Rise of a Star

[The Blonde Bomber]

YES YES YES ETHEL AND MARVA DID IT!!!!!!! 

[Old School Fan]

Now comes the updated tournament bracket for the final night of the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament:

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And now, for the predictions:  😎

Sally Vega, Lita Marez & Marie Vagnone vs. Beverly Shade, Vicki Steppe & Patty Stevens

NWA World Women's Lightweight Championship
Kim Blanchard (C) vs. France Gall

California Women's Championship
Jane O'Brien (C) vs. Julie Patrick

AGWA Interstate Championship
Mary Jane Mull (C) vs. Tonette Kadrmas

NWA United States Women's Tag Team Championship
Ethel Johnson & Marva Scott (C) vs. Ella Waldek & Terry Majors

NWA United States Women's Championship
Judy Arnold (C) vs. Paula Steele

NWA North American Women's Championship
Ann Calvello (C) vs. Ashley SInclair

Plus - who will win the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament?
The Sisters of Love • Aiko Kyo & Jumbo Miyamoto • Georgia Hase & Michèle Richard • Renée Martel & Claire Lepage

 

Edited December 22, 2023 by Old School Fan

[Captain Kremmen]

Sally Vega, Lita Marez & Marie Vagnone vs. Beverly Shade, Vicki Steppe & Patty Stevens

NWA World Women's Lightweight Championship
Kim Blanchard (C) vs. France Gall

California Women's Championship
Jane O'Brien (C) vs. Julie Patrick

AGWA Interstate Championship
Mary Jane Mull (C) vs. Tonette Kadrmas

NWA United States Women's Tag Team Championship
Ethel Johnson & Marva Scott (C) vs. Ella Waldek & Terry Majors

NWA United States Women's Championship
Judy Arnold (C) vs. Paula Steele

NWA North American Women's Championship
Ann Calvello (C) vs. Ashley SInclair

Plus - who will win the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament?
The Sisters of Love • Aiko Kyo & Jumbo Miyamoto • Georgia Hase & Michèle Richard •  Renée Martel & Claire Lepage

[Lord Byron]

My picks:  Beverly Shade, Vicki Steppe, & Patty Stevens, France Gail, Jane O'Brien (C), Mary Jane Mull (C), Ella Waldek & Terry Majors, Judy Arnold (C), Ann Calvello (C), and Aiko Kyo & Jumbo Miyamoto...

[Old School Fan]

While awaiting further predictions for the final night of the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, I'd like to wish everyone in this forum a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, first with a depiction of Renée Martel's favorite Christmas TV special ITTL in this diary...  🎄

And, of course, the song it made famous...

 

Edited December 25, 2023 by Old School Fan

[Captain Kremmen]

14 hours ago, Old School Fan said:

While awaiting further predictions for the final night of the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, I'd like to wish everyone in this forum a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, first with a depiction of Renée Martel's favorite Christmas TV special ITTL in this diary...  🎄

And, of course, the song it made famous...

 

Best Charlie Brown special ever.

[The Blonde Bomber]

 

Sally Vega, Lita Marez & Marie Vagnone vs. Beverly Shade, Vicki Steppe & Patty Stevens

NWA World Women's Lightweight Championship
Kim Blanchard (C) vs. France Gall

California Women's Championship
Jane O'Brien (C) vs. Julie Patrick

AGWA Interstate Championship
Mary Jane Mull (C) vs. Tonette Kadrmas

NWA United States Women's Tag Team Championship
Ethel Johnson & Marva Scott (C) vs. Ella Waldek & Terry Majors

NWA United States Women's Championship
Judy Arnold (C) vs. Paula Steele

NWA North American Women's Championship
Ann Calvello (C) vs. Ashley SInclair

Plus - who will win the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament?
The Sisters of Love • Aiko Kyo & Jumbo Miyamoto • Georgia Hase & Michèle Richard • Renée Martel & Claire Lepage

 

if Marva and Ethel lose i riot!!

[Old School Fan]

On 12/13/2023 at 9:54 PM, smartman said:

Those East Semis are going to be brutal.

Wait'll you see what I got coming up in the next post (both in the semis and in the final)...  🫢

[Old School Fan]

AGWA TV taping @ The Forum
March 9, 1971 - Inglewood, California
Attendance - 18,200 (sellout)

 Aired the weekend of March 13, 1971 on AGWA Women's Pro Wrestling:

 

Beverly "The Hammer" Shade, Vicki Steppe & Patty Stevens (with "The Queen" Mae Young*) defeated Sally Vega, Lita Marez & Marie Vagnone when Stevens powerslammed Marez, followed by Steppe tagging in and delivering an elbow drop off the middle turnbuckle before scoring the pinfall.

NWA World Women's Lightweight Championship

France Gall got a rematch for the title against Kim Blanchard (C) (with Tonette Kadrmas) thanks to Mildred Burke ordering the match as the result of both the February 2 match where Blanchard cheated to win the title from Gall and last week's match where Blanchard's interference cost Gall her match against Beverly Shade.  Before the match began, Blanchard and Kadrmas taunted the fans at ringside.  Once the bell rang, however, the match was a textbook scientific struggle, wrestling by the rules until Blanchard began raking Gall’s eyes, then raked her face across the top rope.  Although she could barely see, Gall stopped Blanchard cold with a forearm uppercut to the jaw and quickly followed up with a figure-four leglock.  Blanchard broke the hold by grabbing the ropes.  When Gall tried a stepover toehold, Blanchard again reached for the ropes.  It looked as though Blanchard knew she was in trouble, as she stunned Gall with a desperation punch to the neck, then threw her out of the ring. As Gall lay on the floor of the Forum, Blanchard had time to catch her breath and regain her composure.

