Post by managermike99 on Jan 3, 2014 13:48:13 GMT -5
February 4, 1989
River City Wrestling #362
Brandon, Manitoba
Untelevised matches:
Vendetta defeated Pete Doherty (non-title)
Manny Silva defeated Mike Luca
Kim Schau & Biff Wellington defeated Frankie DiFalco & Brian Costello
Dynamite Kid defeated Shawn Baxter
Televised matches:
Davey Boy Smith defeated Derrick Dukes by pinfall at 4:30
**The Top Guns came out and Ricky Rice was still on crutches. They said he would be able to defend the tag titles next week against the British Bulldogs. The Bulldogs accepted this, but then Rice said Dukes would challenge either one of them to a warmup match now. DBS accepted and controlled most of the bout frustrating Rice at ringside.
Wendy Richter defeated Fantasy by pinfall at 6:39
[Wendy Richter retained the North American Women's Title]
Scott Hall & Cowboy Bob Orton Jr. defeated Don Muraco & Brick Bronsky by pinfall when Orton pinned Bronsky after a piledriver at 7:10
**Muraco controlled the match when he was in the ring but the youngster Bronsky was taken advantage of by the villians. After the match during the commerical timeout, the cameras kept rolling and showed Muraco insisting that Bronsky stay in the ring as Muraco give him a few pointers. Bronsky listened but seemed a bit embarrased at the public wrestling lesson.
Main Event
Ben Bassarab defeated Lethal Larry Cameron by pinfall after a top rope flying bodypress at 11:21
[Ben Bassarab retained the RCW Television title]
**a fairly clean win for Bassarab should mean the end to this mini-feud.
February 11, 1989
River City Wrestling #363
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Untelevised matches:
The Bolsheviks: Nikolai Volkoff & Boris Zukhov defeated Larry Bicone & Nick McBrain by pinfall at 2:47
Wendy Richter defeated Fantasy by pinfall at 6:34 to retain the women's title
Ben Bassarab defeated Shawn Baxter (non-title)
Don Muraco defeated Vic Steamboat by pinfall thanks to a handful of trunks
Televised matches:
Scott Hall defeated Brick Bronsky by pinfall at 7:40 after a fallaway slam
**Muraco continued to show frustration with Bronsky after the bout
Top Guns (Ricky Rice & Derrick Dukes) defeated Kim Schau & Biff Wellington by pinfall at 5:59
[Top Guns retained the RCW Tag Titles]
**This was supposed to be the British Bulldogs title match but Dynamite Kid came to the ring saying Davey Boy had to leave for the hospital. DK says his partner was attacked by the Top Guns backstage and Ricky Rice busted his head open with his crutch. The Top Guns told Raschke to send out another team instead because they needed to defend their titles. Schau & Wellington were game but not quite up to the Top Guns level. After the match DK hit the ring again and attacked Rice and Dukes. He got the better of them for a bit, but Rice hit him with a low blow, and it was a 2 on 1 attack. Schau & Wellington though returned to make the save.
Main Event
No Countout/No Disqualification
Vendetta defeated Manny Silva by submission to the Haitian deathlock at 12:55
[Vendetta retained the RCW Heavyweight title]
**Silva figured the rules would benefit him, but after the midway point in the match the champ used his strength, courage, and conditioning to make a solid comeback and really battered the challenger up, busting him wide open, before finishing him off decisively.
February 25, 1989
River City Wrestling #364
Thunder Bay, Ontario
note: there was no show last week
Untelevised Matches:
Vendetta defeated Brian Costello (non-title)
Frankie DiFalco defeated Mike Luca
Top Guns defeated Larry Bicone & Nick McBrain
Bolsheviks defeated Shawn Baxter & Harley Heller
Televised Matches:
Dynamite Kid defeated Ricky Rice by pinfall after a snap suplex at 5:30
**upset about how the Top Guns injured Davey Boy Smith who is now out with a concussion, DK took it out on Ricky Rice.
Kim Schau & Biff Wellington defeated Bob Orton Jr & Scott Hall by pinfall at 6:19
**big upset for Schau and Wellington. However in their post match interview they were attacked by the Bolsheviks, setting up a match for next week.
Don Muraco defeated Brick Bronsky by pinfall after a piledriver at 4:34
**fairly easy work for Muraco in this student versus teacher match. Muraco had challenged Bronsky to the match because the youngster wasn't listening to his teachings, so he wanted to show him first hand. Muraco won and managed to keep it clean but many of the fans started to jeer him anyway. After the match he tried to keep Bronsky in the ring for some more pointers. When the muscular youngster tried to leave Muraco lost his patience, spinning Bronsky around and then slapping him in the face. This resulted in Bronsky punching Muraco and the two went at it. Muraco caught him with a knee to the gut and began to lay down a major league beating. Larry Bicone, Nick McBrain, Shawn Baxter, and Harley Heller were all ejected from the ring by Muraco trying to break it up. Finally the RCW heavyweight champion Vendetta came down to the ring and Muraco took off.
Main Event
Ben Bassarab and Vic Steamboat battled to a 15-minute TV time limit draw
[Ben Bassarab retains the RCW Television title]
**fairly even match with Steamboat's best outing in RCW so far. Even though it was pretty even, Steamboat actually controlled the final 3 minutes and looked like he was on the verge of winning when time ran out.