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Championship Wrestling from Memphis
Broadcast 9/29/77 and recorded for further syndication
Lance Russell and Dave Brown open the show saying that we would be hearing from the AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion Ron Garvin in the program, talking about a royal pain in the backside, Jerry Lawler. We would also see in action the Southern Tag Team Champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson, taking on special challengers from California the Hollywood Blondes Michael Hayes and Jerry Brown. And speaking of California, the BBC duo of Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco would be in studio with the rest of the BBC to discuss their recent matches out west. All that plus plenty of wrestling action right after these commercials.
When we return to action, Kelly Kiniski makes his return to television and puts away a strong challenge from former Southern tag champion Butch Malone. Kelly looks more fluid than ever in his moves and after finish off Malone with a Canadian back breaker, he tells Lance that he’d gone back North to help take care of some family business and is now back focused on what ever the CWA has to offer.
The next segment begins with Lance Russell trying to ride herd on 6 very vocal and accusatory Brits and once they finally calm down, footage is show of the North American tag title match between the duo of Hawk and Hansen and the BBC. Lord John Raven, after the footage is shown, flatly tells both his now former tag champions and the duo of Campbell and Roach that he has had it with the losing by the BBC and it was time to cut away to anchors. The only man whose position in the BBC was safe is the man no one has yet pinned, the Scottish Giant. The remaining four had two weeks to show they belonged. Monday night in the MSC, there would be a tag team match and the losers would face one another on next week’s telecast to save their spot in the BBC. After the dressing down by their manager, the Scottish Giant crushes the tandem of Bobby Jones and Big Bill Howard in a handicap match in less than two minutes.
Tojo Yamamoto comes out for the next match with the Professional and he is very impressive in dispatching “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones with a sleeper hold after five minutes. Yamamoto san then tells the fans that the man that seems to be looking for the next rung on the ladder to climb is one Tommy Rich. While Sugar Bear Harris is busy squashing the Scottish Giant, that bloated bag of British blubber, he was trusting the Professional to take down the gnat Rich and Monday night, the bug would be crushed.
Ron Garvin comes out to start the next segment and he’s wearing a neck brace. When questioned, he tells the audience that he’s in a brace thanks to Jerry Lawler’s pile driver last night in Nashville. He then tells how if it hadn’t been for one man, this neck brace would be permanent and that man was Derek Draper. Garvin then invites Derek to join him and once Derek is out he tells Lance that because the champion isn’t going to be ready to face off with jerry Lawler Monday night, he would be volunteering to step in and face him. Garvin is very thankful for this and tells Draper that if Derek can take down Jerry Lawler, he’ll get himself a match with the champion and the payday that comes with it. Derek Draper then hits the ring and takes down Don Ross with the cobra hold. Garvin stuck around and added commentary.
Next up is a video from the AWA Junior Heavyweight Champion Roddy Piper who continues running down Bill Dundee, calling him a vanilla midget and then saying how he’s beaten him into hamburger. Piper then warns Bill Dundee that Monday night in the MSC he will finish what he started and prove to everyone in the CWA who the top junior heavyweight in the business is today. Bill Dundee is in action next and he puts down a very game George Welles with a Bomb’s Away. After the match, Dundee simply says that Piper has run his mouth and now he better start running his feet backwards because the Superstar is coming and taking his title.
In the main event, AWA Southern Tag Team champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson defeat the guests from California, the Hollywood Blondes after Phil Hickerson drops the youthful Michael Hayes with a hanging vertical suplex. After the match, the Miser and his men invade the interview area and he tells lance Russell that now is the time that the best in the AWA find out who are the real top tag team. Now that the pretenders, the BBC, have lost their fake gold, the real champions will bury anyone that steps in their path, including those western windbags Jaggers and Montez.
Lance and Davy run over the results of today’s action and then tell the fans in Tupelo, Louisville, Nashville, Jackson and those headed to the MSC in Memphis to go and see the best in AWA wrestling action this week and in the near future.
AWA-CWA
9/29/77 from Tupelo, MS
1) “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones and George Welles defeat the Spoilers after Jones locks on a swinging full nelson on Spoiler #1.
2) Steve Lawler defeats Don Ross with a fist drop off the second rope that he follows up with a full nelson to get a submission victory.
3) Steve Regal and Ricky Fields defeat “Professor” Bill Ash and Butch Malone after Malone is dropped by a big double drop kick and Regal locks on an abdominal stretch for the win.
4) Randy Savage and Dutch Mantell brawl their way through a strap match that sees the official knocked to the mat, allowing Savage to unstrap himself and tie the Dutchman to the ropes. Savage takes down Dutch with a running double axe handle and finishes him off with a flying elbow, grabbing the strap just in time to get the 1-2-3.
5) Tommy Rich defeats Black Angus Campbell with a Thesz press that takes the big Scot hard to the mat and gets a big 1-2-3.
6) The NACW team of the Hollywood Blondes, Jerry Brown and Michael Hayes, shock the crowd by defeating the BBC duo of Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco after the rookie Hayes drills the smaller Breaks with a DDT to get the pin. Rocco and Breaks start jawing with each other and have to be separated by their manager after the match.
7) Jerry “the King” Lawler defeats the Fabulous Jackie Fargo in a classic Memphis match up that the fans were really into for the entire match.
AWA-CWA
10/1/77 from the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis.
1) Steve Lawler defeats Big Bill Howard with a second rope fist drop that he follows up with a full nelson to get a submission victory. Lawler appears to be losing IQ points each match out.
2) “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones defeats Butch Malone with a swinging full nelson.
3) A masked newcomer called the Hawaiian Flash defeats Bobby Jones with a Thesz press.
4) Sugar Bear Harris and the Scottish Giant brawl to yet another double DQ. From the back comes Jerry Jarrett, looking a bit flushed, and tells the fans that since neither man can slam the other next week both men’s money will be on the line in a money on a poll match with the winner to get all the cash.
5) The Professional defeats Tommy Rich with a sleeper hold in a controversial match. Tojo Yamamoto cost Rich the match by distracting the official when Rich had pinned the Professional with a Thesz press. Tommy’s temper in the end cost him as he tried to strike Yamamoto san and he gave the masked man the opening he needed to lock on the sleeper for the victory.
6) The BBC explodes in this match that sees Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco defeat their compatriots Black Angus Campbell and Pat Roach after Roach walks off in the middle of the match, leaving Campbell to take on to very quick and physical men. Angus can only do so much before he is beaten down and pinned by Rocco after a diving head butt. Lord Raven tries to order Pat back into the ring, but Roach walks off oblivious to the order.
7) Derek Draper takes down Jerry “the King” Lawler by disqualification after Steve Lawler attacked Draper after he locked on the Cobra hold on the King. Ron Garvin, still clad in his neck brace cleared the ring of the Lawlers and he and his new friends stood tall.
8) AWA Southern Tag Team champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson defeat Steve Regal and Ricky Fields, making up the contest that had been promised the previous week. The young team of Regal and Fields worked well, but when the champs went down the low road, they got an advantage that was too much to overcome.
9) In what Roddy Piper said to the audience before the match was Bill Dundee’s final shot at the World Junior Heavyweight championship, Dundee defeats Piper one fall to none in a best of three falls contest that sees the rowdy Scot on his bicycle almost all night trying to keep out of the grasp of the challenger. Piper is caught once with a big dropkick near the 38-minute mark and Dundee got the pin. For the remained of the match, Roddy just avoided the challenger so that there was no way to lose the crucial 2nd fall. When the final bell tolled, Dundee had his hand raised, but Piper still held the title.
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