JHawk

I've already got a few of those up, so I'm a bit ahead of you there. I need to dig out my PWI collection the next day or two.

I'm trying (and the emphasis in on the word "trying") to cover the entire NWA over the last 56 years. My lone exceptions will be WCW cards from 1991-1993 without NWA champions wrestling on them and WWF shows from their run as NWA members without NWA champions on them since you guys have already done a hell of a job compiling them. Focus will initially be given to cards featuring NWA World and World Tag Team Champions to try to lighten the load somewhat early on, although I've included most of the TV and US title changes from the Mid-Atlantic area already. And no, I'm not taking direct submissions just yet. And to keep on the WCW topic here, I found this TV taping result in my research for the NWA site that I don't think we've covered here yet. August 2, 1993 - Center Stage Theater in Atlanta, GA Matches airing on WCW Saturday Night (8/14/1993): Arn Anderson/Paul Roma beat Dick Slater/Bobby Eaton when Anderson pinned Eaton Yoshi Kawn pinned Brad Armstrong after blocking Armstrong's Russian legsweep and using the ropes for leverage Sting beat Richard Ingram Sid Vicious pinned an unknown with a power bomb Marcus Alexander Bagwell/2 Cold Scorpio/Ricky Steamboat beat WCW World Televsion Champion Paul Orndorff/Lord Steven Regal/Maxx Payne when Steamboat pinned Regal with a Flying Bodypress Non-televised match:Frankie Lancaster pinned Chris Sullivan with a Russian legsweep Matches airing on WCW Saturday Night (8/21/1993): Sid Vicious/Harlem Heat beat 2 Cold Scorpio/Marcus Alexander Bagwell/Ron Simmons when Vicious pinned Bagwell with a power bomb The Equalizer defeated Ron Austin by submission to a full nelson Charlie Norris pinned Fury with a double chop Non-televised match: Tommy Angel/Scott Studd beat The Ringlords Matches airing on WCW Saturday Night (8/21/1993): Johnny B. Badd pinned Mike Thor with the left hook. Badd took off his mask before throwing the winning punch. Ice Train pinned Rage with a powerslam WCW World Heavyweight Champion Big Van Vader beat JT ? NWA World Champion Ric Flair defeated Sting by countout after Sid Vicious prevented Sting from reentering the ring. This was the last NWA World Title match to air on TBS.

The "chair shot heard round the world" with Tommy Dreamer and Raven at Heat Wave 95. Pretty much the entire hour of Wrestlepalooza 97 between the beginning of Raven-Dreamer and the end of Taz-Douglas. Heyman booking at its absolute finest. Taz congratulating Dreamer after finally winning the ECW World Title in a match that only 1200 people have ever seen, which I still consider the worst move ECW ever made. You pushed Dreamer as the underdog who can't quite win the big one for six years, and when he finally wins the big one, we don't even get to see the fucking match? Not even on a commercial video?

And even if he wasn't doing 1990, I'll need them anyway for the NWA results site, so it's all good. Speaking of which, it's actually coming along quite well so far all things consideed. Once I get some bills paid I'll pick up the server space and upload what I've got (probably two weeks or so) with the official launch being on or around July 1.

A house show on the same night as a TV taping? What would be the purpose of that?

WWE Hall of Fame

Do you have the Hallmark Channel? They show MASH like 274 times a day. Hard to miss it.

It wasn't unexpected in the sense that nobody thought it possible, but I think most people figured it would happen at Starrcade or possibly a Clash rather than some random house show. The Vince McMahon came calling, and the rest is history.

When I picked up hall of Fame today, they had "Chris Benoit July 2004" listed in the coming soon section. So either it's coming out in the US or they're teasing us.

Was this the spectacular 2 out 3 falls match? No. This was one fall, and Demolition lost by DQ but kept the titles. The best of three falls match was two months later

Raw from JHawk's Beak (5/31/2004) In with a bang, out with a whimper. Or something.

Um... JYD/Slaughter vs. Iron Sheik/Nikolai Volkoff from the Spectrum (October 1984). Granted, that was from Slaughter playing face-in-peril for 12-15 minutes, but it counts.

Oh? I could've sworn that someone mentioned on the KFM board JYD/Race was WM III. Either way though for Andre/Studd it will probably suck. Damn my weak sources. That could be right too. Either way those two matches suck ass.

