I watch a lot of classic wrestling, and I was thinking, literally last night, watching AEW “Collision,” hey, it’s been forever since we’ve seen a hair vs. hair match, like we used to see back in the old days.
That problem is being taken care of.
Toni Storm challenged Wheeler Yuta and Marina Shafir to a mixed tag hair vs. hair match with her partner, Orange Cassidy, to take place at “Grand Slam Australia” on Feb. 14.
Funny thing about this for me: earlier in the day, I happened upon an interview with Jerry Lawler on YouTube in which Lawler went over, among many other things, his history with “Superstar” Bill Dundee in Memphis, which included two hair vs. hair matches – one that Lawler won, forcing Dundee to endure the loss of his hair, and then a unique followup.
In the second match, Dundee put up the hair of his wife against Lawler’s hair.
The psychology there: no way Dundee loses that one.
He lost.
The stip for the match in Australia is, the person who loses the fall gets the shaved head.
I’m thinking Storm takes the fall here.
Quick hits
- Tommaso Ciampa wins the TNT title in his AEW debut: No surprise here, though I like the way this one was done, with Justin Roberts interjecting reminders of the time limit, getting us to think, They’re doing a time-limit draw. The first challenger revealed himself in the afterbirth: Kyle Fletcher.
- Babes of Wrath defeated Sisters of Sin to retain the AEW women’s tag titles. And in the process, the faces complete the easy sweep of their feud with the heels, after Kris Statlander retained in her world title defense with Thekla on “Dynamite” on Wednesday. Afterbirth: Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford attacked Statlander. They’re running out of ideas already?
Feb. 4 ‘Dynamite’ preview
- AEW world title contenders’ series: Andrade El Idolo vs. Kenny Omega
- AEW world title eliminator match: MJF vs. Brody King
- AEW National title match: Ricochet vs. Jack Perry
- “Hangman” Adam Page vs. Mark Davis
- Young Bucks in action