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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 12:47 pm |
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Gone_Fishing
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Posted this at OSW, and had 160 views and no replies, thought I would throw it up here too, anyone got any clues on this? On a few of the old Macchia tapes of WWF footage, there are matches from a few shows that occurred at the steel Pier in Atlantic City. Gorilla does the announcing and calls it Championship Wrestling. I believe that this is all in the summer to fall of 1979. My questions are this: Did they do this on a trial basis in place of the regular Championship taping in Allentown? Was this an alternate taping with matches spliced into the normal Championship Wrestling show? Was this in addition to the normal Allentown and Hamburg tapings, and a 3rd TV show? Does anyone remember watching it and recall how it was structured? Thanks
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 02:01 pm |
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thebear
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WWF @ Atlantic City, NJ - July 5, 1979 Larry Sharpe defeated Jose Estrada Pat Patterson defeated Dominic DeNucci Joe Mascara defeated Charlie Sharkey Ivan Putski defeated Larry Sharpe Johnny & Jerry Valiant defeated Ted Dibiase & Johnny Rivera WWF @ Atlantic City, NJ - Steel Pier - August 16, 1979 Baron Mikel Scicluna defeated SD Jones WWF Tag Team Champions Johnny & Jerry Valiant defeated Tito Santana & Ivan Putski Nikolai Volkoff defeated Steve Travis These are the only 2 cards I can find
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 02:05 pm |
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Gone_Fishing
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Thanks I am well aware of those cards. I am looking for information regarding the shows, basically , why, when, etc.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 02:07 pm |
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thebear
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do you know the airdates? And are those the cards that were shown on tv?
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 02:31 pm |
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beejmi The Big Kahuna 
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There were shows at the Steel Pier rather regularly. I will check this for you but I am thinking there was either another event in town (State Fair?) that may have knocked them out of the box for a taping or two or when they aired the matches from Ac it was just a match or two. I don't recall any "entire shows" coming from AC in all honesty. I will ask my Allentown source. 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 02:35 pm |
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thebear
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If e're definately talking 79 then the two shows I mention are the only ones Graham Cawthron's site shows in Atlantic City that year
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 03:08 pm |
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beejmi The Big Kahuna
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There were other shows. I distinctly remember a Andre & DiBiase vs Scicluna & Jerry Valiant match on TV as well as a Valentine vs DiBiase match all airing from AC.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 03:56 pm |
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1978fan
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I had a bad copy of the Andre/DiBiase tag match at one time. Monsoon was doing the commentating. I got the distinct impression that it was taped for airing on some small New Jersey cable channel - there were no commercials. It wasn't designed for replacing one of the regular tv shows even for a week or so. It was definitely a house show atmosphere with Scicluna and Jerry getting a ton of offense in the long match - not typical of a tv squash.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 04:38 pm |
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beejmi The Big Kahuna
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I'm gonna bet that someone named "1978Fan" might know a little bit about 1979 also. I think his explanation is pretty plausible.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 04:41 pm |
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Gone_Fishing
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I will check tonight but I beleive there are 3 or 4 matches from Atlantic City that exist. All of Television Main Event Caliber
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 04:59 pm |
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beejmi The Big Kahuna
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Which isn't saying much for WWWF TV where we were treated to such TV main events as Steve Travis vs Baron Mikel Scicluna ~ a little bit of a bad rap I guess as us WWWF geeks were (quite often) treated to the tag team title changes that were always "shrouded in controversy"
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 07:10 pm |
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srossi
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Hey, I liked Steve Travis. And by the way, there's this off-the-charts Snuka vs. Travis match at MSG which has to be his best match ever. Really awesome if anyone has seen it. And Snuka sold for him big time. Last edited on Thu Nov 8th, 2007 07:12 pm by srossi ____________________ This thread was great before AA ruined it. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 07:26 pm |
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beejmi The Big Kahuna
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I liked Travis. Don't think I have seen the MSG match vs Snuka. He went to a timelimit draw with Scicluna at a time when Scicluna was being beaten regularly. Didn't do much for Steve. I remember Travis being "The Rookie Of The Year" (78?79?) and the only other person I remember being referenced to such an award was Larry Zbyszko. Maybe Tony Garea. But they didn't "give it out" every year.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 9th, 2007 12:38 am |
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Gone_Fishing
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The matches from Orlando's collection that exist. Capetta does the ring announcing and Gorilla is on the mic Dibiase/Andre v Jerry Valiant and Scicluna No Voiceover promo During this match Gorilla says that next week on Championship Wrestling Hussein the Arab will face Ivan Putski, also appearing 4 women wrestlers including the Fabulous Moolah, and Next week Bruno will fill in for Gorilla The next 2 appear to be taken from the same broadcast and probably aired the last week in August or the first or second wek in September judging by the nature of the voiceover promos Dibiase v Greg Valentine (15 min match) Voiceover promo says" 9/14 Nassau Ivan The Terrible and Billy The Kid v Butch Casssidy and Tiny Tom Voiceover promo says 9/18 Asbury Park
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| Posted: Fri Nov 9th, 2007 03:49 pm |
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beejmi The Big Kahuna
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From Bud Carson (hopefully he doesn't mind me putting his email to me out front)ACTUALLY THEY WERE A TRIAL , TO SEE IF THEY CAN MOVE FROM THE ALLENTOWN-HAMBURG AREA TO A MORE POPULATED ATLANTIC CITY AREA ( SUMMER ONLY) ALTHOUGH THEY DREW A GOOD CROWD IT WASNT LIKE THE LOYAL ALLENTOWN FANS WHO WOULD COME EVERY TUESDAY , THE ATLANTIC CITY CROWD WERE VACATIONERS BASICALLY JUST PASSING THROUGH. OBVIOUSLY IT DIDNT WORK .....
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