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Yeah, felt like I needed to re-establish the Zambuie Express. So I thought that a squash & a singles victory over one half of the NWA World Tag Team Champions would do the trick!

March 24th, 1985 Ottawa, ON -Elijah Akeem (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat Terry Taylor (w/Sherri Martel) in :56 -Dory Funk Jr beat Nord the Barbarian (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in 7:43 -Sika beat Hercules Ayala in 6:47 -Kareem Muhammad (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat NWA World Tag Team Champion Raymond Rougeau in 10:40 -Carlos Colon beat Baron Von Raschke in 6:44 Guest Referee - Édouard Carpentier: The Bolshevik Assassin (The Spoiler in a different mask) & Boris Zhukov beat The Great Kabuki & Samu (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in 20:09 NWA International Heavyweight Championship: Terry Funk beat NWA International Tag Team & TV Champion Gino Brito in 13:46 to retain NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair beat Randy Rose (w/Jim Cornette) in 67:50 to retain

Kinda like the potential of an Andersons/Slater/Hercules alliance. You might have stumbled upon something!

Yeah, that's on me lol I didn't see that you had posted Wrestling Challenge before I saw the results for the Montreal live event.

Considering how hugely over Dino Bravo & Andre were in Montreal, it's anything but "blah-ish". Crowd must've gone nuts for this. In an odd way, Hogan probably was the lesser attraction in this main event...unless you were talking about Wrestling Challenge?

Oooooooh, looking forward to that!

March 23rd, 1985 Victoria, Prince Edward Island Mini event -Samu (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat The Missing Link in 4:19 6-Men Tag: Gilles "The Fish" Poisson & The Zambuie Express (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat The Bolshevik Revolution in 41:11 after Von Raschke inadvertantly struck Zhukov with the Soviet Flag!

