Answering the 10 Count: Jamie Dundee

Joe King

Jamie Dundee was born in Sydney, Australia in 1971. Growing up as the son of not just any professional wrestler, but one of the most legendary performers to ever lace up a pair of boots…it was just a matter of time before he got into it himself. His father, the legendary “Superstar” Bill Dundee started his career in professional wrestling in 1962. His father would become a huge star and one of the greatest wrestlers of all-time in Memphis, winning multiple Heavyweight & Tag-Team Championships throughout his career and becoming a member of the Memphis Wrestling Hall of Fame. 

Jamie would start his career in 1988 for USA Championship Wrestling as manager of the Rock ‘n’ Roll RPMs(Mike Davis & Tommy Lane). He also worked as a referee before ultimately going on the road and teaming up alongside his father, Bill, before turning on him and transforming into the persona that he would stay for the rest of his career: a rapper named J.C. Ice or J.C “The Ice Baby”. 

He went on to form a tag-team called PG-13 with his partner Wolfie D(Kelly Wolfe). Together the two would become one of the most popular tag-teams of the 1990’s. They ruled the USWA Tag Team division, winning the World Tag Team Championship a record total of 16 times! They would also go on to have runs in every one of the “Big Three” promotions of the 90’s: the WWF, WCW, and ECW. 

 In the WWF, after a few bouts with the Smoking Gunns and squashes over preliminary talent, PG-13 would become part of the Nation of Domination with Farooq, Crush, & Clarence Mason. They would also perform the vocals for the NOD’s original theme song. They would appear on Raw is War, Survivor Series, and Wrestlemania XIII as part of the infamous Chicago Street Fight, where Jamie would go up against some of his childhood favorites, The Road Warriors, as part of The Nation of Domination! After their departure from the WWF after a televised match against The Legion of Doom, they would both find a home in the “Land of Extreme”, Extreme Championship Wrestling. The two would have matches with teams such as The Dudley Boyz, The Pitbulls, & The Eliminators. PG-13 would then engage in a lengthy rivalry against the team of Mikey Whipwreck & Spike Dudley which lasted the last half of the year of 1997. Jamie would stay with ECW through 1998, teaming with Mike Lozansky and also wrestling in singles matches against the likes of Chris Candido, Balls Mahoney, and John Kronus. His promo before a bout against Chris Candido at The Elk’s Lodge is absolute GOLD!

From there they would continue to wrestle occasionally for USWA and MCW(Music City Wrestling) until they were signed by WCW(World Championship Wrestling) in 1999. In WCW, they would take part in the Lethal Lottery World Tag-Team Championship tournament. They were victorious in the First Round beating the team of Berlyn & Rick Steiner, but lost in the Quarter Final to Kevin Nash & Scott Steiner. They would be signed to WCW throughout 2000, engaging in tag-team and six-man tag matches with teams such as 3-Count, Crowbar & David Flair, The Varsity Club, and The Jung Dragons. PG-13 would also get a couple of WCW Tag-Team Championship opportunities challenging The Mamalukes on WCW Saturday Night and WCW Thunder.

After leaving WCW, Jamie would wrestle sporadically on the independent circuit wrestling for organizations such as SAW, IWA, NWA, XCW, and JCW. Other than having a successful career in wrestling, Jamie Dundee was also a very popular guest on several episodes of The Jerry Springer Show. Jamie retired in 2016.

As a longtime fan of Jamie’s, I contacted him and told him I was interested in covering his career. Here are some questions from the interview:

•How was it growing up the son of one of Memphis Wrestling’s most famous wrestlers of all-time?

Man, it was pretty cool. Growing up there wasn’t much to watch on TV on Saturday mornings but Bugs Bunny, paid programming, or Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler! My dad was definitely pretty f****** famous. My neighbors were Johnny Cash & The Oak Ridge Boys…and we were just them ole redneck wrestlers! Everyone was always all over him everywhere we went, man! It really helped as I got older when the cops would pull me over and look at my id or driver’s license and ask me “are you Bill Dundee’s boy?”…Why yes sir! I knew that meant I was getting out of this one.

•Who were some of your favorite wrestlers growing up?

First and foremost, my brother-in-law. Beautiful Bobby Eaton. Best wrestler on the planet! Bar none. He was my absolute favorite. Then, my dad Bill Dundee and then, Jerry “The King” Lawler. And then for tag teams? The Rock N’ Roll Express. Last but not least: Oh…what a rush!!! The Road Warriors!!! The Legion of Doom! Who didn’t like the f****** Roadies, man??? They were so f****** cool! That was a heck of an opportunity when I got the wrestle them at Wrestlemania 13 in Chicago, Illinois! I was on top of the world! That was one of the greatest moments of my life!!! Also, at Louisville Legends 1995 against Rock N’ Roll Express. Nothing beats going up against your heroes when your profession is wrestling!

•When and where did you meet your tag-team partner, Wolfie D? 

I met him in 1991 on the outlaw circuit.Working for Shelby Adcock.He was wrestling as The Medic.Then he started wrestling as DJ Wolfie D in 1992 and Chris Champion said “You guys ought to do y’alls gimmick together”. We got some shorts, painted them up, knocked on Jerry Jarrett’s door, showed him what we were all about and the rest as they say is history!

•Whose idea was it for you two to join the Nation of Domination and perform their entrance music?

