dawho5 Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 Burke is always a good choice for working with the young guys. Ask and you shall receive with Furnas and the dropkick. Love seeing Kabuki win. Death Sentence continue to get a really good push. Adams vs. Taylor sounds like a great match! The Snakepit is making a comeback. I wonder how long it is until they go back after Piper and co. Tag title match would have been awesome. I like the focus on Bob Orton as a big star. He is definitely a guy who should have the spotlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaldoni Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 Burke looked good in the opener. Can Am win a battle with the Youngbloods. The craziness involved in the Sullivan/Kabuki match would of been fun to watch. Death Sentence gets a strong win. I'm a big fan of Death Sentence and their AWA run. Adams and Taylor is a great hard hitting technical bout, Adams earned that one. Dundee puts up a fight but there's no coming back from the DDT. Another great British Steel/Black Irish battle. Steel keeps the titles. The main event looked like a strong encounter. I always loved Orton's superplex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted August 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 AWA show at Boylan High School, Rockford, IL , August 24th The Can-Am Express vs. The Youngbloods Wellington caught Lafon in an attempted running cross body and reversed it into a belly to belly piledriver for the win Jake Roberts & Cactus Jack vs. Bob Orton & Sabu Roberts pinned Sabu after a DDT Buddy Rose vs. Cpl. Scott Hall Hall won with a spinning side slam The British Bullies vs. Chavo & Hector Guerrero Hector caught Jones in the Guerrero Clutch for the one two three Bill Dundee vs. Fit Finlay Dundee blocked a piledriver and was able to hit a sunset flip to score a very hard fought victory Chris Adams vs. Harley Race Race dodged the Superkick, then hit a low blow followed by a belly to belly suplex to get the win Too Cold Scorpio vs. Leo Burke A tight match that ended up into dueling rollups with Burke ending up on top Badd Company vs. The Sheepherders An out of control brawl that ended up in a double DQ AWA Southern Title Match : Tom Zenk © vs. Mando Guerrero Zenk prevailed in his first title defense by pinning the former champ after a top rope missile dropkick AWA Six Man Tag Team Title Match : Nick Bockwinkel, Larry Zbyszko & Masa Saito © vs. Brian Pillman, Shane Douglas & Mark Starr Saito hit a number of Saito Suplexes on Douglas before making him give up to the Jailhouse Lock AWA World Title Match : Ricky Steamboat © vs. Col. Debeers A bruising move where Debeers really took it to the champ but ultimately, Steamboat came through in the end with a top rope flying cross body press Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Can Ams and the Youngbloods is a really fun young guy feud. Jake getting one-up on Piper's guys is a big deal. Hall gets a huge win over Rose. Guerreros and British Bullies is a super fun match. Dundee and Finlay is a sneaky good matchup if they mesh well. Tough luck for Adams with Race using a well-timed dirty move. Scorpio has been on the wrong end of a few matches lately, but he'll come back. Awesome tag brawl with the Herders and Badd Company. Good first challenger for Zenk. I like the youngsters going against the 6-man champs. Gives them ring time with three great workers. Steamer continues to be an awesome champ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaldoni Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Can Am's get the win tonight over the Youngbloods. Very evenly matched feud going. Man, the Guerreros have been on a roll, this time defeating the always tough Bullies. Orton and Sabu-what a combo but Sabu falls to the DDT. This might be Hall's biggest win to date, defeating the Playboy. Dundee scores a big win tonight over Fit. Race and Adams is a great technical match but Race uses a questionable tactic to set up his victory. Fun contrast of styles match as Burke one ups Scorpio. Badd Co. comes back with a vengeance as they end up in a crazy brawl with the Sheepherders. Zenk gets his first title defense over Chavo. I'm sure that delivered a lot of high flying action. Poor Douglas, looks like Saito took him to school. Steamboat retains again, this time over Debeers. Such a variety of challengers for Steamboat. Fun card with a lot of different kinds of matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted August 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2018 AWA All-Star Wrestling on ESPN / TSN for August 29th Cactus Jack vs. Mark Starr The Snakepit are a crazy gang befitting their name, that is for sure, but lately it seems like Cactus Jack is determined to distinguish himself as the loosest cannon in the bunch. He has been throwing himself into a series of brawls with Sabu with no concern whether he wins or loses, so long as he does the most damage, and he showed a similarly reckless attitude as he took on young Mark Starr. No matter what Starr did to try to bring the match into being a technical bout, Cactus kept firing back with lefts