Blanchard then ran out of the ring after Gall and slammed her shoulder into the steel ringpost.  As Gall tried to re-enter the ring, Blanchard grabbed her and dropped her throat-first on the top rope.  Still outside the ring, Gall grabbed Blanchard’s legs and slammed her knee into the ringpost.  While getting back in the ring, Gall kneed Blanchard in the face, then whipped her to the ropes for a clothesline, but Blanchard ducked on the rebound and kicked Gall in the stomach.  Blanchard then grabbed the doubled-over Gall and brought her to the ropes where Kadrmas was signaling to her, ready to let Gall have it with a foreign object strike in the hopes of forcing a disqualification to keep the title on Blanchard - but Gall skillfully maneuvered herself out of the way of the targeted hit and Blanchard ended up getting hit on her right shoulder instead.  Gall then freed herself and, after knocking Kadrmas off the ring apron, grabbed Blanchard's right arm and locked it in a cross-armbar, leading to Blanchard quickly submitting and the fans breaking out in loud cheers as Gall regained the World Women's Lightweight title she had been robbed of by Blanchard last month.  After Gall was handed the title belt and she went out to celebrate with the fans, Kadrmas went into the ring to try to apologize for the bungled interference attempt, but the now-beltless Blanchard snapped at Kadrmas before storming out of the ring and back to the lockers.

NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, West Division - Semifinals

The Sisters of Love (with Tonette Kadrmas), finally making their first appearance in the NWA World Women's Tag Team title tournament after benefiting from coasting through the first two rounds by getting a first-round bye, then getting a quarterfinal bye due to the first-round draw between Ann Casey & Bonnie Watson and the Queen's Court duo of Judy Sowinski & Diane Syverson, used strategy given them by Kadrmas to overcome the superior skills of Aiko Kyo & Jumbo Miyamoto, who had been dominating the hippie girls for most of the match, and defeat the Japanese duo - albeit by disqualification, when, as Miyamoto whipped Sister Serenity to the ropes, Serenity grabbed the top rope and went over to the arena floor; the referee, fooled into thinking that Miyamoto had deliberately thrown Serenity over the top rope, called for the bell and disqualified Miyamoto, who (along with Kyo) was not happy about the Sisters' underhanded means of getting the win, but the Sisters and Kadrmas did not care as they would be moving on to the final to await the winner of the other semifinal coming up.

California Women's Championship

Jane O'Brien (C) retained her title by defeating Julie Patrick, despite the veteran Patrick giving O'Brien a few scares during the match, as O'Brien beat Patrick down and got the pinfall following a powerslam.  Post-match during an interview with Dick Lane, Mildred Burke announced that Shirley Hardman, as a result of suffering a herniated disc in her lower back due to the awkward landing she took against the edge of the ring after being thrown over the top rope by Ashley Sinclair following Hardman's match last week against Tonette Kadrmas, had been hospitalized and would be out of action for some time to mend from that injury and, because of that, the AGWA Television Championship which Hardman had held was declared vacant, to be put up for grabs at a future AGWA TV taping to be announced.

NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, East Division - Semifinals

Renée Martel & Claire Lepage took on Georgia Hase & Michèle Richard (with Mae Young) in the other semifinal match in the TV main event.  The match was out of control from the beginning as all four women began brawling in the ring.  Hase and Richard threw their fan favorite archrivals through the ropes and followed them out, where Hase pushed Martel into a ringside table, while Richard punched and kicked Lepage.  Renée and Claire managed to crawl back into the ring but were thrown out once again.  Hase rammed Martel face-first into the table, while Richard dragged Lepage under the ring and choked her against a wooden ring support.  The referee finally restored order, and Richard and Lepage squared off in the center of the ring.  Richard powerslammed Lepage and then tagged Hase into the ring.  The Queen's Court duo doubleteamed Lepage until Martel rushed into the ring and ran Hase back to her corner.  Lepage then caught Richard off-guard with a vicious chop to the chest.  Richard tagged back out to Hase, who also ran into one of Lepage’s brutal thrusts.  Lepage tagged in Martel, whipped Hase into the ropes, and the blonde babyfaces double-clotheslined their dazed opponent.  Martel then rebounded off the ropes and captured the match with a flying forearm smash that leveled Hase for the three-count, moving Martel and Lepage on to the final to meet the Sisters of Love.

 Aired the weekend of March 20, 1971 on AGWA Women's Pro Wrestling:

AGWA Interstate Championship

Mary Jane Mull (C) held her ground against hotshot Dynasty leader Tonette Kadrmas in this title bout.  The bout started out evenly, with both wrestlers employing impressive holds and counterholds.  Later in the match, both women exchanged blows on the floor.  Kadrmas went running toward Mull, but the veteran champion moved and caused Kadrmas to hit the ringpost.  They both returned to the ring and continued trading punches before Kadrmas threw Mull through the ropes.  As Mull made her way back into the ring, she headbutted Kadrmas in the midsection.  Dazed, Kadrmas was easily pinned by Mull’s sunset flip to retain her Interstate title.  No sooner was Mull handed her belt, however, than Ashley Sinclair ran in and ambushed the champion from behind, leading to a 2-on-1 attack by Kadrmas and Sinclair that only ended when Ann Calvello ran in for the save for Mull and chased the Dynasty duo out of the ring.

NWA United States Women's Tag Team Championship

Newly-crowned champions Ethel Johnson & Marva Scott got the better of fellow veterans Ella Waldek & Terry Majors and defeated them to retain their title when Johnson pinned Majors following a fireman's carry slam while Scott ran in to keep Waldek from breaking up the pin.  Following the match, during an interview with Dick Lane, Johnson and Scott thanked the fans for their support in their victory over the Sisters of Love for the United States Tag Team belts and announced that they would travel the country to defend their title against all comers; when asked by Lane about who they thought would win the upcoming final in the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, Johnson and Scott said they hoped to see Renée Martel and Claire Lepage get the win over the Sisters for the belts, throwing in some added criticism against the Sisters for preaching "non-violence" but hiding behind that philosophy while not practicing what they preached by fighting dirty against their opponents.

NWA United States Women's Championship

Judy Arnold (C) started her title defence against Paula Steele (with Mae Young) as the two combatants slugged each other repeatedly outside the ring.  Steele won the slugfest and controlled the first few minutes of the match, using her size advantage and brawling to gain an advantage.  Arnold eventually battled back to even up the match, but the referee was knocked out of the ring when Steele used one of her feet to push Arnold into the ref as she attempted to put a stepover toehold on Steele.  As Arnold went out to ringside to try to revive the referee, Young hit her from behind and threw her back in the ring for the waiting Steele, who went for the pin - but Arnold caught Steele by surprise and rolled her up in a small package and got the three-count to retain her United States title.  Steele was so angry over the loss, she went out and grabbed the arena mic from the timekeeper's table, then ambushed the celebrating Arnold from behind and used the microphone cord to try to choke Arnold while Young urged her on, but fortunately for the champion, Sally Vega and Lita Marez came in and made the save.

