According to Jim Cornette, the woman who comes in at 6:08 and attacks Yamamoto was actually Marlin the promoter's WIFE! Apparently, she was (literally) working at the concession stand that night, selling popcorn, and didn't know the brawl was a "work!" She didn't know that her husband was supposed to be attacked that night, so she steps in to try to pull Yamamoto off him -- and he actually slaps her!
Tupelo, Mississippi is known for at least two things: the birthplace of Elvis Presley and for having four classic brawls in the same building in the same concession area.
If any of us were the janitor, we'd either have a mop handle ready to protect ourselves, OR we'd have gotten the hell out of the building half way through. XD
Didnt see the entire match in-ring. But this brawl definitely saved the last minute of that match. The way Fuchi reacted after getting splattered with Mustard is humanly Lmfao.
That's the same concession stand where Lawler, Dundee, Latham, and Ferris (Honkytonk Man) had their earlier brawl. And I think that was the same mustard bottle they used on each other!
My favorite brawl of all time is Booker T vs Stone Cold in a supermarket! I don't know the entire plot behind the episode but Vince and Ric Flair were forced to sit in an office and watch it live and they couldn't demand the other guy order his wrestler to stop! I like that they added that one little rule. Makes the scene even funnier the way Flair is laughing uncontrollably and Vince looks like he pulled a muscle!
They were probably told that it was part of the show. I'm sure the organizers informed them what was supposed to be part of the storyline and what wasn't. Very important because what if two of the wrestlers fall over the fence into the audience and some kid gets injured...
I like that Paul Morton seems to be trying to officiate the chaos and not trying to help his son who is being beaten and bloodied in a 3-on-2, unsanctioned, out of the ring brawl.
Imagine running to the concession stand and whining to the cook: Hurry up man, I gotta get back and see the rest of the - BEHIND YOU!!! OH SHIIIIT! Onita and Morton come crashing over the counter. 😂😂
So much funnier to watch now that Cornett gave us the context of the brawl "do what you want just don't break my popcorn machine" and tojo slapping the lady in the flower shirt... flipping great TV...can we please take wrestling back to these days!! That was great!
Martin Ouellet yeah he couldn't wrestle properly in the 90s and remembered this. Apparently his whole career after was because of injuries and this match, he just kind embraced the blood and violence
Great Brawl. 4:54 From Eddie Gilberts shoot, the board wasn't gimmicked like the others were and when he hit Tojo with it Tojo was yelling "Goddamn, Goddamn" 6:07 The woman was the promoters wife and she wasn't smart so Tojo legit slapped her.
In Darkside of the Ring Onita says that he was kicked in the face by a lady wearing heels that cut him open... This footage proves that wasn't true @2:39 you can clearly see Onita is slammed into a table which then allows him to crouch down and blade giving himself the cut.
The kick might have happened around the 10 minute mark. That's when Onita is laying across the counter as depicted in Dark Side Of The Ring, but you're absolutely right. He cuts himself much earlier when he's crouched under the counter.
Is it true that the management of the arena in Tupelo, Mississippi refused to book any future rassling events after this brawl because of all the damage caused?
+gogotonyyo He had to figure out that he couldn't survive with his face getting cut open all the time. So where did he go..... to his back, arms and shoulders for cuts..... hence barbed wire.
I'd hate to be the Concession stand owner at this arena. Imagine having to clean up a mess like this after EVERY wrestling event. "Hey, y'all! Whose gonna PAY for all this?"
Yeah, I noticed that too. It's a shame, because that would have been a REAL highlight of this brawl. "Look at this, folks! Ricky Morton is trying to stuff Masa Fuchi's head inside the popcorn machine! Now Morton is covering Fuchi's head with real imitation butter! Now he's adding extra salt! And the popcorn machine is still popping corn!"
this is awesome footage .Nothing like Memphis Wrestling where it ends up in a straight up brawl.1 of the territories that was doing hardcore before anybody coined the term .Onita would later form FMW and become the King Of The Deathmatches .Gilbert would become a hardcore legend in his own right with the original ECW and his battles with Terry Funk over the King Of Philadelphia Title plus his feuds with Jerry "The King" Lawler in Memphis . 2 hardcore legends in the making.
