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On 12/16/2022 at 7:52 AM, Just here to look said:
Françoise Hardy is finally defeated! I am so glad I finally gave this a read because this may be one of my favourites here I’ve read so far. Excited to see where this goes in the future, I will 100% be keeping up with it.
Thanks, glad you like how it's gone so far, so stay tuned, as they say... 🙂
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Cage Match:
Randy Savage vs Hulk Hogan
World Heavyweight Title:
Sting vs The Giant (c)
Wrath vs John Tenta
Arn Anderson vs Lex Luger
United States Title:
Eddie Guerrero vs Brian Pillman
Texas Tornado Match:
Nasty Boys vs Dungeon of Doom (Big Bubba/Taskmaster)
Ricky Steamboat vs Steve Austin
American Males vs Faces of Fear
Television Title:
Dean Malenko vs Lord Steven Regal (c)
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Kevin Sullivan vs Ric Flair
Nobuhiko Takada vs Brian Pillman
Bam Bam Bigelow vs Scott Steiner
Rick Rude vs Larry Zbyzsko
Steve Williams vs Arn Anderson
Powerhouse Simmons vs Sting
Rick Steiner vs Big Van Vader
Ricky Steamboat vs Lex Luger -
SMW was a decent attempt by Jim Cornette to keep the territory system alive in the '90s (alongside the USWA) in the face of Vince McMahon's aggressive and predatory expansion of the WWF, so I think I'll follow along here. 🙂
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All-Star Wrestling @ Montreal Forum*
November 11, 1968 - Montreal, Quebec
Attendance - 20,890
Miss X I & II defeated Carmen Thompson & Linda Moody when Miss X I clotheslined and pinned Thompson.
Veteran competitor Mary Jane Mull got a spirited match from young France Létourneau, but Mull came away the victor when she used a full-nelson slam on Létourneau for the pin.
Julie Painchaud defeated Annette Dupuis when Painchaud used a side suplex for the pinfall on Dupuis.
Georgia Hase & Judy Sowinski thought they would have an easy match against up-and-coming blonde fan favorites Sabrina Lafleur & Rosalie Paiement, who gave the heel tandem a few scares with their improving technical skills. From the first, it was rough going for both teams with neither gaining the advantage. Then Hase began to dominate Lafleur, only to have Sabrina brilliantly escape. Then Paiement tagged in and took it to Hase, forcing her to tag in Sowinski. After a wild melee with both teams tagging in and out, Hase and Lafleur collided in the center of the ring and both women collapsed in a daze. Sowinski, quick to seize the opportunity, grabbed Lafleur and bodyslammed her, then lifted Hase upon Lafleur for the pin and ended the match in the heel duo's favor, much to the fans' chagrin.
Penny Banner got the better of Marianne Duchesne when Banner used the sunset flip to get the pinfall win.
Former NWA United States Women's Champion Mae Young faced off against France Gall in a battle of experience vs. youth, with Young using her extensive knowledge of the sport and her size advantage to dominate the smaller Gall during much of the match, though the spirited Gall would have her moments as she used her acrobatic and technical prowess to throw Young for a loop. At one point, Young ensnared Gall in the dreaded Guillotine, but the spunky young French beauty refused to concede. Gall’s courage infuriated Young, provoking the frustrated veteran to use dirty moves to bring Gall down, ending when Young got her in the Alligator Clutch to finally force Gall's submission. Young continued to keep Gall in the Alligator Clutch after the bell rang, but when the referee threatened to reverse his decision and disqualify her, Young finally let Gall go, then got up, raised her arms in victory and gloated as the fans booed Young.
The match between Earlene Brown and Baby Rocco, guaranteed not to be the second coming of Lou Thesz vs. Édouard Carpentier by any measure, was a donnybrook from the get-go as the two big women battled it out, made more so when Mae Young, fresh off her earlier win over France Gall, showed up at ringside during the match to stand in Rocco's corner and even got involved on Rocco's behalf, choking Brown against the ropes while Rocco kept the referee occupied. Brown soon got her second wind and battled back against Rocco after Gall, despite still feeling lingering effects from getting tied in knots by Young, came out to confront the devious veteran wrestler/manager and soon came to blows again. Young soon tossed Gall into the ring and followed her in as the match degenerated into a brawl, forcing the referee to throw the match out as a double-disqualification. Post-match, Brown got the fans on their feet when the 250-pound ex-Olympian hoisted up the 225-pound Rocco and bodyslammed her, then went over and hammered Young with a forearm smash, then whipped her to the ropes and clotheslined her out of the ring to save Gall from the beating Young had been inflicting on her.
