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NWA Squared Circle Special Arena Report 5/19/06

Rick GarrardPosted on 01/26/06 at 03:52:53

MAJOR NEWS!!!  Read the card for complete details!!!  Highlights of the matches will air on this Saturday's TV show on 5/20/89

5/19/89 - House Show #14 - Atlanta, GA - The Omni

[Tryout/Dark Match]:
Tracey Smothers pinned Steve Armstrong with the Jawjacker in 0:18:07.
Rating: *
[Tommy Rich interfered against Steve Armstrong.]

Tracey Smothers takes the win to kick off things here in the Omni tonight.  Smothers was accompanied to the ring by Tommy Rich and he did play a role in distracting Teddy Long throughout the match.

Terry Taylor pinned Brad Armstrong with the Gourdbuster in 0:12:08.
Rating: * 1/4

The Armstrongs go winless tonight in Atlanta, as the Terrific one takes the win with a Gourdbuster.

The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) defeated Terry Taylor and Stan Lane when R. Steiner defeated Lane by disqualification in 0:12:09.
Rating: 1/2*
[Arn Anderson interfered against Scott Steiner.]
[Tully Blanchard interfered against Rick Steiner.]
(Bobby Eaton no-showed.)

Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson made sure that Steiners knew they were at ringside for this match during the entire match!  Needless to say Beautiful Bobby fell ill to some bad food earlier in the day, and thusly Terrific Terry was called upon to partake as an honorary member of the Midnight Express tonight.  The Steiners will get credit in the win column for this match thanks to Blanchard breaking up what was sure to be the winning pinfall.

Sting pinned Great Muta after a flying cross body press in 0:09:07.
Rating: *
(Sting won the NWA World Television Title.)

Sting is the NEW NWA World Television Champion.  Look for highlights of this match on WTBS in the Squared Circle!

Lex Luger made Dusty Rhodes submit to the Torture Rack in 0:19:33.
Rating: ** 3/4
(Lex Luger retained the NWA United States Heavyweight Title.)

The Total Package comes through big tonight besting Dusty Rhodes to retain the United States Title.

The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) defeated Horsemen Blanchard & Anderson (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) when Animal defeated Blanchard by disqualification in 0:14:25.
Rating: * 1/4
(The Road Warriors retained the NWA World Tag Team Titles.)
[JJ Dillon interfered against Hawk.]
[Rick Steiner interfered against Arn Anderson.]
[JJ Dillon interfered against Animal.]

The Steiners made a surprise appearance at ringside during the match and thusly this seemed to help the Road Warriors retain the titles.  Tomorrow at TV, The Steiners face Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard to determine the new #1 contenders for the Tag Team Titles.  However, Arn and Tully still have one title match remaining and that will happen tomorrow night in Hollywood, Florida, meaning that they could become the #1 contenders and World Tag Team Champions all in the same day!

[editor's rant #1](the following comments were made after TNM called an audible {i.e. changed the booked outcome} in the NWA Tag Team Titles match.  the booking office is none too happy with TNM at this juncture of this venture and make take matters into their own hands if TNM continues to screw up booked endings)

Also the NWA would like to take this time to thank our ridiculously lousy fans here in Atlanta tonight for making this one of the all time worst crowd reaction shows we have ever seen.  Empty arenas have more reaction to our stars.  If David Crockett were here tonight in the arena, he'd be cheering and booing louder by himself than the entire arena audience combined.  Utterly pathetic the Omni crowd is.  With that it is now main event time, and one can only hope that TNM screws the fans here in Atlanta with a horrible outcome.
[/end rant]

Ricky Steamboat pinned Ric Flair after an inside cradle in 0:45:16.
Rating: * 3/4
(Ricky Steamboat won the NWA World Heavyweight Title.)
[JJ Dillon interfered against Ricky Steamboat.]

Steamboat pulls off the upset and takes the title (to the surprise of everyone except for this audible calling copy of TNM).  Managers were supposed to have been banned from ringside as well in this one, but as everyone could see, JJ Dillon was in attendance.  Rumor has it that Flair is demanding his mandatory rematch tomorrow in Hollywood, Florida.  

