September 1, 1984
River City Wrestling #160
Keystone Center, Brandon, Manitoba

Opening Bout:
Vic Gate defeated Bobby Jones by submission to the figure-four leglock at 2:03
-squash match

Promo with matchmaker Marty Goldstein;
Another River City Wrestling tradition, the September Battle Royal is coming on September 15th. A 20-man over the top battle royal, with the winner to receive not only a $5,000 purse but also a title shot against RCW Heavyweight champion Chris Lyon.

Angelo Mosca comes to the ring to personally tell Marty Goldstein that he will be entering.

“No One Like You” by the Scorpions plays and out comes the Triumvirate, Chris Lyon, Bobby Duncum, and the England Sisters. Lyon says that even if Mosca wins he won’t defend his title against him, he has nothing left to prove. Goldstein says no, Lyon will defend against whomever wins that battle royal. A pissed off Lyon says that it won’t be a problem as he and Bobby Duncum will enter into the battle royal to take care of Mosca. Goldstein says no again. He says any wrestler is eligible EXCEPT for Lyon because he can’t win a title shot against himself. However, Goldstein says he doesn’t want Lyon to feel left out, so he has a match defending his title tonight, against none other then RCW Television champion Butch Reed!!
Duncum calms Lyon down, and assures him that he will take care of Mosca and everyone else in the battle royal. At first this calms Lyon down until he does the math and starts accusing Duncum of wanting his title. Things get heated, but the girls step between the men and separate them, taking them out of the ring apart while Mosca looks on with a big grin on his face.

Goldstein says that in addtition to Mosca and Duncum, the battle royal will also have Dynamite Kid, the RCW tag champs the Hart Brothers, RCW TV champion Butch Reed, Vic Gate, Jim Brunzell, Brad Rheinghans, Gamma Singh, Bad News Allen, Kevin Kelly, Ben Bassarab, Tex Cobb, and flying in from the World Wrestling Federation, Tiger Chung Lee.


Bout #2:
Jim Brunzell defeated Butch Stevenson by pinfall after a flying dropkick at 4:51
-squash match

Promo;
We are magically transported via the videotape to a high school gym. We see a group of young ladies stretching on exercise mats, all wearing the current trend of pastel and fluorescent color spandex work out clothes, some with the oversized t-shirts that say things like “Life” or “Peace”. “Let’s Get Physical” by Olivia Newton-John plays gently in the background as the girls stretch. Suddenly the doors open and the instructor walks in wearing a blue leotard over pink tights, and a pink headband. She looks very fit for a woman who may be pushing her late 30’s. It is Miss Hartel who we saw last week in a classroom setting.
She orders the class to start and begins with some stretches.
After about a half minute the door opens and the first male walks into the class. He apologizes to Miss Hartel for being late. He is wearing a pink shirt and blue adidas windpants. Miss Hartel looks him up and down before responding with a smile, “you are forgiven. You are just in time, but please remain after class so I can catch you up on what you missed.” She gives him a wink, he just gulps, and several of the high school girls giggle.

Promo;
In theatres this weekend, “Bolero” starring Bo Derek, written & directed by John Derek. An adventure in eXtasy. Follows the tale of a young woman's sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany her and help to arrange her couplings.

Bout #3:
RCW Tag Team Title Match
Bret & Keith Hart (champions) v Neil Sutherland & Rob Flett

The challengers were a bit over their heads in this one, but used enough cheating tactics and double teams to survive for a few minutes. Bad News Allen came down to ringside apparently to scout out the tag champions which also distracted the Harts. In the end though once the tag champs got their act together they quickly put the match to an end.

The Hart Brothers defeated Sutherland & Flett by submission when Keith made Flett submit to the Indian deathlock at 6:05
[The Hart Brothers retain the RCW Tag Team titles]

Promo; On Tonight’s Evening News
• Prolonged absence of USSR President Konstantin Chernenko from public view and Kremlin's reaction to international curiosity noted echoing final days of late Yuri Andropov.
• Death of Texas A&M student Bruce Goodrich during hazing ceremony reported
• Massive back-to-school brawl at Western Michigan Univ. reported Injuries
• Number of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) reported since 1979 noted include growing number of children.


