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I don't know if I can say anything more than has already been said here. The fun is just beginning with this territory. I'm looking forward to see what the future brings here.

Question for the group about a retirement... Johnny Weaver has a handful of matches throughout 1985, but doesn't look like anything regular. I'd like to retire him from the game and move him permanently as a color commentator for World Wide Wrestling. Does anyone object to this? Or would like to use him in another role (such as a manager, etc)? Thanks guys.

I was researching my roster, and I didn't realize that Luke Graham was already on this list, so I am removing him from my roster and officially putting him in retirement. Also, I couldn't find anything for Toru Tanaka any longer as well (end of '84) so I am putting him into retirement as well.

Sorry for being late to this party... My list of 36: Barry Windham Butcher Vachon Kendall Windham Mad Dog Vachon Moondog Rex Moondog Spot Pedro Morales Salvatore Bellomo Magnum TA Len Dalton (Grappler #2) Ray Stevens Tony Anthony (Grappler #1) Toru Tanaka Tully Blanchard Johnny Weaver Owen Hart Superstar Billy Graham Great Kokina Bruce Hart Keith Hart Mr. Saito Rocky Johnson Mr. Wrestling II Tonga Kid Dean Malenko 2 Cold Scorpio Luna Vachon Medusa Thunderbolt Patterson Crazy Luke Graham ​Adrian Street Tom Brandi Rod Price Sam Houston Bob Orton Jr Nikolai Volkoff My Random lists of 6. Dean Malenko Mr. Wrestling II Bruce Hart Grappler #1 Thunderbolt Patterson Luke Graham Kendall Windham Moondog Rex Salvatore Bellomo Keith Hart Tom Brandi Johnny Weaver Barry Windham Grappler #2 Rocky Johnson Ray Stevens Sam Houston Nikolai Volkoff Tully Blanchard Great Kokina Moondog Spot Butcher Vachon Owen Hart 2 Cold Scorpio Pedro Morales George Steele Toru Tanaka Billy Graham Madusa Adrian Street Magnum TA Mad Dog Vachon Luna Vachon Mr. Saito Rod Price Bob Orton Jr. Results: 5-3-3-5-4-3 Thunderbolt Patterson, Salvatore Bellomo, Rocky Johnson, Owen Hart, Billy Graham, Luna Vachon 6 Luna Vachon 2 Months MACW Injury: Luna Vachon is out for approximately 8 weeks with a wrist injury. (April 10-June10)

