Retro Wrestling Re-View – Episode #66 - USWA Championship Wrestling – February 9, 1991

It’s Peak Memphis mayhem this week! Jerry Lawler & Jeff Jarrett are your NEW USWA Tag Champs… but before they can even celebrate, "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert returns from “exile” to throw fire, cause chaos, and make it clear he’s here for Lawler’s head.

Meanwhile, Jamie Dundee proves to be the worst referee in USWA history, which gets him fired on live TV by Eddie Marlin and a "whoopin' from his Dad, PLUS "Stunning" Steve Austin and Jeannie Clark arrive on the scene to challenge Jeff Jarrett for his Southern Heavyweight Title!

Also on the show:

• Dr. Tom Pritchard vs. Jerry Lynn
• Eric Embry vs. Cody Michaels
• Stunning Steve Austin vs. Danny Davis (Jamie Dundee gets distract w/Jeannie)
• Bill Dundee & The New Kids vs. Dirty White Boy, Doug Gilbert & Brian Lee
• Jeff Jarrett & the U.S. Males vs. Keith Eric, Eli the Eliminator & Sgt. O’Reilly

It’s brawls, betrayals, and belt-whippings all in one hour. This is 90's Memphis wrestling at its finest!

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This week's Retro Re-View looks at the February 2, 1991 edition of USWA TV and more! Jackie Fargo is BACK in Memphis — and he’s the special referee for Monday night’s Tag Title Showdown between Lawler & Jarrett and The Fabulous Ones!

This week’s wild USWA action includes:

• Lawler saving The New Kids from a Fabulous Ones beatdown
• Tag Titles held up after last week’s controversial decision by Jamie Dundee
• Cornette losing control of his team
• Curtis Thompson’s abrupt babyface turn
• Uptown Bruno’s crew destroying everyone in sight
• The debut of The Eliminators (not THOSE Eliminators)
• Ether attacks and attempted "hair styling" in the main event!

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This week's USWA episode of USWA for January 26, 1991 brings us:

• Lawler vs. Garvin with a mind boggling ending!
• Dundee swears revenge after a brutal Fabs/Cornette beatdown
• "Prime Time" Brian Lee is now teaming with Jeff Gaylord
• Redman Rumble Royal announced for Monday night! (aka the Redneck Royal Rumble)
• Bloody ambushes, wild six-man tags, and Bruno moves UPTOWN!
• Classic Memphis mayhem from start to finish!

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This week’s USWA episode for January 19, 1991 was shorter than usual but there was a lot packed into it!

• Jim Cornette and the Fabulous Ones double down on the bounty business – now coming for Jeff Jarrett too!
• A heated World Tag Team Title defense: The Fabs vs. Jerry Lynn & Cody Michaels
• Robert Fuller rides back into town with the Pit Bulldogs and Curtis “US Male” Thompson in tow, that's right…a new STUD STABLE!
• Highlights of Jeff Jarrett winning the Southern Heavyweight Title
• The King himself, Jerry Lawler, calls out Cornette ahead of a huge Sunday night showdown!

If you like wild promos, post-match attacks, and Jerry Lawler wielding a Sweet Tea Dispenser as a weapon….this episode is peak USWA!

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🎙️ Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast – Episode #62

📆 Reviewing USWA Championship Wrestling – January 12, 1991

💰 THE $100,000 BETRAYAL! The Fabulous Ones stab Jerry Lawler in the back, Eddie Gilbert skips town, and Cornette reveals the mastermind behind it all—TERRY FUNK?! Corny and the Fabs pull off one of the smoothest heel turns in Memphis history!

This episode has it all:

🔥 Tag title drama

👑 Lawler betrayed by his “backup”

🎩 Cornette cashing in bounties

📣 Uncle Danny and a FAN Lumberjack Strap Match

🧨 An explosive 8-man tag featuring the Memphis Mafia!

🏆 A Southern Title tournament announced

If you’re a fan of old-school Memphis chaos, you don’t want to miss this wild ride through January 1991!

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🎙️ Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast

📺 Episode #61: “The $50,000 Bounty and the Return of the Fabulous Ones”

📅 Originally Aired: January 5, 1991

🔥 Strap in for another wild ride through Memphis mayhem as the gang dives deep into a chaotic start to 1991 in the USWA! This week’s episode of USWA Championship Wrestling features:

💰 Eddie Gilbert in hiding (allegedly) as a $50,000 bounty looms large over Jerry Lawler’s crown...

👑 The King stands tall against Terry Garvin and half the Memphis Mafia in the main event

🎸 The Fabulous Ones return with Jim Cornette and the 80s music videos won't stop!

💥 Bruno’s running his mouth, "Uncle Danny" is swingin’ leather, and Jerry Lynn makes his debut

🧨 All building to a loaded Monday night card at the Mid-South Coliseum, but will Eddie Gilbert be there?? Check out this episode to find out!!

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We're ONE WEEK away from the premiere of SEASON TWO of the Retro Wrestling Re-View where we'll be doing week by week reviews of the year 1991 in USWA Championship Wrestling but before we get there, this week Gene and Josh are joined by STSPod.club's Brian Tramel to discuss the happenings of 1990 that take us into 1991. It was wild year that saw Jerry Lawler begin the year as HEEL, King Cobra hold the Unified World Championship, Jimmy Valiant returned home to Memphis and also won the Unified World Championship, plus the controversial Snowman "worked shoot angle", Leon Spinks' short lived run in Memphis, Cowabunga the Ninja Turtle, the miracle that was "Granny Gilbert's Magic Hair Elixir, Sam "Bass" Lowe, the return of Austin Idol, Mike Awesome in Memphis, the infamous "Hit & Run" angle where the Gilberts ran over Jerry Lawler with a car, and much, much more!!

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On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes Del Rios, who you may know as the Spellbinder from the USWA or Phantasio from the WWE. Del has had a number of personas throughout his wrestling career and in the process has had not only a pretty unique and extraordinary pro wrestling career, but the same can be said for his life in general. Del was the very first ever WWF "Developmental Wrestler" having his very first professional wrestling match at a WWF RAW TV taping before being hired on and sent to the USWA in Memphis to develop. As strange as that sounds, that's not even close to being the most unique and interesting part of Del's history. Tune in and hear about the dangerous life Del led before finding his way into the wrestling business and the events that led him into professional wrestling. They discuss his friendships with Brian Christopher, Sid Vicious, Big Vito, and so much more! This is an interview you don't wanna miss!

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