Championship Wrestling from Memphis
Broadcast on 10/20/77 and recorded for further syndication across the territory.
 
Lance Russell and Dave Brown welcome the fans to another exciting episode of Championship Wrestling and expound on the card for the day that features the King of wrestling,  
Jerry Lawler, in action against the up and coming Derek Draper. We will also see the Medics square off against the tag team duo of Tom Jones and George Welles. Tojo Yamamoto’s crew will send the Professional out to do battle with Black Angus Campbell. We will also hear from the World Junior Heavyweight Champion Roddy Piper and his challenger on Halloween night, “Superstar” Bill Dundee, will be in action against an impressive youngster in Steve Regal. All this plus more with be on the air right after these messages.
 
The Medics open up action with a victory by disqualification over “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones and George Welles after Jones grabs a pair of brass knuckles that one of the Medics had pulled from their trunks and drilled Medic #2 in plain sight of the official. Both Welles and Jones keep pounding away on the masked men until a little red is seen creeping into the white of their masks. After this assault, Jones and Welles tell Lance Russell that they are tired of getting the short end of the stick in the CWA just because of the color of their skin. Jones then states that he’s gonna take up the fight for equal treatment for his brothers and sisters, doing like brother Malcom said to fight: by any means necessary. Welles then states that it didn’t matter which white boys took the tag team titles on Halloween night in Nashville because the Soul Patrol was taking them home soon enough.
 
After a commercial break, Southern Heavyweight Champion Ronnie Garvin joins Lance and the two men discuss the recent challengers that have stepped up to try and take the title. The conversation comes back to the Lawler clan and Ron lays down the line against Jerry, saying that Monday night Lawler will get his shot at the Southern Title, but when he fails, he drops to the bottom of the list of challengers. Lance then mentions the King’s claim of being the top contender to the World Heavyweight Championship, to which Garvin states that as long as he holds the Southern Heavyweight Title, in his eyes there is no challenger ahead of him. Garvin then add commentary to a match between two very solid wrestlers, Bill Ash and Tito Montez. Tito pulls out the victory with a textbook flying head scissors.  
 
A video from the World Junior Heavyweight Champion is shown next as Roddy Piper, who is standing in front of a NACW banner, states how that little problems shouldn’t effect champions like him. He’s been waiting for a real challenger for a long time and no little man from a small time territory like the CWA is going to take the AWA’s World Junior Heavyweight title off of him.  He finishes saying that Dundee has decided to bring a squirt gun to a showdown and he should never get into a fight with a man with a machine gun. Lance reminds fans that he will be speaking with Bill Dundee before today’s main event.
 
The Hawaiian Flash starts off the next segment of the broadcast in the ring against Butch Malone and dispatches him with relative quickness with a Thesz press after a big run of rolling arm drags. After the match, the Flash joins Lance and tells all the fans that he’s tired of the attacks by the Professional and Tojo Yamamoto. The Flash lays out a challenge to the Professional for Monday night in the Mid-South Coliseum and promises that in a fair fight he can show that the man in black is nothing but yellow.
 
The AWA Southern Tag Team champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson, along with their manager the Miser, join Lance in the interview area before their contest and the champs state that they are running out of challengers here in the CWA. They’ve beaten the geezers Tommy Gilbert and Jackie Fargo, Ricky Fields and his rotating partners, and the team that is the closest challengers to them, the British brats Breaks and Rocco. After they take down those two cowboy clowns Jaggers and Montez, the Miser tells that his men will put the Southern Tag Titles in his private vault and take off to chase down the World Tag Team titles and show everyone everywhere who the best tag team in the AWA truly is.  Condrey and Hickerson they hit the ring a demolish Big Bill Howard and Don Ross in less than 4 minutes. The champs keep pounding on Howard and Ross until Tito Montez and his partner Bobby Jaggers hit the ring and clear out the tag champions and their manager.
 
Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez stay around and tell Lance Russell that they just saw what type of champions the CWA has holding the tag team straps. Jaggers then lays it on the line that on Halloween night, they will take the titles off Condrey and Hickerson, showing that even the best can be beaten by a determined force. Black Angus Campbell comes out to a mixed reaction from the crowd and squares off with the Professional. The match ends as a disqualification win for Angus as the masked man chokes out the Scot.
 
Bill Dundee comes to the ring for a rousing reception and takes on the youngster Steve Regal in a very competitive technical contest that sees the Superstar finish off Regal with a big Bomb’s Away. After the match, Bill responds to the tape of Piper simply by stating that Piper had better start counting the days to Halloween because the title will be around the waist of Superstar Bill Dundee when the final bell rings in Nashville.
 
Main Event time arrives, but only after Jerry Lawler comes out with the Clown Prince Steve Lawler and rails against how Ron Garvin is trying to hide from him by saying that he’s only fighting him Monday night in the Mid-South Coliseum. The King continues on stating that he’s going to show exactly what will happen Monday night in the ring right now against Derek Draper. The King goes to his ring and abruptly lays an egg against the rapidly rising Draper. Lawler is very cocky through the match, pulling his opponent off the mat before an apparent three count. Draper takes advantage of this by getting a pin with a small package. Jerry looks shocked and attacks alongside his brother until Ron Garvin hits the ring and all four men brawl their way to the end of the telecast as Dave and Lance remind the fans that they need to come see the live action in Jackson, Tupelo, Knoxville, Nashville, Louisville, and of course the Mid-South Coliseum right here in Memphis.
 

AWA-CWA
10/20/77 from Jackson, TN
 
1)      “Mr. Ebony” Tom Jones defeats Bobby Jones with a swinging full nelson after a series of brutal headbutts.
 
2)      George Welles defeats Don Ross with a big football tackle.
 
3)      Black Angus Campbell defeats Mephisto with a big gut wrench suplex.
 
4)      Tommy Gilbert defeats Steve Lawler with a front suplex.
 
5)      Sugar Bear Harris defeats Kelly Kiniski with a huge splash in the corner.
 
6)      The Hawaiian Flash and the Professional earn a double count out as both men fight around the ring.
 
7)      Randy Savage defeats Dutch Mantell in a taped fist match that sees the Miser knock out Mantell with a loaded headbutt after Randy accidentally hit the official.
 
8)      Bobby Jaggers and Tito Montez defeat Southern Tag Team Champions Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson by disqualification when the official throws out the match after Condrey and HIckerson deliver a spike pile driver to Jaggers, saving their titles.

Chito:  
Sugar Bear Harris is now more widely know as the Ugandan giant, Kamala.  
 
I'll be honest, I book to cover what I like to see. I'm a fan of good tag team wrestling and luckily I've been able to create a very solid tag team scene here.  
 
As for Savage, he's one of those guys that while he is probably not ready to be the main eventer, he is certainly a solid mid-to upper mid guy and that is where I have him when I look at my roster. He's in a feud that has, I think, gotten a huge amount of positive feedback, and is a good stepping stone for him in the future. Is he going to be feuding with Garvin or Lawler for the Southern title anytime soon? Probably not. Is having his father manage him hurting him? Again, probably not. Angelo is out there as the Miser to more often than not help pace his son's matches and allow Condrey and Hickerson to just kick butt and take names. IRL, Savage was getting a push big time in his dad's promotion and was starting to establish himself as a up and coming star. I think that is what I'm doing here in Memphis for him.

Man, I hope that this is a good push for Welles. I always thought he had all kinds of untapped potential.
 
I am really enjoying the Garvin/ Lawler feud. The Draper win was suprising, though.
 
I am really torn by Jaggers/ Montez going against Condrey/ Hickerson. I am a big mark for both of them.
 
Great TV and house action.

more good tv!!
piper and dundee are brewing hotter...
regal should make another good addition to the roster.
don't forget the great team jaggers-montez are.