Canadian Women's Tag Team Championship - Two out of Three Falls
Barbara LaMarche & Claire Lepage defeated Shirley Hardman & Diane Syverson, two falls to one, to become the first Canadian Women's Tag Team Champions.⦁ First fall - Hardman pinned Lepage with a fisherman suplex.
⦁ Second fall - Hardman and Syverson were disqualified for excessive double-teaming against Lepage.
⦁ Third fall - LaMarche flattened Syverson with a cross-bodyblock for the title-winning pinfall.
NWA United States Women's Championship
Judy Arnold's title was up for grabs when the popular star was confronted by a determined Margot Bouchard. Bouchard worked on Arnold's right leg by bending it over the ropes, but Judy's courage kept her from submitting. Miraculously, Arnold staged a comeback that got Bouchard backpedaling. Out of desperation, Bouchard resorted to choking Arnold on the ropes, then got herself disqualified by slugging the referee when he tried to intervene. Arnold took advantage of Bouchard's distraction when she pushed the rulebreaker away with her feet as she attempted to resume her attack on the champion, who then got to her feet and mounted her own attack that climaxed with her dropkicking Bouchard to the canvas and sending her scurrying out to ringside, where Bouchard berated Arnold as the latter was handed her United States title belt as the fans cheered.
Canadian Women's Championship - Two out of Three Falls
Renée Martel's quest to regain the title she controversially lost to Françoise Hardy (C) in July reached its climax as she overcame Hardy, two falls to one, to become a two-time Canadian Women's Champion (with Yvon Robert, former multiple-time World Heavyweight Champion and one of Martel's co-trainers, serving as special guest referee).⦁ First fall - After an evenly-fought first few minutes, Hardy took control of the match and eventually used a three-quarter nelson hold to maneuver Martel into a pin to score the first fall.
⦁ Second fall - Martel surged back to even the match at one fall apiece when she floored Hardy with a flying forearm smash off the ropes for the pin, raising the hopes of the capacity Forum crowd.
⦁ Third fall - After being dominated during the third fall as a frustrated Hardy resorted to more rulebreaking, Martel got the fans going by staging a blistering comeback against the champion, only for them to be disappointed as Hardy dodged a dropkick attempt by Renée and retook control - but as Hardy scooped her up for a bodyslam, Martel seized the moment, caught Hardy and rolled her into a small package for the three-count from Robert for the winning pin, setting the fans off with the loudest cheers of the night as Renée recaptured the Canadian title in front of nearly 21,000 screaming fans.No sooner was Martel awarded the Canadian Women's title belt by Robert, however, than Margot Bouchard ran into the ring from the locker rooms and blindsided the new champion with a vicious attack, with Hardy then joining in for a two-on-one gang-up on Renée. After a few moments of being double-teamed, Martel soon got help when Judy Arnold charged in and went after Bouchard, evening the odds for a moment until the tide soon turned against the fan favorites again when Mae Young, Shirley Hardman, Diane Syverson and Baby Rocco all ran in and went on the attack, making it six-on-two against Martel and Arnold. After about a minute of Hardy and the other heels overwhelming Martel and Arnold (with the fans fearing for the well-being of the latter two as the crowd screamed for help for them), the cavalry soon arrived when Barbara LaMarche, Claire Lepage, France Gall and Earlene Brown charged to the ring to even the sides as a virtual battle royal broke loose for a few moments before the babyface side, led by Martel and Arnold, finally got the upper hand and cleared Hardy and the Queen's Court members out, climaxing with Brown bodyslamming Rocco again, while Renée dropkicked Hardy through the ropes to the ringside floor and Arnold clotheslined Bouchard against the ropes, then threw her over the top rope onto the edge of the ring and then to the floor. As Hardy, Bouchard and the rest of the heels backed off while making threats at Martel and the babyface group, the fans went wild again as Renée picked her newly-reclaimed Canadian Women's title belt up from the canvas and hoisted it over her head in celebration while Arnold, Brown, LaMarche, Lepage and Gall, soon joined by fellow babyfaces Penny Banner, Julie Painchaud, Sabrina Lafleur, Rosalie Paiement and France Létourneau, all congratulated her to cap off the night.
