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AWA-CWA
9/19/77 from the Louisville Gardens, Louisville, Ky
1) Steve Regal defeats Don Ross with an abdominal stretch
2) Steve Lawler and Derek Draper defeat the Spoilers after Draper locked the cobra hold on Spoiler #2 for the submission victory.
3) Black Angus Campbell defeats Tommy Gilbert with a gut wrench suplex.
4) Randy Savage and Dutch Mantell brawl to a bloody double disqualification. Neither man would respond to the officials and simply beat the snot out of each other.
5) Tommy Rich defeats Pat Roach with a spinning toehold after a Thesz press.
6) Jerry “the King” Lawler defeats Ricky Fields with a fist drop off the second rope.
7) AWA Southern Tag Team Champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson defeat NACW North American Tag Team Champions Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco in a battle for the Southern Titles after Dennis drops Rocco with an underhook pile driver. The North American titles do not change hands.
8) AWA Southern Heavyweight champion Ron Garvin defeats the masked man known as the Professional with a sunset flip. Tojo Yamamoto was at ringside urging on his man, but in the end, Yamamoto san sees his new charge fall. After the contest, Yamamoto jaws with Garvin long enough for the Professional to attack the champ from behind.
9) In the main event, Roddy Piper and Bill Dundee battle to a 45-minute draw for the AWA Junior Heavyweight championship. Dundee, still carrying the scars from the war these two men had on Monday night in the MSC comes close to taking the title on multiple occasions, but he can’t weaken the champion enough to get the needed pin fall.
AWA-CWA
9/21/77 from the Nashville Civic Auditorium, Nashville, TN
1) Big Bill Howard gets a very rare victory over Don Ross thanks to a hard body slam.
2) Professor Bill Ash defeats Steve Regal with the Arkansas Whiplash in a huge junior heavyweight contest.
3) The Medics again take a victory from “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones and George Welles after pulling the switch on the inexperienced Welles after a huge football tackle sent Medic #1 crashing to the mat. George then tries to tag in his partner, who backs up allowing the rookie to try for the pin, only to have the Medics pull the switch behind his back. Medic #2 then locks on the claw hold on Welles and he gets the submission victory for the masked men.
4) Derek Draper defeats Butch Malone with a Cobra hold.
5) Randy Savage defeats Ricky Fields with a flying elbow drop off the top, but after the match Dutch Mantell assaults Savage after decking the Miser, allowing the Dutchman a one on one shot at the wild man.
6) Paul DeMarco makes his Nashville debut and defeats Pat Raoch with a huge elbow smash that takes the European champion down. Lord John Raven’s disappointment in his charge is visible.
7) Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez shock the fans with a non-title defeat of the NACW North American Tag Team Champions Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco after Montez wears out Jim Breaks with head scissors takeovers and drop kicks and Jaggers finishes him off with a textbook hangman’s neck breaker.
8) AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion Ron Garvin defeats Black Angus Campbell to retain his title after a figure four leglock. Garvin stomped all of Campbell’s joins before latching on for the submission.
9) AWA Junior Heavyweight champion Roddy Piper defeats “Superstar” Bill Dundee in very controversial fashion after getting the victory by referee’s stoppage due to Bill bleeding buckets. Dundee was pinning Piper after a Bomb’s Away but the official had to keep checking the wounds that were reopened by Piper early in the match. Piper keeps his title, but the fans were irate.
Championship Wrestling from Memphis
Recorded and broadcast 9/22/77 from the Ch3 studios in Memphis, TN
Dave Brown and Lance Russell welcome the fans to Championship Wrestling with a big recap of action from the Mid-South Coliseum, focusing in on the huge match between Roddy Piper and Bill Dundee for the World Junior Heavyweight title. Lance says that we will hear from Bill Dundee later on. We are also told we will see the television debut of Derek Draper and view a video tape sent in from Dutch Mantell, and get reaction from the Miser and his man Randy Savage plus much more, all after the opening commercial break.
