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Maple Leaf Wrestling presents Wrestling Night in Canada July 17, 1983 at Convention Center in Hamilton, Ontario The opening video package of Wrestling Night in Canada opens the show featuring clips of: Greg Valentine, Wahoo McDaniel, Stephen Petipas, Jesse Ventura, Ivan Koloff, Leo Burke, Rocky Johnson and ends with a clip of Rick Martel being awarded the NWA Canadian Title. Billy Red Lyons, Mike McMann and Jesse Ventura are in the announce booth and welcome us to today's show. They talk about the Ivan Koloff and The Super Russian winning the NWA Canadian Tag Team Titles and speculate about who the Super Russian is under the mask. Jack Tunney will address that situation later tonight. They then talk about tonight's Bret Hart vs Jesse Ventura main event. Jesse trash talks Hart and says stay with us, as The Body Shop with Bobby Bass, Cuban Assassasin and Chicky Starr is coming up after this commercial break, then he has to go get ready for tonight's main event. -COMMERCIAL (1)- It is now time for "The Body Shop" with Jesse Ventura. His bodyguard The Masked Samurai stands guard. This week's guests are Bobby Bass, Cuban Assassin and Chicky Starr. They come out to salsa music and look very festive. They start trashing other tag teams stating none stand up to them. Martel is the NWA Canadian Champion and can't focus on tag teams. Burke & Petipas just lost. Nobody knows who the Super Russian is and they destroyed the Marcus brothers. The Cubans are the future of tag team wrestling in Maple Leaf Wrestling and everybody should get used to it. Jesse says he has a video given to him by an unknown source that says play for The Cubans. In the video is a Puerto Rican man asking why Chicky has been avoding him, since he's been trying to contact him and that he wants Chicky to come home. In a rage Chicky Star storms off as Bass, Assassin and Ventura look confused. -COMMERCIAL (2)- 1. Nobuhiko Takada vs Bob Marcus Takada is on tour from New Japan Pro-Wrestling and will be in Oshawa tomorrow night taking on Ben Bassarab. Takada and Marcus have a back and forth contest until Takada hits a submission for the win. Winner - Nobuhiko Takada @ 5:42 A short video is played showing highlights of the Canada Cup with Valentine vs Wahoo and hyping their match tomorrow night in Oshawa. -COMMERCIAL (3)- 2. "King Kong" Angelo Mosca vs Joe Marcus Angelo Mosca dominates as the announcers play up him facing Martel next week for the NWA Canadian Title. Winner - Angelo Mosca @ 4:21 -COMMERCIAL (4)- Jack Tunney is concerned about the results of the NWA Canadian Tag Team TItles tournament. Koloff was supposed to team with Smirnoff, but instead teamed with The Super Russian to win the belts. Tunney has learned that Smirnoff is in Japan, so that the masked Russian is not Smirnoff. Also, they cheated their way to the belts with help from their new manager Don Carson. Tunney states that the referee's decision is final, however, The Russians will have to defend the belts against the two other teams in that tournament in the near future (vs Tony Garea & Rick Martel on August 1st in Ottawa and vs Leo Burke & Stephen Petipas on August 2nd in Kingston!). The announcers talk about these two announced matches for the future and speculate about the identity of The Super Russian! -COMMERCIAL (5)- 3. "Big" Stephen Petipas vs Rick Patterson Petipas takes apart Patterson and looks in fine form heading into the US vs Canada Series at Maple Leaf Gardens. Winner - Stephen Petipas @ 6:01 -COMMERCIAL (6)- The announcers set up a video that was sent in from Jim Crocket Promotions in North Carolina. The video plays and "Nature Boy" Ric Flair appears. He insults Canada while promoting the States and then brings out his 4 partners for Maple Leaf Gardens on July 26th in Barry Darsow and The Fabulous Freebirds. The Freebirds cut a promo and in addition challenge any three Canadians to face them tomorrow night in Oshawa! -COMMERCIAL (7)- Back from the break we learn that Leo Burke, Stephen Petipas & Rocky Johnson have accepted the challenge of The Fabulous Freebirds for tomorrow night in Oshawa. They talk up Rick Martel defending the Canadian Title against former Champion Angelo Mosca next week on Television. 4. Jesse "The Body" Ventura w/ The Masked Samurai vs Bret Hart Bret Hart has an early shine sequence, but that is cut off by the Samurai tripping up Bret. After a few minutes of posing and powers moves by Jesse, Bret mounts a comeback and has Ventura on the run only for Mr. Saito to appear at ringside and nail Bret with salt. Jesse does the backbreaker for the win! Winner - Jesse Ventura @ 8:56 After the match Jesse Vetnura, Mr. Saito and The Masked Samurai celebrate together as Bret is helped to the back. Dark Matches: Mr. Saito def. Ben Bassarab @ 10:21 Leo Burke & Rocky Johnson def. Bobby Bass & Cuban Assasin @ 11:11 Rick Martel def. Chicky Starr @ 12:14

WrestleMania 26 things you could had done with Shawn that would help the business going forward: CM Punk retires Shawn That's about it, because it was too early for Bryan and Drew could had worked, but they fucked him up after this. Maybe Sheamus in a competetive match which Shawn won on his way out?