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Prediction results: (Thanks to all who made their predictions for this card)
The Blonde Bomber - 9/10
All-time prediction results:
Herrbear - 78/107
Lord Byron - 43/61
The Blonde Bomber - 42/50
Hitman74 - 10/12
Theheel - 7/10
Dalton - 6/6
auto45 - 5/6
Sco_xY2Jx - 2/6
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* During the spring and summer of 1968 following the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Montreal Forum was extensively renovated inside and out (as shown above) and had its seating capacity increased to seat 17,959 for hockey games, with potentially more for wrestling events. Even with the expanded seating, thanks to heavy promotion and hyping of the women's supercard in the local media, the Forum ended up literally packed for the event (with up to a third of the fans in attendance being children, with whom Renée Martel has been increasing her fanbase).
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While waiting for further match predictions on the all-female supercard coming up, here's a YouTube clip that's sure to make the day of a lot of the anti-Moolah crowd:
Wendi Richter vs. Fabulous Moolah (from MSG, July 23, 1984 - the match where Richter ended Moolah's WWF Women's title reign) (Note - based on the description accompanying the video itself, the YouTube account that posted the video is evidently a Moolah fan)
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On 12/12/2022 at 9:15 PM, smartman said:
Oh no. Who invited Mae Young to the event??? Renee is screwed for sure!
Well, at this point both IRL and ITTL, Mae Young was still part of the Mildred Burke camp (and earlier in the diary, had threatened Moolah's Los Angeles contact and former Burke trainee Yvonne with a thrashing for her attempts at sabotaging both the AGWA in general, and Renée in particular, on Moolah's behalf), so I don't think that'll be an issue.
On 12/12/2022 at 9:15 PM, smartman said:Also, wasn't the Women's title basically a joke at this point? Wasn't that the view of Moolah's legendary in length reign with it?
IRL, definitely.
On 12/12/2022 at 9:15 PM, smartman said:Now...who does Moolah know in Canada?
No one so far, but should she find out that the event Johnny Rougeau tried to book her for (which she turned down with an excuse after finding out she'd be pitted against Renée) is that upcoming women's supercard in Montreal, that could change (especially if the event turns out to be successful)...
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Power and Glory vs. American Males (subbed for Road Warriors)
Big Bubba Rogers vs. Cobra
??? vs. Mr. JL
Eddy Guerrero vs. Jushin Thunder Liger
Paul Orndorff vs. Jim Duggan
WCW World Tag Team Titles Match
Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater vs. Nasty Boys (subbed for Steiner Brothers)Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and Brian Pillman vs. Randy Savage, Lex Luger and Sting
WCW World Heavyweight Title Match
Hulk Hogan defends vs. The Giant -
November 1968
The moment this diary has built toward at this point in the early part of Renée Martel's career (at least since the start of 1968 in the diary) has arrived as the poster for the upcoming all-female All-Star Wrestling supercard (the first all-female event in Montreal/Quebec/Canadian wrestling history) on November 11 is now up:
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The full lineup for the event - now it's prediction time: 😁
Carmen Thompson & Linda Moody vs. Miss X I & II
France Létourneau vs. Mary Jane Mull
Julie Painchaud vs. Annette Dupuis
Sabrina Lafleur & Rosalie Paiement vs. Georgia Hase & Judy Sowinski
Penny Banner vs. Marianne Duchesne
France Gall vs. Mae Young
Earlene Brown vs. Baby Rocco
Canadian Women's Tag Team Championship (to determine first champions)
Barbara LaMarche & Claire Lepage vs. Shirley Hardman & Diane SyversonNWA United States Women's Championship
Judy Arnold (C) vs. Margot BouchardCanadian Women's Championship
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Nobuhiko Takada vs Lex Luger
Bam Bam Bigelow vs Ric Flair
Kevin Sullivan vs Sting
Rick Rude vs Big Van Vader
Steve Williams vs Ricky Steamboat
Powerhouse Simmons vs Brian Pillman
Scott Steiner vs Larry Zbyzsko
Rick Steiner vs Arn Anderson -
6 hours ago, The Blonde Bomber said:
Let's go Renee finally showing Francoise can get pinned!!
