Stampede Wrestling
Promoted By: The Foothills Athletic Club
Promoting: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, North West Territories, Montana  
Promoter: Stu Hart
Under the Auspices of the American Wrestling Association, Verne Gagne President
Taped on: Friday December 7 1982
Aired on: Saturday December 8 1982
Taped At: The Victoria Pavilion Calgary, Alberta, Aired in Syndication throughout Canada and North Western United States.
Announcer: Ed Whalen, Jim Davies (ring Announcer)
Referees: Cedric Hathaway, Wayne Hart, Jurgen Himmler, Ross Hart, Ron Hayter
 
**The opening plays, showing several Stampede stars of past and present, in action in short clips. We then join Ed Whalen sitting at the announcer's table at ringside.  Ed Whalen says he is happy to be back for another week in Stampede Wrestling and what a week of action. It is going to be a ring-a-ding-dong-dandy of a show. **
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1. Tatsumi Fujinami b. Hubert Gallant with the Dragon Sleeper
 
In broken English, Tatsumi Fujinami tells Ed Whalen that he has come from Japan, a former world junior champion and he wants the British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight title. Gama Singh is running scared but soon enough he will not be able to run and Fujinami will get his hands on that belt, then the AWA world junior title after.  
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COMMERCIAL
Monday: Lethbridge, Alberta
Tuesday: Regina, Saskatchewan (Exhibition Auditorium)  
Wednesday: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Thursday: Medicine Hat, Alberta or Red Deer, Alberta (alternating)  
Friday: Calgary, Alberta
Saturday: Edmonton, Alberta  
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2. Jos Leduc b. Mike Shaw with the bear hug
 
Jos Leduc is with Ed Whalen. He calls out Bret Hart saying he wants that North American heavyweight belt. Bret Hart has been lucky that the Canadian Lumberjack has been preoccupied but now all his focus is on Hart. People call Jos Leduc crazy but there is nothing crazy about Leduc. He is sane and Bret Hart will see. Bret Hart will see.  
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3. International Tag Team Belts: Billy Two Eagles and Sonny Two Rivers (champions) b. The Cobra & Atushi Onita with a top rope dropkick on Cobra from Two Eagles. “Honky Tonk” Wayne Farris and “Rotten” Ron Starr attack the champions right after the match, bloodying up Two Eagles.
 
A bloody Two Eagles is helped up by his partner Two Rivers. Eagles is livid, yelling that Farris and Starr have done them wrong and now the time has come for them to learn a lesson. The two Native Americans have fought long and hard in Stampede Wrestling to get those International tag belts and now they will fight harder to keep them. If Farris and Starr want to bloody up Two Eagles and Two Rivers, then 4 can play that game.  
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COMMERCIAL
Monday: Lethbridge, Alberta
Tuesday: Regina, Saskatchewan (Exhibition Auditorium)  
Wednesday: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Thursday: Medicine Hat, Alberta or Red Deer, Alberta (alternating)  
Friday: Calgary, Alberta
Saturday: Edmonton, Alberta  
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4. Dave “Fit” Finlay b. Bobby Bold Eagle with a piledriver  
 
Bad News Allen comes out to join Ed Whalen. He tells Whalen the last time he was here, he almost killed The Stomper, and ran both him and Dino Bravo out of town. He went to another promotion or four and ran everyone out of those. Everyone was scared to fight the ultimate warrior, just like it should be. But he got a calling, Ed Whalen. He got a calling to come back to Stampede Wrestling and take what is his, the North American heavyweight belt. He knows that the Hart Mafia will not give him a title shot so instead he will run everyone in his way out of Stampede, just like he has everywhere else. He is going to start with someone who he already ran out, but someone who waited until Bad News was gone before coming back….ARCHIE GOULDIE!!!! Bad News tells The Stomper that once again it will be up to the man from Harlem to rid Canada of Gouldie. Keep an eye out Stomper, because you never know where Bad News will be.  
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5. Jim Neidhart b. Gerry Morrow with a powerslam. After he is attacked by Leo Burke and the newest member of the Foley Army, THE MASTERS OF DISASTERS….DUKE MYERS AND KERRY BROWN!!!!! The three attack Neidhart until Bruce Hart (with his broken arm in a cast), Keith and young Owen Hart make the save, running off Foley’s army.  
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Ending the show with a fade off to Ed Whalen saying “In the meantime….and in between time...that’s it…for another edition…of Stampede wrestling…Bye now”.
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TV Ends
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In dark bouts after TV:  
 
Archie “The Stomper” Gouldie b. Frenchy Martin with a vicious boot to the head
North American Heavyweight Belt: Bret Hart (champion) b. “Maddog” Pierre Lefebvre with the sleeper

Good job capturing the Stampede feel.  Bad News back here is money & I really like any promos like his that do a good job connecting his previous appearances in the territory - great promo all around (I loved his mic work).
 
Some really appealling new talent to carry things forward.