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Excellent way to hype up the War Games match!

Amazing show! Really excited to see Lex Luger go one-on-one with the Great Muta, after such a fun match! Truly epic main event with plenty of high drama! Awesome finish with the snake!

Wonder Women of Wrestling – Episode No. XCII – August Spectacular – 31st of August 1987 – Airing Live! – Las Vegas, Nevada Advertised Match: Medusa Miceli versus Lisa Moretti for the NWA World Women’s Championship We kick this week off with six women in the ring – Misty Blue Simmes, Leilani Kai, Lady Apache, Linda Dallas, Luna Vachon and Brittany Brown – as the commentators explain that Babyface Nellie has traded her television title in favour of a shot at the US title. The opening stag of this battle royal play out more like a tag match as the faces and feels form up into respective teams. Everyone gets some time to shine in the fairly even contest. The first eliminations occur after the commercial and come together as the heels try to gang up on Luna Vachon. Leilani Kai cannot resist the opportunity and sends Linda Dallas, Brittany Brown and Luna Vachon all tumbling out. She pays for her deception by being thrust into a two-on-one situation against the remaining faces. She puts up a fight, taking every liberty and cheap shot she can, but it’s not enough to overcome the odds and she’s dumped out. Misty Blue Simmes and Lady Apache then proceed to a have a clean and technical fight for the title that seems as though it could either way until the flash finish as Misty Blue Simmes ducks a cross body that ends with Lady Apache tied up in the ropes and easily thrown over. Misty Blue Simmes defeats Luna Vachon & Brittany Brown & Linda Dallas & Leilani Kai & Lady Apache in 25:47 in an over-the-top-rope battle royal to win the WWW Television Championship We then get a video package focusing on Medusa Miceli and her reign so far as world champion before transitioning to the interview. Misty Blue Simmes is joined by Heidi Lee Morgan who gushes over her and they wish the Giant Slayers luck in their match later against the Monsters. A commercial break then takes us through to our only season match of the night, with Rockin’ Robin taking on Mad Maxine. We get a fairly standard David versus Goliath style match with Jamie West at ringside to try livening the crowd up and shout occasional words of encouragement to her partner. In the end, the match depends on ring awareness as Rockin’ Robin tries a move from the top rope but gets caught. Mad Maxine wastes no time and capitalises with a big move. Mad Maxine defeats Rockin’ Robin in 12:09 by pinfall after a shoulder breaker in a Season Match An advert for the merchandise catalogue then plays us through to the interviews. The Star Girls downplay the loss, emphasising the size and power of Mad Maxine. For her part, the big woman, cannot contain her giddy relief at the victory. Another commercial then brings us to the tag team title match. After a couple of flashy entrances, the ring announcer explains that the “No Disqualification” stipulation is in effect and that the match will be fought under Texas Tornado rules. The result is a brutal brawl from start to finish, occasionally involving the rest of the Giant Slayers. After a commercial break, we get a well rehearsed stunt when Rhonda Singh tries to spear Desiree Petersen through the announcers’ table but finds herself thrown on top of it instead, after which Winona Little Heart delivers an elbow drop from the nearest corner post. Whilst the Giant Slayers do not press their advantage fully, with the girls at ringside only getting involved when attacked, Reggie Bennett still has to contend with a two-on-one as Rhonda Singh is out of commission for the rest of the match. In the end, it all proves to be too much for the remaining monster. Desiree Petersen & Winona Little Heart defeat Rhonda Singh & Reggie Bennett in 30:34 when Desiree Petersen submits Reggie Bennett with a Boston crab to win the NWA World Women’s Tag Team Championship After the match, all hell breaks loose as a now recovered Rhonda Singh blind sides the new champions and the other Giant Slayers rush into stop her. Instead, like a woman possessed, she demolishes them, screaming at their broken bodies and the crowd in equal measure. On that note, we move onto another commercial break before our penultimate match, Babyface Nellie challenging Velvet McIntyre for the US title. Befitting the two women, we get a fast-paced and flashy back-and-forth. Babyface Nellie has been improving everyday but Velvet McIntyre seems to have shaken herself out of her tendency towards hesitation, so the advantage is unclear all the way up to the finish. Both competitors manage to hit their signature moves and secure a handful of two-counts but, in the end, it is the champ with just a little bit more juice in her tank. Velvet McIntyre defeats Babyface Nellie in 15:21 by pinfall after a swinging hurricanrana to retain the NWA United States Women’s Championship Another video package plays, this time showing off Lisa Moretti’s time in the company so far and hyping up the main event, before we get to the interviews. Babyface Nellie praises the company’s new title system but beats herself up over her inability to capitalise. Velvet McIntyre compliments her opponent before going on to hype her friend’s chances to retain the world title in the next match. By the time we come back from the commercial break, the cage has been erected around our main event competitors. The match starts slow, with the two women feeling each out and coming to grips with the cage. Shortly before another commercial break, we get a nasty visual as Lisa Moretti grinds the champ’s face against the cage. We return, however, to scenes of Medusa Miceli giving back as good as she gets and launching the challenger into the cage. By the time we get to the finishing stretch, both women are bloodied and bruised and engaging in a relentless back-and-forth of strikes and big slams. After a German suplex fails to secure her the win, Medusa Miceli feigns a complaint to the referee. Lisa Moretti falls for it and goes for a spear, only to be dodged and thrown into a ring post. From this position, the challenger is thrown up and over and the champ executes a near-perfect bridge for the win. Medusa Miceli defeats Lisa Moretti in 35:47 by pinfall with a bridging German suplex to retain the NWA World Women’s Championship We end on a shot of the referee draping the title over the champion as she stares up at the lights, catching her breath.

