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Technically, we're closing 1984 now. Soon entering 1985!

Solid series of shows. Keep it up!

Yeah, looks like the 1995 Project is dragging a bit. Would be nice to see some guys from there popping up here.

Great cards again. Loving the Harts tenure as 6-Men Tag Champs at the moment!

Lutte Internationale would like to book Mil Mascaras on December 2, please.

Perhaps, could happen in 1985. Although women were still only a special attraction back then. I think the Minis were more over than the women in the territory, other than Vivian Vachon back then.

November 11th, 1984 Ottawa, ON -Frenchy's Legion (George Steele & Richard Charland) beat Pete Doherty & Charlie Cook in 7:22 -UFO (Frenchy Martin under a mask) beat Tito Senza in 5:12 -Dennis Condrey (w/Jim Cornette) beat Justice Dubois in 15:22 -Hercules Ayala beat Butch Miller in 16:24 -Wendi Richter beat Princess Victoria in 14:24 -Joyce Grable beat Fabulous Moolah in 7:02 -The Wild Samoans beat Gilles Poisson & International Tag Team Champion Billy Robinson in 9:42 International TV Championship: Mad Dog Lefebvre beat Rick Rude (w/Sherri Martel) in 14:28 to retain

Nice touch with the 2 out of 3 Falls 6-Men Tag dark match. Tully Blanchard is becoming my favorite part of your roster!

Oh yeah, my tag division is the most fun part to book in this territory, although I'll admit that this keeps me from building more interesting feuds in singles but I'm confident this is gonna be fixed really soon. The end of the year will be explosive!

Lutte Internationale News: -Obviously, the big story around Lutte Internationale is the upcoming affiliation with the National Wrestling Alliance, which is creating a buzz in the pro wrestling world at the moment. While everyone is excited about what's coming up, Lutte officials are still a bit concerned with the repercussions that this will have on their current working agreement with the WWF. Indeed, Vince McMahon didn't hide his displeasure at Frank Valois' next move and the hope for Lutte is that while McMahon never hid his interest in the Canadian market, that this will not trigger any hostilities. Frank Valois did meet Vince McMahon during the joint weekend shows and while it was tense, it was still very civilized and professional. -Speaking of the Lutte/NWA announcement, a joint press conference has been called to take place in the upcoming 7 days. In addition to officially welcoming Lutte Internationale to the National Wrestling Alliance, it is expected that Jim Crockett will also announce his plans for Starrcade '84 and how Lutte Internationale will come into play. -In regards to Lutte joining the NWA, Frank Valois & booker Gino Brito are now working on retooling their roster a bit to maximise their potential success with the NWA. So the roster could see some interesting changes until 1984 wraps up, in addition to the expected arrivals. Some moves will likely made official during the month of November. -Not everything is hunky-dory in Lutte at the moment as while everyone is excited for the future, Dino Bravo has started to express his frustration towards his creative situation. Bravo didn't hide his anger at being left off the supercard on Friday night and also about the constant creative changes. Bravo was scheduled to feud with Mad Dog Lefebvre over the International TV title but Brito opted to build Mad Dog as a strong champion by going after multiple opponents. Then, Bravo was supposed to feud with Eddie Gilbert but Gilbert is currently on loan to the AWA at the moment so once again, Dino found himself without a program. Valois & Gino also assured Dino that he'll get his rematch with Mad Dog Lefebvre by the end of the year. -As seen on Lutte Internationale TV, Samu has been "suspended" following the main event on Friday night's supercard at the Centre Paul-Sauvé against International Heavyweight Champion Rick Martel. Actually, this was done to write off Samu since he's taking part in the 5th MSG Super Tag League as Hulk Hogan's tag team partner in the tournament. Samu will return afterwards and cap off his feud with Rick in late December. In the meantime, Martel will finish off his feud with Greg Valentine over the International Heavyweight Championship during Samu's absence. -Expect manager Frenchy Martin to work more in-ring matches until the end of the year. Not necessarily as Frenchy Martin but as masked man UFO, a character he has used in various occasions throughout his career. This shouldn't last too long, as it's more of a card filler thing in live events for now. -And finally, while Rusher Kimura's expedition was considered a success by Lutte officials, it is unsure as to when they'll bring back Japanese imports. Lutte will probably focus on the Fresh Faces draft coming up to find its potential new star.

