SirEdger

No, I'm not implying that anyone was stupid and needy. I said from the start that I understood both points of view were valid. But there hasn't been anything so far since I joined the game that couldn't be worked out. Sharing arenas shouldn't be an issue, IMO.

Honestly, if LowBlow and I were able to make our situation work out, there's absolutely no reason whatsoever why no one else in the game can't share towns too. Let's remember that first and foremost, it's a GAME. We're doing this for FUN. No need to get pissy about it & having our feathers ruffled over that. LowBlow isn't Vince McMahon for real.

After making some searches online, I came upon the realization that there could be some confusion with my championship belts with Lutte Internationale. I found out that the NWA International Tag Team Championship was a regional championship sanctioned by the NWA defended mostly with All-Japan (and previously with the JWA. So to avoid any confusion going further, my championships will be referred as such: NWA Canadian International Heavyweight Championship (currently held by Terry Funk) NWA Canadian International Tag Team Championship (currently held by Rick Martel & Gino Brito) NWA Canadian International TV Championship (currently held by Gino Brito) That way, if gordi wants to make this title active with his JWA, this will prevent any confusion with my championships in Lutte.

You can bet there won't be any mentions of Chris Benoit, Owen Hart's death and Jimmy Snuka's involvement in the death of Nancy Argentino.

Solid 10-men tag in the main event!

As I stated before in the other thread, I don't think there's any reason for anything impossible to be worked out. In my situation, WWF is expanding north of the border in Montreal & Toronto and LowBlow & I worked something out together that will fit in nicely in kayfabe. As I understood it, I think that rain had mostly a problem with it because Minneapolis & Milwaukee are two really core cities that have been notoriously & always been branded AWA. In that aspect, I absolutely understand why rain got upset over it, especially since AWA is still a big territory in the game right now. In my case, even with my affiliation with the NWA in the game, my territory is one of the smallest (although now unless Stampede returns, I can pretty much run everywhere in Canada) so in the logic of things, it made sense for me that WWF would try to get a foot in my territory and somehow having to step aside a bit - at least, tweaking things a little bit. In the grand scheme of things, we're all working together to make this project fun and an alteration of what it truly was. So, I really do think that we shall always be able to find compromises when a problematic situation arises. In this case, looks like it has been solved quickly without any further issues. Communication is key and while mishaps are bound to happen, there's no reason to complicate things. We're all grown ups and we can handle things maturely

Right now, it'd be like this: 1-Rougeau Brothers (NWA World Tag Champs) 2-Martel/Brito (NWA International Tag Champs) 3-The Sheepherders 4-The Wild Samoans 5-The Sensationals

Oh, I'm not saying that rain is asking too much. I understand his position, especially Minneapolis & Milwaukee being two of his core cities. Just like Montreal & Toronto are my top two cities. But if I was able to find common ground with WWF as I'm an "enemy territory" to them within the confines of the project, I'm just hoping that both rain & LowBlow can settle this without ruffling any feathers and without causing us to lose a huge territory in the game. HUG IT OUT, GUYS!

If I may chime in...I think we can all agree that this doesn't need to be exactly 100% recreation of what it was like back in the day. Personally, I plan myself to expand throughout Canada in its whole now that Stampede doesn't run anymore so I can only understand that LowBlow is willing to expand WWF the way it did back then. I ran one show in LA in early April and I've not seen any resistance. Hell, he's running my two top towns in his expansion projects and we've found a way together to make it work within the spirit of the Project. I don't wanna intrude in this because whatever will happen between you two is none of my business but I'm 100% sure that you both can find a way to work this out without causing any friction and to better the Project in its whole. I just hope you'll be able to do so because I'd hate to lose the AWA over something like this.

Interesting finish to the Knoxville show. Curious to see how Don Kernodle will navigate through this situation!

April 25th, 1985 Forum de Montréal Special Attraction: Bruiser Brody beat Nick Bockwinkel in 10:08 -The Vachons beat The Sensationals (Rip Oliver & Bob Sweetan, w/Sherri Martel) in 13:48 -The Bolshevik Revolution beat The Funks in 12:54 when Smirnoff pinned Dory -Bob Orton beat NWA World Tag Team Champion Jacques Rougeau in 16:31 -Super Strong Machine #1 beat Dutch Mantell in 12:18 -Ray Stevens beat NWA World Tag Team Champion Raymond Rougeau in 11:58 -Bob Backlund beat Nord the Barbarian (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in 11:58 NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair beat Butch Miller in 38:46 to retain

Great card again. Can sense a lot of intensity in every match, from the opener to the main event. I'm expecting nothing less out of Japan!

