The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 10.30.82

The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 10.30.82

Taped from Charlotte, NC

Your host is Bob Caudle

World TV title: Jos Leduc v. Johnny Weaver

We’re actually joined in progress for this one, with Weaver making a comeback already and working on Leduc’s arm while Caudle talks about how “many people are saying” that Rick Steamboat & Jay Youngblood are the uncrowned tag team champions of the world. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? Pretty disrespectful to Sgt. Slaughter, if you ask me. Weaver takes Jos to the mat and works on the leg now, but Leduc claws at his eyes to get him to break it. They slug it out in the corner and Weaver gets the dreaded WEAVER-LOCK, but Leduc makes it to the ropes to break. Man, I bet if Cody had learned the Weaver-Lock like his dad did, he might not have choked at Wrestlemania. Leduc boots him down to take over and rakes the face on the ropes, but Weaver tries a bulldog and Leduc blocks it and runs Weaver into the turnbuckles, and then pins him with his feet on the ropes at 5:31 to retain. Who could seriously buy 80 year old Johnny Weaver as a threat at this point?

Paul Jones joins us, having regained the Mid-Atlantic title from Jack Brisco at some point in the week, but Sandy Scott stops by and calls out Jos Leduc for cheating and demands an immediate rematch with Johnny Weaver. So Humperdink freaks out and Leduc walks off in a huff, and Paul finishes his promo. Then Sandy Scott returns from getting chased off and declares that he’s taking it to the NWA board and Leduc is getting stripped of the TV title. For using the ropes in a wrestling match? What is this, communist Russia?

Wahoo McDaniel v. Ken Timbs

Wahoo chops the crap out of Timbs and works on his arm, but Timbs puts him down with a back elbow. So Wahoo chops him down again and goes to a chinlock, but Timbs fights out of that and makes the ropes. Wahoo continues chinlocking him and chopping him down when he fights out. Timbs fires up with rights, but Wahoos chops him down and pins him at 4:30.

Mike Rotundo joins us and he’s pretty confident that his neck is healed up enough to fight Bad Bad Leroy Brown tonight.

Bad Bad Leroy Brown v. Mike Rotundo

Mike manages to take him down with a drop toehold and goes to work on the leg, which is probably the smart move. Leroy chops him down, but Mike dives back onto the leg again and drops elbows on it. Rotundo switches him to a leglock and then a spinning toehold, but Leroy pokes him in the eye to break free. Leroy beats him down with forearms, but Rotundo gets a double leg takedown and goes to work on the leg again. Brown chokes him out on the ropes, but Mike takes him down again and takes out the leg to put him back on the mat again for more punishment. So again Brown cheats and rips at his face to break free before putting him down with a headbutt, but Mike just takes him down and wraps him up in a deathlock with an impressive neck bridge. Brown makes the ropes to escape that, so Rotundo beats on the knee in the corner until Brown fights him off with forearms and drops an elbow for two. But then Rotundo gets him up for the airplane spin, but Brown grabs Humperdink’s hand to block it, which is somehow not a DQ, and Brown piledrives him and then shoves the ref away and draws the DQ this time at 8:31 before beating Rotundo down and apparently injuring his neck again. Brown of course spent the entire match having his leg worked over and didn’t even limp.

Jack Brisco wants another rematch with Paul Jones, and Wahoo wants the Valentine and Flair team at some point. Next up, Steamboat & Youngblood join us and Caudle presents them with a drawing that some kid drew in crayon, and they’re so impressed that they give Caudle the headdress and lei necklace to give to the kid as a token of their appreciation. That’s some bullshit. Why didn’t the kid draw a real American hero like Sgt. Slaughter? I heard from reliable sources that Steamboat’s not even American, he’s from Hawaii! What kind of a role model is that?

Jack Brisco v. Jim Dalton

Brisco takes Dalton down with headlocks and works on that, then puts the boots to Dalton in the corner and gets an abdominal stretch, and then takes Dalton down and bends the leg in a half crab. Dalton makes the ropes, but Brisco sweeps the leg and goes to work on it again. Caudle and Paul Jones discuss the differences between the Indian deathlock and the figure-four, and Jones prefers the deathlock because “it breaks more legs that way.” Brisco finishes with the figure-four at 4:20.

Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood v. Private Jim Nelson & Ben Alexander

Poor Nelson has been left behind to do TV jobs while Kernodle reigns as NWA World tag champion with Slaughter. Nelson, in the prematch promo, claims that they retired the Mid-Atlantic tag team titles because no one could beat them, although apparently Steamboat & Youngblood did in fact beat them in August and then the titles were retired at that point. And then un-retired some time in 1983 for whatever reason. Steamboat & Youngblood work on Nelson’s arm, but Alexander comes in and puts Steamboat down with a back elbow and the heels go to work on him. But then Steamboat gets an amazingly creative double sunset flip on both of them for two, which I’ve never seen before, and Youngblood comes in with a double dropkick. Youngblood chops Alexander down and pins him after a double-team mule kick at 3:56.

Greg Valentine joins us and claims that Wahoo has been doctoring all the film of the supposed attack by himself and Flair, and he’s going to BREAK WAHOO’S LEG AGAIN if he keeps lying about it. And then Slaughter and Kernodle join us in their sharp suits again this week, and Slaughter even has a nice cigar, and they want to show all the fans their skills against good competition, but no one wants to step up and face them. So then Valentine returns and he’s got the crappy drawing of Steamboat and Youngblood from earlier, and Slaughter tears up the picture and puts out his cigar on it. And then he rips up the headdress and lei that was for the kid and laugh about it.

Oh man I bet Steamboat and Youngblood are gonna be PISSED now! Good classic heel heat angle to end the show.