Autistic Dragon

PCW is starting 89 with a bang!

AEW has announced their version of the G1 Climax called the Continental Classic. The matches will be held on Dynamite, Rampage and Collision and the following wills will be in effect. Two blocks with 6 wrestlers each. 3 points for a win 1 for a draw and a loss gets you nothing. No managers or seconds allowed at ringside. Interference will not be tolerated. Finals will be held at World's End with the winner being awarded the ROH World Championship, New Japan Strong Openweight Championship and the new AEW Continental Championship to become AEWs first Triple Crown Champion. Wrestlers announced include Bryan Danielson Andrade El Idolo Eddie Kingston and Mark Briscoe Who do you see filling out the blocks and what are your predictions for the finalists and who wins it all?

Looking forward to what Humongous can do against actual competition. Terry Funk+Roddy Piper= trouble. Scorching promo by Rhodes.

Victoria. The Anvil goes out on a high note. The Dragon slays the Tiger, or at least a Cat. Looks like the Wild Things have someone angling for a spot. The Sun shall no longer shine on PCW. Spicoli finally gets a win and gets his friend Candido back. Hart heads into 1989 triumphant but alone. Vancouver. The Stormfront start the show with a big win. Hall continues his roll over Hennig. The Express & Rose with a pair of solid victories. Rhode and Windham close the show with a back to back successful defenses. Kelowna. Regal opens the night by getting that W. The masked man strikes again to Jack's confusion. Chono taps out the General. The Force show that DC they know how to wield a hammer. Silver King leads his team to victory and likely nets himself a title shot in the process. Pillman fends off Finlay to carry the TV title into 1989.

This week's episode of NWA Worldwide was dedicated to recapping the various rivalries headed into Starrcade. At the show's end, Bob Caudle & David Crockett run down the final card for the event. The National Wrestling Alliance Presents: Starrcade 88. Airing live on pay per year Thanksgiving night from the Omni in Atlanta Georgia. Main Event. NWA World Heavyweight Title. Tully Blanchard(c) w/JJ Dillon vs Starrcade Series winner, "Rugged" Ron Garvin NWA United States Title Dog Collar match. Col Debeers(c) vs The Junkyard Dog NWA World Tag Team Titles. The Four Horsemen (Harley Race & Ole Anderson) w/JJ Dillon vs The Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) Indian Death match. Loser leaves the NWA. "Chief" Wahoo McDaniel vs "Chief" Joe Lightfoot NWA Heritage Title. "Pitbull" Kerry Brown(c) vs The Super Destroyer w/"Number One" Paul Jones NWA World Six Man Tag Team Titles. The Lawmen (Wendell Cooley, Billy Joe Travis & Doug Gilbert)(c) vs The Stud Stable (Jimmy Golden, Rod Price & Tommy Cairo) w/"The Mastermind" Ron Fuller NWA United States Tag Team Titles. The Patriots (Firebreaker Chip & Todd Champion)(c) vs The Sheepherders (Butch Miller & Luke Williams) w/"Number One" Paul Jones Loser is forbidden from using the German suplex. "The Latin Heartthrob" Al Perez vs Brett "Hack" Sawyer