I know I'm biased because I was a part of those joint shows but this prelude to the Survivor Series would've been awesome in 1984. Great slate of shows.

Lutte Internationale TV Taped at CHLT-TV Studios, Sherbrooke, QC November 10th, 1984 (After the opening credits, we go to the broadcast booth for the opening of this week’s episode.) Guy Hauray: Hello, wrestling fans, and welcome to this week’s edition of Lutte Internationale. Last night was a chaotic night at the Centre Paul-Sauvé and the big story out of this supercard is the disgusting actions of Samu, who viciously beat Rick Martel to a bloody pulp, and stole his International Heavyweight Championship, despite losing by disqualification. As a result, Samu has been indefinitely suspended by Lutte Internationale and was asked to return the International Heavyweight title belt but neither Samu or Eddy Creatchman has returned any calls from Frank Valois. As we speak, we have no news on when or even if Samu will return that title belt to Rick Martel. Édouard Carpentier: It was indeed a shocking night and the good news is that despite the severity of his beatdown last night, Martel has been cleared to compete in our joint live event with WWF tonight. But still, this must be so maddening to the champion, who wanted to make a statement by beating Samu and he couldn’t do it. But at least, he’s physically fine and he’ll be able to perform tonight. And we can bet that there’s gonna be a rematch in due time between Samu and Martel in 1985, if not before the end of the year. Guy Hauray: Our main event this week will feature a Steel Cage Match as Frenchy’s Legion will take on The Missing Link and a partner of his choosing. Frenchy Martin will serve as George Steele’s tag team partner this week as Mad Dog Lefebvre is recovering from his match with The Missing Link last night in a Street Fight, although he’ll be in action tomorrow night in Ottawa as he’ll be defending his International TV Championship against Rick Rude. And we shall find out a bit later on who’ll be The Missing Link’s partner. But first, we’ve got 6-Men Tag Team Elimination action coming up so let’s get to it. Match #1 6-Men Elimination Tag Team Match Charlie Cook, Buzz Tyler & Pete Doherty vs The Midnight Express & Baron Von Raschke (w/Jim Cornette) The broadcast team puts over the lingering issues between The Midnight Express and the Rougeau Brothers. They also talk about the incidents in last night’s match in which Rick Rude, who was replacing Raymond Rougeau, turned on Jacques Rougeau in the middle of the match. Baron Von Raschke is trying to fit in, as usual, clearly unaware of what’s going on. Anyway, the unlikely trio quickly disposes of the enhancement talents and secures the victory. Winners: The Midnight Express & Baron Von Raschke (After the match, The Midnight Express celebrate and Baron Von Raschke wants to be part of it but Condrey & Rose definitely aren’t sharing his excitement. That’s when, out of nowhere, NORVELL AUSTIN, runs from behind and attacks Von Raschke! It’s becoming quickly a 3-on-1 on Von Raschke as Condrey & Rose hit the Double Flapjack on Von Raschke while Norvell Austin hits his diving headbutt. Austin celebrates with Condrey & Rose and everyone makes their way to the broadcast booth.) Édouard Carpentier: What did we just witness, Jim Cornette? Jim Cornette: What you just witnessed, old man, is the reunion of the 3 founding members of the Midnight Express: Loverboy Dennis, Ravishing Randy and The Shadow himself, the REAL Adorable one, Norvell Austin. Adrian Adonis can go back to Mid-Atlantic as he didn’t get the job done so I placed a call to Norvell Austin and here he is, reunited with his old friends. Now, I know that there’s one more question that you’re dying to get the answer about and that’s why did Rick Rude, Billy Robinson & Doug Somers jumped Jacques Rougeau last night against the Sheepherders? Who do you think paid Rick Rude a hefty amount of money to do this? ME, JIM CORNETTE. See, the Rougeaus might have dodged us last night but they ain’t gonna dodge us forever. Last night was the first shot fired in the war and the biggest one hasn’t fired yet. I know for a fact that Jacques Rougeau is in action next and trust me, I got a vested interest in this one. We’re gonna get what we want out of this and we’re gonna keep exposing those snot nosed punk Rougeau kids for what they are! (Jim Cornette leaves the ringside area with his new Midnight Express trio and returns backstage) Guy Hauray: Well, we got our answer and as Jacques Rougeau is coming up next, we’re gonna see how he’ll respond to this situation. Édouard Carpentier: If Jim Cornette is smart, he’s gonna get the hell out of here before Jacques Rougeau sees him. Lots of pent up frustration at the moment