Bloody debut of Super Destroyer w Jimmy Hart (vs Jerry Lawler, 11-14-81) Classic Memphis Wrestling

CWA Championship Wrestling presents the television debut of Super Destroyer (Bill Dromo) with manager Jimmy Hart versus "The King" Jerry Lawler.
Date: November 14, 1981
Location: WMC TV5 Studio, Memphis
Interview: Lance Russell
Play-by-play commentary: Dave Brown
Referee: Jerry Calhoun
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[@riprogers8313]

Jerry Lawler!!! Selling! Selling ! Selling ! Top face in Memphis making his opponent on TV for Monday nite- no ego- that's the way u do it- big house at the coliseum Monday nite- simple effective

[@Unk_213]

I loved Monday night's at the Mid-South Coliseum! $3 admission.....$1 Soda....$1 Hot dog.....$1 Popcorn....a program and plenty of Bloody wrestling.....what was not to love about it!!!!! 💯👊🏾❤👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🚨

[@mr.reefer8955]

And pictures being sold at the souvenir table

[@chrismemphis8062]

$6 then is $25 now

[@danorthsidemang3834]

You left out child molestation by the wrestlers for $0. I'm sure you had a lot of personal experience with that.

[@Unk_213]

@@danorthsidemang3834 I don't have time firvnobody's negative energy. Because you were loved as a child please keep your negative and ignorant foolishness to yourself and thank you!

[@jefftravis309]

Yep, this was my favorite Saturday program.

[@skee71]

Jimmy Hart was hands down the best talker in wrestling. Never missed a line and could convey emotion like no other.

[@adambennett2737]

I started laughing when I saw him get out of the wheel chair and put on his wrestling gear lol

[@jonathankenton7182]

This was every Saturday morning for me as a young’un. WMC-TV channel 5. You know you are in a serious wrasslin area when your weatherman cohosts the wrasslin show. Good times.

[@henrick_the_lover]

I agree watch the show then my brother and I would wrestle each other after the show. Problem was a body slam actually hurts on a living room floor when you don’t know how to take a bump.

[@ronhawk62]

Bill wrestled out of the Atlanta territory, he was a mid-card wrestler in Atlanta but was a main-eventer in Macon, Columbus and anywhere that Fred Ward promoted. He was one of the most underrated wrestlers of the sixties through the eighties. I've seen him wrestle hundreds of times, an excellent worker.

[@michaelconnors7668]

Thank you Jimmy Hart for having the guts to tell the truth about Jerry Lawler.

[@virginiamccann3579]

LMFAO!!! It's a damn show! BUT...even if it were not fake! Jimmy Hart's character portrays a narcissistic, pathetic excuse of a man????? Two-faced people NEVER WIN!!

[@fatharold1788]

I love SD's classic old school wrestling body

[@WallyWorld1971]

I love it too!!!

[@bozothepimp4039]

The mouth of the South, Jimmy Hart. Now this brings back memories.

[@yellowveedub]

Pro Wrestling is the greatest invention ever

[@Dontbeasquarepeg]

Now this is some old school wrestling!!!

[@Stereolabdream]

Jimmy was brilliant at this time...

[@jimclark6256]

Saw big Bill in the 60's beat Jerry Graham into a bloody mess. Nothing fake, I was in the front roll.

[@allenvaden1292]

Super Destroyer was Bill Eadie on Mid Atlantic wrestling. Don Jardine was the Spoiler and I remember one of the masked Assasins were unmasked by Jimmy Valiant. He turned out to be Hercules Hernandez. Mid Atlantic and Memphis wrestling along with Florida championship wrestling were the best wrestling anywhere in the 70s and 80s.

[@larrystarstruck]

I have to admit the Super Destroyer missed a few spots on this one and Lawler still did a good job of selling for him.

[@martindoll6656]

Now that Ladies and Gentlemen is how you put someone over. Lawler put him over big time

[@nellbowie7986]

Something Triple H and Bret Hart never did

[@thereilneid2868]

Bret Hart didn't need to put anyone over like Lawler did there . First Lawler was part owner of the territory & 2nd Hart was too good a wrestler to go out & put over mid-carders like this Super Destroyer.

[@bigpoppanard]

There were a lot of Super Destroyers around all of the NWA territories (Memphis, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, World Class, Georgia etc) and AWA; Some of the more famous Super Destroyers were Don Jardine, Sgt. Slaughter, The Iwin Bros (aka The Long Riders) and my own mentor Kevin Jordan performed as The Super Destroyer in the early 80s in a couple of promotions. Also there were several jobbers who worked the mask too.

[@hostileactual7655]

My daddy did it, a couple of times.

[@bernardthompsonjr2347]

@@hostileactual7655 Who is your dad?