NWA North American Women's Championship

Ann Calvello (C) faced off once again with former North American Champion Ashley Sinclair (with Tonette Kadrmas), who, when she got in the ring with Kadrmas first, got hold of the arena mic to vent her displeasure, in her typical diva-like fashion, that her match was not the main event of the evening instead of the World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament final, then went on to boast that, just as her Dynasty stablemates the Sisters of Love would win the World Women's Tag Team title and crush Renée Martel and Claire Lepage's quest for the title, she would likewise regain the North American title from Calvello, calling the veteran grappler an "old fossil" and claiming she would send her off to the "old wrestlers' home", then called Martel and Lepage "wannabes" and dissed the booing fans for supporting Martel, Lepage and Calvello, who she called "losers" and who she compared to similar "losers" like local Los Angeles sports teams the Dodgers, the Rams and the Kings; but as her rant went on, she was soon shut up the moment Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" began playing over the Forum sound system, heralding Calvello's arrival as the fans' boos changed to cheers the moment Calvello came through the curtain and headed down the aisle to the ring.

The moment she entered the ring, Calvello took the early offensive, and it seemed she would not have a hard time defending her belt.  She used bodyslams, clotheslines, and closed-fist punches to weaken Sinclair.  Calvello then chased after Kadrmas outside the ring before Sinclair seized the opportunity and went on her offensive drive.  Sinclair took control with fistdrops, elbowsmashes and chinlocks along with some dirty tactics of her own, but—with the help of the over 18,000 cheering fans present at the Forum—Calvello got to her feet and regained the momentum.  Calvello then grabbed Sinclair by her mane of blonde hair and choked her on the top rope.  Quick as a cat, Calvello climbed to the middle turnbuckle and delivered an axhandle on Sinclair.  She ran to the opposite side of the ring and was setting up for another axhandle when Kadrmas got up on the ring apron and shoved Calvello off, causing her to fall to the mat.  Calvello went after Kadrmas as Sinclair sneaked up on her and grabbed her from behind to set her up for an attack, but Calvello escaped and Kadrmas accidentally hit Sinclair, allowing Calvello to roll up the flamboyant heel for the title-retaining pin.  As Calvello went out to the timekeeper's table at ringside, grabbed her North American title belt and raised it over her head in victory while the fans cheered, an incensed Sinclair threw a fit and berated Kadrmas for botching the attempted hit on Calvello and nailing her (Sinclair) instead before storming back to the locker room area in a huff.

NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament - Final

Renée Martel & Claire Lepage faced off against The Sisters of Love (with Tonette Kadrmas) in the long-awaited main event to determine the new NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions (Fabulous Moolah's public claims regarding the title aside).  Sister Lavender and Sister Serenity were the first to come to the ring as they were escorted by Kadrmas, with the Sisters tossing flowers into the crowd while Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco" played over the Forum sound system as their entrance music - but the fans, who knew of the hippie girls' tactics all too well from experience, were not having it as they let them have it with boos and catcalls in response.  Moments after the Sisters and Kadrmas entered the ring, the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City" (which serves as Claire Lepage's entrance theme** in the AGWA) began playing and the fans' boos turned into wild cheers, followed by Lepage and Martel coming out to greet the cheering crowd as they made their way to the ring - and to the Dynasty's chagrin and the fans' delight, France Gall accompanied Martel and Lepage to the ring to offset the presence of Kadrmas.

The match started out with Martel and Lepage taking the initial upper hand with their scientific repertoires to fluster the Sisters while Gall kept Kadrmas at bay, but the Dynasty leader soon seized the opportunity to distract the referee to the Sisters' benefit, and the match soon turned into a brutal affair that saw the rulebreaking hippie girls, despite their professed "non-violence" philosophy, ignore the rules of wrestling almost completely in an attempt to capture the vacant World tag belts at Martel and Lepage's expense.  While Kadrmas kept the referee distracted, Sister Lavender dragged Lepage out of the ring and slammed her face-first into the ringside officials’ table.  She then grabbed one of the tag team belts off the table and hit Lepage across the back with it.  Sister Serenity followed suit, throwing Martel out of the ring.  She rammed Martel into the steel ringpost and then began to choke her on the ring ropes; when Gall went to try to get Serenity off of Martel, Kadrmas interfered and pulled Gall away, then suplexed her on the floor before she returned to distracting the referee.  The Sisters then switched places as Lavender battered Martel and threw her into the ringside table.  The referee finally restored some order to the match, threatening each wrestler with disqualification unless they returned to their corners.

Back in the ring, Serenity whipped Lepage into the ropes and floored her with a tomahawk chop.  Martel attempted to enter the ring to save her partner, but Lavender ran across the ring and chopped Martel, sending her back outside the ring.  Serenity then tagged in Lavender, who came off the top turnbuckle with a vicious chop to Lepage’s extended right arm.  When Kadrmas again went to distract the referee, Lavender scooped Lepage up and dropped her throat-first along the top rope before the Sisters continued double-teaming on her.  After struggling for several minutes, Lepage finally tagged out to Martel and the Sisters were in trouble as Martel entered the ring to thwart the hippie girls' offense and illegal tactics, making like a one-woman army as she successfully fought off the heel tandem while a recovered Gall, who caught Kadrmas attempting to strangle Lepage after she snuck over to her opponents' corner, ran over and chased the Dynasty leader away, then stood by in her allies' corner to keep Kadrmas away from Lepage, who soon after re-entered the ring as she saw the Sisters attempt to double-team Martel.  A brawl soon broke out as the two teams slugged it out, which Martel and Lepage quickly began to get the better of.  Seeing her team in trouble, Kadrmas began gesturing toward the entrance to the aisle before Gall chased her away - but as Gall was yelling at Kadrmas, Ashley Sinclair and Kim Blanchard ran down the aisle and jumped Gall in a double-team attack in an attempt to take her out of the equation and return the unfair advantage to the Sisters as Sinclair and Blanchard remained at ringside.

