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You know you can set it up so you can post pics on here without us having to click links right? It's fine for like one or two pics, but to check out a thread's worth of work it's a pain.
User CP- top left of the forum, on the left is a link that says Edit Options.
After that scroll down to Visible Post Elements and make sure Show Images is checked.
Then on the forum you use the IMG tags, but the forum makes it simple. There's a button above the text box with a pic of a mountain with a yellow sky. Click it, and paste the direct image URL into it.
It would make seeing your work much more accessible.
Well, what I've been doing with my Rise of a Star diary (and what I'm now seeing done with newer posts on the NJPW America diary thread) does set a precedent, so I'll give it a shot with future posts in this thread.
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Chris Hero (#9) VS. Warhorse (#10)
Yehi & YUTA VS. Clearwater & Misterioso
AJ Gray (#17) vs. Alex Coughlin (#18)
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My next entry moves into the 1980s with this belt design based on the 1985 WWF Intercontinental title belt:
Intercontinental-style championship render
PSD file (for others to use and modify to suit their ideas): https://mega.nz/file/kC5HkS6a#mheY5WDhb1sUF4xkZ7N_TgAYMAll9XACf_Ysor6e70Y
And, some variations of the Intercontinental-style design:
Custom AWA America's Heavyweight Championship
Generic North American Heavyweight Championship
Custom NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (the generic NA design above, but with the NWA logo added)
Custom NWA United States Heavyweight Championship
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Awesome quality! I love old-school wrestling belts. Your renders will be a mainstay in my saves from now on. I can't hoot enough over how much I like these. Keep them coming, old-school is cool!
Thanks, glad you like 'em and I have more coming up.
These are really good Old School Fan, nice work. Thanks for the Dutch Savage clip too, that brings back memoriesThanks, and you're welcome.
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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="GnEric" data-cite="GnEric" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="53983" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>And that is why, lol curse Photobucket!<p> </p><p> Thanks again, everyone! <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I hear that. I used to use Photobucket myself, but quit on them after they changed formats to allow only paid subscribers to have images free of the PB watermarks.</p>
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Alex Turk Promotions @ Winnipeg Civic Auditorium
June 18, 1966 - Winnipeg, Manitoba
Dutch Savage defeated Tim Geohagen by pinfall following a kneedrop.
Renée Martel defeated Julie Painchaud by submission with the Alligator Clutch.
Haystacks Calhoun defeated Mighty Ursus by pinfall when Calhoun nailed Ursus with a big splash.
NWA International Tag Team Championship (Winnipeg)
Marcel Martel & Paul Jones defeated John Tolos & Tony Borne © when Tolos and Borne were disqualified for excessive double-teaming against Jones and for Borne shoving the referee aside; post-match, Jones rallied and, with aid from Martel, ran Tolos and Borne out of the ring (Tolos & Borne retain their belts due to the DQ).
$2,000 10-man Battle Royal
Haystacks Calhoun won the match and the $2,000 prize when he simultaneously eliminated John Tolos and Tony Borne (also taking part were Dutch Savage, Tim Geohagen, Mighty Ursus, Paul Jones, Roy McClarty, Marcel Martel and Eric Froelich).
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In a dining booth near a lunch counter at a Woolworth's store* in downtown Winnipeg, Marcel and Renée Martel were joined by Julie Painchaud and Paul Jones for lunch as they talked about the upcoming wrestling card and other things while waiting for their lunch orders. As this was Julie's first trip out West and she had not yet wrestled in Winnipeg, she was not a recognizable name there at that point and thus had no problem enjoying her meal undisturbed; but because of her celebrity status in the city due to her wrestling and media appearances, Renée had to disguise herself to avoid having her lunch interrupted by covering her hair with a kerchief.
The four wrestlers had not chosen the best time or place to go for lunch, however, as Paul indicated when a lunch counter waitress brought the group their menus. "Does it always get this crazy in here?" Paul asked the waitress in his Texas drawl, pointing out a nearby commotion going on in the store involving a large number of women.