March 22, 1985 World Championship Wrestling (Airing 3/23/85) World Wide Wrestling (Airing 3/24/85) Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum ** Due to my recent absence, these will be recaps until I can catch up. ** World Championship Wrestling Taping: The new Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion, George “The Animal” Steele defeated Gary Royal. The Moondogs defeated Brian Knobbs & Jerry Saggs. NWA United States Champion Magnum TA defeated Swede Hanson. Terry Funk is shown on a pre-taped interview from after the Clash show. Terry Funk challenges Magnum TA to a rematch. He wants that US championship. Rocky Johnson defeated Ray Apollo. Iron Sheik defeated Jim Powers. Paul Jones says that they have to give a rematch to the former champions, but it won’t matter, his team is the best and they will retain the titles. Nikolai Volkoff defeated Paul Roma. One Man Gang defeated Mike Sharpe. Superstar Graham defeated Terry Gibbs. World Wide Wrestling Taping: Tully Blanchard defeated Steve Lombardi to retain the Television Championship. JJ Dillon brags about his two champions retaining their championships at the Clash of the Champions. He has a huge announcement...next week on WCW. Luna Vachon defeated Madusa in a rematch from Clash of the Champions. Clash of the Champions recap was done here for the entire segment. Adrian Street (w/ Miss Linda) defeated Keith Hart (w/ Bruce Hart) with a backbreaker. March 23, 1985 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Coliseum The Hart Brothers (Keith & Bruce) defeated Master’s of Torture (w/ Mr. Fuji) in 8:29. Madusa defeated Luna Vachon in 9:36. The Vachon’s & Thunderbolt Patterson defeated The Grappler’s & Luke Graham in 11:56. NWA Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Championship Match George Steele defeated Adrian Street (w/ Miss Linda) in 7:15. Pedro Morales defeated Mr. Saito (w/ Mr. Fuji) in 6:22. Rocky Johnson defeated Mr. Wrestling II in 10:38. Bob Orton Jr. defeated Johnny Weaver in 7:58. Main Event: Eight-Man Tag Team Match NWA United States Tag Team Champions The Foreign Legion {Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff} (w/ Paul Jones) & 24 Karat {NWA Television Champion Tully Blanchard & NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair} (w/ JJ Dillon) defeated Barry & Kendall Windham, NWA United States Champion Magnum TA & Sam Houston in 36:01. March 27, 1985 World Championship Wrestling TV Taping (Airing 3/30/85) Greenville, SC Memorial Auditorium Referees: Tommy Young, Earl Hebner, Sonny Fargo & Dean Malenko In a Mid Atlantic championship match, George “The Animal” Steele © defeated “Crazy” Luke Graham to retain the title. Sam Houston is back, defeating Steve Lombardi. The Grappler’s defeated Jerry Saggs & Brian Knobbs. NWA International Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk defeated NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Champion Bruce Hart. After the match, Funk challenges Magnum TA to a rematch for the US Championship. Mr. Wrestling II defeated Terry Gibbs NWA Television Champion Tully Blanchard defeated NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Champion Keith Hart to retain the NWA Television Championship. JJ Dillon arrives at the announcer’s set. He grabs a house microphone and begins to introduce the members of 24 Karat. He does these long, drawn out introductions. The longest reigning US Tag Team Champion in the history of the NWA….Ray “The Crippler” Stevens! Ray walks out, shaking JJ’s hand, arrogantly waving towards the fans. JJ then goes on to tell us how wonderful and successful the Television champion is, finally bringing him out. Tully comes back out with the TV title around his waist, his robe back on, hugging JJ and shaking Ray’s hand. JJ then brings out the World Heavyweight Champion, going down the champs accolades. He then brings out the “Nature Boy” Ric Flair. The champ struts out in his custom made suit, 10 pounds of gold around his waist. JJ then says they will be introducing their newest member...but first...let’s go to commercial…”We sold mega dollar commercial deals for this announcement...go to the commercials!” When we come back from break, JJ introduces Bob Orton Jr. to the group. The other members clap their hands as Orton arrives from the locker room dressed to compete. He shakes everyone's hands. He tells Tony and David that the he will show everyone in the NWA why he is the newest athlete in 24 Karat, right now. He then strolls to the ring. Bob Orton Jr. defeated NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Champion Owen Hart to end this week’s show. Dark Match: The Great Kokina won a $15,000 prize battle royal. March 28, 1985 World Wide Wrestling TV Taping (Airing 3/31/85) Rockhill, SC Winthorp Coliseum Referees: Tommy Young, Earl Hebner, Sonny Fargo & Dean Malenko Dark Match: Thunderbolt Patterson defeated Ray Apollo World Wide Wrestling TV Taping Adrian Street (w/ Miss Linda) defeated Rocky Johnson after spraying something into his eyes. After the match, Street challenged George Steele to a rematch for HIS Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Championship. The Moondogs & The Vachon’s went to a double countout. 