That's been proven for sure. What happens after that remains to be seen... 😎
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On 12/10/2022 at 5:14 AM, DHK1989 said:
Moving the AWA offices? Uh oh...
20 hours ago, smartman said:How big were her heels in that Valiant pic? And already moving the HQ? Interesting. They're still going to have to run the shows in the states in and around MN to even hope of turning a profit anytime soon.
Given that the AWA's core territory is the Midwest and has been since its foundation, that has me wondering too... 🤔
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All-Star Wrestling @ Paul Sauvé Arena
October 28, 1968 - Montreal, Quebec
Dutch Brink & Larry Moquin fought Ron & Terry Garvin to a time-limit draw.
Brute Martin defeated Gino Brito by countout when Brito did not get back in the ring in time to beat the referee's count when Martin beat Brito back into the ring after the two had been brawling around ringside.
Matt Gilmore & Doug Kent defeated Antonio Baillargeon & Dale Roberts when Kent pinned Roberts following a powerslam.
Jos & Paul LeDuc defeated Buster Lloyd & Chin Lee when Lee submitted to Jos LeDuc's bearhug.
Six-woman elimination match
Renée Martel, Claire Lepage & France Gall defeated Françoise Hardy, Margot Bouchard & Marianne Duchesne.- First fall - Hardy pinned Gall using a crossface cradle pinning combination.
- Second fall - Lepage and Bouchard were both counted out while fighting outside the ring.
- Third fall - Martel pinned Duchesne following a flying forearm smash off the ropes.
- Fourth fall - Martel electrified the crowd when she finally got her first pinfall win over Hardy, using a reverse rollup into a bridge pin to take down Hardy. By virtue of that pinfall win, Renée was granted her long-awaited rematch against Hardy for the Canadian Women's title, to take place on November 11 at the Montreal Forum.
Édouard Carpentier defeated Abdullah the Butcher when Abdullah was disqualified for excessive violence (including attacking the referee, for which Abdullah was fined $200 post-match).-
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11 hours ago, smartman said:
Moolah would never agree to lose the match, and she'd probably turn it into a shoot really quickly so Renee is a lot healthier for the match not happening.
At this point, that's pretty much a given, but as this diary eventually advances into the 1970s and Renée gains more experience (combined with the NWA putting more pressure on Moolah to defend her title against other wrestlers outside her own camp), the tide may well end up turning... 🤔
10 hours ago, The Blonde Bomber said:I wonder the NWA feels about having the two camps of lady wrestlers warring. Especially with the NWA World Champ from booking girls from her camp.
Moolah's current reluctance to face anyone beyond her own students (basically picking and choosing who she faces) is something we've already seen the NWA frown upon, but as long as she faces someone not from her camp only when necessary (like, say, once every couple of weeks against someone not named Renée Martel, Joan Weston, Judy Arnold or Ann Calvello) to appease the Board of Directors, the NWA is pretty much fit to be tied at the moment. Sooner or later, though... 😏
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Earlier that day before the card at the Paul Sauvé Arena...
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Johnny Rougeau was working at his desk in his training gym's office, waiting while he was on hold on his desk phone. He waited for several minutes before the person he had been speaking to got back on the line.
"Yes, I'm still here," Johnny said to the other end of the line. "So, what's the word?" As he was listening, a knock came on his office door, which was partially open as he was expecting visitors anyway. Renée Martel poked her head through the doorway, so Johnny gestured her in as he continued to listen on the phone, and she, Michèle Richard and Claire Lepage all filed in and took seats in front of his desk.
"That's right, I want to book her for an event in Montreal on November 11," Johnny continued. "Is she available for then?" He paused while listening to the reply. "Well, I was planning to put her against one of my girls, Renée Martel." He paused to listen again while Renée, Michèle and Claire listened in on the one-sided conversation with interest. "Uh-huh, I see. Okay, fair enough. Alright then, goodbye."
"What was that all about?" a curious Renée wondered.
"That was the Fabulous Moolah's secretary I just got off the phone with," Johnny said, not sounding too pleased. "I was trying to book her for that all-girls' card I'm putting together for the 11th at the Forum."
"And what did the secretary say?" Claire asked.
