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Seeing the name Robert Reed makes me think of the Brady Bunch dad. The tag feud seems like it's being carried out in singles matches for a bit, which is never a bad thing.

International Wrestling, August 26th (Taped August 24th, 1983, at the Paul Sauvé Arena, Montreal, QC) 4,000 fans, sellout Opening match 0:00 - 7:00 The opening montage cuts to the Gerrard Brothers already in the ring. Armand Rougeau & Rene Goulet walk out to the ring slapping hands with the crowd. Jacques, Sr. praises his son for his recent improvement under Rene Goulet’s watchful eye. Armand Rougeau & Rene Goulet vs. The Gerrard Brothers The Gerrards strike first, getting in some quick offense on Goulet. Armand takes the tag and cleans house, but the Gerrards are not done fighting yet. Tim Gerrard hits a dropkick that knocks Rougeau down and sends him back to tag in Goulet. Goulet grabs a chinlock on Alex Gerrard after he is tagged in and hits a few punches to turn the tide back in his team’s favor. Goulet and Rougeau work over Alex for a few minutes before Armand tags off to Goulet as he climbs the ropes and hits a fist drop on a prone Alex Gerrard. Goulet comes in and applies the scorpion claw hold for the win. Rene Goulet over Alex Gerrard by submission with the scorpion claw hold 5:44 Jacques, Sr. takes time to call that an impressive victory for his son and Rene Goulet before talking briefly about each match remaining on the card. Commercial Break 7:00 - 25:00 After commercial The Tongan Terrors along with Lou Albano and Richard Charland are heading to the ring with the crowd booing and throwing garbage at them. Charland is wearing his ill-gotten Quebec Heavyweight Title around his waist. Albano takes the time to scream insults at several members of the crowd along the way as Jacques, Sr. paints the Tongans as monsters and Charland as a coward. The Can Am Express and Louis Laurence get big cheers as they step out from the curtain. Jacques Sr. reminds the fans of the heated brawl the Can Am Express and the Tongan Terrors had a few weeks back. The Can Am Express & Louis Laurence vs. The Tongan Terrors & Quebec Heavyweight Champion Richard Charland Laurence wants to start the match against Charland, but the Quebec heavyweight champ wants nothing to do with Laurence. Tonga John starts the match for his team and ignores Laurence’s punches before destroying the youngster with chops and punches. Laurence takes a long beating from the heels, with Charland joining in once the Tongan Terrors soften Laurence up. Laurence looks like he is going to make the tag several times before he actually does, and the crowd explodes when Lafon comes in with a fury. Lafon’s kicks stagger even the Tongans, but don’t take them off their feet. Charland grabs Lafon from behind at the ropes and the Terrors start in on Lafon. Lafon takes a long beating before getting out of trouble and tagging in a fresh Brunzell, who is on fire when he hits the ring. The match degenerates into a free-for-all as Laurence begins chasing Charland around ringside only to run into a big boot from Tonga John. The Rougeaus hit a double dropkick on Charland as he scampers into the ring and head straight for the Tongan Terrors. Referee Andre Roy desperately tries to regain control of the contest, finally doing so. Lafon is being held in the ring by Tonga John with his arms behind his back for Charland to hit as King Tonga has the referee’s attention when Lafon ducks out of the way and the chair shot that Charland had intended for Lafon hits Tonga John instead, sending him crashing to the mat. Lafon grabs both of John’s legs and bridges over into a jacknife hold for the three. Post-match the Tongan Terrors and Can Am Express have a brawl around ringside as Laurence chases Charland to the back. Every referee in the building and a good part of the roster emerge from the back to keep the brawl from getting out of control between the Can Am Express and the Tongan Terrors. Phil Lafon over Tonga John with a jacknife hold 16:11 Jacques, Sr. talks up the growing rivalry between the Can Am Express and the Tongan Terrors as the two teams are separated. Commercial Break 25:00 - 36:30 Goldie Rogers and Dan Johnson are in the ring with Jacques, Sr. as we come back from commercial. Rogers is tossing his hair back and forth and generally looking very full of himself. Jacques, Sr.: Mr. Rogers you had an impressive debut in the IWA last week. I don’t think a lot of the fans here were all that excited that you won though. Rogers: You think I care if all these people like the fact that I won? The crowd lets Rogers know that they don’t. Rogers: Listen up, jack! I am without a doubt the most gorgeous man these people have ever seen and I can’t help it if all the men in the audience are jealous. Jacques, Sr.: It’s Jacques not Jack. Rogers gives Jacques, Sr. an odd look and then continues. Rogers: As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted. All of these guys out here are just mad because they know their woman would rather go home with me! It doesn’t hurt that I’m on such a roll since I got to the IWA. Why don’t you scram, Jack and I can keep on that roll! The crowd boos again as Jacques, Sr. glares at Rogers before exiting the ring and heading back to the announce table. Dave Kochen and Tony Ricco come out to the ring getting some cheers from the fans. Jacques, Sr. talks about Kochen’s tenacity and skill and Ricco’s toughness before wondering what Rogers’ problem is. Dave Kochen & Tony Ricco vs. Goldie Rogers & Dan Johnson Rogers falls victim to several armdrags by Kochen before Kochen and Ricco start working on his left arm. Rogers tries several times to beg off and back into a corner to no avail. Finally he suckers Ricco into being too complacent and pulls him face first into the turnbuckle pad to turn things around. Rogers and Johnson work Ricco over for a long while before Kochen takes the hot tag. Kochen is fired up and laying into Johnson and Rogers drops off the apron after one punch, checking his face for blood or structural damage. Rogers is back up on the apron and catches Kochen with a knee to the back during rope-running before tagging in. Rogers viciously attacks Kochen, warning him several times that he better not mess up Rogers’ face. Kochen comes back with punches, sending Rogers scrambling back to his corner. Ricco is tagged in and looks to come in hot, but Rogers hits a drop toe hold and gets a quick headlock before hitting a shoulder block and stomping away at Ricco’s face. Rogers turns his attention to Ricco’s neck when he rolls over and hits several vicious knee drops to the neck before setting Ricco up for the neckbreaker and executing it for the three. Goldie Rogers over Tony Ricco by pinfall after a neckbreaker 8:21 Jacques, Sr. makes Rogers out to be a dangerous man despite his arrogance and unwillingness to get punched in the face. Rogers gyrates his hips at several women in the front row, getting a good reaction from one or two despite his actions, on his way to the back. Commercial Break & Upcoming Events August 27th, 1983, Paul Sauvé Arena, Montreal, QC Canadian International Tag Team Champions The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers & Invader 1 vs. The Midnight Express & Gilles “The Fish” Poisson Gino Brito & Tony Parisi vs. Armand Rougeau & Rene Goulet The Can Am Express & Invader 3 vs. The Tongan Terrors & Mad Dog Lefebvre “The Farmer” Louis Laurence & Tony Ricco vs. Quebec Heavyweight Champion Richard Charland & Dan Johnson Dave Kochen will be in action August 30th, 1983, Palais des Sports, Sherbrooke, QC Canadian International Tag Team Champions The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers & Invader 3 vs. Midnight Express & Gilles “The Fish” Poisson Gino Brito & Tony Parisi vs. Quebec Heavyweight Champion Richard Charland & Dan Johnson The Can Am Express & Invader 1 vs. The Tongan Terrors & Mad Dog Lefebvre And more! August 31st, 1983, Paul Sauvé Arena, Montreal, QC Canadian International Heavyweight Champions The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers & Invader 1 vs. The Midnight Express & Mad Dog Lefebvre Jim Brunzell vs. King Tonga Dave Kochen vs. Quebec Heavyweight Champion Richard Charland in a title match Rene Goulet vs. Tonga john Invader 3 vs. Gilles “The Fish” Poisson Phil Lafon vs. “The Farmer” Louis Laurence And more! September 1st, 1983, Colisée de Trois-Rivieres, Trois Rivieres, QC Gino Brito & the Invaders vs. Tonga John, Mad Dog Lefebvre & Gilles “The Fish” Poisson Tony Parisi vs. King Tonga “The Farmer” Louis Laurence & Tony Ricco vs. The Midnight Express Armand Rougeau & Rene Goulet vs. Quebec Heavyweight Champion Richard Charland & Dan Johnson And more! 36:30 - 58:30 We come back from commercial with Jacques, Sr. hyping the debut of a new tag team, Earth & Sky , as two Japanese men in masks are shown. One is wearing a white mask with a dark twister type design on either side and the other a black mask with a stone grey rock design on the face. Dennis Condrey along with Eddie Creatchman, Mad Dog Lefebvre & Gilles Poisson emerge from the curtain to loud boos as the camera cuts back to the ring. Jacques, Sr. talks about the frequent attacks Lefebvre and Poisson have made on the Invaders since their debut and how this match is a result of those attacks. Gino Brito and the Invaders come out to a really big pop. Jacques, Sr. recalls that the Invaders had wanted to fight Brito, but mutual respect had been found after a fight that got broken up by Lefebvre and Poisson. Gino Brito & the Invaders vs. Dennis Condrey, Mad Dog Lefebvre & Gilles Poisson This match was an all-out brawl with Brito and Condrey tearing into each other at the bell and things never slowing down. The Invaders, finally able to get their hands on Lefebvre and Poisson, were not to be denied early. Neither team had control of the match for long and head referee Adrian Desbois had his hands full trying to control the action. After a long brawl that saw Lefebvre and Poisson try to rip the masks of both Invaders and Lefebvre simply biting away at said masks, Condrey slammed Brito on the floor twice to take him out of the fight. Invader 1 was squashed with a falling bearhug by Poisson to set up a Condrey leg drop. This left Invader 1 all alone against three men and he fell to Lefebvre and Poisson’s tag team finisher, the bearhug transitioned into a second rope superplex, after putting up a short fight. Mad Dog Lefebvre over Invader 3 by pinfall after a bearhug/second rope superplex combination 18:46 Jacques, Sr. puts over both teams for a tremendous brawl, highlighting the vicious nature of the finish by Condrey, Lefebvre & Poisson as the three heels celebrate in the ring. Lefebvre and Poisson push Invader 1 out of the ring next to an unconscious Gino Brito as the show ends with Jacques Sr. describing the carnage. Dark matches Pre-Show Tony Parisi defeated Bobby Kay with a flying senton Jacques Rougeau defeated Rudy Kay with a Quebec crab Post-Show Raymond Rougeau defeated Randy Rose via countout after a sleeper on the outside