2 Cold Scorpio, fresh off a huge tour of Japan with New Japan Wrestling, defeated Toru Tanaka (w/ Mr. Fuji). The Great Kokina defeated Pedro Morales. During and after the match, Kokina is calling out One Man Gang. Dark Match Main Event 10-Man Tag Team Elimination Match NWA International Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk and 24 Karat {Bob Orton Jr., Ray “The Crippler” Stevens, NWA Television Champion Tully Blanchard & NWA World Champion Ric Flair} (w/ JJ Dillon) defeated One Man Gang, Sam Houston, Barry & Kendall Windham & NWA United States Heavyweight Champion Magnum TA. The Eliminations were as follows: Bob Orton Jr. defeated Kendall Windham (Pinfall) One Man Gang defeated Ray Stevens (Pinfall) Terry Funk defeated One Man Gang (Countout) Tully Blanchard defeated Sam Houston (Pinfall) Magnum TA defeated Bob Orton Jr. (Pinfall) Magnum TA & Terry Funk eliminated each other (Double Countout) Barry Windham defeated Tully Blanchard (Pinfall) Ric Flair defeated Barry Windham (Pinfall) March 29, 1985 Columbia, SC Township Auditorium Referees: Tommy Young, Earl Hebner, & Sonny Fargo 2 Cold Scorpio defeated “Crazy Luke Graham Bob Orton Jr. defeated Dean Malenko The Vachon’s (w/ Luna Vachon) defeated The Moondogs in a Texas Tornado Match NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship Match The Hart Brothers © defeated The Grappler’s & Mr. Wrestling II NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship Match George “The Animal” Steele © defeated Adrian Street (w/ Miss Linda) Masters of Torture (w/ Mr. Fuji) defeated Thunderbolt Patterson & Rocky Johnson NWA Television Title Match Tully Blanchard © (w/ JJ Dillon) defeated Sam Houston NWA United States Championship Match Magnum TA © defeated Ray Stevens (w/ JJ Dillon) NWA United States Tag Team Championship Match The Foreign Legion {Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff} © (w/ Paul Jones) defeated Barry & Kendall Windham to retain the titles. March 30, 1985 Charleston, SC County Hall Referees: Tommy Young, Earl Hebner, & Sonny Fargo 2 Cold Scorpio defeated Mr. Wrestling II (Upset Victory) Thunderbolt Patterson & Rocky Johnson defeated Mr. Saito & Toru Tanaka (w/ Mr. Fuji) Bob Orton Jr. defeated Dean Malenko Master of Torture (w/ Mr. Fuji) defeated The Vachon’s (w/ Luna Vachon) NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship Match The Hart Brothers © defeated The Grappler’s & Luke Graham Ray Stevens (w/ JJ Dillon) defeated Johnny Weaver NWA Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Championship Match George “The Animal” Steele © defeated Adrian Street (w/ Miss Linda) via DQ. NWA Television Championship Match Tully Blanchard © (w/ JJ Dillon) defeated Sam Houston NWA United States Tag Team Championship Match The Foreign Legion © {Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff} (w/ Paul Jones) defeated Barry & Kendall Windham to retain the titles. March 31, 1985 Myrtle Beach, SC Convention Center Referees: Tommy Young, Earl Hebner, & Sonny Fargo 2 Cold Scorpio defeated Mr. Saito (w/ Mr. Fuji) Ray Stevens (w/ JJ Dillon) defeated Dean Malenko The Vachon’s (w/ Luna Vachon)& The Moondogs went to a double DQ. Sam Houston defeated Bob Orton Jr. (w/ JJ Dillon) via DQ. NWA Television Title Match Tully Blanchard © (w/ JJ Dillon) defeated Rocky Johnson NWA Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Title Match George “The Animal” Steele © defeated Adrian Street (w/ Miss Linda) Masters of Torture (w/ Mr. Fuji) defeated Thunderbolt Patterson & Pedro Morales NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship Match The Hart Brothers © defeated The Grapplers & Luke Graham NWA United States Championship Match Magnum TA © defeated Mr. Wrestling II NWA United States Tag Team Championship Match The Foreign Legion © {Nikolai Volkoff & Iron Sheik} (w/ Paul Jones) defeated Barry & Kendall Windham to retain the titles.

