Uncharted Territory: Episode 153

[Cory Olson]

Tim, Stu, and Cory kick off another show and are joined midway through by Chad! After some news and notes, they take a look at year three of Cory's USWA! Find out what happened in this pivotal year, with the champions, the feuds, the new debuts, the supercards, and more! You can check out the title defenses for 2006 at Cory's USWA History and look for some of the results mentioned on the show to be posted here soon. Find out what the videos below have to do with this episode!


Uncharted Territory: Episode 153

[Lee]

Cool! I love these episodes where we hear Cory talk about his USWA.

[TTX]

Looking forward to next week's episode. USWA is definitely a labor of love and glad Cory has kept it up all these years.

[throwingtoasters]

Fun stuff. These looks back always give me ideas for my feds. May use that battle royal idea.

[Cory Olson]

Here are the 2006 supercards we talked about on the show. Plus, I found my original card results that I posted on the original Discussion Board! I added that here as some bonus content.

CARNAVAL DE DOLOR TOUR (Tour of the Dominican Republic--Cards #82-84)
Card A: February 24, 2006
Estadio Francisco Micheli in La Romana
1) Harley Race pinned Johnny Valiant after a swinging neckbreaker. ****
2) Red Bastien & Bobo Brazil defeated Ox Baker & Sabu by DQ after Sabu did two Arabian facebusters on Bastien. **¼
3) Stan Lane pinned Tony Garea after rolling through on a flying body press and hooking Garea’s tights. DUD
4) Jimmy Valiant pinned Jimmy Snuka after a super elbow. **¾
5) The Road Warriors beat The Dream Team when Hawk pinned Brutus Beefcake after the Doomsday Device. ****½
6) Bobby Eaton pinned Rick Martel after an Alabama Jam. *
7) Killer Kowalski pinned Don Leo Jonathan using the ropes, after blocking a charge from Jonathan into the corner with a double boot. After the match, Jonathan and Jimmy Snuka attacked Kowalski. Kowalski suffered injured ribs and had to leave the tour early. **
8) Carlos Colon beat Abdullah the Butcher by DQ when Abdullah hit Colon with a chair. **¾
9) USWA World Heavyweight champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Bob Orton, Jr. quickly by submission with a figure-four leglock in a non-title bout. DUD
10) Jack Veneno pinned Relámpago Hernández to retain the CCW Dominican Heavyweight championship after La Manigueta (a wind-up punch). ½*

Card B: February 25, 2006
Estadio Cibao in Santiago
1) Animal pinned Brutus Beefcake after a power slam. *¾
2) Jimmy Snuka pinned Greg Valentine after a Superfly Leap. DUD
3) Hawk pinned Ox Baker after a running clothesline. ¼*
4) The Valiants defeated Red Bastien & Bobo Brazil when Jimmy pinned Brazil after the Valiants’ top rope elbow. ****½
5) Atsushi Onita (subbing for the injured Killer Kowalski) beat Sabu by DQ when Sabu executed the Arabian facebuster. ***
6) Bob Orton, Jr. pinned Relámpago Hernández after a superplex. ¾*
7) Don Leo Jonathan pinned Abdullah the Butcher after a Mormon Swing. ****¼
8) Nick Bockwinkel & Harley Race beat Jack Veneno & Carlos Colon when Bockwinkel made Veneno submit to the Bockwinkel sleeper. **
9) USWA World Tag Team champions The Midnight Express beat CWC Dominican Tag Team champions Rick Martel & Tony Garea by countout to retain the titles (only the USWA titles were on the line). Martel was counted out when he was chasing Jim Cornette around the ring and Justin Credible hit Martel with his Singapore cane. The Santiago crowd began to riot following the decision. ****