Too…and to craigstrachan’s point, though it was in Tupelo, it was during the territory days. “Memphis wrestling,” as well call it, ran in certain towns in the Memphis “territory.” Evansville, IN, Lexington, KY, Jackson, TN, Tupelo, MS, and Nashville, TN were all towns in the Memphis “territory.” So even though this is a wrestling card in Tupelo, it was still Memphis wrestling.
That was Herman Sheffield's wife. Sheffield was the promoter for Memphis Wrestling in Tupelo. He never smartened his wife up that he was going to be involved in the brawl, so... from her point-of-view... Tojo attacked her husband and she was defending her man! LOL!
You'll notice two very big things about this clip. Number 1: Ricky Morton without a mullet! Number 2: Everything in this video was more hardcore or 'extreme' than anything WWE has these days. They even made 'extreme rules' ppv less extreme.
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2rrkd You'll also notice that this is first 'extreme' match of this type in TWO YEARS. Not every week, like the dumbfuck WWE does.
I've heard of a fight where they were "rolling around in the mud and the blood and the beer." But whoever heard of "rolling around in the mud and the blood and the mustard!" ?
Amazingly, Jeff Jarrett's Father Jerry Jarrett and His Grandfather Eddie Marlin used to have a common Memphis Tag Partner: Tojo Yamamoto!😂😉🎤🌭🍿🥤🎼🎸🤼♂️B.W.
According to Jim Cornette, the woman who comes in at 6:08 and attacks Yamamoto was actually Marlin the promoter's WIFE! Apparently, she was (literally) working at the concession stand that night, selling popcorn, and didn't know the brawl was a "work!" She didn't know that her husband was supposed to be attacked that night, so she steps in to try to pull Yamamoto off him -- and he actually slaps her!
So thats the woman that wasted 40k on a show in a city that was going downhill already
@@mriddleyno u got her mixed up with another lady named Miriam Springfield.
Van Halen- "Man, we destroyed that hotel room!!!"
Memphis wrestling- "Hold our beer."
🤣A true statement.😂
Tupelo, Mississippi is known for at least two things: the birthplace of Elvis Presley and for having four classic brawls in the same building in the same concession area.
If I were the janitor after all this, "I'm not cleaning this shit up!"
If any of us were the janitor, we'd either have a mop handle ready to protect ourselves, OR we'd have gotten the hell out of the building half way through. XD
I would give Lawler and Jarrett the Mop
@@TheCastellan Speaking as a janitor, yea, I'd be calling and saying "You don't pay me enough for THIS!"
Didnt see the entire match in-ring. But this brawl definitely saved the last minute of that match. The way Fuchi reacted after getting splattered with Mustard is humanly Lmfao.
Lance said "he's yellow everywhere" describing Tojo.
That's the same concession stand where Lawler, Dundee, Latham, and Ferris (Honkytonk Man) had their earlier brawl. And I think that was the same mustard bottle they used on each other!
SO before it's time I love it. Reminds me of the kitchen backstage arena on the very first Smackdown! game.
Super YOSHIKO probably modelled on this
My favorite brawl of all time is Booker T vs Stone Cold in a supermarket! I don't know the entire plot behind the episode but Vince and Ric Flair were forced to sit in an office and watch it live and they couldn't demand the other guy order his wrestler to stop! I like that they added that one little rule. Makes the scene even funnier the way Flair is laughing uncontrollably and Vince looks like he pulled a muscle!
Absolutely golden footage!
The best (and most vicious) of the three Tupelo Concession Brawls
Why?...the mustard?
I love how the cops are standing there watching like nope. Not getting involved. Lol
They were probably told that it was part of the show. I'm sure the organizers informed them what was supposed to be part of the storyline and what wasn't. Very important because what if two of the wrestlers fall over the fence into the audience and some kid gets injured...
I like that Paul Morton seems to be trying to officiate the chaos and not trying to help his son who is being beaten and bloodied in a 3-on-2, unsanctioned, out of the ring brawl.
Imagine running to the concession stand and whining to the cook: Hurry up man, I gotta get back and see the rest of the -
BEHIND YOU!!! OH SHIIIIT!
Onita and Morton come crashing over the counter. 😂😂
So much funnier to watch now that Cornett gave us the context of the brawl "do what you want just don't break my popcorn machine" and tojo slapping the lady in the flower shirt... flipping great TV...can we please take wrestling back to these days!! That was great!
How is this great wrestling? They were constantly no selling everything and it was silly like it is tofay
OMG ! I could watch this all day long ! On side note. Kitchen staff: " screw you, we ain't cleaning that shit up !"