Moments later, however, Aiko Kyo and Jumbo Miyamoto, who had been cheated out of their chance at the tag belts by the Sisters and Kadrmas earlier in the semifinals, ran out to ringside and started scrapping with Sinclair and Blanchard before running the Dynasty members off and back to the locker room area.  As the referee was distracted trying to restore order at ringside, Kadrmas, acting in desperation, tossed a foreign object to Lavender, who went to attempt to strike Martel with it while Serenity was holding the Canadian star in place - but Martel broke free from Serenity's grip and Lavender accidentally struck Serenity with the object, knocking her down in the process.  While Lepage tossed Serenity from the ring and Gall (who had gotten back up in the meantime) chased Kadrmas off again, Martel whipped Lavender to the ropes and backflipped her, then quickly pounced on the hippie girl and locked in the Alligator Clutch as the referee finally returned to the ring.  Unable to escape the hold and with her Dynasty stablemates run off by Kyo and Miyamoto, Lavender called it quits and submitted, setting the fans off as they blew the roof off the Forum with wild cheers as Martel and Lepage were presented the title belts and announced as the new NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions, while Gall got into the ring herself to celebrate with her friends and Kyo and Miyamoto, along with Ann Calvello, Mary Jane Mull, Judy Arnold, Ethel Johnson, Marva Scott, Julie Patrick, Sally Vega, Lita Marez and Marie Vagnone, also all came from the babyface locker rooms to join in on the celebration.

The action was not over, however, as the Dynasty, now rejoined by Sinclair and Blanchard, regrouped soon after the fan favorites left the ring and returned to the locker rooms backstage - and dissention appeared to soon break out in the heel stable's ranks as Lavender and Serenity began arguing over the botched foreign object hit that led to the Sisters of Love losing the tournament final, with Serenity putting the blame squarely on Lavender for the loss.  Kadrmas tried to make peace between the hippie girls, but Sinclair and Blanchard then threw their two cents in, blaming Kadrmas for the screwups that led to Blanchard losing the World Women's Lightweight title back to Gall and Sinclair failing to regain the North American Women's title from Calvello.  Sinclair then specifically targeted Kadrmas for blame as she got hold of the arena mic, saying that if they still had Sir Robin Ascott managing them, all of them would have title belts by now and none of the things that went down tonight, leaving the Dynasty beltless as a result, would have happened.  As Kadrmas continued attempting to try to smooth things over, however, Serenity suddenly lashed out and kicked Lavender in her stomach, then Sinclair and Blanchard attacked and battered Kadrmas and threw her through the ropes to ringside before they joined Serenity in delivering a vicious three-on-one beating to Lavender for a few minutes before Martel, Lepage, Kyo and Miyamoto returned to the ring and chased Sinclair, Blanchard and Serenity out; thanks to the triple-team attack on her as a result of the Dynasty's implosion***, Lavender had been rendered a bloody mess (semi-censored for the TV audience by turning the color image to black-and-white****) as she got to her knees and crawled over to the ropes, but urged on by the fans and by the babyfaces who had just earlier been her opponents, the hippie girl (whose blonde hair got turned red thanks to the blood spilled by her now-ex-stablemates) got herself back on her feet with the aid of the ropes as the fans cheered and applauded.

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Prediction results: (Thanks to all who made their predictions for this card)

@piperrulz - 7/8

@The Blonde Bomber - 6/8

@Lord Byron - 6/8

All-time prediction results:

Lord Byron - 120/178

The Blonde Bomber - 107/146

Herrbear - 78/107

piperrulz - 60/96

Hitman74 - 10/12

kinnikuniverse - 9/10

Theheel - 7/10

Dalton - 6/6

auto45 - 5/6

Sco_xY2Jx - 2/6

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* Although Mae Young appeared in the corner of Beverly Shade, Vicki Steppe and Patty Stevens for this match, only Stevens is officially signed with Young as part of the Queen's Court.

** The version of "Summer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful linked in the main event match description above is actually a techno remix of the original 1966 song done in 2013 by techno artists Team Banzai; fortunately, the techno mixing of the song is minimal and not overly intrusive, allowing the song to still be recognizable (unlike the butcher jobs done to other remix versions of the same song I've heard done by other techno artists).

*** What happened behind the scenes that caused the implosion of the Dynasty and the violent removal of Tonette Kadrmas and Sister Lavender from the group will be explained in an upcoming behind-the-scenes post.

**** The semi-censoring for TV viewers of the scene involving blood (via turning the scene black-and-white) following the main event is similar to what Ring of Honor did with such scenes in its syndicated TV show IRL.

Edited January 5 by Old School Fan
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[Captain Kremmen]

All of us predictors did pretty well on that one.

Really good main last show!

[Old School Fan]

5 hours ago, piperrulz said:

All of us predictors did pretty well on that one.

Really good main last show!

Thanks for the vote of confidence on that event.  😁  A takeaway I got from this in the predictions department was that out of the Final Four in the tournament, I noticed that Renée and Claire were the only team not predicted to win the tournament; looking at it from the ITTL kayfabe approach, it would appear that Renée and Claire were seen by the fans as the underdogs out of the final four teams, with each of the other teams being given better odds due to various factors (like Kyo/Miyamoto with their outstanding skills, or the Sisters of Love or Hase/Richard due to their rulebreaking tactics and having managers/stables behind them to back them up in case they run into trouble, to help them cheat their way to victory through underhanded means against opponents they regard as threats to them).

That said, I'm currently working on an upcoming behind-the-scenes chapter that will help explain what led to the events that led to the implosion of the Dynasty at the end of the card (no spoilers from me here, but I think I can guess what the readers will be thinking about what happened BTS at the Forum before the card began...).  😏

What I can say, though, is that now that Renée and Claire are the new NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions, they've got a road ahead of them as they go out to defend their belts - and a return trip to Japan for Renée to defend those belts just may be in the works...  😉

[Captain Kremmen]

17 hours ago, Old School Fan said:

Thanks for the vote of confidence on that event.  😁  A takeaway I got from this in the predictions department was that out of the Final Four in the tournament, I noticed that Renée and Claire were the only team not predicted to win the tournament; looking at it from the ITTL kayfabe approach, it would appear that Renée and Claire were seen by the fans as the underdogs out of the final four teams, with each of the other teams being given better odds due to various factors (like Kyo/Miyamoto with their outstanding skills, or the Sisters of Love or Hase/Richard due to their rulebreaking tactics and having managers/stables behind them to back them up in case they run into trouble, to help them cheat their way to victory through underhanded means against opponents they regard as threats to them).

