AWA Championship Wrestling
Recorded and Broadcast live on 7/21/77 on ch3
Broadcast across the territory on a 1-week tape delay and in an edited format
 
The theme to 2001 plays as a classic Greek statue is rotated 360 degrees with the words Championship Wrestling emblazoned over it. The scene then fades to Lance Russell and Dave Brown and the announce position
 
LR: Welcome back wrestling fans to your home for AWA Championship Wrestling. Lance Russell here along side Dave Brown and Davy, if the fans were not in the Mid-South Coliseum last Monday night, they missed out on what can only be described as one of the biggest snow jobs ever pulled in the history of professional wrestling, delivering a gang attack on the World Heavyweight Champion Nick Bockwinkel.
 
DB: You were there Monday night Lance, and we need to tell the fans at home that we will be showing you footage of this attack that sent the World Champion into the hospital, but that is not all that happened.
 
LR: Ron Bass retained the Southern Heavyweight Title by defeating the Fabulous Jackie Fargo and the Southern Tag Team champions were given quite a scare against the makeshift duo of Butch Malone and “Professor” Bill Ash. We will hear from those men as well today along with or usual exciting wrestling action. All that will be up, right after these messages.
 
-Commercial Break-
 
LR: Fans we are set to go for action and our opening contest features an impressive young man we spoke to here last week. He is a man that, like his father in his prime, can rightly be called Canada’s Greatest Athlete, Kelly Kiniski. He’s set to do battle with the mysterious man from the east, Mephisto. Take it away Davy.
 
Kelly Kiniski continues on his roll by dispatching the fire throwing Mephisto with a series of clean, technical moves that culminates in his Canadian back breaker. The studio audience is strongly behind Kelly and cheer heartily for him after the fall.
 
LR: Another strong win for Kelly Kiniski. Kelly, come on over here. It sounds like you are developing quite a following here in Memphis.
 
KK: I gotta tell you Lance, it’s good to here the fans behind me here. It means that they respect the type of wrestling that I was taught at my dad’s knee and that they want to see good honest work in the ring. I try and give that every time out and so far I’ve been lucky to get the wins that I have.
 
LR: Well, there is a difference between being lucky and being good at what you do son. Don’t sell yourself short on that.
 
KK: With all due respect Mr. Russell, I have a long way to go before I can say I’m as good as anyone in my family, let alone in a wrestling town as great as Memphis. But I’ll keep giving my best each night out.  
 
LR: Kelly Kiniski folks, a very humble and quite talented young man. We’ll be back with more after these messages.
 
-Commercial Break-
 
LR: Fans, as we said at the top of the broadcast, last Monday night in the Mid-South Coliseum Pat Roach and Nick Bockwinkel squared off in what was supposed to be a “European Rules” match for the World Heavyweight Title. Instead of a scientific wrestling match, what we saw at the arena ended up being nothing more than a 4 on 1 mugging. We’re going to roll this footage, but it may be too disturbing for our younger viewers.  
 
Footage of the end of the World Title match is shown, focusing in on the attack by the kilt-clad wild man that ended the match in a very delayed disqualification.  
 
LR: Now Lord John Raven…
 
The studio audience erupts in boos as Raven advances towards the broadcast position flanked by Pat Roach and the kilted wild man.
 
LR: Lord Raven. Come clean. This was all a set up to brutally attack the World Heavyweight Champion…
 
JR: You have the gall to think that you can imagine the thoughts and plans that my mind has pieced together? When I was chosen to manage these elite talents, the BBC, it was because they knew that I am a man who wants what is best for this sport, and what is best for this sport is to have a real man of the world as the World Heavyweight Champion. Nick Bockwinkel was lucky he only got a slight beating from the BBC.
 
LR: That beating occurred at the hands of this strange looking man…
 
JR: This man is the greatest wrestler ever produced in Scotland and he is here to be the muscle of the BBC. He is the Scottish Bull, Black Angus Campbell and he will go right to that ring and show you what British muscle can do.
 
LR: And before your man goes to the ring, it appears your BBC is missing a few members today. Where exactly are Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco?
 
JR: Rocco and Breaks are doing exactly what I have told them to do: establish the BBC as the most dominant force in professional wrestling today. They are out in California hunting down those two fossilized degenerates the AWA calls its tag team champions and very soon, Marc and Jim will bring the belts home to the BBC.
 
PR: And don’t think I’m not still looking for what is mine Bockwinkel. You can only run away for so long before you have to face your better once again. Angus, show these sods what the Scottish Bull can do.
 
Black Angus Campbell destroys Bobby Jones in very short order with clubbing blows that lead to a powerful gut wrench suplex. After the match, Roach has Angus stand the battered Jones back up and the British champion almost decapitates him with a big boot to the head. Lord Raven raises the hands of his man under a shower of boos as the broadcast goes to commercial
 
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LR: I don’t care what you think. That beating was just uncalled for… Fans, if you are just tuning in, the BBC, these Bruising British Cowards, mauled a young man Bobby Jones here in the ring. It is that type of unnecessary cruelty that makes my stomach turn. We have more action ready to go, so take it away Davy.
 
