From: jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
Subject: CWUSA: 11/06/92 Update
Followup-To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Summary: Championship Wrestling USA (nee Portland Wrestling) Update
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:48:24 GMT

Same opening as last week. Arm drags and sunset flips a plenty. 

This show was aired Friday, 11/06/92 on Prime Sports Northwest, 11PM 
Pacific and was taped 10/31/92. As always, CWUSA is taped in the 
Portland Sports Arena, the House of Action. 

This week, it's Don Koss and Al Madril opening the show. Tonight, 
there's a dual main event featuring Dirty White Boy vs Rambo for TV 
Title Trophy, and in the second main event, C.W. Bergstrom vs Don 
Harris with Jesse Barr handcuffed to Ron Harris at ringside. Also 
there's a Tag Tourney match, an update on the points standings for 
the Tag Tourney (remember, the titles are awarded to the team with 
the most points), and more. 

Match 1: Billy Two Eagles (face) vs. Jesse Barr (face, wearing a 
Virgil like face guard). 

Don Koss calls the match himself. Jesse is wearing the face guard 
because he's had his nose broken twice in the past two weeks. Both 
wrestle the match as faces: clean breaks, no cheap shots, etc. The 
match is mostly standard mat wrestling stuff: arm bars, head 
scissors, take downs, go behinds, back body drops, irish whips, 
chain wrestling, etc. Nothing fancy, just basic, boring stuff. 
You'll remember that last week these two wrestled and the cameramen 
managed to miss both of BTE's dives from the top rope. This week, 
when BTE jumps from the top rope, the cameara picks it up. Maybe 
they shouldn't have: it was a lame axe handle from the top rope. 
After hitting Barr with the Axe Handle, BTE lets Barr back into the 
ring and Don Koss makes a big todo about the sportsmanship. 

The ending is your typical time-limit draw: the ring announcer is 
counting down the remaining seconds while the wrestlers are trading 
pinning combinations. Nothing special. 


During the match, they announce these upcoming dates:

Nov 10 Brookings, OR at the High School (sponsored by the High 
        School wrestling team)
Nov 13 Coos Bay, OR at the High School (sponsored by the High
        School Booster club)
Nov 20 Oakville, WA at the High School (sponsored by the High
        School Booster club)
Nov 26 Salem, OR at the Armory

And, of couse, every Saturday night at the House of Action, the 
Portland Sports Arena 

Also, Don makes frequent mention of free tickets for the November 14 
card at the Portland Sports Arena. Fans, you can pick up your free 
tickets at Rentown USA. But you'd better hurry, supplies are 
limited. 


International Tag Team Tournament Update:

Here are the point standings:

     Heavy Metal Inc. (Max Steel & "Iron" Bo Silvers) - 70 pts
     Bruise Brothers (Don & Ron Harris) - 55 pts
     Jesse Barr and Ryuma (sp?) Go - 51 pts
     Hiroshi Itakura @ Takasudji (sp?) - 43 pts
     Los Infernales (? & ?) - 40 pts
     Go Manku & Jaguar - 37 pts
     Kelly & Nick Kiniski - 36 pts
     Mike Winner & Billy Two Eagles - 25 pts
     Nokaduka (sp?) Ariya & Toshira (sp?) Nishi - 20 pts

Side note: they appear to have changed Bobby Steel's name to Max 
Steel. 

Interview:

Don Koss and the Bruise Brothers. The Bruise Brothers claim that the 
belts are theirs and that they've got an insurmountable lead in 
points. Koss points out that they are 25 points (the standings only 
show 15 points?!) behind HMI. Bruise Brothers say not to worry, 
they've got a plan to take care of HMI. 


Match 2:
TV Main Event:

Dirty White Boy (face, rides in on Harley, some unknown biker chick 
on the back of his hog) vs. John Rambo (champion, heel) for the TV 
Title Trophy. 

Don Koss and Al Madril call the match. Madril lays claim to the TV 
Title Trophy, saying it was his. They push the free tickets to the 
November 14 card. In fact, they push the tickets almost as much as 
the Whiff pushes ICOPRO. Part way through the match Rambo asks the 
crowd to be quiet: he can't concentrate. The crowd responds by 
chanting "Rambo sucks". 

Midway through the match, DWB atomic drops Rambo and hits him with a 
stiff kick that lands in the lower half of Rambo's right ribs. 
Looking at the kick in slo-mo, it looks like Rambo is lucky DWB 
didn't crack one of Rambo's ribs. Rambo responds with several kicks 
and takes control of the match. He throws DWB out to the (padded) 
ring floor and hits him with a thrust kick. Rambo throws DWB back 
into the ring, but postures too much. DWB recovers but Rambo takes 
control of the match and tries to use the ring ropes to break DWB's 
knee. The ref DQs Rambo. DWB wins the match but Rambo keeps the TV 
Trophy. Gee, that's the second time in two weeks that Rambo has 
wrestled DWB for the TV Trophy and retained the Trophy via a DQ. I 
wonder what's next, a no DQ match perhaps? 

