The Bullet and the Stud 8 of 9

Arn Anderson and Jerry Stubbs vs. Rick McGraw and the Tennessee Stud for the Southeastern tag team championship from April 14, 1984.

At around the seven minute mark of the video everything breaks down. Referee Ron West does a nasty blade job. Rick McGraw is destroyed and it turns into three on one against Fuller. Bob Armstrong makes the save and all is forgiven (at least until Fuller turned on Armstrong two weeks later -- if anybody has that video please post it).

Oh and note the tornado warning that goes across the screen.

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• wrestling
• southeastern
• jerry
• stubbs
• arn
• anderson
• robert
• fuller
• ron
• tennessee
• stud
• bullet
• bob
• armstrong

[bluelove54]

yes this is the real wrestling and the way it should be not this stuff that they are showing now on tv its so story line and just really looks fake, i don't watch it on tv but i've ordered a lot of the old wrestling tapes and thats what i look at like the boggie woggie man and the rock and roll express yea thats wrestling.

[lhh4531]

These clips are fantastic! What a flood of memories come back seeing Jerry Stubbs and others - Len Denton Carl Styles. I can still remember so many of these angles.

[Styme2002]

@okrabay but that's whay is was soooo good back in those days, georgia championship, mid south and of course southeastern wrestling is what was happening...i only knew of wwf/wwe and the awa was thru the magazines like pro wrestling illustrated and the wrestling insider

[MykeGT]

@mikemike4315 No, that was a year later when ROBERT Fuller turned on Bob Armstrong in the cage match you described. They were facing Ron Fuller and Jimmy Golden. RON fuller turned on Bob the next week in a studio rematch again Stubs and Anderson

[MykeGT]

@tommy15958 Yes it still is

[sanjhunt]

I love how they keep ringing the bell. Like that's gonna make it stop.

[sanjhunt]

This is great. I started watching Continental shortly after this. By that time, there was a full-fledged feud running between the Stud's Stable and the Armstrongs. Not to mention some pretty brutal matches between Brad Armstrong and Jerry Stubbs. That was awesome stuff. Bob Armstrong is, for my money, the coolest guy to ever get in the ring.

[bacardilvr]

A lot of people say that I'm lucky to have grown up being able to see Mid-South on TV and go to the house shows in New Orleans, but to those who grew up watching this, you are just as lucky. This was some great stuff. I get goosebumps seeing the crowd explode!

[okrabay]

The Tennessee promotions always has the wildest studio brawls.

Dont remember the wwf or awa ever losing control of the studio like this.

[CombatSportFan]

@okrabay It's the very way that wrestling promoters until 1999 understood perfectly. The last time I have seen it in pro wrestling was the brief period in the WWF after Russo left when the new booker understood it and slowly build up Mick Foley, Triple H, and the Rock making Rock a classic babyface and getting Triple H over as a full fledged heel. All of this while building it around WRESTLING. That goodness lasted until May of 2000 when Stephanie fired him.

[okrabay]

you can feel the energy even today. I bet people in their living rooms were jumping out of their seats.

This is how you fill an arena, build it little by little until it explodes!

[TBirdSCIL]

wow, whatever TV station this is was ahead of it's time in 1984 by holding the tornado watch graphic on the screen during programming. Up north, we just got the scrolls every 10 minutes or so. Where was the warning scroll? I only saw a watch. Anyways, great early Arn Anderson action!