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The date on this show is 12/6/86. The quality on this episode is pretty bad, the video is really dark so there probably won't be any gifs or pics for this one. We start the show at the podium with Joe Pedicino who tells us that Gordon had a death in the family and that he'll be filling in this week. He has The Fullers with him, just the Fullers not The Stud. Ron tries to sell the fans on Joe saying he is just as good as Gordon to which there is an audible boo that amuses me. The first match of the show is The Nightmares taking on Pat Rose and some other guy. Jerry Stubbs & Dirty White Boy join Pedicino for guest commentary for this match. Nightmares make themselves look great at the jobber's expense but treat Pat Rose as somewhat equal. Nightmares win with their Tombstone/Top Rope Legdrop combo on the jobber. After that Joe tells us that Kevin Sullivan has a video he wanted everyone to see. We get a really long Kevin Sullivan promo with the city of Birmingham behind him. Sullivan certainly mastered the art of sounding like he is saying something until the promo is over and you try and sum up the point and you realize there really wasn't one. He did spend a bit of time letting us know that in New Guinea the man is #1, the dog is #2 and the woman comes after that. We come back from commercial to Stubbs & Dirty White Boy bragging about how "they couldn't beat us" and then Joe tells us that they are now going to have to wrestle a no time limit match. They go to The Nightmares in the ring who are complaining about a time limit draw but say that now there is no way Stubbs & Anthony can keep the titles in a no time limit match. As Stubbs & Anthony complain Joe says it's already been 2 time limit draws and Continental won't let there be a 3rd. I have no idea what kind of fucked up editing caused this. The next match is Kevin Sullivan vs Steve Armstrong. Sullivan grabs the mic from Scott Armstrong as he's doing his introduction and starts insulting Scott and The Armstrong family. Steve runs out but Sullivan jumps on him as soon as he slides under the bottom rope. Sullivan pretty much completely dominates the match and as soon as Steve starts his comeback the ref gets bumped. Sullivan rakes the eyes and then crotches Armstrong on the top rope. As he goes to do it again, Steve shifts it over into a pin and Scott Armstrong jumps in the ring and makes the count! Joe Pedicino isn't sure and says he's going to wait for the "official word" but since Scott is the ring announcer he quickly lets us know that the winner and new Continental Champion is Steve Armstrong! Interesting angle, and a good time for Scott to intervene since Kevin was doing the same move to Steve Armstrong that Jerry Stubbs did to him to "end" his wrestling career. Joe lets us know that Scott does not have a referee's license. We come back from a commercial and instead of giving us any more info about the Continental Title, Joe lets us know there is a new Alabama Champion, the newly returned Wendell Cooley. They show footage of his win over The Dirty White Boy at the Oxford Civic Center. They show Cooley hit his Bulldog finisher on Tony Anthony and go for the pin but at the 2 count Jerry Stubbs runs in and stomps on the ref. As the ref tries to get up Stubbs kicks him in the back of the head and the ref is out. Stubbs hits a Brainbuster on Cooley and then puts The Dirty White Boy on top of Wendell Cooley for the pin. The Nightmares run out and hit their Tombstone/Legdrop combo on DWB and then put Cooley on top for the pin. The ref wakes up and counts the pin, giving Cooley the win and the Alabama Title. Joe Pedicino then says Cooley's next challenge is keeping the title and his first challenger is Kris Von Colt. Pedicino says Sullivan actually bought time to show footage for Von Colt. Then they show tape of a match from Birmingham where Kris Von Colt vs. Wendell Cooley just turns into a huge brawl. Sullivan & Von Colt talk over the footage and Colt cuts a really lame anti American promo and generally sounds like someone who should never have a mic again. As far as the match footage, it honestly looks like a fancam tape. It's shot from like the 4th row and when the crowd stands up you can't see a thing while they brawl on the floor. Cooley says he's not scared to take on Colt or the whole Sullivan Army. He is proud to be an American and proud to be the Alabama champion. We come back from commercial to a tape of Robert Fuller in the dressing room putting the mask on the Tennessee Stud as The Stud instructs him to put it on tight because "they almost got it off last time." Then the camera follows them as they come out for their match with the New Guinea Headhunters but the footage cuts off and we go to Joe Pedicino as the podium with Robert & The Stud. Pedicino says they were going to show the end of that match with The Headhunters and show people what happened at the end of it but "Sullivan got the tape erased." Stud lets us know that Sullivan pulled out a spike and "stuck it into my brother's throat" KAYFABE Ron! Pedicino says they don't have the match itself, but they have the footage of what happened afterwards. The Stud attacks Sullivan put The Headhunters pull him off and toss him over the top rope. Then they try to broke Robert's hand again by smashing at against the ringpost. But Robert lets us know that Sullivan was too stupid to hit his arm above the cast and says he can beat on the cast all day and it won't do any good. Stud says he and Robert aren't afraid of Sullivan's army, and soon Jimmy Golden is going to come back and help them even up the numbers. Stud says he heard that the officials aren't going to let Steve Armstrong keep the Continental Title and Joe announces that is true and Steve is going to have to surrender the title back. The Fullers leave and Scott & Steve come out. Scott apologizes, he shouldn't have gotten in the ring and made that count. He made a mistake. Sullivan comes out and takes back the title and runs down Scott Armstrong who walks away but then we see The Bullet come up to confront Sullivan. Bullet says Sullivan got that belt back by a technicality, but next week Kevin has to defend it against HIM The Bullet. Why would he steal his son's rematch? Especially after Sullivan just spent plenty of time letting us know that the Armstrong family is a family of thieves. It could have something to do with the Loser Leaves Town match they are advertising between Steve Armstrong & Kevin Sullivan. Thief or not, The Bullet can still dance as he comes out for the main event. Which is just him squashing some unannounced jobber who Joe tells us is "Eddie Sweat." Bullet quickly slaps on the Figure Four and Eddie Sweat submits. After the match we go to Sullivan at the podium insinuating that he and Pedicino are pals and that Joe is the one who had the tape erased for him. Pedicino protests as Sullivan continues to insinuate that Pedicino is "his" guy and puts over how soon Kris Von Colt will be the Alabama champion and The Headhunters will have the tag team belts. Pedicino sends it to Scott Armstrong who is in the ring with Steve and The Bullet and Bullet talks about his match with Sullivan next week until Sullivan and his guys hit the ring. The show ends with The Armstrongs including Scott brawling with Sullivan and his Army while Joe lets us know that Sullivan is bringing in The Flame and Abdullah the Butcher in to fight his battles and he'll let us know more next week about Abdullah the Butcher coming to Continental Wrestling.

