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WWF on Tour 11/1 – 11/2 Bangor, ME – Auditorium Columbus, OH - Ohio Center Big Fred Ottman defeated Dominic DeNucci Jake Roberts defeated Mark Youngblood Haku & Tonga defeated The Barbarian & Kevin Sullivan One Man Gang w/ Kevin Sullivan defeated Brutus Beefcake Tony Atlas defeated Hercules w/ Bobby Heenan Nick Bockwinkel & Big John Studd w/ Bobby Heenan defeated The Briscoe Brothers WWF CHAMPIONSHIP Hulk Hogan © defeated King Kong Bundy w/ Bobby Heenan WWF on Tour 11/1 – 11/2 Waterville, ME – Civic Center Wildwood, NJ - Convention Hall The Killer Bees defeated Los Conquistadors The Hart Foundation defeated The Guerreros Sgt. Slaughter defea…

October 4, 1984 TV Taping (World Championship Wrestling Airing 10/6) Charlotte, NC Charlotte Coliseum World Championship Wrestling TV Taping We open with a recap of the Fall Brawl event from The Scope last weekend. A music video with generic 80’s type music shows clips of the events. When we return to the arena and the NWA-MACW set, NWA World’s Champion Ric Flair talks with Tony and David. He shows off the beautiful 10-pounds of gold. Flair is all smiles and bragging that he is STILL the man, and still the champ! David Crockett takes great pleasure as he informs Flair that a rematch for the World Title has been signed for The Omni in Atlanta on October 21, and the…

WWF on Tour 10/3 – 10/5 Dayton, OH – Hara Arena Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati Gardens Cleveland, OH – Convention Center The Killer Bees defeated Los Conquistadors The Barbarian & Kevin Sullivan defeated The Youngbloods The One Man Gang w/ Kevin Sullivan defeated Brutus Beefcake King Kong Bundy & Big John Studd w/ Bobby Heenan defeated Jack & Jerry Briscoe Tony Atlas defeated Hercules w/ Bobby Heenan Nick Bockwinkel w/ Bobby Heenan defeated Sgt. Slaughter WWF CHAMPIONSHIP Hulk Hogan © defeated Masked Superstar WWF on Tour 10/3 – 10/5 Asbury Park, NJ – Convention Hall Passaic, NJ – Capitol Theatre West Warwick, RI – Civic Center Chavo Guerrer…

October 5th, 1984 Baie-Comeau, QC -Raymond Rougeau beat Charlie Cook in 2:54 -The Midnight Express (w/Jim Cornette) beat Black Bart (subbing for Carlos Colon) & Chicky Starr in 38:49 -The Spoiler beat Sika (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in 11:49 Guest Referee Triangle Match - Maurice Richard: Luke Williams beat Nord the Barbarian (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) & International Tag Team Champion Billy Robinson (w/Sherri Martel) in 10:50 -Baron Von Raschke beat George "The Animal" Steele (w/Frenchy Martin) in 43:43

AWA All-Star Wrestling for Oct. 5th Chick Donovan vs. Steve Jones Donovan had been overheard saying that it took too long for Pat Tanaka to get a victory over the “Young Gentleman”, and said he was going out to show them how it was done. Jones came out with his friend and mentor, Mike Rotunda. Donovan came out followed by both members of Badd Company, but the moment they got to the ring, they went to the other side and stood by Rotunda, glaring at Donovan. Donovan started by flexing his biceps to try to intimidate Jones, but the English rookie looked distinctly unimpressed. He then tried to overpower Jones with a knuckle lock, only for Jones to reverse it into a …

September 1, 1984 Richmond, VA Richmond Coliseum Owen Hart defeated Mr. Pogo (w/ Mr. Fuji) The Great Kokina (w/ Mr. Fuji) defeated Kendall Windham NWA United States Tag Team Title Match Pat Patterson & Ray Stevens (w/ JJ Dillon) defeated Bruce & Keith Hart (w/ Johnny Weaver) The Strongbow’s defeated Mr. Saito & Toru Tanaka (w/ Mr. Fuji) NWA United States Championship Match Magnum TA defeated Matt Borne to retain the title after Paul Jones interfered on Larry Zbyszko’s behalf. NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Title Match The Moondogs (w/ Sir Oliver Humperdink) defeated Sam Houston, Pedro Morales & Blackjack Mulligan to retain the titles. Humpe…