Big win for Bam Bam Bigelow! I'm loving the Rockers versus Rock 'n' Rolls feud! High drama in that main event and a great match besides!

Amazing segment from Ric Flair, Sherri Martel and Adrian Adonis! Always happy to see wins for Rocky Johnson and Hiroshi Hase! Sherri Martel continues to build herself up as a difference-maker ahead of her client's big match!

Great way to open the show with a solid win for Ron Simmons! Loved seeing Fit Finlay give Buddy Rose a well-deserved comeuppance! High drama in the Loser Leaves Town match! The Midnight Express have somehow become even more hateable! The Wild Things look like absolute mad dogs! Great stuff! Things are not going well for Gary Young and now Jeff Jarrett can say he has a win here over Bob Backlund, if only on paper! A little bit of intrigue in the Pacific Tag title match and Bob Backlund finds some measure of success! Really happy with Barry Windham going over the One Man Gang here in an epic match! Ending the night as champion, Nick Bockwinkel continues to look undefeatable!

Great way to kick off the show, a big win for the Steiner Brothers! The tournament developed well with some amazing teams advancing! Tully Blanchard can always be counted on for some gnarly violence in a gimmick match. Happy to see Blackjack Mulligan get the win! Loved the finish for Steve Williams and Jumbo Tsuruta after an epic match! Steiners versus Freebirds! What a main event!

Kendo Nagasaki, Tarzan Goto and Tojo Yamamoto make for a really intimidating team! Loved the Johnny Valiant stuff throughout the night! Joel Deaton has a week to get himself an edge!

Strong performance for Venomous heading into Collision! Definitely looking forward to that match! El Canek is big part of the company's brand at this point! I'm rooting for Jerry Blackwell, love the visual of him making threats whilst his head is still bandaged up! Loved that segment with the Bruise Brothers, now really hoping the Japanese can show them up! Really nice brawl to end the night on!

The Kansas Jayhawks come out of their match with monster heat, I suspect! Really nice way to build up the Rockers and the Rock 'n' Rolls here! Loved the Jake Roberts win here! Great finish! Chris Adams with a massive victory here! Wow! This is a really solid performance for Butch Reed! Big win for the young guys here that has to make a lot of people nervous!

Wow! That's a pretty big win for Jim Neidhart! Loved the Texas Red versus Bubba Rogers hoss fight! Cool way to debut the Southern Boys! They look like a class act and still get a great performance out of it! Such an epic main event! I'm really happy for Brian Pillman but also desperate for a rematch!

Always happy to see a good tag tournament! Explosive main event! With just enough doubt to make a rematch exciting, Jumbo Tsuruta is riding high!

Adrian Adonis - or, rather, Sherri Martel - looks very dangerous now! Really solid performance for Manny Fernandez and his opponent having skipped a match only compounds that!

A recorded win over Vader looks really good for Chris Benoit and now Vader must be really pissed off heading into Rage in the Cage! I'm looking forward to it!

