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wy BOB POPPEL. Windy City Wrestling Promotions and the World Conference of Wrestling (WCW) made their debut Friday night at Lockport high school that included five title matches and a $20,000 16-man battle royal. The evenings by the Lockport high school concert choir, attracted over 500 fans for the almost three hours of action. The opening match pitted the Toyko Bullets against Rockin’ Randy and Dave Olivia. And the overseas duo disposed of their foe in less than 13 minutes. The WCW tage-team championship Terminators paired off against the Pro wrestling Texas Hangmen for the title, but both teams were disqualified when the official could not restore order in the ring. So, the Terminators kept the championship belt. Last week, the WCW put up the ropes in Cicero. During the Beach Boys Bullets tag-team match, Bullets’ manager Tony Montana caused fric tion between the Beach Boys team. Here’s how. During the match, Montana handed Beach Boy Johnny Stewart a note ne ena nan Seenee Onn Seeee tag team. A match was then scheduled for a night in Lockport between m. Before the t the bell started their match, Rogers told the crowd that Montana offered money to make his ex-partner Stewart jump ship and he wanted revenge. Rogers was well on his way to winning the bout when one of the Tokyo Bullets charged into the ring to aid Stewart. The corner managed by Montana was disqualified and Rogers was awarded the victory. In the next match, Dave Kasper was called to test his strength against 270-pound South African soldier of fortune, Colonel DeBeers. Kasper, a native of Bolingbrook is the national power lifting champion. They squared off for almost 10 minutes before DeBeers threw Kasper over the top rope and was disqualified. He challenged the crowd to support Kasper for an instant rematch and fans poured out of the stands to contribute towards the kitty in an amount that DeBeers matched for a winner-take-all rematch. The two muscle men then climbed right back into the ring and Kasper pinned DeBeers to walk away with the loot. The ladies also had a title bout on the card. It paired Miss Kitty against The Dazzler who won the belt last week in her victory against Awesome Ondy Austin. Miss Kitty had the champ in trouble, but the Rockford native was tossed over the top rope by the Davenport Dazzler. Miss Kitty was awarded the win, but Dazzler retained the title and championship belt. The final title bout of the evening pitted WCW champion, “Mr. Elec tricity”, Steve Regal, against Jumpin’ Jim Brunzell. This was a rematch of a recent pairing in which there was a disqualification. Brunzell was on his way to a sure victory until Regal’s manager Montana seemed to use foul play which went undetected by the official in the ring. Regal took advantage of the situation and pinned Brunzell who had a foot over the ropes. If this had been seen by the ref, the pin would have been disallowed. Chief Wahoo McDaniel took his 30 years of experience into the ring against Manny ‘Raging Bull’ Fernandez in a true grudge match. The hard fought battle found Fernandez opening a cut on McDaniel’s face after a series of head butts. Both men contested over 12 minutes at a non-stop pace before Fernandez was counted out of the ring for 10 seconds and lost the match. Fernandez than came back into the ring charging at the victor and was promptly tossed to the mat and again left the ring. McDaniels said he was cut on his nose about three weeks ago and waited in the hospital over three hours before he got medical attention. “I think now that I will have to have my nose fixed,” said the veteran of the NWA and the AWA. “I guess it won't get better by itself.” The stage was now set for the 16-man, $20,000 battle royal where the last man standing in the ring takes all the wins of the battle. Kasper, Rockin’ Randy, DeBeers, the Terminators, Bullets and others who wrestled earlier joined Tarzan, Hurricane Smith and another handful of hopefuls in the winner-take-all finale. Once you were tossed over the ropes, or out of the ring, you were out of the running for the cash prize. The bell sounded and a free-for-all the likes of which you have never seen began. Bodies began to fly in all directions as the 16 men were only out for themselves. The mass of muscle and movement in the ring slowed down as the final two survivors, Hurricane Smith and Beach Boy Rogers, stood together in the spotlight, each with only the other between them and the $20,000 purse. The both seemed to arrive at their eventual compromise at the same Mae shook hands and decided to split the pot of gold for their labor in the battle. (Editor's note: Thursday’s Star will feature more pictures of Friday night’s action and an interview with Jumpin’ Jim Brunzell). Bombs over Tokyo Dave Olivia (in ring) taunts one of The Tokyo Bullets during Friday night's © Tokyo crew made Olivia and his mate, Rockin’ Randy, bite the bullet in professional wrestling card held at Lockport high school gymnasium. The the end by winning the match.(Star photo by Carol Dorsett)
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Oak Forest Star
Oak Forest, Illinois, US
Sun, Feb 19, 1989
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