The NeelDown Video Review: This is Ultimate Wrestling: Jeff Jarrett
– First off, thanks to the “Amazon Movie Guys” for an outstanding shipping effort and great price on this, my first purchase from them. They are an Amazon marketplace store, so I don’t have a direct link so you can check them out, but just wanted to throw the token “thanks” in here.
– All matches were 1989 WCCW, except for the Lawler match, which was USWA, the newly renamed WCCW.
– Quick fun fact: On the DVD’s cover under the title reads: “Single and Tag-Team WARFARE.” Considering that there are no tag matches on the entire DVD, one begs the question… what the hell is wrong with this cover?
Jeff Jarrett v. Beast
BEAST has an almost identical striking resemblance to Kamala, so you get the picture. Jarrett frustrates him to start after winning a series of cat and mouse chases, one ending with BEAST plowing himself through the ropes to the outside. If only that strategy worked all the time. Akbar, serving as Beast’s manager, comments how Jarrett is getting his nose in the wrong business. Jarrett boots him in the ass, no pun intended, pissing Beast off so he chokes him. Jarrett leapfrogs over him and gets a dropkick, then a missile dropkick from the second rope but Gary Young and Cactus Jack Manson run in and stir up all kinds of controversy for the DQ. It is then explained that the whole purpose of that match was to prove that Jarrett isn’t afraid to step into the ring with a giant. Horrible choice for an opener, displaying a three minute comedy match ending in DQ. 1/4*
Winner: Jeff Jarrett
Jeff Jarrett v. Ronnie P. Gossett
Jarrett hammers away but the Dirty White Boys, of whom are managed by Gossett, hit the ring, only to be shoved to the floor. Jarrett goes up and lands a crossbody, and it’s over. Paul Bearer on the PBP was pretty annoying. Another piece of shit match that spanned to my estimate maybe one minute, and I have no idea why this was put on the DVD. -*
Winner: Jeff Jarrett
Jeff Jarrett v. Jeff Gaylord
Gaylord slaps on a headlock to start but misses a clothesline so we get a stareoff. Jarrett ducks a bunch of other clotheslines from the Missouri Tiger, so we go into another standoff. Oh, hey, Akbar, displaying his array of WCCW management positions, is managing Gaylord at this time. Gaylord misses three more lariats, bringing the sum up to somewhere around twenty in a row. Gaylord gets a hiptoss out of the corner and goes to work on an arm. A sloppy BIG BOOT takes Jarrett down and then he gets dumped. Back in Gaylord misses some clotheslines (is this something new) and Jarrett gets a crossbody for two. Jarrett gets a sunset flip for two but Gaylord is quick back on the attack, however Jarrett small packages him for two. Gaylord tries to press him to the outside but Jarrett holds onto the ropes and then lands on him with a crossbody for the win. Pretty much another worthless match, with a bunch of missed lariats and sloppy crossbodys from Jarrett, and then that finish out of nowhere. Whelp, there goes three matches in what has seemed like five minutes. Wait — it really has been five minutes! 3/4*
Jeff Jarrett v. Billy Joe Travis – Guitar On A Pole Match
Anti-Double J Jerry Lawler joins for commentary on this, rightfully setting up the next match. Jarrett attacks and it spills outside where Jarrett gets a backdrop and scoop slam. Jarrett gets a chair and wacks him with it back inside, then gets a suplex. You know, after all those, I think Jarrett has already done more moves than he did in the previous three matches. Guess what, Akbar is at ringside! Travis goes in control as King comments that the only reason Jarrett grew his air out was to look like Bon Jovi. Oh, King, you were just as bad in 89. They battle on the pole and Jarrett nails a superplex then dumps him out onto the announce table and gets a DDT on the table. The announce table is right against the ring, so that makes things a lot easier. Jarrett adds a piledriver on the floor, then goes back in and hits one in the ring. That’s LAWLER’s move, by GOD! Jarrett climbs up and gets the guitar, and rightfully goes for a Kabong but King prevents that and sends him into the post outside. Lawler wacks Jarrett in the head with the guitar but it doesn’t break. Ouch. That doesn’t look nor sound comforting. Kerry Von Erich makes the save. That was a pretty fun match, displaying pretty much all of Jarrett’s move vocabulary in the four minutes it lasted. Still short and nothing to remember until the interference afterwards, so let’s go with **
Winner: Jeff Jarrett
– We see a video package of Jarrett’s accomplishments, and one for Lawler, which features Joan Jett’s odd cover of AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds.
Jeff Jarrett v. Jerry Lawler – USWA Unified Heavyweight Championship Match
Lawler offers Jarrett a chance to admit he isn’t champion material, which doesn’t work. Eventually, after some lagging around, Lawler randomly dances around like Flair, which would later be utilized by Jarrett on a regular basis, current day. Lawler sends him into the corner and Gossett orders the fans chant “Go Lawler go.” Jarrett gets a dropkick and Lawler crawls over to the wide load Gossett who gives him some friendly pats on the back for comfort, to reenergize him. Gossett gets on the apron yelling at the fans, so Jarrett whips him into his back, which, by all means, proves the phrase “running into a truck” positive. Lawler sneaks a chain around his fist and nails Jarrett with it while Gossett distracts the ref. Good God this is going slow. Lawler gets the fistdrop and then goes back to the chain for choking purposes. Lawler switches to the IRON CLAW OFFENSE, which gets nothing. Jarrett gets the dropkick for a near fall, then a suplex but Wide Load has the ref distracted. Normally Jarrett would be able to capitalize here, but Lawler is ROCKING THE MULLET, and gets the chain again, but Jarrett scouts it and back drops him, then nails him with the chain himself for the three count, but he forgets to take the chain off, and the official calls the pin off. Aw, man, more? Wait, no, it’s over, Lawler retains the championship. CHAOS I tell ya occurs next when a bunch of heels hit the ring. The announcer grabs a microphone and calls for help, and gets some from now face Billy Joe Travis, with the guitar. Boring, slow, and disappointing *
Winner: Jerry Lawler
