Lord Humongous vs Kory Williams Music City Wrestling 10-03-1998
Lord Humongous is the Doctor Who of professional wrestling
It's not like there's stiff competition, it's either Humongous, The Nature Boy or Doink. The Nature Boy gimmick doesn't count, because it's not like they pretended they were all the same person. It's not like Buddy Landell and Ric Flair were supposed to be the same guy. I disqualify Doink because a lot of the Doinks can't even be billed as Doink. They're 'Famous TV Clown" or " The Wrestling Clown" or " The Worst Wrestler on the roster, but he has the promoter's license we're using so what we gonna do". Nope, above a see of recycled gimmicks, Lord Humongous stands tall
Tall and wrapped in leather.
The Lord Humongous gimmick is crazy even for wrestling. Usually wrestling will rip off pop culture, but change it just a little bit. It's more of a jumping off point for the gimmick, they just don' usually jump that far. With the Lord Humongous gimmick they never even moved their feet. They watched Mad Max 2 and said, we want that guy. And when Vernon Wells was too crazy for pro wrestling, they said actually we want Lord Humongous. They didn't even both to change his name to Prince Big, or Lord Large or Lord Humongoid. Just straight up theft in a manner I can only refer to as unintellectual property rights. Don't get me wrong, Lord Humongous looks cool. He's someone I didn't know about until I was older, but as a kid I would have ate that shit up. Originally based in Memphis, of course, Humongous debuted in 1984. I'm still not clear if he was supposed to be the same Humongous from the movie or not. It's Memphis, so let's assume that yes a character from a movie was coming to kick Jerry Lawler's ass. Very disappointed we never got The Memphis Wrestling/Night of the Creeps cross over.
I guess technically every night with Lawler was a night of the creeps.
Tip the veal, try the waitress. For whatever reason, the original Lord Humongous needed to go and Memphis had a decision to make. They loved the gimmick, but they were losing the talent .Much like when the BBC knew William Hartnell's time was coming up, they made a decision that the character would continue, we would just replace the performer. The Doctor Who writers invented the concept of "Regeneration" to change the actors. Memphis invented the concept of, just change it and hope nobody notices. So they did...and they did it again...and again. According to Wikipedia there have been 11 Lord Humgouseses. Love pluralizing S words. That puts the modern Lord Humongous working today can literally lay claim to being the Matt Smith of Pro Wrestling. This time we're taking a trip back to 1998 and six doctors, I mean Humongouses ago as we take a look at the 5th Humongous played by Bull Buchanan
First, I want to note something strange about the Humongous/Doctor Who analogy. In Doctor Who fandom, The 4th doctor is considered one of the all time greats. He's also the most iconic. Played by Tom Baker, he's the dude in the scarf you immediately think of when you think of Doctor Who. So the 5th Doctor had big shoes to fill. So did the 5th Humongous, as the person he was replacing was Sid Vicious of all people. I don't have the knowledge of Southern Pro Wrestling OR Doctor Who to delve too deep into all the comparisons, but I really need someone to do the ultimate Lord Humongous vs Doctor Who article.
All I do is blog about dudes killing wimpies
It's 1998 and we've got the first entry of Music City Wrestling on this list. MCW was a Nashville based company run by Burt Prentice that I only recall because they sweet talked their way into the PWI Top 10 rankings. Every month PWI would list the champion and top 10 contenders in various companies. The elite of the elite of wrestling WWE, WCW,ECW, New Japan, All Japan, AAA, CMLL and.... MCW I'm not shitting on it, well I guess I am. In one corner we have Kory Williams who looks like an actual wrestler. So rare for a wimpy to have good gear. Lord Humongous of course rocking his " Jason Voorhees Leather Daddy" look. Allegedly, this Lord Humongous is played by Bull Buchanan. I was baffled by the blonde hair coming out of the mask. Was it a wig to throw people off the sent or did Bull Buchanan have a luxurious mane that he lost? If it's the latter, than I'm going to pretend that's why he's a heel. In fact, that's my new head canon for all bald heels. The world took away their hair, and now they're gonna take your title. Match underway with a lockup, how new and exciting, and Humongous shows Williams where the power lies by pushing him across the ring. For those who haven't seen it, The Humongous gimmick is early Kane. Imagine an early Kane match with an extra dose of bondage and you got it. I can't believe Glenn Jacobs wasn't Lord Humongous. I can easily believe Glenn Jacobs is a humongous jackass. Some more circling and another lockup that Humongous wins.
I've heard of keep it simple stupid, but this is feeling really dumb.
Did I accidently quote Smashmouth? After more circling, Humongous goes for the lockup but its a trick by Williams who unleashes some punches on the big man. Not only punches but kicks to the calves? Very very bad kicks. He does have a really really nice dropkick though which only staggers Humongous before Humongous hits Williams with a big boot. Humongous now with the devastating, CLUBBING BLOW TO THE BACK. God that move sucks most of the time. He whips Williams into the ropes and hits a nice clothesline followed by WALKING AROUND THE RING. This sucks. Can you tell. Boring match. Wait OH MY GOD A LACKLUSTER HEADBUTT BY HUMONGOUS FOLLOWED BY AWFUL PUNCHES IN THE CORNER. Dude you're a monster, be a monster. Imagine Dragons are gonna be pissed. Humongous whips Williams into he ropes, but Williams ducks a clothesline, and another clothesline before he's caught in a choke. Humongous hits a nice chokeslam for the win
Whatever Doctor Who Doctor had the shittiest offense, that's who this Humongous is. God I hated this. Humongous has such a great look, but in the ring there was nothing to it. Just a boring squash match. If you want to sing out sing out, if you want to be Lord Humongous than you got to drop someone on their fucking head. Honestly, it made me want to watch Kory Williams more. He did all he got and he has a nice dropkick. Fuck it make him Lord Humongous, see if the racist Humongous fans get mad at that. So now let's judge his entire run as the gimmick on this entire match
Bull Buchnanan, #NotMyHumongous
TLDR Review
Humongous waste of time. Weebly Wobbly Timey Wimey Shit. I'm so easily swayed by a nice dropkick.
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