NWA Lutte Internationale TV Taped at CHLT-TV Studios, Sherbrooke, QC Broadcasted March 23rd, 1985 (After the opening credits, we’re headed to the broadcast booth as Guy Hauray & Édouard Carpentier are waiting to start the show) Guy Hauray: Hello, wrestling fans, and welcome to another edition of NWA Lutte Internationale TV. If you thought last week was intense, I don’t think we’re through yet because for the second consecutive week, the NWA International Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk will be in action as he’ll take on Luke Williams in our feature bout. Édouard Carpentier: After what happened last week, Guy, the champion is definitely looking to send a bigger message this week as Luke Williams is most definitely one tough customer. Funk might’ve found a suitable opponent today and who knows what’s going to happen this week. Guy Hauray: Also, this week, we’ll see The Creatchman Family in 6-Men Tag Team Action. In fact, we’ll see them twice this in action, both tag team matches. The Brain is growing impatient now to have gold in his stable, ever since his former protégés the Wild Samoans lost the International Tag Team Championship. Édouard Carpentier: Interestingly enough, the Samoans will be involved in one of those Creatchman Family matches as they’ll challenge The Great Kabuki & Samu a bit later. I’ll tell you – Guy Hauray: I’m sorry, Eddie, I’m being told that....Yes....Fans, apparently something has happened backstage as they’re been an attack perpetrated on some of our roster members! Do we have a camera? (As we’re headed backstage, we see several of Lutte’s enhancement talents laid out in their locker rooms: Serge Jodoin, Denis Goulet, the Dellaserras and Dominic DeNucci all lying motionless or hurt on the floor. As the camera pans closer, something is noticeable; all 5 jobbers’ heads are covered with masks! But no sign of their assailants anywhere in the studios or the building.) Guy Hauray: Eddie....did those masks look familiar to you? Édouard Carpentier: Yes, they were, Guy. But to be honest, I’m a bit sceptical. I mean...I’ve heard of a Big one, a Super one and even a Giant one but....could we really be invaded by more of them? Guy Hauray: I don’t know but this seems to be really bad news for the rest of our roster. Hopefully, we’ll have an update on this situation a bit later on. We’re ready for our first match so, let’s get to it! Match #1 The Wild Samoans vs The Zambuie Express (w/Eddy “The Brain” Creatchman) Of course, the broadcast team is reminiscing of the history between the Samoans and Eddy Creatchman, who led them to become the original International Tag Team Champions last year. As expected, quite the hard-hitting matchup between both teams. Elijah Akeem & Kareem Muhammad are getting the advantage early but as we know, Samoans aren’t easy to permanently take down and that’s a lesson that the Zambuie Express is learning the hard way. The match ends with the Samoans nailing their Double Headbutt consecutively on Akeem & Muhammad to secure the victory. Winners: The Wild Samoans ******COMMERCIAL BREAK******** Match #2 Boris Zhukov (w/Bolshevik Revolution) vs the self-proclaimed Sensational Heavyweight Champion Billy Robinson (w/Sherri Martel) As expected, before the match starts, Sherri Martel insisted that Robinson’s Sensational Heavyweight Championship wasn’t at stakes in this match. And visibly, Zhukov didn’t mind this at all because he literally spits at the title belt before the match begins! This infuriated Robinson and got the match under way. Billy Robinson displays quite the technical spectacle in there (did we expect anything else from Robinson?) but with Von Raschke & Smirnoff at ringside, it’s one of those rare times in which the Sensationals were at the wrong end of the strength-in-numbers situation and the Bolshevik Revolution took fully advantage of that. With Sherri Martel trying to interfere, Baron Von Raschke interjected himself quickly by removing Sherri from the ring apron. A distracted Robinson then fell prey to Zhukov’s running clothesline, which he followed with the Diving Headbutt to secure the victory. After the match, Zhukov added insult to injury by draping Robinson with the Soviet flag, as they did recently! Winner: Boris Zhukov *******COMMERCIAL BREAK******* Match #3 6-Men Lethal Lottery Tag Team Match Nick Bockwinkel, Bob Sweetan & Dory Funk Jr vs The Creatchman Family (Sheik Ali, Nord the Barbarian & Samu, w/Eddy “The Brain” Creatchman) The broadcast team is wondering how much luck the Creatchman Family got in this Lethal Lottery situation this time as all of them are in the same team for this match. On the opposite side, we notice that Bockwinkel & Sweetan are alone as Dory Funk is a no-show and it looks like it’s gonna start as a 2-on-3 Handicap Match. Despite the already tumultuous history between himself and Sherri Martel (who makes her way to the ring later in the match, after having tended to Robinson), Nick Bockwinkel and Bob Sweetan are working relatively well together and are having their moments during the match, despite the 3-on-2 Creatchman advantage. And it looks like like Bockwinkel & Sweetan might be able to pull off the big victory as Bockwinkel is cleaning house from the Creatchmans as once again, the crowd’s attention is distracted from the match when what seems like a limping Dory Funk Jr makes his way to the ring...and he’s wearing the same mask that the enhancement talents were wearing at the top of the broadcast when they were attacked! Everyone stops dead in their tracks and even Bockwinkel steps outside the ring to check on Dory. This distracts Bob Sweetan, who’s yelling at Bockwinkel and this allows Samu to hit a Savate Kick on Sweetan and followed it with a Samoan Drop to secure the victory for The Creatchman Family. Winners: The Creatchman Family (A visibly angry Bob Sweetan stepped out of the ring to confront Bockwinkel and a shoving match ensued. But Bockwinkel responded immediately with the big right hand, sending Sweetan on his keister. Sweetan gets back up and both Sweetan and Bockwinkel started trading fists all the way back to the locker room. Meanwhile, Dory has been able to remove the mask and an irate Terry Funk comes out from the back to check on his older brother. Terry grabs the mask and he heads to the broadcast booth. Édouard Carpentier goes to interview Terry but the champion snatches the mic from Carpentier’s hand and tells him in uncertain terms that his services won’t be needed for this interview.) Terry Funk: Ya know, I thought I’d seen all of you guys. Super Machine, Big Machine, even a Giant Machine. But it seems to me now that there are more of ya, isn’t it? I’m gonna make something perfectly clear to ya. (Funk now turns to the mask, holding iit in front of him, like he actually is SPEAKING to the mask). Now, you listen to me good because I ain’t gonna say it more than once. This right here, this is MY ranch. MY yard. MY KINGDOM. This ain’t Japan. Yeah, I know who you are. I personally couldn’t give a damn about you attacking jobbers. Hell, you can attack whoever you want. You could’ve taken out Martel, Bockwinkel, Backlund, anyone. But you crossed the line when you attack my own flesh and blood. If you wanted my attention, YOU GOT IT NOW! (Funk is increasingly yelling at the mask). YOU DON’T PEARL HARBOR MY BROTHER AND GET AWAY WITH IT. HELL, YOU WON’T EVEN BE ABLE TO LIVE TO TELL THE STORY WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON HOW MANY OF YA THERE ARE. (Funk throws the mask down and starts stomping on it repeatedly. Funk is now on his hands and knees with the mic.) Terry Funk: I don’t know how many of ya there are but I swear to God that you’ve crossed the wrong family. You’re about to start a war that you ain’t gonna be able to finish. And I’m gonna start to show you what it’s gonna cost ya to mess with the Funks. Luke Williams, you better get your ass out here right now. Hell, Luke, maybe you’re one of them, too, uh? Like a Sheep Machine or somethin’? Well, either way, I’m gonna beat some sense into somebody tonight and I’m gonna make those Japs wish that they ain’t decided to come here! *********COMMERCIAL BREAK******** MAIN EVENT Match #4 NWA International Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk vs Luke Williams (Terry Funk has brought the Machine mask in the ring and keeps it in a corner. Both men are wrestling a stiff match and they don’t hold back on each other. Terry is still visibly upset at what happened to his brother and the Funker is highly motivated. Luke is still able to use Funk’s anger to his advantage as Funk makes strategic mistakes that he usually doesn’t do. At one point, Luke Williams was able to hit a Gourdbuster on Funk but the NWA International Heavyweight Champion was able to kick out. Towards the end, Terry Funk nails a solid swinging neckbreaker that temporarily stuns Williams. Funk then goes to the corner when he had put the mask and retrieves it to put it over Williams’ head! Funk starts yelling: “COME AT ME, JAP! COME AT ME!” as Williams is too stunned to do anything. The champion then proceeds to hit a piledriver on the Sheepherder. Funk makes the cover but at 2, he pulls Williams up. Funk repeats the piledriver and just like the first time, makes the cover and pulls up Williams at 2. Finally, Terry Funk picks up his opponent and yells another time: “COME AT ME, JAP! COME AT ME!” before hitting a final piledriver on Williams, and this time, Funk maintains the cover to secure the victory. Funk immediately removes the mask from Williams’ head and starts yelling at it again during the final moments of this week’s episode. Winner: Terry Funk À LA SEMAINE PROCHAINE SI DIEU LE VEUT!

