CWA Championship Wrestling from Memphis
Recorded and broadcast on 9/8/77
 
Lance Russell and Dave Brown welcome everyone and tell about the huge night of action that took place Labor Day night in the Liberty Bowl, mentioning that there will be footage shown from the evening throughout the show. Dave then mentions that while it didn’t happen in the Liberty Bowl, there are new AWA World Tag Team Champions, the Love Brothers, and that we would be hearing from them via videotape also in this broadcast. Lance and Dave then run down the action on today’s card before their first break.
 
Tommy Gilbert and the Fabulous Jackie Fargo defeat the Spoilers after Fargo hits a big atomic knee drop on Spoiler #2. After the match, Jackie and Tommy tell Lance that thanks to Kelly Kiniski, they’ve already sent the newest Brit, Al Hays, packing back to England. Now they’ve got their eyes set on the BBC bozos Breaks and Rocco. Lance asks if they will be getting some assistance from two men that appear to be new acquaintances of Jackie’s, the AWA Tag Team Champions Reginald and Hartford Love. Gilbert then says that with or without the Loves, the BBC will still feel the hurting they deserve.
 
The next segment starts with footage of the Southern Heavyweight Championship contest between Ronnie Garvin and the Outlaw Ron Bass. Lance narrates as Garvin gets the victory and then welcomes the new Southern Heavyweight Champion to the CWA set. Garvin then tells Lance that he’s ready to move beyond Ron Bass and his associates, but there is still one bit of unfinished business to take care of and that is with Jerry Lawler. He’d beaten Lawler to get the title shot in the Liberty Bowl, but to shut Jerry up once and for all he wants to beat him in the Mid-South Coliseum Monday night.
 
Lance and Dave are back and are greeted by Tojo Yamamoto and his army, slightly smaller with the loss of Ron Bass. Yamamoto san then rants that there was only one man that truly proved his worth in the ring Labor Day in the Liberty Bowl and that was his monster Sugar Bear Harris. He proved he is a beast by bettering 14 other men and walking away with another $5000 that will be thrown into the coffers for his body slam challenge. From the back then come Lord John Raven and the BBC surrounding the imposing figure of the Scottish Giant. His Lordship tells Yamamoto that if there is a monster in the CWA, it is the immovable mountain that is the Scottish Giant.  As the two forces stare down, a challenge is issued and accepted for a bodyslam challenge between the two behemoths for Monday night in the MSC.
 
Pat Roach and Lord Raven are back at the ring when the program returns and Roach defeats “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones with a big knee drop. That match is followed by a video of the Love Brothers defeating Dick the Bruiser and the Crusher. The champs then say they will be coming to Memphis on September 17th to faces the roughest and toughest boys in Memphis has to offer.
 
Ricky Fields comes out for the next contest against Dutch Mantell and before Mantell even hits the ring, the Dutchman is assaulted from behind by a wild haired madman, all at the direction of the Miser. This savage looking fellow then turns his ire of Ricky Fields, cracking him with a big running double axe handle and following it up with a huge flying elbow. The Miser keeps putting the boots to Mantell on the outside until he is a bloody mess. Then the attacker and the Miser grab Lance Russell, yelling at the camera that this is the savagery that Dutch Mantell unleashed when he took the mask off the Spider. The mask protected the spider but now the fury of the man behind the mask was free to be let loose. No more hiding in public for the Spider. Dutch Mantell felt his fury this week and next week would learn his name.
 
The TV main event was next and it featured Tommy Rich, who was mildly distracted by the assault on his tag team partner, against Black Angus Campbell as both men are trying to work up the singles ranks. Tommy is able to put the big Scot away with a nice Thesz Press for the 1-2-3.  
 
Lance and Dave tell the fans that there will be plenty more action next week and to see the CWA in action in Tupelo, Jackson, Louisville, Nashville, and in the Mid South Coliseum between now and then for more exciting AWA wrestling action.
 
 
AWA-CWA
9/8/77 from the Boys and Girls Club in Jackson, TN
 
1)      Butch Malone defeats Don Ross with a nice body slam.
2)      Ricky Fields defeats the great Mephisto by DQ after the mysterious one tosses a fireball into the face of Fields.
3)      Steve Regal defeats Bobby Jones with an abdominal stretch.
4)      Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco defeat “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones and George Welles to retain the North American Tag Team Titles after Lord Raven pulled Jim Breaks out of the way when Welles went for a big running football tackle in the corner. Breaks was then able to lock on his patented inverted hammerlock for the submission win.
5)      Sugar Bear Harris defeats Black Angus Campbell with a massive splash. Harris hardly moved off his feet except to make the pin.
6)      Southern Tag Team Champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson fall to Tommy Gilbert and Jackie Fargo by disqualification. The Miser made the save for his men after Fargo hit his patented atomic knee drop by headbutting Fargo before he could make the cover. The champions retain their titles.
7)      In a surprisingly good match, Southern Heavyweight Champion Ron Garvin defeats top junior heavyweight “Professor” Bill Ash with a figure-four leg lock. Ash put up a great fight and almost stunned the crowd after he hit his Arkansas Whiplash. Garvin prevailed though.
 
