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Southern Boys
The Southern Boys - also known as the Wild-Eyed Southern Boys and the Young Pistols - were a professional wrestling tag team active between 1987 and 1991 in Championship Wrestling from Florida, Southeastern Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling. The tag team was composed of Steve Armstrong and Tracy Smothers.
Steve Armstrong and Tracy Smothers started teaming as the "Wild-Eyed Southern Boys" and then simply the "Southern Boys" in Championship Wrestling from Florida in 1987. Their first match came on February 17 in Tampa, Florida, where they lost to The New Breed. However four days later the Southern Boys defeated The New Breed to gain their first ever championship, the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship. Smothers and Armstrong held the belts until March 15, when they were defeated by The MOD Squad. In June 1987, they unsuccessfully challenged for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship, losing to the Midnight Express (Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton).
Smothers and Armstrong would next make a stop in the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA), where they faced Rough & Ready in October 1987.
The Southern Boys went on tour in New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 1988 and experienced success, beating Kantaro Hoshino and Osamu Kido, Kuniaki Kobayashi and Norio Honaga, Kensuke Sasaki and Norio Honaga, and Seiji Sakaguchi and Tatsutoshi Goto. Their final match came on December 9, 1988, at the NJPW Japan Cup Series 1988 - Tag 21 television show, where they lost to Kotetsu Yamamoto and Yoshinari Tsuji.
Tracy Smothers and eventually Steve Armstrong made a jump back to the CWA, where they became embroiled in a feud with the Stud Stable.
Smothers and Armstrong made their debut for World Championship Wrestling on April 23, 1990, in a dark match at a Main Event/NWA Worldwide taping in Marietta, Georgia. Wrestling as "The Wild-Eyed Southern Boys", their first television appearance came on May 12 at a World Championship Wrestling taping where they defeated Kevin Sullivan and Cactus Jack via disqualification. On May 20 on the Main Event the new team upset WCW United States Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express in a non-title match. Later that month they entered a house show series against WCW World Tag Team Champions Doom, but were unsuccessful in their efforts.
On June 13, 1990, they faced off against The Fabulous Freebirds at the Clash of the Champions XI "Coastal Crush" show and were victorious. Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes were able to gain a measure of revenge by defeating them on the June 16th, 1990 episode of WCW Worldwide after holding the tights. An appearance by the Midnight Express' manager Jim Cornette would transition the Southern Boys to their first feud. This led to the first PPV showing for Smothers and Armstrong, as they fell to The Midnight Express on July 13, 1990, at the Great American Bash 1990. Smothers and Armstrong would continue to feud with the Midnight Express before transitioning to a series against the self-declared "Southern Champions" The Fabulous Freebirds. In August they engaged in a "best of 3" series against The Freebirds, and on September 5, 1990, they defeated Hayes and Garvin at Clash of the Champions XII "Fall Brawl: Mountain Madness".
On the September 22, 1990, episode of World Championship Wrestling the Southern Boys fell once more to The Midnight Express in a match where the winner received a United States Tag Team Championship shot. On the October 6th episode of The Main Event, the duo fell to the newly arrived Nasty Boys. Their televised slump continued at the Halloween Havoc 1990, where they were defeated by The Master Blasters after Jim Cornette interfered in the match. Cornette and Stan Lane departed from the promotion immediately afterwards, and there was no resolution to the Southern Boys/Midnight Express storyline. They moved instead to a house show series with the Blasters (Al Green and a rookie Kevin Nash).
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Southern Boys
The Southern Boys - also known as the Wild-Eyed Southern Boys and the Young Pistols - were a professional wrestling tag team active between 1987 and 1991 in Championship Wrestling from Florida, Southeastern Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling. The tag team was composed of Steve Armstrong and Tracy Smothers.
Steve Armstrong and Tracy Smothers started teaming as the "Wild-Eyed Southern Boys" and then simply the "Southern Boys" in Championship Wrestling from Florida in 1987. Their first match came on February 17 in Tampa, Florida, where they lost to The New Breed. However four days later the Southern Boys defeated The New Breed to gain their first ever championship, the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship. Smothers and Armstrong held the belts until March 15, when they were defeated by The MOD Squad. In June 1987, they unsuccessfully challenged for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship, losing to the Midnight Express (Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton).
Smothers and Armstrong would next make a stop in the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA), where they faced Rough & Ready in October 1987.
The Southern Boys went on tour in New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 1988 and experienced success, beating Kantaro Hoshino and Osamu Kido, Kuniaki Kobayashi and Norio Honaga, Kensuke Sasaki and Norio Honaga, and Seiji Sakaguchi and Tatsutoshi Goto. Their final match came on December 9, 1988, at the NJPW Japan Cup Series 1988 - Tag 21 television show, where they lost to Kotetsu Yamamoto and Yoshinari Tsuji.
Tracy Smothers and eventually Steve Armstrong made a jump back to the CWA, where they became embroiled in a feud with the Stud Stable.
Smothers and Armstrong made their debut for World Championship Wrestling on April 23, 1990, in a dark match at a Main Event/NWA Worldwide taping in Marietta, Georgia. Wrestling as "The Wild-Eyed Southern Boys", their first television appearance came on May 12 at a World Championship Wrestling taping where they defeated Kevin Sullivan and Cactus Jack via disqualification. On May 20 on the Main Event the new team upset WCW United States Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express in a non-title match. Later that month they entered a house show series against WCW World Tag Team Champions Doom, but were unsuccessful in their efforts.
On June 13, 1990, they faced off against The Fabulous Freebirds at the Clash of the Champions XI "Coastal Crush" show and were victorious. Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes were able to gain a measure of revenge by defeating them on the June 16th, 1990 episode of WCW Worldwide after holding the tights. An appearance by the Midnight Express' manager Jim Cornette would transition the Southern Boys to their first feud. This led to the first PPV showing for Smothers and Armstrong, as they fell to The Midnight Express on July 13, 1990, at the Great American Bash 1990. Smothers and Armstrong would continue to feud with the Midnight Express before transitioning to a series against the self-declared "Southern Champions" The Fabulous Freebirds. In August they engaged in a "best of 3" series against The Freebirds, and on September 5, 1990, they defeated Hayes and Garvin at Clash of the Champions XII "Fall Brawl: Mountain Madness".
On the September 22, 1990, episode of World Championship Wrestling the Southern Boys fell once more to The Midnight Express in a match where the winner received a United States Tag Team Championship shot. On the October 6th episode of The Main Event, the duo fell to the newly arrived Nasty Boys. Their televised slump continued at the Halloween Havoc 1990, where they were defeated by The Master Blasters after Jim Cornette interfered in the match. Cornette and Stan Lane departed from the promotion immediately afterwards, and there was no resolution to the Southern Boys/Midnight Express storyline. They moved instead to a house show series with the Blasters (Al Green and a rookie Kevin Nash).