and rights, and when the ref tried to get in between them, he got a right cross for his troubles. Cactus lost by DQ, but didn't seem to care as he kept stomping on Starr until security forced him to leave the ring. Death Sentence vs. The Youngbloods The Youngbloods have been involved in an intense rivalry with the Can-Am Express, but are taking a detour from that to face Kevin Sullivan's fearsome duo. Wellington and Blackman acquitted themselves well, using their speed and skill to stay one step ahead of the much larger duo for much of the match. Things took a strange turn when Furnas and Lafon made an appearance at ringside. Blackman had Payne set up for the running bicycle kick, but Furnas and Lafon yanked down the top tope as he was running and the martial artist took a tumble to the outside. When he was finally able to make it back into the ring, Payne hit a series of suplexes on him before he and Gaylord took him out with the Execution. What has come over the Express that they are resorting to such cheap shots? Bill Dundee , Shane Douglas & Brian Pillman vs. Tom Zenk & The British Bullies The Superstar brought his young charges into battle with the new Southern champ and his partners, and showed great leadership as he guided their actions. They quickly tagged in and out and managed some impressive double team and combination moves on the Sheikh's men. Douglas hit a series of fast paced dropkicks on Jones, but was clotheslined from behind and out of the ring by Zenk, who had snuck into the action. However, Zenk failed to notice that Douglas had caught himself on the top rope and skinned the cat back into the ring, following up with a dropkick that sent Zenk flying from the ring. Douglas then nailed Jones with a belly to belly suplex that got the one two three. Zenk could be heard swearing vengeance on Douglas as his team left the ring. Larry Cameron vs. Norman Smiley British Steel have had an impressive reign as Southern Tag Team champions, but the former champs, Black Irish, remain hot on their heels. The match saw the powerhouse of contenders square off with the submission specialist of the champions. Smiley worked hard to try to neutralize the incredible strength of Cameron, taking him down and working on limb locks every chance he got. He just barely managed to break out of an attempted running powerslam by sliding down Cameron's back, only to be nailed with a lightning quick leaping clothesline that got Cameron the pinfall. British Steel will certainly have their work cut out for them when a rematch inevitably occurs. Larry Zbyszko vs. Chavo Guerrero Larry Zbyszko has been running his mouth ever since he and his partners won Six Man Tag Team Titles (and, before that, pretty much since he developed the power of speech). He may be acting like cock of the walk, but the Guerrero Brothers have been chipping away at his lustre with several singles and tag match wins that have positioned them back into contention for their former titles. The perpetually hot headed Larry Z cut every corner in the book to try to put down the oldest of the brothers, but even when he grabbed a fistful of trunks to have the advantage in a battle of rollups, Chavo still kicked him off and sent him chest first into the corner. When Larry staggered backwards out of the corner, Chavo caught him in a release German suplex and followed up with a top rope flying somersault senton to gain the victory. Larry threw his traditional tantrum after the match, but it had no effect on the final decision. The Cobra Corps vs. Roddy Piper, Bob Orton & Sabu Sgt. Slaughter and the Corps have been waging a dangerous war on two fronts, battling both Playboy After Dark and Piper's Pit to try to get to the bottom of the disappearance of their comrade Leon White. What resulted was a wild match with Sarge and Cpl. Hall looking to overpower the Pit and Piper and Orton using every underhanded tactic they could to get out of trouble. However the match came down to the junior members of each team, with Too Cold Scorpio hitting a top rope splash on Sabu to finally get the pinfall. Sabu was enraged at the decision and wanted to go after him again, but Orton calmed him down and then whispered something into Piper's ear to make the wild Scotsman break out in an evil grin. Piper then got on the mike and challenged Scorpio to a match at next week's show in Bloomington against an opponent of Piper's choosing, a match where he said he would guarantee no interference from either the Pit or the Corps. In spite of the pleading of Sarge and Cpl. Hall, Scorpio quickly accepted the challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaldoni Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 Young Cactus is certainly building up his reputation here. Death Sentence get the win over the Youngbloods, with some outside help. Can Am's are defiantly showing a change attitude. Fun 6 man tag with Dundee's experience coming into play. Looks like we might be getting a Zenk/Douglas program. Cameron with a strong finish over Smiley. Chavo keeps the Guerreros momentum going with a win over Larry Z. LOL, classic post match tantrum from Larry. Nice TV main event with the Corps getting a strong win over Piper's Pit. I wonder what Piper has up his sleeve for Scorpio??