Card C: February 26, 2006
Palacio de Los Deportes in Santo Domingo
1) The Road Warriors beat The Valiants when Animal pinned Jimmy after a double clothesline. ***
2) Bob Orton, Jr. pinned Jimmy Snuka after an atomic knee drop. ***¾
3) The Dream Team defeated Rick Martel & Tony Garea in a non-title match when Greg Valentine made Martel submit to a figure-four leglock. ***¼
4) Don Leo Jonathan pinned Ox Baker after a Mormon Swing. *½
5) The Midnight Express beat Red Bastien & Bobo Brazil when Stan Lane pinned Bastien after a superkick. *****
6) Atsushi Onita (subbing for Killer Kowalski) pinned Relámpago Hernández after a Thunder Fire power bomb. DUD
7) Abdullah the Butcher pinned Sabu after smashing him with a chair that Sabu attempted to use, while the referee was distracted by Ox Baker. ****
8) Harley Race pinned Carlos Colon with a roll-up after Colon missed a charge into the corner. DUD
9) Nick Bockwinkel beat Jack Veneno to retain the USWA World Heavyweight championship. Bockwinkel made Veneno submit to a figure-four leglock, while Bobby Heenan held Bockwinkel’s hands for extra leverage. The Santo Domingo crowd began to riot following the decision. ***¾


July 30, 2006
Card #100: Liberty Bowl in Memphis
1) The Destroyer made Virgil submit to the figure-four leglock. **
2) Danny Doring & Cousin Luke won their debut match over Koko B. Ware & S.D. Jones when Luke pinned Jones after a two-fisted sledgehammer. **¼
3) Giant Baba battled Sabu to a double DQ when both men hit the referee. **½
4) “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan & Nikolai Volkoff beat The Dream Team when Volkoff pinned Greg Valentine after a backbreaker drop. **¾
5) Antonio Inoki pinned Chris Candido after an enzuigiri. ***
6) Bruiser Brody pinned Gorgeous George after a jumping knee drop. *
7) Justin Credible defeated The Sandman in a No-Disqualification Match where the losing wrestler was not allowed to bring their Singapore cane to ringside with them for 90 days. Credible pinned Sandman after three superkicks. *
8) Jimmy Snuka & Buddy Rogers beat The Valiants when Snuka pinned Johnny after a Superfly Leap. The Valiants’ manager Capt. Lou Albano was banned from ringside for this match. Albano came down to help his team after the match, but the Valiants left without him. **½
9) The Sheik made Bobo Brazil submit to the Camel Clutch. Afterward, Sheik continued to attack Brazil and then attacked his own handler, Ox Baker. Red Bastien came down and jumped The Sheik. Bastien held The Sheik while Brazil delivered several Coco Butts. ***¾
10) George Hackenschmidt pinned Frank Gotch in their first meeting after a single leg pickup and slam. ****½
11) In a special attraction, The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Arn & Ole Anderson) captured the (Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling) U.S. Tag Team titles from Barry Windham & Ronnie Garvin when Arn pinned Garvin after a gourdbuster. ***¼
12) USWA World Tag Team champions The Road Warriors & Paul Ellering beat The Midnight Express & Jim Cornette by DQ when Stan Lane hit Animal with Jim Cornette’s tennis racket. **
13) Ted DiBiase won the USWA Southern Heavyweight championship from Don Leo Jonathan by pinfall with a roll-up and hook of the tights, after Jonathan missed a tackle in the corner. ****
14) USWA World Heavyweight champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Harley Race by DQ when special guest referee Bob Orton, Jr. disqualified Race. Orton went to pull Race off of Bockwinkel in the corner and then threw himself down, claiming that Race had shoved him. Orton and Bockwinkel attacked Race after the bell and were later revealed to have planned the double-cross on Race. The Masked Superstar joined in on the attack. (Bobby Heenan was banned from ringside for this match, but came down to the ring during the attack on Race.) ¼*