I really do see a lot of 1985 WWF here. It's so much fun reading these and thinking of how fun it would have been being a kid watching these. Wrestlemania will be such a great event. Im looking forward to it.

I never got to see a show on closed circuit. I feel like that would have been a really fun experience.

I love tag team wrestling, and the teams that are mixed in to this Young Lions Cup, are pretty wild, knowing how they turn out. Sting/Owen/Scorpio...Yes, please! Just so many fun different combinations. It would be very interesting to see some of these when they were in the early years like this. Great stuff.

LOVE the Funk/Magnum angle. Terry Funk is the man around here...and that's awesome. The elimination matches on the recent house shows look like a lot of fun.

I really love the tag team and six-man tag team division here. It's truly one of my favorites aspects here.

Clash of the Champions Raleigh, NC March 21, 1985 Dorton Arena Pre-Show Match Butcher & Mad Dog Vachon, Pedro Morales, Sam Houston & Thunderbolt Patterson defeated Mr. Fuji’s Clan: The Great Kokina, Toru Tanaka, Mr. Saito & Masters of Torture (w/ Mr. Fuji) in 11:53 after Sam Houston pinned MoT #2 with a running bulldog. We open tonight’s show, live on WTBS, with Tony Schiavone & Bob Caudle at ringside. We have David Crockett in one locker room and Johnny Weaver standing by in the other locker room. Tony welcomes us to the first Clash of the Champions broadcast. We go to David Crockett standing by with Adrian Street. David: Thank you Tony, I am here with the self-proclaimed Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Champion, Adrian Street. Adrian: Self-proclaimed nothing! I AM the Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Champion. No one EVER beat me for this title. I had ZERO competition when I was here. I came back because I heard there was competition here, but I haven’t seen it yet. David: Well, that changes tonight. This is Clash of the Champions. You claim to be a champion, don’t you? Adrian: I am the greatest champion. David: Well, the Board of Directors met with MACW officials earlier today. They have decided to reinstate that championship around your waist. You also have to defend it tonight, against… Adrian: an Animal, I’m sure...what disgusting…”Challenger” have they brought to me? David: An “Animal” for sure, George “The Animal” Steele! The look on Street’s face, just says it all as he storms off from camera view. David sends it back to Tony and Bob at ringside. NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship Match The Hart Brothers © {Bruce & Keith Hart} & Rocky Johnson vs The Grapplers & Mr. Wrestling II Rocky Johnson and Mr. Wrestling II start off, and they don’t waste anytime punching it out in the middle of the ring. The Grappler’s rush into the ring and take down Johnson, which brings in the Hart Brothers to clear the ring of the Grappler’s. After a moment on the outside of the ring, MW2 gets back into the ring and tags out. Grappler #2 gets into the ring, but gets taken down with an arm drag. Rocky tags Keith in and they champions start to focus on the Grappler and his left arm and shoulder. Quick tags between the champions early on. Grappler #2 grabs the tights and sends Bruce to the outside of the ring. He falls hard to the floor. He tags #1 in and MW2 attacks Bruce on the floor, as the referee Earl Hebner keeps the champions in their corner. Bruce is back into the ring and the challengers have full control now. The challengers keep Bruce in their corner and work him over with some strong strikes and wear down holds. After a few moments, The Grappler’s try for a double team clothesline, but Bruce is able to duck it and dropkick them to the floor. He gets a tag into Rocky just as Mr Wrestling II gets in and they resume their brawl in the middle of the ring. All six-men make it into the ring as Earl is trying to regain control. A pier-six brawl has erupted in the ring. Rocky dropkicks II down to the mat. Paul Jones rushes to the ring and slips II something, which he hides in his mask. Mr. Wrestling II charges Rocky in the corner, Rocky slips to the side, tripping him with a drop toe hold. II hits his head against the turnbuckle and knocks himself out. Rocky pins him for the fall and helping the Harts retain the championships. Decision: The Hart Brothers & Rocky Johnson © Time: 14:03 ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** When we return, we see Johnny Weaver in the locker room. He’s trying to get an interview with George Steele about coming to MACW and his upcoming title match, but George just looks into the camera and wonders off. Johnny sends it back to ringside. Women’s Match Luna Vachon vs Madusa Two ladies coming into the territory. Luna is aligned with her family, the very popular Vachon’s here in MACW. Madusa attacks early and keeps control most of the match. Luna tries to make a comeback, and doesn’t fairly well until she missed a corner clothesline, Madusa rolled her up and put her feet on the ropes to steal the win. Time: 6:35 Decision: Madusa ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** NWA Television Championship Match Tully Blanchard © w/ JJ Dillon vs Mil Mascaras Tully tries to stall immediately, bailing from the ring a number of times. Once the action starts, Mil is able to keep Tully off balance with his quick, flying style. A dropkick sends Tully to the floor. Mil follows him out, but crashes to the floor missing a cross body block. Tully tosses him into the ring and starts his assault. Tully works over the Mexican star. Tully uses a chin lock, and a seated headlock, keeping control. The commentators talk about how he seems to be wrestling in a defensive way. Tully finally looks to executing more damaging moves, and tries to execute a Slingshot Suplex, but Mil was able to wiggle out before the slingshot, and he rolls up the champion for a two. Mil picks up the pace, trying to keep the champion off balance to land a big time move. He drops Tully with a flying head-scissors. Mil climbs the top rope and leaps with a cross body block, but only gets a two. One Monkey Flip later and Tully falls to the floor. Mil goes out to the floor and the bell rings. Referee Dean Malenko calls it a time limit draw. Time: 15:00 Decision: Time Limit Draw, Tully Blanchard retain the TV Title. ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** David is in the locker room with “Crazy” Luke Graham. David wants to know what happens if Luke loses this match and is forced to leave Mid Atlantic. Luke just raises the chain to David’s face, and says “There is no losing.” Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Championship Match “Exotic” Adrian Street © w/ Miss Linda vs George “The Animal” Steele Tony and Bob discuss Adrian protesting this match. Saying that there was no contract signed for this. Bob tells the audience that MACW had attempted to inform Street about this title match since Friday afternoon, but he would not respond to their phone calls. His arrogance finally has caught up to him. Adrian can’t keep focused and runs from the challenger. George takes a break and enjoys a turnbuckle. Street sees this as his chance to attack, but George side steps that, sending him into the buckles and crashing to the mat. George feeds him some turnbuckle stuffing. Street tries to battle away, but George grabs him in a hammerlock, pushing him into the exposed corner. Then locks in the hammerlock and lifts him up into the air. Moments later Street submits and we have a brand new champion. Time: 3:18 Decision: New Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Champion, George Steele ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** Loser Leaves Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling Chain Match “Crazy” Luke Graham vs “Superstar” Billy Graham This is just a bloody brawl from the beginning. Both men just attack with fisticuffs right away. They brawl at ringside, up the aisle, and back to ringside. Both using the chain as a weapon. “Superstar” starts to get the upper hand. Whipping Luke with the chain, whipping him into the ring post. They move the action into the ring, with “Superstar” just taking over. He continues to beat on Luke with the chain. Both men bleeding from the head. Luke is on the mat, just punished. Billy Graham wraps Luke up in the chain, tying him up. Putting him in the Back-breaker and walking around the ring, touching each of the four corners. Finishing off Luke in incredible fashion to gain the victory. Time: 9:44 Decision: “Superstar” Billy Graham ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** When we return, the live crowd is at intermission. David and Johnny run down a few video packages previewing the remainder of the matches coming up on the second half of the show. ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** NWA United States Tag Team Championship Match Barry & Kendall Windham © vs Paul Jones’ Mystery Team (Approved by the NWA Board of Directors) w/ Paul Jones The Champions are in the ring and awaiting their challengers. Paul Jones appears at ringside and grabs the house microphone. He tells everyone that he has secured the NEW United States Tag Team Champions, He calls them the Foreign Legion! The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff! The crowds erupts in a chorus of boo’s towards the challengers. The head into the ring and the match begins. The announcer’s discuss that this is really in the favor of the challenger’s. They’ve known all along who they were facing, there was no way the Windham’s could have seen this coming from Paul Jones. The champion’s start off on fire, keeping a quick pace, tagging in and out quickly. Using their speed to keep the larger challenger’s off balance. A distraction by Paul Jones that led to Volkoff taking down Kendall changed the momentum of the contest rather quickly. A long segment here where the challengers are using strong power moves to bring the lighter champion to the mat and then they apply wear down holds to keep him on the mat. The fans are booing the challengers. Barry is running up and down the apron trying to get Kendall back into the match. Kendall is responding, trying to separate himself from the bigger opponent. He finally lands a dropkick, sending Sheik into the corner. Kendall makes the tag and Barry comes in taking on both larger challengers. The battle breaks down to a brawl between all four wrestlers. Paul Jones grabs a championship belt from ringside and slides it to Iron Sheik as he was in the corner. Jones walks down the apron and distracts the referee as Sheik nails Barry in the back of head while he battles Volkoff. Then he hits Kendall in the face with it, sending him to the floor unconscious. Sheik tosses the belt to the floor. He falls on top of Barry and gets the three count! Time: 18:47 Decision: NEW NWA United States Tag Team Champions, The Foreign Legion! ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** NWA United States Heavyweight Championship Match Magnum TA © vs NWA International Heavyweight Champion, Terry Funk A meeting of two champions. Lutte Internationale’s International Heavyweight Champion, Terry Funk against the MACW’s United States Champion, Magnum TA. These two have been building a rivalry for many weeks prior to this match. Magnum starts it off trying to wrestle, but the unconventional Funker makes it a brawl right away. They make their way to ringside and they just trade right hands over and over. They both swing and connect with punches that send each other over the steel guard rails. Earl Hebner flies out of the ring and yell at both men to get back into the ring. Funk gets up and Magnum rushes him, they both flip back over the rail into ringside. TA picks up Funk and shoots him into the ring. Funk stomps on Magnum as he returns to the ring. Funk just kneels over TA and levels him with crazy strikes all over his upper torso. This pace is quick and both men are expending a lot of energy early. Funk has taken over after they both returned the ring. He’s just stomping and punching at the US Champion. Funk is trash talking the entire time he’s pounding on TA. Funk is able to drop TA with a vertical suplex, but only gets a two count. Funk punching at him again. TA seems to have been hit so hard he’s loopy. Funk slams him to the mat hard and climbs to the second rope and leaps with a punch to the head. He tries another cover, but only gets a two count again. Funker takes a swipe at the referee as he believes that should I have been a three. That small distraction left an opening for Magnum. He was able to grab a headlock and pull Funk to the mat and just leveled him in the head with right hands. Funk pushes him off, and they both they to their feet. Magnum backdrops Funk to the mat. A clothesline sends Funk over the top rope. TA follows Terry to the floor and slams him to the floor. Magnum rolls back into the ring. Funk rolls back in after him. They stand in the middle ring and exchange punches. Terry pokes Magnum in the eye. Hebner yells at him and Funk pushes him aside, kicking TA in the stomach, Funk pulls TA up, looking to pile-drive him. TA blocks the move, back-dropping Terry over the top rope. Earl Hebner just turns around as this is happening and calls for the bell. The crowd isn’t happy. They hate the DQ call. It looks like they assume that Funk was DQ’d for pushing the referee. As we hear for the ring announcer, he explains that Magnum is disqualified for tossing Funk over the top rope. The crowd loses it at hearing this explanation. Funk grabs both championships and leaves the ring area as Magnum is pleading his case to Hebner. Time: 18:28 Decision: Terry Funk, via DQ. Magnum TA is still the NWA US Champion. ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** NWA World Tag Team Championship Match The Rougeau Brothers © vs Rock ‘n Roll Express Both teams shake hands before the opening bell. This looks to be a great scientific contest between two favorite tag teams. As expected, the match goes back and forth throughout. Neither team keeps an advantage for very long. The Rougeau’s take a more aggressive approach in the later stage of the contest, and finally gets Ricky Morton in their half of the ring. No cheating going on, just a little more aggressive in their attack. They work over the challenger with some quick strikes and working over the left leg. Morton is able to free himself long enough to get the tag to Robert Gibson. He’s on fire, dropping the champions with quick strikes, punches, clotheslines and a dropkick. All four men enter the match, it breaks down into a heated exchange. Ricky and Robert drop Raymond with the double dropkick, but he falls to the floor from the momentum. Jacques sunset flips over both of his opponent’s and brings them over. He can’t hold them down. They get up, he ducks a double clothesline, and leaps with a back elbow to Robert, sending him to the floor. Raymond begins to slide back in. Ricky leap frogs Jacques, but gets caught by Raymond with the lift up, Jacques quickly gets to the second rope and leaps off, they execute the Le Bombe Rougeau for the pinfall just as Robert tries to break up the pinfall. Both teams gather into opposite corner as the announcement is made. They all get to their feet and shake hands. Time: 23:04 Decision: The Rougeau Brothers, retaining the NWA World Tag Team Championships ** COMMERCIAL BREAK ** NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match Ric Flair © w/ JJ Dillon vs One Man Gang The main event of the evening. A physical mismatch between the smaller champion and the larger, much larger challenger. The fans are wildly on the side of the challenger here. OMG has gained a lot of popularity since challenging the champion. Flair still has his fans, as always, but a strong following belongs to the challenger. Tommy Young calls for the bell and we are under way. The champion jumps from the ring, already beginning the stalling tactics. He slowly gets back into the ring. Gang is oddly calm, just waiting for the champion. Flair is yelling at people in the crowd as he enters the ring. Gang quickly rushes at Flair and catches him off guard with a huge clothesline. Gang gets momentum off the ropes and nails a 747 Splash! Tommy Young slides into position, with the count, but Flair has his boot on the bottom rope! Gang kneels up, JJ pulls Flair from the ring. Tommy Young yells at Dillon for the interference. Gang goes outside the ring and picks up the champion. He rolls him into the ring. JJ sneaks up on the challenger, but Gang turns around and stalks JJ around the ring. Flair is getting time to recover. Gang finally slips into the ring. Flair begs off in the corner as Gang stands over him. JJ jumps up onto the apron. This distracts Gang for one second and Tommy Young walks over to push Dillon to the floor. Flair uses the quick distraction and low blows the challenger, dropping him to the mat. Flair pulls himself up from the corner and goes to work on the left leg and knee of the challenger. JJ is outside celebrating their little trickery to gain the advantage. He even grabs the commentators microphone and declares this was easier than expected. Flair kicks at the left leg and then drops a knee against the inside of the leg. Flair continues to attack the leg. Gang is hurting, still trying to shake off the cheap shot, as well as fighting off the champion from his leg. The champion is growing even more confident with each moment that passes. He feels he has this locked up. Flair goes for the Figure-Four Leg-lock, but Gang is able to use his good leg to push the champion to the floor. Flair gets up and isn't’ happy. He slides into the ring and attack the Gang before he could get off his back. Flair kicks at the challengers leg a few more times. He lays the legs on the bottom rope and drops his whole body against the inside of the leg. Flair yells “Shut up, Fat Boy!” at a fan in the crowd. He leaps up to come down on the leg again, but Gang is able to get his leg up and using Flairs momentum to send him up in the air and crashing into the corner. Flair leaps quickly onto Gang and levels him with fists to the head. Gang is able to push Flair off him, back into the corner. Flair tries again to jump on Gang, but he sends him back to the corner. Gang slowly gets back to his feet and nails Flair with overhead clubs. Flair gets up and runs at the challenger, but he gets a clothesline to take him back down to the mat. Gang is hurting, from all the damage the champion was able to do while he was on the mat. Flair gets up and Gang is able to body slam him. Gang falls into the ropes, still having issues with staying on the leg. Flair gets up and kicks Gang’s knee. Gang falls to a knee. Flair chops him, but nothing. Ric goes for another knife edge chop, but Gang just looks up at the champion. Gang pulls himself up as Flair backs into the corner. Gang just quickly pushes himself into the corner with a short avalanche. Enough of an effort to send the champion kneeling into the corner. Gang pulls him out of the corner and grabs a front face-lock. He lifts the champion and drops him with a Gordbuster! Flair kicks out at two! JJ is flipping out at ringside. Gang gets up with the help of the ring ropes. Flair stumbles to his feet, and Gang is able to just run over the champion. Gang is feeling it. Flair is down on the mat. Gang whips the champion into the far corner. He slowly follows him into the corner and clubs him with a vicious forearm. Gang lifts up Flair with a vertical suplex, but just drops the champion hard on the mat. Gang seems like he’s not feeling the pain. Flair is barely moving on the mat. Gang starts to climb the turnbuckles. Flair reaches up and pulls Tommy Young’s pants, pulling him to the mat. Young tries to pull away. JJ grabs a ringside chair and hits Gang in the injured leg as he tries to get to the second rope. Gang falls from the ropes to the mat violently. He grabs his knee, but the announcers tell us he also hit his head on the mat when he landed. Flair pulls himself up using Tommy Young. Flair leaps and drops a knee on the head of the Gang. He covers Gang, putting himself in a position to put his feet on the ropes as Tommy Young can’t see it to get the pinfall. Time: 14:59 Decision: STILL NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Ric Flair We end the show with Gang on the mat, attending to his injured leg. Flair holds the World Championship high above him on the floor of the arena.