That said, I'm currently working on an upcoming behind-the-scenes chapter that will help explain what led to the events that led to the implosion of the Dynasty at the end of the card (no spoilers from me here, but I think I can guess what the readers will be thinking about what happened BTS at the Forum before the card began...).  😏

What I can say, though, is that now that Renée and Claire are the new NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions, they've got a road ahead of them as they go out to defend their belts - and a return trip to Japan for Renée to defend those belts just may be in the works...  😉

Interesting to see no one picked Renee and Claire.

Looking forward to the next chapter! 😀

[Old School Fan]

Prior to the start of the final night of the NWA World Women's Tag Team title tournament, Renée Martel walked over to the curtain separating the staging area from the arena seating inside the Inglewood Forum and took a peek through to see what was going on.  "Hey Renée, something interesting out there?" a curious Claire Lepage asked as she came up to the curtain to join her friend.

"Check it out," Renée replied as she pointed at the curtain.  Claire peeked out through the curtain as well and noticed that the arena was close to full for the event that night.  "Remarkable, huh?" Renée then added.  "The Forum's just about full up for tonight."

"Well, it's close," Claire said, noticing that there were still some empty seats in the arena.  "But some of the fans are probably still at the concession stands, so those seats won't stay empty for long."

"What's really amazing is the people coming out here at all after that earthquake last month," Bridget, the blonde wrestler who competed as Sister Lavender in the Sisters of Love hippie girl tag team, added after looking through the curtain herself.  "You'd think they'd still be, like, busy cleaning up around town after what happened."

"They probably still are," Renée admitted to Bridget, "but they also need some diversions, some way to relax and take a break from the cleanup and the rebuilding, even if it's just for a little while - and sports is one way of doing that, including what we're doing."  After a brief pause, she then added, "So, you feel ready for tonight?"

"Like, as ready as I'll every be," Bridget said with a grin.

"You plan on doing that in your street clothes?" Claire then asked with her own grin, noting that Bridget was still wearing her civvies.

Bridget looked down and had a laugh as she noticed the jeans and long-sleeved tie-dyed shirt she was wearing.  "Yeah, you're right," she remarked with a giggle.  "I'd, like, better run back and get my stuff if I'm gonna do that," she added before she turned to head toward the hallway where the locker rooms were, en route to her car to retrieve her wrestling gear.

As Bridget was heading down the hallway, however, as she passed by the door to the locker room being used by her and the other members of the Dynasty, she overheard some conversation coming from that room due to the room's door being open a little bit.  Recognizing the voices of her stablemates Ashley Sinclair, Kim Blanchard and Sister Serenity, Bridget paused at the door to listen in on the conversation.

A moment later, Tonette Kadrmas, the Dynasty's leader, came along and spotted Bridget listening at the Dynasty's locker room door.  "Hey, what's going..." Tonette started to say, but Bridget put her index finger to her lips to shush her, then pointed at the door while cupping her right hand to her ear and mouthing the words "Listen to this."  Tonette then went to the door and started listening with Bridget to the conversation inside - and got a big surprise at what they heard.

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Inside the Dynasty locker room, Kim was using a cloth to finish polishing up the plates on the NWA World Women's Lightweight Championship belt she held.  "Now, not a bad-looking belt, is it?" she quipped, then held the belt up to admire the plates.  "Too bad it doesn't have jewels on it like your Shooting Star belt does, Ash."

"Yeah, it does," Ashley admitted while taking a sip from a glass bottle of water she had with her, "but the one I'd really like to get back is the North American belt old lady Calvello's got.  It sure felt good getting the recognition that came with holding that belt and there's no going back for me now that I've had it."

"Didn't you get booked to get the North American belt back from Calvello tonight, Ash?" Sister Serenity, the other half of the Sisters of Love, then asked.

"I talked with old lady Burke about it last Saturday when we were in Phoenix for that show," Ashley said, "and she said she's got it lined up for me, while Kim's holding on to her lightweight belt.  Burke wants her to continue her program against the snail-eater Gall to have her keep chasing after Kim and the belt," she added while looking toward Kim, who nodded in confirmation.

"And what's the scoop on the tag team tournament finals tonight - like, who's getting booked to go over?" Kim said.

"I think Martel and Lepage got the nod to go over tonight," Serenity said, "and me and Bridge go against them in the final."

"Uhh... No," Ashley said with a shake of her head.  "Remember the plan we got from the Boss after I heard from her?  Regardless of who you two face in the final tonight, you two shoot on them, get rough with them and beat them down to capture those belts."

"And what happens after that?" Kim wondered.

"After tonight - after I get back the North American belt, you keep the lightweight belt and the Sisters get the tag belts - we ditch Burke and go East and we take the belts with us, and they become part of the Moolah camp, then the Boss can say she now has more champions under her roof after she captured those belts from the Burke crew and she can say she has the better wrestlers," Ashley said with a smirk and a laugh in reference to the "Boss" she was speaking of - none other than the Fabulous Moolah, with whom Ashley had been keeping in touch.

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After overhearing the conversation and making the shocking discovery of what their Dynasty stablemates intended to do, Tonette gestured to Bridget and they started back down the hallway toward the staging area, where they met Renée and Claire.  "Have you seen Mildred since we got here?" Tonette asked about Mildred Burke.

"Well, we did talk to her briefly when we first got here a while ago," Claire said.

"We need to get Ann, France, and Aiko and Jumbo and their interpreter and go talk to Mildred," Tonette said to the girls.  "Bridget and I just overheard something Mildred needs to hear."

After retrieving Ann Calvello, France Gall, Aiko Kyo, Jumbo Miyamoto and the Japanese tandem's interpreter, Renée, Claire, Tonette and Bridget went over to meet Mildred in her office.  "Ah, hi girls, anything I can help you with?" the AGWA owner asked as she saw Renée and the others come in.