[@PontFlair]

Don Jardine was The Spoiler and a Super Destroyer? Whoa. I wonder who this SD was.

[@litehouse6]

No not Jardine. This looks like Bill Dromo.

[@RJ-sy1wi]

Not Scott Irwin either

[@lanenordgren7641]

Bill.

[@keithvalentine6749]

@@RJ-sy1wi uh 98u

[@marktoler4341]

When rasslin was goid

[@KakashiInWinter]

Back in the days when a main-event face was willing to get destroyed like that to tell a good story.

[@DabsDad]

+Randy Hardin You gotta love a good blade job at a studio shoot when 1/2 the audience is children. Family entertainment at its finest!

[@tonyarceneaux286]

A hall of fame wrestler and a hall of Fame manager.

[@andymassingham]

“You’re as bogus as that big nose of yours brother!”😂

[@bbqsky]

HAHA,,I`m 42 and I dig what You are saying,,I grew up in Highview/Okalona and Noon on Sat,,,this is what was on,,,I remember this episode!!! Take it easy!!!!

[@mr.reefer8955]

I grew u0 in Lexington and watched this every Saturday morning and remember this match as well

[@chrishollister80]

must've been some young Daniel Bryan fans down in Memphis

[@trentonericify]

How do I not remember this?

[@TheJman2600]

LOL at Hart hiding behind Dave Brown.

[@drewmuscle9825]

THE SUPER DESTOYER DID A GOOD JOB, SORRY, NOT A GOOD JOB BUT A REAL BLOODY WONDERFUL JOB.

[@WallyWorld1971]

drew muscle it truly was beautiful! I loved it!

[@libra42ful]

@@WallyWorld1971 ....Watching the too big for his britches Lawler "used, and abused by a REAL man had me throbbbbin in my briefs...I wish the Destroyer would of shown his full alpha-male studness by making Fairy "the king" (of dick sucking) Lawler BEGGGGG in a camel clutch until he passed out from agonizing humiliation, while destroyer just kept riding, and bouncin on Fairy's back AS he was ejaculating into his black, bulging tights....had to be a dick-stiffening turn-on for the Destroyer....he destroyed him good, and lonnnng...

[@thereilneid2868]

libra42ful, you've got some serious issues bro. You need some real mental health care

[@theflorgeormix]

Lawler made Memphis...his ethos of selling made it great. I grew up on Florida wrestling with Dusty. Both superstars of this art.

[@jonathankenton7182]

Lawler, Dundee, hart, marlin, Russell, Jarrett and Brown were in on the scam and it made them all lots of cash. It also entertained a whole lot of folks like me.

[@danorthsidemang3834]

You know you're a two-chromosome inbred paedophile right?

[@theflorgeormix]

@@danorthsidemang3834 go call your Mom. You need that

[@wuluminati9622]

I jus want my tombstone to say im from parts unknown 😁

[@lanenordgren7641]

Damian Demento. "From the outer reaches of your mind." 😆

[@bcreaves29]

If that guy is 6'6" and 300+lbs. then I'm the pope, the president, and "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair himself! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@c.bretmiller6148]

Yeah... I've never heard Dromo billed at above 6' 3" and 280lbs. and that's likely an exaggeration. In reality he was probably 6' 1" or 2" and 250lbs. at his heaviest. I realize most wrestlers stats are slightly inflated, but you can't just add 100 lbs. and half a foot onto somebody. Doing stuff like that draws the veracity of everything a promotion does under scrutiny.

[@randyjohnson7734]

the referee did the right thing!! if he wouldn't o stopped that fight, Super D woulda blinded The King Jerry Lawler, I assure you!! The referee did the right thing!!

[@tedoverholt156]

This is how they draw i watched this on Saturday morning and saw the match at Nashville's fairgrounds back in the day

[@scenariomckinney]

C'mon now. Everyone knows what happens when the strap comes down! It was about to be over for the Super Destroyer.

[@JayCrazy74]

If I remember right, Scott Irwin and Don Jardine (Spoiler) had Super Destroyer gimmicks in different territories at the same time as this guy.

[@michaelmadden8269]

I liked the deal in Georgia where Irwin came in as the Super Destroyer after the Masked Superstar was suspended. Some faces argued it was just MS back as another masked man. Eventually Masked Superstar came back and they teamed up. As a kid, I thought Super D (Irwin) was a badass.

[@michaelmadden8269]

Here are Eadie and Irwin together in Georgia. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4nCZ2iInb-SY80

[@norms3913]

9,570 must be a magic number lol

[@bertmustin]

Look at the good Christian athlete Jimmy Hart giving the sign of the cross.

[@AldenRDavis]

Whatever happened to the Super Destroyer (Bill Dromo), and he's still around?