for him. Guy Hauray: When we come back, Jacques Rougeau is in action! *******COMMERCIAL BREAK****** Match #2 Nord the Barbarian (w/Eddy “The Brain” Creatchman) vs Jacques Rougeau During the match, the broadcast team hypes up the incident leading to Jacques Rougeau being left to fight the Original Midnight Express by himself and they’re wondering if the Sheepherders won’t seize the opportunity to challenge Hot Stuff Inc. – aka Billy Robinson & Doug Somers – while the Rougeaus settle their score with the Midnight Express. At one point, during the match, Nord the Barbarian accidentally collides in the corner with referee Luigi Macera and he goes down. Eddy Creatchman climbs on the ring apron and tosses his cane to Nord but Jacques Rougeau intercepts and clocks both Creatchman & Nord with it! Jacques covers Nord the Barbarian and the referee recovers just in time to make the pinfall. As Jacques Rougeau celebrates, once again, Jim Cornette comes out and goes to the broadcast booth. Cornette asks for a microphone. Jim Cornette: SEE, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT! I’m constantly being accused of being a cheater and yet, there ain’t no bigger cheaters than you, Rougeaus! Referee, get down here! (Luigi Macera goes to the broadcast booth.) Jim Cornette: Look, ref, I’m giving you the chance to make things right and you need to see this! Someone in the production truck, roll back the replay now! (We then see the replay of what happened as Jacques Rougeau used Creatchman’s cane to knock both Nord the Barbarian and Eddy Creatchman. At the end of the footage, referee Luigi Macera goes talking to the ring announcer and the ring announcer announces that the referee is reversing the decision and has disqualified Jacques Rougeau for using a foreign object, awarding the match to Nord the Barbarian. Nord & Creatchman are celebrating as Jacques is fuming in the ring. He rushes out of the ring to get his hands on Cornette but Cornette goes hiding behind Édouard Carpentier.) Jim Cornette: Don’t blame me, Rougeau! Blame the few brain cells you have and your hot French Canadian temper! You brought this all on yourself! You can’t run from us anymore! The day is soon approaching where you’ll have to wrestle my Midnight Express and this is a war you know you can’t win! And it’s gonna be glorious! And the best part about the whole thing is that we’re gonna have even more fun spoiling those big mystery projects that Frank Valois has for this territory more than beating your sorry rear-ends! (Cornette retreats backstage again as referee Luigi Macera is able to calm down Jacques and accompanies him to the back.) Guy Hauray: Indeed, ladies and gentlemen, Jim Cornette was right on one thing as promoter Frank Valois is working on something huge for Lutte Internationale and it seems evident that Jim Cornette is looking to spoil the party here. Édouard Carpentier: It should definitely be something to keep our eye on but let’s hope Jim Cornette will have a shred of decency and let things develop for the sake of everyone involved. Guy Hauray: When we come back, Gino Brito is in action! ********COMMERCIAL BREAK********** Match #3 Serge Jodoin vs Gino Brito The broadcast team hypes the brutal tag team match Brito was a part of with the Spoiler vs the Zambuie Express last night. Brito remains in tip-top shape though as he makes quick work out of Serge Jodoin, taking the victory with his Figure Four Leglock Winner: Gino Brito *******COMMERCIAL BREAK*********** MAIN EVENT Match #4 Steel Cage Match Frenchy’s Legion (George Steele & Frenchy Martin) vs The Missing Link & Luke Williams It turned out that The Missing Link opted for one half of the Sheepherders as his tag team partner for the week in Luke Williams. And as expected, it got brutal and bloody in a heartbeat. Nothing too gory for that hour of the morning on Saturday but still, something that any wrestling fan would appreciate. The broadcast team explains that victory can be achieved by pinfall, submission or both team members escaping the cage. The end of the match came as Luke Williams and George Steele were brawling at one end of the cage. The Missing Link hits Frenchy Martin with The Final Solution and is able to make his way out of the cage for his team when out of nowhere, Mad Dog Lefebvre in street clothes, appears at ringside and slams the cage on The Link’s head! Link collapses on the canvas and Mad Dog climbs in the ring to put Frenchy Martin over The Missing Link’s body and forces referee Adrien Desbois to make the 3 count for the victory. This week’s episode ends as the International TV Champion Mad Dog Lefebvre stands tall over The Missing Link inside the cage. Winners: George “The Animal” Steele & Frenchy Martin À LA SEMAINE PROCHAINE SI DIEU LE VEUT!

