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December 3, 1983
River City Wrestling #126
Winnipeg Convention Centre, Winnipeg, MB
We
are welcomed by the announcers Ron Strong & Mike Stone.
Opening Bout:
Stan Rodgers & Kelly
Hobin v Butch Reed & Kendo Nagasaki (/w Mr. Ho)
An unruly brawl, as there has been too much bad blood involved
already between these men for a fair fight. Rodgers and Hobin actually worked well together, neutralized Ho, and were in control
of the match. However, Nagasaki took matters into his own hands by blowing green mist into the face of Hobin causing the disqualification.
Rodgers
& Hobin defeated Reed & Nagasaki by disqualification when Nagasaki was disqualified for use of a foreign object at
8:52
Post-Match:
Rodgers and Hobin were extremely mad. As Hobin cleaned his face and received medical
attention Rodgers threw out a challenge to Reed, Nagasaki & Ho to meet them and a partner in a six-man tag match at the
Anniversary show. They didn’t have to wait for an answer as Marty Goldstein came down to the ring, and upset at the
actions of Nagasaki made the match.
Bout #2
Phil LaFleur v Dynamite Kid
Exciting, uptempo
match. Lafleur was able to match Kid move for move for the first 5 minutes but then Dynamite took over by breaking the rules.
Kid nailed a snap suplex to set up his finisher.
Dynamite Kid defeated Phil LaFleur by pinfall after a diving headbutt
at 7:05
Post-Match:
Dynamite Kid was interviewed in the ring. He says it is a crock that people are comparing
Ben Bassarab (LaFleur’s partner) to himself. He says Bassarab is a poor imitation of the Dynamite style. He says he
will meet Bassarab at the Anniversary show and beat him like a red-haired step child. Maybe then people will stop making the
inane comparisons and will start comparing Bassarab to an acorn squash, or any other vegetable.
Bout #3:
Challenge
Match (Handi-cap match)
Bad News Allen v Tex Cobb & Keith Hart
Allen comes out and throws out a challenge
to Cobb to meet him in a wrestling match. He claims Cobb was almost beat by Rocky Stone so he’ll be no match for an
Olympian like Allen. But he says it isn’t fair so he tells Cobb to bring out a partner and he’ll beat both of
them. Cobb comes out, alone, and accepts the challenge, saying he doesn’t need a partner. However, when Keith Hart comes
out and offers to partner with Cobb, the former Boxer agrees.
Cobb does quite well to start, gaining the advantage
and tagging out to Hart. Likewise Hart keeps the advantage and makes a quick tag to Cobb. Allen though comes back with a thumb
to the throat and starts to work on Cobb. When Cobb tries to fire back with fists he is stopped by referee Wyatt Hall. Cobb
plays Ricky Morton for awhile before making the hot tag to Keith Hart. Hart though walks right into a chop to the throat and
Allen goes to work on him. Cobb keeps trying to get into the match but everytime he does, it forces Hall to escort him out
of the ring which allows Allen the chance to cheat. Finally Allen nails Hart with the enzuigiri and would have got the pin
but Cobb comes in to break it up. He goes to work on Allen, tossing him out of the ring and then throwing him into the guardrail.
Hall has seen enough and calls for the bell.
Bad News Allen defeats Tex Cobb & Keith Hart in a handi-cap match
by disqualification when Cobb was disqualified for interference at 10:50
Main Event
RCW Heavyweight
Championship Match
Chris Lyon (champion) (/w Tawney England)
V
The Destroyer
Lyon came to the ring
dressed in his Superstar Billy Graham impersonation gear. He says he just wanted to remind fans who it was that defeated the
legend, and that he was the greatest RCW performer ever, despite being tied with the Destroyer with 3 title wins each.
Lyon
seemed to put his money where his mouth was starting strong and controlling the first 5 minutes of this match, never letting
Destroyer catch his breath. Lyon was targeting the lower back of the masked challenger setting him up for the Boston crab.
Finally Destroyer started to make a comeback. This prompted Tawney England to jump on the apron to get involved, but Destroyer
anticipated the attack from behind and took Lyon down with a step-toe hold, sending him crashing into England. Destroyer used
a backbreaker on Lyon then noticed that England was still lying immobile on the floor. After a slight hesitation he left the
ring to see to her. Suddenly she seemed to revive and give Destroyer a roman-greco liplock. Lyon snuck up behind him, locked
on a full-nelson. Lyon punished Destroyer by turning the full-nelson into a slam before re-entering the ring. Back inside
it was all Lyon again, but when he tried to hook on the Boston crab, the Destroyer kicked him off sending him to the buckle.
Destroyer rolled him up on the rebound and got 1, 2, Kickout!
It was all Destroyer now, with forearms, hiptosses, and a
pair of waistlock suplexes. He went for the crucifix into a pin, but Lyon managed to roll through it, get up and clothesline
Destroyer right to the throat. As the masked man held his throat, Lyon hovered over him and dropped a knee right to the “lower”
abdomen. Referee George Gadasky warned him about disqualification but allowed the match to continue. Lyon then put Destroyer
into the Boston crab. After over 30 seconds in the agonizing hold, Destroyer managed to hit his hand hard enough into the
booted foot of Lyon to lose his balance and break the hold. Lyon began to choke Destroyer and only broke the choke when ordered
to by Gadasky.
We skip forward now through a few minutes of the match edited for TV time.
Destroyer is making a comeback,
supporting himself with the ring ropes, and lashing out several kicks to the champ. The fans are really behind him, smelling
a title change perhaps. But Lyon managed to distract Gadasky, and this allowed Tawney England to jump onto the apron with
a chair.
