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UWF Power Hour 07/11/1987 TV Studios {The scene opens with a video package showing off the new superstars of UWF and it highlights the following people Ted Dibiase, Lex Luger, Vader, and The Barbarian, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, The Great Muta, and Dick Murdoch. As soon as this video package is over. We head straight to the desk where Jim Ross introduces the owner of UWF. Bill Watts doesn't seem too happy and he looks upset that he is even out here right now.} Bill Watts: Thank you Jim for the introduction. Now, as I am sure a lot of the good wrestling fans know. My now-former business partner has taken it upon himself to split up the UWF and take with him a …

DEC.5 (Magazine Edition #1) A Word With Bill Watts Cowboy Bill Watts: Fans, I want you to understand that a new day has dawn on the wrestling world. A day that will forever change the landscape of the sport that both you and I love. Today, is the first day of the Universal Wrestling Federation. Fans, don’t worry. You will still see all of the stars that you love to watch and even some of those that you love to hate. The UWF is committed to bringing you all of the great action that you were use to seeing when this show was titled Mid-South Wrestling and we will still be visiting all of our old venues in Louisiana and Texas. We will also be comin…

Continental Championship Wrestling TV Saturday July 10, 1986 Hosted by Gordon Solie Ring Announcer: Freddie Miller Interviewer: Joe Pedicino From the Civic Center in Montgomery, Alabama (A series of still frames are shown from the Great American Bash…..Wendell Cooley holding the Southeastern title belt in the air, Peggy Rich holding up Tommy and Johnny Rich's hands in victory, Mr. Olympia leaving the ring with Ronnie P. Gossett and the CCW title, Dick Slater busting open Gossett, Dibiase and Dr. Death leaving with the World Tag Team titles, and the final picture Ivan Koloff strapping the NWA World Championship around the waist of 'the…

Well, here we go! Normally my shows will go up on Saturday, with the house shows being on Sunday. Although this week my first show will go up on Thursday, because I am out of town for the weekend. I am trying a different writing style this time around in hopes of not burning myself out, and I am also trying to not do a disservice to Gordon Solie, so his verbiage may not be as prevalent at the beginning. I guess what I am trying to say is, these shows may be a bit shorter than what I normally turned out, and at the beginning, they may be a little rough as I try to get everyone debuted. So, I hope you enjoy them, but please bare with me as I get back in the groove! So,…

July 3 McNichols Sports Arena: Denver, Colorado July 4: Bay Center: Pensacola, Florida July 5: The Superdome: New Orleans, Louisiana GET YOUR TICKETS NOW. DON'T MISS OUT ON HISTORY!

Anyone who wishes to see how we got here, check out the Mid-South Wrestling Archives thread as well as the Great American Bash thread JULY 3, 1986 THE COLISEUM ON THE MISSISSIPPI STATE FAIRGROUNDS JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI The show opens after its regular montage of Mid-South stars with a video tape showing Ivan Koloff help Nikita pin Magnum T.A. and become the new NWA World Heavyweight Champion at The Great American Bash in the Superdome. Jim Ross: Welcome everybody to another hour of Mid-South Wrestling coming to you this week from The Coliseum right here in Jackson, Mississippi. I’m Jim Ross and my partner today is…

Originally announced in August 86 edition of Pro Wrestling Illustrated. *Breaking News! Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling relaunches. Rejoins National Wrestling Alliance* After legal & personal issues caused MACW to halt its entire output in February, PWI can confirm the various issues have been settled and MACW will resume prompting shows. Perhaps the most unexpected development is the news that an agreement has been reached to have MACW reenter the National Wrestling Alliance. This deal includes MACW airing its weekly television program on WTBS Channel 17 starting Friday September 10th at 8pm. The first episode will air from the Township Auditorium in Co…

After the sudden collapse of Texas All-star Wrestling in early March Dory Funk Jr was more than a little irritated. The wrestling world had been downright chaotic these last few years. First the NWA the governing body of American pro wrestling since 1948 collapsed seemingly with a snap of Verne Gange's fingers. And that was just the beginning companies merging together to create super territories, Companies either starting then shutting down in less than a year ( tas ) or shutting their doors only to reopen them just as quickly. While Dory was somewhat glad to hear of the NWA's expansion into Texas he was also rather disappointed to see them limit that expansion to the ea…

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

July 3: McNichols Sports Arena: Denver, Colorado July 4: Bay Center: Pensacola, Florida July 5: The Superdome: New Orleans, Louisiana GET YOUR TICKETS NOW. DON'T MISS OUT ON HISTORY!