Nice way to finish the first show, putting Martel over big on TV. Thinking about it, seems like a nice lead-in show to Martel vs. Saito for sure.

What a great show! I liked the Tiny Anderson match for what it was. The opener was a fine debut. And the rest was great, great TV!

I think having Hogan in one on one matches to bump gates up in the bigger market house shows is a great idea. It's not like they are televised and as long as you do countouts or have Hogan go over like the last one it should work.

Flowers, Adonis, Jake & the tag division are still rocking. Keep up the great work!

Great series of shows. I'm digging the Mantell vs. Armstrong feud a lot.

Aug. 25th, Colisée de Saint-Jean, Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC (2,751, sellout) Louis Laurence & Tony Ricco defeated the Gerrard Brothers with a wishbone snap/half crab combo on Tim Gerrard Goldie Rogers defeated Rudy Kay with a neckbreaker Invader 1 defeated Bobby Kay with a heart punch Tony Parisi defeated Dan Johnson with a flying senton Dave Kochen defeated Quebec Heavyweight Champion Richard Charland by disqualification due to a chair being used, Louis Laurence made the save post-match Invader 3 defeated Gilles Poisson with a running senton, Lefebvre attacked post-match with Invader 1 making the save leading to a bloody brawl around ringside The Midnight Express & the Tongan Terrors defeated Canadian International Tag Team Champions the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers & the Can Am Express in a wild 8-man tag with a savate kick/flying headbutt combo on Lafon after he’d taken a second rope powerslam/running leg drop combo from the Midnights

August 23rd, 1983, Auditorium de Shawinigan, Shawinigan, QC (3,600) Louis Laurence & Tony Ricco defeated Etienne Bergeron & Frederic Tremblay with a wishbone split/half crab combo on Bergeron Canadian International Heavyweight Champions The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers defeated the Kay Brothers with a crab/flying knee drop combo on Bobby Kay Armand Rougeau defeated Alex Gerrard with a sleeper Randy Rose defeated Tim Gerrard with a second rope powerslam Tony Parisi defeated Dan Johnson with a flying senton Quebec Heavyweight Champion Richard Charland defeated Dave Kochen with his feet on the ropes in a non-title match Invader 1 defeated Gilles Poisson with a heart punch Gino Brito defeated Dennis Condrey by DQ due to a very early Randy Rose run-in, the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers & Tony Parisi ran out to make the save The Tongan Terrors & Mad Dog Lefebvre defeated the Can Am Express & Invader 3 with a savate kick/flying headbutt combo on Lafon

Interesting idea for a show. I'm not a big fan of "random" tag matches as a concept though. It's very often done poorly in most promotions.

Eddie Mekka is so screwed. That 8 man tag better make your first commercial tape. Buck Zumhofe isn't getting hurt enough. I hope those Road Warriors learn the value of allies soon. That Valentino seems a little too obsessed with talking to the ladies. Are you sure he's not posing as a ladies' man?

Yeah, Rocket, just throw up some quick results with whatever notes about specifics on each show. There's no reason to feel like you need to do a full write-up on catch-up shows. Just do a x vs. y with whatever details are necessary thing until you are caught up on dates. Unless you want to be done. If you do, then that is your choice and I won't argue. But if you do want to stay, just wrtie stuff up in whatever way you need to to keep up. This project benefits a lot from more people being involved than a small amount of promotions.

Martel vs. Saito and Choshu seems like a great series of mains. Murdoch vs. Valentine sounds like an incredible match. Not entirely sure I'd have run it 30 minutes though.

He had a great 2004 match against Kazuyuki Fujita. I thought it was one of his better matches as it highlighted his ability to play FIP really well.

Loved the main, Kabuki and Kevin sounds like an awesome brawl. Tito as TV champ is awesome, means we get to see him weekly.