Wolfie and Jim Cornette were talking and Wolfie came to me and said we are gonna get a shot with the WWF, but we need to write a rap song. I said “Write a rap song? I don’t know how to write a rap song!” So, we got on the airplane and flew to Connecticut and Jim Johnston said “Okay, here’s our studio. Let’s write a rap song”. So…Wolfie wrote it and told me what parts were mine. And we performed it about 10 times, then recorded it about 10 different ways. And Jim made the instrumental and told us we were gonna rap it on the way to the ring and that’s how I joined the Nation of Domination!

•As a diehard ECW fan, that had to be a hell of a good time! Any memories you care to share with the readers?

I think we party so much there ain’t too many memories. But I do remember one time it was Rick Rude, Jack Victory, myself, New Jack, Sandman, Sabu, and maybe one or two others I really can’t remember. But we all eat a drop to hit of acid in New Jersey in a battle royal. We all eat a hit of acid and went to the ring. And in the middle of the battle royal, which I’m sure was the worst battle royal in history, I’d like to see it somewhere. It was in Asbury Park, New Jersey if anybody can find this video. And New Jack is under the ring with the microphone, and he’s going, here, lizard, lizard, lizard. Do you remember the Taco Bell commercial while he was under the ring? And he was going, here, lizard, lizard, lizard. And I just remember laughing so hard that tears were coming out of my face, man. Well, I guess we’re supposed to be in the wrestling match, but I really don’t know how it ended or nothing. I just remember, here, lizard, lizard, lizard. So eight of us on acid, and that was one of my fondest, funnest memories of ECW. But there was a rule in ECW. You either smoke one, you shoot one, you snort one, or you do one before you go to the ring or you don’t go to the ring. So ECW was just a whole lot of fun, man. It was a bunch of, as they would call, outlaws, the ones casted from the big companies that didn’t play by the rules. And we all got together, and it was a hell of a time and a hell of a show, and it ran for 20 years, and Paul Heyman kept all the damn money. But that was one of my funnest memories of ECW, and all I can say is ECW. 

•How did you get started performing on The Jerry Springer Show?

Man, The Jerry Springer Show! The way I got started on that show, some of y’all may know this guy: The Iron Sheik! Some of you may not, but if you don’t, you’re listening to the wrong podcast or reading up on the wrong website! The Iron Sheik actually did an episode of The Jerry Springer show with a guy named Pitbull No. 2, who was Anthony Durante. They did a Jerry Springer show, and somebody mentioned they needed midgets. So the Iron Sheik said, “Jamie Dundee’s got midgets”.

So then my phone rings and the first time my phone rang and I said, hello, they said, “Mr. Dundee, this is Johnny Dickface from the Jerry Springer show.” And I said, “hold on a minute, b****, I will kill you!” I thought my old lady at the time had ducked off to the damn Jerry Springer show. And I’m like, the woman’s like, “no, sir. No, sir. Mr. Dundee, hold on. We are not calling about putting you on the show. We need midgets.”

And I go, oh, yeah, I got a midget. She said, “no, no, we need 100 midgets.” I said, “100 midgets?” I didn’t even know there was a fucking 100 midgets on the planet! You can live your whole life and never see a midget walking around. So for them to ask me for 100 midgets, I’m like, you lost your mind, lady. I said, maybe I can find 20 or 10 or something. I don’t know. And I ended up finding about 18 midgets! So, me and 18 midgets flew up to the Jerry Springer show, and they did a show called ‘Invasion of the Little People’. And they had midgets popping out from under the chairs and coming out of the ceiling and coming through the walls. And so the way I got started on Jerry Springer is my good friend, The Sheiky Baby. He said, “Jamie, baby, shave a Sheiky’s head, baby.” So I shaved the back of old Sheiky’s head because he couldn’t reach it. And by God, that’s how I got on the Jerry Springer show. Thanks to the Sheiky. I love you, Sheiky. Rest in peace, my friend, and I will see you again.

•What is Jamie Dundee up to now in 2025?

He’s up to about 5’10”, about 205 pounds. That’s about where he is. It’s not a muscly 205. It’s just an old redneck sitting around, fat 205. But actually, Jamie Dundee’s living, as society would say, one of my best lives I could ever live.

I’m clean and sober for over 15 years. I have a beautiful wife, my children, my daughters, my grandchildren. I get to see all of them. They come and visit their old grandpa and their dad. And I just live, I guess, as you could say, the old American dream. I got me a little land, about five acres on a double-wide living up on a hill, I’ve got no neighbors around it’s just Dundee Mountain in a little town called Seabree, Kentucky. So if you’re ever passing through just stop on by and ask where dundee lives and come on a visit so i’m just living a good life and i’m trying to uh just remember how it used to be and remember all the good and the bad of the wrestling world and uh…I just hope I left a mark on the wrestling world, hell…on the real world. And so when I’m dead and gone, they can say that Jamie Dundee damn sure was what he was at all times. So I just want to say I appreciate the time. I appreciate it. It’s an honor of mine to be on your show. And I’d just like to tell everybody, ring the damn bell!!! Jamie Dundee’s on the way, baby!

•Thank you so much for your time, Jamie. I really appreciate it.

 

Well, Jamie Dundee just wants to say, thanks Joe and to everybody at Ring the Damn Bell. And I’d like everybody to know, when you’re done reading this interview, you can go to Google and you can ask, “who is the worst guest ever to be on the Jerry Springer Show?” …and it’s yours truly, Mr. Jamie Dundee! That’s right! They did 27 seasons, 5,000 shows, and had over 35,000 guests…but there’s only one worst guest ever, and that’s Jamie f*****g Dundee! That rocks, brother!