Buying a bootleg Memphis wrestling dvd, finding this amazing moment in pro wrestling history... 🍻🍻
This tag match is the later FMW.
you won't see a brawl like this in wrestling these days
the seed of deathmatch wrestling. onita took this back to japan and the rest is history.
I've seen a few matches that took place there and the Japanese are just as wild as the Mexicans. They hold NOTHING back! Nooooooothing.
Onita bladed like crazy 🤪 on this one
@@jamie.777 onita always blades like crazy,even now. 🤣
@@DeathMetalRob looks like his partner bladed his ear 👂
@@jamie.777 possibly, old school wrestlers were insane.
Onita is busted wide open!!!
He better get use to that lmao
No! Not the mustard! Oh the humanity!!!
Now this was a Tupelo concession stand brawl
How great was Lance FN Russell??
Onita told us about that in the Dark Side Of The Ring episode about FMW
This a possible historic link to modern-day hardcore wrestling leagues... before ECW, there was FMW in Japan, founded in 1989 by... Atsushi Onita!!!
Martin Ouellet yeah he couldn't wrestle properly in the 90s and remembered this. Apparently his whole career after was because of injuries and this match, he just kind embraced the blood and violence
Tojo you sneaky bastard.
Terry Funk speaks highly of Onita and Fuchi in his book.
Man, after hearing the stories it's great to see this. Lance was great.
Jeff Jarrett and Mark Briscoe about to run this back and I'm here for it 💯💯💯
It wasn't much of a "concession brawl"
Classic footage! Back when Wrestling was Wrestling! None of this BS today!
Another reason why Memphis wrestling is the best.
All I can think is how the hell did the health inspector not freak out over this!? There's 5 dude's bleeding all over the kitchen 😂
FABULOUS Brawl!! Better than the '79 Tupelo concession stand brawl!!
Great Brawl.
4:54 From Eddie Gilberts shoot, the board wasn't gimmicked like the others were and when he hit Tojo with it Tojo was yelling "Goddamn, Goddamn"
6:07 The woman was the promoters wife and she wasn't smart so Tojo legit slapped her.
In Darkside of the Ring Onita says that he was kicked in the face by a lady wearing heels that cut him open... This footage proves that wasn't true @2:39 you can clearly see Onita is slammed into a table which then allows him to crouch down and blade giving himself the cut.
The kick might have happened around the 10 minute mark. That's when Onita is laying across the counter as depicted in Dark Side Of The Ring, but you're absolutely right. He cuts himself much earlier when he's crouched under the counter.
I'll go so far to say that this referee qualifies an athlete
Ricky Morton's dad
Ref Paul Morton must of had a no touch clause in his contract
I miss Memphis old style Memphis wrestling. If I had the money l would start it back up
Lance Russell was all into this one.
Is it true that the management of the arena in Tupelo, Mississippi refused to book any future rassling events after this brawl because of all the damage caused?
Your link to the concession stand brawl with Lawler and Dundee doesn't work.
This was BRUTAL!
Holy crap😂😂 The woman in the flowery blouse jumps in only to get slapped! 😂 At 6:08
she thought this was a work and was protecting her husband from Tojo...fact!
Damn, Morton was swinging for the fences
At what point did the producers say to the wrestlers, "Okay, guys. You can break it up now. We've got enough footage for next week's show." - ?
Popcorn machine lives again.
Can I just say how much I feel bad for this concession lady. What is it, four times wrestlers came in and trashed the place?
The hot cheese spot. 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😅
*The Mustard Wars!!!*
The Inspiration for FMW
How many concession stand brawls did they have in tupelo? Isn't this the 3rd one?
4 total
There were four. In the first one, there's no footage of the concession stand brawl from what I saw.
I got to see the famous concession where heck is honky tonk Man
That was the 79 brawl.
Least the popcorn machine's intact XD
TheCastellan the one rule.
WOW! Atsushi Onita in Memphis! Awesome!
A Hardcore Living Legend & The father of the exploding barbed wire deathmatch
This was where he got the idea for a more violent wrestling product that became FMW.
+gogotonyyo He had to figure out that he couldn't survive with his face getting cut open all the time. So where did he go..... to his back, arms and shoulders for cuts..... hence barbed wire.
This is possibly the craziest brawl I've ever seen. What was it about Tupelo and concession brawls, LOL!
