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April 7, 1984
River City Wrestling #140
Winnipeg Convention Center, Winnipeg, MB
Bout
#1:
Semi-Final Match for vacant RCW Television title
Bad News Allen pinned Ben Bassarab after an enzuigiri
at 17:02
-only about 8 minutes of this match were televised, partially due to length but also due to content as it was
a bloody encounter.
Bout #2
Challenge Match
Bounty Hunter defeated Vic Gate by disqualification
for outside interference at 5:04
-Gate had challenged BH to put his top contender status on the line, and the big Texan
accepted. Seemed to be a ploy though because it was only 5 minutes into the match when Chris Lyon entered the ring and nailed
BH from behind. He and Gate teamed up to lay a beating on BH before officials could break it up.
Bout #3
Valkrye
defeated Anton Rojack by submission with the full-nelson at 3:34
-the two came to the ring together as if for a tag match
or singles encounter. Rojack was shocked when after hearing Valkrye’s particulars his were announced as the challenger.
He got in no offense, unwilling it seems to even try until the very end when it was too late. Rojack submitted after about
5 seconds of the rag doll treatment in the full nelson. After the match Valkrye brought out a dog collar and leash, and proceeded
to put them on her man and walk him up the aisle like a dog.
Main Event – Bout
#4
RCW Tag Team Title Match
Bret & Keith Hart defeated Angelo Mosca & Bobby Duncum (/w Corrie England) by
disqualification at 9:00
[Mosca & Duncum retain the RCW Tag Team titles]
-strange behavior exhibited by the tag
team champions. After manhandling Bret a bit they challenged Keith to tag in. Almost immediately they were viciously double-teaming
Keith, risking DQ. They punished Keith for a few minutes but couldn’t put him away. Keith made the hot tag to Bret,
but suddenly the champs were demurring, shying away from the younger Hart. While Bret worked a headlock on Duncum inside the
ring, Mosca slipped off the apron, went around the ring, and attacked Keith from behind pulling him off the apron. He continued
to pound on him and when Bret turned his back to help his brother Duncum nailed him from behind. The ref counted out Mosca
for the illegal behavior when it was obvious he had no designs to stop. After the match when Bret came to get Mosca off his
brother the tag champs just left the premises with the belts.
April 14, 1984
River City Wrestling #141
Winnipeg Convention Center, Winnipeg, MB
Opening
Bout:
Judy Martin defeated Rhonda Singh by pinfall after a piledriver at 6:22
[Martin retained the Canadian Women’s
Title]
-a rare stop for Martin back in RCW. She wow’d the crowd by getting the big Singh up for a piledriver.
Bout
#2
Tex Cobb defeated Jeff Grae by pinfall at 3:09
-squash match
Bout #3
Tournament Final for
the vacant RCW Television Title
Butch Reed defeated Bad News Allen by pinfall after a top rope clothesline at 14:58
[Butch
Reed wins the RCW Television title]
-a very good match with Allen bleeding from the head and Reed from the arm. In
and out of the ring. Reed blocked an enzuigiri attempt, followed up with a running clothesline and then the finisher.
Main
Event – RCW Heavyweight Title Match
Bounty Hunter and Chris Lyon battle to a double countout at 7:30
[Chris
Lyon retains the RCW Heavyweight Title]
-Lyon didn’t seem able to stop the combination of size and aggressiveness
and actually initiated the out of the ring brawling which saw him get beaten up pretty badly. After the match Bobby Duncum
and Angelo Mosca came to Lyon’s aid pouncing on BH. This time however BH had backup as the Hart Brothers came out almost
immediately to join the fray and even the odds. After being separated by officials Chris Lyon, with his title draped over
his shoulder, grabbed a mic and demanded from BH “who put a bounty on my head? I’ll double whatever he’s
paying you.” BH smiled and responded “I put the bounty on your head, and two times nothing is still nothing”.
April 21, 1984
River City Wrestling #142
Winnipeg Convention Center, Winnipeg, MB
Bout
#1
Vic Gate defeated Ben Bassarab by pinfall after a German suplex at 8:33
-very competitive bout but the turncoat
Gate is on a roll.
Bout #2
Valkrye & Anton Rojack defeated Larry Anson & Louis Laurence by submission
when Valkrye made Laurence submit to the full-nelson at 6:45
-Rojack comes to the ring being led by collar and leash and
now goes as “the Beaten Man” Anton Rojack. Anson and Laurence are hesitant to wrestle against a woman and that
costs them dearly as Valkrye is quite strong and competent. After the victory Valkrye finally seems pleased with her pet.
Bout
#3:
Angelo Mosca & Bobby Duncum defeat Bret & Keith Hart by pinfall when Duncum pins Bret after a flying bulldog
at 8:56
[Mosca & Duncum retain the RCW Tag Team Titles]
-before the match could start, the England Sisters made
an attempt to lure Bret into joining the Triumvirate. He seemed tempted by their wares but was finally talked out of it by
his brother Keith. The rejection pissed off the England sisters which really pissed off the tag champs. There was no kid glove
treatment this time for Bret Hart, and the big tag champs used their size and disregard for the rulebook to win the match.