[@timburr4453]

He passed away maybe 10 yrs ago. Was pretty old even at the time of this broadcast

[@70camaro100]

Iam 41 I remember seeing this on when I was 10 channel 3 at 12:00pm every saturday here in lou,ky........lawler got his ass kicked...lol....thought it was funny when hart got out of the wheel chair .....after the super destroyer picked up and threw lawler.....he picked him up and cracked lawler that was a good one......then the super destroyer put his bloody fist to the camera classic move

[@ownknow8161]

*Funny how a person doesn't like when something is done to them but is willing to do it to someone else. Jerry Lawler used a bludgeon-type finish against the "Modern-day Warrior" Kerry von Erick 7 or 8 years after this match. Classic Dusty Rhodes-type of screw job finish in wrestling. Good times. Good times.*

[@libra42ful]

Hey Jerry!....You just got squashed!....I lovvvved watching Lawler used as nothing more than a human PUNCHING-BAG for the Destroyer, who lived up to his name in this match!

[@MrCarl220]

I've actually heard Bill Dromo's name also, what other names did he go under?

[@carlosdanger947]

I guess they didn’t have gyms in Memphis

[@bobbyd577]

Super Destroyer played by a wrestler who got his start in Calgary Stampede Wrestling. Wild Bill Dromo. Without the mask he was mainly a jobber at least he was in Florida.

[@Woffar]

That was a boxing match! Lawler got destroyed.

[@jaust1n]

6’6 and yet him and Jerry Lawler are the same height. 😳🤦🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️😂😂

[@thenoblegeek]

The only other name I found that Bill Dromo wrestled under is Bill Zbyszko.

[@hilohaole4003]

That dang-o dumb-o dromo!

[@qualityman1965]

This took place at a grade school gym, or what?

[@TR-vc7ul]

You don’t know much do you? It’s studio wrestling

[@user-kk3dq3xw9g]

Never seen this before in pro wrestling, a ref stopping a match because of a cut lol

[@TR-vc7ul]

Ric Flair VS Lex Luger

[@mikegilkey4173]

Dusty Rhodes had a match against Ric Flair at starrcade famously stopped because of a cut. By special referee Joe Frazier.

[@PontFlair]

Lawler vs Kerry Von Erich

[@snoxbox]

I thought this was supposed to be wrestling. All i see is a fist fight.

[@eraffel]

Lance telling Jimmy "You're Bogus".

[@bigTrhodes]

Calhoun - the greatest bullshit actor of all time! Anyone just watched Calhoun only (ignoring the wrestlers)? It's a great show! And funny as fook. ..

[@baliw33]

Jerry Lawler is Hulk Hogan @11:35.

[@nellbowie7986]

Blasphemy

[@nassermj7671]

Like coffee Jerry takes time to get juiced. Too late.

[@alpollard4784]

He so should have mentioned Ironside carrying on his business.

[@daguello]

Bill Eadie(Demoliton Ax)was a Super Destroyer in the AWA and the WWF

[@biglebowski923]

I thought he was the Superstar?

[@PontFlair]

​@biglebowski923 I know he was Masked Superstar as well. I never heard he was a Super Destroyer.

[@barthunt8640]

Is that Phil Hickerson??

[@christopherangel6690]

Trying to figure out this "Super Destroyer". Looks like Big Bill Dromo to me

[@rogertemple7193]

"Bill Dromo as the Super Destroyer, 6'3",289,Parts Unknown. ."-🤔🌐🇺🇲🌏🌎🌍🌐..

[@SlimmArmstrong]

You ain't kiddin! LMAO

[@ulyseeslorenzosutton1772]

Super Destroyer totally dominated the King!

[@libra42ful]

...and it FELT grrrrreat to watch Jerry used as nothing more then a human PUNCHING-BAG for the Destroyer's pleasure...Destroyer lived up to his name in this match, and Lawler just looked like a light blue punchin-bag

[@PontFlair]

He gave Lawler a beat down.

[@bubbiesdad]

Another Super Destroyer was Sterling Golden(Hulk Hogan).

[@PontFlair]

Good call!!

[@dennisfletcher6116]

I like it

[@WallyWorld1971]

Dennis Fletcher I LOVE this!

[@chrisbolton6598]

6'6" 360? Maybe 5 11 275

[@leonandrews7180]

Super Destroyer Rules!

[@blacquesjacques7239]

That Super Destroyer is neither Don Jardine nor Scott Irwin .

[@toddlee2571]

Yeah, the Super Destroyer I remember from GCW was way bigger and more muscular

[@adambennett2737]

Bill eadie or ax from demolition in action

[@70camaro100]

Iam 42 now and I lived over behind the j-mall went to moore high

[@williambarnhardt3500]

HE'S NOT 6'6 360

[@williambaxter4628]

Must have been Kiddie Day.