"She had a look through Moolah's schedule - or at least she said she did," Johnny said. "I think she might've just been going through the motions after I said I wanted to match her against Renée for that card. Anyway, she said after she came back on that Moolah was 'booked solid' through this month - including the 11th - and into at least January."
"That figures," Michèle remarked, scoffing and rolling her eyes as she spoke.
"Funny thing, while she was doing her 'schedule check', I could swear I heard someone else talking with the secretary at the other end," Johnny said. "I think whoever it was might've been coaching her to say what she told me."
"And whoever that was doing the coaching was Moolah herself, maybe?" Renée guessed.
"I can't say for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was Moolah with her secretary," Johnny said.
"Well, I know what I can say about that," Michèle said, at which she then started subtly clucking like a chicken - her way of jabbing at Moolah, which made Renée and Claire laugh.
"Sounds like you're saying Moolah doesn't have the guts to go up against Renée," Claire then said with a grin.
"That's what the chicken sounds implied," a smirking Michèle replied.
"Well anyway, since getting Moolah for the 11th is out now," Johnny said, "that means I can go with what I had planned for the main event before I tried to get Moolah - put Renée against Françoise for the Canadian Women's title, get the big rematch set up."
"Really?" Renée said, sounding hopeful.
"I'd heard you'd been main-eventing on some of the AGWA events while you were down that way," Johnny said. "So I figured it's time to pull the trigger on having you main-event a show here." On hearing that news, Renée squealed with delight.
"Now, Michèle, I've got you booked for another big match for the show because I'm setting the card up to have a triple main event," Johnny continued. "When I contacted Mildred Burke down in Los Angeles while the three of you were still there and I told her about my plans, she said she was more than glad to offer a number of her girls to come up to Montreal for the show and she'll also be sending up tapes of some of the matches featuring them for me to show on TV ahead of the event, to get the fans here familiar with them. In fact, Judy Arnold was the first to sign up to come back up here and she recently became the United States Women's Champion by beating Mae Young, so Michèle, I'm matching you two up for the United States title for the show as the second main event."
"Liking that plan already," Michèle said with a grin as she rubbed her hands together in anticipation.
"And Claire, I've got you booked for the third main event," Johnny then said. "I talked to Barbara over the phone in Quebec City earlier and she'll be teaming with you for that match..."
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On 12/9/2022 at 11:21 AM, The Blonde Bomber said:
Always a fan of these programs you make. The news of an all women's event makes me wonder if it'll be in conjunction with AGWA or just include some of their ladies? Also curious if the fans will come out for an all women's show like they do for other shows considering AGWA isn't viewable in their area, they're only used to their French/French Canadian Ladies.
In fact, the next chapter coming will detail that... 😎
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Canadian Women's Tag Team Championship (for use in Rise of a Star)
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All-Star Wrestling @ Paul Sauvé Arena
October 21, 1968 - Montreal, Quebec
Tony Parisi & Larry Moquin fought Matt Gilmore & Doug Kent to a time-limit draw.
Claire Lepage & France Gall defeated Françoise Hardy & Margot Bouchard by disqualification for excessive double-teaming by the heels and for Bouchard throwing Gall over the top rope. Hardy and Bouchard continued double-teaming on Lepage post-match when suddenly, the crowd got to their feet with loud cheers as Renée Martel, whose 60-day exile from All-Star Wrestling had recently ended, ran out from the locker room area and cleaned house in the ring, delivering several chops to Bouchard's chest, whipping her to the ropes and dropkicking her out of the ring, then attacking Hardy and flooring her with a clothesline to send her into retreat to ringside. An irate Bouchard grabbed the arena microphone and started yelling at Renée, now joined by Lepage and Gall, and hurled threats at the babyface trio while Hardy glared at Martel for a moment before taking the mic and lobbing her own threats at Renée (who turned out to be the surprise Gall had promised in her earlier TV interview) before Hardy and Bouchard retreated backstage as they continued trading threats and insults with Renée, Lepage and Gall.
In a non-title match, ASW World Heavyweight Champion Ivan Koloff defeated Lou Klein when Klein submitted to Koloff's bearhug.
Two out of Three Falls
In a non-title match, Marcel Martel (making his return after recovering from the knee injury inflicted by Hans Schmidt in July) & Ti-Blanc Richard defeated ASW World Tag Team Champions Baron Von Raschke & Waldo Von Erich, two falls to one.- First fall - Von Raschke used the Iron Claw to force Martel to submit.
