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Highlights from Heartland, Windy City and Las Vegas International Wrestling as well as Milwaukee 10/6.
AWA Heartland Wrestling
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The MECCA
Saturday October 6, 1982 Bell 7pm
In the main event, Harley Race and Larry Hennig, former AWA World Tag Team Champions, challenged Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis w/ Jerry Valiant for the USA International Tag Team Titles. The match started with Race and Hennig slowly taking Adonis apart, working on his right arm. Try as they could, Adonis and Ventura could not outwrestle the veteran tag team who looked as though they haven’t missed a step despite not teaming for many years.
When Ventura started brawling with Race, the action picked up and the crowd soon got on the edge of their seats. Wrestling went out the window as the match became a smash mouth event, with both teams brawling excessively. Soon, Adonis and Ventura were both bleeding.
Towards the end of the match, all four men were in the ring brawling, after Race broke up a double team on Henning. Henning angrily grabbed Adonis and started pounding him in the corner. When the referee tried to break them up, Hennig clobbered him sending him out of the ring and onto the floor. Larry then grabbed Adrian and the two ended up on the floor themselves.
In the ring, Race had Ventura in trouble. Valiant tried to enter the ring and Race slammed the manager headfirst into the turnbuckles. As the badly bleeding Ventura tried to get up Race snared him in a piledriver.
Race covered Jesse for the pin, but there was no referee to make the call. Race then piledrove Ventura again and made the cover a second time as Jesse laid there having all the time in the world to bleed.
The referee finally got to the ring, while Adonis and Hennig were fighting nearby, and called for the bell. He explained the Henning and Race team had been disqualified at 24:19. Henning cracks Adonis over the head with a chair and punches Valiant as he gets into the ring to join his partner. Race and Henning are standing over a bloody Ventura as the two look at each other, shake their heads, then leaves the ring.
In other bouts… The Crusher beat Manny Fernandez in a Milwaukee Street Fight in 20:12
Ken Patera beat USA Heavyweight Champion, Bob Backlund in a non-title match at 17:31 after hitting the champ with a low blow.
Greg Gagne beat Larry Zbyszko in 18:03 after the time limit for the American Television Title expired.
Jim Brunzell beat Sheik Adnan El Kaissee in 14:09.
Steve Williams & Bobby Jaggers beat Lumberjack Frank Monte and Billy Anderson in 11:09 when Jaggers pinned Anderson.
Doomsday: Animal & Konga beat Brad Rheingans & Prince Maivia in 8:15 when Animal pinned Maivia.
Paul Ellering beat Chief Jay Strongbow with help from Animal and Konga in 9:45.
Kevin Kelly pinned Sonny Rogers in 6:32.
For air weekend of 10/12 – 10/14, recorded 10/9 at WGN TV in Chicago.
Heartland Championship Wrestling Syndicated throughout the US Midwest, including Denver and Manitoba, Canada.
Tim Horner makes his Heartland debut beating El Toro. Horner is billed as the number one contender to the AWA World Junior Heavyweight Title. He says he knows the champion, Tiger Mask will be defending the belt December 2ND in Chicago against whomever is billed as the top contender. He says that is him right now, but he is anxious to prove it.
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A VTR from Milwaukee shows Harley Race and Larry Hennig standing over a badly beaten Jesse Ventura in the middle of the ring. Race, along with Hennig, say they lost on a technicality, but in Minneapolis on the 14th, they will have the tag champs number.
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The Valiant Empire rile up the fans with their appearance. Adonis says “the old geezers got lucky”, and Ventura adds Minneapolis will be Race and Hennig’s retirement home. Zbyszko says LeRoy Brown nor Greg Gagne can beat him for the television title. He adds “with challengers like those guys, I’ll be champion forever!” Ken Patera gloats about his non title win over USA Heavyweight Champion, Bob Backlund. He says he will be champion before Christmas.
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LeRoy Brown says Larry Zbyszko is nothing but a coward. He says Zbyszko keeps weaseling out of matches with him and weaseling out of the ring with other contenders. He adds in Minneapolis on the 14th, “Running Larry” has no place to go!
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Bob Backlund calls his loss to Patera a wakeup call. He says even though Patera cheated, it’s no excuse and he knows he can beat the strongman. He says he is going to be “the Grinch” to Patera’s Christmas. Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell join Backlund. Brunzell does the talking about the matchup between Backlund and Gagne in Minneapolis. Neither Backlund nor Gagne look at each other and at the end of the interview both reluctantly shake hands.
