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AWA-CWA
9/3/77 from the Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY
1) Steve Lawler defeats Don Ross in a battle of powerhouses. Lawler simply looks lost in the ring and almost falls to a man that can match his power.
2) Kelly Kiniski defeats Butch Malone with a Canadian back breaker in a continued run back towards the top of the CWA.
3) The Hawaiian Flash takes down Big Bill Howard in an impressive display with a Thesz Press.
4) Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez defeat the BBC duo of Pat Roach and Black Angus Campbell after Roach walks off, leaving his partner to battle the top tag title challengers by himself. Mercifully, Montez takes Campbell down with a head scissors take down and Jaggers finishes off the Scotsman with a hangman’s neck breaker.
5) Dutch Mantell and Randy Savage brawl their way to a 20-minute draw. Neither man is willing to stop their battle, even after the bell sounds.
6) Tommy Rich defeats the Professional by disqualification when the masked man refuses to break a chokehold on the youngster. Tojo Yamamoto orchestrates the entire affair.
7) AWA Southern Tag Team Champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson defeat Steve Regal and Ricky Fields after Condrey drops Ricky with an underhook pile driver.
8) Bill Dundee steps up and defeats Marc Rocco in a hard fought contest
9) Jerry “the King” Lawler gets disqualified in his match with Ronnie Garvin when the King is caught with brass knucks. After the match is tossed out, Lawler keeps pounding away on the Southern Champion until Louisville police start to approach the ring.
AWA-CWA
9/5/77 from the Civic Auditorium, Knoxville, TN
1) “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones and George Welles defeat the Spoilers in an exciting opening tag team encounter after Welles uses a football tackle to take down Spoiler #2.
2) The Hawaiian Flash debuts in east Tennessee with a victory over Big Bill Howard. Howard seemed to have the masked man on the ropes with a bear hug, but the Flash finished him off with a Thesz press after a series of forearms for the victory.
3) Kelly Kiniski defeats Black Angus Campbell after Pat Roach came ringside and distracted the Scotsman after he’d planed the second-generation talent with a big gut wrench suplex. Kiniski recovered his feet and delivered a Canadian back breaker to Campbell for the 1-2-3 while Lord John Raven tried to usher back Roach.
4) Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez defeat “Professor” Bill Ash and Butch Malone in a solid tag team contest that sees Malone go down after Jaggers delivers a big hangman’s neck breaker.
5) Randy Savage defeats Paul DeMarco by disqualification after Dutch Mantell assaults both Savage and his manager the Miser with his bullwhip. This blood feud between Savage and Mantell keeps seeing the violence escalate.
6) Tommy Gilbert defeats Steve Lawler with a front suplex despite the best efforts of “the King” Jerry Lawler, who was a constant distraction to Gilbert on the outside, costing him pin falls twice early in the match.
7) In a colossal tag team contest, AWA Southern Tag Team Champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson defeat the former North American Tag Team Champions from the BBC Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco. Even without their manager, Condrey and Hickerson show why they are steadily moving up the magazine listings of the AWA’s top tag teams.
8) Jerry “the King” Lawler defeats “Superstar” Bill Dundee in a contest between top contenders for both the Heavyweight and Junior Heavyweight championships of the AWA.
9) In a special attraction for the Knoxville fans, AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion Ron Garvin defeats the Fabulous Jackie Fargo in a highly technical contest for the title.
Championship Wrestling from Memphis
Broadcast on 10/6/77 and recorded for future syndication
Lance Russell and Dave Brown welcome the audience to another exciting edition of Championship Wrestling and Dave let’s slip that there will be two huge announcements in the telecast. Lance adds that we will be seeing Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez in tag team action today against Mr. Ebony Tom Jones and his partner George Welles. Also in action will be Steve Lawler, Kelly Kiniski, and in the main event, we will see a battle among the members of the BBC as Black Angus Campbell and Pat Roach square off in a loser leaves the BBC match. All this will be coming straight away after these messages.
Steve Lawler starts things off against Butch Malone and joining the broadcast team for commentary is none other than the King of Memphis, Jerry Lawler. Malone technically dominates the younger Lawler brother, but the muscular Steve simply powers up and throws Malone hard to the mat in frustration. Punishing fists all but knock Butch senseless and Steve goes to the second rope and drops a devastating fist before he locks on a full nelson to get the victory as the King leaves to raise the hand of his “Clown Prince”. Both Lawlers return to the interview area where Jerry does the talking, telling the fans that it doesn’t matter to him who Ronnie Garvin has to watch his back because the King always can take what he wants.