With my folder being deleted, I thoiught I would re-post my work in order to have a history of it and in case any new readers want to catch up with what they missed. No reason to comment on it. It you feel this is cluttering up our project, I will remove it. NWA CONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING WITH GORDON SOLIE  MARCH 27, 1986 BOUTWELL AUDITORIUM BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA (MATCHES ARE FROM 3/22) The show opens with a short clip from WrestleWar where we see Jimmy Garvin defeat Austin Idol in their loser leave town match only to have Garvin attacked by some masked man. Gordon Solie: Well thank you, thank you very much.…

With my folder being deleted, I thoiught I would re-post my work in order to have a history of it and in case any new readers want to catch up with what they missed. No reason to comment on it. It you feel this is cluttering up our project, I will remove it. NWA MID SOUTH WRESTLING WITH JIM ROSS & BILL WATTS MARCH 27, 1986 IRISH McNEIL’S BOYS CLUB SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA Before we get to Jim Ross and Cowboy Bill Watts, we get a highlight montage from WrestleWar that includes Harley Race being attacked by a large Asian man before losing the North American Title to Jake “the Snake” Roberts, Dr. Death and Ted Dibiase defeating the Freebirds…

TNT Wrestling TV @ The Junction, San Antonio TX, 1-11-84 The show opens with footage from last week of Bob Sweetan and David Shultz's attack on the Fabulous Ones. Sweetan and Shultz deliver piledrivers to Keirn and Lane on the concrete! The show goes live to Steve Stack standing behind his podium. Stack: Hello everybody and welcome to TNT Wrestling on the USA Network coming to you from the Junction in San Antonio. TNT is sanctioned by the AWA. I'm Steve Stack and I'll be your host here at the Junction. I'm thrilled to be a part of the AWA and TNT Wrestling. Lot's of action for you tonight including a big tag team match as Johnny Valian…

(Taped on Monday September 7th, 1985 and airing Friday Night September 11th) From the beautiful Will Rogers Complex in Fort Worth. This is.... Ninety minutes of ringside excitement featuring the worlds greatest professional wrestlers from... We cut to ringside where Marc Lowrance is standing ringside with a microphone. Marc Lowrance: Welcome to the Will Rogers Coliseum and to Championship Sports. I'm Marc Lowrance, your host for Texas All Star Wrestling! Ladies and Gentleman, I can't tell you how good it is to be back here on KTVT, and how good it is to have professional wrestling back here in the Dallas/Fort W…

Twin States Wrestling Episode #1 Saturday July 11, 1985 From the WTVY Ch. 4 Studio in Dothan, Alabama airing LIVE at Noon on WTVY Channel 4 and on tape on stations throughout Alabama and Mississippi at various times Host/Play by Play: Charlie Platt Co-Host/Color Commentator: Ronnie P. Gossett Interviewer: Rick Stewart Ring Announcer: Phil Rainey (Show opens with a montage of classic Southeastern Wrestling footage with a voiceover saying "Welcome to Twin States Wrestling bringing you the best professional wrestling action from across Alabama and Mississippi sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance" and we then go to…

FRANK VALOIS READY TO LAUNCH BACK LUTTE INTERNATIONALE, JANUARY 9TH, 1986 There is a lot of excitement in the air as Lutte Internationale is about to rise back from the ashes, although a very different look than it was in his heydays, when the Rougeaus, Dino Bravo and Ricky Martel were cheered by thousands of fans around Eastern Canada. "It certainly will make for an interesting dynamic," said promoter Frank Valois, president of Promotions Varoussac, the entity behind Lutte Internationale, "but I'm up for a challenge. First and foremost, I want to deliver quality wrestling to our great fanbase in Eastern Canada and I believe we can achieve that with a mix…

BEGINNING TONIGHT AND CONTINUING ALL WEEKEND...... AND THE PROUDLY PRESENT.... 3 COMPANIES! 32 TEAMS! 1 TROPHY! AND 1OO THOUSAND DOLLARS! YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!!!!

