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beejmi
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Posted: Thu Oct 15th, 2009 12:57 pm |
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| #31 ~ What match/angle did Southwest Championship Wrestling run that got them in all kinds of trouble with the USA network?
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Posted: Thu Oct 15th, 2009 01:23 pm |
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| a bloody match between Tully Blanchard and "Bruiser" Bob Sweetan
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CanadianHorseman
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Posted: Thu Oct 15th, 2009 07:47 pm |
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| Not to be a dick but wasn't it Scott Casey pouring " pig shit " on Bobby Jaggers that got SWCW pulled from the USA Network ????
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Posted: Thu Oct 15th, 2009 08:01 pm |
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Starting on December 5, 1982, Southwest Championship Wrestling became the first weekly wrestling program on the USA Cable Network, airing Sundays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. As a result of the new national exposure, SWCW staged a one-night tournament in Houston, Texas, to determine an "Undisputed World Champion." Adrian Adonis was the winner of this tournament, and as a result he was presented with the oldest existing championship belt by Lou Thesz, as well as a brand new belt made specifically for the championship.
However, because of a particularly bloody match between Tully Blanchard and "Bruiser" Bob Sweetan (which USA refused to air), the inability of the promotion to keep paying USA the $7,000 per week to keep the time slot, and a monetary offer made to the cable channel by WWF owner Vince McMahon to replace Southwest Championship Wrestling with his own programming [1], USA canceled the program (in spite of the high ratings the show was garnering for the network) and turned the time slot over to WWF All American Wrestling. Adonis' "undisputed championship" simply faded from SCW storylines within a few months and was abandoned in September 1983, and in April 1985, the promotion was sold to Texas All-Star Wrestling.
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