- Second fall - Von Raschke was disqualified for throwing Martel over the top rope.
- Third fall - Richard made Von Erich submit to the bearhug.
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In the latest edition of the All-Star Wrestling arena program, two big pieces of news make the front page - one of them revolving around rumors for an upcoming supercard event...
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19 hours ago, piperrulz said:The group clinked their glasses together and took a drink.The months of waiting and wondering were finally over.From receiving a low-ball offer from radio magnate and the owner of MLB's Seattle Mariners Jeff Smulyan for less than $2 million.From receiving an offer of almost $3 million from businessman and the NHL's Winnipeg Jets' owner Barry Shenkarow that Verne was prepared to accept until Shenkarow unveiled his garish and cartoonish plans for the promotion.From selling the company to SF Giants owner Bob Lurie for just under $3 million and holding a press conference to announce the sale and then Lurie dying unexpectedly and the deal being rendered null and void.From considering trying to find a financial backer with Verne still at the helm with a much needed cash infusion to make the AWA a competitor once again.From Deborah Harry and John Waters looking to buy the AWA.From Jim Crockett looking to buy the promotion.From WWF boss Vince McMahon trying to swoop in and buy the AWA in an effort to thwart a big money investor group coming in and taking it over and Verne instead thwarting Vince.From Crockett bringing in Bill Watts and looking to either buy the promotion themselves and ultimately teaming up with John Waters and Deborah Harry, and bringing in Jerry Jarrett late in the game, to put on a full-court press in a last-ditch effort to buy the AWA.From Tribune Media making Verne the biggest offer he got for the promotion and Verne subsequently turning it down.And Verne finally settling on 'Team Blondie' as the next owners of a promotion he had built from the ground up.It was all finally over.And Verne Gagne was $3.5 million dollars richer and ready to ride off into the sunset.A new era was about to begin in the AWA.
Exactly what I wanted to see happen (and what could've happened IRL had Verne thought to sell to someone [not Vince] who would've committed to keeping wrestling front and center while rebuilding the company and raising it back to its glory days level - but as the old saying goes, hindsight is always 20/20 and speculating "what if..." is all we can do).
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Following the events of October 14 at the Paul Sauvé Arena that saw Claire Lepage defeat Françoise Hardy by disqualification due to the interference of the returning Margot Bouchard (which also saw France Gall run in to try to help Lepage against the two-on-one attack by Hardy and Bouchard), Lepage and Gall made an interview appearance (translated here from the original French) on the October 19 edition of Sur le Matelas to discuss what they have planned in the wake of the attack:
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INTERVIEWER: My next two interview guests right now had some tough dealings this past Monday night in Montreal against the recently-returned Margot Bouchard and her cohort, Canadian Women's Champion Françoise Hardy, and they're here now to talk about it - two of the grappling girls of All-Star Wrestling, Claire Lepage and France Gall. Claire, you were facing off against Hardy that night for her Canadian title, but things didn't go quite as planned, did they?
CLAIRE LEPAGE: No, they didn't, ______. Hardy dominated the match with her technical skills and a bit of rough stuff, but I came back and had her backpedaling when I put the figure-four leglock on her, and I would've had the match won and become the Canadian Champion if Bouchard hadn't run in and attacked me. I mean, is Hardy really that worried about losing the title to someone who can figure out her game that she needs to have someone run interference for her when she runs into trouble? Because that's what happened when Bouchard stuck her nose where it didn't belong and helped Hardy gang up on me.
INTERVIEWER: And France, when you were alerted to Hardy and Bouchard double-teaming on Claire, that's when you got involved?
FRANCE GALL: That's right. I've known Hardy as an opponent since we faced off against each other all over Europe over the past few years, and yes, she's a top talent in the ring - she wouldn't have been the European Women's Champion for over four years and counting if she weren't. But ever since she allied herself with this Margot Bouchard character, she's begun using dirty tactics to help her win matches and hang on to her Canadian title, and she also relies more on outside help now when she runs into trouble, like she did when Bouchard ran in to help her double-team on Claire. I wasn't having that, so I ran in to try and help her, but Bouchard backjumped me while I was dealing with Hardy and they got the upper hand in the end.