Either way, it's just good to see you back doing that stuff. Really loving it!

Love seeing live Piper's Pit in those house show loops. Great treat for the fans attending those events!

2nd annual Johnny Rougeau Memorial Cup is in the books. Everything will be posted day-by-day next weekend!

Oh no, I wasn't implying that at all. I just thought it was important to make the distinction between both sets of machines. Same could be said about the two Kendo Nagasakis that existed back then. One had way less exposure than the other, exactly like my Machines & WWF's Machines.

The Machines I use and those that WWF use are different. Mine are mostly referred to as Strong Machines and other than Junji Hirata/Super Strong Machine 1, they never got the exposure that the other Machines have. But to me, I like that because this allows me to give them a shot with the loan from JWA to get them over in the tag team division and separate themselves from the WWF's Machines. But I can understand the confusion though

April 21st, 1985 Centre Paul-Sauvé, Montréal -Richard "Le Magnifique" Charland (w/Frenchy Martin) beat Luke Williams in 15:48 -Butch Miller beat Boris Zhukov in 11:41 -The Sensationals (Oliver & Sweetan, w/Sherri Martel) beat Strong Machines 2 & 3 in 13:37 -Sheik Ali (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat Alexis Smirnoff in 7:59 -The Zambuie Express (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat the Wild Samoans in 12:42 -Bob Backlund beat Super Strong Machine #1 in 13:42 NWA International Heavyweight Championship: Terry Funk beat Randy Rose (w/Jim Cornette) in 13:06 to retain NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair beat Dory Funk Jr in 12:57 to retain

April 20th, 1985 Thornhill, ON -Nick Bockwinkel beat Sika in 15:30 -Steve Strong upsets Luke Williams in 2:43 -Rip Oliver (w/Sherri Martel) beat Strong Machine 2 in 15:44 NWA International TV Championship: NWA International Tag Team Champion Gino Brito beat Elijah Akeem (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in 16:01 to retain. Postmatch, a returning Fatu attacked Gino Brito! -The Sensationals (Robinson & Taylor, w/Sherri Martel) beat Strong Machine 1 & 3 in 19:57 -Bob Sweetan (w/Sherri Martel) beat Gilles Poisson in 9:08 Dream Tag Match: Bob Backlund & NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair beat The Spoiler & NWA World Tag Team Champion Raymond Rougeau in 16:31 when Backlund pinned The Spoiler. A bit of dissension between Backlund & Flair during the match but cooler heads prevailed in the end! NWA International Heavyweight Championship: Terry Funk beat Butch Miller in 12:24 to retain

