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Cards for July 9th, 1983 TBS TV Taping = 9:00 AM EST GCW @ Lansing, MI - Civic Center - July 9, 1983 Stan "The Lariat" Hansen vs. "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer Bruiser Brody vs. Tommy "Wildfire" Rich Scott McGhee vs. Super Destroyer Mike George & "King Kong" Angelo Mosca vs. Jacques & Raymond Rougeau (thanks to International Wrestling Association) Rick McCord vs. George Weingroff GCW @ Chattanooga, TN - Memorial Auditorium - July 9, 1983 National Heavyweight Title: "Hacksaw" Butch Reed © vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts Nick Bockwinkel (thanks to Central States Wrestling) vs. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff Jerry & Ted Oates vs. The Shadow Riders ("Hangman" Bobby Jaggers & Johnny Mantell) "Golden Boy" Chick Donovan vs. Koko Ware Greg Gagne & Roberto Soto vs. Jerry Bryant & Les Thornton

Happy Independence Day!!! GCW @ Augusta, GA - Richmond County Civic Center - July 4, 1983 Brad Armstrong beat "King Kong" Angelo Mosca in 16:14 with a Russian Legsweep. Koko Ware defeated Jake "The Snake" Roberts by DQ in 16:37 when Jake wouldn't quit choking Koko with tape. Koko though after the match caught Jake with a missile dropkick off the top rope as Jake was arguing with the referee. "Hacksaw" Butch Reed beat Super Destroyer in 8:07 with a diving shoulderblock off of the top rope. "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer defeated "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff by countout in 18:46 after Sawyer decked Orndorff with a steel chair behind the referee's back. Stan "The Lariat" Hansen & Tommy "Wildfire" Rich beat Bruiser Brody & Terry Funk in 24:08 when Rich used the Thesz Press on Funk. GCW @ Tifton, GA - Tift County High School - July 4, 1983 Rick McCord beat Tommy Wright in 10:15 with an inside cradle. George Weingroff defeated Jerry Bryant in 12:10 with a backslide. Roberto Soto beat Mike George in 10:20 with a running forearm smash. Les Thornton defeated Scott McGhee in 22:30 with a side suplex. The Shadow Riders ("Hangman" Bobby Jaggers & Johnny Mantell) beat Jerry & Ted Oates in 20:32 when Jaggers used the Hangman hold on Ted.

That's great..do what you do this is what it's about.....hell I turned the TBS Sunday show into a 2 hour show spotlighting the whole NWA.

The title alone makes this awesome

Digging it oh yeah as Macho would say

You do what you want to do.....you are the booker....it's been good stuff so far I think.

The Maple Leaf TV matches were generally very short other than main event type matches....it was mostly MLG spliced with JCP TV

Not enough high spots for some people

Birds going strong I like it

This is worlds better than the real Vancouver at this time

Good stuff here dawho

Very impressed with this especially the Louisville/Evansville delay taping

Good stuff here my man

Countouts in 80's Japanese main events = a tradition unlike any other

Ecletic but interesting

All of you promoters who I get talent from to compete on TV you have full permission to use the footage on your telecasts to further your angles.

