Memphis Wrestling: June 7, 1980 - Part 1

[MrScrewthiscrap]

I didn't know santa claus wrestled on a tag team.

[2010metsfan]

That little sawed off runt!

[32rodrick]

Memphis Championship Wrestling has been sanction by the World Class Championship Wrestling.

[olofpalme63]

The Honky Tonk Man with blonde hair!

[Rollergirl2001]

I love that music going into the break.

[LCARLAN2]

This is when wrestling was at its best! Wayne Ferris AKA Honky Tonk Man was awesome!

[Shroomeryslearyfan]

I love youtube and I love you. Thanks for posting this old Memphis stuff.

[oilerdiehard]

This is so cool thank you for posting this classic stuff. Great for me as well as I grew up on Stampede Wrestling in Canada.

Not long after this Wayne Ferris, Danny Davis and Ken Wayne all went up to Stampede off and on for a couple of years. The Nightmares were together up there under the name the Tennessee Studs. Danny Davis stuck around for a while afterwards as a singles wrestler.

[steviemacful]

this is when wrestling was wrestling lance russell is still the man wwe sucks!! worst commentator ever =michael cole

[deptofcorrections1]

Classic stuff.I appreciate people like you who post this stuff so we can all relive wrestling when it was good.

[memphismusic420]

dundee, lawler, ferris, latham...three words for ya...TUPELO CONCESSION STAND BRAWL

[T74G]

@memphismusic420

classic!!!!!!!!!

[83getitin]

did any one realize ''dangerous'' danny davis was a bit muscular ref in wwf....... BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN AROUND!!!!

[slimmsayton]

"...but, Jerry Jerrett, I don't like to be booked there. and he made me go anyway." Gotta love Wayne 'Honkytonk Man' Ferris.

[spayspay]

Thanks a lot!

[mrhollister09]

that looked like a legit bump danny davis took on the ring post

[THARSHTILDEATH]

I love Memphis Wrestling

[CombatSportFan]

Been nearly 30 years and Dave Brown hasn't aged a bit. Heck, Lance Russel hasn't that much. If Lance went to a cosmetic surgeon he wouldn't "look good for his age" he'd look younger than he did here. Must be something in that Mississippi River water.

[wickedmountain]

love old memphis wrestling everybody went through there!! lance russell excellent commentator!!

[okrabay]

isnt lathum or ferris the honky tonk man?

[KingJeremy1974]

Wayne Ferris was the Honky Tonk Man; Larry Latham was Moondog Spot.

[SteveGaines]

@KingJeremy1974 Latham was Larry Booker..and was Moondog Spot..and ended up dying in the ring of a heart attack..He was from my home town..

[asouthernlife]

Memphis wrestling was the best...every saturday baby!

[arkansoul]

Yes, Lance Russell is alive and well living in Florida. He is 82 yrs. old and voice sounds the same. Now and then he'll come back to Memphis for a memorial show and he's always a star here.

[Soulgrenade]

@arkansoul

Yeeeeelllooo everybody this is Lance Russell along ringside with Dave Brown...

[arkansoul]

@Soulgrenade The sound of that old rasslin' bell was music to our ears back then...

[Soulgrenade]

@arkansoul

They really knew how to put on a show back then and you got to watch the younger guys coming up through the ranks and earning there payday.

[arkansoul]

@Soulgrenade Back then, you had guys who loved rasslin'. Of course they needed the money, but the sport came first. Great action...

[magnumshifter]

Hey guys is Lance Russell still alive?

[marathonriverrat]

damn dundees throwing some spuds on poor danny davis this is classic.

[MadManWeed]

I wish someone would release these shows on DVD

[magnumshifter]

Me too.

[OLDSKOOLCHAOS]

I miss Lance Russell, Russell and Solie best two to ever work in the business.

[nwajoe]

It's funny to hear Honky talk about how he doesn't like Jerry Jarrett booking him in places he doesn't want to go. Sounds like a hint of reality in that, knowing his long standing problems with promoters.

[volstar88]

Ferris seems like a natural on the mic even at this early stage of his career.

[Billthrill1978]

I can remember going to see a show at a local high school back in the early 90's. The heels and faces dressed in seperate locker rooms but were side by side in view of the stands and the ring. They played some guy's entrance music and I just happened to look over atthe locker rooms and Larry Latham aka Moondog Spot at the time, was standing in the door dancing in his underwear chewing a bone

[vanzandt46]

you are right man

[vanzandt46]

THATS not the same DANNY DAVIS from the nightmares that is DANNY DAVIS the manager .

[GShea]

THEY ARE the same fella.

[toosweet4285]

Honky Tonk Man and Bill Dundee in the same ring? WTF?! Amazing!

[thenoblegeek]

Damn. Bill Dundee was working really stiff with Danny Davis.

[TNA52383]

I love hearing lance russell talk and commentate a match

[CadillacL]

This was before Danny Davis form the Nightmares? I'm from Louisiana so we

didn't Southeastern here, is why I'm

curious about it.

[chugger2hotty]

SAD

[GShea]

Yup.

[jerryleebrock]

Memphis Wrestling was the best,superstar,moondog,and the honkytonk man in one fight.