"Nope, just during the one-day sale specials," the waitress replied. "It's mostly the bargain-hungry housewives jumping over each other to try and get the sale items they want."
"Figures," Paul remarked before turning to Renée, Marcel and Julie. "I made the mistake of eating at a Woolworth's in Houston during a one-day sale one time and it was just nuts. It was all I could do to get out of that store in one piece afterward."
"Well, I'm glad at least that I was able to get the new dress I wanted before it got too hectic in here," Renée said.
"Same with my new sneakers," Julie agreed. "I've been needing to get new shoes for a while anyway. They'll be handy for my curriculum when I get back to school in September."
"So, you go to school when you ain't wrestling?" Paul asked.
"I do," Julie answered. "I'm only wrestling part-time because I'm studying to become a nurse in Montreal. I only wrestle during summer vacation and on other holidays when nursing school's not in session, mainly to earn money to cover my tuition and other expenses."
"And Julie's come in handy at some of our events back in Montreal thanks to her first aid training," Marcel pointed out.
"Well, next time I get a bump, bruise or cut when I'm in the ring, I'll know who to turn to," Paul joked.
As the group continued deciding what to get for lunch, however, their conversation was interrupted when, during the commotion being raised by the bargain hunters in the store, a figure quickly dashed by and suddenly grabbed the shopping bag by Renée's feet before dashing off. "Hey, my bag!" Renée snapped as she saw the culprit, who appeared to be female, run off with the bag. "My dress is in there!"
"We'll see about that!" said Julie, who also saw the shopping bag thief dash away, as she jumped from her seat in the booth and took off in pursuit of her while Renée, Marcel and Paul watched.
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Some time after lunch, Renée and the rest of the group left the Woolworth's store to head back to their hotel. "Hey Julie, thanks again for getting my shopping bag back for me," said Renée, who had the bag and the dress in it back with her thanks to Julie catching the thief, who turned out to be a teenage shoplifter who had also been carrying several unpaid-for smaller items in a jacket she was wearing (thanks to using the sales rush as her cover and distraction from her thievery), and turning her over to store security to hold for the police, thanks in part to the shoplifter/thief being slowed by the rush of sales day bargain hunters.
"Not a problem, Renée," Julie replied. "I'm sure that thief won't forget my tackling her to the floor and exposing her as a shoplifter either when the stuff she had in her coat spilled out."
"And that's another lesson to be learned - never keep your belongings where they'll be in easy reach of a thief," Marcel said.
"Don't worry, Papa, I'll remember that," Renée replied with an embarrassed grin.
"And there's something else y'all can make a claim to now," Paul joined in.
"What's that?" Renée wondered.
"You survived a Woolworth's sales day," Paul joked again, making the rest of the group laugh as they arrived at Marcel's rental car parked nearby.
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* I couldn't find a photo of a Winnipeg location of Woolworth's online, so I just uploaded a general photo of a Woolworth's store to place the setting of this chapter.
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While I continue working on the next chapter (which will move back to Winnipeg), here's a couple of YouTube clips of one of the participants from the previous Winnipeg card:
(steel cage match from St. Petersburg, Florida, April 1973)Paul Jones (as the masked Mr. Florida) interviewed by Gordon Solie (from CWF TV, 1980)
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Brody King (#5) VS. TJP (#3)
Team Filthy (Dickinson & Gainz) VS. West Coast Wrecking Crew
Barrett Brown (#13) VS. Fred Rosser (#11)
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Wildcat Wrestling @ Edmonton Gardens
June 14, 1966 - Edmonton, Alberta
Judy Arnold defeated Georgia Hase when Hase was counted out after beating a retreat to the locker rooms.
Bob Sweetan defeated Roberto Gonzales by pinfall following a piledriver.