I try to do either 6-man tags with 1 and a half feuds or a singles match with half of a tag feud on the midcard and above feuds to set up the 2 on 2 matches. To me, it doesn't matter what matches you put on a card with feuding teams/people across from one another, as long as it's not the money match on something like a 2,000-3,000 seat house. You may or may not have noticed that the Can Ams and the Tongans, despite feuding, have not had a 2 on 2 match yet. That and matches like Condrey/Rose vs. Jacques/Raymond are saved for the 18,000 seat Montreal Forum shows or something like that. Also, the first Can Ams vs. Tongans match is being used to lend significance to the new title they will be wrestling for in it. At some point I may work a bigger building in Ottawa on a Thursday after a TV taping or something, hit a nice 10,000 gate as a follow-up to the previous night's TV with a marquee matchup or two that gets teased on the TV. It's also the reason why my lowest title is a singles title. The guys who are getting pushes get good experience in a lot of tag matches & six mans to build to the title matches and a chance to work a semi-featured singles match now and again. Gives them the training they need for what will be expected of them on the midcard.

What a great Boston show! I think the only match I'd not care for was the Mil vs. Harley match. Bock at the end is great. I'd put him in my top 3 heels on the continent so far.

Yeah, I can't believe Eddie Marlin is so good to the RnRs. Only way they could hold a candle to the Assassins. So what sort of shenanigans do Ladd and Sonny King have up their sleeve exactly?

I feel like I started this more than a little, so I just want to clarify what I was trying to say. I think that after the draft and first week a lot of folks slowed down on this whole deal. Some had other stuff they needed to put time into I'm sure, while others have simply burnt out on the fantasy booking. I feel like we should be very careful about removing territories without the person running them saying they are done. You've all read my shows and how long they get. I am written a month and a half in advance just writing on weekends. I wrote three weeks of TV last weekend while knocking out season 1 of Breaking Bad. If somebody like Rocket, Boricua or Wahoo's really wanted to catch up it wouldn't take very long at all. So I think we should have patience with anyone who hasn't been posting for a while. I also think that those of us who are here more often than others can help by reading through what other people write and letting them know what we think. It's a small thing, but knowing what works for your audience (and that your audience cares enough to reply at all) can be a big help. I've been trying to be better about that lately after having a bit of a lull myself.

No reason to make it an argument. Let's just try to talk it out without throwing anything back an forth in the process.

Fliers for the International Wrestling Association have been turning up all around Quebec and in several new Brunswick towns. The fliers are promoting International's again expanded touring schedule for September. September 5th, Colisée de Saint-Jean, Saint-Sean-Sur-Richelieu, QC September 6th, Palais des Sports, Granby, QC September 7th, Palais des Sports, Sherbrooke, QC September 8th, Pavillon de la Jeunesse, Quebec City, QC September 9th, Colisée de Rimouski, Rimouski, QC September 8th, Moncton Coliseum, Moncton, NB, joint show with Maple Leaf Wrestling September 12th, Halifax, Nova Scotia, joint show with Maple Leaf Wrestling September 13th, Aitken Centre, Fredericton, NB September 14th, Colisée de Rimouski, Rimouski, QC September 15th, Centre Georges-Vézina, Saguenay, QC September 16th, Pavillon de la Jeunesse, Quebec City, QC September 17th, Palais des Sports, Saint-Georges, QC September 19th, Centre des Loisirs, Thetford Mines, QC September 20th, Auditorium de Shawinigan, Shawinigan, QC September 21st, Colisée de Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivieres, QC September 22nd, Colisée des Bois-Franc, Victoriaville, QC September 23rd, Centre Civique, Drummondville, QC September 24th, Colisée Cardin, Sorel, QC September 26th, Paul Sauvé Arena, Montreal, QC September 27th, Robert Guertin Centre, Gatineau, QC September 28th, Earl Armstrong Arena, Ottawa, ON September 29th, Paul Sauvé Arena, Montreal, QC October 1st, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC Television commercials are airing on local TV stations during the evening hours in addition to the fliers.

Yeah, I'm guessing there are several of us who are written far enough ahead that we don't need the shot in the arm. I won't have room for anyone new until at least mid-November. I understand the feeling that all those workers are just sitting there, but we can't just kick people out because we like their roster.

So do we give people a little more time to get their stuff going again? I'm not sure how we want to set the protocol on this because both of the other people who have left have done so voluntarily. The way we handle this is going to determine how it works going forward, so we better be sure it's how we want to do this every time before this is finished.

So Boricua's perfect WWC roster is going to get a boost? Sweet. I imagine that random draw is going to be closely watched given Florida's roster. I tend to agree with Grimmas on the sideways moves also. I don't know if Florida is one of those, but it would be fine for somebody from a smaller territory to move in if you ask me.

Ooh, a recap show. I was thinking I would add one of those sometime in 84.