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Manny Fernandez comes out boasting about all the guys he has put out of wrestling. He lists The Crusher and Andre the Giant’s name as his victims. Sheik Adnan joins Fernandez saying how much he admires him, then he gives Manny some cash, “as a token of goodwill!” Manny smiles, but not for long as Andre The Giant, Jerry Lawler and The Crusher come out. Adnan says come the 14th, he has a partner that will strike fear into the hearts of them. He doesn’t say whom, but laughs as he walks off with Fernandez.
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Nick Bockwinkel says he will not only beat AWA World Champion Wahoo McDaniel in Minneapolis but he will prove he is the greatest world champion ever. Wahoo, by VTR, says he will show Bockwinkel that no matter where it is in the world, he will always be the better wrestler and will come out retaining his title.
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With Blackjack Lanza doing commentary, Doomsday: Animal & Konga demolish Gene Ligon and Bill White with cheap shots taken by Paul Ellering on Ligon. Lanza and Ellering get into a shouting match after the match. As Lanza and Ellering are mouthing, Blackjack is blindsided by Animal and Konga. Luckily Steve Williams and Bobby Jaggers was nearby and made the save. All six men were fighting as the show leaves the air.
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Windy City Championship Wrestling, hosted by Gene Okerlund and Roger Kent, airs Saturdays at 10am on WGN TV in Chicago.
AWA Tag Team Champions Jack and Jerry Brisco warn Adrian Adonis, Jesse Ventura and Johnny Valiant they have ignited the ire of the entire Native American population in wrestling. The Briscos are joined by longtime friend Chief Jay Strongbow who says soon his brother will be here and the USA International Tag Team Champions will have another tag team on the warpath.
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The Crusher comes out and tells Chicagoland, he finally has Manny Fernandez in a cage match on November 11th. He says Fernandez cannot hide and he will finally settle this.
Later in the show, Fernandez says he ended one Crusher’s career in a cage, and he will end THE Crusher’s career the same way. Manny then has some words for Wahoo McDaniel. He says he and the AWA World Champion are a lot alike, they both will do anything to win. Fernandez says he respects that.
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Larry Zbyszko was scheduled to defend his American Television Title against Bad Bad LeRoy Brown, but brought out Heartland VP of Operations Buddy Rogers and showed him a doctor’s note stating he isn’t able to wrestle today. Brown cannot believe what Zbyszko is trying to pull. Rogers looks at the note and says he knows the doctor who has signed off on it and gives Zbyszko a pass. Zbyszko says his left big toe is seriously inflamed. Brown is livid as Rogers reassures him, he will have a shot against Zbyszko in the future. Brown stomps on Larry’s left big toe, and then walks to the ring and beats his substitute opponent, The Scorpion, in less than a minute.
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Tim Horner, after beating Gene Ligon, is described as the number one contender to AWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Tiger Mask. He says if anyone comes between him and HIS title shot against Tiger on December 2nd, they will find themselves stricken by White Lightning.
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Nick Bockwinkel says AWA World Champion Wahoo McDaniel has no chance against him in a two of three falls match. He says in Chicago on November 11th he will show why he is the greatest wrestler who ever lived. Wahoo, via videotape, countered Bockwinkel saying their best of 3 series comes to an end with a 2 or 3 falls match. He says he will prove who is better by taking the former champion in 2 straight falls.
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A tape from Heartland Wrestling is shown of the shouting match turned brawl between Blackjack Lanza and Paul Ellering. The video shows Lanza being attacked by Animal and Konga of Doomsday and Steve Williams and Bobby Jaggers joining the melee. Lanza says he wants Ellering in Chicago on November 11th. Jaggers says if Goonsday want to fight, they have no farther to look than him and Williams.
Later in the show, Ellering accepts Lanza’s challenge for Chicago. He adds that Lanza is just the first step to Armageddon and Williams and Jaggers are next.
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Ken Patera comes out with Johnny Valiant and USA International Tag Team Champions, Adrian Adonis and Jesse Ventura. Patera brags about having already beaten Backlund in a nontitle match, and says November 11th he will finish the job for the belt. Adonis calls the idea of The Briscos or The Strongbows or any of them beating him and Ventura, delusional. Ventura says “Jerk and Junky Brisco, Chief Jay Bull Feathers his brother, Running Duck, or even Squaw-hoo McDaniel" are no match for them. Valiant adds “it’ll be like Custer going through Little Big Horn all over again!” This causes the tag champions to look at them manager with a puzzled look as the show goes to break.
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Kevin Kelly and Brad Rheingans defeated Bill White and Gary Royal in less than 6minutes as Gentleman Jim Holiday came out and watched. He said nothing but looked pleased when Kelly got the pin on Royal.
