Daily News Update – June 1, 2021

Smackdown dark match and Kofi hadn’t debuted yet. Miz is the hometown boy and still little more than a reality show geek who has wrestled a few matches. Before the match, Miz says he and LeBron James are the only two celebrities from Cleveland but Miz was smart enough to get out. It’s so strange seeing Kofi with the generic rock music and the big Jamaican flag. Kofi, with the crazy thick accent, says no one is here to hear Miz talk.

Kofi grabs a wristlock and shouts BOOM a lot but has to keep nipping his way out of top wristlocks. The armdrag into the armbar has Miz in trouble until he sends Kofi throat first into the top rope. We hit the chinlock, followed by a quick Fameasser for two. Kofi sends him face first into the middle buckle to set up a spinwheel kick to the face. What would become known as Trouble In Paradise finishes Miz at 4:29.

Rating: D+. It was clear that neither of them were exactly polished yet, though that BOOM BOOM over and over again made it a little more annoying. Miz would take a long time to get somewhere in the ring and while Kofi got better faster, he was doing way too much with the gimmick here and it was annoying. It’s still cool to see two future Hall of Famers in a match like this though, as they have to start somewhere.

Daily News Update – May 27, 2021

It’s been 25 years since Hall jumped the barricade. I feel old too.

New Title Match Added To AEW Double Or Nothing Buy In.

https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/new-title-match-added-double-nothing-buy/

WWE Confirms New Lead Monday Night Raw Broadcaster.

https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/wwe-confirms-new-lead-monday-night-raw-broadcaster/

WWE Confirms Next Three Shows With Fans In July.

https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/wwe-confirms-next-three-shows-fans-july/

Wrestling Legend Confirmed For AEW Dynamite.

https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/wrestling-legend-confirmed-aew-dynamite/

Backstage News On Why WWE Made So Many Cuts.

https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/backstage-news-wwe-made-many-cuts/

VIDEO: Xavier Woods Talks Unique Retirement Plans.

https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/video-xavier-woods-unique-post-wwe-plan/

Update On Will Ospreay’s Injury, Not Looking Good.

https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/update-will-ospreays-injury-not-looking-good/

RUMOR: WWE Unhappy With John Cena Over Recent Comments.

https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/rumor-wwe-unhappy-john-cena-recent-comments/

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Hidden Gem: Wacky Tag Team Partners Can Be Fun

I think they call this a mash up.

Thanksgiving Day Tag Team Tournament First Round: Magnum TA/Randy Savage vs. Mongolians
Date: November 24, 1983
Location: Omni, Atlanta, Georgia
Attendance: 12,000

This is from Georgia Championship Wrestling, who held a one night tag team tournament on Thanksgiving. The ring announcer welcomes us to the show and brings in GCW boss Ole Anderson, who has a trophy and $50,000 for the winners. Savage looks like he would in his glory years and Magnum….well he never really changed. The Mongolians are your standard evil team and had been around in various versions for about twenty years at this point.

Savage and we’ll say #1 start things off with Savage taking him to the rope. With that brings up in a hurry, Magnum comes in to headlock takeover (the much bigger) #2. Savage comes back in for the same but #1 tags himself back in. Magnum isn’t having any of this and knocks both of them down before handing it back to Savage for another headlock. Some alternating front facelocks have #2 in trouble until #1 grabs one on Savage.

#2 comes in for an elbow and armbar of his own but Savage rolls over and brings Magnum back in. House is cleaned and a slam puts #2 down, only to have #1 come back in and hammer away some more. A crawl between the legs allows the hot tag to Savage and house is cleaned, including a middle rope elbow (!) to finish #1 at 7:01.

Rating: D. Definitely a pretty lame match but this was much more about “hey did you know Savage and Magnum teamed together?”. They weren’t a regular team and there was nothing about them that suggested they worked overly well together. Still though, Savage is always worth a look and the middle rope version of the elbow was bizarre.