St. Louis Wrestling 1983-84

"Gentleman" George Wells vs. Grizzly Evans (5/21/83)

Easy win for Wells.

Harley Race vs. Rick Steely (5/21/83)

This was actually billed as the TV main event.......and we get a Race babyface promo afterwards before Flair comes out getting in Race's face. So different seeing Flair heel it up against the babyface Race. Flair attacked Race but Harley gets the best of Flair and bloodies him up. This beatdown is extra material.

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. Bill Rose (5/21/83)

Flair is bandaged up and destroys Rose.

Crusher Blackwell & Bobby Duncum vs. Larry Herr & Jerry Ho (5/21/83)

Crusher splashes Ho and wins in seconds but this was expiration of time so they went to another fall where Ho got some offense in but the heels were too dominant.

Next we get a show from Larry Matysik's group

"Hangman" Bobby Jaggers vs. Bob Owens (7/23/83)

Jaggers takes this easily.

Spike Huber & Brian Madden vs. Tully Blanchard & Bull Brannigan (7/23/83)

Huber is getting a push as he pins Brannigan with Tully going nuts afterwards which is the start of their feud.

"Mr. USA" Tony Atlas vs. Ted Allen (7/22/83)

Tony defeates the game Allen fairly easily.

Bruiser Brody vs. Hans Schroeder (7/22/83)

Easy win for Brody while Toru Tanaka watches at ringside and we get a Brody promo afterwards.

Nikolai Volkoff vs. Tom Stanton (7/22/83)

Squash.

Then we get clips of Adonis squashing a rookie Brickhouse Brown from Southwest.

Next we get clips of Spike Huber winning the 2-ring battle royal from 7/21/83.

Tom Prichard vs. Bull Brannigan (10/8/83)

Prichard is the spunky babyface here and gets the win.

Chavo Guerrero & Al Perez vs. Eric Embry & Ken Timbs (10/8/83)

Embry & Timbs haven't became The Fabulous Blondes yet but it's coming. Chavo looks really good to start against the Blondes showing off his solid mat skills. Perez is very green but shows potential while the Blondes are very good at selling and bumping for the faces. Embry had the great heel facials here and this was his first heel run. Blondes get a run of offense on Perez but Timbs would get caught by Perez and took the fall. Decent little match.

Adrian Adonis & Nikolai Volkoff vs. Sammy Darrow & Dominic DeNucci (10/8/83)

Darrow's Italian flag hat is hilarious. The Italians get taken out easily here and we get an awesome promo from Adonis afterwards.

Tiger Conway Jr. vs. Killer Karl Kox (10/8/83)

Scott Casey is on commentary for this. Match wasn't much and ended by a DQ after Kox accidentally hit the referee.

"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Jason Reeves (10/8/83)

Spotlight match for Savage.

"Nature Boy" Buddy Landell vs. Vic Peterson (10/8/83)

Landell wears his Mid-America Heavyweight Title to the ring showing how eclectic this group was under Matysik. He had guys from all kinds of promotions in here.

"Dr. D" David Shultz vs. Jimmy Jackson (12/27/83)

This is from the first WWF TV taping at the Chase Park Hotel in St. Louis.

"Polish Power" Ivan Putski vs. Dennis Stamp (12/27/83)

Oh Dennis Stamp...always funny watching him job.

Then we get a Snuka squash match from the regular WWF TV.

Next we get promos from Mr. Fuji, Hulk Hogan, Studd and his manager Mad Dog Managoff, Mil Mascaras, & Dr. D about the next St. Louis show.

Mil Mascaras vs. Ken Jugan (12/27/83)

Mascaras wins easily.

Handicap Match: Big John Studd vs. James Burk & Rob Cheney (12/27/83)

Studd squashes these jobbers.

Mr. Fuji vs. Kevin Collins (12/27/83)

Squash.

Ron Ritchie vs. Sheik Abdullah the Great (January 1984)

St. Louis TV itself was now gone thanks to the WWF so now Central States TV from Kansas City would air here. This is the same Sheik that would work Continental 2 years later.

Next we get a promo from Tully Blanchard & Luke Graham and it's so odd watching Tully work this low-end territory before going to JCP.

Colonel Buckley Christopher George Robley III vs. 666 (January 1984)

666 coming out to Iron Man by Black Sabbath is funny. Bob Geigel is on commentary and talks about all the greatest wrestling on St. Louis TV. This wasn't good at all then Bulldog Bob Brown shows up at ringside to make it worse.

Then we get a Tully vs. Bob Brown match JIP.

Ken Patera vs. Jimmy Doo (December 1983)

This is from the AWA which was also airing in St. Louis now.

Next we get a promo from The Hi-Flyers about the 2/3/84 Kiel show.

Billy Robinson vs. Buddy Lane (December 1983)

Billy is so fun to watch.

Then we get a promo from Blackwell about the Kiel show.

Superstar Billy Graham vs. Sammy Darrow (December 1983)

Squash.

Verne is out next putting over how great St. Louis wrestling is and the novel concept about having AWA & NWA together. Buck Zumhofe follows him and yeah.

Baron Von Raschke vs. Tom Stone (December 1983)

Squash.

Jesse "The Body" Ventura vs. Jake "The Milkman" Milliman (December 1983)

The fans immediately go nuts when Ventura comes out.

Next we get a promo from Bock & Heenan about the Kiel show.

Steve O vs. Nacho Berrera (December 1983)

O wins easily.

Then we get a promo from Saito & Ventura about the Kiel show.

Next we get an episode of World Class.

"Polish Power" Ivan Putski vs. Tiger Chung Lee (1/16/84)

Lee attacks Putski at the bell but Ivan fights back and eventually gets the win after Fuji runs in.

"Mr. USA" Tony Atlas vs. "Capt. Redneck" Dick Murdoch (1/16/84)

Atlas works this match barefooted which was extremely odd. Adonis is at ringside with Murdoch which distracts Atlas. Murdoch is fun here bumping and selling for Atlas who gets tired of Adonis and walks to the back where he brings out Rocky Johnson to counter Adonis. Adonis & Rocky would jump in the ring and the ref calls for a DDQ.

Next we get a Texas Death Steel Cage Match between Gino Hernandez & Jose Lothario from Houston on 1/19/79 and this is a pretty great match.

Then we get a promo from Race about being the NWA champ.

Next we get a PSA from Paul Boesch himself about locking your car doors and this is hilarious.