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USA Heavyweight Champion Bob Backlund came out and admitted, Ken Patera beat him in a nontitle match. He will not let that happen again. He challenged Patera to see how good he really is when they put it all on the line in Chicago on November 11.
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Las Vegas International Championship Wrestling, taped at WGN TV in Chicago for broadcast on Saturdays at 12noon on KVVU TV Channel 5 in Las Vegas. Host Gene Okerlund.
Pacific Rim Heavyweight Champion Mil Mascaras and his rival El Halcon finally met face to face. As Halcon was brutalizing Gary Royal, Mascaras thrilled the crowd by making the save and chasing his adversary off. Mil promised to rid Vegas of Halcon.
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Manny Fernandez comes out and issues a challenge to International Heavyweight Champion, Jerry “The King” Lawler. Manny says he wants a title shot. He then switches gears and says he is to try stand-up comedy in Vegas. He starts his routine by telling Andre the Giant jokes that looked to be written on a napkin. “Andre the Giant is so dumb, he got hit by a parked car!” “Andre the Giant’s fans are so stupid, it takes them an hour to cook minute rice”. Fernandez cracks himself up while Gene says “I can feel the sponsors dropping like flies, we’ll all be looking for work on The Strip next week!”
Then Andre the Giant shows up as Fernandez looks stunned by his appearance. Andre says he doesn’t care what Manny says about him but “you keep your mouth off my fans!” The fans cheer. Then Andre has a joke for Fernandez, “What’s round, has hair and gets squished in my hands?”
Fernandez doesn’t answer, but Gene plays along, “I dunno Andre, what is round, has hair and gets squished in your hands?”
Manny starts backing off as Andre smiles and yells, “YOUR HEAD, FERNANDEZ! HAHAHAHA!”
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International Heavyweight Champion Jerry Lawler come out holding his belt and says it has been a challenge holding the International Title but is ready for the next step up, Wahoo McDaniel’s World Heavyweight Title. He says, he had Wahoo beat in Memphis, he says this time on October 21st he will beat Wahoo at the Dunes Hotel and Oasis Casino.
AWA World Champion Wahoo McDaniel says, via VTR, Lawler has no chance at beating him for the belt. He says Lawler is living proof that even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and again and that is what happened in Memphis. He says lightening will not strike twice and it’s time for Lawler to take his “little crown and little skills and go back to Tennessee!”
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Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis, USA International Tag Team Champions, with manager Johnny Valiant, come out and talk about how they will “easily” beat The Brisco Brothers for the world tag team titles. This brings out Jack and Jerry Brisco. Jerry challenges Ventura to a match one on one. Jerry finally gets under Adonis, Ventura and Valiant’s skin enough that Jesse accepts.
Jesse and Brisco had a see-saw match, but as Brisco clamped on the figure four, Adonis rushed the ring and attacked. Jack who was doing commentary at ringside jumped in to help his brother. When Valiant jumped in to help Adonis and Ventura it became 3 on 2. The Brothers defied the odds and eventually chased the champs to the dressing room.
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Kevin Kelly and Brad Rheingans were interviewed following a victory over the masked Sundance Warriors 1 and 2. As they were talking to Okerlund, Jimmy Holiday came out and congratulated them on their win, then walked off.
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Blackjack Lanza was facing the tough challenge of Billy Anderson when he was attacked by Austin Idol. Idol and Anderson double teamed Lanza for a few minutes until Lanza was able to throw Anderson over the top rope. Idol went outside the ring and grabbed a rope with a lasso. He tried to lasso Lanza, but the Blackjack caught the rope and pulled it to him, sending Idol right into the clawhold. Other wrestlers from the back came out to pull Lanza off of him.
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Sheik Adnan comes out by himself. Gene Okerlund asks what will he do now that Sheik Hussein has left following an injury at the hands of Bruiser Brody. Adnan says Brody will pay for his actions. He tells Gene not to worry he has the situation under control.
Bruiser Brody’s “HOOT HOOT HOOT” are heard throughout the studio as the wild man rushes in and attacks Adnan. As the fans cheer, Brody throws Adnan into the ring and starts to pummel him.
Then Brody is attacked by The Sheik and Abdullah the Butcher. The three men pound away on Brody using foreign objects and busting him open. A big RED X covers the screen as the men pound away on Bruiser. The show goes off the air with the men finally being chased from the ring by wrestlers from the back.
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AWA Heartland, Windy City, Las Vegas Update 10/9 (Read 210 times)