They were off USA well before this angle was shot. It was a Scott Casey-Bobby Jaggers angle many months prior to this that allegedly got them pulled off USA.
No, the reason SCW got pulled from USA Network because they couldn't afford the $7000/week television fee. Vince McMahon pays SCW's outstanding debt which earned them the TV time for WWF and the rest was history. Oh, and Vince promised USA there'd be no blood.
At 3:49, we see that Boyd has actually bladed (!), even though all he took was a shot from the flat part of the chair on the top of his head. There's no way that should have drawn blood. A lot of wrestling characters are just people playing exaggerated versions of their real personality. Boyd was described as the kind of guy who liked to start each day off with a smile, just to get it over with. And that's just the character he played on TV. It was a big contrast to Luke and Butch, who were both happy-go-lucky goofball types. The Boyd and Miller version of the Sheepherders could never have been the Bushwhackers in the WWF. Boyd didn't fit the role. But he was good playing the evil mastermind.
when real men bleed sweat and win real wrestling in the hey day when rookies had to prove thhem self on the mic and in the ring the fan were so into it
I saw this when it first broadcast. It's still hilarious listening to Steve Stack do play by play commentary while he watches his boss being attacked. The reference to Boyd's leg being bad is that he legitimately broke it in an auto accident the year before. It couldn't have been as bad as they're making out, as he did return to wrestling later. But it was used in storylines. When The Sheepherders arrived in SCW, it was Boyd and Williams, not Williams and Miller like everyone knows. Butch had left the team to go back home, then returned when Boyd was hurt. Brooks isn't the only one who kayfabe "re-injured" his leg. Eric Embry did it later.
When Brooks came up to Stampede Wrestling in Calgary and won the North American Heavyweight Championship, I always thought he looked like a psycho with his big beard and long stringy hair ! And man was he dirty in the ring !!
@@jeigheff I believe this led to a match between Boyd and Blanchard. Blanchard had been a top contender in his day, but wasn't in great shape at this time. Boyd was also in bad shape after his car accident (but not nearly as bad as they made out to be, as he returned to in-ring action later). So the hook for the match was that it was between two guys who were in bad shape (!), which wouldn't sound all that great if one of them hadn't been Blanchard, a guy who once fought Lou Thesz to an hour long draw. I don't remember how the match came out, but probably Blanchard put Boyd over, as Boyd still had a future, while Blanchard was glad just to be coming out for one more match.
@@GraemeCree I saw the show where Boyd and Blanchard were supposed to have fought! Another match was taking place before Boyd and Blanchard were supposed to get in the ring. While that match was going on, Boyd ambushed Blanchard with a metal chair outside the ring. I knew it wasn't real, but I couldn't believe how many times Boyd hit Blanchard with the chair while Blanchard was lying motionless on the floor. The whole thing was really cruel and brutal. The camera focused on Boyd's assault instead of the legitimate match going on in the background. (I wonder why?!) When it was time for Boyd's and Blanchard's match to start, Boyd jumped in the ring and acted like he was ready to fight. The camera caught Boyd's tough-guy swagger and Blanchard's unconscious body lying outside the ring at the same time. Everyone knew (that is, at least everyone watching on TV) that Boyd had chickened out of a legitimate match by ambushing Blanchard instead. Wow. I wish I could tell you what happened after that, but I can't remember.
@@jeigheff Did you see it on TV, or live? Sounds like Blanchard wasn't in good enough shape for even a short match. I remember them talking about it afterwards, but never saw this.
SWCW 9/1/84 Odesa, Texas Manny Fernandez vs Killer Brooks . The end of Fernandez vs Brooks fued. 7/1984-9/1/1984 Boyd place a bounty on Manny Fernandez any who can take him out of wrestling). Manny Fernandez left SWCW for JCP 9/26/84- 9/30/87(Dusty Rhodes is JCP Booker at that time)
What happened in the match? They claimed that Brooks had "run Fernandez out of Texas", but how is he supposed to have done that? Was it Loser Leaves Town?
Jonathan Boyd..., wasn't the average Jim Cornette, JJ Dylan, Jimmy Hart, Freddie Blassie, Bobby Heenan, Slick comedy Hide- Behind- the- Talent manager, He didn't take no BS
From those, Jim Cornette and Jimmy Hart weren't in-ring competitors, at least frequently. JJ Dillon, Freddie Blassie and Bobby Heenan were tough as nails for real. In fact, look for a match between Lord Alfred Hayes vs Bobby Heenan in the AWA. It could blow many of today's matches away.