The National Heavyweight Title Tournament as follows: GCW @ Gainesville, GA - Georgia Mountains Center - July 3, 1983 (3 PM EST) National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Round 1: Bruiser Brody beat Brad Armstrong in 6:12 with the King Kong Kneedrop. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Round 1: "Hacksaw" Butch Reed defeated Super Destroyer in 16:39 with a diving shoulderblock off of the top rope. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Round 1: Koko Ware beat Terry Funk in 12:30 with an inside cradle as Funk was going for a spinning toehold. Funk then went nuts after the match attacking Koko and piledriving him inside and outside the ring. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Round 1: Paul Orndorff fought Tommy "Wildfire" Rich to a 30:00 draw thus eliminating both men from the tournament. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Round 1: "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer defeated Greg Gagne in 12:04 after a diving body press from the top rope. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Round 1: Sgt. Slaughter beat Ronnie Garvin in 9:46 with the Cobra Clutch. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Round 1: Greg "The Hammer" Valentine defeated Jake "The Snake" Roberts by DQ in 22:00 when Jake attacked referee Nick Patrick as he tried to stop him from bringing a steel chair to the ring. Jake would then use the chair on Patrick. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Round 1: Stan "The Lariat" Hansen beat Angelo Mosca in 10:26 with the Lariat. GCW @ Atlanta, GA - The Omni - July 3, 1983 (8 PM EST) National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Quarterfinals: "Hacksaw" Butch Reed beat Bruiser Brody in 13:04 by countout when Brad Armstrong came out and distracted Brody at the 8 count. Brody then went to attack Brad after the bell but Brad fought back and nailed him with a steel chair leaving him bloody. Koko Ware receives a bye to the semifinals after Orndorff & Rich went to a 30:00 draw. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Quarterfinals: "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer defeated Sgt. Slaughter in 14:27 with a diving body press off of the top rope after hitting Slaughter with his chain. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Quarterfinals: Stan "The Lariat" Hansen beat Greg "The Hammer" Valentine in 15:02 with the Lariat. Terry Funk & Super Destroyer defeated Greg Gagne & Ronnie Garvin in 11:51 when Super D used a superplex on Gagne. Funk started attacking the faces after the match before Koko Ware ran out in a neckbrace and hit Funk again with a missile dropkick off the top rope then picked him up and put him out with his brainbuster. Funk had to be stretchered out of the ring as the fans went nuts. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Semifinals: "Hacksaw" Butch Reed beat Koko Ware in 18:58 in a match that started out scientific but of course the tempers would rage although Reed tried to stay from Koko's neck but he would hit him with the flying shoulderblock to put him away. Reed picked Koko up afterwards and helped him to the back. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Semifinals: "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer defeated Stan "The Lariat" Hansen in 12:25 when Sawyer pinned Hansen after hitting him with his own bullrope. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff & Tommy "Wildfire" Rich beat "King Kong" Angelo Mosca & Jake "The Snake" Roberts in 16:56 when after Jake walked out on Mosca he would eat a Thesz Press from Rich and a figure-four from Orndoff. National Heavyweight Title Tournament - Finals: "Hacksaw" Butch Reed defeated "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer in 16:14 when after Sawyer tried to use his chain on Reed, it backfired and Reed used it on Sawyer and pinned him. All the babyfaces came out to celebrate in the ring and carried Reed out on their shoulders before being met in the aisleway by Jake who pointed at Reed and made the belt gesture around his waist. GCW @ Waycross, GA - City Auditorium - July 3, 1983 Tommy Wright beat Jerry Bryant in 10:15 with an O'Connor Roll. George Weingroff defeated Mike George in 12:10 with a 3/4 nelson. Scott McGhee beat Rick McCord in 8:07 with a sleeper hold. Les Thornton defeated Roberto Soto in 16:37 with a backbreaker. Jerry & Ted Oates beat The Shadow Riders ("Hangman" Bobby Jaggers & Johnny Mantell) in 21:11 when Ted used a figure-four leglock on Mantell. LINEUP GCW @ College Park, GA - Henderson's Arena - July 8, 1983 "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff & "Hacksaw" Butch Reed vs. "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer & Super Destroyer Scott McGhee vs. "King Kong" Angelo Mosca Mike George vs. Koko Ware "Golden Boy" Chick Donovan vs. Roberto Soto Rick McCord vs. George Weingroff