Main
Event: Return Match:
Chris Lyon defeated The Bounty Hunter by submission with the Boston crab at 12:08
[Lyon retains
the RCW Heavyweight Title]
-By hook and by crook Lyon retains his title once again. In this case a well placed use of the
ringbell by Tawney England knocked the BH out without the ref noticing. Lyon put the Boston crab on and the ref lifted and
dropped the arm of the BH 3 times. To rub it in after the match Tawney England did a mock lap dance on the still unmoving
BH and then tucked a $5 bill into his tights.
Once again the Triumvirate is celebratory in the ring, and Marty Goldstein
and the boys in the hero’s dressing room are left shaking their heads.
That’s it for another edition of
River City Wrestling!
See ya next week.
April 28, 1984
River City Wrestling #143
Winnipeg Convention Center, Winnipeg, MB
Announcers
Ron Strong and Mike Stone welcome us to another edition of River City Wrestling.
Opening Bout:
Brad Rheinghans v
Harley Race
Harley Race electrified the crowd as the former NWA World Champion came out unannounced to steal the thunder
from Brad Rheinghans who was returning after his neck injury at the hands of Dynamite Kid. Race actually offered to shake
hands with Rheinghans before the match which the former Olympian gracefully accepted. The match began as a scientific battle,
with the occasional forearm shot thrown in for a measure of meanness. Rheinghans held his own and the battle was 50/50 when
the ring announcer told us 10 minutes had elapsed and 5 were remaining. Marty Goldstein came down as an interested observer
to watch the action.
Race seemed to lose his temper once the 10 minute announcement was made, and suddenly out of the blue
began to cheat. Chokes, hitting on the break, and boot rakes of the forehead drew the ire of the crowd. It was effective however
as he caught Rheinghans off guard and managed to get him into his signature figure-four.
Harley Race defeated Brad
Rheinghans by submission with the figure-four leglock at 12:59[approximately 10 minutes televised]
In-ring interview;
Race
said that he was accepting some booking dates here in RCW since the level of competition is ever increasing. He indicates
that he will still be wrestling all over the world but that he will fight whomever he is put up against here in RCW. When
asked about his cheating against Rheinghans, Race insisted that he hadn’t cheated. He asks Ron Strong, “if I had
cheated then how come they didn’t disqualify me?”. Marty Godlstein was shown, deep in thought, watching the interview.
Bout #2:
Grudge Mask – Anything Goes
Tex Cobb v Vic Gate
Two former protégés
of the Destroyer match up once again. Gate, the pure wrestler-heel, won the last one, but this match is right up the alley
of the pugilist Cobb. In fact Cobb comes out with his fists tapped up which is bad news for Gate. The match inside the ring
is nothing but a brawl. Realizing this as a mistake Gate tries to turn it into a ground wrestling match, but Cobb will not
relent. The match spills outside where Cobb uses his fists to bust open the head of Gate the hardway. Gate fights back against
fists with a steel chair which buys him back the advantage. Both men are bleeding now so the tape is cut to the finish for
television. The match spills into the crowd where the two men are fighting up the concrete stairs. Suddenly Cobb reverses
the advantage, and uses the high ground to bludgeon Gate all the way down the stairs, hitting him down each stair individually.
Cobb tosses Gate inside the ring and hits him with a bolo punch to pick up the win.
Tex Cobb defeats Vic Gate by
pinfall after a bolo punch at 8:07
In-ring interview;
Dynamite Kid comes to the ring and demands
to know in advance who he will fight tonight as his surprise opponent. He has been suspended for the past 4 weeks due to using
the brainbuster. DK says he figured it would be either Rheinghans or Brunzell, but the former has already wrestled tonight
and the latter has not been cleared to wrestle. He is very unnerved. Goldstein comes to the aisle way and tells DK from a
distance that he will find out at bell time, but as a hint it is someone he should know very well both from at home (UK)?
and as an opponent here in North America (Stampede or RCW?). DK is furious but there isn’t anything he can do about
it.
Bout #3:
RCW Television Title Match – Return Match
Butch Reed (champion) v Bad
News Allen
Another excellent match between these two but pretty much the same as the last one. Lots of brawling, some
bloodshed, and in the end Reed comes out on top.
Butch Reed defeats Bad News Allen by pinfall after the flying shoulderblock
at 13:13
[approximately 8 minutes shown on television]
[Butch Reed retains the RCW Television title]
Main
Event
Mystery opponent
Davey Boy Smith v Dynamite Kid
A bit anti-climatic for the livecrowd
as many do not know who DBS is, or his past with DK, having both feuded and teamed with him both in the UK and in Stampede.
However, they know something is up when as soon as DK sees DBS coming up the aisle he goes ballistic and charges right at
him. They battle in the aisle and then around the ring, never actually getting into the ring. They end up trading chair shots,
sending both men down, and the referee is throwing the match out.
No-Contest 0:00
That’s it
for another edition of River City Wrestling.
See ya next week!!
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