@nassermj76713 жыл бұрын
SOOO many story lines. Big $$ draw.
@DelilahBeard3 жыл бұрын
@@nassermj7671 what do u mean was? He still is
@williamschutz49825 жыл бұрын
You have gotta love the mouth of the south Jimmy Hart!!! The man lives for wrestling.
@gerrardbevins47627 жыл бұрын
used to love the old school memphis stuff when all hell would break loose
@RMAli23 Жыл бұрын
I never saw these guys back in the day, but I see I missed a lot of great entertainment.
@jaymac84963 ай бұрын
A lot of the top wrestlers you saw in the WWF/E and WCW in the late 80’s and 90’s started off in these territories, Macho Man, Rick Rude, King Kong Bundy, and The Rock just to name a few all started in Memphis
@lloydcarter52166 жыл бұрын
I love Lance's frustration at the end....priceless
@tayjones8365 жыл бұрын
You got to see the one when dream machine gets tarred and feathered lance reaction made it even more hilarious
@kevinpayton26644 жыл бұрын
@@tayjones836 I remember that. Lance really was funny in that segment.
@nicoleknight94123 жыл бұрын
The way Lance could sell a situation was fabulous! What a great talent he was! RIP
@daviddavidson80505 жыл бұрын
To me when Jimmy Hart left Memphis his career in wrestling took a nose dive. He's been a trooper about it all for years and years but his career as villain extrodinaire in CWA took a nose dive. I honestly think Vince McMahon did all he could to get him to New York. Got him there and then didn't know what to do with him once he was their? And rather than say hey Jimmy I made a mistake. Sorry dude. Go back down to Memphis he kept him their, paid well for his mistake and the rest is history. But Hart was at his best in Memphis. Down South period. Classic wrestling moment yet again. Great post!
@aeromedical67504 жыл бұрын
The amount of hairspray being used in the studio that day was epic!
@aeromedical67762 жыл бұрын
That and the 55 gallons of peroxide to sustain those “naturally” blond mops the first family were sporting.
@jaymac84969 ай бұрын
@@aeromedical6776everyone was tryna be like Ric Flair 😂😂😂
@austinha116 жыл бұрын
Jerry is amazing in this. Great on the mic and makes it seem genuine
@KakashiInWinter9 жыл бұрын
Fun... something you just can't duplicate in live shows from large arenas.
@haroldpuckett91963 жыл бұрын
This was a part of my Saturday morning every Saturday. Takes me back to my childhood. Good stuff, way better than the crap today.
@kiimbel18779 ай бұрын
COULDN'T AGREE MORE!!!
@joshr27156 жыл бұрын
forgot how Lawyer had feuds with a lot of people over the years classic ones
@SallyLulu8857 жыл бұрын
This is when Memphis was fun!!!
@chrishodges8473 Жыл бұрын
Just business as usual for Memphis..
@johnhawk19692 жыл бұрын
This is too funny. The short one looks like 1970s Ric Flair. 😆
@briefcaseblues60618 жыл бұрын
Jimmy hopping away on one leg was worth it.
@alexciocca44514 жыл бұрын
Watched this stuff for 60!years but never Memphis territory’s Wow great stuff that was well dun to bad we will never see the Likes again
@jasonsterling4129 Жыл бұрын
Jimmy Hart went from being a musician with a hit record group in the 60s to a Hall Of Fame Wrestling manager! True legend in the business. And he still kept up playing his music and created some of the greatest wrestling theme songs in history! He's seen alot and been with the best in the business!
@MENFUSSMIKE9 ай бұрын
The Gentrys
@madbrowniac78718 ай бұрын
Paved the way as a Manager in Memphis for his client Paul Ellering and then Jim Cornette Sherri Martel and Paul Heyman to name just a few.🤔🎤📣🎾💪📱🎼🎸🤼♀️💃🤼♂️B.W.
@brian-ld4vd Жыл бұрын
How could Chick Donovan be so tan but still look like an Albino? LoL
@mikehudson1387 Жыл бұрын
OH MY GOD!!!!!!! I LOVED GROWING UP IN MIDDLE TN !!!!!!!!! THIS IS GOLD!!!!!!!!!
@EverteFarnell4 жыл бұрын
I love how the announcer looks disgusted. Lol Even he’s selling the fight.
@oldgoat1423 жыл бұрын
Somebody somewhere said that Lance Russell was the king of righteous indignation. He never wanted to know how things were supposed to turn out. Wanted to strictly just react. Loved Lance Russell!
@Catten_whisperer2 жыл бұрын
They knew how to tell a good story in Memphis
@JGR088 Жыл бұрын
"He Molested me on T.V." lol😅😂
@janettemcclelland29597 жыл бұрын
RIP Lance Russell:(
@TonyMontana-qv8cx6 жыл бұрын
He was the best!
@MENFUSSMIKE9 ай бұрын
Legend
@TheAutumnWind_RN4L Жыл бұрын
Jerry's mullet is undefeated.
@arthuridis Жыл бұрын
I dig it.
