CWF TV 6-2-84 Bret Hart vs Cobra!
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“CANADIAN ALL-STAR WRESTLING”
Broadcast on Saturday, June 2, 1984 on CBC affiliates across Canada
Taped earlier in the day at the PNE Agrodome in Vancouver, British Columbia
Opening Clip:
. . . After having his hand raised, Superstar decides he hasn’t inflicted enough punishment, and gives Zenk a second neckbreaker!
He then pulls Zenk up and signals that he’s going to give him a third! The referee tries to stop him, but Superstar just shoves him to the mat!
HERE COMES DINO BRAVO!!!
The International champ hits the ring. Superstar tosses Zenk aside as Bravo slides into the ring. Superstar goes at him, but Bravo blocks his punches, and stuns the Superstar with a flurry of rights and lefts!
Bobby Heenan pulls the Superstar out of the ring before Bravo can do any further damage. Superstar wants to get back in and fight, but Heenan convinces him to head to the back.
Bravo gets on the house mic and says that Superstar’s real tough when he jumps people from behind, but when it’s a fair fight, face to face, he runs with his tail between his legs!
As Bravo climbs out of the ring, the Superstar rushes back out!!!! They tear into each other again, but a group of referees and other wrestlers are right behind the Superstar, and they quickly get them separated!
Billy Red Lyons, Ed Whalen and Pat Patterson are seated at the announce desk. They welcome us to “Canadian All-Star Wrestling”!
We’re in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, and just hours away from the final Canadian title tournament, taking place tonight at the Pacific Coliseum. Last Saturday night in Calgary, another title tournament took place, and the masked man from Japan, the Cobra, made it to the finals where he faced Calgary native Bret Hart. We’ll see that match later on today on this very program!
Plus, Heenan Family members Paul Orndorff and the Masked Superstar will team up today.
JAY YOUNGBLOOD defeats BOBBY BASS (FA). Youngblood shows why he is considered one of the top young stars in the sport today, as he wears Bass down, and connects with the flying Tomahawk Chop from the top rope for the pinfall victory.
Lyons, Whalen and Patterson are joined by Bobby Heenan, the Masked Superstar and Paul Orndorff. Heenan runs down Dino Bravo, saying he can’t believe these fans look up to him! He asks what kind of champion sticks his nose in someone else’s match, and attacks someone when they’re back is turned, like Bravo did to the Masked Superstar last week?
Billy Red tries to remind Heenan that it was the Superstar who started all of this, attacking Bravo the week before, but Heenan cuts him off, and says that he’s sure the humanoids out there are just as sick as he is of Billy Red’s lies. He says that Bravo likes to run around attacking the Superstar from behind, but when he and the Superstar issue a challenge for a match, all of the sudden, Bravo is nowhere to be found! He says that Bravo is a coward, and doubts he’ll ever find the guts to step into the ring with the Masked Superstar.
Superstar says that he hopes that’s not the case, he desperately wants a match with Bravo, and says that if it happens, he will get so much enjoyment out of taking Bravo apart, piece by piece, from hurting Bravo and ending his career!
Heenan says that he warned Bravo, that Dino didn’t want him as an enemy, and says that he has one simple goal, even more important to him than taking Bravo’s International title, and that’s putting Bravo out of wrestling for good!
Paul Orndorff then complains about the lack of competition, and says that the CWF keeps giving him matches against chumps like Dewey Robertson, Rocky Johnson, and that washed up ex-football player George Wells. He says that Wells couldn’t even make it to the NFL, that’s why he came to Canada and played in the CFL, a second-rate league for players who don’t have what it takes to play in the big leagues!
When Ed Whalen points out that Orndorff never actually played a regular season game in the NFL either, Orndorff gets mad, and says that he would’ve been the greatest player the NFL had ever seen, but some jerk who was trying out for the same position intentionally injured him during training camp, to ensure Orndorff wouldn’t make the team over him, and that ended his pro football career.
THE MASKED SUPERSTAR & PAUL ORNDORFF (w/ Bobby Heenan) defeat BOB & JOE MARCUS (FA). Orndorff and the Superstar dominate the match, and get the win when Orndorff drops Joe Marcus with a Piledriver, at the same time Superstar hits Bob with the Corkscrew Neckbreaker. Superstar and Orndorff each cover a Marcus brother, with the referee counting the pin of Orndorff on Joe, as they’re the legal men.
After the decision is announced, Superstar hits Bob Marcus with a second Neckbreaker. As Heenan and his team left the ring, medical personnel checked on Bob Marcus, eventually fitting him with a neckbrace and taking him from the ring on a stretcher!
ROCKY “SOULMAN” JOHNSON defeats THE MASKED TERRORIST. Rocky hits the ring and tears into the masked man the second the bell sounds. The entire match lasts about 45 seconds, as Rocky stuns the Terrorist with a flurry of punches, then hits the big knockout punch for the pinfall.
TULLY BLANCHARD defeats TOM ZENK. Tully gets the win after connecting with the slingshot suplex.
Billy Red, Whalen and Patterson talk about the Canadian title tournament, and the fact that we’ve seen Ricky Martel and Tully Blanchard advance so far. We’re about to see the final from the tournament in Calgary last Saturday night, where Bret Hart faced the Cobra, one of the top young wrestlers from Japan.
We see short clips of Tully defeating Rocky Johnson to advance to the semi-finals, and Rick Martel beating Bobby Duncum by DQ to advance.
TAPED ON 5/26/84 IN CALGARY, ALBERTA, JIP:
THE COBRA defeats BRET HART[/b]. We join the match already in progress. On commentary, Lyons, Whalen and Patterson talk about Bret being more of a methodical mat wrestler, while the Cobra is known to take a lot of risks. As they’re talking about that, we see exactly what they mean, as the Cobra slingshots himself over the top rope, onto Bret on the floor! The impact seemed to be almost as hard on the masked man as it was on Bret! Cobra is up first though, and rolls Bret back into the ring, then heads to the top rope. As Bret gets up, the Cobra dives off the top . . . but Bret sidesteps him and the Cobra crashes to the mat! Bret immediately goes for the cover, but somehow the Cobra manages to get a shoulder up at the very last possible second!
The match goes back and forth for the next few minutes, until the Cobra eventually takes control, and drops Bret with a kneeling reverse piledriver, then heads to the top rope and delivers the seated Senton! Cobra covers Bret and gets the 1, 2, 3!
The Cobra is the third wrestler to advance to the semi-finals of the Canadian title tournament!
Lyons, Whalen and Patterson wrap up the show, and hype next week’s program, which will feature the finals of the last Canadian title tournament, set to take place in just a few hours.
Credits Roll
© 1984, Canadian Wrestling Federation
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