December 6, 1986
River City Wrestling #263
Medicine Hat, Alberta

 

-squash match, with Ultravixen providing a bit of eye candy but nothing more to the proceedings

 

A taped interview with Misty Blue Simmes about her progress recovering from her back injury suffered at the hands of Orca. Simmes says her biggest challenge at this point isn't physical, its mental. Her seething hatred for Orca is preventing her from concentrating on her match next week against Sherri Martel, an accomplished wrestler that she does not want to take for granted.

 

-Wow, a big upset for Blackman. Silva controlled most of this match with his ultra aggressive rulebreaking style. Blackman's offense was few and far between. But when Silva went for his wheelbarrow suplex finisher, Blackman managed to block it, do a couple consecutive go-behinds to confuse his opponent and then hit a T-bone suplex for the win.

 

Post-Match:

Silva spit and sputtered in the ring, shaking the ring ropes and sending referee Jurgen Hermann scattering for cover.

 

This weekend on WWF's "Wrestling Challenge",

Adrian Adonis and Jimmy Hart will be guests on the Snake Pit; Gene Okerlund interviews Bonnie Steamboat; promos for Blackjack Mulligan and Outback Jack; a six-man tag match featuring Tito Santana; Kamala in singles action; the tag team of Don Muraco & Bob Orton Jr; and a huge six man tag main event.

 

-a talent filled throw together tag team match. The TV champion Bassarab faired all right but Kirchner had another rough outing. Guay and Zhukov showed no interest in each other before or after the bell but worked well together during the match.

 

Boris Zhukov infuriated the crowd in broken English sputtering about the inferior Americans and Canadians like Bassarab and Kirchner. Says he will take either Bassarab's belt or Disalvo's belt very soon.

The other half of the broken English duo, Hangman Neil Guay, tells the Albertan crowd how Quebec should seperate from Canada to get away from the rednecks and oilriggers out here. He starts into how he is going to cripple Ben Bassarab but we are short on time and mercifully the interview is cut.

 

-a return match, but Renslow and Wagner faired no better then the first time

 

Highlites of former WWWF and RCW champion Bob Backlund set to Huey Lewis' hit single "Hip To Be Square". Backlund will be returning to the ring at the 7th Anniversary Spectacular to take on Steve Disalvo for the RCW Title.

 

[end of first hour]

 

Marty Goldstein comes to the ring with two announcements.

First scanning through the roster and recent ring results, while Boris Zhukov and Steve Blackman for instance have both been impressive, a stronger and more solidified challenge needs to be made for Ben Bassarab at RCW's premiere event of the year, the 7th Anniversary spectacular. Therefore, he is naming tonight's match between The Destroyer and Chris Lyon as a #1 contenders match with the winner taking on Bassarab at the big card for the RCW TV Title.

Secondly, there is a lot riding on tonight's main event match which will be an RCW Heavyweight title defense between Strangler Steve Disalvo and challenger Hoss Funk. So a special guest referee has been named. That man will be none other then Bob Backlund!!

 

Pre-Match:

Hoss Funk comes to the ring. He says he wants to introduce RCW wrestling fans to his nephew J.J. Funk. J.J. comes to the ring wearing his black mask and carrying the family branding iron. Hoss says he's proud of his nephew and confident in his ability to beat anyone back in the dressing room. It's an open challenge and after about a minute of restless silence and jeers from the crowd, finally out comes The Longriders. The pair face off against the Funks, before Wild Bill accepts the challenge, and both Scott Hogg and Hoss are sent to the back.

 

-J.J. was outclassed by the power of Wild Bill but used enough cheating to stay alive until a chance presented itself to get away with using the branding iron on the head of Wild Bill undetected.

 

Manny Silva is still despondent over his loss to Steve Blackman earlier tonight. He wants a rematch, says he'll kill eveyone if he doesn't get it, but then he says "pretty please".

 

-yet another match between these two staples of River City Wrestling. The last couple minutes told the story that these two know each other so well, as there was lots of counters and reversals before Lyon made the mistake of going for a nonchelant clothesline and the Destroyer countered with this finisher.

 

December 18th, 1986 at the Winnipeg Arena, River City Wrestling is proud to present its 7th Anniversary Spectacular!!

** RCW Heavyweight Title Match; Steve Disalvo or Hoss Funk against Bob Backlund

** North American Women's Title match; Misty Blue Simmes or Sherri Martel against Orca

** RCW Television Title match; Ben Bassarab against The Destroyer

** much more

 

Next week will be the premiere of the Haitian voodoo sensation, Vendetta!!!

