----Steve Doll,a mainstay in the Tennessee wrestling area, has been on life support after
his kidneys failed. Most sources have said it is due to a back surgery since Doll had
been suffering with back pain for a few years. Very sad news and my best wishes go out
to Steve’s family; friends and fans.
----Doll may be remember to most as Steven Dunn as he formed a WWF tag team with
Timothy Well [Rex King] to be “Well Dunn”. The team was mildly successful and both
were considered above average workers.
----Doll was born in 1964 and has the same home town as Jeff Jarrett – Hendersonville,
TN.
----Steve Doll’s first break came in World Class Championship Wrestling run by the
famous Fritz Von Erich. He defeated Killer Tim Brooks in one of his first high profile
matches at the Parade of Champions May 3, 1987. He also met The Grappler here and
it would lead to both of them heading to Portland, OR.
----Doll formed a team with Scott Peterson in Portland, OR calling themselves “Southern
Rockers” after the success of the Rock’n’Roll Express type tag teams. Doll/Peterson won
their first Pacific Northwest Tag Team Titles in September of 1987. They would hold the
belts for 7 times losing them the last time as a team to Col DeBeers/Nord The Barbarian.
----Peterson and Doll did split up for a short period doing an angle [booked by Roddy
Piper] where Scotty The Body caused friction between them. The angle last only about
four weeks and then they got back together. Peterson left the area to get a real job in a
mill. He would return about a year later to do one match with Doll as his partner.
----Rex King then joined Doll as the “Southern Rockers”. Even though Peterson/Doll
were a good team, King/Doll were one of the most over tag teams in Pacific Northwest
wrestling history. King was also a much better worker than Peterson and even Doll.
----King/Doll won their first Pacific Northwest Tag Team Titles beating The Grappler &
Scotty The Body [Raven] in August of 1989. They would hold the belts 4 times before
leaving for Memphis in February of 1990. The 1-27-90 Portland Wrestling TV show was
a build around “Southern Rockers” going on “world tour” with their final match on TV.
Doll/King would win the titles beating The Grappler & Brian Adams in their final match.
Jonathan Holliday joined Grappler/Adams after the win and spike piledrove King on a
chair. The next week, the promotion vacated the tag belts because King was “injured”
and could not wrestle and King/Doll go to Memphis.
----I am not sure who was booking TV at the time of that angle [probably Piper], but it was
ingenious. The fans got to see Doll/King win the belts and get over even bigger.
Doll/King would then leave with Holliday/Grappler/Adams on top by injuring King.
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