MACW is proud to send the NWA World Television Champion Tully Blanchard, NWA International Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk, One Man Gang & George "The Animal" Steele.

Terry Funk for 75 minutes. I'll take it!

Love it.

Mid Atlantic would like to be a straight up pain in the ass. Requests for the following dates, please. Stan Hansen: July 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28 & 31 Bruiser Brody: July 31 Abdullah the Butcher July 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28 & 31 Mil Mascaras: July 4, 7, 11, 14, 17, 21, 24, & 28 Jerry Lawler: July 4, 7, 11, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28 & 31 Rock N' Roll Express: July 4, 7, 11, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28 & 31 Women: July 4, 5, 12 Minis: July 6, 12, 31

MACW would like to drop Salvatore Bellomo and sign George "The Animal" Steele.

MACW signs Jerry Saggs to the other open jobber pack slot.

Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling News & Notes The Crockett family are pleased with the partnership with Lutte Internationale. The talent exchanges have been accepted by both talents and the fans. Talks of doing another combined show are already underway. There is also some discussion about running the Great American Bash tour north of the border as well. The Crockett's have been doing some intense research for venues for this summer tour. All ideas are in the early stages of planning, but they want to make this a really memorable tour. Last year was the first ever Summer Games event, and we hear something like that could be a special attraction to the arena shows, if the stadium venues are added to the tour. Speaking of working relationships, MACW is also working closely with New Japan Pro Wrestling to bring some talents over on tours. In February, The Windham's and The Grappler's were sent for the tag team tournament. In March, youngsters 2 Cold Scorpio and Owen Hart on participating in a Young Lion's Cup. This year MACW is going to keep on the four major shows to be televised live. The idea is to run a show live on WTBS in March with Clash of the Champions. The other three shows this year will be on closed circuit like was done last year. The Clash special is a try-out for maybe a potential series of live events on the cable station. A few roster changes are ongoing, bringing in some fresher talent, and letting other talents get over in other territories. More news and notes to come as we get closer to Clash of the Champions.

MACW would like to drop Pete Sanchez & Jason Knight from their jobber pack. MACW would like to welcome Brian Knobbs and add him to one of the two open jobber spots.

OK, so a lot of catching up. LOVE that you made Harley the first in this era's King of the Ring. Your roster is just ridiculous. I think we all have great rosters, and do so much with what we have, but this just has that mid 80's WWF feel. I really love reading it, the house shows, the TV and the specials are all really, really well done.

Awesome stuff. I love the preview of the upcoming loop. That's something I tried to incorporate into my TV but eventually let that fall off. Honky being a chicken shit heel is just as he should be. Ole stepping in and playing the mind games early makes for tremendous drama. Very fun read.

Tag Team Battle Royal's! Great idea, and execution. A ton of love for the tag team division, which I'm a big fan of. Terry Funk being the International Heavyweight Champion. Amazing. As always, great work with your roster and including the MACW travelers. I hope to get that well oiled of a machine going in MACW.

Great start to the Young Lions cup. I love how this is written and the concept. Fun read.