Main Event
RCW Heavyweight Title Match
Chris Lyon (champion) (/w Tawney England)
V
Butch Reed

Lyon uses a hide and frustrate the challenger plan for the first few minutes of this match. This ends once Reed becomes fed-up enough to ignore the referee completely. They brawl outside the ring with Reed gaining the advantage. He has Lyon laying across the announce table and is peppering in punches when Tawney England jumps on his back and tries to choke him out. Reed though flips England over his shoulder and splashes her right on top of Lyon. Order is restored and the match goes back inside. Reed takes his time and lays out a measured attack of power moves as well as wear down holds. He controls the next few minutes without attempting for the knockout punch. This looks like it may have been a mistake when Lyon uses a distraction to go low on Reed with a groin shot. He then nails a snap suplex, a leg drop, and then a monkey flip. He follows this up by bouncing Reed off the ropes with a slingshot suplex but can only get a 2 count.
Lyon makes the mistake of going to the top rope but is too slow and ends up getting knees to the ribs as he tries to splash down on Reed. Both men are slow to recover, but when they do Reed gets in the first punch. He backs Lyon across the ring with a couple elbows to the head. He then biels the champ to the middle of the ring and then charges, taking him down with a big shoulder. He backs into the corner in preperation for a flying shoulder block finisher but as he tries to run Tawney trips him up. Lyon goes to the attack and we have to fast forward a few minutes because of television time constraints.

We are now 16 minutes into this match with 4 minutes remaining in the television time.

Reed is back in control and there is a small trickle of blood coming down Lyon’s head. Reed punishes him in the corner, then lays some forearms to his back, and then nails a backbreaker. After getting only a 2 count he applies the standing surfboard which takes Lyon almost a minute to break. Reed though doesn’t break clean, instead taking Lyon over with a belly to back suplex. Referee George Gadasky warns Reed while Tawney England pulls Lyon out of the ring by his feet. She helps him to his feet and supporting some of his weight they try to amble their way up the walkway to the back. Reed though sees what is happening and chases them down. He punches Lyon all the way back to the ring and then punishes the back of the champ by slamming him back first into the ring apron. Back inside the ring Reed hits a belly-to-back suplex, and then a fist drop but only gets a 2 count. The ring announcer informs us that there is only 1 minute remaining in this match.

Reed is in a hurry and after another failed pin attempt following a backbreaker, he sets Lyon up on the top turnbuckle facing out of the ring. He climbs up apparently looking to take the champ down with a belly to back superplex. Lyon though fights it off first by holding onto the ropes and then with back elbows. Reed punches back and looks like he is finally going to complete the move when Tawney jumps up on the apron and wraps her arms around both men to hold them fast. Gadasky counts her off, but by now there is only 15 seconds remaining in the match. Reed gives Lyon one more punch and then nails the back drop superplex. Both men are down though and Gadasky begins his count to 10. At the count of 7 Reed finally drapes an arm over the fallen champ. He gets, 1, 2, Lyon rolls out of the pin, just as the bell rings to end the match in a time limit draw.

Tawney grabs the belt and enters the ring to help Lyon out. The champ is looking like anything but a champion as he is bleeding profusely from the head now.

20-minute time limit draw
[approximately 14 minutes shown on television]
[Chris Lyon retains the RCW Heavyweight Title]

Post-Match:
Marty Goldstein comes out and confers with George Gadasky then leaves. Gadasky says that while the 20-minute time limit is for television, RCW title matches are 60 minute matches. Therefore, by orders of the matchmaker this match will continue from the 20 minute mark. Furthermore, due to her outside interference during this match so far, Gadasky orders Tawney England to the back and bans her from ringside. The fans go ballistic cheering on the news.
Lyon is a bloody mess as both men attempt to regain their composure to begin this match again.

But we are out of time. We are pre-empted next week for special local station broadcasting, but will pick up the remains of this match in two weeks time at the beginning of the first ever 2 hour edition of River City Wrestling.

See ya on September 15th for the finale of the Chris Lyon - Butch Reed classic, as well as for the annual over the top Battle Royal.
See ya then!