Marcel Martel defeated The Beast when Beast was disqualified for throwing Martel over the top rope.
Mixed tag team match - Two out of Three Falls
Dave Ruhl & Renée Martel defeated Sweet Daddy Siki & Margot Bouchard, two falls to one.
- First fall - Bouchard pinned Renée with a schoolgirl rollup with the aid of illegal leverage via a handful of Renée's tights.
- Second fall - Renée evened the match by forcing Bouchard to submit to the Alligator Clutch.
- Third fall - Ruhl pinned Siki following a powerslam.
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Wildcat Wrestling @ Edmonton Gardens
June 7, 1966 - Edmonton, Alberta
Judy Arnold & Renée Martel defeated Georgia Hase & Margot Bouchard when Arnold pinned Hase with a backslide pin while Martel and Bouchard brawled around the ringside area.
Battle Royal
The Beast won an eight-man battle royal in which match pairings and order of the matches would be determined by elimination order in the battle royal (the first two wrestlers eliminated would be matched up, etc.).
Dave Ruhl defeated Bob Sweetan by submission with a full Nelson.
Marcel Martel defeated Roberto Gonzales by submission via the figure-four leglock.
Sweet Daddy Siki defeated Firpo Zbyszko by pinfall following a knockout punch.
The Beast defeated Johal Singh by pinfall with a powerslam.
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Route 66 Tag Team Championship (custom/novelty design)
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June 1966
Back at the Hart house in Calgary, Renée and Marcel Martel were with Stu and Helen Hart and that couple's youngest son, 13-month-old Owen, in the family's living room following supper, talking about Renée's first tour through the Calgary territory. "It must've been quite an adventure to travel through Alberta and Saskatchewan with your dad even before you started wrestling, Renée," Helen said as she had Owen on her lap, "and now that you're a wrestler yourself, I bet those trips take on a whole new meaning."
"They do," Renée admitted. "And as I start getting more known, I've had some folks recognize me on the street or while I'm out shopping and they come to me to ask for an autograph. It's been alright so far, so I don't mind."
"That's true, but would you want it to get to the point where your popularity as a wrestler gets almost to the level of Elvis or the Beatles?" Stu asked rhetorically and half-jokingly.
Renée started laughing when she heard Stu's comment. "Oh, now that would be a bit much," she said, "but it doesn't get much press beyond the wrestling TV shows and the results in the sports pages though, so I don't think I have to worry about that too much." Looking over at Owen, she then said, "If you need a break, Helen, I can take Owen off your hands for you."
"Sure, Renée, if you don't mind," Helen said as she handed little Owen over to Renée.
"Okay, Owen, let's take you to play with your toys," Renée said as she scooped Owen up and brought him over to where his toys were, located beside Stu's chair. As she went back to sit with Helen on the sofa, however, Renée got a little surprise when she saw Owen get up and toddle back over to where she was sitting, babbling happily as he reached her.
"Looks like you got a new fan already, dear," Marcel, who was sitting in another chair near Stu's chair, said with a laugh as he watched the scene.
Just then, Renée got a gleam in her eye as an idea dawned on her. "Wait, let me try that again," she said as she picked Owen up again and brought him back to his toys on the floor. When she went to sit back down on the sofa, she saw Owen get up and toddle back to her again with a smile on his face, causing another round of laughter in the living room. "I must admit, Renée, I think Owen likes you," an amused Helen said.
"Well, the feeling's mutual," Renée said with a laugh as she picked Owen up and sat him on her lap. Turning to Stu, she then asked him, "Stu, since I finished training with you, have you had any other girls come to you to ask about getting trained by you?"
"I did have a few ask me," Stu replied, "but I remembered your advice and recommended that they go down to Los Angeles to get training from Mildred Burke. Mildred called me later on and thanked me for sending some business her way - and by the way, Renée, she sends her regards for making that suggestion to me. On the other hand, Fabulous Moolah hasn't been too happy with me since I stopped sending potential trainees her way."