Coming in beating a few guys to build up to facing a top star (Wahoo, Martel, Rocky or Leo Burke) and winning. For 10/26 to be determined, but a main event slot successfully defending his title or a title vs title with the Canadian Champion going to a screwy finish (maybe on this one).

The ending sequence was top 3 finishing sequences of the year easily. Awesome stuff.

Yeah for Vancouver on 26th. I'lll take the world champion from October 6-13?

Who cares? He wants it now, it's not dissolved yet. I see no issues on this. We should try to keep promotions together. Dissolving them should be a last resort. I vote for Matt!

Matt D taking it over sounds better.

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I think there is a difference between trying to see everybody and making sure you are seeing the most highly pimped top guys.

I agree with Dylan favourite and best are different things. It's ok to like things that aren't good, just admit it

Everybody is welcome! It's all about discussion and discovering new guys! Glad you all enjoyed the show and damn those Will hypotheticals were driving me crazy in a great way.

Since I decided to run in all the OHL towns and my main arena is the home of the Maple Leafs, scheduling from October to April is going to be a challenge. Is anyone else taking into account sports teams scheduled games while making their schedules?

I'll wait for your report, but I know you mentioned Chip Day before. Brief thoughts on him?

Quick hits on these guys Dylan because I don't know many of them.

Major Schedule Update After the success of the new Maple Leaf Wrestling Jack Tunney has negotiated a brand new schedule for Maple Leaf Wrestling as they plan to tour all over the great province of Ontario as well as parts of the Maritimes. Here is the upcoming schedule till the end of August: 7/17: TV Taping @ Convention Center in Hamilton, ON 7/18: Oshawa Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, ON 7/24: TV Taping @ Civic Center in Brantford, ON 7/26: Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, ON 7/31: TV Taping in Ed Lumley Arena in Cornwall, Ontario 8/1 Ottawa Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario 8/2 Kingston Memorial Arena in Kingston, Ontario 8/6 North Bay Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario 8/7 TV Taping @ Sudbury Community Arena in Sudbury, Ontario 8/8 McIntyre Community Building in Timmins, Ontario 8/9 Sault Memorial Gardens in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario 8/13 Berwick Arena in Berwick, Nova Scotia 8/14 TV Taping @ ATV Studio in Moncton, New Brunswick 8/15 @ Halifax Forum in Halifax, Nova Scoita 8/17 @ Yardmen Arena in Belleville, Ontario 8/19 @ Peterborough Memorial Centre in Peterborough, Ontario 8/20 @ Oshawa Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, ON 8/21 TV Taping @ Civic Center in Brantford, Ontario 8/22 @ Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex in Kitchener, Ontario 8/23 @ Windsor Arena in Windsor, Ontario 8/24 @ London Ice House in London, Ontario 8/27 @ Guelph Memorial Gardens in Guelph, Ontario 8/28 TV Taping @ Convention Center in Hamilton, Ontario 8/30 Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario With this schedule Maple Leaf Wrestling is now putting on shows in every town that has an OHL hockey team using their arenas as Jack Tunney and OHL Manager Brent Ladds have struck up a deal of cross promotion.

The seriousness of Bret Hart is a lot of the appeal to me.

http://placetobenation.com/this-week-in-wrestling-for-july-11-2015/ Pete, Steven & Johnny are back for the 2nd episode of This Week in Wrestling! The show takes segment one to look at Andre the Giant vs Harley Race from NWA Classics, EVOLVE 45, ROH TV, CZW and CJ Parker and NXT TV. The second segment goes international with Lucha Underground, Rey Mysterio in AAA and TripleMania and a quick look at New Japan and Ishii-Makabe. We end the show looking at the WWE including Raw, Smackdown and the Dusty Rhodes special.

I hope people give Waltman a chance. His early pre-WWF run is better than you would expect in working a variety of styles. He was a highlight in his WWF run, wasn't very good in WCW, and then was really good in the WWE again but had the "X-Pac heat" shit going on. Everytime I watch a Waltman match I am amazed at how great he is in controlling the crowd through timing of hope spots and comebacks.

What are the matches to watch for O'Connor. Will was hyping him on the Super Show the other night, so I need to watch more.

Tajiri makes my list with ease. One of my all time favourites as he just oozes a strange charisma. Being the best wrestler in the USA in 99/00 helps his case a lot, plus the other awesome matches he was able to have through his career. I love the selling, the kicks, the whacked out submissions, the facial expressions, the mist and the fact all of his matches just feel good to watch.