Interview:
Don Koss with Rambo. DWB interferes and challenges Rambo to a match 
next week. They argue. Rambo says no dice. Sandy Barr walks in and 
announces a no-DQ match for the TV Title Trophy. The crowd pops and 
DWB walks away happy. 


Match 3:
Quoting from Sandy Barr: "This match is one fall with a 12-minute 
(?!) time limit and this match also goes in the international 
tournament." 

Bruise Brothers (from Tenn, Rob and Don Harris) vs. the Pope Bros. 
(from Portland, Karl and Jim Pope) 

[Funny, but I thought it was Ron and Don Harris, but that's how 
Sandy Barr announced them.] 

Don Koss is joined in the booth by Max Steel (the Dan Spivey 
lookalike) of Heavy Metal Inc. He mentions that the Bruise Brothers 
told him that his partner, "Iron" Bo Silvers, is out of town. Max 
says the Bruise Brothers told him that Bo was offered a deal he 
couldn't refuse and left town. Don Koss and Max smell a rat, but 
they don't know what to make of it. 

In the match. Karl Pope gets his butt kicked, but does manage to set 
up a nice victory roll on Don Harris. The crowd pops and Karl 
proceeds to get his butt kicked some more. Meanwhile, Max Steel 
doesn't know what to think WRT his partner's disappearence. He says 
Bo is still his partner. Ron Harris hits Karl Pope with a powerbomb 
and gets the three count. Almost zero reaction from the crowd. 

Personal Comment:
It'd be nice to see Sandy Barr turn the Bruise Brothers loose. From 
what I've heard and seen in tapes from other promotios, they are 
capable of vicious, brawling, violent matches. CWUSA could use some 
monster heels (and some believable baby faces). 

Interview: 
Don Koss with the Bruise Brothers. They re-assert their points lead 
in the Tag Tourney. Koss asks the Brothers what happened to "Iron" 
Bo Silvers. The Bruise Brothers say they gave Silvers a couple of 
hundred bucks and sent him out of town. Of course Max Steel (the Dan 
Spivey lookalike) comes out and demands a chance to get even (for 
what?). The Harris brothers tell Max to wait his turn and tell Don 
Koss that "it don't matter how you do it, as long as it gets done." 


Match 4:
Don Harris (heel) vs. C. W. Bergstrom (face)

We join this match in progress as we come back from commercial. More 
accurately, the match is joined in mid commentary, as Al Madril is 
already half way through a sentence when we come back from 
commercial. Sloppy editing. Don Harris dominates the first few 
minutes, C.W. comes back and beats on Don Harris. Meanwhile, off 
camera, we see that Ron Harris is handcuffed to Jesse Barr outside 
the ring. (the announcers didn't mention this, we only see it when 
the camers cuts to the action outside the ring. 

In a unique twist on the "loaded object" theme, CW Bergestrom adjusts
his albow brace like he's loading it up. Of course, Koss and Madril
call our attention to what CW is doing. CW hits Don Harris with the
"loaded" arm brace. As CW begins to hammer on Don Harris, Ron Harris 
runs in (I guess he unlocked the handcuffs that were locked to him 
and Jesse Barr) and beats on CW. 

When all appears lost, Max Steel runs in with a chair (and has a 
hell of a time getting it through the ropes :-) and cleans house. 
Jesse Barr finally gets free from the handcuffs (which are actually 
a small chain and some small locks) and enters the ring as the 
Harris brothers leave the ring. 

Interview:
Al Madril's Fiesta Gargen - Al's guests are the Bruise Brothers and 
they give a great interview. They proclaim their intention to beat 
on C.W. Bergstrom, Heavy Metal Incorporated, and Jesse Barr. One of 
the Bruise Brothers tells Bo Silvers to get redy to get his butt 
kicked. 


Upcoming dates:

Nov 10 Brookings OR
Nov 13 Coos Bay OR
Nov 20 Oakville, WA
Dec 4 Tacoma, WA Clover Park High School 8PM 

And, of course, every Saturday at the Portland Sports Arena, the 
House of Action 


Match Recap:

Al Madril def. Buddy Wayne      not televised

Billy Two Eagles and Jesse Barr wrestled to a draw

Dirty White Boy def. John Rambo by DQ, Rambo keeps TV Title

Bruise Brothers def. Pope Brothers 

C. W. Bergstrom def. Don Harris by DQ

Max Steel def. Mike Winner      not televsed

-- 
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."
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