AWA show at the Saddledome, Calgary, September 9th Steve Jones vs. Chavo Guerrero Chavo won with the German Suplex AWA Southern Tag Title match : The Nor-Am Express © vs. Al Perez & Ricky Santana The Nor-Am Express won when Zenk dropkicked Santana into a Cobra Clutch Suplex by Lafon Tito Santana & Wahoo McDaniel vs. Don Muraco & Rick Rude The Bad News Breakers won when Muraco hit the belly to belly piledriver on Wahoo AWA World Tag Title match : Mr. Olympia & Mike George © vs. Curt Hennig & Greg Gagne The Sinister Syndicate won when Olympia headbutted Gagne from behind with the loaded mask, followed by a shoulder break…

WWF Wrestling Challenge Gorilla Monsoon & Bobby The Brain Heenan in studio Matches from Poughkeepsie, NY – Mid-Hudson Civic Center Gorilla: Welcome everyone to Wrestling Challenge! Gorilla Monsoon alongside Bobby the Brain Heenan and what an action packed hour we have for you fans. Brain, we even have words from the Heavyweight Champion… Hulk Hogan… Bobby: You can take those words Monsoon… I want to see actions and Hogan’s actions are few and far between… Gorilla: Please! I heard that he handled King Kong Bundy quite well this week at a couple of our local shows… Bobby: Bundy has the flu… Gorilla: I knew there would be an …

Lutte Internationale TV Taped at CHLT-TV Studios, Sherbrooke, QC September 1st, 1984 (After the opening credits, we go to the broadcast booth with Guy Hauray & Édouard Carpentier) Guy Hauray: Hello, wrestling fans, and welcome to another jampacked edition of Lutte Internationale TV. The 1st Johnny Rougeau Memorial Cup is in the books and unfortunately for our fanbase, Rick Martel fell a bit short of winning the tournament since he lost to USWA’s Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy, who returned to Texas $100,000 richer and with the trophy. Martel showed sportsmanship and congratulated Gordy following his victory. But Eddie, one has to wonder how this loss will impact…

Everything related to the Johnny Rougeau Memorial Cup will be posted in this thread. For those who didn't read my latest TV episode yet, here's the link where you'll find the bracket for the tournament: http://challonge.com/827p7xzf Feel also free to discuss and to go ahead with your predictions for the tournament!

CWA Championship Wrestling WMC TV-5 Studios Memphis, TN. Saturday September 15, 1984 Airing Live 11am cst-12:30pm cst on WMC TV-5 and on tape throughout the territory on various stations (show opens with footage from last Monday night in Memphis , the closing moments of Idol vs. Bob Armstrong for the Southern Title…..Bullet had Idol in the sleeperhold, and just as Idol's arm was about to go down for the third time, Buddy Landell hit the ring and attacked Armstrong for the DQ which prompted Brad Armstrong to hit the ring to make the save, we then go to the opening montage then over to Lance and Dave at the desk) Lance: "Hello everybody and welcome to anoth…

August 2, 1984 TV Taping (WCW Airing 8/4 & WWW Airing 8/5) Roanoke, VA Civic Center World Championship Wrestling Taping Tony Schiavone and David Crockett welcome us to the newly branded World Championship Wrestling Saturday evening show on Superstation WTBS. As a part of acquiring the Georgia territory, a deal was struck between Ted Turner and Jim Crockett to bring Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling to WTBS and it’s 6:05 TV slot. They discuss the new working relationship with Ted Turner and with MACW running Georgia, specifically Atlanta regularly, they will now broadcast their Mid Atlantic show on the superstation. World Wide Wrestling will now fill in the syn…

Monday 30th July 1984 Knoxville Civic Auditorium, Knoxville, TN Bell Time 19:30 In a packed house at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium in Knoxville, Tennessee, this is the debut show of Smoky Mountains Wrestling. Les Thatcher is standing in the centre of the ring as he welcomes the near 5000 fans in attendance, Thatcher describes how tonight they will see the crowning of a new Smoky Mountain Wrestling Heavyweight Champions in an 8 man single elimination tournament. Thatcher also reminds the fans to watch out for Smoky Mountain Wrestling’s All Star Wrestling which starts this Saturday morning and for fans to check their local listings. 1 - 1st Round – Johnny Rich d…