Pause at 4:24 The one on the front is Eric Embry I believe. Don't know the other guy. They were a tag team called the Commonwealth Army managed by Johnathan Boyd.
Those were The Fabulous Blondes, 2nd incarnation. Originals were Ken Timbs and Eric Embry. The team in this clip was Eric Embry and Dan Grier. I used to watch this EVERY Saturday morning after cartoons! @@dannyboyy8465
@@dannyboyy8465They were a tag team called The Fabulous Blondes. Ken Timbs and Bobby Jaggers were in it besides Embry. That does not look like Bobby Jaggers, so I am guessing it is Timbs. The Commonweath was the name of the entire stable.
Had he not gotten injured by the time The Sheepherders made it to the WWF, Jonathan Boyd would not had let them become the joke that Vince McMahon made them to be.....they would’ve still been heels and twice as dangerous as they were when they made it to Mid-South and Southwest areas.
That's stupid. Vince probably added a good 10/12 years to their careers! They made a lot more money and didn't have to punish themselves! They got commercial deals and were on the TV show family matters. Then afterwards when they were done with the wwf,they kept calling themselves the Bushwhackers. They never went back to the sheepherders! They're on record saying they loved it! It was the best thing they ever did.
@@rickjohnson2859 Hated what they did to the Sheepherders in WWF. Saw them wrestle the Road Warriors, I guess this is the match they are talking about.
The Road Warriors v SHEEP HERDERS was a bloody war!
I need to see that wow
The Sheepherders and the Powers of Pain were the only dominant teams of the 1980s to never win a World title....why was this?!?!😂❤😊🎉
Saw the Road Warriors VS Sheepherders at the old Hemisfair Arena, here in San Antonio. Crazy match.
I never saw any blood in their matches… 🤔
Calls him a liar, thief, slime: nothing.
Calls him a kiwi: IT’S ON BROTHER!
😂
This angle led to Tully coming back to Southwest as a face
Tully, a face!!!! 😳😳😳
The angle that got them pulled from USA Network
They were off USA well before this angle was shot. It was a Scott Casey-Bobby Jaggers angle many months prior to this that allegedly got them pulled off USA.
No, the reason SCW got pulled from USA Network because they couldn't afford the $7000/week television fee. Vince McMahon pays SCW's outstanding debt which earned them the TV time for WWF and the rest was history. Oh, and Vince promised USA there'd be no blood.
Southwest was tremendous. Kinda’ dark and dingy, but very bloody and very violent…
Lots of tough guys came through that territory.
Notice also that Brooks is too sporting to chair shot Boyd while his back is turned, and so has to wait for him to turn around.
Brooks was a bad ass, but he was a gentleman.
Doesn't Tim Brooks look like a cross between Bray Wyatt and the Waingro character in the movie Heat.
Good stuff.
best part of this watch it over and over Joe gives Boyd the blade watch JB's right hand.
At 3:49, we see that Boyd has actually bladed (!), even though all he took was a shot from the flat part of the chair on the top of his head. There's no way that should have drawn blood.
A lot of wrestling characters are just people playing exaggerated versions of their real personality. Boyd was described as the kind of guy who liked to start each day off with a smile, just to get it over with. And that's just the character he played on TV. It was a big contrast to Luke and Butch, who were both happy-go-lucky goofball types. The Boyd and Miller version of the Sheepherders could never have been the Bushwhackers in the WWF. Boyd didn't fit the role. But he was good playing the evil mastermind.
Translator was out to lunch! 😆
Or with your mother
Can it get any better than this?
The happen late September 1984.
when real men bleed sweat and win real wrestling in the hey day when rookies had to prove thhem self on the mic and in the ring the fan were so into it
I saw this when it first broadcast. It's still hilarious listening to Steve Stack do play by play commentary while he watches his boss being attacked.
The reference to Boyd's leg being bad is that he legitimately broke it in an auto accident the year before. It couldn't have been as bad as they're making out, as he did return to wrestling later. But it was used in storylines. When The Sheepherders arrived in SCW, it was Boyd and Williams, not Williams and Miller like everyone knows. Butch had left the team to go back home, then returned when Boyd was hurt.
Brooks isn't the only one who kayfabe "re-injured" his leg. Eric Embry did it later.
When Brooks came up to Stampede Wrestling in Calgary and won the North American Heavyweight Championship, I always thought he looked like a psycho with his big beard and long stringy hair ! And man was he dirty in the ring !!
I think I saw this too when it was first broadcast.