From the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte NC. Previously recorded & airing on 11/18/88 on the USA Network. On Commentary: Gordon Solie Ring announcer/Interviews: Sean Moony Match #1 Firebreaker Chip vs Butch Miller w/"Number One" Paul Jones Ahead of their match for the United States Tag Team Titles, champions & challengers each send a representative to face each other one on one. Chip certainly has his hands full with the New Zealand madman but hangs in there to Miller's increasing fury. Jones gets irritated with Chips refusal to stay down and winds up with a shot with the New Zealand flag when Miller throws Chip to the floor and the ref struggles to keep him from following. Before Jones can connect however, Todd Champion comes down and rips the flag from the managers grasp. Seeing his flag in the hands of the enemy infuriates Miller causing him to lean through the ropes and start shouting at Champion. This leaves him exposed for Chip to launch himself back into the ring, pulling his opponent into a schoolboy to hold the struggling Sheepherder down for the three. Miller isn't done fighting and with the arrival of Luke Williams, a brawl breaks out between the two teams which needs to be broken up by security. Match #2 "The Latin Heartthrob" Al Perez defeats "Mean" Bo Greene with a German suplex. Perez joins Mooney and cuts a promo on his issue with Brett Sawyer. He says since Sawyer seems to think he's the master of the German suplex then how about whoever loses their match at Starrcade is forbidden to use the move again. Match #3 Brad Anderson w/Ole Anderson defeats Lewis Masterson with the Fujiwara armbar. Match #4 "Wildcat" Wendell Cooley vs "The Gatekeeper" Jimmy Golden w/"The Mastermind" Ron Fuller These two have met before and we get a fun southern flavored clash between the two. Things get heated and the fight spills to the floor with the two men trading punches past the ref's 10 count. With the two sides split at 1-1-1, the Lawmen and the Stud Stable look to settle things at Starrcade. Match #5. The Super Destroyer w/"Number One" Paul Jones defeats Robert Dutro with the Super-plex. Jones cuts a promo saying that at Starrcade, his Super Destroyer will put the Pitbull down for good and bring the Heritage Title to the Paul Jones Army. Match #6 The Junkyard Dog defeats Donald McConnell with the "Thump". Main Event. "Rugged" Ron Garvin, "Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez and the Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) vs The Four Horsemen (Tully Blanchard, Harley Race, Ole Anderson & Bob Orton) w/JJ Dillon An action packed main event with everyone getting a chance to shine. A pier-six brawl breaks out allowing Brad Anderson to slip into the ring with one of the title belts at ringside and nail Fernandez with it as he had Orton in a sleeper hold. Anderson dives out of the ring and the ref turns around just in time to see Orton covering Fernandez and makes the three count.

Mother Russia is sending her finest to the UWF. The UWF seems to have found a home in WOWOW. Someone should inform the higher ups that it's Mr Bob Backlund, heavy on the Mr.

A cage is probably the only thing that can hold Gordy and Von Erich at this point. I hope they reinforce the ring at Superclash because Blackwell vs Kokina is on! Vader gets a serious welcoming challenge in The Dragon.

Utter chaos breaks out between Knighton, Michaels, The Assassin and Blaze. Jackie seemed perfectly willing to meet his nephew Ronnie but RPG looked panicked at meeting uncle Jackie. Very interesting. Papa-san shows Bruno he's still capable of getting the job done solo. Falk hopes to bring Bass in on training the next generation. Southern takes advantage of a distracted Cuban Assassin.

I absolutely loved it and have even started watching OVW proper as a result.

After finishing the Netflix docuseries Wrestlers I've started watching OVW on their YouTube channel and I'm enjoying it so far. True it's a little weird to see Jesse Godderz and Mahabali Shera are treated as serious contenders but the matches are solid and there's some fun characters there. My favorites are the faction The Fallen, an occult gimmick as subtle as Kevin Sullivan and Ryan Von Rockit mainly for his theme the two "groupies" that accompany him too the ring. Anybody else been checking them out lately?

Huge moment for The Gunslingers as they capture the National Tag Team Titles. A rough night for Colon as he not only falls to Jumbo but gets jumped by Sawyer. Larry Z takes the coward's way out to the surprise of.... exactly nobody. Los Guerreros outlast a game Coast 2 Coast. Nikita barely holds on against a relentless Slaughter. Even with Jumbo earning a title shot you can just tell this isn't over.

Full Card for Smoky Mountain Wrestling's Thanksgiving Thunder. Main event. Smoky Mountain Turkey Trot. If Mantell's team wins Duggan will leave Smoky Mountain Wrestling. If Duggan's team wins he gets a Smoky Mountain Heavyweight Championship match with a stipulation of his choosing. Team Mantell (Dutch Mantell, Bull Pain, Chris Candido, The Punisher & Bruiser Bedlam) w/Jim Cornette and "Father" James Mitchell vs Team Duggan (Jim Duggan, Brian Lee, Brian Christopher, Brickhouse Brown & Koko Ware) Smoky Mountain Tag Team Title Southern Street Fight. The Thugs (Tracy Smothers & Dirty White Boy)(c) vs The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard & Jimmy Del Rey) w/Jim Cornette Bones on a pole match The Moondogs (Rex Spot) w/"Father" James Mitchell vs The Rock n Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) Special Challenge match "The Unpredictable" Dick Slater vs Jake"The Snake" Roberts Cash Flo handcuffed to the post. "Superstar Bill Dundee & Flash Flannigan vs PG-13 (Wolfie D & JC Ice) Badd Company (Paul Diamond & Pat Tanaka) vs The Arkansas Hit Squad (Mark Canterbury & Dennis Knight) American Kickboxer vs Killer Kyle w/Jim Cornette