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted August 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 AWA show from the Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg , August 29th (as shown on ESPN / TSN Super Cards) AWA Six Man Tag Team Title Match : Nick Bockwinkel, Masa Saito & Larry Zybyszko © vs. The Guerrero Brothers A back and forth match that looked like it might go the way of the Brothers when Hector hit the Butterfly Suplex on Larry, but Larry had managed a blind tag to Masa Saito, who took down Hector with the Saito Suplex to defend their belts Jake Roberts & Nord The Barbarian vs. Bill Dundee & Brian Pillman Dundee had Jake set up for a piledriver, but Nord nailed him from behind with a lariat, and Jake then executed the DDT for the win Cactus Jack vs. Chris Adams Cactus went down to the Super Kick Sgt. Slaughter & Cpl. Scott Hall vs. Buddy Rose & Col. Debeers Sarge and Hall took out Debeers with a double running bulldog AWA Canadian Title Match : Ron Garvin © vs. Leo Burke Both men went to a 30 minute draw in a tough, bruising match AWA Southern Title Match : Tom Zenk © vs. Shane Douglas Douglas whipped Zenk into the corner and came in for a clothesline, but Zenk dodged out of the way. Douglas stopped himself just in time to keep from going chest first into the turnbuckle, but turned around and walked right into a Super Kick that gave the match to Zenk AWA World Tag Team Title Match : Roddy Piper & Bob Orton © vs. Ricky Steamboat & Rick Martel Steamboat and Martel won by countout when they hit Piper and Orton with a double top rope flying cross body press to the outside. Piper and Orton retained the belts. Piper could be overheard after the match swearing that Steamboat's time was going to come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted August 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 AWA show from the Saddle Dome, Calgary, August 30th The Youngbloods vs. The Can-Am Express Wellington pinned Lafon with an Oklahoma Roll Cactus Jack vs. Bill Dundee Dundee blocked a piledriver attempt and followed with a sunset flip to score the pinfall. After the match, Cactus argued the count with the ref, then punched the ref in the face , leading to a fine Harley Race vs. Chris Adams Race countered a belly to back suplex attempt with a belly to belly suplex and followed up with a falling headbut to take the victory Al Perez vs. Sabu Sabu went for a top rope flying splash, but Perez rolled out of the way, then hit the Ally-Copter to get the win Badd Company vs. The Sheepherders The Sheepherders dropped Tanaka neck first on the top rope and scored the victory Sgt. Slaughter vs. Buddy Rose Sarge pinned Rose after hitting the Slaughter Cannon AWA American Title Match : Bob Orton © vs. Brian Pillman Pillman gave Orton a hell of a fight, and the former Calgary Stampeder had Orton lined up for a top rope flying clothesline, but instead the Cowboy caught him with a big boot to the face, and then executed the Superplex to defend his belt AWA Southern Tag Team Title 2/3 Falls Match : British Steel © vs. Black Irish 1st fall – Regal pinned Finlay in a duel of rollups and inside cradles 2nd fall – Finlay pinned Smiley after a belly to belly piledriver 3rd fall – Cameron had Smiley lined up for a lariat, but Smiley countered with a crucifix that got the final one two three Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirEdger Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 Been a bit out of the loop of your events because of the events of the past few weeks so pardon me for not being up-to-date on my commenting and such. As always, it looks spectacular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted August 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 Thanks, boss, glad to hear you are enjoying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaldoni Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 Couple of solid shows. Saito ends the Guerreros momentum allowing his team to successfully defend the 6 man titles. Jake and Nord prove to be a dominating team. Jack goes down to the Adam's superkick. Slaughter and Hall with a great finish on Debeers. I could watch Garvin and Burke brawl all day. Zenk puts the challenge of Douglas down. What a tag team main event. Piper and Orton walk out with the belts and it looks like we might be getting a full on Steamboat/Piper program. Youngbloods get one up on the Can Am Express but I know this is far from over. Dundee beats Jack, looks like Jack is losing it and takes those frustrations out on the Ref. Harley looks like he has a lot of fuel left in the tank. Loved seeing the Perez use the Ally-copter to finish off Sabu. Sheepherders get a good win over Badd Company, sending them up the tag team ranks. Slaughter is really getting the best of Rose these days. Orton was one of the very best with the Superplex, just ask Pillman. Another awesome tag team main event. British Steel retain in a hard fought best of 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted September 