SirEdger

Perfect! I'll unveil the brackets this week!

Holy crap, am I pumped for Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs Stan Hansen! It's gonna be heavy-hitting for sure. I was actually expecting Harley Race to win this one and getting a shot at dual gold but I'm sure Harley will get another crack at it eventually.

Yeah, the Johnny Rougeau Memorial Cup is enough for me to book every year that I try for that to stick as the only tournament I book during the year. Speaking of which, as soon as I get the final entry from World Class, I'll be able to reveal the brackets for this year's tournament.

BREAKING NEWS: THE VACHONS RETIRE; CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS VACATED! Upon the recent beating Butcher Vachon took at the hands of The Samoan SWAT Team - now including Kokina Maximus, per insistence of his new manager, Paul E. Dangerously -, The Vachons have relinquished the NWA Canadian International Tag Team Championship and they subsequently announced their retirement. Indeed, Butcher Vachon will not be cleared by doctors to return to the ring and while Mad Dog Vachon was given the option to find another partner to defend the titles with, he declined, saying "At this stage of my career and my life, I wouldn't do it with anyone other than my big brother Paul. Therefore, I'd rather simply walk away from the business in its whole. I can't say that I didn't have a great one. I'm at peace with that." With this announcement, Lutte Internationale have already decided they will crown new champions this Friday night in Hamilton, ON by throwing an invitation to the 2 first teams in Lutte & the NWA to compete in a match to find new champions. Naturally, Paul E Dangerously didn't waste any time and said that The Samoan SWAT Team will be one of those teams and they'll be represented by Prince Alofa Fatu & Kokina Maximus ("If we are to win the titles, it better be the mammoth that is responsible for retiring The Vachons!", said Paul E). Across the ring, surprising entrants; as soon as he heard about the news, The Assassin called Frank Valois to make sure that Assassin #1 & #2 were the opposing team as he feels it's about time they get the respect that they deserve. The match has been made official and The Samoan SWAT Team will square off with The Assassins this Friday night with the winner becoming new champions. And this couldn't be the only gold The Dangerous Alliance can bring home: The Great Samu will challenge "Maniac" Matt Borne for the TV Championship on the same night. We could overhear in the background, when we spoke to Paul E, "Adorable" Adrian Adonis asking for a title match in the background, with Paul E quietly dismissing Adrian... A star-studded event in Hamilton since Hacksaw Jim Duggan from UWF as well as WWC's Huracan Castillo & Miguelito Perez will be in action. Plus, Madusa Miceli in women's action!

While I'd really dig Martel vs Taylor, all of a sudden, now I really want to see Martel vs Slater!

Solid card in the Sam Houston Coliseum. Road Warriors vs Devastation Inc. should be one slobberknocker.

April 13th, 1986 Vancouver, BC -"Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal beat Pirata Morgan in 10:34 -NWA Canadian International Tag Team Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Chris Candido in 13:12 -Ron Fuller beat Kokina Maximus in 19:27 by DQ after Kokina refused to listen to the referee's orders. -The Great Samu (w/Paul E Dangerously) beat NWA Canadian International Tag Team Champion Butcher Vachon in 14:09. Postmatch, Prince Alofa Fatu & Kokina Maximus joined Samu in a 3-on-1 beatdown of Butcher. Mad Dog tried to do the save but to no avail. Butcher Vachon was strectchered out. -NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion Chris Benoit beat Bruce Hart in 15:28 -Armand Rougeau beat King Kong Bundy in 7:42 -Lord Humongous (w/Floyd Creatchman) beat Steve Doll in 17:16 Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship: Harley Race beat MS-1 in 11:39 to retain

The reason they changed it to the IIconics is because Iconic Duo was already trademarked by another company. Iconic Duo LLC filed an opposition motion earlier this week.

Yeah, Gino & Andre were very close, as Andre had shares in the Montreal territory right up until he left to work for WWF permanently in the mid-80s. One of my friends (Pat Laprade) was also featured in Andre's doc as I believe he also was one of the executive producers.