Gordon Solie starts off the first episode of the new World Championship Wrestling saying that this is not just a new era for GCW but for the NWA in general and he brings out promoters Paul Jones & Fred Ward and they tal about Jim Crockett Jr. becoming the newly elected NWA President and how his fresh ideas and youth will definitely be beneficial for not just the NWA but the wrestling world in general. Solie then mentioned that the promoters have a special announcement on next Saturday's episode of Georgia Championship Wrestling that will change the world of wrestling even more. Solie then transitions over to talking about the National Heavyweight Title tournament that is taking place today and that whoever comes out on top can stake the claim of being the #1 contender to the NWA World Heavyweight Title. Solie then goes over the list of participants in the tournament before going to a highlight package of said participants set to "Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics. Freddie Miller then goes over a list of all of the major NWA shows for the week before going to commercial. We come back and Solie brings out "Gentleman" Jim Holliday who once again talks about the "Gentleman's Club" and he brings up Jones & Ward coming out earlier saying that once he gets through around here Jones would be his driver and Ward would be his butler which drew a deep sigh from Solie. Holliday then demanded clips of his men in action from yesterday's show air to show everyone what is in store for the future. Solie comes back with "Nature Boy" Ric Flair and they talk about what happened yesterday with Rick Martel and Flair said that what did you expect from a man of his caliber a former NWA World Heavyweight champion while Martel is just a champion of his country....Flair said that now that his boss Jim Crockett Jr. is NWA President the road for him to win the NWA World Heavyweight Title back is smooth and easy then says that no man in the world especially a Canadian will stop him from his destiny. Freddie Miller then goes over the list of the GCW cards for the week. We come back with Solie talking to Rick Martel this time and they talk about what happened the previous day in the Flair/Sawyer vs. Martel/Rich match with clips shown and then Solie gets Martel to narrate with him over the last few minutes of his victory against Sgt. Slaughter in the Canada Cup finals. Martel said that he is proud of his heritage and his country so Flair's comments about Canadians make him feel a rage like he has never felt before. Flair thinks he is a pushover because he is too nice but he will find out very soon just how angry he can get. Solie comes back with Jake "The Snake" Roberts who says that even though he wasn't on yesterday's show he will be a force in GCW that no one can stop and it starts today in the National Heavyweight Title tournament. Jake said that he has been friendly with Greg "The Hammer" Valentine in the past but by the time this show is airing, he will have already beaten him and advanced into the quarterfinals of the tournament. Jake was then asked by Solie why he wasn't a member of the "Gentleman's Club" and Jake told him he doesn't need a manager and he definitely isn't a gentleman because he is sick and sadistic and no one is safe from him. He has no friends other than the dead presidents that fill up his wallet. We come back from break with Solie talking to "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff & "Hacksaw" Butch Reed who both talk about being glad to be back in GCW and on TBS. Both men though declared they would win the National Title tournament and reiterated that if they faced off in the finals that they would hold nothing back. Solie then asked them about the upcoming National Tag Titles tournament and if they would be a team which prompted both men to smile and say "we'll see" before walking off. In the last segment, Solie talks about how this show from next week onward will feature matches and interviews from around the NWA and that this show will spotlight all of the top wrestlers from around the world. Solie talks about how next week more details will come out from the partnership between the NWA and Superstation WTBS. Solie closes by telling everyone to come back next week to see who has become the new National Heavyweight champion.

I think the main deal right now is that the Race/Flair deal is so close at this time of the game although they hadn't shot the bounty angle yet so the build for Starrcade hadn't actually started.....

He was working as a detective for the Houston police department

Glad to see more of the promoters get their stuff out there......everyone should be proud of their beginnings because they have all been really good.

GCW @ Rome, GA - Memorial Gym - July 7, 1983 "Hacksaw" Butch Reed & Koko Ware vs. "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer & Super Destroyer "King Kong" Angelo Mosca vs. Tommy "Wildfire" Rich "Golden Boy" Chick Donovan vs. Scott McGhee Mike George vs. Roberto Soto GCW @ Warner Robins, GA - Houston County Civic Center - July 7, 1983 "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts Brad Armstrong & Greg Gagne vs. The Shadow Riders ("Hangman" Bobby Jaggers & Johnny Mantell) Jerry Oates vs. Les Thornton Jerry Bryant vs. Ted Oates George Weingroff vs. Tommy Wright