Card rating: * 1/2

Rick Garrard, 01-25-2006
Perverted_IconPosted on 01/26/06 at 11:59:50

You could always just pull a Dusty finish on the two title matches.   ;D
Rick GarrardPosted on 01/27/06 at 00:48:25

I could but where's the fun in that?  Plus I was saving THAT particular ending for a "special" occasion.
Perverted_IconPosted on 01/27/06 at 11:52:36

Of course, you could always do the Jack Veneno finish and never acknowledge the loss on TV.  "Title match?  What title match?"
Magister369Posted on 01/27/06 at 17:54:18

I have a question, the format for your house shows.
Is that how they ran the house shows in the old school days? same matchs different towns? I notice you run
7 house shows per week, how many did they actually run during those days? 2-3 or more?
Snabbit888Posted on 01/27/06 at 20:26:49

It wasn't rare for them to run 7-10 house shows a week from what is my understanding.  They worked like dogs.
UnrightPosted on 01/27/06 at 21:17:02

Creepy.. By star ratings alone Lex Luger & Dusty Rhodes had the match of the night!

How in the world did a 45 min Steamboat & Flair match get * 3/4??? I know you adjusted their exports to make them more but realistic, but damn.... I don't think it's possible for them to have a match that mediocre.
Snabbit888Posted on 01/27/06 at 22:21:32

On 01/27/06 at 21:17:02, Unright wrote:Creepy.. By star ratings alone Lex Luger & Dusty Rhodes had the match of the night!

How in the world did a 45 min Steamboat & Flair match get * 3/4??? I know you adjusted their exports to make them more but realistic, but damn.... I don't think it's possible for them to have a match that mediocre.
Perhaps the crowd wasn't into it?  Good wrestlers can have bad matches together.  See Triple H/HBK Hell in a Cell.  It wasn't awful, but it was subpar.
AnubisPosted on 01/28/06 at 07:44:03

Would Lex Luger even be able to lift Dusty Rhodes into the Torture Rack? :o

The thing about the audibles by TNM were funny, though. Did that really happen, or is that part of your "storyline"? I honestly can't tell, seeing how humorous the rants were.

Of course, I always mark out for the Horsemen! Go Arn and Tully! Woot! A nice relaxing read, reminds me of Oliver Copp's old WWF circuit he used to run. Could get immersed in it pretty easily because I could picture the matches pretty well even involving people I don't know. Nice and smooth and to the point, that's a good way to go.

One thing, though, if this is a house show, what's up with the title change?  Or is that part of your planning?  Even if TNM goofed the results, if it were me, I'd have continued the match until it went the way I had booked it.  Again, that makes me wonder if you're incorporating this as part of your storyline.  Hard to tell from here.
Perverted_IconPosted on 01/28/06 at 12:33:54

The Omni House Shows in the era of Rick's circuit are like the MSG house shows of the same era.  Pre-monthly PPV, it was usually house shows like this where titles would change hands.
Having the TV title change hands on a non-televised card is pure Dusty Rhodes booking, as well.
Rick GarrardPosted on 01/28/06 at 15:27:00

The rants were actually longer but I cut them so I wouldn't be giving away what was actually supposed to have happened in the matches that TNM did in fact screw up.  Have TNM keep the play by play but then skipping the matches when running them makes it rather hard to restart or continue a goofed up ending.

To answer the did they actually wrestle that many shows.  The answer would be actually they wrestled MORE.  Usually 9 or more shows a week, with Saturdays being the TV, a afternoon arena bell time and a 7 pm evening event, and Sundays having an afternoon show and a night show.  Some territories would do two or three TV shoots as well usually in the local TV studio for a specific program for a certain market, thusly making different TV in different parts of the same territory.  Of course you have to consider that only the job guys got paid for TV and then usually only $25 or so.  Which really wasn't much more pay than most of the mid-card talents at the time.

As for export adjustment Unright, I went back and checked on Flair and Steamboat... nothing was changed on either of them.  Steamboat is carrying the heat of 2 right now, with Flair at 5, which may explain it.  I think all those KO finishes that were supposed to be time limit draws may explain it.  But that Omni crowd was DEAD!  No heat for ANYONE except Luger after reading the saved PBP.  Everyone else was getting the "fans are going to the concession stands", "Hogan, Hogan!", or "Let's go [insert ref of match]" chants at them.  I am guessing the fans in the Omni wanted to see garbage wrestling or musclehead wrestling instead of skills.  

And yes Luger had lifted Rhodes into the Torture Rack several times when Luger was the "Associate" to the Horsemen.

Initially the rants were not going to be part of the show, more or less editors notes that I always write within TNM, but upon further reading, I couldn't help but pull a Jim Cornette like tirade at the first major show I ran with this, especially since TNM did go all wonky and not like my endings I had booked.  Of course, I will run with what they gave me, and I already have rematches scheduled for the titles that weren't supposed to change.  Where is Tommy Rich when ya need him?  ;)