"Actually, Mildred, there's something urgent we need to tell you about," Tonette said, " and we need to discuss it in private - can we come in?"

"Well, if you don't mind being packed in here like sardines," Mildred remarked wryly.  "So, what's on your minds?"

"Well, it's like this..." Bridget, who was the first to hear what she had heard her Dynasty stablemates plotting, explained the situation to Mildred, with Aiko and Jumbo's interpreter translating to them in Japanese.  After Bridget finished, Mildred shook her head in disbelief at the news she got, particularly at hearing that three of the members of her roster - Ashley, Kim and Serenity - were traitors seeking to aid Moolah in sabotaging the AGWA from within, as their former manager Sir Robin Ascott had previously done, before they ditched the AGWA to defect to Moolah and take championships with them for Moolah to claim possession over and basically hold hostage, as she was doing now with her NWA World Women's title and as she had done with the NWA World Women's Tag Team title before the NWA stripped Moolah's girls of recognition of their claim to the latter title.

"So according to what we discussed last week, I was supposed to drop the North American belt back to Sinclair tonight," Ann pointed out.  "So what happens now?"

"And what about the lightweight title?" France asked.

"And Ashley pointing out she - or rather, Moolah - wants the Sisters to shoot on me and Claire in the final so they can claim the belts and take them back to Moolah," Renée said.  "I don't like the sound of that."

"Well, after hearing all this, it looks like there'll have to be a change of plans regarding some of tonight's matches," Mildred then said.  "Knowing now what you told us, Bridget, you don't plan on going along with your colleagues, do you?"

"No way," Bridget said with a shake of her head.  "I like it around here and I've, like, made a few friends among the girls during my time here, so why would I, like, wanna ruin a good thing?  After hearing about Moolah being involved with Ashley and the others and what I've heard from Renée and the other girls about Moolah, I want no part of that scene."

"Okay, good," Mildred then said with a nod, just before she launched into an explanation of her plan to counteract the Moolah plot.  "Then for starters, Bridget, for the tag tournament final against Renée and Claire, here's what you'll need to do*..."

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* And as we saw in the previous event card from the Forum in Inglewood, we know how Mildred's plan went.  As for how Moolah herself handles the aftermath, well...

Edited January 6 by Old School Fan

[smartman]

Quick, somebody make a GIF of Moolah's head on one of those Scooby-Doo villains when they're unmasked at the end of the episode so she can say "And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids!" Sadly, their punishment is to go wrestle at MSG. Though putting over Moolah is quite the punishment.

[Captain Kremmen]

Moolah's like a car...

She goes from bitch to mega bitch in 3 seconds! 😁

[Old School Fan]

43 minutes ago, piperrulz said:

Moolah's like a car...

She goes from bitch to mega bitch in 3 seconds! 😁

Ain't that the truth!  😆

Oh, and after seeing your recent AWA post...  🍺

I figured I'd post this because it both ties into the hottie that '80s prime Debbie Harry was and where I just came back from (specifically, a hotel sports bar) for dinner and drinks - and man, if I could've had her from that time as a dinner date...  😍 🍺

Edited January 7 by Old School Fan

[Captain Kremmen]

That pic looks totally late '70s/early '80s. She was a stunner in her heyday. Hard to believe she's near 80 now.

Hard to believe that Moolah was sleazier than most of the men in the wrestling business.

[Old School Fan]

I've got a behind-the-scenes post coming up focusing on the aftermath of the events of the final night of the NWA World Women's Tag Team title tournament - but until that comes, it's bonus content time again:

As previously explained in the post for the final night of Mildred Burke Invitational Tournament III, Mildred Burke, who had begun using theme music for her ring entrances before her matches in the 1950s, began allowing her star wrestlers in the AGWA to use entrance themes of their own from the promotion's first event in 1967.  Not all of the AGWA's star wrestlers use entrance themes, but here are the ones, linked below to YouTube in the song titles, for those who do (at least as of the final night of the NWA World Women's Tag Team title tourney; some of these songs have already been mentioned in previous posts):

Babyfaces

Judy Arnold

"Dance in the Sand" - The Creations IV*

Ann Calvello

"Cinnamon Girl" - Neil Young

Ann Casey

"A Little Less Conversation" - Elvis Presley**

France Gall

"Pretty Ballerina" - The Left Banke

Shirley Hardman

"Talk Talk" - Music Machine***

Claire Lepage

"Summer in the City" - The Lovin' Spoonful

Renée Martel

"I'd Wait a Million Years" - The Grass Roots

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Heels

Kim Blanchard

"Light My Fire" - The Doors

Tonette Kadrmas

"She's a Rainbow" - The Rolling Stones****

Michèle Richard

"Mississippi Queen" - Mountain

Ashley Sinclair

Hollywood red carpet movie premiere-style entrance music*****

The Sisters of Love

"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" - Scott McKenzie

Paula Steele

"Rumble" - Link Wray******

Diane Syverson

"When I Was Young" - Eric Burdon & the Animals

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* For anyone who's ever watched The Flintstones, this song was featured in that's show's sixth-season premiere in 1965, "No Biz Like Show Biz" (in two separate clips from different parts of the song, heard when Fred was trying to find a football game he wanted to watch on TV but found, to his chagrin, nothing but teen music/dance shows on all the channels).

** 2002 remix by JXL of a version of the song recorded for Elvis' 1968 comeback TV special.

*** Was also used by Diane Syverson while teaming with Hardman back when Hardman was part of Mae Young's Queen's Court as a heel.

**** As previously noted, this was originally used ITTL as a collective theme for the Dynasty under the management of Sir Robin Ascott before Ascott was fired from the AGWA; Kadrmas made it her own theme after the Dynasty members began using their own entrance themes.

***** The actual name of this song is "A Roman Love" and was used IRL as the first entrance theme for Steve Austin in WCW; ITTL, this would have been recorded using a full orchestra instead of being made on synthesizers as the IRL version was.

****** 1974 re-record by Link Wray of his original 1958 version; the 1958 original became known in later years for being featured in the 1996 sci-fi blockbuster film Independence Day.