The date on this show is 11/22/86. The show starts with the formidable team of Pablo Crenshaw and the masked Star Fighter against The New Guinea Headhunters. The crowd starts a chant of USA before the match and perhaps this team of underdogs will be overtaken by patriotic spirit and win this match. The bell rings and quickly ends that idea with a Headhunter chop to the throat. The Headhunters have altered their face paint a bit and look really intimidating this week. The Star Fighter gets his ass kicked a lot, including some shots from Kevin Sullivan outside the ring. Pablo Crenshaw comes in and isn't exactly a house on fire as he does nothing but get beat on. They look pretty bad ass beating on these two chumps but the finish is them putting the old Spike rest hold on both guys and the crowd seems less than impressed by that. After commercials we come back to Tom Pritchard & Gordon hyping up a Texas Death Match between Pritchard and OUR King of Wrestling Roy Lee Welch for the U.S. Junior Title. I assume that will be the blowoff and surely there can be no result other than the true champion regaining his title. Then we get Gordon Solie & Kevin Sullivan at the podium talking about what Steve Armstrong had to say last week. Sullivan wanted "equal time" to respond. Sullivan mocks Steve for saying "good will always defeat evil" Sullivan gives us a history lesson of the Garden of Eden and evil being around since the beginning of time. They replay the finish of the Battle Royal with Kevin explaining that he was only beating on Steve to try to help him get his wits back so they could team together and win. Solie gets frustrated by Sullivan and eventually informs him that he's received his equal time and that he's done talking to him. The next match is Adrian Street vs Rip Rogers in a Texas Death Match. Judging by Adrian Street's reaction I would guess he is the most popular wrestler with the female fans in Birmingham. Street is out first and goofs around in the front row with the fans. Rogers comes out with nun chucks but when he sets them down on the timer's table to take off his rob, Adrian Street immediately jumps him! Street kicks his ass and gets two falls but Rogers beats the 10 count on both and takes control with the trusty "vague foreign object" He works over Street for a while and gets a few falls but he can't keep Adrian down for the 10 count. Street eventually takes the object and kicks Rogers ass with it until Rogers grabs the nunchucks from the timer's table. He winds up to hit Street with it but Street hits him with a low blow, steals the nun chucks and blasts Rogers with them for the win. After the match we get Street celebrating at the podium with Gordon Solie. He says Rogers is the one who wanted this match and Street beat him at his own game. He got revenge for Miss Linda and now he wants to get his Southeastern Title back. Rip Rogers is in the ring with Scott Armstrong and he has a fit about being hit with the nun chucks. He says they are a weapon with no place in wrestling, the loss shouldn't count! Rogers doesn't exactly accept the challenge but Gordon says he must defend the title against Street soon. Back from commercial and they go straight to the main event, Jerry Stubbs and the Dirty White Boy defending the Tag Team Titles against The Nightmares. I'm looking forward to this because while I may have poked some fun at The Nightmares very 80s look, I've been impressed with their squash matches and I'm ready to see them face a real team. The champs come out first and as soon as The Nightmares hit the ring they start kicking some ass. They both throw some nice punches but Danny Davis especially and they quickly clear the ring and immediately follow Stubbs & White Boy outside to kick their asses some more. Eventually the champs finally turn it around by getting Ken Wayne isolated in their corner. They then work a long FIP section on Ken Wayne that includes ramming his head off the ring bell. Finally he makes the tag to Danny Davis who comes in and goes crazy. Things break down into a wild brawl with all 4 in the ring until eventually White Boy ends up outside the ring and Danny Davis dives out onto him. Then he grabs a chair and tosses it at White Boy who just lets it bounce right off his face. Stubbs and Ken Wayne end up outside the ring with the referee somehow knocked down inside. Another ref comes down to ringside and gets knocked out by Ken Wayne so the match gets thrown out. They don't particularly care though as both teams keep fighting at ringside and up the aisle. This was a good match and a really fun brawl at the end. Show ends with Gordon running down the next card in Birmingham and talking to a an angry Jerry Stubbs & Dirty White Boy at the podium. They challenge The Nightmares to any match they want and The Nightmares want a No DQ match.

