From: jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
Subject: CWUSA: 10/30/92 Recap
Followup-To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Summary: Championship Wrestling USA (nee Portland Wrestling) update
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:45:38 GMT


This show was aired Friday, 10/30/92 on Prime Sports Northwest, 11PM 
Pacific and was taped 10/23/92. As always, CWUSA is taped at the 
House of Action, the Portland Sports Arena. 

Note: I'm going to do a little background in this report before I 
get into the match descriptions. Hopefully, I'll be able to trim 
future posts down to a manageable size.


Background:

The ring is surrounded by about 4 rows of folding chairs and a set of 
bleachers behind the side opposite the main camera position. There 
were maybe 1000 people there. Maybe, but I doubt it. I think that the 
GWF draws more than CWUSA does. 

Last week (the show that aired 10/23.92), CWUSA announced the start 
of their International Tag Team Tournament. The teams are from "many 
nations", including Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Australia, and the 
US. The teams face each other in round robin competition and earn 
points based on the finish of the match. I believe the points are as 
follows: 

        10 - win by pinfall or submission
         5 - timelimit draw
         3 - win by countout
         1 - loss

The finals will be held sometime around Thanksgiving: they haven't 
mentioned a place or a date or, for that matter, a nation. They 
continuously mention holding the finals in Germany, Australia, Japan, 
and possibly, Portland. :-) 

Once a champion is crowned, CWUSA will put the belts up against any 
tag team from any federation in the world. Mike Winner (one of the 
CWUSA wrestlers that does color commentary) says, "it's a new concept 
in professional wrestling. It's never been done before and I think 
it's real exciting." 

Last week, we also saw the debut of Heavy Metal Incorporated, a green 
team of Bobby Steel and Bo Silvers. They won their debut match by 
pinfall and are your typical "power tag team". ie, they're tall and 
muscular, but they're not very talented. Bobby Steel looks like Dan 
Spivey, but wears yellow boots (seriously, that's about the only 
difference). Bo Silvers looks like Dick Slater, but is taller and has 
less of a gut. 


Opening sequence: 

"Championship Wrestling U.S.A." is superimposed over several 
wrestling scenes, sort of like the openings for some of the WWF 
syndies. But, this wasn't as slickly produced and there weren't that 
many different moves displayes. We see 3 or 4 shots of the same guy 
performing the same move. In this case, it's a Japanese Armdrag and 
we see it shot from 3 different angles. We also see the same sunset 
flip used three times. But in this case, it's the same piece of tape 
each time. They need help with the opening. 

BTW - is "Japanese armdrag" the name of a move, or is that a Jim 
Ross spur-of-the-moment special?

The show opens with Don Coss (sp?), your announcer. His partner is 
Mike Winner. Mike was wearing a shirt that said "Wrestlers and 
Chiropractors have always said NO TO DRUGS." Is he a back cracker? 
The announcers were standing in front of the ring. No chromakey, no 
backdrop, no cheesy set on the ring floor, no nothing: they were just 
standing there. 

Anyway, on today's show, John Rambo will be defending his TV Title 
Trophy against Billy Two-Eagles, Dirty White Boy will be on the show. 
(is the USWA sharing talent with CWUSA or did DWB jump?) And 
Beetlejuice (Art Barr) is back. 

Match 1:

Dirty White Boy (rides in on his Harley, heelish) vs. Jesse Barr 
(already in ring) 

Not a bad match. DWB brawls and Barr wrestles. Lots of mat wrestling; 
Watts would be proud. Lots of hair pulls, suplexes, eye gouges, etc 
from DWB and lots of selling by Barr. At one point, they both go over 
the top rope, Barr posts DWB and then throws him back in the ring. 
You know what was funny? The entire ring perimeter was covered with 
pads. What a revolutionary concept. Did I mention that Watts is putz? 

The match ends like this: Barr and DWB are locked up in a mutual 
small package. (hard to describe, but imagine each putting a small 
package on the other.) They break, the ref calls for the bell. The 
match is announced a draw, but the ref rraises DWB's hand. The 
announcers have no idea what happened. Mike Winner guesses that time 
ran out, Don Koss is confused. Finally, Koss determines that the 
match was halted bacause Barr was bleeding. And, under the Oregon 
State Boxing and Wrestling Commission rules, matches must be halted 
when a wrestler juices. 