Whatever you need to do, I'm on board with this. Would suck to lose 2 potentially good territories. Just something that popped in my head, another thing I thought about: if Boon and Gene can't continue, could it be feasible to treat guys from Memphis & Smokey Mountain a bit like freelancers? Like for instance, if the AWA would love to use Jerry Lawler for or if USWA would like to use Jeff Jarrett, could we also have the option, let's say to use those guys for x amount of dates? It could be useful if we have short-term angles in mind. And besides, if someone pops up after Boon & Gene tell us they can't continue and they wanna take over Memphis and/or Smokey Mountain fairly shortly afterwards, could be less of a headache. I know it did for me when I took over Detroit and moved it to Montreal.

November 9th, 1984 Supercard at Centre Paul-Sauvé, Montréal -Rusher Kimura defeats Black Bart (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in his final match of his North American expedition -Hercules Ayala defeats Adrian Adonis (w/Jim Cornette) -The Zambuie Express (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) defeat The Spoiler & Gino Brito INTERNATIONAL TV CHAMPIONSHIP STREET FIGHT Mad Dog Lefebvre (w/Frenchy Martin) beat The Missing Link to retain -The Sheepherders beat The Rougeau Brothers by disqualification after interference from Hot Stuff Inc (Billy Robinson, Doug Somers & Rick Rude). While the Sheepherders were fighting with Hot Stuff Inc, The Original Midnight Express ran in and attacked The Rougeaus. The Midnight Express handcuffed Raymond Rougeau to the ropes as they hit multiple double flapjacks and Rocket Launchers to Jacques Rougeau. Thankfully, many officials ran in to stop the carnage. INTERNATIONAL HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP Rick Martel beat Samu (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) by disqualification after Samu hung Martel between the 2nd and top rope and refused to let him go. Samu also used Creatchman's trademark cane on Martel to bust him open and even left with Martel's International Heavyweight Championship title belt.

Feels a bit weird to see Brutus Beefcake a babyface at that stage but it still totally fits at the moment!

Looking forward to that Cajundome card!

