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"GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING"
TAPED: SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1982 @ 10 AM
WTBS -TV STUDIOS ATLANTA, GEORGIA
BROADCAST: SATURDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 6, 1982 @ 6:05-8:05
ANNOUNCERS: JIM ROSS, RICH LANDRUM, FREDDIE MILLER
REFEREE: SCRAPPY MCGOWAN
A VTR from Masked Superstar at The Omni is shown. He has just won the final match of the Best-of-Seven Series with Mr. Wrestling II. He says that it was tough but the best man won without a doubt. With a smile being evident under the mask, he says he is ready to face Wahoo McDaniel next week on WTBS.
Jim Ross and Rich Landrum welcome the fans to the show. Ross immediately calls out “Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer. They look at a clip from the Omni finals match. Sawyer interferes by piledriving Wrestling II. Sawyer says things were in good hands with “Sawyerstate” at The Omni. Mad Dog says that he was paid handsomely to be ‘Star’s insurance policy. At the Omni, he got rid of Tim Horner and took a step up in competition, no doubt about it.
Wrestling II comes out and challenges Sawyer to earn that money. He refers to Sawyer as “a punk” and challenges him to a match later today, straight up like a man. Sawyer hesitates until II slaps him. Sawyer quickly says it is on. Ross sends the show to commercial but tells the fans not to go away.
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THE DREAM MACHINE defeats WILDMAN MCKINGLEY with a brainbuster @ 8:00.
After the match, Sir Oliver Humperdink comes out to ringside with Kurt Von Hess, Karl Von Shotz, and Cowboy Ron Bass. Bass and Von Hess are rolling out a tray with a cake on it. Everybody in the HOH gets a piece of cake. Humperdink fakes offering Landrum a piece. He say this is a “hail and farewell” to Buzz Tyler. A clip shows Dream and Humperdink spike piledriving Tyler on the Memorial Gym floor in Rome, Ga. They all sing, way off key, the “Good Bye” song. The Dream Machine asks “Who’s next?”
Ross interrupts the festivities to say Randy Rose will compete in singles action, next.
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Bob Brazil, Junior is in the ring awaiting Rose, when the show returns to the studio. The song “Footloose” starts to play. Spike Huber and Steve Regal come out. Huber thanks Ross for asking them out for commentary. Regal asks Landrum how they knew this was his favorite song. Ross says he doesn’t know who called the duo to the desk but it wasn’t him or Rich. Landrum says he is clueless about the music.
Regal and Huber are ambushed by Rose and Norvell Austin. Both men are carrying boom boxes. They club Huber and Regal, with Steve getting the worst of it. The boom box that Austin uses to smash Regal cracks and splinters on the studio floor. Brazil tries to stop the carnage but is cut by Austin over his left eye for his trouble. Austin rolls Brazil in the ring for his match with Rose.
RANDY ROSE defeats BOBO BRAZIL, JR. with a vertical suplex 4:03.
Rose punches away at the cut over the eye during the match. When he lifts the second generation wrestler in the air, blood can be seen dripping onto the mat. The picture goes to black and white. Regal and Brazil need help getting to the back. Huber hobbles out on his own. Austin says that winning is nice but hurting people is “soooo much better.” Rose says any upcoming opponent for the MX need to watch this film. They will do anything it takes.
Ross says “Miller Time” is next.
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MILLER TIME
HOSTED BY: FREDDIE MILLER
A series of clips details the early life of the late Ray Gunkel. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Kelvyn Park High School. He wrestled and played football for Purdue University, going undefeated in wrestling his junior and senior years. He was an integral part of the team winning the Big Ten Conference title twice during his tenure. He finished second to future pro wrestler Dick Hutton in the NCAAs. Gunkel won the AAU National title in 1947 and 1948.
Miller is shown in an interview room after the promo. He reminds the fans to get their tickets for The Ray Gunkel Memorial Taped Fist Tournament on October 30 at the College of Coastal Georgia. The folks in Brunswick, Georgia will be having a day long blood drive, as well.
Three wrestlers, who will be in The Gunkel Memorial, are interviewed:
*From San Antonio, Wahoo McDaniel says he will be in the Gunkel Memorial. He asks if anybody can imagine what damage his chops can do when they are taped up like boulders.
*Paul Orndorff grabs the mike from Miller. He says the men that will be in this tourney are the toughest in the AWA. That’s were “The Total Package” has to be. That’s what being a pro is all about.
*Tony Atlas flexes for the camera. He can’t wait to have the biggest arms in wrestling connected to the most explosive tools in GCW. That taped fist belt will be mine.
Miller says “BEEEEE THEEERRRE”.
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SUPERSTAR BILLY GRAHAM/NICK BUSICK defeat KILLER KARL KRUPP/BARRY HOROWITZ when Busick puts out Krupp with a heart punch @ 8:45.
Graham and Busick talk to ross at the desk. Graham offers a heart-felt apology to Buzz Tyler, wherever he is recovering. He and Busick might have kept the injuries from happening if they had just gotten back from fighting The Andersons a little faster in their six man match in Rome. He promises he will get back at the House of Humperdink in his name. The shots at The Andersons will come down the road for him and his “little buddy” but they will be rooting for The Briscos, in the meantime. Busick answers Dream Machine saying “I’m next”. He challenges The Dream to meet “the nightmare of the heart punch”.