@fredgutierrez18815 жыл бұрын
4:08 "and now is no exception!" 😂😂😂..hilarious
@tayjones8365 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@lpri5 ай бұрын
Good lawd, the peroxide mopping was off the charts! 😅
@dpas8695 жыл бұрын
Awww Man!!! I used to LOVE watching this wrestling sooooo friggin much! Every Saturday, 10 to 11 or maybe 11:30 in the morning! Lance Russell, Dave Brown. Lawler, Dundee, Handsome Jimmy, Lord Humongus, Wildfire Tommy Rich, Austin Idol. "Fire it up Tommy Rich, fire it up. Hey!". LMFAO! OMG, those were the days! Back then I soooo thought pro wrestling was real! LOL
@Thor-Orion4 жыл бұрын
dpas869 back then in this and many other territories you had to be a very gifted worker in ring to get the belt. Say what you will about Verne Gagne, but his philosophy of only putting the belt on the most talented in ring grappler was a great philosophy to have.
@nicoleknight94123 жыл бұрын
@@Thor-Orion Then there was the night that David Arquett won the WCW championship! So much for Gagne's philosophy.
@Thor-Orion3 жыл бұрын
@@nicoleknight9412 David was even against that decision. Haha. But at least he donated all the money he made from those appearances to the families of deceased wrestlers.
@nickbisanz6 жыл бұрын
Lance--c'mon jerry do it outside! classic
@hhh1238372 жыл бұрын
Hart and Lawler must have had a ball doing this segment
@marcushardy7873 Жыл бұрын
That was absolutely hilarious when Jerry Lawler saying that he is going to beat the Hell out of Jimmy Hart and everyone got involved and all hell broken loose.
@elvis-jj1sc6 жыл бұрын
aww the good ole days
@rewing843 жыл бұрын
whenever the phrase nice and calm happens a brawl is coming
@cbmbdb10 ай бұрын
Man he knocked this piss out of those guys😂😂😂😂😂
@PlatinumRoseLady2 ай бұрын
Whatever they paid Jerry Calhoun...it wasn't enough.
@DH-ss4kk6 жыл бұрын
It was never boring
@gregorymcgee1005 жыл бұрын
Used to watch this every Sat. A.M. Lawler missed Jimmy Hart by about 12 inches when he "knocked" him over the desk. But still, entertaining as heck, Jimmy Hart is the best! We got a free for all!
@anthonyclark966 Жыл бұрын
CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!!..😂😂THE LEGENDS ,LANCE & DAVE BROWN..COME ONNN LAWLER!!!..& THE CROWD HIPED IT UP EVEN MORE..MEMPHIS CLASSIC WRESTLING. MAN!!. IT WAS GREAT GROWING UP IN MEMPHIS ON SATURDAY MORNINGS👊..
@mechanicjobs4 жыл бұрын
I miss this craziness.
@wolfieform95144 жыл бұрын
I loved this type of wrestling the good ole days when wrestling was gold 👍😎👍
@HyperActive74 жыл бұрын
The announce table gets destroyed.. We carry on like nothing happened.. Classic!
@nicoleknight94123 жыл бұрын
How many times did the table get destroyed over the years?
@MisterBeauJanGels Жыл бұрын
@@nicoleknight9412 More often than the women who did scenes with Lexington Steele.
@cottonmill19707 жыл бұрын
saw this live...great stuff
@apolloniaaskew94872 жыл бұрын
Lance Russell know he was sporting those white patent leather shoes and that suit. He was the spokesman for Baxter Suits and wore a new one every Saturday.
@mrparkinson4 жыл бұрын
If a guy has a talking dog, you bet your bottom dollar you make him vice president.
@willharper78884 жыл бұрын
Growing up watching back then,never realized just how small those venues were back in the good old days...wow 😷✌⚓
@rodneywhite25654 ай бұрын
THE best Saturday mornings!!!
@Unk_2134 жыл бұрын
6:59 my favorite words "we have a free for all" (dave brown) if you missed Saturday morning wrestling at 11 a.m. your whole weekend was not complete it's just like leaving home without your wallet
@nicoleknight94123 жыл бұрын
In Atlanta, it aired at noon, Eastern Time, on a live feed from Memphis. How awesome that show was!
@davejohnson30375 жыл бұрын
Those where the days! Great feuds that lasted for months.
@nicoleknight94123 жыл бұрын
In the case of Lawler vs. Hart, YEARS!
@elscotto337 жыл бұрын
You know, Price and Hutchinson were holding their own when the second studio brawl started
@LL-fd7xn10 ай бұрын
Jimmy Hart, hes one man who never ages!
@jimmadonna14364 жыл бұрын
I forgot how VIOLENT southern wrestling was!
@jonathankenton71822 жыл бұрын
The country’s best rassling territory bar none!
@DMe74 Жыл бұрын
My Grandmother loved Channel 5 wrestling..."get em Tojo!"
@ccie129339 жыл бұрын
2:02 I had no idea Porter Wagoner wrestled.
@yardlet67 жыл бұрын
JJ Dillion was another who stole Porter's clothes. He did the corporate look when he was the Horseman's manager.