 

Edited January 8 by Old School Fan

[Captain Kremmen]

The Arrival with Charlie Sheen, came out just before Independence Day, and was a better sci-fi film IMHO.

Gotta love entrance themes.

Ann Calvello was a hard looking woman.

[Captain Kremmen]

FLASHBACK!!!

[Old School Fan]

5 hours ago, piperrulz said:

Gotta love entrance themes.

Ann Calvello was a hard looking woman.

She was definitely that by 1971 (and the term "grizzled veteran" would've applied to her at that point), though she was more passable-looking back in the 1950s.

[Old School Fan]

A few minutes after the end of the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament, a bloodied Bridget (AKA Sister Lavender) was brought back into the staging area from the ring on a stretcher, with Renée Martel, Claire Lepage, Aiko Kyo, Jumbo Miyamoto and the match referee following behind.  Mildred Burke, who had sent first aid attendants out with the stretcher to tend to Bridget after she saw what had happened via TV monitor backstage, asked one of the attendants as they arrived, "How's she doing?"

"After the beating she took out there, she's gonna need stitches for sure," the attendant said before Bridget was taken to the first aid room for medical attention.

Moments later, Tonette Kadrmas, who was holding onto her left arm while grimacing in pain, came through the curtain to the staging area, where she met Renée and Claire, while Michèle Richard, who had since showered and changed back to her street clothes following her match earlier, also came on the scene.  "I didn't see much of what happened after I got tossed from the ring 'cause I had to sell the toss," Tonette said.  "What happened with Bridget?"

"They really did a number on her," Renée said, explaining that as she accompanied Bridget back to the locker room area, a half-out-of-it Bridget had muttered something about brass knuckles being used on her during the attack.

"And they found out after the match that me and Bridget knew about them planning to shoot on you guys, Ann and France for all those belts and take the belts with them to Moolah," Tonette reported.

Michèle, who was only now finding out about the attempted plot by Moolah to sabotage the tournament final card and involve Ashley Sinclair, Kim Blanchard and Sister Serenity in that conspiracy, turned to Mildred and asked, "Hold on, is this true?"  When Mildred confirmed what Tonette and Bridget had told her earlier and what was planned to counteract and foil the plot, Michèle then turned around and started storming toward the Dynasty locker room, snapping, "Okay, where are they?!  SINCLAIR!  BLANCHARD!"  Realizing what Michèle likely had in mind, Mildred, Renée, Claire and Tonette all followed her down the hallway.

However, when Michèle threw the Dynasty's locker room door open and ran in, intent on confronting Ashley and the others over their actions, she, along with Mildred, Renée, Claire and Tonette when they followed her in, discovered that the locker room was empty, save for Bridget's belongings, which had been emptied out of her gym bag and thrown all over the room.  After looking around the room, Michèle put her hands on her hips and said simply with a sigh and a nod of her head, "Figures."

"They figured we'd be looking for them, so they took off - but not before adding insult to injury on Bridget by doing this," Renée said as she pointed out Bridget's things laying on the floor and on benches.

"So now what happens after this?" Claire asked.

Realizing the pall that had been cast over what should have been a celebration following the actions of Ashley, Kim and Serenity, Mildred, shaking her head as she crossed her arms, then said, "If they really wanted to go over and join Moolah that badly - far as I'm concerned, she can have them.  At least they didn't succeed in accomplishing what Moolah sent them out to do - to steal our championships and claim them for Moolah."

"Right, let them show up at Moolah's door empty-handed and explain to her why they don't have title belts with them," Renée quipped in agreement.

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The following week, in an article from the AGWA's arena program...

Dynasty implodes; Sinclair, Blanchard, Serenity all gone from AGWA

In the wake of the climax of the NWA World Women's Tag Team Title Tournament at the Inglewood Forum last Tuesday night, the Dynasty, the villainous stable led by Tonette Kadrmas, imploded following the conclusion of the tournament final, which saw the team of Renee Martel and Claire Lepage defeat the Dynasty duo of the Sisters of Love to win the vacant title, when Kadrmas and Sister Lavender were violently turned on and attacked by Ashley Sinclair, Kim Blanchard and Lavender's now-former partner Sister Serenity.  After Kadrmas was briefly double-teamed by Sinclair and Blanchard and thrown out of the ring, Lavender was then set upon by her teammates and viciously beaten to a bloody pulp before Martel, Lepage and the Japanese duo of Aiko Kyo and Jumbo Miyamoto came to the ring and chased the other three Dynasty members off.

After being saved from the brutal triple-team by the good girls, Lavender attempted to get back to her feet with aid from the ring ropes, but the blood loss caused by the vicious attack caused her to become light-headed and to collapse back to the mat, necessitating her removal from the ring back to the locker room area on a stretcher by first aid attendants.  The cuts to her forehead caused by the attack, which Lavender later reported were done by Sinclair by the use of brass knuckles, required 24 stitches to close, while Kadrmas suffered a hairline fracture in her left forearm after getting thrown out of the ring during the attack.  Kadrmas later admitted that the Sisters' loss in the tournament final, in addition to Sinclair's unsuccessful attempt to regain the NWA North American Women's title from champion Ann Calvello and Blanchard's loss of the NWA World Women's Lightweight title back to previous champion France Gall, and their blaming of Kadrmas for those losses and of Lavender for causing the tag title loss, were what led to the sudden and violent breakup of the Dynasty.

As a result of the post-tournament incident, AGWA President/CEO Mildred Burke has announced that Sinclair, Blanchard and Serenity have all been suspended indefinitely from the AGWA; furthermore, the AGWA Shooting Star title, which Sinclair had been holding up to that point, has been stripped from her due to her suspension and will have its vacancy filled at some point.  Meanwhile, as a result of the attack, Kadrmas will be out of action for a few weeks due to the broken arm, while Lavender will miss a few matches to allow the stitched-up forehead cuts to heal.

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Meanwhile, on the following day after that card, Fabulous Moolah, taking a few days off from the road, was back at home in Columbia tending to business in her home office when she got a call on her desk phone.  Letting the phone ring twice, she then picked up its handset and answered, "Hello, Girl Wrestling Enterprises..."

"Hey, Boss, it's Ashley Sinclair," Ashley replied at the other end.

