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"GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING"
TAPED: SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1982 @ 10 AM
WTBS -TV STUDIOS ATLANTA, GEORGIA
BROADCAST: SATURDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 27, 1982 @ 6:05-8:05
ANNOUNCERS: JIM ROSS, RICH LANDRUM, FREDDIE MILLER
REFEREE: SCRAPPY MCGOWAN
Jim Ross and Rich Landrum welcome the fans to the show.
They are soon joined by Superstar Billy Graham. A highlight package is shown. Graham goes to a draw in a match with Cowboy Ron Bass for the National TV Title. Graham raises the belt in the ring, as last week’s title match ends. Graham says, after the show returns to the WTBS studios, that it will only be a matter of time before he wins the belt for real.
Sir Oliver Humperdink comes out and starts to argue with Graham. Superstar grabs Humperdink but is pearl harbored from behind by Antonio Inoki. Humperdink cheers on the Japanese superstar, as a nerve hold puts Graham out. Hump says that Graham chose to go down this path. It will become a trail of tears when Inoki destroys Graham in the main event of this hour. Inoki releases the hold and leaves with Sir Oliver. Both men have wide smiles on their faces.
Ross and Landrum help the Superstar up, as the camera goes to black
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Ross says that Graham is being checked on in the back. Humperdink is scheduled out here with Von Hess and Von Shotz in the first match. Ross says he is lucky that Graham is unable to get back out here right now.
KURT VON HESS/KARL VON SHOTZ w/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK defeat MIKE BOYETTE/THE CHEETAH KID when Von Hess pins The Kid off a claw @ 6:23.
Von Hess takes the interview after Humperdink says he needs to go to the back to prep Inoki. Von Hess says he and his German brother are tired of the insinuation by the American clowns, Sweet Brown Sugar and Roberto Soto, that they are not brave enough to face them straight up. He makes a challenge. He will put his German billy club on a pole in Brunswick, Georgia. Whichever team gets to it first gets to use it. Both men slap their billy clubs in their hands, as they leave.
Landrum says that Paul Orndorff is next.
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PAUL ORNDORFF defeats CHARLIE COOK with a piledriver @ 5:34.
Orndorff tells the ring announcer he wants to be called “The Total Package” before and after every match. He shots to Ross “Here’s why”. He lifts Cook up for another pile driver and lands it. He tries for a third but is stopped by a charging Tony Atlas. After Orndorff bails, Atlas tells Ross he can’t wait to get to Brunswick and knock Orndorff all the way to Thanksgiving in the Ray Gunkel Memorial Taped Fist Tournament.
Speaking of the Gunkel Memorial, Ross says a special interview with Ann Gunkel is next, when it is “Miller Time”.
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MILLER TIME
HOSTED BY: FREDDIE MILLER
Miller is seated in an interview room at the WTBS studios. His guest is Ann Gunkel. The International tag team title belt that belonged to Ray Gunkel, having been re-designed with a Gunkel Memorial plate, is in front of them. Gunkel has brought a scrap book of her husband’s career highlights. The home audience sees the stills from the scrapbook, as Miller and Mrs. Gunkel talk.
Ray is shown wearing his Purdue University singlet. Miller and Gunkel talk about the two Big Ten championships Gunkel helped bring to Purdue. Another picture shows him wrestling Dick Hutton, who also turned pro, for the NCAA championship. Gunkel finished second to Hutton. Scenes show Gunkel wrestling in Texas, where he won the Texas Heavyweight and Texas tag team championships.
Scenes show Gunkel wrestling in Georgia, the last of which is a shot of Gunkel waiting in the corner for the start of what would be his final match. Ann hesitates a moment and then says this tournament will give her one last chance to say thank you to the fans for the good times and very fond memories. Miller asks Mrs. Gunkel if she will be there to present the title to the winner. She says she wouldn’t miss it for the world.
The show returns to the studio audience, who are giving Mrs. Gunkel a standing ovation.
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STEVE REGAL defeats JOEL DEATON with an abdominal stretch @ 6:00.
Regal talks to Landrum at ringside. They review the attack from behind of Spike Huber and Bobo Brazil by The Midnight Express from last week. Regal says he still has to shake off a little ring rust but that will be gone soon. There will be no more chicken bleep moves from Randy Rose or Norvell Austin. The odds have just shifted back to the good guys.
Ross says Graham vs. Inoki is next.
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ANTONIO INOKI w/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK vs. SUPERSTAR BILLY GRAHAM
Graham has recovered nicely and he takes the fight to Inoki. Late in the match, Humperdink pulls the top ropes down on a criss cross. The manager waves to the back and out comes Ron Bass, Von Hess, Von Shotz, El Gran Apollo, and The Dream Machine. The six wrestlers pummel Graham. Inoki ties Graham in the ropes. The DQ bell rings @ 7:37.
Inoki kicks Superstar repeatedly in the throat with stiff kicks. The HOH blocks off interference until Sweet Brown Sugar, Roberto Soto, Nick Busick, and Ronnie Garvin, armed with a chair, clear the ring. They check on Graham, who has blood trickling from his mouth. The show closes.
END OF FIRST HOUR
“GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING”
HOUR TWO
Ross tells the fans that Superstar Billy Graham has been taken to a local hospital. Roddy Piper comes out with “Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer. Piper says nobody wants to talk about some guy who has been smoking his own tie dye shirts. The real fans of wrestling want to know what is going to be done to the injustices done to the Hot Rod and the Mad Dog. Sawyer barks and grunts he won’t do it. Piper clams him down.
