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NWA Squared Circle Arena Reports - 5/25 & 5/26

Rick GarrardPosted on 01/29/06 at 00:03:13

5/25/89 - House Show #20 - Savannah, GA

Dean Malenko and Brian Pillman defeated Paul Orndorff and Steve Keirn when Pillman pinned Keirn with the Air Pillman in 0:16:06.
Rating: *

Roma and Powers vs Blair and Horowitz will be the final tryout match of the week.

Tommy Rich pinned Ricky Steamboat with the Piledriver in 0:20:37.
Rating: * 1/2
(Brad Armstrong no-showed.)

Steamboat replaced Brad Armstrong, who apparently took a wrong turn en route to Savannah and ended up at home in Marietta.

The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) defeated The Midnight Express (Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton) when Animal defeated Eaton by disqualification in 0:34:49.

Hawk tore his right PCL.

Rating: ** 1/4
[Paul Ellering interfered against Stan Lane.]
[Jim Cornette interfered against Hawk.]
[Paul Ellering interfered against Bobby Eaton.]

Road Warrior Hawk will be cleared to return to action on June 29, due to his injury.  Animal will fulfill the contractual obligations for the team for the through next week's television.

Terry Taylor pinned Sting with the Gourdbuster in 0:18:29.
Rating: *** 1/4

Ricky Steamboat defeated Lex Luger by countout in 0:13:17.
Rating: **** 1/4
(Lex Luger retained the NWA United States Heavyweight Title.)
[JJ Dillon interfered against Ricky Steamboat.]

The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) defeated Horsemen Blanchard & Anderson (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) when R. Steiner defeated Anderson by disqualification in 0:13:54.
Rating: 1/4*
(Horsemen Blanchard & Anderson retained the NWA World Tag Team Titles.)

Dusty Rhodes pinned Kevin Sullivan with the Bionic Elbowdrop in 0:18:41.
Rating: 3/4*

Ric Flair defeated Great Muta when Great Muta passed out in the Figure-Four Leglock in 0:36:52.
Rating: **** 1/4
(Ric Flair retained the NWA World Heavyweight Title.)
[JJ Dillon interfered against Great Muta.]

Card rating: ** 1/2

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5/26/89 - House Show #21 - Macon, GA

The Young Stallions (Jim Powers and Paul Roma) defeated B. Brian Blair and Barry Horowitz when Powers pinned Horowitz with the Powerslam in 0:07:58.
Rating: ***

Roma and Powers will both be on television tomorrow morning due to their wins this week.

Tommy Rich defeated Brad Armstrong when Brad Armstrong passed out in an abdominal stretch in 0:00:45.

Brad Armstrong suffered a neck injury.

Rating: 3/4*
(Tommy Rich retained the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title.)

Brad Armstrong suffered a neck injury and will be out for at least the next 6 weeks to recover, with his doctor's release sometime on or after July 7.

Handicap-Match:
The Midnight Express (Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton) defeated Animal when Lane pinned Animal after the Midnight Drop in 0:23:34.
Rating: ***
[Jim Cornette interfered against Animal.]
[Paul Ellering interfered against Stan Lane.]

It was too much even for Animal to fight off the Midnight Express in this match.  After the match, Sting came out to check on Animal.

Terry Taylor pinned Sting with the Gourdbuster in 0:15:22.
Rating: ** 3/4

Terry Taylor has had a very dominant week over Sting.  Can he carry this into TV tomorrow morning?

Ricky Steamboat defeated Lex Luger by countout in 0:13:08.
Rating: * 3/4
(Lex Luger retained the NWA United States Heavyweight Title.)

Horsemen Blanchard & Anderson (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) when Blanchard defeated S. Steiner by countout in 0:08:48.
Rating: 1/2*
(Horsemen Blanchard & Anderson retained the NWA World Tag Team Titles.)

Dusty Rhodes defeated Kevin Sullivan by disqualification in 0:03:37.
Rating: 3/4*

Ric Flair defeated Great Muta when Great Muta passed out in the Figure-Four Leglock in 0:37:00.
Rating: *** 1/2
(Ric Flair retained the NWA World Heavyweight Title.)
[JJ Dillon interfered against Great Muta.]
[Gary Hart interfered against Ric Flair.]

Card rating: **

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Join us this Saturday morning (5/27) for Squared Circle Wrestling sanctioned by the NWA.  
 
On the card...  
 