Gordon Solie introduces us to the new Georgia Championship Wrestling saying that this is a new era for wrestling on WTBS as they have refortified their relationship with the NWA and that the Sunday show which will be named World Championship Wrestling will now be a 2-hour show and will feature highlights from NWA shows around the world. Solie then says he has an example of what to expect as he introduces Rick Martel making his return to GCW for the first time since 1979 and talks about how he had just flown in from Toronto after winning the Canada Cup. Martel tells Solie that he is glad to be back in Georgia and on TBS before talking about the tough road he had to win the Canadian Heavyweight Title which brought out "Nature Boy" Ric Flair who talks about how he had also just flown in from Toronto and saw Martel win the title but he said that no Canadian or any other foreigner is as good as he is and he challenged Martel to find him a partner and he would find him a partner to see who is the best later on today....Martel accepted his challenge. Match #1 Terry Funk vs. Roberto Soto Terry gets quite a fight from Soto before putting him away with a piledriver in 9:43. Funk then grabs referee Nick Patrick and takes his belt off so he could whip Soto while calling him yellow before Koko Ware ran out and hit him with a missile dropkick off the top rope. Funk went scurrying afterwards with Koko going over to Solie and told Gordon that he would beat Funk in the National Heavyweight Title tournament tomorrow in Gainesville and he would get his ass whipped. Freddie Miller then reads off all the major NWA cards for the weekend before going to commercial. We come back from the commercial with Solie talking about the new era of GCW when he is interrupted by "Gentleman" Jim Holliday who said that it is indeed a new era and that this show will not go on until we get the "Gentleman's Club" roll call. Holliday calls out Mike George, Angelo Mosca, Super Destroyer, & Buzz Sawyer respectively and says that he has amassed the greatest collection of talent in professional wrestling today. Holliday then said that the "Gentleman's Club" will take out the trash in the state of Georgia and when it comes to status in wrestling guys like Paul Orndorff & Butch Reed are like cheap clubs on Stewart Avenue while the "Gentleman's Club" is like The Cheetah. Solie sighed deeply and said that we have to go to the next match. Match #2 Brad Armstrong vs. Jerry Bryant Another competitive match with Brad winning via Russian Legsweep in 8:31. Brad then would go over to talk to Gordon Solie and was asked about what he thought about his chances of beating Bruiser Brody in the National Heavyweight Title tournament tomorrow in Gainesville. Brad said that he thought he had a great chance which brought out the maniacal Brody who jumped Brad from behind then rammed him headfirst into the ringpost busting him open. Brody then went over to Gordon saying no snot nosed kid was going to beat him for anything. Match #3 Jerry Oates vs. Johnny Mantell Ted Oates & "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers were both at ringside for the match and it was a really good match where both men were working hard. Jaggers tripped up Mantell thinking it was Jerry and Mantell would get caught in an inside cradle in 11:13. Jaggers & Ted then joined the fray after the match for a post-match brawl where the faces sent the heels running. The Oates Brothers then went over to Solie and said that they prayed to meet the Shadow Riders in the upcoming National Tag Titles Tournament. Freddie Miller then reads off all the GCW events for the week before going to commercial. We come back with Solie standing with Ric Flair and they show clips of Martel winning the Canada Cup the night before with special thanks to Maple Leaf Wrestling and the aftermath where Flair talks about how Martel lucked out a win over Sgt. Slaughter and that he could never beat him especially today as he has picked the vicious "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer his dear friend to be his tag partner. Flair & Buzz enter the ring as Martel shows up and tells Solie that Flair is full of it as always and he has a partner that could beat anybody in the world and is also an old friend as Tommy "Wildfire" Rich comes out. Match #4 "Nature Boy" Ric Flair & "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer vs. Rick Martel & Tommy "Wildfire" Rich This was a great back and forth match that went over a commercial break and comes back with Flair & Rich as the legal men in the match but everyone would soon brawl on the floor before the legal men went back in the ring where after Sawyer decks Martel with his chain as referee Scrappy McGowan was down in the ring after getting bumped by Rich, Sawyer would hit Rich with the chain as he had Flair pinned after a Thesz Press. Flair would