Derek Draper opens the action against “ Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones and looks very impressive against the powerful Jones, finishing him off with a cobra clutch to get a submission victory. After the match Draper joins Lance and tells him he came to the CWA to prove himself and the fact that in wrestling it’s not who you know but what you can do that makes you a star. When pressed, Draper says he’s tired of being pushed to the side by all the folks who forget the business part of the family business.
After the commercial break, Steve Regal and Ricky Fields defeat Bill Ash and Butch Malone in a battle between two tag teams that want to build up from where they are. Regal gets the submission from Malone thanks to an abdominal stretch. Afterwards, Regal and Fields join Lance Russell and Ricky tells him that he and Tommy Rich will remain friends but he wasn’t going to hold Tommy back any more from being the singles star he really can be. That’s why he’s hooked up with a great young wrestler in Steve Regal and they will move up the tag ranks and get the Southern titles off the waists of the Miser’s men.
Coming back we see the video taped message from Dutch Mantell that sees him practicing with his bullwhip, cracking empty bottles and yelling at Savage. Finally, the Dutchman coils up Shoo Baby and tells the camera that with as comfortable a he is with leather in his hand, he’ll be more than happy to have it around his wrist. He then challenges Savage to a strap match for the Mid-South Coliseum. The Miser and all his charges arrive in the interview area and right away we hear from Randy Savage. The wild-haired Savage says that Mantell has unleashed a tidal wave of fury that will crash down upon him like no force has ever smashed through the CWA. He accepts the challenge for the strap match and states that pain will be all that awaits Mantell “Oh Yeah!” The Miser then takes the microphone and states that after the BBC stole the shot at facing the Love Brothers last week on this program, his men have gone out and destroyed every team that they have faced. The BBC will not get a shot at the Southern Tag team Titles and when the Love Brothers show back up in Memphis, Louisville, Nashville or any arena in the CWA, that will be the last time they walk in anywhere as World Champions. Dennis then states that if Ricky Fields and Steve Regal think they can climb the ladder to face the Southern Tag Team champs then they need to realize they will be putting themselves in the path of an express train that’s running over everyone.
Randy Savage and the Miser stay out after the commercial break and Savage is exactly that against Bobby Jones. Randy finishes the match with a big running axe handle that levels Jones and a flying elbow that ends the match.
After another quick commercial and Sugar Bear Harris comes to the ring, accompanied by Tojo Yamamoto and he is to face off with European champion Pat Roach. Roach comes in and looks very impressive against the big bad Bear, but like all the rest, he can’t get Harris off his feet. The Sugar Bear finishes things off with a huge splash in the corner and he pins Roach for the 1-2-3. Lord Raven is not amused by the outcome and he is seen berating Roach as the broadcast goes to commercial.
Bill Dundee joins Lance Russell and after watching footage of the end of his contest with Roddy Piper from the MSC, Dundee tells Lance that he’s now on the hunt for the “rowdy Scot”. Dundee then peels off the large bandage that is on his forehead, exposing the large gashes present and tells the fans that this is what Piper has done to him and that making him bleed was in the end all that it took to keep the Junior Heavyweight World title from around his waist. Shockingly, Dundee starts pounding on his head, opening back up the wounds and, grabbing the microphone from Lance, tells Piper that any man can make someone bleed, but a real man is the guy that rises up to finish things. The blood spurting Dundee than challenges Roddy to a street fight in the Mid South Coliseum for the title. There will be no disqualifications, no count outs, and no stoppages for blood loss. Dundee adds that Piper will have to do a lot more to keep the World title than he has done before because until all the blood has pumped from his body, Bill Dundee will chase down that title.
After a commercial, it’s main event time and we see the up and coming Tommy Rich take on Tojo Yamamoto’s new masked man, the Professional in a wild contest that runs right to the end of the broadcast. Lance and Dave remind the fans to see more live action in Jonesboro, Louisville, Nashville, Tupelo, and as always the Mid South Coliseum in Memphis as both men keep brawling through the credits.
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