 
AWA-CWA
9/10/77 from the Mid South Coliseum in Memphis
 
1)      Steve Regal and Ricky Fields defeat Big Bill Howard and Don Ross after a nice double drop kick on Ross and a big cover by Fields.
2)      Dutch Mantell defeats the Great Mephisto by disqualification after the Miser and his wild haired savage charge the ring and assault the Dutchman. Mephisto tosses a ball of fire in the air to shoo away the savage, but gets drilled with a big running axe handle that sends the mysterious man sprawling to the coliseum floor. The Miser keeps pounding on Mantell until the wild man goes up top and drops a huge elbow across the throat of Dutch, leaving him shuddering in the center of the ring.
3)      Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez defeat the Medics after Montez delivers a nice head scissors take over on Medic #1 for the pin.
4)      Tommy Rich defeats Butch Malone with a nice Thesz Press. Tommy looks to really be building up his resume as a singles wrestler.
5)      Tommy Gilbert and Jackie Fargo defeat the NACW North American Tag Team Champions Breaks and Rocco by count out after Lord Raven pulls his men to the locker room after it appears that the veterans are really on the top of their game. Breaks raises up their belts as they walk away after the bell rings.
6)      Sugar Bear Harris and The Scottish Giant brawl their way to a 20-minute time limit draw as neither man can body slam the other, despite the regular urging of their respective managers.  
7)      “Superstar” Bill Dundee returns to his winning ways in the MSC as he defeats Black Angus Campbell with the Bomb’s Away.  
8)      AWA Southern Tag Team Champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson defeat “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones and George Welles after Hickerson delivers a big brain buster suplex on Jones.
9)      AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion Ronnie Garvin defeats Jerry ”the King” Lawler after the King delivers a pile driver in plain view of the official, getting the call for the bell. Lawler looked a little unstable on his feet and was accompanied to the ring by his “brother” Steve Lawler. After the disqualification, Steve hops into the ring and the two Lawlers lay their boots to the Champion before Tommy rich and Bill Dundee come out and make the save.

 
AWA-CWA
9/12/77 from the Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY
 
1)      Steve Regal defeats Bobby Jones with an abdominal stretch.
2)      “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones defeats Butch Malone with a swinging full nelson.
3)      George Welles defeats Big Bill Howard with a big running football tackle.
4)      “Superstar” Bill Dundee defeats “Professor” Bill Ash with the Bomb’s Away after a classic match between two strong Junior Heavyweights.
5)      Jerry “the King” Lawler defeats Black Angus Campbell with a second rope fist drop after his “brother” Steve Lawler drills Campbell with a powerful running clothesline on the outside.  
6)      Sugar Bear Harris and the Scottish Giant brawl to a 20-minute time limit draw as neither man can slam the other to collect the bounty. The two bulls batter their way back to the locker rooms rather than separate.
7)      AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion Ronnie Garvin defeats Pat Roach in a hard fought match. Roach looked like he was about to shock the champion after hitting a neck breaker that worked over the already damaged neck from Monday night’s assault by Jerry Lawler, but Garvin got a foot on the ropes. Ronnie finally was able to beat Roach with a figure-four leg lock to hopefully get past the European Champion.
8)      In a huge tag team clash, AWA Southern Tag Champions Condrey and Hickerson fought NACW North American Tag Champions Breaks and Rocco to a 1 fall apiece draw after 60 minutes in a best of 3 falls unification match. The final bell tolled as Rocco was covering Hickerson after a diving head butt and Condrey was pinning Breaks after a underhook piledriver.  

--Good things going on in Memphis
--Garvin looking good as champ
--Looking forward to TR's singles push
--Sugar Bear is still da man
--Condrey/Hickerson have AWA world titles in their future
--The King doesn't need Steve to help him
--To quote the Village People, this wild-haired savage could be a "Macho Man"
--Great job

Some great things going on here!
 
Condrey and Hickerson continue to dominate!
 
Nice to see Garvin on a roll!