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 March 8 1983
Aired on: Saturday March 9 1983
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. With three weeks away until Stampede is in Vancouver for a huge benefit for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, tempers are flaring and emotions are running high. After that huge show, the Ontario Stampede fans, and they amount in the thousands are going to get the treat. April 28th, Stampede wrestling will be heading to Toronto, Ontario in order to provide the fans there a taste of REAL professional wrestling, great professional wrestling, and wrestling like they have never seen except on this television show. It won’t be old men trying to show they can still go. It will be the most exciting high flyers and the toughest of the tough in any ring. It is going to be a ring-a-ding-dong-dandy of a show. **
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1. Johnny Smith b. Ben Bassarab with two piledrivers
 
Johnny Smith calls out Owen Hart again. This time saying he has crippled Hart’s new partner. Hart better hurry up and get out here or Bassarab will feel what it is like to never walk again. As Smith picks up Bassarab to deliver another piledriver, Owen Hart jumps in to the ring and the brawl is on, all the way to the back.
 
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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. Les Thornton with Tony Charles b. Keith Hart with the butterfly lock. It is a two on one but not for long as Keith’s brother Bruce comes to the rescue with a chair. As Thornton and Charles see this, they head to the locker room instead of continuing the battle.  
 
Bruce Hart helps his brother up saying that those two British goofs have done the wrong thing. Nothing is stronger than the bond between brothers. If they want to fight a Hart, to take a Hart out of wrestling, how about on the 31st, in Vancouver, those cowards Charles and Thornton Vs. the former International tag team champions, Keith and Bruce Hart. It will be one team wins and one team cries.  
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3. Jim Neidhart b. Danny Davis by shoulder tackle
 
Neidhart tells Ed Whalen that March 31st is coming quick and when it does, him and Ron Ritchie are going to make quick work of Mike Shaw and Ben Doon McDonald. A street fight is exactly what Neidhart loves and it will be his pleasure to make those two bleed. Ron Ritchie is ready. “The Anvil” is ready…are Shaw and McDonald ready? Neidhart does not think so, then laughes maniacally as we go to commercial.  
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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. Mark Fleming b. Ron Ritchie with the Thesz Press  
 
Mark Fleming lets Ed Whalen know that now there is one less contender in his way to taking the North American title off of Mr. Hito. Fleming calls out AWA Representative Dan Kroffat. Kroffat comes out asking Fleming what he wants. Fleming tells Kroffat he knows exactly what Fleming wants, Mr. Hito. Kroffat tells him that right now, while he is coming up the rankings, he is not the number one contender yet. Fleming tells him that is not good enough. Poking Kroffat in the chest, Fleming warns Kroffat that he has one week left to announce him as the number one contender or Fleming will have to take this matter in to his own hands.  
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5. Non-Title Match: The Masters of Disaster with JR Foley b. The Cobra and Super Strong Machine with a sleeper from Kerry Brown to Machine.
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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:  
 
Dynamite Kid b. Hubert Gallant with a top rope headbutt
North American Heavyweight Belt: Champion Mr. Hito b. “Mean” Mike Shaw by DQ after Ben Doon McDonald joins his cousin for the two on one brawl