Lance shows footage of the masked newcomer called the Hawaiian Flash from the MSC show on 10/1 and then welcomes the masked man to the CWA. The Flash, says that he’s been taking care of business in the Islands and is ready to make a name for himself in one of the true hotbeds of wrestling. This draws out Tojo Yamamoto who says that the only man who will be making a name for himself in Memphis is his massive monster Sugar Bear Harris and that any man who sees things otherwise will have to deal with quite another man entirely. From behind, the Professional cracks the Flash from behind with a powerful elbow shot to the skull. The black clad masked man then stomps the Flash into the concrete before he and Yamamoto san retreat as Lance calls for some medical assistance and sends the broadcast to commercial.
As we return, footage of the assault on the Hawaiian Flash is replayed and Dave announces that a match between the two masked men has been scheduled for Monday night in the MSC. Joining the announce team at this time are two men, AWA President Eddie Einhorn and AWA Jr. Heavyweight Champion Roddy Piper. After welcoming both men, Mr. Einhorn congratulates Piper on holding the AWA Jr. Title for his almost 9 month reign and asks to see the footage of his most recent match in this territory. Highlights show Bill Dundee getting the pin on Piper in a best of three falls match and the champion then all but avoiding any contact with his challenger. President Einhorn then calls out Bill Dundee and tells him that by gaining a pin fall victory over the champion, he has earned another match for the title. Piper is livid and when he hears that the match will be a steel cage match in Nashville on Halloween night he absolutely blows his top, threatening Eddie Einhorn and almost striking the AWA President. Instead, Piper turns and levels Dundee with his title belt and then speaks directly to the camera telling the audience that if they want to see rowdy, they ain’t seen nothing yet.
Kelly Kiniski starts off the next segment in the ring against Randy Savage, who along with the Miser, is constantly looking towards the back to see if Dutch Mantell is on his way out. Kiniski fights hard, but Savage rakes the eyes and back of the fellow youngster and knocks him off his feet with a big running double axe handle. Savage then flies, connecting with a big elbow drop to score the pin. After the match, Savage and the Miser grab Lance Russell and tell him that is what they can do when the Dutchman doesn’t come and stick his nose into their business. Savage states he isn’t finished with Mantell and if Dutch has any guts he will see him in the MSC Monday night.
Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez are next up on the card and the #2 tag team in the CWA takes down a game challenge from “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones and George Welles in a highly competitive scientific encounter that sees the only real rule bending by the team of Jones and Welles. Tito Montez flies around the ring and finishes off Jones with a big head scissors take over and tops that with a victory roll. Bobby and Tito join Lance Russell after the match and say that they are tired of the Southern Tag team champs running from them. They’ll bring the Dutchman to the MSC and they can bring their savage for a 6-man contest.
Before the main event, Lord John Raven is out with the Scottish Giant, Jim Breaks, Marc Rocco, and Black Angus Campbell. Before he will address the televised main event, Lord Raven rails how Sugar Bear Harris has been given a pole to climb to try and steal the giant’s money and just like Jack and the beanstalk, a wee man is trying to steal a giant’s hoard. But unlike Jack’s tale, this time the Giant will come out on top. Finally he states that after the behavior that he has seen from certain members of the BBC, he knows who will be around at the end of the television contest.
In the main event, Black Angus Campbell is waylaid by Pat Roach, Breaks, and Rocco after pounding away on the European champion for almost 10 minutes. With the wild Scotsman beaten into submission, Lord Raven grabs Lance Russell’s microphone and tells everyone that it is the brains of a man like Pat Roach that set him apart from muscle bound bafoons like Campbell and the rest of his backwater highlander ilk. Lord Raven rejoins the BBC as they raise their hands triumphant over the fallen Campbell with Lance and Dave bidding the audience a fond farewell.
AWA-CWA
10/6/77 from the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of Jackson, TN
1) Big Bill Howard defeats Mr. Ebony Tom Jones with a big power slam
2) Tommy Gilbert defeats a battered and bruised Black Angus Campbell. Gilbert initially wanted no part of the match, but Campbell attacked him and Tommy mercifully cut the match short with a big front suplex.
3) The Professional defeats Butch Malone with a sleeper hold.
4) The BBC duo of Jim Breaks and Marc Rocco defeats Steve Regal and Ricky Fields after Breaks is able to get behind Regal and lock on his patented inverted hammerlock.
5) Derek Draper defeats Steve Lawler by submission after the muscle-bound moron of the Lawler clan blacks out to the cobra hold.
6) Tommy Rich defeats Pat Roach in a hotly contested match.
7) The Scottish Giant defeats Sugar Bear Harris by count out, after throwing the huge man through the ropes and too the floor. This was the final bodyslam match before their battle at the MSC.
8) Bobby Jaggers, Tito Montez, and Dutch Mantell defeat the Miser’s trio of Randy Savage, Dennis Condrey, and Phil Hickerson after Mantell connected with a brain buster on Hickerson.
9) In a special Main Event, Ronnie Garvin and AWA Junior Heavyweight Champion Roddy Piper wrestle to a 45-minute draw in a battle for Garvin’s Southern Heavyweight Title.
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