October 2, 2006
Card #107: Civic Coliseum in Knoxville
(These were the first results I posted on the original Discussion Board.)
1) The Vachons won their USWA debut defeating Koko B. Ware and S.D. Jones. The brothers from Algeria brutalized the popular duo of the "Birdman" and Special Delivery. They scored the victory when Mad Dog pinned Jones after a piledriver. It looks like Capt. Lou Albano has scored a tough tag team. *1/2
2) The Masked Superstar kept up his winning ways pinning Cousin Luke after a spinning neckbreaker. 1/2*
3) Antonio Inoki pinned Luke's partner Danny Doring after a flying body press off the top rope. Doring actually scored some nearfalls on Inoki, but the Japanese superstar managed to score the three. **1/2
4) Red Bastien and Bobo Brazil defeated The Dream Team in an exciting tag team match. This one was back-and-forth action. Bobo scored the pin on Greg Valentine after a body slam. ***3/4
5) The Sheik made short work of "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, scoring a submission with his Camel Clutch. The Sheik will receive his first title shot at the end of this month when he will be the first challenger for new Southern champion Frank Gotch. It was revealed after this card on WMC-TV that Duggan will be leaving the USWA to compete in the UWF promotion in the Oklahoma/Louisiana area. "Hacksaw" plans to return to the USWA sometime in the future. 1/2*
6) Ted DiBiase rebounded from his loss of the Southern title to score a big win over Bruiser Brody. "The Million Dollar Man" was able to kick out of three of Brody's jumping knee drops. He came back and put Brody out with the Million Dollar Dream. ***
7) New Texas champ Justin Credible defeated his rival The Sandman. (Obviously, this was a non-title match, since they weren't in Texas!) Sandman is still without his Singapore Cane for the rest of this month. Credible didn't need his cane here as he pinned Sandman cleanly with a short power bomb (which has become more of a finisher for him than the cane or That's Incredible, as he has won his last three matches with it). **
8) Giant Baba and The Destroyer defeated The Ortons. Both Bob Sr. and Jr. were busted open in this match. They worked well against Baba and Destroyer, but couldn't keep the former tag champs down long enough for a pinfall. The "Cowboy" came off the top rope with an attempted sledgehammer on Baba, but the Japanese giant blocked him with a big boot to the face. He covered Orton, Jr. and scored the three-count. ***1/4
9) "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka gained a measure of revenge for his tag team partner Buddy Rogers making short work of Gorgeous George with a perfect Superfly Leap. Afterward, Chris Candido ran down to try and attack Snuka, but the "Superfly" saw him coming and nailed him with a big flying head butt. DUD
10) The main event was a big rematch--a No-Disqualification Match for the USWA World Heavyweight championship pitting champion Nick Bockwinkel against Harley Race. This match was less of a brawl, but more of an aggressive wrestling match between the hated enemies. They seemed to know each other well and always had a counter for one another's move. Race had a lot of offense, but couldn't keep the champ down long enough to attempt many covers. Bockwinkel rammed Race into the ringpost and applied his sleeper, but Race made the ropes. Bockwinkel then pulled Race into the center of the ring and applied his figure-four leglock. Race, who was busted open from being rammed into the post, fought for nearly two minutes but eventually had to tap out, leaving Bockwinkel once again the victor and champ. ***