Tito Montez, accompanied to the ring by Bobby Jaggers, defeats Phil Hickerson, who brings his partner Dennis Condrey and manager the mysterious Miser to the ring, by disqualification when the Miser’s third charge, the Spider, crashes the match and starts attacking Montez. Jaggers tries to make the save, but he is stopped by the Miser and Condrey on the outside and the 4 on 2 beat down goes until the Miser calls off his dogs and pulls all of them to the interview area.
 
M: Lance Russell, don’t even say a word because time is money. Jaggers and Montez had the gall to think they could stand up to the best tag team in this business in Phil Hickerson and Dennis Condrey, trying to wear them down in singles matches. You dirtbags forgot that I have the Spider in my pocket and now you know that you two can never have the numbers in your favor. I’m so certain that there isn’t a man in this part of the world who has the self hatred to put himself up to the beating we will dish out to you, I’ll let you find a partner for a 6-man tag team match in the Mid-South Coliseum. No man in that locker room can match the Spider and you two can’t even carry the gym bags of dashing Dennis and Fantastic Phil.
 
LR: It looks like we have a challenge set out here fans. We’ll be back with more action after these messages.
 
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LR: Bobby Jaggers, Tito Montez, you both are a mess, but you want to respond to the Miser.
 
TM: That’s right Mr. Russell. You think we don’t know men who laugh a being in a fight Miser? If you do, then you don’t know wrestling out west. Broken teeth, broken bones, broken spirits, and blood by the bucket full is a part of life in the ring where we’re from.
 
BJ: So you want to send your boys into a meat grinder, be our guests because this won’t be a wrestling match Miser. It will be a fight and real men never back down from a fight.
 
LR: We may be witnessing a war of attrition in the Mid-South Coliseum fans. Action is set to go in the ring so let’s get there. Take it away Davy.
 
“Superstar” Bill Dundee defeats Bugsy McGraw in a fast paced contest that sees McGraw try and muscle the Superstar around, but in the end Dundee’s quickness is the advantage as he takes down McGraw with a nice drop toe hold before going up and connecting with the bomb’s away for the 1-2-3.
 
After the match, as Dundee has his arm raised, “Professor” Bill Ash makes his way ringside and starts jawing at the Superstar. Both men say he is the best Junior Heavyweight in the CWA, and Dundee invites Ash into the ring to prove things, but the Professor backs down.
 
LR: Fans, it looks like these two men have some unfinished business, but we have to take a break to do some business ourselves. Stay with us.
 
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LR: We’re coming up on our main event fans, Outlaw Ron Bass facing yet another random challengers from the fishbowl. And here comes the Honorable Tojo Yamamoto and his organization: Southern Heavyweight Champion Ron Bass, Butch Malone, Professor Bill Ash, and the massive Sugar Bear Harris. Mr. Yamamoto, who is the challenger here this week on television?
 
TY: Before we announce the challenger, I want to say one thing to Jerry Lawler. Take a good look at the men before you and note who is missing. You all but crippled Dr. David Schultz with that pile driver, and every fan in this territory knows that that move is barred in almost all of the AWA. We were lucky enough that a man the caliber of Professor Bill Ash has joined this organization and we shall continue to rule wrestling in Memphis.  
 
BA: So to Bill Dundee, don’t think you and I have settled anything, but I have a more important job. I’m going to step up with Butch Malone and take the Southern Tag Team titles off those fools Tommy Rich and Ricky Fields.
 
TY: And in that spirit, today’s challenger is none other than Tommy Gilbert and Monday night the Champion will face…
 
Ron Garvin comes out and steps up next to Lance Russell
 
RG: Yamamoto, Ron Bass needs to be done facing old men and has beens. Since he won’t have the guts to face Jerry Lawler, I want Bass in the Mid-South Coliseum. The young guns in this business are stepping up.
 
TY: Garvin, I hope you have a will on file because Ron Bass will murder you in the ring. And as for that no good cheat Lawler, you get to face a man that you can’t pile drive. You won’t even be able to body slam him. You face Sugar Bear Harris.
 
LR: Gentlemen, we are running out of time here, so let’s get to ring.
 
Ron Bass pounds Tommy Gilbert in a so-called match for the Southern Heavyweight title, finishing things off with a brutal lariat and a Texas Gordbuster. Bass was ready to keep beating on Tommy Gilbert when Ron Garvin hit the ring and started to rough up the champion. The rest of Yamamoto’s crew jumped in the ring and that drew out Bill Dundee and Kelly Kiniski as all eight men in the ring brawl.
 
LR: It’s pandemonium here fans. We’re out of time, but it is obvious that Ron Garvin wants a piece of the Outlaw Ron Bass… Hey now! Wait just a darn second! We’re out of time so see you next week!

Kiniski over Mephisto was a big win.
 
Good win for Campbell.
 
Good win for Dundee.
 
Good show.