AWA-CWA Wrestling
Live from the Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN
Bell time 7/23/77 is 7:00 pm and matches are being filmed for possible broadcast
 
1)      The masked Medics score a rare victory as they defeat Big Bill Howard and Ken Dillenger. Both sides look like they are trying to move up from the bottom of the card, but when Medic #2 loads up his mask and delivers a brutal head butt to Dillenger, it’s all over.
 
2)      Kelly Kiniski, Canada’s next great athlete, defeats Bugsy McGraw in a hard fought match where McGraw pounds away with clubbing rights and lefts until Kelly can finally use his technical wrestling background to take control, hitting McGraw with the Canadian back breaker.
 
3)      Tommy Gilbert defeats Black Angus Campbell by count out after reversing the big man into the ring post. Lord Raven tried to revive his brute, but only a bloodied Gilbert could beat the ten count. After the match, a stunned Campbell brutally attacks Gilbert until Jackie Fargo, Jerry Lawler, and Kelly Kiniski come out to send Campbell and Raven retreating to the locker room.
 
4)      In a huge six man match up featuring the trios of Dennis Condrey, Phil Hickerson, and the Spider verses Bobby Jaggers, Tito Montez, and a mystery partner turns as the mystery partner is announced as Dutch Mantel. Mantel wrestles like a wild man, focusing in on the Spider. Condrey and Hickerson hold their own against Jaggers and Montez, but Mantel is the like a bulldog when in the ring and finally, the Miser and his men have had enough with all three men jumping into the ring and focusing in on Mantel. Jaggers and Montez join in the mayhem and referee Tommy Morton has no choice but to throw the match out. The Miser is seen telling his men “no more rematches. We made our point. No more rematches.”
 
Intermission: It is announced that after last week’s contest, tonight’s main event will be for the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship. Tommy Rich and Ricky Fields will defend the belts against Butch Malone and “Professor” Bill Ash.
 
5)      The Fabulous Jackie Fargo defeats Pat Roach in a major upset after hitting his atomic knee drop. Lord John Raven was at ringside and felt a big knee lift from Fargo himself before calling down another member of the BBC, Black Angus Campbell to try and stop the count. Campbell came a step too late and Fargo got the win, but ended up being pounded by both Roach and Angus as Lord Raven directed traffic.
 
6)      The fans are out for blood in this contest and almost get it as Jerry “the King” Lawler and Sugar Bear Harris do battle. Lawler has to wrestle a very different style match than he usually chooses, as he simply cannot pick up Harris. Twice early on, Lawler has stunned the Sugar Bear with hard rights and lefts but he can’t pick up the massive man for even the simple body slam. Harris is able to shrug off much of the King’s offence and makes a big run for his splash. Lawler sidesteps and after Harris hits the turnbuckle, Jerry delivers a leaping fist drop to the top of the Sugar Bear’s head that drops the big man finally. Jerry makes the cover with is feet on the ropes for extra leverage and comes out with the 1-2-3.
 
7)      In a battle for the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship, Ron Bass defeats Ron Garvin by disqualification when the official catches Garvin with a foreign object in his hand that had been slid into the ring for the champ to use on him. Garvin had control of the match most of the way, drilling Bass with rights and lefts that staggered the champion. Once he got Bass down, he stomped his way around the limbs of the champion, but this gave Tojo Yamamoto his opening to slip Bass the object. The champ was able to get one good shot in, but Garvin blocked the next and that sent what appeared to be brass knuckles flying across the ring. Ronnie then grabbed the knucks while Yamamoto san had the official tied up and started pounding away on Bass, bloodying the champ. When referee Tommy Morton looks back, he sees Garvin with the knucks and calls for the bell, much to the ire of the fans in the Mid-South Coliseum.
 
8)      In the Main Event, “Rapid” Ricky Fields and Tommy Rich defeat Butch Malone and “Professor” Bill Ash to retain the Southern Tag Team Titles in a fast paced, technically exceptional match. Ash had rich pinned clean in the ring twice, but Fields made the save each time, returning the saves when Malone was pinned once by Tommy and once by Ricky. Yamamoto was almost a non-factor as “Superstar” Bill Dundee came ringside with Rich and Fields and allowed the champs to keep the titles, pinning Malone finally after Fields delivers a big dropkick off the top and Tommy finished him off with a nice spinning toe hold.

Lawler has walked away from the MSC two weeks in a row with questionable wins againt Yamamoto's men. Don't expect Harris or Yamamoto san to sit back quietly after this.
 
Lord Raven will certainly have something to say after his men came up short in both of their matches. The old guard in Memphis will have to watch out for hte BBC.
 
I hope fans like Garvin and Bass as those two have not settled things by a long shot.

real good show. i liked the six-man best.