 

[Steve Disalvo retained the RCW Heavyweight Title]

-Disalvo beat Funk from pillar to post the first couple minutes of this match. The fans then got solidly behind Disalvo when Funk began to play chicken and waste time. This brought him into confrontation with Bob Backlund. Disalvo controlled Funk again but his attempts at both a DDT from the 2nd buckle and a piledriver were both blocked by Funk. Finally the former NWA champ changed the momentum when breaking out of a bearhug by gouging the eyes of the champ. Funk chopped him down like a tree and then went to work on his arm on the mat. His armbars and armbreakers were not enough to put Disalvo away though and when he changed tactics to go after the legs Disalvo was able to kick his way out of it. He blasted Funk with a few hard kicks and Funk countered with a "near" low blow. This again brought Funk into conflict with Backlund. This time though Backlund got into Funk's face as the two argued face to face.

J.J. Funk hit the ring using the distraction. He tried to attack Disalvo from behind with the branding iron but Disalvo saw it coming, blocked it, bodyslammed J.J., and then threw him over the top rope. Hoss went after Disalvo but the big champ caught him with a spear instead. He followed up with a bodyslam, DDT from the 2nd turnbuckle, and then his piledriver finisher.

 

As Disalvo was presented with the belt he went nose to nose with Bob Backlund, his challenger on the 18th. J.J. and Hoss Funk then tried for some retribution but Backlund and Disalvo were too much and beat them away.

As the Funks withdrew up the rampway they had one more surprise waiting for them; the Longriders. The tag team champs beat the Funks back towards the ring as we went off air.

 

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

 

See ya next week!!

 

 

 

December 13, 1986
River City Wrestling #264

Brandon, MB

 

Pre-Match:

The RCW champion Strangler Steve Disalvo is in the ring with his valet Lisa Caress. He is scheduled to face Raider. Disalvo though gets on the mic and says this is not enough of a warm-up for his title defense against Bob Backlund in 5 days at the 7th Anniversary Spectacular. He says send down another stiff and lets make this a handi-cap match. From the back comes Jeff Gillies. But the champ says this is still not enough of a challenge. He says send another one out, and out comes Justin McKay. Finally the champ is ready to proceed.

 

Opening Bout:

-each man took his turn against the champ, and none of them could muster up any offense. Disalvo took Raider down with a DDT from the 2nd buckle but when he went for the pin the other two rushed in to break it up. That was a mistake though as Disalvo brutalized each with a running clothesline before throwing them out of the ring. He then hit Raider with a piledriver and made the pin.

 

Bob Backlund came out and made sure everyone knew that he was not going to be as easy to beat as Disalvo's match just now. Backlund says he has trained hard and wants to win the title to bring back the prestige it had with holders like the Destroyer and Jim Brunzell, not like it is now being drug through the muck by Disalvo.

 

Jill Devries, former Playboy Playmate and recently appeared in Tom Cruise's "Risky Business" will be making a special appearance at the 7th Anniversary Sptectacular.

 

-squash match

 

Phillip Navarre is interviewed and announces that he has been signed to wrestle at the 7th Anniversary show against Chris Lyon. He says he will be preparing hard for Lyon's unscrupulous methods and may come up with a counter or two of his own.

 

Warner Brothers is proud to release to theatres this weekend, the new Clint Eastwood film, "Heartbreak Ridge".

Eastwood plays Sgt. Tom Highway, A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant who clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

Can Heartbreak Ridge unseat Star Trek IV at the top of the Box Office heap?

 

-huge upset that seems to throw this young team of Malone and Cummings back into the tag team spotlight. Zhukov and Guay worked pretty good as a tag team but showed no interest in each other before the match again; just a throw together team.

 

Malone and Cummings cut a short interview where they said that in light of that victory they may have to rethink their desire to wrestle as singles and take another stab at grabbing the tag team gold.

Boris Zhukov returns to the ring. He says that he never got to choose his own partner, and that if he had a good communist partner instead of a capitalist then things would have worked out different. Cummings and Malone tell him to get a partner and meet them at the Anniversary show. Zhukov says he will call back to Mother Russia, KGB, and see what can be done.

 

"High School Confidential" by Rough Trade plays, a mixture of their real video for the song and clips of RCW's Lisa Caress, Misty Blue Simmes, Candi Divine, and Sherri Martel.

The video is followed by a statement from lead singer Carole Pope who says she and her band will be at the 7th Anniversary Spectacular to warm up the crowd with a pre-event concert, and that she will also sing the national anthem.