Very cool to have the Tag Team Championship match headlining MSG instead of Hogan vs Valentine (who would've been equally as good). The last thing you wanna do is anger a Giant. Even though you're Samoan.

I totally missed Brutus Beefcake joining the UWF. But with that said, pretty good match with Butch Reed!

Alright, joeg, let's go with Averno vs Myzteziz from AAA Sin Limite (taped 7/3/15)

Well, they basically picked an actor in Jean Brassard (I legit saw him in a L&O SVU episode a few years ago as well as Broadway shows) and turned him into a heel faux French color commentator (he's as Quebecer as I am). But to me, it still worked because the chemistry between he and Ray Rougeau has always been great. Does it top Guy Hauray & Édouard Carpentier? Never. They're my French equivalent to Gorilla & Brain in terms of epicness. But over the years, we haven't been treated too kindly in French Canadian play-by-play right up a few months ago for both WWE & ROH.

NWA Lutte Internationale/International Wrestling TV LIVE April 12th, 1986 Sarnia, ON Quick and Dirty Results: -The show opens with NWA Canadian International Heavyweight Champion Jacques Rougeau at the broadcast booth. Before getting into the subject, Jacques is told about the fact that some people are upset the Rougeaus will be taking on NWA North American Tag Team Champions Jimmy Garvin & Eric Embry in a Scaffold Match at the Johnny Rougeau Memorial Cup, especially Don Kernodle. Jacques says that they happened to be the first to hear about it so they answered. Nothing against American Made and he knows that Kernodle & Kirschner could also get the job done. Jacques now wants to know who accepted his challenge from WCCW. He gets his answer quickly in.....Steve Doll? Jacques seems a bit surprised and questions if Doll really is ready to wrestle someone like him. Doll says he knows that no one is giving him a chance but since Jacques said it was open to anyone in World Class, he decided to jump at the occasion. Jacques accepts and wishes Doll the best of luck... -Ray Candy beat Bruce Hart in 11:05 -Pirata Morgan beat Kokina Maximus in 15:14 after Maximus missed a legdrop! -Floyd Creatchman made his way to the broadcast booth, along with Lord Humongous. Floyd is asked why he hasn't been seen recently with The Great Samu & Prince Alofa Fatu. Floyd seems a bit embarrassed and tries to avoid the question as much as he can until Paul E. Dangerously shows up with Adrian Adonis.....and Paul E. seems a bit embarrassed himself about Adonis. However, Paul E says he has the answer as to why Floyd hasn't been seen recently with Fatu & Samu. Paul E. explains it's because Samu & Fatu are no longer Floyd's charges. In fact, the paper that Floyd signed to Paul E wasn't an authorization for him to sue but he rather signed a waiver allowing Paul E. to takeover as Fatu & Samu's manager! As of right now, Paul E is the manager for Samu & Fatu and he doesn't waste any time rechristening them "The Samoan SWAT Team". Meanwhile, Adonis keeps badgering Paul E in asking for a title match but Paul E turns him away. Eventually, Floyd jumps on Paul E in a fit of rage and even Humongous & Adonis get into it! That brings out Bruno Sammartino who orders that Humongous and Adonis wrestle RIGHT NOW! -"Adorable" Adrian Adonis (w/Paul E. Dangerously) beat Lord Humongous (w/Floyd Creatchman) in 13:46 after Paul E nailed Humongous with his phone and Adonis locked in Good Night Irene! -Kendall Windham beat Bobby Fulton in 13:04 -In somewhat of an upset, Satanico beat Rick Rude in 10:30! After the match, Satanico challenges NWA National Heavyweight Champion Terry Gordy to a title match next week at the CNE Coliseum in Toronto! -Ron Fuller beat The Great Samu (w/Paul E. Dangerously), despite interference from Prince Alofa Fatu in 10:46. In a surprising turn of events, Gino Brito interfered to even the odds and attacked Fatu and they brawled everywhere around the ring until the end of the match. Afterwards, Bruno Sammartino ordered Gino Brito to take on Prince Alofa Fatu in a Falls Count Anywhere Match! Falls Count Anywhere: Gino Brito beat Prince Alofa Fatu (w/Paul E. Dangerously) in 3:13. Brito knocked out Paul E early in the match and took care of Prince Alofa Fatu afterwards! NWA Canadian International Heavyweight Championship: Jacques Rougeau beat Steve Doll in 13:40 to retain. Postmatch, Jacques shook hands with Steve Doll in sign of respect. À LA SEMAINE PROCHAINE SI DIEU LE VEUT!

