Memphis Wrestling: Dirty Rhodes and Harley Davidson

This is... weird to say the least. Before becoming Hillbilly Jim in the WWF, journeyman wrestler Jim Morris was the one and only Harley Davidson in the Memphis territory. Harley had a tag team partner who bore a resemblence to The American Dream Dusty Rhodes, and his name was Dirty Rhodes! Anyway here's a video of the two.

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Sports

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• hillbilly
• jim
• harley
• davidson
• dirty
• rhodes
• dusty
• jerry
• lawler
• memphis
• wrestling
• wwf
• cwa
• awa
• nwa

[takauthar]

i'll take a memphis gimmick or angle over vince's bullshit any day. i never knew about jim being harley davidson. i like that over fukin hillbilly jim. vince is a moron

[Taintgun]

Hillbilly Jim was really a wasted gimmick, he had a great look here.

[Naitch35]

Somebody in Memphis listened to the "Footloose" soundtrack WAY too often. They also used "Let's Hear It For The Boy" for another tag team they were trying to get over later on (look up "Funniest Wrestling Beefcake Video Ever"). Didn't Jerry Jarrett or Lawler own other albums?! If they did, I'd be scared to know what they were. Maybe Boy Tony would be a clue?

[HogansDisciple]

dirty rhodes and harley davidson was a shot at harley race and dusty rohdes. lol classic memphis

[landinmycourt]

@JKTube I've also heard that Randy Savage who was main eventing with Lawler in Memphis, was living in a one bedroom apartment with just a matress. Of course that all changed when he went to the WWF.

[JKTube]

@DeepSouthWrestling1: That's nothing. There's a Bruiser Brody video on here that uses the John Parr song "Naughty Naughty." :rolls eyes:

[JKTube]

@landinmycourt: Yes, Lawler in Memphis drew very well for years, for one thing because pro wrestling was about the only pro "sport" there was in Tennessee for a long time, but obviously Lawler took most of the money. Jacqueline, who made her name there in the 1990s as Miss Texas, said on the "Come Get Some: The Women of the WWF" VHS release from 1999 that she was "starving" in Memphis.

[FerretJohn]

@mguerra310 Read the description. Harley was Hillbilly Jim aka Jim Morris, no relation whatsoever to Nash

[mguerra310]

Is Harley Davidson Kevin Nash's/Diesel dad? They kinda have the same resemblance, they enter the ring the same way by steping over the top rope and the big boot is the same as well...

[VancouverTVGuy]

I remember seeing Dirty Rhodes competing briefly in Stampede Wrestling in the late-'80s as Roger Rhodes. Still using the same Dusty-esque gimmick even then.

[diesel021234]

vince gave him the hillbilly jim gimmick to get him over with the fans. his memphis gimmick would have bombed up north. jim did the right thing and become a huge star.

[dwinyhc]

@CadillacL randy colley was the original smash