She was about to nail Destroyer in the head or back with it when Mike Valiant came racing down to the
ring and pulled her off the ring apron. Both Destroyer and the referee turned around to see what looked like Valiant menacing
England with the chair. Lyon tried to attack Destroyer from behind but the masked man was ready for it again and turned in
time to catch Lyon with a forearm. Lyon fell down like he had been shot.
Instead of going for the pin though the challenger
left the ring to try and separate Valiant from England who were now yelling at each other. Gadasky was distracted by checking
on Lyon’s condition which then allowed the Bounty Hunter to suddenly appear on the scene and ~waffle~ Destroyer
from behind with a cowbell. He then rolled the Destroyer back in the ring. Valiant chased BH away from ring side and into
the back.
Inside the ring Lyon was on his feet first and hit a DDT on the Destroyer. He followed this up with a slingshot
suplex to pick up the win.
Chris Lyon defeated The Destroyer by pinfall after a slingshot suplex and outside interference
at 15:22 [approximately 11 minutes shown on TV]
[Chris Lyon retained the RCW Heavyweight Championship]
Current line-up for the 4th Anniversary Show
Dec 15th/1983, Winnipeg Arena
RCW Heavyweight
Championship Match (just announced)
Chris Lyon (/w Tawney England) v Mike Valiant
Boxer v Wrestler Match (3 rounds)
Tex
Cobb v Bad News Allen
Canadian Women’s Unification Match
Judy Martin (RCW Champion) v LeLani Kai (Maple Leaf
champion)
RCW Tag Team Title Match
Angelo Mosca & Bobby Duncum (/w Corrie England)
V
Jim Brunzell &
Brad Rheinghans
RCW Television Title Match
Bounty Hunter v The Destroyer
Six-Man Tag Match
Kelly Hobin,
Stan Rodgers, and Keith Hart
V
Kendo Nagasaki, Butch Reed, and Mr. Ho
Ben Bassarab v Dynamite Kid
Invitational
Mixed Battle Royal
Midgets; Coconut Willie, Wolfman Kevin, Little Tokoyo, Chili Bowl, Tiny Tom, Little Coco, Stanislav
Kozlowich, Little Feet.
Women; Cherry Forever, Iron Maiden, Tawney England, Corrie England, White Venus.
That’s
it for another edition of River City Wrestling.
See ya next week.
December 10, 1983
River City Wrestling #127
Winnipeg Convention Centre, Winnipeg, MB
We
are welcomed by the announcers Ron Strong & Mike Stone.
Opening Bout:
Women’s Tag Team Action
Tawney
& Corrie England defeated Cherry Forever & Iron Maiden by pinfall when Corrie pinned Cherry with a schoolgirl at 4:18
Promo;
Mike
Valiant is interviewed by Ron Strong who asks why he has a smile a mile wide on his face. Valiant says that sometimes Chris
Lyon is his worst enemy and does damage to his title reign that his opponents can not duplicate. Recently Lyon has been running
around mocking Superstar Billy Graham by dressing and imitating him. Well at the 4th Anniversary show the roosters come home
to roost. Valiant says that the ink is drying right now on a new manager's license in RCW, with the name Superstar Billy Graham
on it. That’s right the legend himself will be at the Anniversary show and in the corner of the challenger Mike Valiant.
Bout
#2:
Non-title Match
Bounty Hunter defeated Super Uke by pinfall after the Lariat at 0:15
Promo;
Two muscular figures never before seen by RCW fans come on the screen. They are a woman and man, and although the
man is much bigger, the woman by comparison may be more impressively built. In a Slavic accent the male introduces himself
as Anton Rojack, and he is bringing his friend Valkrie to the Anniversary show. Rojack predicts that Valkrie
will win the Invitational Battle Royal. He pauses, and looks her over while she poses. She’s about 5’10 with a
muscular frame, and long blonde hair and blue eyes. He then turns to the camera and asks, who’s going to stop her?
Bout
#3
Ben Bassarab defeated Rob Flett by pinfall after a flying cross bodyblock at 6:09
Promo; On
Tonight’s National News
• Danuta Walesa's acceptance of Nobel Peace Prize in awards ceremony here for husband
Lech Walesa featured; Nobel committee chairperson's response to Polish government's criticism of award being given Walesa.
•
Greek ships scheduled to evacuate PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) chairperson Yasir Arafat and his loyalist troops
from Tripoli, Lebanon, reported demanding safe passage before leaving for Lebanon;
• Alabama Democrat Conf.'s endorsement
of Walter Mondale as President and Jesse Jackson as Vice President. His (Jackson) claim that Conf., by not endorsing his president
cand., betrays work of Martin Luther King, Junior.
• Outcome of first Pop Warner Pee Wee Super bowl between Dallas
and Reno football teams examined; Johnny Manard named MVP.
Main Event
Six Man Tag Match
Brad
Rheinghans, Jim Brunzell, & Mike Valiant defeated Angelo Mosca, Bobby Duncum, & Chris Lyon by countout when the fan
favorites sent the villains running for the showers at 12:21
The heroes stand triumphant in the ring, but will
it be that same way when they clash at the Anniversary show? Will Valiant with Superstar Billy Graham in his corner be able
to beat Lyon?
Will Rheinghans and Brunzell be able to overcome the sheer size and power of Mosca and Duncum?
That’s
it for the last regular edition of River City Wrestling for 1983.
Join us on December 15th live at the Winnipeg Arena for
RCW’s 4th Anniversary Spectacular!!
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