NEW YEAR’S KNOCKOUT III
December 31, 2006
Card #116: Louisville Gardens
1) Koko B. Ware pinned Danny Doring after a flying body press. **
2) Dick Hutton defeated Brutus Beefcake by submission with the abdominal stretch. DUD
3) Greg Valentine pinned Sabu with his feet on the ropes after Sabu missed a flying splash in the corner. DUD
4) Jimmy Snuka & Bruiser Brody gave The Vachons their first pinfall loss when Brody beat Butcher with the jumping knee drop. ***
5) Red Bastien beat Texas champion Justin Credible (subbing for the injured Sheik) by submission with a Boston Crab in a non-title match.
6) Buddy Rogers defeated Chris Candido by submission with the figure-four grapevine. Afterward, Rogers was attacked by a masked man. Jimmy Snuka saved Rogers and pulled the mask off the man, revealing him to be Buddy Rose. **½
7) Antonio Inoki & Giant Baba defeated The Masked Superstar (subbing for the injured Bob Orton, Sr.) & Bob Orton, Jr. when Inoki pinned Orton after a top rope knee drop. Afterward, Superstar and Orton attacked Inoki, causing him injuries to the back. ***¼
8) In a special attraction, Andre the Giant beat Cousin Luke & Virgil pinning both men after giving Luke an atomic drop and slamming Virgil on top of Luke. DUD
9) USWA Southern Heavyweight champion Frank Gotch beat Ted DiBiase by submission with a guillotine choke. By virtue of his victory, Gotch also won DiBiase’s fortune. George Hackenschmidt (who had been an ally of DiBiase’s at the time) came down and put him in the Russian Bear Hug. He then walked off with Gotch and Dick Hutton. **¾
10) The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey) beat USWA World Tag Team champions The Road Warriors by DQ when Animal hit Condrey with a chair. Following the bout, The Warriors gave Condrey the Doomsday Device, injuring his neck. ½*
11) Nick Bockwinkel retained the USWA World Heavyweight title defeating Harley Race in a 60-Minute Iron Man Match with Ed “Strangler” Lewis as the special guest referee. The order of falls was:
Bockwinkel was disqualified for shoving Lewis at 3:20.
Bockwinkel made Race submit to the Bockwinkel Sleeper at 7:18.
Bockwinkel made Race submit to an abdominal stretch at 9:24.
Race pinned Bockwinkel with a swinging neckbreaker at 11:16.
Race pinned Bockwinkel with a piledriver at 13:18.
Race scored a pin with a shoulder breaker at 14:34.
Race scored another win with a swinging neckbreaker at 17:00.
Race scored pins at 19:02 and 21:24 with the piledriver.
Bockwinkel scored a pin with a back suplex at 23:18.
Bockwinkel got a win with a sleeper at 25:10.
Bockwinkel made Race submit to the figure-four leglock at 27:26.
Race scored a pin with a diving head butt at 31:18.
Race pinned Bockwinkel after a vertical suplex at 34:00.
Race got a win at 36:16 with a swinging neckbreaker.
Race pinned Bockwinkel at 39:04 with a cradle suplex.
Bockwinkel got another fall with the sleeper at 41:30.
Bockwinkel scored a pin with a gut wrench at 43:20.
Bockwinkel scored a pin with a back suplex at 46:30.
Bockwinkel got wins at 47:30 and 49:24 with the figure-four leglock.
Bockwinkel used the sleeper again to win at 50:42.
Race scored another pinfall with a swinging neckbreaker at 54:12.
Bockwinkel put Race down with the sleeper at 56:00.
Bockwinkel pinned a groggy Race after choking him on the ropes at 57:16.
Race scored a pin at 59:28 with a vertical suplex.
Both men were tied at 13 wins each at the end of the match. The bout went into sudden death overtime. Bockwinkel made Race submit at 2:30 in the overtime to the figure-four leglock. Afterward, Lewis challenged Bockwinkel to a title match. Bockwinkel blew off Lewis' challenge, so Lewis took him down to the mat with the Strangler's Headlock. *****

["Emperor Norton" (Mark T)]

Quick takes on the latest ep:

I really regret that I made that splice/Slice joke right before Tim did while I was listening. It's a sad statement on my sense of humor maybe.

If anyone goes looking up that Jack Veneno card I did the art for, PLEASE find the second version after I actually had reference photos to work with. That first one was done in the  early internet days and all I had to go by was a grainy black and white shot from online world of wrestling.  “Yo soy un hombre de pelo en pecho”!

Dominican fans are passionate? Sure. Also, beer flows like water and it gets dicey by main event time. Either/or.

Chad, when you said your daughter took your coat at the football game and  asked "why would a teenager wear a coat?" , as a parent, I felt that. Better to look good than to feel good, right? 

Cory is the king of consistency on posting results. Always good stuff, just plugging away on the same one while many of us have rebooted two or three times. 

[Cory Olson]

Oct 22, 2023 19:18:58 GMT -5 "Emperor Norton" (Mark T) said:

Cory is the king of consistency on posting results. Always good stuff, just plugging away on the same one while many of us have rebooted two or three times. 

I love consistency in many areas of life. So, I take that as the highest compliment, Mark! Thanks for listening!

[pikemojo]

Even though I didn't read Cory's USWA back when they were originally rolled, I enjoy hearing him talk about it. Cool to hear other promoters' thought processes and ideas.

[the_faction]

That's a tremendous amount of history Cory! I'm always impressed by not only the consistency, but also the moments you, or any promoter, can create and have promoters talk about those memories and bring them up like a real sporting event. That's impressive.

[Sinestro24]

Another entertaining episode, love hearing about Cory’s USWA.

I’m all in on this crowd funding idea for a Grunt! Christmas movie.