@@jeigheff I believe this led to a match between Boyd and Blanchard. Blanchard had been a top contender in his day, but wasn't in great shape at this time. Boyd was also in bad shape after his car accident (but not nearly as bad as they made out to be, as he returned to in-ring action later). So the hook for the match was that it was between two guys who were in bad shape (!), which wouldn't sound all that great if one of them hadn't been Blanchard, a guy who once fought Lou Thesz to an hour long draw.
I don't remember how the match came out, but probably Blanchard put Boyd over, as Boyd still had a future, while Blanchard was glad just to be coming out for one more match.
@@GraemeCree I saw the show where Boyd and Blanchard were supposed to have fought! Another match was taking place before Boyd and Blanchard were supposed to get in the ring. While that match was going on, Boyd ambushed Blanchard with a metal chair outside the ring. I knew it wasn't real, but I couldn't believe how many times Boyd hit Blanchard with the chair while Blanchard was lying motionless on the floor. The whole thing was really cruel and brutal. The camera focused on Boyd's assault instead of the legitimate match going on in the background. (I wonder why?!) When it was time for Boyd's and Blanchard's match to start, Boyd jumped in the ring and acted like he was ready to fight. The camera caught Boyd's tough-guy swagger and Blanchard's unconscious body lying outside the ring at the same time. Everyone knew (that is, at least everyone watching on TV) that Boyd had chickened out of a legitimate match by ambushing Blanchard instead. Wow. I wish I could tell you what happened after that, but I can't remember.
@@jeigheff Did you see it on TV, or live? Sounds like Blanchard wasn't in good enough shape for even a short match. I remember them talking about it afterwards, but never saw this.
Man alive! It’s Katy bar the door!
SWCW 9/1/84 Odesa, Texas Manny Fernandez vs Killer Brooks . The end of Fernandez vs Brooks fued. 7/1984-9/1/1984 Boyd place a bounty on Manny Fernandez any who can take him out of wrestling). Manny Fernandez left SWCW for JCP 9/26/84- 9/30/87(Dusty Rhodes is JCP Booker at that time)
What happened in the match? They claimed that Brooks had "run Fernandez out of Texas", but how is he supposed to have done that? Was it Loser Leaves Town?
Tully's dad.
Interesting angle.
Jonathan Boyd..., wasn't the average Jim Cornette, JJ Dylan, Jimmy Hart, Freddie Blassie, Bobby Heenan, Slick comedy Hide- Behind- the- Talent manager,
He didn't take no BS
From those, Jim Cornette and Jimmy Hart weren't in-ring competitors, at least frequently. JJ Dillon, Freddie Blassie and Bobby Heenan were tough as nails for real. In fact, look for a match between Lord Alfred Hayes vs Bobby Heenan in the AWA. It could blow many of today's matches away.
Joe Blanchard is Tully Blanchard's dad all right
Who were the two blonde wrestlers that came over to check on Jonathan Boyd?
Pause at 4:24
The one on the front is Eric Embry I believe. Don't know the other guy. They were a tag team called the Commonwealth Army managed by Johnathan Boyd.
Those were The Fabulous Blondes, 2nd incarnation. Originals were Ken Timbs and Eric Embry. The team in this clip was Eric Embry and Dan Grier. I used to watch this EVERY Saturday morning after cartoons!
@@dannyboyy8465
@@dannyboyy8465They were a tag team called The Fabulous Blondes. Ken Timbs and Bobby Jaggers were in it besides Embry. That does not look like Bobby Jaggers, so I am guessing it is Timbs. The Commonweath was the name of the entire stable.
@@indiglo1971 Now that think about it, you're correct....It's been a long time since I watched SCW. 😄
Voodoo Malumba
Old fashion weekend entertainment
Poor misunderstood Tim Brooks
Had he not gotten injured by the time The Sheepherders made it to the WWF, Jonathan Boyd would not had let them become the joke that Vince McMahon made them to be.....they would’ve still been heels and twice as dangerous as they were when they made it to Mid-South and Southwest areas.
That's stupid. Vince probably added a good 10/12 years to their careers! They made a lot more money and didn't have to punish themselves! They got commercial deals and were on the TV show family matters. Then afterwards when they were done with the wwf,they kept calling themselves the Bushwhackers. They never went back to the sheepherders! They're on record saying they loved it! It was the best thing they ever did.
Such ignorance, it hurts.
The sheep herders? Stupid name.
Better than the Bushwhackers.
@@rickjohnson2859 Hated what they did to the Sheepherders in WWF. Saw them wrestle the Road Warriors, I guess this is the match they are talking about.
They were mean fuckers though!