"Just helping Mildred out by doing that - and I'm also doing the trainees a favor by sending them to Mildred instead of to Moolah," Renée said. "Last year around Christmastime, I got an invite from New York to go and wrestle for Vince McMahon, but to do that, I'd have to go to Moolah's training camp and learn to wrestle her way because she supplies him with her trainees."
"And what happened with that?" Helen asked.
"I said 'no way' to that - why would I want to downgrade by training with Moolah when I already got the best training there is from Stu, from Mildred and from Papa?" Renée said. "So I tore up the invitation and threw it in the garbage. I knew I was throwing away a potential big payday by doing that, but it's about the integrity, not about the money."
"And that's the important thing, how you feel about it," Marcel said to Renée. "It's like I once read, how do you profit when you gain all that but you sell your soul to do it?"
"And that's what would've happened if I'd gone with Moolah," Renée said, just before she turned to look at Owen and smile as he grabbed her index finger in his little fist and giggled.
A moment later, Michèle Richard, who had accompanied the Martels to the Hart house as part of her first trek out West, came into the living room carrying a board game box, followed by four other Hart kids - Dean, Ellie, Georgia and Bret. "Hey Renée, the kids want to play a game of Monopoly and they want me and you to join them," Michèle said. "You want in?"
"Uh, you sure you want to do that?" Stu cut in. "Those games of Monopoly can get pretty heated when it's the kids playing."
"C'mon, Renée, come and join us," eight-year-old Bret then said. "We'll even let you be the car piece."
"Well... How can I say no to an offer like that?" Renée said with a giggle as she handed Owen back to Helen and got up to join Michèle and the kids at the dining room table to set the game up.
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No worries I was just busy today. Really enjoying your story. I was reading it at the start then was off the boards during the holidays. Now have gone back and caught up. Very creative weaving all the different characters from other areas. Really like seeing Roller Derby and Georgia mentioned. Her antics in Roller Derby were priceless
Wait'll you see what's coming in the next chapter as the diary returns to Calgary...
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Route 66 Heavyweight Championship (custom/novelty design)
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Wildcat Wrestling* @ Edmonton Gardens
May 31, 1966 - Edmonton, Alberta
Sweet Daddy Siki defeated Roberto Gonzales by submission with a sleeperhold.
Georgia Hase & Margot Bouchard defeated Judy Arnold & Renée Martel when Bouchard pinned Martel by using the ropes for illegal leverage.
Marcel Martel defeated Bob Sweetan by pinfall following a clothesline.
Dave Ruhl defeated Firpo Zbyszko by submission with a full Nelson.
Stu Hart battled The Beast (Yvon Cormier) to a time-limit draw.
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* Wildcat Wrestling was the name Stampede Wrestling went by from 1965 to 1967.
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Bummer 5 minutes late
Oops, sorry 'bout that. Next time I'll leave a couple of days of space between calling for predictions and posting results.
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Alex Turk Promotions @ Winnipeg Arena
May 28, 1966 - Winnipeg, Manitoba
Attendance - 9,078
Dutch Savage defeated Roy McClarty by pinfall following a running piledriver.
Paul Jones defeated Red McNulty by submission with the Indian Deathlock.
Renée Martel defeated Bette Boucher by submission with the Alligator Clutch.
Don Leo Jonathan defeated Eric Froelich by pinfall when Froelich fell victim to Jonathan's Mormon Swing.
NWA International Tag Team Championship (Winnipeg)
John Tolos & Tony Borne © battled Pat Barrett & Tim Geohagen to a no-contest in a rematch from the May 7 bout when both teams were disqualified due to all four wrestlers brawling in the ring at once.
NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship - Two out of Three Falls
Whipper Billy Watson © defeated Mighty Ursus to retain his title, two falls to one.