LEPAGE: But now, Hardy and Bouchard, you're going to find out what happens when you push us around once too often! France and I are challenging you two to a tag team match this coming Monday night! You two may have the edge in experience, size and skills, but one thing we have over you - and which you better not underestimate - is our fighting spirit. You're up against two determined girls now, and we're gonna make sure you pay for your sins in the ring on Monday night!
GALL: And Hardy, Bouchard, remember this - you may think you have the upper hand over us, but you just might be in for a surprise when Monday comes.
INTERVIEWER: Well, there you have it - Claire Lepage and France Gall have laid down the gauntlet to Françoise Hardy and Margot Bouchard to face them in a tag team match this Monday night, October 21 at the Paul Sauvé Arena in Montreal and it's going to promise plenty of action, so get your tickets to see this match. We'll be right back after this with more wrestling action!
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Ooh, I can just see it now - Savage is not gonna be happy about the circumstances surrounding his loss, despite the Hulkster's best efforts to prevent that from happening. We just might see Hogan vs. Savage happening before we see Hogan vs. The Giant...
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All-Star Wrestling @ Paul Sauvé Arena
October 14, 1968 - Montreal, Quebec
Marianne Duchesne used a leg lariat to floor France Gall and get the pinfall win.
Jos & Paul LeDuc defeated Larry Moquin & Eddie Auger when Jos LeDuc forced Auger to submit to the bearhug.
Buster Lloyd fought Carlos Colon to a double-countout as both wrestlers brawled outside the ring.
Canadian Women's Championship
Claire Lepage defeated Françoise Hardy (C) by disqualification in a closely-fought contest when, as Lepage had Hardy caught in a figure-four leglock, Margot Bouchard (making her first appearance back in Montreal since August 19) ran in and attacked Lepage (Hardy retained her title due to the DQ). Hardy and Bouchard proceeded to double-team and batter Lepage when France Gall ran in and jumped Hardy in an attempt to even the odds, but Bouchard ran over and quickly grabbed Gall from behind by the hair and hammered her down to the mat with a forearm smash to her upper back; the heel duo continued their assault until, satisfied they had beaten down Lepage and Gall enough, they left the ring to the fans' loud boos, gloating as they made their way back down the aisle.
ASW Canadian Heavyweight Championship
Édouard Carpentier defeated Hans Schmidt (C) by disqualification when Schmidt threw Carpentier over the top rope (Schmidt retained his title due to the DQ).
ASW World Tag Team Championship
Baron Von Raschke & Waldo Von Erich (C) defeated Gino Brito & Antonio Baillargeon when Von Erich pinned Baillargeon after nailing him with his signature finisher the "Blitzkrieg" (a diving knee drop).
ASW World Heavyweight Championship - Two out of Three Falls
Ivan Koloff (C) battled Jacques Rougeau to a curfew draw after each wrestler had scored one fall when the 11 PM curfew ended the match during the third fall.-
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On 12/3/2022 at 11:29 PM, smartman said:
And I'm sure Hardy won't mention this list at all in her promos as we're heading for Hardy vs Martel 2 all across Canada to warm the hearts of every Canadian during their horrendous winters.🙄 Also, Moolah is going to be crowing about being #1. Actually, she's probably going to be mad as hell about 2-5 (could she go after Hardy just to spite everyone?) and of course, #8 because she was a spiteful, hateful, awful person irl.
Yeah, I reckon Moolah isn't too thrilled knowing that Renée is in the ratings at all, let alone in the top ten.
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Well, back when they were starting out in the 1960s IRL, their target audience was the then-younger generation, so there's that.
In the storyline, I'd surmise that quite a few attendees who went to that Forum all-woman wrestling event were there out of curiosity, to see how such an event would go - and if they were pleasantly surprised by the quality and presentation of the matches (particularly the three main events), they'd end up leaving as new fans. You'd also be right about Johnny Rougeau's backing of the ladies because of his belief in them, their abilities, their striving to be as good and as talented as the guys and their desire to elevate women's wrestling and make it as respectable as it was when Mildred Burke was wrestling (unlike Fabulous Moolah, whose "women's wrestling as sideshow" mentality held back women's wrestling IRL and did the same ITTL prior to the rise of both Rougeau's girls and Mildred Burke's trainees, both of which Renée is part of here). 🙂
Hmm, perhaps... 😏