AWA All-Star Wrestling on ESPN for August 10th Great Gama Singh vs. Chavo Guerrero This was an interesting match up, pitting the popular Guerrero who newly arrived in the AWA against Great Gama, who has been slowly but surely rising in the rankings. In spite of Singh’s history as a cut throat competitor, this was an exciting technical match up that looked like it could go either way throughout the match. Singh managed to get the Cobra Clutch on Chavo, but Guererro was quickly able to grab the ropes to break up the hold. Gama then tried to re-apply the hold, only for Chavo to wrap him up in a small package to get the pin. Gama Singh was clearly livid after the ma…

August 3rd, 1984 Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario -The Caribbean Connection beat The Oates Brothers by countout in 13:31 -Gilles Poisson & Dino Bravo beat the Kay Brothers in 5:59 after Gilles Poisson put his foot in the ropes for leverage -International Tag Team Champion Sika (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat Armand Rougeau in 8:27 with a Samoan Drop Guest Referee - Jacques Rougeau Sr : The Masked Cowboys beat Hercules Ayala & Doug Somers in 17:25 -Kendo Nagasaki & Billy Robinson beat Mad Dog Lefebvre & Richard "Le Magnifique" Charland (w/Frenchy Martin) in 14:47 when Robinson pinned Lefebvre with a double underhook suplex…

WWF on Tour 8/1 New Haven, CT – Coliseum 8/2 Hartford, CT - Civic Center 8/3 Baltimore, MD - Civic Center Brian Blair & Jim Brunzell defeated Mando & Hector Guerrero Hercules w/ Bobby Heenan defeated Ivan Putski Masked Superstar defeated Brutus Beefcake Big John Studd w/ Bobby Heenan defeated Tony Atlas WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP The Briscoe Brothers © defeated Bob Orton Jr & Dick Slater w/ Jimmy Hart via DQ when the referee was attacked by Orton and Slater MAIN EVENT Hulk Hogan defeated King Kong Bundy w/ Bobby Heenan WWF on Tour 8/1 Manchester, NH - JFK Coliseum 8/2 South Yarmouth, MA - Cape Cod Coliseu…

Background. Bobby (Dee) Bearden is a former wrestling referee and wrestling promoter who has closely worked with Southeastern Championship Wrestling for just under a year. Due to a legal battle with wrestling promoter Verne Gagne, Alabama Wrestling Alliance was forced to change its name to Southern States Wrestling. Southern States Wrestling covers areas of Northern Georgia and Northern Alabama. SSW has two titles, Alabama Heavyweight Title which will now be known as Southern States Heavyweight Title and the Alabama Tag Team Title which will be now know as Southern Tag Team Titles. Southern States Wrestling isn't in alliance with either of the national governing bodi…

AWA Canada Day Spectacular from the Saddledome in Calgary, July 1st (as shown on ESPN Super Cards) Greg Gagne & The Nor-Am Express (Phil Lafon, Tom Zenk & Jose Lothario) vs. The Playboy Club (Buddy Rose, Rip Oliver, Ed Wiskowski & Bob Sweetan) From the get go, it was clear that the Playboy Club’s goal was not to win the match, but rather to make sure that Greg Gagne was in no shape to challenge for Rose’s Southern Title. They trapped him in their corner of the ring, took every opportunity to cheap shot or gang up on Gagne, and blocked every attempt by the Nor-Am Express to come to the rescue. Gagne, for his part, fought back like a lion and seemed almo…

Date: August 1st Venue: Chiles Center, Portland Oregon Program: House Show: Attendance: 4,727 (4,852) Steve & Scott Armstrong defeat Johnny Rodz & Jose Estrada 14:02 Tonga Kid over Tim Horner 11:36 Jesse Barr over Don Kernodle 17:12 Marty Jannetty DRAW "Killer" Tim Brooks 20:00 The Spoiler wins by Submission over Rick McGraw 24:38 Koko Ware beats "Maniac" Mark Lewin via DQ 10:49 PNW Tag Team Champions: "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers & "Flamboyant" Eric Embry defeat Jay & Mark Youngblood 38:11 ​Date: August 2nd ​Venue: McArthur Court, University of Oregon in Eugene Program: House Show ​Attendance: 8,251 (9,082) ​​Jesse Barr defeats Scott Ar…

