From: danm@pdaxs.techbook.com (dan mcdonald)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Portland Wrestling Update 8/15/92 TV Show (8/8 Matches)
Summary: Championship Wrestling USA
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:33:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdaxs.eaLRPB1w165w
Organization: Portland Public Access sponsored by TECHbooks Bookstore

Here is an update from this week's TV show--8/15/92 for matches held
on 8/8/92.  I will put out one for last week when I finally watch it.
 
This week was round 1 of the Championship Wrestling USA TV Title
Tournament.  Rules are single-elimination, but a wrestler must be
beaten (not DQ'd, or whatever) in order to be eliminated.  For
draws and DQ's, both advance to the next round.  This week also
marks the return of the Japanese tour of several of the wrestlers.
They are supposed to win a trophy, and not a belt...
 
New Sponsors announced are:
    Newberg Ford (I don't remember any commercials for them, except
                  for the announcement that they're a new sponsor)
    Tire Liquidators (on Portland Road in Salem)
        They had a few commercials with Don Coss, Al Madril, and a
        tire or wheel in the crow's nest.  Kind of reminiscent of
        Tom Peterson, but without Tom or a suitable replacement
        personality from the store.
 
Match 1: Mike Winner vs. Sumito the Wild Samoan.  Off TV.
    Sumito Wins.
 
Match 2: Jon Rambo vs. Bart Sawyer.  Off TV, showed clip.
    Bart wins after a miraculous recovery from a prolonged beating,
    and won with a flying body press off the ropes.
 
Interview with the Pope Brothers.  Interesting, but still obviously
    very new at the Pro Wrestling Interview thing.  This should
    be a part of the Wrestling School, you would think.  But then
    again, maybe it is--I've never known the Barr's themselves to
    give that great of an interview, except for once in a while Art.
 
Match 3: Jim Pope vs. Al Madril.  Off TV, showed clip.
    Time Limit Draw.  Both will go on to next round.
 
Interview with Bart Sawyer surrounded by little girls.  Announces
    kids free night 9/5.  Bart has really gained some weight
    around his middle--he used to look quite tiny in the ring, but
    no more.
 
Match 4: Karl Pope vs. Damian Knight.
    Once again, Tito (Carrion?) is at ringside to coach the Pope
    brother on.  Pope wins with a backflip off the ropes (landing
    on his feet behind Damian), then some kind of fancy roll-up.
 
    After the match, Damian cheap-shots Tito in the back as he is
    in ring to congratulate Pope.  This is not followed up on, as
    it happened during the break to commercial.
 
Interview with Mike Winner regarding Japan.  Mike manages to somehow
    communicate huge crowds, great trip, top-notch wrestling.
 
Match 5: Jesse Barr vs. Mike/Michelle Star.
    The previous week, they finally started calling him Michelle,
    although Don Coss still calls him Mike.  Of course, Jesse Barr
    wins.
 
    After the match, Michelle stays in the ring, and the following
    exchange took place, IMO the funniest thing to happen yet on
    the new TV show:
 
    Crowd:  "...Faggot...Faggot..."
    Al Madril: "Why are they calling him names?  He's a _real man_."
    Don Coss: "Then why does he call himself Michelle?."
    Al Madril: "He's from France."
 
Interview with Sumito the Wild Samoan.
 
Match 6: CW Bergstrom vs. Don Harris.
    They slug it out for a while.  Don takes CW way out of the ring,
    over to the wooden guard rail near the dressing room, works him
    there for a while, then CW sells a smash to the folding metal
    chair right in front of the camera.  Well done.  Don Harris wins;
    As CW was setting up a suplex, Don kneed him in the groin and
    followed up very quickly with a DDT.  Very effective looking.
 
Interview with Jesse Barr, and a short tape of the Japan trip.  They
    appeared to be wrestling in some kind of bright, square arena
    in Japan.  Showed *very* short clips of some matches--it did not
    look like the local guys wrestled anybody from over there, but
    they were definitely there wrestling at least each other.  One
    clip of a match not involving anybody from Portland showed a
    huge swarm of photographers cluster and shoot away, pushing
    around a wrestler who was just thrown out of the ring.  Very
    interesting.
 
Match 7: Ron Harris vs. Buddy Wayne.
    Buddy put up a good fight, but was just too small.  At one point,
    he was attacked over by the wooden guard rail by Don Harris, while
    Ron was distracting the referee.  Ron won after he caught Buddy
    from the ropes and slammed him down with a (new move for me)
    combination pile driver/back breaker--driving Buddy down from
    his (Ron's) shoulder head/back first, landing hardly and firmly
    on the mat.
 
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One road show is scheduled--Aug. 20 in Silverton.  You may call Sandy
Barr at (503) 283-6993 to schedule these exciting matches in your
area.
 
Comments on the TV production:
 
It is really a lot better now.  The roving camera guy really catches some
great action and some nice angles inside the arena.  We don't miss too
many crucial developments any more, but we did not see all the hair
pulls (that's fine), and did miss out on Buddy Wayne's beating by
the other Bruise Brother.
 
Al Madril is getting better at heel announcing.
 
They've given up on the Tonight/Next Saturday thing, it was much too
confusing, and I think they run the show on cable sometime during
the week.  They are trying to use dates, and have reverted back to
present tense (for them), where "Last week" = 2 weeks ago (for me)
, "tonight" = last week, and "next week" = tonight.  I don't know
what their cable schedule is, but I liked the gimmick of running
last week's matches on Saturday Afternoon to build heat for Saturday
Night's Card, and the imploring and urging us to get on out TONIGHT!
to see the exciting long-awaited resolution to these ongoing feuds.
 
 
dan
 

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