He says that last week Dick Slater and Mr. Wrestling II came out and challenged them to a Texas Tornado match here today. Now, neither he nor Buzz agreed to anything. When they got here today, George Scott says they needed to lace up our boots; that the match was going to happen. Piper says they might as well forget it because He and Sawyer are gone.
Slater and MW II come out and an argument ensues. Slater slaps Piper and all heck breaks loose. George Scott does, indeed, come out and says this will continue and conclude with the Texas Tornado bout as our final match today. Security escorts all four men out.
Landrum says the Midnight Express tag next.
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RANDY ROSE/NORVELL AUSTIN defeat RICKY RICKARD/RAPIDO UNO when Rose brainbusts Rickard @ 6:38.
Austin and Rose knee Uno in the back after the match. Rose holds the masked man down, as Austin mounts the ropes for a diving head butt. Bobo Brazil and Spike Huber come from the back to prevent the move. Rose and Austin try to get out of the ring but are blocked by Steve Regal with a 2-by-4. Brazil lands a coco butt on Austin and Huber dropkicks Rose out. The MX gets out on the other side of the ring. The three faces stop by the desk. Brazil says that, as of now, things are going to be like this.
Ross ponders what the next move will be for the Midnight Express. Sir Oliver Humperdink comes back out with his “pet project” El Gran Apollo next.
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EL GRAN APOLLO w/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK defeats WILDMAN MCKIGNEY with a top rope clothesline that turns the Wildman a complete flip @ 4:14. During the match, Apollo calls McKigney “Garvin”.
Humperdink brags a lot to Ross at the desk. He says that not only is he a master manager, but he is a master educator. He has taught Apollo his first English word, Garvin. He will take his student to the next level after he destroys the so-called Hands of Stone in Brunswick. The next word will be “catastrophe”.
“The Voice of Georgia” is next.
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THE VOICE OF GEORGIA
HOSTED BY: RICH LANDRUM
This segment begins with Landrum showing a clip filmed earlier on Saturday at the WTBS studios. It was of a member of the Atlanta Metro Police Department. He was speaking to a group of at-risk students. What made it special was that the police officer was Nick Busick.
Busick is in ring gear and standing at ringside with Landrum, when the show returns to the studio. Busick acknowledges some of those same kids that are now in the TV taping audience. Busick shares some of his experiences of balancing police work and pro wrestling. He is interrupted by an attack from The Dream Machine. Dream posts Busick and powerslams him. He takes out an extra mask and puts it on Busick. Dream than walks over to those kids and tells them something. Landrum hears that Dream tells the kids that the bad guys aren’t always the ones wearing a mask. Or are they?
Landrum orders The Machine off the set and he complies. Rich tells the camera man to stop filming.
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George Scott comes out and confirms that Superstar Billy Graham was taken to a local emergency room for treatment. He orders a National Television title match for Cowboy Ron Bass. Any interference from the House of Humperdink will result in suspensions for all involved. The opponent will be Sweet Brown Sugar.
NATIONAL TELEVISION TITLE
SWEET BROWN SUGAR vs. COWBOY RON BASS © w/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK
Sugar has the crowd behind him and the confidence of Bass and Sir Oliver is shot when they know they are on their own. A sunset flip by Sugar comes very close to pinning Bass. Once again, Inoki comes out and hits Sugar with an ensiguri from behind, while Hump argues with Scrappy McGowan. Bass wins @ 7:03.
When the bell rings, all the House members come out. They circle Humperdink, as Garvin and Soto tend to Sugar. Humperdink says Inoki is not an “official member of the House” so no punishment can come down. This Thursday in Dalton, his “associates” will continue to take care of the Graham situation. The Sheik will make sure there is no TV belt in Graham’s future. Ross gives a synonym for “association”: bounty hunters. Humperdink just laughs and leaves.
Landrum says the main event is next.
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TEXAS TORNADO MATCH
MR. WRESTLING II/DICK SLATER vs. RODDY PIPER/MAD DOG SWAYER
This one is fought at ringside as much as in the ring. With all four men in the ring, getting any kind of ten count in is nearly impossible. Still, McGowan tries. He is counting out Piper and Slater on the floor. Wrestling II rebounds off the ropes and Mad Dog ducks. II hits the ref. He topples to the floor.
Mad Dog goes to the floor and pulls something from under the ring. It is a dog collar attached to a massive chain. He clobbers an already woozy Wrestling II. McGowan recovers and counts Mr. Wrestling II down @ 10:37. (One commercial break)
Piper and Sawyer grab the collar/chain and hightail it out of the studio. Slater tells Ross he hopes Piper has a secret weapon like that in the bunkhouse match at The Memorial. Wrestling II says the no DQ match they will have in Brunswick means two can play at Sawyer’s game.
Ross says they will have the highlights of the Ray Gunkel Memorial Taped Fist Tournament here next week.
*A promo from Arn Anderson airs. He is holding the glove that Gene Anderson has worn, as of late. He reminds Jerry Brisco of how this glove fit perfectly in his ribs. A moment’s hesitation: an almost made move. It could cost you thousands of dollars. As if The Anderson School of Torture wasn’t enough to think about, you have to wonder: will they or won’t they? Once again, nobody knows what’s on the marque better than we do!
© GCW @ NWACLASSICS 1982
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