There's nothing else to do in that town
here after dark side of the ring
Jim Cornette sent me.
May I have a large coke, extra blood ice please
I'd hate to be the Concession stand owner at this arena. Imagine having to clean up a mess like this after EVERY wrestling event. "Hey, y'all! Whose gonna PAY for all this?"
the promoter... he told them dont break the popcorn machine. That was his only rule.
Yeah, I noticed that too. It's a shame, because that would have been a REAL highlight of this brawl.
"Look at this, folks! Ricky Morton is trying to stuff Masa Fuchi's head inside the popcorn machine! Now Morton is covering Fuchi's head with real imitation butter! Now he's adding extra salt! And the popcorn machine is still popping corn!"
After his head is rammed into the Popcorn machine Tojo doesn't move, his arm also looks messed up. Was he seriously wounded? Or just cut up and messy?
HAH nevermind I hadn't watched the whole thing, but later he's up again slapping people, even a lady!
Andy Fitzgerald She was trying to Pearl Harbor him.
Super YOSHIKO j
this is awesome footage .Nothing like Memphis Wrestling where it ends up in a straight up brawl.1 of the territories that was doing hardcore before anybody coined the term .Onita would later form FMW and become the King Of The Deathmatches .Gilbert would become a hardcore legend in his own right with the original ECW and his battles with Terry Funk over the King Of Philadelphia Title plus his feuds with Jerry "The King" Lawler in Memphis . 2 hardcore legends in the making.
This was in Tupelo
@@yourfabuloushappymann5154 Iknow it was in Tupelo. It was Memphis style wrestling though where hardcore wrestling was pioneered .
Too…and to craigstrachan’s point, though it was in Tupelo, it was during the territory days. “Memphis wrestling,” as well call it, ran in certain towns in the Memphis “territory.” Evansville, IN, Lexington, KY, Jackson, TN, Tupelo, MS, and Nashville, TN were all towns in the Memphis “territory.” So even though this is a wrestling card in Tupelo, it was still Memphis wrestling.
Whose the woman Tojo slaps?
The concessation stand guy's wife.You see how she jumped Tojo for no reason.
That was Herman Sheffield's wife. Sheffield was the promoter for Memphis Wrestling in Tupelo. He never smartened his wife up that he was going to be involved in the brawl, so... from her point-of-view... Tojo attacked her husband and she was defending her man! LOL!
Can't believe this is the Onita from FMW...I've only ever seen him fight in FMW, this is classic!
You'll notice two very big things about this clip. Number 1: Ricky Morton without a mullet! Number 2: Everything in this video was more hardcore or 'extreme' than anything WWE has these days. They even made 'extreme rules' ppv less extreme.
2rrkd You'll also notice that this is first 'extreme' match of this type in TWO YEARS. Not every week, like the dumbfuck WWE does.
Say what you want ,in cashville tn on sat mornings when you heard that porno beat and screams and lance as a kid you knew the shite just got real.
Tojo is chopping at Mrs. Herman Sheffeld, the wife of the local Tupelo promoter back then.
Looks like a shoot but its not. Sign of a good match
Mustard & Blood!!!
Good combination 🤣🤣🤣
lol @ 6:12
Definitely "an unabridged brawl", as Lance said.
Dark side brought me here!
The woman hitting Tojo was a shoot. She worked the concession stand and wasn't smart to the business
jean sheffield who ran the venue with her husband. to yamamoto she was just another mark at that moment
Where's the ketchup?
Take note Vince McMahon!.........this is how it's done! Not your Saturday morning cartoon B.S. you're trying to promote!
An unabridged brawl.
Now that's entertainment. WWE never had shit like this.
Me either,,I would've quit that day,,
Yeah I'm tired I can't watch anymore
I've heard of a fight where they were "rolling around in the mud and the blood and the beer." But whoever heard of "rolling around in the mud and the blood and the mustard!" ?
"Rick Morton" doesn't have the same ring to it.
Dave Brown always look like he just smoked a doob in all this 70s footage.
Is there any food left , I would like two dogs and a Dr.Pepper
Amazingly, Jeff Jarrett's Father Jerry Jarrett and His Grandfather Eddie Marlin used to have a common Memphis Tag Partner: Tojo Yamamoto!😂😉🎤🌭🍿🥤🎼🎸🤼♂️B.W.