Maybe not, but that sounds like a hell of a candy bar. You'd probably just throw up a lot since it wouldn't want to stay down.

This is true. Your enjoyment of WWE is all about knowing what to just skip over. Even on the rare occasions that Raw is on my TV I only pay attention when someone I care about is on. Under that criteria, I still find that the time period of WWECW around the Mark Henry/Matt Hardy/Christian runs as ECW champion as the highest quality product that WWE has put out in the past decade. There were some episodes that you really didn't skip anything but recaps. WWE does one hour of TV much better than it does 2 and DEFINITELY better than it does 3.

That was good. People talk about how terrible they script Cena's promos now, but that Cena computer rap at the end is as bad as any of his poopy joke promos now.

That's not how *I* book my TEW game, so it's wrong.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves "I'm not going to strip you but you have to surrender it next week" could very well just be setting up an angle where Bryan DOESN'T give up the belt.

I make a good deal more than that at my job, and while it is physically demanding, it's nowhere near as physically demanding as being a wrestler. Especially when the company doesn't seem to run that many house shows but doesn't really let their talent take other bookings.

Yea, none of that is going to happen and there is nothing they can do to force a change in management even if they bought all the stock available. And for all that hot air if Vince stepped down tomorrow I'm pretty sure the stock would take another huge hit instead of rebounding.

