After joining my first wrestling message board 3 years ago,I told the story of
Ernie Ladd doing an interview via telephone with IWA host Glenn Scott in 1977
about winning the IWA International Heavyweight Championship from Mil
Mascaras. The match probably never really happened but both Ernie Ladd and
Johnny Powers said it did on that tv episode.
 
After Ernie Ladd passed away,Greg Price asked me about this.I had not been
back to the Winston-Salem library to get the confirmation on this.Last week,
during a conversation with our good friend  clipcorner,I asked Mark
if he had anything on this. Sure enough he did. As you can see,Ernie Ladd
was still scheduled to defend the title  according to the small preview article
that appeared in the paper the day of the show.Even if Ernie Ladd did not
defend the title,he was at the very least, briefly recognized as the IWA
International Heavyweight Champion. This show was on April 23,1977.
Magnificent Zulu subbed for Ernie Ladd against Bulldog Brower.
 
 

 

 

 

 
Clippings courtesy of the Mark Eastridge collection.

Quote from cwh47 on May 22^nd, 2007, 2:44pm:

 
 
 
 
I have footage of this card, the 2 main events were featured on the next weeks IWA show, which I have in good vq. Glenn Scott former wxii tv personality is the host of the show. If anyone would like a copy, pm me for the details.

You have some good points there Jimmy. Ernie Ladd was advertised as the IWA Champion on tv for two or three weeks prior to the show and the  newspaper article on the day of the show still had him appearing. I bet all of the fans who bought tickets based on Ernie Ladd defending against Bulldog Brower were unhappy.
 
I have a question for you Jimmy. Over the past few years I have discussed this with several other fans who say they remember Ernie Ladd doing taped promos for this match while holding a belt. I only remember the phone conversation between Ladd and tv host Glenn Scott. Do you recall Ernie Ladd doing any promos for this match?
 

Quote from cwh47 on Oct 11^th, 2008, 11:27am:

 
I remember Ladd having a truly terrible looking belt reminding me of something you might see teens wearing at a backyard wrestling show. I do remember the short Brower Ladd Feud because Brower had turned face and Ladd was the hated heel he portrayed so well. Ladd always acted very scared of Brower. As far as the promo cant say that I remember it.
 
As far as the show goes when powers took over and brought the promotion to Charlotte I only remember 2 channels carrying it channel 11 durham on saturday afternoons and WXII 12 at first 7:30 pm saturday nights for 30 minutes and then for the duration of the Powers IWA 1 am Sunday Mornings  on WXII 12. Glenn Scott was the announcer until Charlie Babb took over and he was terrible. Glenn was good

ok, sort off topic here....
WXII...i recall that in '78 or maybe the new fall schedule of '77, they started airring the "$1.98 Beauty Show" and then at 7:30 pm, "Dance Fever"....
before then, i think it was called "Sci-Fi Theatre" with old B&W 90 minute movies starting at 6:30pm after the news...i recall the house i was living at when Sci-Fi came on and we moved in that house in mid'74. that is the only time i recall watching IWA and that was at the 5pm time slot, while i lived at that house.
otherwise, it was at 5pm. on WNRW channel 45 from Winston-Salem in September '1981, when they started airring the IWA reruns and then JCP's "East Coast Wrestling" at 6pm...
i bring all this up to try to get a fix on the time frames you guys are talking about. i DO remember a lot of the IWA from the mid'70's as well as the '81 reruns..but they are all foggy....especially when i try to figure out the time periods...

interesting...
i just do not remember nobody except for Jack Reynolds...

Quote from cwh47 on Oct 15^th, 2008, 5:46pm:

 
You are 100 percent correct on the IWA on WXII. One of the best things I remember seeing on the 30 minute IWA shows was when Igor was attacked by the Islanders after losing a broken glass I think armwrestling match. Lars Anderson aka Luscious Larry Henimini also did a Igor attack also.  

saturday night live??? that's one of the stupidest shows ever on the TV..dang, i'd rather watch current WWE crap than ANY SNL shows...i definitely would never complain about something else on in opposition...that show should been canned after a couple months.  
IWA was a classic..SNL is classic crap.

Here are a few samples of the TV wrestling schedule for Roanoke and Lynchburg I was looking at a few minutes ago.
 
Nov. 29,1975
Channel 10 Roanoke,VA
1:00 p.m. Mid-Atlantic Wrestling
 
Channel 13 Lynchburg,VA
11:15 p.m. Wide World Wrestling
 
Dec.20,1975
Channel 10 Roanoke,VA
1:00 p.m. Mid-Atlantic Wrestling
 
Sunday Morning Dec.21,1975
Channel 13 Lynchburg,VA
12:15 a.m. Wide World Wrestling
 
Jan.31,1976
Channel 10 Roanoke,VA
1:00 p.m. Mid-Atlantic Wrestling
11:45 p.m. IWA Wrestling
 
Sunday Morning Feb.1,1976
Channel 13 Lynchburg,VA
12:15 a.m. Wide World Wrestling
 

Charlie Babb... Is this the same guy who played for the Dolphins?
 
Thanks

the fued with Ladd actually had Ladd as the face.They did a racial storyline with Brower attacking Ed Fury,Pez Whatley and a young guy named Preston Nicholson ( all black) Luis Martinez did a promo about not understanding why Brower was attacking every black he could find.