November 17 1996 Smoky Mountain Turkey Trot After a week of deliberation Bert Prentice gave both Dutch Mantell & Jim Duggan to the end of the broadcast to announce who they'd recruited for their teams in the SMTT. Unsurprisingly Mantell's first selection was the man he paid off at Halloween Scream, Bull Pain. He then convinced Chris Candido to join by offering him a title shot after they won. Then he reached out to his "close, personal friend" Jim Cornette and secured the services of the Punisher. Finally he announced he'd made "a deal with the devil" and his final partner would be Bruiser Bedlam. Duggan ironically benefited from some of Mantell's choices as both Brian Lee and Brian Christopher volunteered to take on their respective rivals. Duggan ran into some difficulty filling the final two slots but a pair of unlikely volunteers stepped up in the form of Brickhouse Brown & Koko Ware. When asked why, they admitted they hadn't gotten off to as hot a start as they planned in SMW but they figured a win in the main event of one of the biggest shows of the year would be just the jump they needed. What's gotten into Jake Roberts? After a successful outing Dick Slater joined Michael St John for a promo where he said he came to SMW for the competition and anyone in the locker room was free to step up anytime. Midway through his speech, Jake Roberts came down and cut a cryptic promo about how you never know when a snake is gonna strike and one should always be careful what you wish for because you might get it. To emphasize his second point, he doubled Slater over with a boot then planted him with a DDT on the floor! Tag Team Titles. The Thugs cut a promo after their match saying Jim Cornette could bring a hundred "stooges" if it made him feel safe but they'd run through every single one of them to hold onto these titles. And as for the Heavenly Bodies, they'd get theirs at Thanksgiving Thunder in a Southern Street Fight! The Rock n Roll Express/Moondogs The Express send in a pre-tape saying if Mitchell and his mutts wanted to get nuts that was fine with them because they'd gone to war with the baddest around. In fact if the Moondogs wanted to use those bones so bad, how about they put those bones on poles and whoever got them done could use them as much as they wanted.

The Saints prove a fine addition to an already stacked tag scene. Speaking of which, There's so much bad blood in the first round of the tag titles contender tournament it may flood the Met Center. The Iceman cometh for Black Bart. Flowers did not lie, he's next shot most certainly connected. Venomous gets a chance to flex. Blackwell calls out Kokina. The battle of the monsters is upon us! I'm sure nothing will go wrong at the bounty presentation ceremony next week. Adias promotes himself from A-lister to Blockbuster. The Olympians sheer disconnect from their actions continues to amuse. Gordy & Von Erich can't keep their hands off each other. An absolutely loaded Title Night is coming to The Mecca.

I just finished episode 5. I was going to watch episode 6 along with it but I needed time to, um, process that....I mean I guess it was technically a match.

I can imagine Guido getting a pretty big pop in the NYC. Shame it didn't help against Eaton. Your promos were fire this week. Double A & Flair were perfect. Callis recruits another monster. Between Crush and the Faces of Fear, he's got quite the frightening trio.

Cool looking poster man.

A hungry Miyato takes the opener. A great night for submissions. The Koslowski brothers claim a piece of history winning the UWF's first tag team match. Maeda has some close calls but pulls out the win in the main event. He then promises some big announcements for the fans to look forward to.

After a long wait, D-Lo gets his shot at the mountaintop. Meanwhile, Double A has to contend with a rabid wolverine.

Sorry man, for some reason I remembered his logo next to the text. But yeah Teddy can be yours in the new year.

In that case, @LastStopTourcan have him come 89.

It's hype central for Survivor Series. The main event turning into an impromptu lumberjack match made for a fun read.

Wait, he didn't start until 89? I've been using him as a referee.

Here is the full lineup for the 2023 World Tag League. Block A Shota Umino & Ren Narita Chaos (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano) United Empire (Great O-Khan & Henare) TMDK (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholas) Bullet Club War Dogs (Alex Coughlin & Gabe Kidd) House of Torture (Evil & Yujiro Takahashi) Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) Block B Chaos: Bishoman (Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi) Guerillas of Destiny (Hikuleo & EL Phantasamo) Yuji Nigata & Minoru Suzuki Just 5 Guys (Taichi & Yuya Uemera) Yota Tsuji & Z Sobrano Jr & Atlantis Jr (CMLL) Monstersauce (Lance Archer & Alex Zayne) Bullet Club Rouge Army (Bad Luck Fale & Jack Bonza) Based on these brackets, who do y'all think will advance to the semi's and beyond?