DWB shakes hands with Barr after the match. Almost no heat from the 
crowd. 

Comments: Sandy Barr is a gawd awful ring announcer. He almost always 
forgets what he's saying and has ZERO stage presence. Also, Mike 
Winner sucks as a color man. 


After coming back from commercial, Don Koss clarifies that Barr's 
nose was broken last week by the Bruise Brothers and apparently he 
rebroke it this week. The match was awarded to DWB. 

Interview with C. W. Bergstrom, who says he's gonna get Ron Harris 
(one of the Bruise Brothers) in their match tonight. He also says 
that Jesse Barr shouldn't have wrestled with his injury. 


Match 2:

Before announcing the next match, Sandy Barr says: 

       "in that last match, both wrestlers received a broken nose, 
        both wrestlers were bleeding. The referee stopped the match 
        and declared it a no-contest."

Huh? Neither guy juiced. Anyway, on to the next match.
                                                     
Match: John Rambo (from the 82nd Airborne, with the TV Title Trophy, 
heel) vs. Billy Two Eagles (face) 

Note: the TV title really is a trophy and not a belt. The trophy is 
about 4 feet tall and looks like a bowling trophy on steroids.

Apparently, two weeks ago, John Rambo beat Mike Winner for the TV 
Title Trophy in Salem. Before that, Mike Winner had won the trophy 
from Bart Sawyer. The match starts with some posturing. Finally, we 
get down to wrestling. Nothing special, just your standard stuff. 
About halfway through the match, the camera manages to miss the best 
move to the match: a top rope to the floor dive by Billy Two Eagles 
onto Rambo. We see BTE jump and the next thing we see is BTE and 
Rambo on the ground. 

This match was supposed to be Tim Flowers and Rambo vs. Mike Winner 
and BTE, but apparently Tim Flowers was "severly injured" last week 
and wasn't able to make it. (That means he missed the bus from 
Grant's Pass, Oregon and will make a miraculous recovery next week.) 

The match ends like this: BTE walks the top rope and a variation of 
an off the top rope arm drag, followed by more mat wrestling. Rambo 
pulls the BTE's tights and hits BTE with a couple of reverse thrust 
kicks. Rambo trys another reverse thrust kick, but misses. BTE takes 
the advantage. BTE takes the advantage with some "vicious tomahawk 
chops" and double axe handles. Billy walks the top rope again, 
steadying himself with a hand on the ceiling (!) and dives onto 
Rambo, who is standing on the floor below. Again the camera misses 
the dive. All we see is BTE walking the rope and the result, but no 
dive. :-( 

Rambo takes the advantage by getting BTE hung up in the ropes and 
goes outside the ring to pound on BTE. The ref counts Rambo out and 
awards the match to a pummelled BTE. Crowd boos. 

Interview:

Don Koss with John Rambo (with the TV Title Trophy). "It doesn't 
matter how you get the job done, it matters if you get the job 
done." blah, blah, my title, not yours, I can't be beat, blah, blah. 


Match 3:

Mr. Personality, Sandy Barr, announces the macth this way: "A 
continuation of the tournament for the tag team champions, the 
Universal Tag Team Champions." 

Heavy Metal Incorporated, Bo Silvers (from Philly, the Dick Slater 
clone) and Bobby Steel (from California, the Danny Spivey look alike) 
vs. The Pope Brothers (from Portland, Karl and Jim) 

The announcers comment that the tag team tourney contiues and that 
they aren't sure when the finals will be held. Maybe around 
Thanksgiving time. They also aren't sure where. Maybe Stuttgart, 
maybe Korea, Australia, maybe Coos Bay Oregon :-) 

Your basic squash match. The Pope Brothers get a few moves in, but 
Heavy Metal Incorporated dominate with typical power moves. HMI gets 
the win.

Match 4:

Bettlejuice (Art Barr, back from Mexico) vs ??

My tape died. :-( I missed the rest of the introduction and the final 
8 minutes of the show. Sorry about that. 

-- 
Cal...                        "I meant no harm. I just liked
                               explosives and I was careful never 
 jewell@Data-IO.COM            to kill more than I could eat."
 ...!uunet!pilchuck!jewell       -- Hunter S. Thompson
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