In hindsight, yeah, but at the same time they were NOT calling the match, so we gotta factor that shit in. I still like Striker better because like you said, shit's hilarious, but you gotta wonder about paying for a service and actually not getting it. I dunno, for me having legit fun announcers to listen too often beats the hell out of guys who blandly or annoyingly call a match. I can remember to this day Eddie Carpentier & Guy Hauray calling some god awful match between SD Jones & Mike Sharpe at the garden and making fun out of the old, immobile referee and just being hilarious about everything. To me it's always been part of pro-wrestling. Like those WCW matches were Dusty Rhodes & Bobby Heenan were going insane. Ok, they weren't putting the matches over, but it was entertainning as fuck and I never got enough of this stuff. The one thing I'll remember from the Braun match at Mania will always be Christophe Agius (he's playing heel) basically shouting "Fuck him up ! Fuck him up !" at Cesaro when the kid got in the ring. I mean, I was tired as hell by then, but I died laughing. I'm pretty sure they aren't micromanaged and Vince has no idea what is happening in the French booth, and the fact they are funny as fuck is what makes me come back to watch these PPV too, even when they're really just saying shit for the sake or it (for the record, they don't do that only, they are actually a really great duo of announcers). This is something I always loved in my pro-wrestling and that the corporate environement (or the über serious stuff I hear in NJ in English or this week-end on the EVOLVE shows, which had awful announcing, for instance) really ruins for me. Maybe it's a French thing, I know that Roger Couderc always had the kinda tongue-in-cheek tone to his announcing in the days of classic french wrestling in the 50's and 60's. Major shoutout to you for the Édouard Carpentier & Guy Hauray love. Those two were my whole childhood. In my early teen years, Guy Hauray even played heel color commentator alongside Raymond Rougeau for the French Canadian version of WWF Superstars. I never thought Hauray could pull off being a heel so good but good grief, was he awesome.

Nothing needs to be said when your tag team is named "The Facekickers". A ridiculously good card yet again showcasing everyone!

Couldn't have picked a better Wild West Heavyweight Champion than Scott Hall! Gonna be awfully hard to beat!

April 11th, 1986 CNE Coliseum, Toronto, ON -"The Great One" David Sammartino beat Steve Doll in 4:51 -The Awesome Twosome (Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez) beat Kokina Maximus & The Great Samu in 13:09 -"The Blonde Bombshell" Chris Candido beat Kendall Windham in 12:29 -NWA Canadian International TV Champion "Maniac" Matt Borne & Bruce Hart beat The Creatchman Family (Botswana Beast & Lord Humongous, w/Floyd Creatchman) in 17:04 NWA Canadian International Heavyweight Championship 3-Way Dance: Jacques Rougeau beat MS-1 & Raymond Rougeau in 24:24 to retain when Jacques pinned MS-1 -NWA Canadian International Tag Team Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal in 16:54 -NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion Chris Benoit beat Keith Hart in 7:13 NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Rick Martel beat Killer Khan (w/Floyd Creatchman) in 15:11 to retain

Crazy finish to the Continental title match. Can't get enough of those Jim Cornette promos!

Pat Tanaka pulling off a pretty good run as Southern champion! For a tag team guy, he's doing well!

Exactly what Pillman needed, a blessing in disguise. Watch him take off within the AWA.

All set!

You're good to go.

Agreed with gordi. Nice continuity with the loss of the 6-men tag titles.

Pretty stoked for the National Tag Team Championship Match. Should be a great main event at the Sam Houston Coliseum!