Midwest Dream
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AWA- CWA 9/1/77 from Jonesboro, AR 1) George Welles defeats Ken Dillenger 2) Mr. Ebony Tom Jones defeats Butch Malone 3) The Medics defeat Don Ross and Big Bill Howard 4) Pat Roach defeats Tommy Rich 5) Dick the Bruiser and the Crusher defeat Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez to retain the AWA World Tag Team Titles 6) Bill Dundee defeats Roddy Piper by disqualification. Piper keeps the AWA Junior Heavyweight Title 7) Nick Bockwinkel defeats Outlaw Ron Bass with a figure four leg lock. AWA-CWA Labor Day Spectacular 9/3/77 from the Liberty Bowl, Memphis, TN 1) Sugar Bear Harris wins a 15 man battle royal for $5000 2) Dutch Mantell defeats the Spider in a mask verses whipping match, forcing the Spider to unmask, but before the audience can get a clean shot of the face of the Spider, his manager drapes a towel over his face. Mantell then grabs back his bullwhip and cracks it loudly for the Liberty Bowl crowd. 3) In a huge six-man tag team match, Kelly Kiniski, Tommy Gilbert and the Fabulous Jackie Fargo defeat Black Angus Campbell, Lord Alfred Hays, and the Scottish Giant. The BBC trio seemed to dominate the match until an overconfident Hays tagged in against Kiniski. Kelly was able to over power his Lordship and hit a Canadian backbreaker that his father would have been proud of to secure the win. 4) Tommy Rich and Ricky Fields fall to the Southern Tag Team champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson after Hickerson and Condrey isolate Ricky Fields and finish him off with a double underhook pile driver. Tommy tries to make the save, but comes up just short. During intermission, Jerry Jarrett comes to the ring and announces that the CWA and AWA are making a major donation tonight to one of Memphis’ favorite charities: St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, of $100,000. Accepting the gift is Danny Thomas and Jarrett tells him that the CWA hopes to make this event an annual occurrence. 5) AWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Roddy Piper defeats “Superstar” Bill Dundee by pin fall despite Dundee clearly having his foot on the bottom rope. After the match, the Memphis fans jeer Piper unmercifully. 6) Jerry “the King” Lawler doesn’t disappoint his fans when he mentioned his special opponent, AWA United States Heavyweight Champion the Sheik. The Arabian Madman is accompanied to the ring by a fire throwing Mephisto and it is announced that the winner of this contest will be considered the AWA’s #1 contender to the World Heavyweight Championship. The Sheik is impressive early on, but has to resort to his usual bag of illegalities when Lawler takes command. The match turns when the Sheik, is desperation, throws a fireball at Lawler, who ducks the fire and sees it hit the official in the ring. With the Sheik in shock, Lawler hits a piledriver and makes a cover as CWA head official Paul Morton slides in to count the 1-2-3. 7) In a match that has been building for weeks, if not months, the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship changes hands as Ron Garvin defeats Outlaw Ron Bass with a figure four leg lock. After the submission, Tojo Yamamoto and Sugar Bear Harris help Bass to his feet, only to whip Bass into a corner and the Sugar Bear proceeds to splash him not once, but twice, crushing the ribs of the now former champion. 8) The AWA World Heavyweight Champion Nick Bockwinkel holds off a very determined challenge from European Heavyweight Champion Pat Roach, getting the victory with a nice inside cradle after 25:06. 9) In a spectacular Main Event, AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser and the Crusher wrestle to a 45-minute time limit draw with North American Tag Team Champions Marc Rocco and Jim Breaks. It appeared that Breaks and Rocco were in position to get the fall when Rocco drilled a bleeding Bruiser with a diving headbutt, but too much had been taken out of the Brit for him to make the cover in time, only getting a two count before the final bell. After the match, Lord John Raven grabbed the microphone for the ring and told the battered champions that they hadn’t beaten the BBC, they had only managed to survive and that Friday night in Nashville the job would be finished.
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