I was just listening to The Sporting Life of ESPN radio and they were talking about new studies that show soccer is not the "safe" sport for head injuries that everyone thinks. Also talked a lot about the link found between soccer and ALS. http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050323/news_1c23alsside.html

I'm hoping if anyone other than Bryan ends up with the title, it's Brock Lesnar.

Did they have the same hatred for The Rock, who actually DID leave solely because "something better" came along?

vs Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 30 is one of his best matches.

This is like one of my biggest problems trying to get into modern puro, or even a lot of modern indies. I feel like your most hurty looking offense should be the finish but for some reason that doesn't seem to be a very popular concept in today's wrestling.

I've also decided Raw isn't worth the time to watch. I'll just catch the recaps when I watch Main Event, which usually ends up having at least 1 really good match every week. Last week's Smackdown was the first I've watched in FOREVER and that was because someone pimped Ambrose/Sheamus. It was pretty good but I liked Sheamus/Barrett and maybe even the Sheamus/Titus Main Event match better.

The date on this show is 11/15/86. Gordon starts the show at the podium with Steve Armstrong. They show the replay of the end of the Battle Royal and Steve Armstrong having to go it alone against the New Guinea Headhunters & Kevin Sullivan. Steve says it was the worst beating of his life. He needed 22 stitches. Armstrong compares Sullivan to an indestructible Sherman tank but says he is going to keep working on it and find the formula to take him down. Steve says all that beating was for nothing because Sullivan stole his $50,000 check but Sullivan's day is coming. He wanted any Sullivan or any of his men tonight so he will face Kris Von Colt in the main event. The first match of the show is Pat Rose and Roy Lee Welch teaming against The Tennessee Stud and Robert Fuller. I don't really like Welch being on the obvious job duty here, but this is a pretty good little 5 minute match. Robert is fired up for his return and is still wearing a cast on his wrist, which the heels obviously complain about. Robert gets in trouble and tags out to The Stud who comes in and looks really impressive slamming the smaller Pat Rose and Roy Lee Welch around. Say what you want about the silliness of the wrestling trope of guys coming back from loser leaves town matches under a mask, but Ron Fuller under The Stud mask is probably a much more imposing figure than bald Ron Fuller who looked really old when his hat fell off brawling with Sullivan when he first showed up. The Fullers win after Robert pins Pat Rose. Gordon shows a taped interview he did earlier with Kevin Sullivan. They are in the ring in an empty arena, with a "35 foot" pole in the corner. They are going to put the entire $100,000 at the top of the pole and Sullivan and Armstrong are going to have a Best of 7 series of matches in 7 different cities to decide who will get the entire $100,000. Sullivan talks about watching in Calcutta as two criminals would battle in the pit and the man who climbed out was cleared of his crimes and the losers was stoned. He wanted to do it that way but this is what Continental came up with. Kevin Sullivan has a squash match against masked Mr. America (I think it's not Hulk Hogan but I can't be completely sure what that mask on) Sullivan does his usual squash match routine including beating the crap out of the guy outside the ring using the ringside table and chairs. Sullivan drops this guy in a really unprofessional piledriver for the win. We get the Continental Tag Team Champions Jerry Stubbs and Dirty White Boy Tony Anthony talking to Gordon Solie. Stubbs brags about beating 3 teams in 1 night to become the Champs. They aren't afraid of any team, even name dropping The Road Warriors. Somehow I doubt we'll see them. Gordon argues with them about saying they won the titles "fair and square." The Nightmares come out to have the standard dueling promos deal with Scott Armstrong in the ring while Gordon is at the podium with Stubbs and The Dirty White Boy. Man The Nightmares look soooo 80s. Nightmares talk about Stubbs & Anthony having to cheat to beat them in the finals. Stubbs says The Nightmares are only going to get one shot at the titles. Nightmares say all they need is the 1 shot because they are the best tag team in this area. Rip Rogers is next at the podium with Gordon to complain about Brenda Britton's suspension. Next week he is challenging Adrian Street to a Texas Death Match. He is going to show everyone just how tough he really is. Gordon shows a replay and Rogers does a great job narrating Adrian Street kicking the shit out of him, I wouldn't even do it justice trying to transcribe it. After Street has thoroughly kicked Rogers' ass he drags Brenda Britton into the ring and sets her on his knee to spank her. As he does that, Rogers pulls something out of his tights and hits Street with it as the ref gets Brenda out of the ring. Linda comes into the ring after the match and starts telling the ref about what happened and she and Brenda get into it. The ref tries to separate her and when Brenda goes to mace Linda, Linda moves and the ref gets it. Rogers then hits Linda in the back of the head with what looks to be a slap jack. Rogers protests Brenda's suspension but next week he is going to take it out on Street in the Texas Death Match. They start the main event between Steve Armstrong & Kris Von Colt with about 15 minutes left so I'm expecting a bunch of post match craziness. Maybe not though because Von Colt is doing plenty of stalling to start. Lots of jawing at the crowd and consulting with Sullivan in the corner. They are really putting the rocket on Steve Armstrong as he fights off outside interference from Kevin Sullivan and Kris Von Colt using a chain. Finally the whole thing breaks down as Sullivan gets tired of interfering behind the ref's back and just runs in and attacks Steve in front of the ref. The New Guinea Headhunters run in and it's 4 on 1 until The Stud & Robert Fuller run out. Kris Von Colt stands on the top rope waiting FOREVER for Robert Fuller to come knock him off and save Steve Armstrong. Steve Armstrong & The Fullers clear the ring and Steve Armstrong is announced as the winner by DQ. We get local promos from Ron Fuller, Robert Fuller & The Bullet who looks a lot like Steve Armstrong and not Bob. Ron is there "speaking on behalf of The Tennessee Stud" and he says that he's looking forward to seeing Steve Armstrong get his money in the pole match and the return of his brother, beating on the heads of the New Guinea Headhunters. Robert cuts a shitty promo calling the New Guinea Headhunters the New Guinea Herders and then Sullivan mocks him about it. Sullivan insinuates that one of the Headhunter's made a dick joke about the pole and then says everyone is going to see his 30 foot pole in Columbus. The show ends with Sullivan at the podium ranting and raving about Ron Fuller being on TV. Sullivan can barely talk ranting about Ron Fuller being on TV without the mask and Robert Fuller being able to wrestle with a cast on his hand. Gordon tells us that next week we'll see the Texas Death Match between Rip Rogers & Adrian Street, a Tag Title match and the New Guinea Headhunters in action. Gordon signs off saying as far as he is concerned that as long as the mask remains intact that The Tennessee Stud is the Tennessee Stud and that Ron Fuller is allowed to come on and make interviews on his behalf.

