July 20,1985
River City Wrestling #199
Edmonton, Alberta

 

Tonight's main event will be a Quarterfinal match in the TV Title tournament but will feature the #1 seeded Bobby Duncum against his friend and #8 seed Chris Lyon. Ron Strong seems to have fun trying to stir up trouble between the two but has no luck. Even when he suggests that Bobby Duncum could have done more to save Chris from early elimination in the seeding battle royal last week both men seem to shake it off. Strong says they seem to be "thick as thieves", a comment which they don't appreciate at all.

 

 

-squash match

 

Wahoo McDaniel is interviewed and is a bit surprised that his former tag partner Larry Hennig is looking for a new partner to continue to go after the tag belts. Wahoo says he doesn't know yet what he is going to do, either go after singles gold that Jerry Blackwell holds or get himself a new tag partner as well.

 

Promo; WWF Comes to the Met Center in Minneapolis tomorrow night.

WWF World Champ Hulk Hogan to defend against Roddy Piper

Paul Orndorff seeks revenge against former friend Bob Orton Jr.

Hart Foundation tangle with the British Bulldogs

Terry Funk sees action against SD Jones

and much more

 

 

-very competitive match with two young girls who fight a similar style.

 

Tawney England comes out to the ring to introduce herself to Red Fox and to congratulate her on her two big victories. She tells Red Fox that she hopes she will be going after Corrie England's women's title. Red Fox thanks her for her support and says she has decided to stay in RCW for a while, and yes she has her eyes on the Canadian Women't Title.

 

-squash match

 

The tag champs are interviewed, Masked Superstar & Super Destroyer. Ron Strong asks them what reason they possibly had for the vicious attack they perpetrated last week on the Malenkos.

Superstar said to call it a premptive strike. They know that all the teams out there are gunning for the tag team belts, that eventually the Malenkos would come knocking for a title shot. Well they have never been ones to do things on other people's terms, so they decided to beat the snot out of the Malnekos ahead of time to put the favor in their advantage.

SD tells the Malenkos if they want revenge, then come and get it next week. But since its for revenge it will be a non-title match. If they want a title match they will have to earn it.

 

Universal Studios looks to have the number one and two movies this weekend at the box office.

"Back to the Future" starring Michael J. Fox looks to hold onto its #1 spot in its 3rd weekend of release. However, it will have to fight off the Universal re-release of "E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial" the reigning top box office movie of all-time.

 

 

-Mr. Ho made another scouting appearance and once again this distraction led to Tonga almost losing the match, However, Sharpe took too long to gloat to the fans and this allowed Tonga to recover and surprise "Canada's Greatest Athlete" with his finisher.

 

[end of first hour]

 

 

 

-this was turning into a fantastic match between probably the two best high flyers on the roster. It was spoiled however with the inexplicable interference by Mr. Ho who had come out again to scout. Instead he tripped up Armstrong at a critical point without the ref seeing and this allowed Bassarab to turn the tables and pick up the win.

 

Promo:

Tonight on "Good Rockin' Tonite" featured videos will include; Never Surrender - Corey Hart, Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young, The Goonies R Good Enough - Cyndi Lauper, You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead or Alive, and Crying Over You - Platinum Blonde.

 

July 27,1985
River City Wrestling #200
Calgary, AB

 

-match featured all 4 ladies well but Corrie wanted nothing to do with Red Fox. This sets up Red Fox for a title shot at Corrie.

 

-excellent high paced match but Bassarab got in a nice piece of cheating to pick up the win.

 

-this was a hard loss for Sharpe to swallow and after the match he nailed the youngster once in the back of the head with his "injured" forearm in a brace.

 

Marty Goldstein came to the ring and called out Mr. Ho. He told him that he has continually come out to watch the matches, distracting wrestlers, and now interfering in matches. Mr. Ho says he felt terrible about costing Tonga his match in the tournament and thought he might make up for it by making sure the underserving Brad Armstrong did not advance.

Goldstein is furious and tells him to stay away from ringside unless he is officially the manager for a wrestler competing in the match.

Mr. Ho says he just happens to have a new wrestler and tells Goldstein to call out someone to wrestle him. Goldstein calls out 350 pound Man Mountain Mike. Then Mr. Ho calls out his wrestler, a 6'1 270 pound Japanese grappler by the name of Yoshiaki Yatsu.

 

-squash match.

 

[end of first hour]

 

-After controlling the first half of the match by cheating Lyon found himself all but beat in this bout. Tonga had him flat on his back in the middle of the ring after a sidewalk slam, ready to be pinned. But once again Mr. Ho came to ringside, this time accompanied by Yatsu. Tonga looked at them, then at Lyon, and then left the ring and followed Ho & Yatsu out of the ring and to the back.

 

 

-fairly even match, but you got the feeling that the masked champions were holding something in reserve. The Malenkos often controlled the action but failed to do a lot of big damage to the champions. It's still doubtful that the match was in jeopardy when Masked Superstar elected to wrap a chain around his fist and nail Joe Malenko in the head while his arms were held behind his back by SD, busting him wide open and causing the dq.

 

Post-Match:

The brawl continued between the 4 men outside the ring and into the crowd. It was eventually broken up by RCW officials.

 

Brunzell controlled early, getting Blackwell off his feet and doing everything he could legally to keep him that way. When the champ finally got to the ropes for a break and stood up, Brunzell took him down again with a double leg takedown. He worked him more on the mat but the champ eventually got to the ropes again. Brunzell went to the well once too often for a double leg and Blackwell caught him with a knee to the head. He then lifted him up by the ears and slapped him hard across the chest. When Brunzell bent over in pain Blackwell nailed him with a double axhandle to the back, and then dropped his knees right onto the back of Brunzell's head. After failing to get the pin he worked a standing headlock. Brunzell tried to throw him off, but Blackwell held his ground. It actually looked like Blackwell might win the match with this pedestrian move. But Dr. D David Schultz came out to ringside to have a few words with the champ. This distraction allowed Brunzell to slip out of the hold, and slide out of the ring to recover a bit while Blackwell and Schultz exchanged verbal barbs. Officials got Schultz away from the ring and the match resumed.

Brunzell had a brief comeback but Blackwell ended it when he swatted the former High Flyer to the side on a dropkick attempt and then landed a splash onto Brunzell's side. Jimmy grabbed his vulnerable ribs, the same side previously injured. Like a piranah to blood the champ attacked the ribs of Brunzell. He made the challenger waste energy getting in and out of the ring several times when tossed to the floor.

Once again Brunzell fired back at the champ but couldn't get him off his feet. Brunzell went for a missile dropkick from the top rope but Blackwell deftly dodged the move and once again followed up with a devastating splash on the injured ribs. This time he got the pin.

 

[Jerry Blackwell retains the RCW Heavyweight Title]

 

Post-Match:

Blackwell is presented with the championship belt. He grabs a mic and screams at David Schultz that he has stuck his nose in the wrong guy's business. He threatens Schultz with a revenge beating.

 

That's it for another edition of River City Wrestling.

 

See ya next week!!