November 4th, 1984 Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON -The Zambuie Express (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat Buzz Tyler & Pete Doherty in 6:42 Steel Cage Match: Nord the Barbarian (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat Denis Goulet in 8:25 -Rusher Kimura beat Hercules Ayala in 10:48 -The Missing Link beat Raymond Rougeau in 10:47 -Luke Williams beat Dino Bravo in 40:40 International Heavyweight Championship: Rick Martel beat Dennis Condrey (w/Jim Cornette) in 61:31 to retain

Good to see that my Masked Cowboy idea was useful to you! Also, GREAT main event with Hogan/Savage vs Bockwinkel/Gino. I would've paid whatever was needed to see this in the day.

Agreed. Also really digging Nick Bockwinkel's "Real World Champion" angle.

November 3rd, 1984 Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON -International TV Champion Mad Dog Lefebvre (w/Frenchy Martin) beat Charlie Cook in 3:21 -Leo Burke beat Black Bart (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in 11:58 -Hercules Ayala beat Sheik Ali (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in 4:02 -The Zambuie Express win a tag team battle royal to win the right to face the International Tag Team Champions right now International Tag Team Championship: Hot Stuff Inc.(w/Sherri Martel) beat The Zambuie Express (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) in 8:47 to retain -Afa beat Gino Brito in 10:24 Falls Count Anywhere: The Midnight Express (w/Jim Cornette) beat Rusher Kimura & Carlos Colon in 9:20 International Heavyweight Championship: Rick Martel beat Butch Miller in 13:16 to retain

Lutte Internationale TV Taped at CHLT-TV Studios, Sherbrooke, QC November 3rd, 1984 Different format this week as this edition of Lutte Internationale is a 2-hour episode with several matches. Exceptionally, no talking, all action as Guy Hauray & Édouard Carpentier run down the card for this week featuring George Steele and Dino Bravo Match #1 The Rougeau Brothers vs Serge Jodoin & Tito Senza The broadcast team hyped the Rougeaus facing the Sheepherders instead of the Midnight Express next Friday. They also inform the audience that due to some scheduling conflict with the Forum, the card is taking place at the Centre Paul-Sauvé but every ticket purchased so far will be honoured as much as possible for the building. The Rougeaus get the easy victory with La Bombe Rougeau on Serge Jodoin. Winners: The Rougeau Brothers *******COMMERCIAL BREAK********** Match #2 Justice Dubois vs The Spoiler The broadcast team hype both men’s match next Friday as Dubois will team with Leo Burke vs The Caribbean Connection while the Spoiler teams with Gino Brito face the Zambuie Express. The action transports itself on the outside as in the spirit of the brawl, Dubois accidentally ripped off The Spoiler’s mask! The Spoiler retreated backstage, covering his face so he couldn’t be identified by the audience in the studio. Winner: Justice Dubois by countout ******COMMERCIAL BREAK***** Match #3 Billy Robinson (w/Sherri Martel) vs Luke Williams The broadcast team hype the possible future encounter with the International Tag Team Champions & the Sheepherders down the line. Robinson is able to show his more rugged side with Williams in this one. The end comes when Sherri Martel climbs on the apron to distract the referee, allowing Doug Somers to interfere but Butch Miller runs in and smacks Somers’ head on the ringpost. Miller gets in the ring and helps Williams hit the Double Gutbuster, allowing Williams to score the pinfall victory. Guy & Édouard wonder now when will the Sheepherders get their title match. Winner: Luke Williams **********COMMERCIAL BREAK********* Match #4 Sika vs Rusher Kimura The broadcast team plugs Rusher Kimura’s final match of his excursion as he’ll wrestle Doug Somers next Friday. Kimura still shows the effect of his brutal fight with Andre the Giant last week on Lutte Internationale with his ribs bandaged up. Sika uses that target to get the advantage and unfortunately for the Japanese import, Sika gets the victory with the Samoan Drop. Winner: Sika ***********COMMERCIAL BREAK*************** Match #5 Charlie Cook vs Richard Charland (w/Frenchy Martin) While he isn’t at ringside, the broadcast team announces that Charland’s tag team partner, Mad Dog Lefebvre will be defending the International TV Championship vs The Missing Link in a Street Fight. They also wonder what involvement will “Le Magnifique” have in the match, given that there are no DQs in this match. Richard Charland gets the victory with a piledriver on Charlie Cook. Winner: Richard Charland *******COMMERCIAL BREAK********* Match #6 Nord the Barbarian (w/Eddy “The Brain” Creatchman) vs Randy Rose (w/Jim Cornette) Per the restraining order, of course, the Rougeaus are no longer in the building as this match takes place and Jim Cornette is visibly angry at ringside that his Midnight Express got shafted out of their encounter with the Rougeaus next week. And visibly, Randy Rose, too as the inexperience of The Brain’s newest recruit would come to cost him. Randy Rose gets the victory with his Corner Slingshot Splash. Winner: Randy Rose ******COMMERCIAL BREAK***** Match #7 Afa vs Greg “The Hammer” Valentine The broadcast team discusses the recent gap between Greg Valentine and the rest of Frenchy’s Legion since he lost the International Heavyweight Championship to Rick Martel. At one point during the match, both Frenchy Martin & Richard Charland show up at the broadcast booth, getting the attention of Valentine, but they don’t budge. Towards the end of the match, an accidental forearm strikes referee Luigi Macera and he’s sent flying outside. Frenchy & Charland approach the ring, with Valentine assuming they’ll be helping him but they simply check on the referee. In the meantime, Sika runs in and switches places with Afa, nailing a distracted Valentine with the Samoan Drop. Finally, Frenchy sends the referee back in the ring as he counts the pinfall, seeing that “Afa” is pinning Valentine for the victory. Winner: Afa ******COMMERCIAL BREAK******* MAIN EVENT Match #8 George “The Animal” Steele (w/Frenchy Martin) vs Dino Bravo Despite both men not being currently booked for the supercard next week, Guy & Édouard both assume during the match that both men will be there and get involved in some capacity during the match. A very physical match very much enjoyed by the audience. As opposed to the preceding match, no interference whatsoever and as clean (under the circumstances, considering we’re talking about The Animal here) a match as it can be, with both men trading momentum back and forth. Steele thought he had the victory on Bravo after the hammerlock slam but Bravo miraculously kicked out. Dino Bravo picked up the victory with his patented side slam. Winner: Dino Bravo À LA SEMAINE PROCHAINE SI DIEU LE VEUT!