 

[Simmes retains the North American Women's Title]

-hard fought match, with Martel wrestling very dirty. She also tried to suck up to the ref for favoritism but that didn't work. Simmes first big comeback ended when she tried to scoop slam Martel but her recently injured back couldn't hold up the weight. Martel though instead of capitalizing on the situation left the ring to jaw with the announcers who she overheard saying that "Simmes could not support Sherr's weight". This delay cost her as Simmes returned fire with fists in the ring, and then hit a nice flying clothesline, a pair of dropkicks, and a neckbreaker to place her in the right spot to hit the Superfly when Martel staggered to her feet.

 

Martel rolled out of the ring, but as Simmes arm was raised in victory and she had the belt in the other hand, Martel rolled back into the ring and attacked Simmes from behind. She worked over the back with kneedrops and used the belt to whip her lower back as well.

 

-the latest in the Iran Arms Scandal, as Swiss government's refusal to freeze bank accts. controlled by Colonel Oliver North due to United States government's failure to supply necessary information

-Growing criticism of President P.W. Botha's new wave of oppression in South Africa reported

-Popularity of new television video games for adults and children discussed

 

 

[end of first hour]

 

Misty Blue Simmes is shown being taken from the ring on a stretcher after that attack by Martel. Her status is now in doubt as to whether she will be able to defend against Orca at the 7th Anniversary Spectacular.

 

-squash match. They locked up. Vendetta powered Demon to the ropes. Instead of breaking clean Demon nailed Vendetta with a punch. The Haitian blocked the next punch, hit a knee to the gut, knee to the face, side russian legsweep. He followed up with a running baseball slide to the ribcage, hit his finisher and that was all folks.

 

Post-Match:

As Vendetta's hand was raised, Kid Gallahad came out to ringside. He went to the announce table and after giving Vendetta a golf clap, he said "Bravo...so that was the great next thing, Vendetta. Too bad you were wrestling this stiff...Navarre got the red demon, you got his brother the black demon, maybe we will see you up against the mauve demon next week? Tell you what Voodoo man, why don't you try me on for size on December the 18th at this little show we got going called the Anniversary Spectacular?

Vendetta doesn't have a mic but nods his acceptance.

 

Accompanied by footage from the 1979 Russ Meyer film "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens" where she starred as Nurse Flovilla Thatch, we get a promo by seductive Sharon Hill who says she will be making a guest appearance at the 7th Anniversary Spectacular to get everyone's blood pressure rising.

 

-this match got out of control quickly and spilled out of the ring. Silva used Blackman's nunchucks to choke him, and Blackman later battled back with a chair shot. The match had already been thrown out. The two men continued to battle around the announce table before officials could break it up.

 

Marty Goldstein came out as the officials were having a hard time keeping the two men apart. He told them to knock it off or they would be suspended. But if they quit now they could have each other again at the Anniversary show, and although it is not RCW style, if they like weapons so much, then lets make them legal. It'll be a weapons match. Both men seemed to like this idea.

 

Midget Madness returns to RCW, at the 7th Anniversary spectacular as the pint sized pugilists entertain in tag team action with Cowboy Lang & Tiger Jackson to take on Lord Littlebrook & Butch Cassidy. Fun for the whole family!!

 

[The Longriders retained the RCW Tag Team Titles]

-Hoss acquitted himself quite well in this match, and although J.J. did allright when handed the advantage by Hoss, he couldn't seem to turn the tide himself and was the weak link of the two. Finally, J.J. tried to use the branding iron to get the win but was caught by referee Buddy Lane and disqualified.

 

Despite the disqualification the Funks still held the advantage 2 on 1 on Scott Hogg because Irwin was knocked out with the branding iron. They managed to then subdue Scott and after dipping the iron in black ink they branded both brothers with the mark of the double cross.

 

Promo:

The show ends with a 5 minute video montage showing the match-ups for the

7th Anniversary Spectacular played to several current top 40 hits, "This is the Time" Billy Joel, "Land of Confusion" Genesis, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" Wang Chung, and ending with "War" Bruce Springsteen.

 

**RCW Title Match: Steve Disalvo  v  Bob Backlund

**RCW TV Title Match: Ben Bassarab  v  The Destroyer

**RCW Tag Title Match: The Longriders  v  Hoss & J.J. Funk

**Weapons Match: Steve Blackman  v  Manny Silva

**Women's Title Match: Misty Blue Simmes  v  Orca

**Moe Malone & Shawn Cummings  v  Boris Zhukov and mystery partner

**Phillip Navarre  v  Chris Lyon

**Vendetta  v  Kid Gallahad

**Midget tag team madness: Cowboy Lang & Tiger Jackson  v  Lord Littlebrook & Butch Cassidy

** Special appearances by Carol Pope and Rough Trade, Sharon Hill, and Jill Devries

 

That's it for another edition of River City Wrestling

 

See ya in 5 sleeps for the 7th Anniversary Spectacular!!