Wonder Women of Wrestling – Episode No. XCI – 24th of August 1987 – Airing Live! – Las Vegas, Nevada Advertised Match: Medusa Miceli & Velvet McIntyre versus Lisa Moretti & Wendi Richter We open hot this week, with Babyface Nellie taking on Rhonda Singh in the traditional television title opener. The commentators explain that, per the new rules, Babyface Nellie is technically also fighting for a shot at the US title. Rhonda Singh dominates the early goings of the match, with her size and strength advantage but things become more equal after the commercial break. Reggie Bennett is a minor annoyance for the champ throughout the match but when the finish comes the tables are turned. Apparently wanting to send a message ahead of their match against the Monsters next week, the Giant Slayers rush down to the ring and start wailing on Reggie Bennett. This distracts the challenger just long enough to help bring the match to a close. Babyface Nellie defeats Rhonda Singh in 24:51 by pinfall with a schoolboy roll-up to retain the WWW Television Championship After the match, Rhonda Singh dives straight into the brawl on the outside and we get a brutal preview of what’s to come that culminates in the Monsters delivering a hellish powerbomb to Selina Majors before staff swarm in to break things up and we cut to another commercial break. After that we get a season match with a peculiar dynamic as Leilani Kai takes on her stablemate Liz Chase. Whereas the first ten minutes are a standard, if heatless, back-and-forth, the finish sees the leader of the Glamour Girls demand that her opponent simply lay down for her. After a brief tease that she might refuse, she relents. Leilani Kai defeats Liz Chase in 12:19 by pinfall with a lateral press in a Season Match A hype package for the main event then plays before we get to the joint interview. The whole affair is extremely tense as Leilani Kai tries to explain that the outcome of the match was necessary so as not to foster disunity to her, somewhat unconvinced, stablemates. Another commercial break then takes us to our second season match, with Luna Vachon facing off against KC Houston. KC Houston is apparently still pissed off about her loss last week and she shows it by wrestling as dirty and as mean as she can against an initially overwhelmed Luna Vachon. However, failing to capitalise early comes back to bite KC Houston, as Luna Vachon stays in the fight and eventually mounts a come back. The rest of the match then proceeds as something of a showcase for the newly confident Luna Vachon as she shows off what she can do. Luna Vachon defeats KC Houston in 13:44 by pinfall after a moonsault in a Season Match After a video package showing off some of the company’s recent charity drives, we head to the interviews. KC Houston rants and raves but says very little of substance, whereas Luna Vachon happily explains that she has been training with the Giant Slayers and is glad to see that it is already beginning to pay off. After another commercial break, we come to the main event. Medusa Miceli and Lisa Moretti kick things off with slow-paced technical wrestling until Wendi Richter becomes frustrated and tags herself in, then things start to break down. By the time we return from another commercial break, all four women are in the ring and the referee is threatening to call the whole thing off. Eventually, however, things are brought back under control and we get a solid section where Velvet McIntyre and Wendi Richter take each other on. A thoroughly brutalised Velvet McIntyre is then forced to tag out and Lisa Moretti gets in to ensure she gets another chance to get her lumps in on the world champ. The finish comes after several near-falls for both competitors when Lisa Moretti goes down to a German suplex too close to the ropes. The resulting flare up from Medusa Miceli as she yells at the referee for not counting the pin, however brief, is enough to allow Lisa Moretti to recover and get the barest three count that company may have ever seen. Lisa Moretti & Wendi Richter defeat Medusa Miceli & Velvet McIntyre in 31:02 when Lisa Moretti pins Medusa Miceli with a small package We then end on a shot of a despondent Medusa Miceli and Velvet McIntyre heading to the back as Lisa Moretti and Wendi Richter celebrate in the background.

Loved seeing Bret Hart outwrestle Buddy Rose! Nick Bockwinkel versus Ron Garvin is such a solid main event! I was rooting for Owen Hart but Bob Backlund is just a cut above the rest here!

Extremely happy to see Brian Pillman manage to beat Sabu! Great match! Cannonball Grizzly looks like a monster coming out of that match! Ron Simmons fighting through a tough main event challenge!

Tom McGee has built up a lot of momentum as TV champ! Jimmy Golden has a lot to contend with! Very happy to see Rocky Johnson get a main event win there!

Truly explosive main event! I loved the finish!

Welcome back! Looking forward to this!

Loved the finish and post-finish for Terry Taylor versus Tom Zenk! Great main event! Though I was rooting for Al Perez, it was a solid match! Looking forward to the War Games!

Nice opener with the great Tatsumi Fujinami and Yoshiaki Yatsu! Lovely little promo from Larry Zbyszko here! Great messy finish to end the show on!

Very impressive for Tom McGee to see off a challenge from Bill Dundee! Loved that battle royal! Great story told there! It's always good to see Keiichi Yamada rack up another win! Pleased to see the Killer Bees get some time to shine, also!

Brian Pillman versus Cactus Jack is such a treat! Happy with the solid win for Texas Red here! British Steel are a great tag team, nice to see them pull out another victory! It's great to see Bob Backlund being shown up here, even if Jeff Jarrett couldn't quite put him away!

Really impressive win for Chris Candido here! Black Tiger versus Owen Hart is really emblematic of the great junior heavyweight division you have! Wow! I'm very happy to see Curt Hennig pull off an upset here!