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2018 AWA All-Star Wrestling on ESPN / TSN for September 5th Cpl. Scott Hall vs. Barry Lea The Cobra Corps had been taking a fair number of blows for a while, notably with the disappearance of Leon White, the return of Cpl. Scott Hall has been a real shot in the arm for Sgt. Slaughter's crew. His boundless enthusiasm and immense strength have been an incredible asset in their matches, and he brought both qualities to this match, as he easily overwhelmed Barry Lea with a series of impressive slams and hard hitting clotheslines. Hall polished him off with the Corporal Punishment and stood tall in the ring, as if daring Piper's Pit and Playboy After Dark to come after him. If they do accept his challenge, they might end up biting off more than they can chew. Harley Race vs. Greg Gagne Speaking of Playboy After Dark, their newest addition has made quite the impression of his own, knocking off challengers left and right. The wily veteran Race has been on a real hot streak of his own , and was looking to keep the momentum going as he took on AWA mainstay Greg Gagne. Gagne certainly wasn't going to go down without a fight, and held his own for most of the match, before a mistimed dropkick sent him down to the mat and gave the advantage to Race. Race went for a two leg rollup, assisted by a fistful of trunks and both feet on the ropes, to get the one two three. A dirty win, but further proof that you don't dare take your eye off the former NWA World Champ for a second. Jake Roberts vs. Mark Starr Jake the Snake has been keeping an unusually low profile of late, but experienced observers know that it is only a matter of time before he decides to strike. As he took on the newest member of Superstar Unit, he seemed unusually sedate, with Starr getting in a number of dropkicks and other moves, as well as a few near falls. But Roberts was merely biding his time, like the proverbial snake in the grass, drawing Starr into the corner before catching him with a vicious kneelift. After that, a short clothesline and a DDT soon followed and that was all she wrote. Who knows that Roberts has planned next? Sabu vs. Bill Dundee Sabu has been really making a name for himself as a wild brawler to keep an eye on. The young charge of Piper's Pit has had some intense throwdowns with Cactus Jack , and went all out against the veteran Dundee. Sabu kept Dundee backpedaling with a non stop barrage of flying fists and feet. But the canny Australian showed why he is one of the most respected names in wrestling as he let Sabu wear himself out, ducking and dodging until Sabu was missing more shots than he was hitting, then taking advantage with a sunset flip out of the corner to get the pinfall. A tough loss for Sabu, but he seemed to get the respect of both Dundee and the crowd. Cactus Jack vs. Chris Adams Speaking of Cactus Jack, the wild man from Truth Or Consequences has been acting progressively more unhinged as the weeks go on. Wrestlers and officials alike have faced the wrath of Cactus, and an ongoing topic of discussion has been whether he has been actually losing his mind. Adams did all he could to rein in Cactus, going for suplexes and take downs, but eventually realized that the technical approach just wouldn't work, and blasted him with three straight Superkicks to finally put him down. Cactus, as has been the trend with him, started arguing the result with the ref and even took a swing at him before being swarmed by security. Word has it that the AWA officials have been having a lot of discussions about what to do if he goes completely out of control. AWA American Title Match : Bob Orton © vs. Al Perez With his Razor Boys partner Paul Diamond reuninting with Pat Tanaka in their feud with the Sheepherders, Al Perez finds himself back in singles action and contending for the American Title. The result was an intense, technical bout where the momentum swung back and forth. Perez almost had Orton up for the Ally-Copter, but Orton broke it up with some hard elbows to the face of the Latin Heartthrob. He followed up with a backbreaker and a huge lariat to score the hard fought victory. A tough loss for Perez, but it showed he is a contender for any title he sets his sights on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirEdger Posted September 6, 2018 Report Share Posted September 6, 2018 Finally getting all caught up on your shows and I specifically like the build to Cactus Jack becoming the madman he became. Everything is happening for a reason with him so the built of his character is even more strengthened by the booking of your shows. Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaldoni Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Hall impresses tonight. Fun heel win for Harley. Sabu and Dundee put on a solid match as Dundee's experience wins him the match but Sabu walks away looking strong. It takes 3 super kicks but Adams finally puts down Cactus. I like the unhinging of Cactus Jack. Orton retains with a hard fought victory over Perez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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