NWA Lutte Internationale TV Taped at CHLT-TV Studios, Sherbrooke, QC Broadcasted April 20th, 1985 (After the opening credits, we go to the broadcast booth where awaits Guy Hauray & Édouard Carpentier to start this week’s episode) Guy Hauray: Happy Saturday, wrestling fans, and welcome to this week’s edition of NWA Lutte Internationale TV. As we’re inching closer to the 2nd Johnny Rougeau Memorial Cup in less than a week, some individuals are trying to get an advantage early – at least, those in the tournament – while others want to send a message. In our feature event this week, Eddie, we’ll see The Spoiler go one-on-one with Eddy Creatchman’s Scandinavian assassin, Nord the Barbarian! Édouard Carpentier: Yes, indeed, this should be really interesting as a matchup. The Spoiler has a boatload of experience in the ring while Nord the Barbarian can counter that with the devious mind of his manager, Eddy “The Brain” Creatchman. You never know what to expect from the Brain! Guy Hauray: Yes, The Brain always has something up his sleeve as his connections around the world are limitless. Speaking of around the world, we’d like to officially welcome Smokey Mountain Wrestling in the big National Wrestling Alliance family. We’re looking forward to see some of their fine athletes in action in the NWA, especially here! Édouard Carpentier: And it could very well happen. We can look at the current Smokey Mountain Tag Team Champions & Smokey Mountain Heavyweight Champion, members of the Karachi Puraas, and I’m fairly certain that those men will probably get in touch with Eddy Creatchman, sooner rather than later! Guy Hauray: I guess we’ll have to see about that but first, we have one half of the Midnight Express in action in Randy Rose! Match #1 Gino Dellaserra vs Randy Rose (w/Dennis Condrey & Jim Cornette) As hard as he tried, Gino Dellaserra was absolutely no match for Randy Rose. However, Ravishing Randy decides to extend Gino Dellaserra’s torture for a couple more minutes. Randy Rose finishes things off with a Diving Fist Drop to secure the victory. Winner: Randy Rose (After the match, Jim Cornette heads to the broadcast booth with his Midnight Express. Édouard Carpentier steps in front of the broadcast booth to interview them.) Édouard Carpentier: Congratulations to Randy Rose on his victory this week as an important match awaits your protégé, Jim Cornette. Tomorrow night at the Centre Paul-Sauvé in Montreal, Randy Rose will challenge Terry Funk for the NWA International Heavyweight Championship. We’ve seen Randy come very close in multiple occasions to cause the upset. Do you think, Jim, that Randy can pull it off tomorrow night? Jim Cornette: Right now, the only one being upset is me because you’re questioning Ravishing Randy’s ability to become champion. And I don’t like that! You see, ever since the Rougeaus won the NWA World Tag Team Titles, they have been avoiding us. We’ve asked time after time after time for those stinkin’ yellow-belly coward Rougeau Brothers to give us what’s rightfully ours. Yet, I see time and time again that the Sheepherders are getting title shots; I see the Wild Samoans getting title shots. I see Sherri’s cheap Midnight Express knockoffs she calls her Sensationals getting title shots. Where is our title shot? But that’s OK, because this gave both Loverboy Dennis and Ravishing Randy a chance to prove their worth in singles competition and as you’ve seen in the past couple of weeks and months, Mr. Carpentier, both of them have proven that they can hang with anyone in the NWA, whether it’s here or elsewhere. Randy Rose stepped into the ring with Ric Flair and pushed him to his limits. Randy has already stepped into the ring with Terry Funk and he did the same. Tomorrow night, it’ll be the night. Terry Funk, you might be the most powerful man in the NWA after Ric Flair but this will all change when Randy Rose takes that title away from you. And I can assure you that my Midnight Express will not be ignored any longer! Édouard Carpentier: But, Jim, if I may, should Randy fall short tomorrow night...and given the situation of the tag team division here in Lutte Internationale, what are you gonna do if there isn’t any gold around the waist of your Midnight Express? Jim Cornette: Make no mistake about it, old man, the world of professional wrestling is large enough for Jim Cornette & The Midnight Express to make their marks and hold gold anywhere. If the Rougeaus want to avoid us, we’re gonna have to make sure that we’ll get noticed. You see, perhaps that those daddy’s boys believe that Loverboy Dennis & Ravishing Randy aren’t important enough to even consider giving them an opportunity. Well, that’s their prerogative. But the day will come when the Midnight Express will capture gold and it might not be here but then, Frank Valois and the other promoters in the NWA will realize that they’ve missed the opportunity of a lifetime to show the world who’s the greatest tag team of all-time. So, Frank Valois, when that day comes when the Midnight Express walk out the door and head to greener pastures, you’re gonna ask yourself “Geez, who’s to blame for this?” And you know what, to be honest, it won’t even be your fault. At least, not entirely; you’re gonna look around and you’re gonna realize that the true responsible will be Jacques & Raymond Rougeau because you were too busy constantly having them in your ear, telling you what to say and what to do, pandering to their every want and need. And you’re probably gonna come calling & you’re gonna be crawling on your hands and knees, begging us to comeback to this stinkin’ territory and make you money. Well, it’s gonna be too late because we’ll have moved on to greener pastures and greater things. However, it’s not too late for you to rectify things, Frank. All we need, will be 1 shot. Give the Midnight Express 1 shot at the Rougeaus and I guarantee you we’ll make history. And if you remain stubborn, well, the world will now know who to blame! (Jim Cornette & the Midnight Express leave the broadcast booth and Édouard Carpentier returns to his position.) Guy