- First fall - Watson pinned Ursus with a crucifix cradle.
- Second fall - Ursus evened the match by pinning Watson following a running powerslam.
- Third fall - Watson won when he subdued Ursus with the sleeperhold for the submission.
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Prediction results:
Herrbear - 5/6
Hitman74 - 5/6
All-time prediction results:
Herrbear - 21/27
Hitman74 - 10/12
Theheel - 7/10
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#1 Contender's Match: Shawn Michaels vs Diamond Dallas Page
(Winner gets a shot for the World Championship at Uncensored).
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match:
Scott Steiner vs Rhino ©
WCW World Tag Team Championship Match:
The New Faces of Fear (Simmons and Bradshaw) vs The Four Horsemen (Jindrak and Douglas)
Sting vs Jerry Lynn
WCW United States Championship Match:
Booker T vs Terry Funk
Rob Van Damn vs Al Snow
WCW World Television Championship Match:
Samoa Joe © vs Chuck Palumbo
Ron Killings vs Steve Corino
WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match:
Chavo Guerrero Jr. © vs Rey Mysterio Jr.
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Thanks to the success of the May 7 Alex Turk wrestling card at the Winnipeg Arena (in which Renée Martel played a significant part with her media interviews to attract fans from Winnipeg's Francophone community), Renée was asked to return for another event at the same arena on May 28. The poster for that wrestling card is now up:
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Here's the full match lineup below, so come one, come all and place your bets:
Dutch Savage vs. Roy McClarty
Paul Jones vs. Red McNulty*
Renée Martel vs. Bette Boucher
Don Leo Jonathan vs. Eric Froelich
NWA International Tag Team Championship (Winnipeg)
John Tolos & Tony Borne © vs. Pat Barrett & Tim Geohagen
NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship
Whipper Billy Watson © vs. Mighty Ursus
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* Red McNulty is none other than Ivan Koloff, who was using an Irish rogue gimmick at the time.
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NWA All-Star Wrestling @ Prince George Coliseum
May 14, 1966 - Prince George, British Columbia
Tim Geohagen wrestled Eric Froelich to a time-limit draw.
Barbara LaMarche & Renée Martel defeated Bette Boucher & Toni Rose when LaMarche pinned Boucher with a crucifix pin while Renée ran in and dropkicked Rose to keep her from interfering with the pinfall.
Pat Barrett defeated Mighty Ursus by pinfall following a cross-bodyblock.
Don Leo Jonathan battled John Tolos to a time-limit draw (Marcel Martel was the guest referee for the match).
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Wait, hold on...the winnipeg and vancouver show literally had the exact same matches as co-main and main events? And tolos and borne's title switch didn't count in winnipeg? I'm so confused...
Actually, the championships were different (the Canadian Tag Team title in Vancouver was not used in Winnipeg, just as Winnipeg's International Tag straps were not used in Vancouver). Hope that helps.
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Sting & Booker T vs. Natural Born Thrillers
Jeff Jarrett vs. Hugh Morrus
KroniK vs. Totally Buff
Jung Dragons vs. Team Canada [Corino & Roode]
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NWA All-Star Wrestling @ Exhibition Gardens
May 9, 1966 - Vancouver, British Columbia
Roy McClarty wrestled Eric Froelich to a time-limit draw.
Marcel Martel went to a time-limit draw with Pancho Lopez.
Barbara LaMarche & Renée Martel defeated Bette Boucher & Toni Rose when Rose submitted to Renée's Alligator Clutch.
Don Leo Jonathan defeated Mighty Ursus by pinfall following a Mormon Swing.
NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship
John Tolos & Tony Borne defeated Pat Barrett & Tim Geohagen © to win the title when Borne pinned Geohagen.
ROH: History Rewritten. Honor Reimagined.
in Total Extreme Wrestling 2020 Dynasties
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Agreed there, particularly including the Briscoes, Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles. Count me in as subscribed.