-- Exciting 6-man tag team action as The Steiners and Ricky Steamboat take on Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair
 
-- The American Dream Dusty Rhodes in singles action  
 
-- Road Warrior Animal in tag team action  
 
-- NWA World Television Title:  Sting vs Terrific Terry Taylor  
 
-- All this and more this Saturday morning on the SuperStation... WTBS!
Rick GarrardPosted on 01/29/06 at 00:07:22

The Champions of the NWA for the week ending 5/26/89:  
 
World Heavyweight Champion:  Ric Flair
World Tag Team Champions:  Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard
United States Heavyweight Champion:  Lex Luger
World Television Champion:  Sting
Florida Heavyweight Champion:  Tommy Rich
 
And here's this week's Top Ten:  
1.  World Heavyweight Champion: Ric Flair
2.  United States Heavyweight Champion: Lex Luger  
3.  Ricky Steamboat  
4.  The Great Muta  
5.  Terry Taylor
6.  World Television Champion: Sting
7.  Dusty Rhodes
8.  Kevin Sullivan
9.  Florida Heavyweight Champion:  Tommy Rich
10.  Road Warrior Animal
Perverted_IconPosted on 01/29/06 at 12:25:21

It would be totally in Sting's character to be stupid enough to try to help RW Animal in his time of need.  I'm sure that angle won't end with a spike to the head or something.  
Rick GarrardPosted on 01/29/06 at 17:27:40

On 01/29/06 at 12:25:21, Perverted_Icon wrote:It would be totally in Sting's character to be stupid enough to try to help RW Animal in his time of need. I'm sure that angle won't end with a spike to the head or something.
Did you already see the lineups for the following weeks house shows or something?  ;)  Because just like you said... Sting is teaming with Animal because of his "time of need" without Hawk ... "brothers in paint" or some such nonsense.  But getting there is gonna be fun, because I have to explain Hawk's injury through an angle on TV on the next Saturday morning show.  (I'm just not gonna even mention Armstrong's injury on TV.)
AnubisPosted on 01/31/06 at 12:54:38

This is really interesting how you do this, with the house shows all week and the television program.  I like it.  It's very detailed, and as we all know, I love details like this.  Nice and statistical with just the right amount of meat.  Like a perfect steak.
Rick GarrardPosted on 02/01/06 at 04:28:40

Thank you for the kind words.  This was one of those circuit ideas I've had kicking around for a few years (yes really a few years) but first BCW came about, then CW followed all while I was figuring out if it would be possible to do such a circuit with house shows and everything.  And obviously it is with the great part being I can run 7 cards with little to no work involved except booking them.  And then can spend a bit of time making the TV program flow properly.  All in all, I really like this format.  And for those of you that may remember at one time was doing a similar circuit with one of Adam Ryland's sim programs but simming only the Saturday night TV with it with somewhat success a couple years ago.

The biggest challenge here with this format is that I am actually booking ahead roughly three weeks worth of shows at the moment and hope to get further ahead in the booking process, to more reflect the old WWF booking style where they knew almost 6 months in advance what they wanted to happen at Wrestlemania.  That being said, being that far ahead in the booking really gets thrown for a loop when you lose not one, but two stars in back to back cards.  Needless to say, you've seen the Road Warrior Hawk and Brad Armstrong injuries and boy did that cause the eraser to go into overtime to rewrite a few pages worth of cards in my trusty notebook o' doom.  All I can tell ya is that when Cornette's boys attack Hawk on TV, it's not gonna be a good kind of rush.
fettPosted on 02/02/06 at 14:14:03

"All I can tell ya is that when Cornette's boys attack Hawk on TV, it's not gonna be a good kind of rush. "

Talk about visions running through your head... I can picture this one before you even run the show. ;D
Some GuyPosted on 02/02/06 at 14:57:45

On 02/01/06 at 04:28:40, Rick Garrard wrote: And for those of you that may remember at one time was doing a similar circuit with one of Adam Ryland's sim programs but simming only the Saturday night TV with it with somewhat success a couple years ago.

Which sim was that?
Rick GarrardPosted on 02/03/06 at 02:07:57

"All I can tell ya is that when Cornette's boys attack Hawk on TV, it's not gonna be a good kind of rush. "

Talk about visions running through your head... I can picture this one before you even run the show.
Nice.  I've got people jonesing for the show before it's aired.  :)  Of course, it's gonna be a fun show since even NWA Champ Nature Boy Ric Flair will be in action.

And for those of you that may remember at one time was doing a similar circuit with one of Adam Ryland's sim programs but simming only the Saturday night TV with it with somewhat success a couple years ago.

Which sim was that?
I'm not sure which it was.  I know I had it about two years ago.  And for the life of me can't tell you which one it was, although it was a nice change for a while from TNM when I needed a break from TNM.