[@friedchickenicedtea]

Was that Jerry Calhoun or Smokin' Joe Frazier? They both have a case of yellow belly when it comes to officiating a match!

[@dudeman8350]

Sgt. Slaughter was destroyer in awa also. He got unmasked there on TV

[@direcorbie]

+Mike Fix This was not Sgt. Slaughter; this was Bill Dromo.

[@dudeman8350]

In awa the sarge was the super destroyer. Im not sure of your age but I seen it live on TV back in the day. This is not the sarge in this video,correct. But in the awa they had sd mark 1 sd mark 2. The sarge was one of those. Very obvious by the chin. Do your research.

[@dudeman8350]

Sgt. Slaughter held numerous regional titles early in his career and experienced his first major success in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) capturing the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Don Kernodle. During the late 1970s, Remus worked the American Wrestling Association (AWA) territory under a mask as Super Destroyer Mark II with managers Lord Alfred Hayes and Bobby Heenan.

[@direcorbie]

Mike Fix aware that Sgt. Slaughter was SD Mark 1 in AWA; SD Mark 2 was a wrestler from Quebec named Neil Guay. The wrestler seen here against Jerry Lawler was named Bill Dromo, a Calgary-born wrestler who got his start in Stampede Wrestling, but who spent the majority of his career wrestling in various promotions in the SE United States.

[@dudeman8350]

+Corby Gilmore thanks for making me correct. I know it was NOT the Sgt. The sgt was awa.

[@alexciocca4451]

Good to see Lawler get beat

[@daviddavidson8050]

Oh no! The stars and bars flag at a wrestling event, mentions of segregationist Governor George Wallace too? Omg stuff like that wouldn't fly today Brother!

[@libra42ful]

Well this is when we were actual thinking humans, not the pill popping robot zombies of today...the flag, just a symbol of our history at the time, too educated, thinking, adults....The self-centered, narcissistic, pansys of today find it "offensive" "it hurts MY feelings"...grow a fuckin pair of balls people!.... it's a fuckin flag... it's a damn statue, it's just a plaque.... it's History!....but let's remove it all, grow the fuck up....if you people can't see this stuff for what it is, and not be "hurt" or "offended" by it, then you're just simply uneducated, and are not capable of understanding the need for History to be around, shown, displayed...as a reminder of our past...ya know, it helps us to not make the same mistakes....wrestling was better back in this time, because as a country WE WERE BETTER....now we're just a pathetic embarrassment to the world...a punch of mamby-pamby, weak, mindless, narcissistic, wastes of space...and I'm talking civilians... I'm so tired of political correctness...but that's what the weaklings of America complained about, and asked for....and, so now it is...good going you pussy fruit loops....YOU ruined EVERYTHING...including pro wrestling, errrr, I mean "sports entertainment"....a bunch of socially-retarded "sensitive" dipshits...

[@jamesamsler2418]

Good face ring post!!!!

[@battlestarmarc]

Jimmy Hart was funny.

[@leonandrews7180]

Super Destroyer rules!

[@timburr4453]

Lol Hart is brilliant. George Wallace...Franklin Roosevelt😂

[@Billy-pc6lt]

Referee Frank Morrel.

[@chrismon02]

Jesus “Super D” had quite the Arsenal. Nothing but a right hand punch. Yawn...

[@georgepeters335]

Jerry "The King" Lawler got destroyed here!

[@wcwindom56]

that doesnt look like Don Jardine under that mask

[@lanenordgren7641]

It's not.

[@libra42ful]

Jerry The Jobber Lawler...a baby-blue punching-bag

[@maryheim-hancock8625]

What a recovery! It's a medical marijuana wonder. One minute you can't move. Smoke a little weed and completely forget not to jump upl

[@thebigpussycat7475]

9:15 Lawler uses blade to cut himself.

[@DMS-pq8]

Uh Oh a Confederate Flag

[@TheJman2600]

Dave S. My eyes!

[@davidbowers7852]

phillip martin fuck you bitch

[@acgarner3107]

David Bowers he is just mad his mommy has a dick

[@imafreakinhistorian2169]

DeadGum Calhoun

[@Devillocks13]

I miss Lance Russell, always so fed up with the heel tactics and sold every feud. “What’d ya got 19 of your First Family members waiting in the hall to jump him?”

[@PastorPeewee20]

Bad call ref

[@CuteLesbo69]

George Wallace lol

[@SallyLulu885]

boo hoo!!!

[@PeeboTyson]

Memphis needs help!!! Does the Red Cross send psychiatric teams?

[@trentonericify]

How do I not remember this?

[@trentonericify]

How do I not remember this?

[@trentonericify]

How do I not remember this?

[@trentonericify]

How do I not remember this?

[@trentonericify]

How do I not remember this?

[@trentonericify]

How do I not remember this?