8 Best Ever Wrestling Matches Involving Vehicles

1. Jerry Lawler Attacks Bill Dundee's Car - Memphis Wrestling - October 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDjanahGa8 There's something amazingly earnest about classic Memphis Wrestling that makes it so engaging. The execution of how this vehicle is used makes it such an entertaining moment. "Superstar" Bill Dundee cheats Jerry "The King" Lawler out of the Southern Heavyweight Championship and had thus earned a shot at Ric Flair's NWA World Heavyweight Championship when he comes to Memphis one month later. Angry at being cheated out of the title, Lawler wants an immediate rematch, and Dundee rightfully claims his once every 30-day clause for needing to defend the title. Later in the same episode, Lawler emerges from the locker room and apologizes for interrupting a tag-team match with a contract that he has signed for a title shot later in the week instead, and is curiously carrying a baseball bat. He comes out to speak with announcer Lance Russell perfectly aware that Dundee has no interest in signing, yet alludes to the idea that a man "has to be mad" in order to be forced to do something he has no desire to do. Thus, in order to anger Dundee, Lawler walks out into the parking lot and threatens to break the windows and mirrors on his "$25,000 sports car" in a manner consistent with how Rick Rude had smashed Lawler's Lincoln Continental a year prior. Lawler strolls into the parking lot with said bat, and the entire crowd sitting in the WMC-TV studios empties into the parking lot cheering on Lawler preparing to destroy Dundee's car with a baseball bat because he refuses to defend the Southern Heavyweight Championship. As Lawler counts to ten giving Dundee a chance to sign the contract, Dundee relents and signs at the count of seven. The idea that the worth of a man's car is greater than the idea of maintaining his pride is a take on a classic wrestling trope. However, when done with Lance Russell sounding like someone's concerned parent, Lawler as a proud, yet angered babyface and Dundee as the heel who is completely full of crap makes for a dynamic that is honest and gripping. On a list involving picante sauce, rooftop monster truck battles, multiple cases of attempted vehicular manslaughter, and WWE's bizarre love of forklifts, less connects better, and is thus, more.