I was under the impression that they were using the Race-JYD SNME match (which still sucks) and an Andre-Studd match from April 1983 (which probably still sucks since one of their Spectrum matches around that time literally consisted of Studd holding Andre in a headlock for ten minutes). Still, the alley fight and three or four hard to find title changes should make it worth a pickup.

They were basically construction workers. They wrestled in blue jeans, wore hard hats to the ring, and I remember Kanyon actually using a tape measure to measure the ring on Saturday Night once or twice. And the Starr/Kanyon combo was actually a pretty good team. Had there still been US Tag Titles at that point, they could have had a nice run with them.

1)Austin vs Rock wm 17 33)angle vs shane kotr 01 16)hhh vs foley rumble 00 17)flair vs steamboat chi-town rumble 8)hbk vs foley mind games 25)austin vs angle summerslam 01 9)angle vs benoit rumble 03 41)spanky-low ki-williams-danielson 7/27/02 4)bret vs austin wm13 36)steiners vs sting/luger superbrawl 1 52)hogan vs warriar wm6 45)blanchard vs magnum ta starcade 85 5)bret vs owen wm10 28)flair vs funk clash 9 12)savage vs warriar wm7 21)bret vs perfect summerslam 91 3)rey vs eddie halloween havoc 97 34)bret vs benoit 10/4/99 50)hhh/austin vs benoit/jericho 5/21/01 19)sting vs vader superbrawl 3 7)savage vs steamboat wm3 38)rock vs foley rumble 99 11)hhh vs rock judgement day 00 42)bret vs buldog summerslam92 22)10 man tag canadian stampede 10)92 rumble 39)flair vs windham worldwide 1/20/87 6)hhh vs hbk vs benoit wm20 47)owen vs buldog 2/26/97 51)rey/edge vs angle/benoit no mercy 02 30)bret vs perfect kotr 93 2)bret vs austin survivor series 96

I did go out for a while tonight and wanted to stay in the hotel with my lady. But Kylie Minogue only likes doing it once a night.

Check out the intro to the tag title match at Barely Legal and you'll be able to make out a huge "Fuck you D-Von" chant.

Which brings up an interesting question, actually. Most of the time in the WWF, the steel cage match was won by climbing the cage. The notable exception was Bob Backlund, who almost always escaped through the door. Can anybody think of any non-Backlund W/WWF/E cage matches that ended with the door escape?

IIRC, the kayfabe reason they created the blue bar cage was because they were afraid that with 460 pounds of King Kong Bundy hitting the cage that it might collapse and give Bundy the cheap victory. Obvious bullshit, as Andre the Giant had done cage matches with Kamala and Big John Studd before that. In reality, it was used under the belief that the wider bars would make the match come off better on TV.

Raw from JHawk's Beak(5/24/2004) Yep yep.

Bruno's first reign: May 17, 1963 through January 18, 1971. Bruno's second reign: December 10, 1973 through April 30, 1977.

Probably not, since LOD's debut was at a June taping and they were basically kepy apart until SummerSlam. They were building toward the Rude-Bossman feud, but Rude's contract ran out and he didn't re-sign, so Jack Tunney "suspended" him. Can't remember the source I got it from, but I want to say they were married in December 1984. As far as I remember, Jimmy Hart simply announced Tugboat was now Typhoon on Prime Time Wrestling. Not much fanfare at all. There was no official breakup, although it was teased at the 1993 Royal Rumble. WCW circa 1998, right? I can't remember where it became official (I want to say injuring Rey Misterio Jr.'s knee at Souled Out was the clincher), but he'd been throwing temper tantrums after a series of losses. He'd usually destroy Dave Penzer's suit, buy him a new one as an apology, then destroy that suit after the loss. Then came Souled Out.

It's hard to say exactly how much Watts hated Cactus since Cactus was injured for more than half of Watts' run. Remember, Cactus was Ron Simmons' first challenger at a major show after Simmons won the title (Clash XX in September -- which is where Cactus was injured). It was also in Watts' run where Cactus initially turned face, and the face turn didn't bomb until Bischoff took over and approved the "Lost in Cleveland" skits.

Not to mention the whole "live crowd" thing. They've only been doing that for 100 years. Not tired at all. Nope. Actually, the AWA tried that during the Team Challenge Series. You saw how well that turned out.