Was watching Great American Bash 88 and was amused at trendsetter Jim Ross talking about casual fans and Ric Flair: "Well he's recognized by great fans, casual fans, fans that are great loyal wrestling fans as the greatest World Champion of all time."

I think I'm about to limit my Raw viewing to whatever recaps they show on Main Event because I find myself enjoying the angles far more in the recapped version and Main Event usually has better matches than Raw.

If he wanted some privacy he shouldn't have left in a way that almost guarantees that everyone who sees you will ask "Hey why did you leave WWE!?" I doubt a guy like Edge had these same problems when he retired because he actually announced why he was leaving. He likely thought he could just disappear and fade into obscurity if he quit having a public presence but that was never really a possibility.

I remember reading somewhere a month ago that they wanted to eventually upload shows like that for ECW along with all the Saturday Night Main Events and Clash of the Champions so it might be coming in the not too distant future.

I don't resent his deal I just think they have done a really poor job of getting their money's worth out of the deal. They haven't booked him very well, although it seems like they are going to really try and build him back up after ending Taker's streak.

I have to wonder how much attention WCW paid to their tape library when I watch Clash V and there is audio distortion and old VHS tracking marks.

WeeLC felt like one of the most unique matches I've ever seen. Tons of fun and should have been on the main show but I can see the logic of wanting that to open and get the crowd hot.

I really wanted to see Billy Gunn finally beat Ken Shamrock for the I.C. title and thought it was dumb as shit when they did that double switch.

Not really sure why you think that. NXT and Tough Enough are completely different concepts.