Agreed! Adding Michael PS Hayes in the mix between The Sheiks and the Miracle Violence Committee makes for some really interesting stuff.

I see, and I totally understand. Just wanted to extend the opportunity to you!

Yes indeed! Great storytelling in that main event! Also, really, really liking the pairing of Tracy Smothers & Shawn Michaels together. I honestly think that IRL, they'd have been a great tag team!

I'll give it about a week to see if anyone chimes in. I thought maybe that Boon would like to get involved in some way, since he arrived after I launched the tournament. There's still a lot 1 month before the start of the tournament so I'm not stressing....yet lol

Could say the same about you, gordi!

It was indeed between 2 heels, but the fans in Montreal always had a particular relationship with Eddy Creatchman IRL, so I guess we could say that Kabuki was sorta, kinda the babyface in this one. But in all seriousness, it's more of a trial & error kind of thing that I'm doing with some house show matches. To see what sticks & what doesn't. For those who do stick, I elaborate & expand more with angles on TV, leading up to future matches & big events. You haven't missed an angle or a turn in particular, Kev. Every major thing & turn happening is highlighted in house show recaps & TV write-ups!

That's up to you, Kev. Any team you wanna send in to face the Rougeaus on Night 2, they're in.

Damn! Lots of title changes but I'm sure people in Arena Mexico thoroughly enjoyed their night!

March 22nd, 1985 Centre Paul-Sauvé, Montréal -Mad Dog Lefebvre (w/Richard Charland) beat UFO (Frenchy Martin under a mask) in 4:37 Taped Fists Match: The Great Kabuki (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat Boris Zhukov -The Wild Samoans beat Dory Funk Jr (subbing for Jacques Rougeau) & NWA World Tag Team Champion Raymond Rougeau in 13:56 -The Missing Link beat Alexis Smirnoff in 12:07 6-Men Elimination Tag Team Match: The Sheepherders & NWA International TV & Tag Team Champion Gino Brito beat The Sensationals in 18:26 2-out-of-3 Falls Match: Rip Oliver beat Bob Backlund 2 falls to 1 in 14:03. Backlund won the 1st fall and Oliver won the 2 subsequent falls, including the final one with a hold of tights! NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair beat Gilles "The Fish" Poisson in 13:21 to retain NWA International Heavyweight Championship: Terry Funk fought Baron Von Raschke to a 60-minute time limit draw; Terry Funk retains the championship.

Reminder that the Rougeaus are still having an open contract for Night 2 of the tournament to defend the NWA World Tag Team Championships. Also, another reminder that if there's a specific match you want to present on Night 2 or 3, it's still possible. And Grimmas, I'm gonna need soon your entrants from CMLL in the tournament so I can start working on the random brackets.

The next few months will be really interesting. Great way to end the Young Lions Cup!

I think I read that they will have another batch of Legacy Inductees this year.

He also survived a Hart Attack from a bar top. And this was the same night than the Doomsday Device I believe.

Should be a great card!

All set!

Good to see SMW back in action!

Good to go.