July 5 1984 TV Taping: Airing MACW (7/7/84) & WWW (7/8/84) Roanoke, VA Civic Center Up first is the MACW Taping. Tony and David recap last weekend’s Mayhem show. They discuss JYD leaving MACW after his steel cage match with Kamala. Sivi Afi turning on the Dog and joining up with Skandor Akbar. We see a couple of photos of this. The discussion wavers off to the Television Title situation, and the new champion, Tully Blanchard. They show photos of Mr. Money revealing himself after the bloody match to be Tully Blanchard. Which brings out the new NWA Television Champion, Tully Blanchard. He gloats about winning the title and fooling everyone in Mid Atlantic. Tony …

WWF Superstars Vince McMahon & Jesse the Body Ventura Matches from Poughkeepsie, NY – Mid-Hudson Civic Center Vince McMahon: Welcome everyone to Superstars of Wrestling! I am Vince McMahon alongside Jesse the Body Ventura and Jesse, history was made last night in Houston! Jesse: You’ve got that right McMahon…we may have saw the end of Ricky the Dragon Steamboat! Vince: I hope that isn’t true. We are going to go through all of that in the event center here shortly, plus we will have footage of the big six-man tag team main event contest from that event! Jesse: I was there and saw it all go down… there’s no way that Ricky Steamboat …

Promoter: Don Owen Venue: KPTV 12 Portland, Oregon Announcers: Don Coss & Dutch Savage Date: Friday July 13th Length of program 30 minutes Don Coss: Mr. Don Owen would like to say a few words. The floor is yours, sir. Don Owen: We would like to announce that we are back after a several month hiatus and back to stay on KPTV 12. We have signed a 10 year deal to stay with the station and to have weekly matches for you the fans, on Television every Friday night. Our announcers will still be Don Coss and the legend himself, Dutch Savage. We plan on announcing the brackets for our PNW Heavyweight Championship tournament and for the PNW Tag Team Championship. First …

LUTTE INTERNATIONALE SUPERCARD July 5th, 1984, Montreal Forum -Kendo Nagasaki beat Leo Burke 6-Men Tag Team Match: The Caribbean Connection & Baron Von Raschke beat Frenchy's Legion (Mad Dog Lefebvre, Richard "Le Magnifique" Charland & "Dr. D" David Schultz, w/Frenchy Martin). After the match, Frenchy's Legion attacked the Caribbean Connection as they were leaving the ring. They handcuffed Chicky Starr to the top rope and forced him to watch as Lefebvre & Charland took turns beating up Colon with the kendo stick that Kendo Nagasaki had left ringside after the opening match. The referees were able to stop Frenchy's Legion and Colon was helped out …

(Gonna do a quick catch up thread to get up to speed and hopefully be back on track) CWA Highlights from Mid June/Early July '84 CWA Memphis Mid South Coliseum Highlights 6/18/84 "Superstar" Bill Dundee fought "Superstar" Billy Graham to a Double Countout Hillbilly Jim/Plowboy Frazier defeated The Invaders and removed their masks revealing Al Madril and Brian Adias….during this they were attacked by the Bruise Brothers and left laying after being beatdown by all 4 men Jerry Jarrett's Mystery Opponent for the Honky Tonk Man turned out to be Andre the Giant Andre defeated TV Champion HTM in a non-title match to the delight of the crowd The Brisco Br…

May 31, 1984 TV Taping (Airing on 6/2/84 and WWW for 6/3/84) Charlotte, NC Charlotte Coliseum MACW TV Taping to be aired on June 2nd. Tony Schiavone: Welcome wrestling fans, to the Charlotte Coliseum. This week is a huge television program! This week, we have the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team titles on the line! The Champions will defend their titles against the Moondogs. David Crockett: That’s right, Tony! What a main event that is! We usually don’t have a major title defense like this on television! We also will have the NWA World’s Champion here to discuss his cage match from last weekend against Ricky Steamboat. Tony: And that’s not all, we will hear from …