@harryzimmerman79916 жыл бұрын
More like David Lee Roth wearing a Porter Wagoner wig!
@franksullivan71105 жыл бұрын
Lol Flair called Dillon Porter Wagner on World Championship Wrestleimg on TBS on time while he was doing an interview and Dillon and Buddy Landell were waiting for their match in the ring. Fair also said something derogatory about Landell's robe I think and Flair said he would let Landell borrow one his robes but Landell's arms were too small for the sleeves and I think he said Landell would probably get lost in the sleeves.
@travissloan68645 жыл бұрын
@@franksullivan7110 Yeah, Flair told Landell in that segment that he shouldn't be calling himself the Natureboy when he buys his clothes at K Mart.
@franksullivan71105 жыл бұрын
@@travissloan6864 lol awesome miss them days
@kenriley23523 жыл бұрын
The hair dye lol
@janettemcclelland29598 жыл бұрын
And I thought LA wrestling at the Olympic Auditorium and the old Channel 13 studios on La Brea was crazy. First time I've seen these clips of Memphis wrestling. Wow.
@keepondjw7 жыл бұрын
of course I'm biased being from memphis but it was great and i went to a lot of monday nights at mid south coliseum --as good as any wrestling i think
@janettemcclelland29597 жыл бұрын
keepondjw We never saw the Memphis show in LA. We only had the Olympic Auditorium shows on Channel 5,then Channel 13 and later Channel 52 until the late 70's. That was it until World Class and WCW on Channel 56 in the 80's. Sadly,none of the LA shows survive on video. Everything was taped over them. Sucks.
@dereka33416 жыл бұрын
If you lived in southern Kentucky, back in the 70s and/or 80s, you saw this every Saturday morning, at 10am. I remember these clips vividly. Memphis wrastlin' was the best wrestling promotion, of all time. Everybody, who became somebody in the WWF, at one time or another went through Memphis. Memphis made people. Plus, let's not forget the whole Andy Kaufmann vs Jerry Lawler period of time. That was absolutely crazy!
@MisterBeauJanGels Жыл бұрын
@@janettemcclelland2959 Not true. Jeff Walton saved quite a bit of footage from 1980-1982, including full episodes. There are also many lower-quality clips from earlier episodes which were recorded off of Channel 47 in NYC. KZbin has plenty of those videos.
@MENFUSSMIKE9 ай бұрын
It was like this EVERY Weekend...Memphis Theatre
@Plexpara6 жыл бұрын
damn Jerry gave Jimmy a hard Punch here.
@1simplybadd7 ай бұрын
Lance’s facial expression are priceless 😂😂😂
@Lovelygal719 жыл бұрын
Wow, it looks as if Ric Flair's been cloned 3 times here. ha ha. (Sorry, Ric) ;)
@dkfelix9 жыл бұрын
Jodie Flair Only Buddy Landell is missing on the set :-)
@Lovelygal719 жыл бұрын
yeah, true
@Amisbro7 жыл бұрын
funny you should mention Flair because Donovan actually wrestled flair once. When I was googling Donovan there happens to be a match that comes up where he wrestled Flair but I don't know the outcome sadly
@Thor-Orion4 жыл бұрын
Jodie Ambrose everybody wanted to be Ric Flair back then, and can you blame them?
@quietdignityandgrace6 жыл бұрын
Ooohhh, that's what a Pier 6 looks like. Dig it, i dig it. And the girlies go wild!
@A_real_Ha_So7 жыл бұрын
This was a very rare mistake by Russell. Valiant had already left the 1st family earlier in this episode.
@murdough2088 жыл бұрын
poor old chic was always getting beat up
@dpas8695 жыл бұрын
Yep, so was Koko Ware. He sucked on there back then.
@williambrightman65934 жыл бұрын
Memphis wrestling, there was no.territory quite like it. Wish we could turn back time and return to real honest to God old school wrestling.
@Malouco2 жыл бұрын
What if there were rings and cellphones in the 70’s
@stevemtc15 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Hart is a master at pissing off the audience
@timstrickland87746 жыл бұрын
Lance Russell and Dave Brown saw it all..R.I.P. Lance.
@MrNYCman5306 жыл бұрын
Lance Russell never had the makings of a varsity athlete or someone who could defuse a situation.
@perulove904 жыл бұрын
He's not Tony Soprano ...lol
@kenriley23523 жыл бұрын
Beautiful laugh my ass off I love it
@MRATOMIC-yz2cx3 жыл бұрын
Good ole time live studio pro wrestling!
@Lurvy19636 жыл бұрын
That desk Lance Russell and Dave Brown commentated the wrestling matches from sure took a lot of abuse from all the studio brawls, didn't it?
@norms39133 жыл бұрын
That desk took more abuse then the wrestlers did lol
@Battle_Faith-Ministries5 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Hart knew how to get heat organically
@davidmarshall3853 жыл бұрын
ive followed lawler for manny years for sure he was a heel he was great with jr after his heart attack i lost him like most people loved to hate him