Yeah Memphis was the fucking best. I'm wondering if this was even available when the DVDVR 80s set was being put together because it feels like something that would've been on there with a bullet. I think it was part of a one-night tag tournament, which would explain why they were basically running heel v heel. The White Boys were not exactly working babyface at the start, but by the end they'd morphed into the grimiest trailer park Rock n Roll Express you've ever seen and it was a thing of beauty. Even if the match doesn't start as an all-out brawl you can tell these are two teams who don't particularly care for each other. It's also not a ring full of people who you'd call well-behaved individuals. Rules are open to interpretation and all that. There was always an underlying sense that it could break down and about five minutes in that's what happens. It turns into a madness with Tony Anthony getting slammed on a table and dragged around ringside with a rope around his neck, which was quite frankly wild as fuck. One of the Interns holds Anthony as the other jumps off a table with a forearm, Len Denton grabs a belt and tries to wring an Intern's neck, tables are getting tossed and the Interns' manager is rolling around in a wheelchair wearing hospital scrubs. It was peak Memphis and I half expected the match to get thrown out Fabs/Moondogs style, which honestly wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world if they just kept trying to kill each other for a while afterwards, but it did make its way back into the ring and they worked a red hot peril segment on Anthony. It looked like he was done for when they rolled him in and Denton had to make an awesome last ditch save with a flying shoulder tackle. 1985 is a very different time from 2026 but it's hard to imagine a crowd today getting this thoroughly behind a heel team over the course of a match. Maybe there are simply no teams in 2026 like the Dirty White Boys from Bucksnort, Tennessee. Anthony's peril segment was tremendous and when Denton comes in off the hot tag the place erupts. The White Boys' double Russian leg sweep was killer and then there's this great miscue segment where everyone hits the ropes that ends with both Interns, Tony Anthony and the referee all getting laid out. Denton runs the ropes on three sides of the ring as the Interns chase him, both Interns smash into each other again, and as their manager throws a piece of his wheelchair into the ring Denton catches it and clonks one of them in the head. They just don't make them like this anymore.
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