Hauray: So Eddie, do you buy anything Jim Cornette just said or is it empty threats to you? Édouard Carpentier: Jim Cornette has never shied away from controversy and he always speaks his mind on every topic. Personally, the tag team division is so deep within the NWA, both here and with Mid-Atlantic. Add to that Smokey Mountain Wrestling and it’s absolutely loaded with top tier tag teams. I think Jim Cornette is looking to put the blame on anybody but himself for the Midnight Express’ shortcomings in the tag team division. But if Randy Rose somehow beats Terry Funk tomorrow and becomes the NWA International Heavyweight Champion, the whole narrative then changes. Jim Cornette will gain a lot of power. Guy Hauray: We’ll see if that changes tomorrow night. We’ll be right back after the commercial break! *******COMMERCIAL BREAK********** (As we’re back from the commercial break, it looks like we’re gonna be ready to go for another match as Serge Jodoin & Bob Dellaserra standing in the ring with referee Luigi Macera in there. However, out of nowhere, the Strong Machines swarm the ring and attack the two enhancement talents! All 3 of them, Super Strong Machine #1 and Strong Machines 2 & 3, are doing a number of poor Jodoin & Dellaserra. Strong Machine #1 hits each of Jodoin & Dellaserra with the Machine DDT. As Strong Machine 2 & 3 continue the beatdown on the jobbers, Super Strong Machine reaches out in his wrestling boot and hands to Guy Hauray a piece of paper. He motions for Guy Hauray to read it to the viewers at home. Strong Machine #1 also motions for #2 & #3 to retreat backstage as referees tend to Serge Jodoin & Bob Dellaserra.) To whom it may concern, We come from the land of the Rising Sun, where our sport is considered the most noble there is. There is a tremendous amount of pride in what we do and we are willing to do anything to show the world that we are the best. In America, some people are making a joke out of this sport, turning it into a circus freak show, promoting gigantic freaks and people willing to use our sport to catapult themselves in more selfish endeavours. While all of our Oriental counterparts are more reserved and respectful, we are not. We are intended to send a message to North American wrestlers in Canada and the United States. As the date of the next big tournament approach faster with the Johnny Rougeau Memorial Cup, we are sending a fair warning to whoever is taking part in this tournament in any way, shape or form; we will make our presence felt. We will use this stage to make an example out of the Occident and prove that the Orient have the best wrestlers in the world. We noticed that some promoters and individuals have already understood this and won’t be attending the event. As for the others, you will realize at your expense that it will be futile to refuse the inevitable. Come the 28th of April, someone will fall. We will shock the world. SM (Guy Hauray and Édouard Carpentier seem a bit confused about what Guy just read.) Guy Hauray: Ladies and gentlemen....on those ominous words, I just don’t know what to say. What can we make of this, Eddie? Édouard Carpentier: Well, Guy, we’ve seen for the past couple of weeks what the Machines can do as nobody seems to be immune to their wrath. While JWA will send a contingent to represent them during our 3-day tournament, it looks obvious that the Machines are hellbent on disrupting it and to make sure that everyone sees what they can do. Let’s hope that this won’t get out of hand. Guy Hauray: Especially for the rest of the show. Because when we come back, it’ll be main event time as The Spoiler squares off with Nord the Barbarian! ********COMMERCIAL BREAK + INSERT PROMO TO HYPE THE JOHNNY ROUGEAU MEMORIAL CUP NEXT WEEK************ http://challonge.com/v8s5e3pz MAIN EVENT Match #2 The Spoiler vs Nord the Barbarian (w/Eddy “The Brain” Creatchman) The broadcast team use the early moments of the match to discuss what just happened with the Strong Machines beatdown prior to the commercial break. We’re in for a lengthy match and it looks like the young Creatchman protégé has enough cardio to keep the pace with the veteran Spoiler. The challenge for The Spoiler is to avoid Nord’s falling powerslam while Nord’s is to avoid The Spoiler’s dreaded Claw. Nord has the momentum in the late moments of the match, from the instant The Spoiler accidentally punched the ringpost outside during a scuffle. Nord attempted his falling powerslam on The Spoiler but The Spoiler slipped behind Nord and shoved him in the corner! After a few moments in which the Spoiler mounted his comeback, he’s finally able to lock in the Claw on Nord! The big man is in trouble as The Spoiler seems to be headed to another victory. Eddy Creatchman senses trouble and tries to change the fate of his protégé as he climbs on the ring apron. The Spoiler lets go of Nord and he then locks the Claw on Eddy Creatchman! Creatchman is in trouble and in desperation, tosses his cane in the ring! Referee Adrien Desbois steps in between the Spoiler and Eddy Creatchman to separate the two. This allows Nord to grab Eddy’s cane and smash it in the back of The Spoiler! The masked veteran collapses on the ground and Nord gets rid of the smoking gun to cover the Spoiler. Eddy casually steps down of the apron and Desbois turns around and can only make the 3-count. Eddy Creatchman steps in the ring again to celebrate with Nord as the show draws to a close. Winner: Nord the Barbarian À LA SEMAINE PROCHAINE SI DIEU LE VEUT!

Love seeing some Texas Tornado Rules. I bet this match stole the show!

Love that hype show. Very different from what we're doing elsewhere in North America. Very much looking forward to Steamboat teaming with Fujinami!

Lutte trades The Great Kabuki & The Missing Link to Continental for Fatu & Dutch Mantel

Oh yeah, some serious momentum for Austin Idol heading into the UWF title tournament. And the Perfect Alliance coming really close to losing those titles to Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden! Great job again!

You're so giving me ideas right now!