*** Due to my absence, I had to come up with a way to catch up to be on the same calendar with the rest of the territories. Here is a PWI magazine write-up covering the major matches and events leading into the very first NWA Clash of the Champions show on March 21, 1985. Hopefully this gives an idea of the stories and matches being built for the Clash of the Champions show. *** The National Wrestling Alliance has been a major part of professional wrestling for decades. Coming into 1985, there is major competition coming about all over the wrestling world. The USWA has been growing and holding strong in the south. The World Wrestling Federation has re-emerged from NY and the Northeast, but looking to take on the whole country. The two leading companies pushing the NWA to the top of the business is Lutte Internationale, based out of Montreal, Quebec in Canada and Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling, based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. With a strong showing coming from the Starrcade ‘84 show on Christmas night in Greensboro, they have continued to bring out some of the best wrestling in the world. In the coming paragraphs, we are going to take a look at the early part of 1985 and specifically the Mid Atlantic region. Lutte and MACW has had a really fun, ongoing crossover with their talent. At the end of January, The Sheepherders made their violent trip through the Carolinas defeating a rookie team of The Young Stallions and the next night defeating veterans The Vachons. We also got to see Nick Bockwinkel make his way in and defeat wrestlers Thunderbolt Patterson & Johnny Weaver on television. Dino Bravo also traveled to Mid Atlantic and had a very successful run on TV as well, getting a win over Mr. Wrestling II on WTBS. Rick Martel brought his NWA International Heavyweight Championship and defended it on television against Ray Stevens and Mr. Wrestling II on back to back weeks on World Championship Wrestling. He also teamed with the NWA World Tag Team Champions, the Rougeau Brothers defeated The Moondogs & “Crazy” Luke Graham on World Wide Wrestling. As much as Lutte has been sending top-tier talent Stateside, MACW has also sent their talent to Lutte for some international action. The Fantastics have spent many nights North of the border this year. Tully Blanchard spent a few days defending his NWA Television Championship. The Hart Brothers have been wrestling in various matches as well. Throughout the month of February, the NWA World Champion has been working all over North America, defending the championship against such athletes as Dory Funk Jr., Nick Bockwinkel, Jack Brisco, Both members of the Fantastics and Pedro Morales. “Nature Boy” Ric Flair’s toughest challenge had to be a match in Norfolk on the 15th against the winner of WrestleBowl ‘85, One Man Gang. This was the only match that the champion lost, via a DQ when his 24-Karat partners interfered to save the championship. This match had the Gang coming in as a hated monster, but he left the ring as a fan favorite. As of this writing, the NWA says that he will get another shot against the champion at a show MACW is calling Clash of the Champions. On the February 3rd (taped 2/1) edition of World Wide Wrestling, United States Champion Magnum TA, and US Tag Team Champions The Windhams went to a double DQ against 24 Karat. Terry Funk showed up after the match and attacked the US champion once again. The next week on World Championship Wrestling, Magnum got a measure of revenge, attacking Terry Funk after he defeated Rocky Johnson. The NWA Board of Directors has signed Magnum TA vs Terry Funk for the Clash of the Champions event that will be shown on WTBS on March 21. Speaking of the US Tag Team Champions, they have accepted a challenge from Paul Jones to defend their titles at the Clash of the Champions show against a mystery team. The Grappler’s assumed it was them, and they were gloating about it, but when Jones said it wasn’t them, they fired him. Jones won’t give any hints to whom he has found to challenge the brothers, but they are fighting champions and are ready for the challenge. They offered up a title match with the Grappler’s on TV, but the match hasn’t happened as the champions have been in Japan for the majority of February. All of their TV appearances after the six-man tag at the beginning of the month were via satellite from Japan while they were competing in the NJPW Tag Festival. Tully Blanchard has been defending the Television title on TV every week since winning that championship. He has been able to retain the title over some of the top talent in the world. It was announced recently that he will be defending the title against Mil Mascaras at the Clash of the Champions event in Raleigh, NC on March 21. JJ Dillon and Tully have been bragging on TV for weeks that Tully doesn’t have any real competition. The NWA brought in a Mexican legend to challenge that claim. Mil had sent in pre-tapes from Mexico talking about becoming the new NWA Television champion. There is a bloody, family feud brewing in Mid-Atlantic with “Superstar” Billy Graham and “Crazy” Luke Graham. During a World Championship Wrestling episode, Billy Graham broke his silence on the situation and said he wanted to stay away from his delusional brother. He was in Mid Atlantic to win championships and awards. He doesn’t know what Luke’s issues are, but he didn’t want to be involved. At an event in Atlanta, at the Omni, during a Television title match, Luke attacked Billy with a steel chain and bloodied his brother badly. MACW officials have been able to keep the two men apart at television tapings, but they have been able to get at each other in various instances on non-televised events. MACW finally signed a match between the two in Charlotte on the 25th of February. But that match quickly went out of control, with both men getting disqualified. MACW has signed a few more matches between the two brothers, but the end of the line will be at Clash of the Champions. They will meet in a loser-leaves-town Chain Match. Owen Hart is out on the disabled list after an attack by The Grappler’s and Mr. Wrestling II before their upcoming match on this Clash of the Champions card. He should be cleared by the doctors soon after the Clash show. NWA Board of Directors has ruled that since the Grappler’s and MW2 were responsible for the injury, on purpose, that the Hart Brothers can substitute for Owen during this title defense. They chose Rocky Johnson as their partner. He has been facing off with Mr. Wrestling II off and on since he came back to Mid Atlantic. Mr. Wrestling II has told Paul Jones to handle his new tag team and let him and handle winning the six-man tag team titles, as the Grappler’s recently fired Jones. With the big WTBS special coming up, here is the official run down for that show. NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match Ric Flair © w/ JJ Dillon vs One Man Gang NWA World Tag Team Championship Match The Rougeau Brothers © vs Rock ‘n Roll Express NWA United States Heavyweight Championship Match Magnum TA © vs NWA International Heavyweight Champion, Terry Funk NWA United States Tag Team Championship Match Barry & Kendall Windham © vs Paul Jones’ Mystery Team (Approved by the NWA Board of Directors) w/ Paul Jones NWA Television Championship Match Tully Blanchard © w/ JJ Dillon vs Mil Mascaras NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship Match Bruce & Keith Hart © and Rocky Johnson (replacing Owen Hart) vs The Grappler’s & Mr. Wrestling II Loser Leaves Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling Chain Match “Crazy” Luke Graham vs “Superstar” Billy Graham Women’s Match Luna Vachon vs Madusa

Can MACW book Mil Mascaras & Rock n Roll Express for March 21?