get up and put the figure-four on Rich who was passed out and McGowan would count down his shoulders in 16:44. The heels celebrated their victory afterwards and Sawyer declared that he would win the National Heavyweight Title tournament tomorrow with no one that could stand in his way. Flair then told Martel that he would see him in Toronto in 3 weeks. We come back from commercial where Gordon Solie talks about all of the competitors in the National Heavyweight Title tournament and mentioned that Ronnie Garvin would be coming in from International Championship Wrestling, Sgt. Slaughter from World Wrestling Council, & Greg Valentine from Maple Leaf Wrestling with videos/promos of all 3 shown talking about how they would win the tournament. Match #5 Scott McGhee vs. Les Thornton This was a very strong technical match where both Brits put on quite the clinic in the ring. There were nearfalls galore towards the end but the 10:00 time limit would run out...McGhee held out his hand for Thornton to shake it but Thornton would slap him in the face before walking out of the ring. Solie then would interview Butch Reed, Stan Hansen, & Paul Orndorff about their chances in the National Title tournament and everyone thought they were the favorite which led to some tension between the 3 and they all agreed that if they faced each other they would hold nothing back. Match #6 Stan "The Lariat" Hansen & "Hacksaw" Butch Reed vs. Mike George & "King Kong" Angelo Mosca This was quite the battle with both teams pounding each other with hard hitting shots. Hansen's lariat though was the equalizer and he nailed George to win in 10:23. Sawyer & Super D would then run out afterwards and attacked the faces until Orndorff ran them off with a steel chair. Freddie Miller would then talk about the National Heavyweight Title Tournament that takes place in Gainesville and The Omni tomorrow before going to commercial. Match #7 "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs. "Golden Boy" Chick Donovan Donovan tells Orndorff before the match that he wants to have a posedown with the fans deciding who would be the winner. Orndorff laughed at Donovan but relented so Donovan went first and the fans of course booed while Orndorff posed which got cheered heavily thus angering Donovan enough to attack him. Donovan kept up the attack for a few minutes before Orndorff fired up and eventually got him in a piledriver to win in 7:19. Solie tries to close the show out when an angry Tommy Rich comes out demanding that Buzz Sawyer get his ass in the ring so they can fight. Rich jumps in the ring stomping the mat when Sawyer comes out where they would brawl all over the studio as the dressing rooms come out trying to pull them apart as Solie sends the show off the air. The episodes of Macon Championsip Wrestling & Columbus Championship Wrestling this afternoon showed a condensed version of this show with promos spliced in for the local markets. GCW @ Chattanooga, TN - Memorial Auditorium - July 2, 1983 1. Jerry Bryant & Tommy Wright beat Rick McCord & Roberto Soto in 15:53 when Wright used a sunset flip on McCord. 2. Greg Gagne defeated "Golden Boy" Chick Donovan in 8:37 with an Indian Death Lock. 3. Jake "The Snake" Roberts fought Koko Ware to a 20:00 draw where after the match Jake attacked Koko at gave him a DDT on a steel chair. 4. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff & Tommy "Wildfire" Rich beat The Shadow Riders ("Hangman" Bobby Jaggers & Johnny Mantell) in 14:32 when Orndorff used a piledriver on Mantell. 5. "Hacksaw" Butch Reed defeated Terry Funk in 20:53 with a shoulder block off the top rope. Reed then got on the mic and guaranteed the next time he would be in Chattanooga he would be holding the National Heavyweight Title. GCW @ Thomaston, GA - Upson County Civic Center - July 2, 1983 1. Mike George beat George Weingroff in 11:56 with a piledriver. 2. Les Thornton defeated Scott McGhee in 18:28 with a backbreaker. 3. "King Kong" Angelo Mosca & Super Destroyer beat Jerry & Ted Oates in 10:25 when Super D used a superplex on Ted Oates. 4. Bruiser Brody defeated Brad Armstrong in 13:00 with the King Kong Kneedrop. Brody continued to beat Brad down afterwards until Hansen ran him off with his bullrope. Sawyer then ran out to attack Hansen leading to.... 5. Stan "The Lariat" Hansen battled "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer to a DDQ in 20:49 with both men attacking the referee as he tried to break them up as they were punching the hell out of each other in the ring.

At the end, Conrad and Ric both have a bit about the "media" creating an image of someone. Well the thing about Luger was it wasn't just the media.....the boys have buried him a lot of the years

This week has brought out the worst in a lot of people in MMA both in the media and especially in the UFC........lots of douchebaggery abound.