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The 350th Blast continued on Saturday night at Boston Garden with 5 championships put on the line. The job of refereeing this night was turned over to veteran Dick Woehrle.
Canadian Champion Playboy Buddy Rose kicked things off with an easy win over Tiger Conway, jr.
Juventud Guerrera put his New England Championship belt on the line against Stevie Richards. Guerrera appeared to be headed for victory when he took a dive from the top of the turnbuckle to cover a downed Richards but all that he received for his effort was a huge forearm that stunned him. Richards went for the cover and Guerrera was counted out. Stevie Richards took home the first of the night's belts.
In the Canadian Tag Team Championship match between the Powers of Pain and the Blanchards with a No-DQ stipulation. It was a brutal match but, ultimately, the Blanchards regained the belts when Joe Blanchard used an abdominal stretch to finish The Warlord while Tully held off both Lou Albano and The Barbarian.
The next match put the United States Championship held by Vampiro on the line against Dirty Dutch Mantell. Though Mantell started strong Vampiro soon turned the tables and took the win using his Nail in the Coffin finisher.
A grudge match featuring the team of Mark Henry and Bad News Brown facing the Valiant Brothers. This may have been the match of the evening. Both Mark Henry and Jimmy Valiant were bloody messes but Jimmy rallied and to crush Bad News Brown with a flying leap off the top of the turnbuckle while Johnny held off Mark Hanry.
Don Muraco went to work on Frank Gotch who was distracted by Muraco's manager Mr. Fuji at several points during the match. Muraco was able to use his Hawaiian Hammer to seal the deal.
Trish Stratus put her newly acquired Women's Championship on the line against Leilani Kai. Unfortunately for Kai she let her frustrations get the best of her and she went after Stratus with a chair. Dick Woehrly quickly stepped in and issued a DQ to Kai.
In the feature match Bob Backlund put his IWA Heavyweight Championship on the line in a rematch against the man that he just took it from: William Muldoon. Muldoon demonstrated just how difficult an opponent that he can be by getting Backlund in serious trouble with his repertoire of holds. Backlund, exhausted, had to finally tap out and Muldoon regained the championship.
All in all it was a very successful and fun two nights of wrestling that saw some settling of feuds that had been brewing and determining multiple championships while creating some new rivalries. One thing that emerged from these matches is that I will be more willing to match up two faces in the future given the success of the emerging Muldoon-Backlund rivalry.
Bob

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With the 350th Blast in the rear view mirror the IWA TV show, "Tuesday Night Ring Leaders" saw the successful debut of "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff as he easily defeated tough opponent SD Jones.
Jackie Fargo also returned to action on his own after his on-air firing of Jimmy Hart. Fargo, to the surprise of many, simply dominated Frank Gotch to indicate a potential drive to reclaim his International Championship.
In a battle of top contenders in the Women's Division Toni Rose turned the tables on Leilani Kai with a move off the turnbuckle to put herself in contention for Trish Stratus' title.
The Atomic Blondes team of Freddie Blassie and Ray Stevens simply destroyed the recently dethroned Tag Team Champions the British Bulldogs.
To close out the night Nick Bockwinkel, hoping to re-develop some momentum brought Bobby Heenan to the ring for his match-up with Roddy Piper. Heenen pulled out his bag of dirty tricks as usual but nothing stopped Hot Rod from earning the win.

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Now in late July of our calendar year, the IWA moved to the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut for the big Saturday evening card.
New England Championship contenders Juventud Guerrera and Tony Anthony opened the card hoping for an impressive enough win to get a shot at Champion Stevie Richards' title. It was all Tony Anthony from the start as he overwhelmed the former champ to take an impressive win and perhaps earn a match with the Champ.
The forever boastful Nuclear Blondes team of Terry Gordy and Pat Patterson saw their latest effort end in another loss when, for the second time in the past months they were defeated by The Fantastics. The winners teamed up for a Rocket Launcher to flatten Patterson and take the win. Commentators have been wondering if Patterson's threat to get revenge on his old Atomics Blonde teammate Freddie Blassie for dumping him for Ray Stevens after he was injured is just going to die on an unproductive vine.
Vivien Vachon made her successful debut with a win over a tough Tina Moretti.
Paul Orndorff took on the always tough 2 Cold Scorpio and came out with his second win in as many outings.
Vampiro agreed to give new top contender for his U.S. Title, Dutch Savage, a non-title match. But both wrestlers got out of hand early leading Dick Woehrle to issue a double DQ igniting Vampiro's manager James Mitchell to off on Woehrle. In an unexpected turn Dutch Savage actually acknowledged the support that he's seemed to generate from the fans.
Continuing his efforts to piss off managers, Dick Woehrle gave a three count to a stunned Don Muraco after Mad Dog Vachon turned the tables in an explosive move. This time it was Muraco's man Mr. Fuji, who started after the ref with his walking stick. IT was only the timely intervention of the Killer Bees that saved Woehrle.
The final bout of the night saw the Bees put their International Tag Team titles on the line against the former champs, The Valiant Brothers. This time no-one complained that Dick Woehrle had to issue another DQ when Jimmy Valiant tried to hit Brian Blair with a chair.

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A quick update on the latest card and an outline of the structure of my Fed. I had begun to use Travis605's rating system to look at slotting wrestlers with similar total numbers into the various "divisions" of competitors for my 5 individual and 3 Tag Team belts. I've also created a Women's Division using a similar system. Each of my divisions has 5 or 6 competitors, or 4 Tag Teams within a close numeric range. I tend to run cards that cover most of the divisions per event and it creates close competition. Most of the divisions have a number of competitors who have held that particular title and rivalries emerge fairly often and it creates matches where anyone can beat anyone else on any given night.

The latest card was an edition of "Tuesday Night Ring Leaders" which serves as my weekly TV broadcast. This card was refereed by James Beard and all of the matches seemed to go off without any controversy. Notably, The Fantastics won their third match in a row, this time defeating the team of Mark Henry and Bad News Brown. Henry and Brown formed a team that seemed very promising at first but have yet to show much success for their efforts. They have been plagued by rumors of internal finger pointing and tension due to that lack of success and there has been much talk about Mark Henry emerging with a new partner. We'll see if this latest defeat spurs on any change.

In the division of competitors for the U.S. Championship Big John Studd finally let his power loose and the victim was Dutch Mantell who had been one of the top challengers for Vampiro's title.

Johnny Valentine took a big step back into contending for the International Championship when he soundly beat champion Don Leo Jonathan in a non=title match. We expect to see a rematch with the title on the line in our next featured card.

In a battle of contenders for the IWA Heavyweight Title, Buddy Rogers made quick work of Bob Backlund and is now pressing champion William Muldoon for a title match.

In the featured match of the night The Blackjacks soundly defeated The Atomic Blondes (Blassie and Stevens) in a championship match.