Gordon Solie AND Lance Russell do commentary on this. (How rare is that).
Sunday, July 4, 2021
OVW TV 1142 - "OVW Chained Carnage Aftermath”
The Country Boy Kentucky Heavyweight Championship Tournament continues with TWO second round matches: Tony Bizo (with “Professor” Ricky Jones) meets “Superior” Tony Evans (with Tyler Gooch) and Luscious Lawrence (with Kindly Myers) faces Star Rider (with University of Kentucky basketball greats Ramel Bradley and Lukasz “Woo” Obrzut)! PLUS: “Reverend” Ronnie Roberts welcomes NEW OVW Heavyweight Champion Omar Amir to hear “The Good Word,” "HollyHood" Haley J challenges Dani Mo for the OVW Women's Championship in a rematch from Chained Carnage and much more.
Nope, Nada, And Not Gonna Happen- WWE PULLS LUGER DOCUMENTARY FROM THIS WEEKEND'S PREMIERE
WWE has pulled all trailers for the planned 7/4 debut of Icons: Lex Luger and all signs are the documentary will not be premiering this weekend. As PWInsider.com has reported, there has been a hold on all forthcoming WWE documentaries and all planned premieres and even production work on WWE Docs was halted this past week. Even though the Luger documentary was announced and promoted this past week, it appears that even that doc has fallen under the recent edict.
The release date was timed for the anniversary of the biggest WWF angle of Luger's career in 1993, when he flew in on a helicopter at the end of a WWF event on the deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid in New York City to "save the day" by body slamming then-WWF Champion Yokozuna to prevent him, playing the foreign menace villain heel, from embarrassing the United States on Independence Day. This led to Luger chasing Yokozuna from that event through Summerslam 1993 and Wrestlemana X.
WWE sources have that the Lex Luger: Icons documentary will not debut this weekend as was originally planned. Sources have indicated that the decision to pull the doc from this weekend's premiere was so that it can be supported by a stronger lead-in. That may mean they want to time the premiere with a larger event, such as a WWE PPV broadcast.
Luger's most shocking involvement in professional wrestling was probably his decision to secretly jump back to WCW from the WWF, walking out on the first episode of Monday Nitro on TNT, legitimately shocking the entire world. That jump set the stage for anything truly happening during the Monday Night Wars with Luger eventually even getting another short run with the WCW World title during a program with Hulk Hogan.
Later in life, after WCW shut down, Luger would be forever linked to the death of Miss Elizabeth, who he had been dating when she died of an accidental overdose. He would return to wrestling on independent events and short appearances for TNA, but later dealt with health issues that left him partially paralyzed. Luger has remained a regular at convention events and has fought to regain his mobility. He published an autobiography several years ago.
The new premiere date is to be determined. As noted, the original premiere date was 7/4 to time it with the anniversary of Luger slamming Yokozuna on the deck of the U.S.S Intrepid in New York City on 7/4/93.
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