"Oh, hi there, darlin'," Moolah said.  "How y'all doin'?"

"Pretty good, and I got some news to report about the tournament back in L.A.," Ashley said.

"Okay, lay it on me," Moolah said.

"Some of old lady Burke's girls got dealt with over the last couple of weeks," Ashley reported.  "We started with Shirley Hardman last week," she added, describing the post-match attack where Shirley suffered her lower back injury after Ashley tossed her over the top rope and she landed awkwardly on the edge of the ring.

"Well, so far, so good," Moolah said with a grin.  "Now how 'bout some real good news?" she continued, hoping to hear that Renée and/or one or more of her friends had likewise been shoot-attacked and injured by Ashley and her group, or that Ashley's group had won titles or held onto titles they already had and were ready to bring them to her, figuring that either one or both would really make her day.

"Well, uh...  We ran into a bit of a 'good news, bad news' situation after that," Ashley said next, explaining that not only had the Sisters of Love lost the NWA United States Tag Team title to the newly-arrived team of Ethel Johnson and Marva Scott and that Kim had lost the lightweight title back to France, but Ashley herself had been unable to regain the North American title from Ann Calvello, and that the Sisters had lost in the tournament final to Renée and Claire - the one piece of news Moolah had least wanted to hear, knowing that Renée was now one step higher on the ladder of stardom in women's wrestling due to her World Women's Tag Team title win, coupled with the NWA choosing to recognize Renée and Claire as the champions over her girls Toni Rose and Patti Neilson, along with the wrestling magazines choosing to honor the NWA's recognition, dealing a major blow to Moolah publicity-wise in the process.

"How the hell could that all happen?" a displeased Moolah demanded to know after Ashley finished her report.  "You said you had things under control and it was gonna be 'in the bag'!"

"Well, we managed to keep our plan under wraps from old lady Burke and everyone else there - even our manager, Tonette Kadrmas, since we knew she's one of Burke's girls," Ashley said.  "But we found out after the tourney final that Kadrmas and Sister Lavender somehow overheard us talking about the plan and they ratted us out to Burke.  When we found out, that's when we laid into them and paid them back - Kim and I kicked Kadrmas' ass and tossed her out of the ring, then we helped Sister Serenity really give Lavender the business.  You know what they say about 'snitches getting stitches' - well, that's what Lavender got for spilling the beans to Burke."

Moolah shook her head slowly in frustration over hearing that none of the girls she had recruited had succeeded in winning or holding onto championships while in the AGWA, but she did get some satisfaction in hearing that those who informed Mildred about Moolah's plot had been made to pay for doing so.  "Okay, so at least it's not a total loss," she admitted.  "Lavender got what she had comin' to her for turnin' Benedict Arnold on us, so that's somethin'."

"So what happens now, Boss?" Ashley then asked.

Moolah thought about it a moment.  "Okay, you, Kim and Serenity come on over to Columbia and we'll work out some new plans," she said.  "As soon as we're ready to hit the road, you'll get your next assignments.  Meanwhile, I gotta figure out what to do about that Martel girl - it's bad enough that she wrecked my plans to spoil Burke's tournament thanks to Lavender ratting us out, now she's one step closer to gettin' that rematch against me that everyone's been askin' for thanks to her tournament win, and I don't want that..."

 

Edited January 10 by Old School Fan
Specification

[Old School Fan]

American Wrestling Association @ Winnipeg Civic Auditorium
March 15, 1971 - Winnipeg, Manitoba
Attendance - 4,700

 

Nick Bockwinkel defeated Billy Red Cloud by submission with the Cobra Clutch.

Bull Bullinski defeated Strong Kobayashi by disqualification when Kobayashi threw salt in Bullinski's eyes.

Canadian Women's Championship

Michèle Richard (with Bobby Heenan) defeated Renée Martel (C) to regain the title when, as Heenan had the referee distracted by arguing with him while Martel had the Alligator Clutch on Richard, Georgia Hase (who was not scheduled to wrestle on the card) ran in and attacked Martel, whipped her to the ropes and slugged her with a foreign object before escaping to ringside; Richard then drilled the half-conscious Martel with an elbow drop and pinned her as the referee returned to count the pinfall.  As Heenan and Hase came in to join in celebrating Richard's tainted title win as Richard raised the Canadian title belt over her head, Claire Lepage ran into the ring and confronted Heenan and his cohorts about their shenanigans, leading to Hase and Richard giving a double-team beatdown to Lepage, then doing the same to Martel when she got back up and tried to intervene, leaving both Martel and Lepage down on the canvas as Heenan raised both Hase and Richard's arms in victory while the fans booed.*

Blackjack Lanza (with Bobby Heenan) defeated The Crusher by pinfall following a piledriver.

Larry Hennig & Lars Anderson defeated Red Bastien & Hercules Cortez when Hennig pinned Bastien.

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* The Canadian Women's Championship title change at this event was facilitated to allow Renée Martel to concentrate on defending her newly-won NWA World Women's Tag Team Championship with Claire Lepage.

 

Edited January 11 by Old School Fan

[Old School Fan]

American Wrestling Association @ International Amphitheatre
March 20, 1971 - Chicago, Illinois
Attendance - 10,780

 

Moose Cholak defeated Ox Baker by pinfall following a big splash.

Wilbur Snyder defeated Hans Schmidt by submission with an abdominal stretch.

Strong Kobayashi defeated Paul Christy by pinfall following a backbreaker.

Baron Von Raschke defeated Dick the Bruiser by submission with the Iron Claw.

Red Bastien & Hercules Cortez battled The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello & Don Kent) to a no-contest when both teams were disqualified for all four wrestlers brawling in the ring at once.

NWA World Women's Tag Team Championship - Two out of Three Falls

Renée Martel & Claire Lepage (C) defeated Georgia Hase & Michèle Richard, two falls to one, when Hase and Richard were disqualified in the third fall for Richard throwing Martel over the top rope.

AWA United States Heavyweight Championship

Danny Reilly (C) defeated Harley Race by disqualification when Race sent Reilly head-first into the ringpost outside the ring.

 

[Captain Kremmen]

Oh no! Drew Carey beat Harley Race! 🙃

You do a good job of keeping us hanging! KUTGW