Ross wonders if all of WTBS is going to be big enough to hold Sawyer vs. Wrestling II. They are next.
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MR. WRESTLING II vs. “MAD DOG” BUZZ SAWYER
Sawyer uses the TV cables to choke Wrestling II at various times in the match. He also drops several elbows and knees into the again tender ribs of the masked favorite. Still, at the 11-minute mark, II hits the running knee lift out of nowhere. He goes in for the cover when….
MASKED SUPERSTAR HITS THE RING.
The bell rings @ 11:33, when MS and Sawyer double team II. MW II wins by DQ. They lay him out until several preliminary wrestlers come out from the back. Ross wonders who will step up to help II.
END OF THE FIRST HOUR
“GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING”
SECOND HOUR
Ross tells the fans that Mr. Wrestling II, who was beaten up by Masked Superstar and Buzz Sawyer in the first hour, is okay but absolutely furious. He will take those two apart any way he can.
Before the show can go any further, Dick Slater comes out, slugging it out with “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. The fight goes into the stands at the WTBS studios. Piper and Slater are run into the GCW and AWA logos. Finally, studio security gets Piper out of there. Slater goes behind the curtain and brings out the letterman’s jacket that Piper defaced last week.
Slater shows everybody the yellow streak down the back and the word “coward” on the front. He says nobody questions the heart and guts of Dick Slater. This jacket was given to him because he earned his stripes at Robinson High School in Tampa. A replacement jacket came this week from Slater’s alumni buddies. This one will stay in his corner, though. It will be the driving force that tears Piper apart. And it will come to a head today, according to Slater. He calls Piper a “fruit loop in a skirt” and challenges the Rowdy One to meet him in the main event of this hour. Ross says the time will be set aside but he doesn’t know if Piper will go along with it.
Newcomer El Gran Apollo will debut next.
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EL GRAN APOLLO defeats JERRY GREY with an impressive flying clothesline @ 7:12.
The fans are wowed by the power, speed, and agility of Apollo. They are cheering, as Rich Landrum sets up for a ringside interview. Gran Apollo looks around, as if he is expecting someone to come out. Other than yes and no answers, Apollo doesn’t speak any English. Some of the fans laugh. Apollo leaves the ringside area, confused and borderline annoyed.
Ross says the Ronnie Garvin has a special announcement next.
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Ronnie Garvin is out at the desk, along with GCW chairman George Scott. Garvin presents the bullrope of Cowboy Ron Bass back to Scott. Garvin also gives him the final amount of fine money. Scott assures Garvin the money will go directly to The Red Cross. Garvin says that the legal wrangling that was keeping the TV title from being defended was why Garvin gave the bullrope back. Ross says that Bass will defend today, since the bullrope will be given back to him.
NATIONAL TELEVISION TITLE
COWBOY RON BASS © w/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK defeats JOEL DEATON with a powerslam @ 8:34.
Garvin stays out for commentary. After the match, the Hands of Stone tells Bass that one of the stips that “his lawyer” negotiated was that he will get one more title shot next week. Bass and Humperdink aren’t happy but Landrum stresses it will happen.
Ross says “The Voice of Georgia” is next.
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THE VOICE OF GEORGIA
HOSTED BY: RICH LANDRUM
Ole Anderson is interviewed from his home in Georgia. He says that Arn Anderson has the family trait of a hair trigger temper. It takes everything he and Gene have, sometimes, to keep him focused. But, the dissing Jack and Jerry Brisco did to him last week made the job easier this time out.
Jerry Brisco is way off base thinking Arn isn’t ready for the big time that being “an Anderson” entails. He and Gene have taught Arn everything about the Anderson way. Ole brings up about his own early career. He was trained by Verne Gagne, who stretched him just he and Gene stretched Arn. Ole put in his “dues” by wrestling in the “hellhole” that is Omaha, Nebraska. Arn’s dues were paid by surviving in Gene Anderson’s back yard.
The Briscos may have though they intimated Arn Anderson last week. The same grit that allowed Ole to come back to wrestling 48 hours after being stabbed in Greenville, SC is in his nephew Arn. The AWA World Tag belts will belong to The Andersons. It is only a matter of time.
Ross says an old friend returns to Georgia next.
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ROBERTO SOTO defeats TONY ZANE with a bulldog off the top rope @ 7:11.
At the desk, Soto tells Ross that the saw the interview with Ann Gunkel last week and it moved him. It made him feel that “what is old is new again.” He says he is here in GCW to help his old friend, Sweet Brown Sugar. Kurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz come out and try to intimidate Soto. Sugar comes out and has his back. The two Germans back up. Sugar and Soto whip the crowd up before leaving.
Ross says he hopes that Dick Slater and Roddy Piper can have some sort of match next.
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RODDY PIPER vs. DICK SLATER
This match doesn’t stay in the ring long. Slater runs the head of piper into a camera. Piper is busted open. Piper rallies several times but ends up being tied up in the ropes. Slater pounds away and pushes Scrappy McGowan away several times. The final one is too hard, earning Slater a DQ @ 10:44.
Wrestlers come out and drag Slater away. Piper is freed from the ropes but is face down on the mat, as the final credits roll.
© GCW @ NWACLASSICS 1982
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