The last show of 1985 for NJPW, building toward their big January show, New Year Dash, which will feature all three titles (IWGP Heavyweight, IWGP Jr. Heavyweight and the IWGP Tag Team) on the line. I figured this would be a good chance to set the stage, with the respective champions (Fujinami, Tiger Mask, and Fujiwara/Yamazaki) already established. NJPW Japan Cup Tag Team League 1985, 12/12/85 Ryogoku Kokugikan ca. 9500 Fans 1. Tiger Mask & Shiro Koshinaka beat Ashura Hara & Yoshinari Ogawa (7:56) by DQ. A fast paced junior heavyweight tag match, with some very good interactions between Tiger Mask and Ashura Hara. The youngster Ogawa wa…

Wrestling from the Sam Houston Coliseum – Episode No. 1 “Going Live” – 31st of March 1985 – Airing Live on KHTV 39 Gold Advertised Match: 12 Man Over-the-Top-Rope Battle Royal for the NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship A brief video package plays with clips from Houston Wrestling intermixed with clips from the NWA. We cut to Paul Boesch and Pat Patterson backstage after a quick panning shot of the crowd featuring the NWA logo coloured dark red. Boesch is holding a microphone and Patterson is holding a small gold championship belt with a red strap. The engraving at the top of the main plate reads “Houston Sports” and covering the centre in larg…

The thread for Darknyt's AWA

As reported by Dave Meltzer in the Feb. 15, 1985 Wrestling Observer Newsletter AWA News: The word out of the AWA this week is that Verne Gagne has brought in a new booker and there will be some MAJOR changes moving forward. It's not known at this time who the new booker is but apparently there will be some angles that will follow through from the previous regime as well as some that will be dropped or majorly altered. Since Gordon Solie has gone to work in Continental, the entire broadcast team has been revamped with Larry Nelson being brought in as host of AWA Championship Wrestling on ESPN while Ken Resnick will be handling the interviewing duties, Rod Tron…

When the tumultuous alliance between promoters that stood as the unified AWA for one full year finally came crumbling down at the end of 1984, no one was surprised. While the different promotions have begun to position themselves for what appears to be a wrestling war in 1985, securing television deals and locking up talent, the World Wrestling Federation has been shockingly silent. They had been promoting a January 5th super show on their Superstars of Wrestling television show, and then when that evening arrived, HBO showed the 1984 hit film Ghostbusters instead, without a mention of the previously planned airing. In reality, a blizzard in New York had caused the p…

Live Event: 2/23/1985 live from St. Louis, MO Ricky Gibson and Tommy Gilbert defeated Doug Vines and Jeff Sword at 10:31 Cocoa Samoa defeated George South at 4:09 Lord Humongous defeated Jesse Barr at 5:16 One Man Gang defeated "Baby Bull" Leon White at 9:38 Butch Reed defeated Hacksaw Jim Duggan at 13:20 NWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Magnum TA (c) defeated "Macho Man" Randy Savage by DQ at 18:59 Angle Developments: An 8 man tournament was announced to crown the first ever Missouri Heavyweight Champion at the next show at the Kiel Auditorium. The following men were announced for the tournament: "Macho Man" Randy Savag…

March 9th, 1984 Fort Homer W. Hesterly Armory, Tampa, FL -Rocky Kernodle beat Gene Anderson -Angelo Mosca Jr beat Ric McCord by DQ -Don Kernodle beat Bob Dellaserra -Mike Graham beat Kevin Sullivan (w/Sir Oliver Humperdink) by DQ after interference from Mark Lewin & Abdullah the Butcher. The Brisco Brothers made the save and then challenged Lewin & Sullivan to a match tomorrow night in Miami! 10-Men Battle Royal for the AWA Florida Heavyweight Championship: Bill White wins the battle royal, with Boomer Lynch being the runner-up. Bill White is the inaugural Florida Heavyweight Champion Falls Count Anywhere Match, Special Attractio…

January 19, 1985 TV Gordon Solie welcomes everyone in for the debut episode of Continental Championship Wrestling, then introduces his new broadcast partner... Larry Hennig. The Ax comes out to a strong reaction and promises he's going to call it like it is! This week on the program... The tournament to crown Southeastern Tag Team Champions begins! Pork Chop Cash in action! We'll hear from the Tennessee Stud! A special look at Ron Garvin! Plus in our main event... Corporal Kirchner faces Tojo Yamamoto! MATCH #1: Southeastern Tag Title Tournament, First Round Bill Dundee & Don Kent vs. Pete Doherty & Terry Gibbs A big re…