He did many times since he was a close friend of Yvon Robert & Johnny Rougeau. That's why I keep using him as a sporadic referee once in a while

You're basically taking the classic Jim Crockett approach, as I could see: you take all of the major feuds and you sometimes put them together to steal the house during a card. Personally, I think that both our methods work; that's what makes this so appealing for this project; everyone seems to have its own method and it works.

November 2nd, 1984 Centre Paul-Sauvé, Montréal -International TV Champion Mad Dog Lefebvre (w/Frenchy Martin) beat Charlie Cook in 12:42 -The Zambuie Express (w/Eddy "The Brain" Creatchman) beat Buzz Tyler & Pete Doherty in 12:40 -George "The Animal" Steele (w/Frenchy Martin) beat International Tag Team Champion Doug Somers (w/Sherri Martel) in 16:29 -Carlos Colon beat Dennis Condrey (w/Jim Cornette) in 15:52 Guest Referee - Maurice Richard: Rusher Kimura beat Justice Dubois in 10:12 -Sika beat Greg Valentine in 8:37 -Dino Bravo beat Gilles Poisson in 15:56 International Heavyweight Championship: Rick Martel beat Butch Miller in 30:54 to retain

Yeop. And he's gotta get surgery. Will be out until early 2017. Which sucks because I was hoping to see him in the Royal Rumble this year. And also winning the Dusty Classic with Roderick Strong