| chrisstlouis - September 14th, 2013 00:15 GMT |
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Sept. 13, 1974 – Kiel (att. 7440)
*Missouri Champion Dory Funk Jr. beat Dick Murdoch (still being spelled as Murdock at
the time)
*Johnny Valentine beat Big Bill Miller in a Texas Death Match
Bobo Brazil and Pat O’Connor won from Yugo Babich and Alfred Hayes when Brazil
beat Babich
Rufus R. Jones beat Don Fargo
Mike George draw Bob Geigel
Ben Justice and Bulldog Bob Brown won from Ronnie Etchison and Sailor Art Thomas.
1-Brown beat Thomas. 2-Etchison beat Justice. 3-Brown beat Etchison.
From The Golden Era
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| daragaki - September 14th, 2013 00:40 GMT |
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Top to bottom , this a great card. Valentine vs Miller looks like a winner.
ALOHA FROM HAWAII
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| chrisstlouis - September 14th, 2013 01:52 GMT |
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I would think an all out war
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| Old Ringsider - September 15th, 2013 01:04 GMT |
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Wasn't as good as it looked. Dory/Dick was great, went half an hour before Funk won with a backslide.
Valentine/Miller stole the show--it was brutal!
Babich was no more than a jobber in STL so the tag was nothing. Pat had spent years booking himself with Rufus and was now doing a run with Bobo.
Rufus/Fargo was a waste, as almost all RRJ bouts were.
George and Geigel as I recall did 20 minutes of very slow moving, mostly arm bars and headlocks. Sleepwalking through the bout.
Opening was weird. Three solid STL midcarders and Justice, who was only slightly above jobber status. Yet the weaker team won. Brown would be headlining against Dory two cards later so I guess this was the start of a small push for him. It didn't convince anyone.
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| RoanFan - September 24th, 2013 19:09 GMT |
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Anyone Know,
I thought all of these St Louis shows were taped, for instance, Geigel vs CB Bog Ellis is from 69 I think. Does anyone know how far back they actually did tape and WHAT happedned to them? Does McMahan own them now? Thanks!
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| RoanFan - September 24th, 2013 19:10 GMT |
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Bob Brown was a worker, but I was never impressed!
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| chrisstlouis - September 26th, 2013 21:20 GMT |
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The only stuff that exists is from the 13 or so DVDS they put out. ownership is undetermined. It was sold to a station in canada, then they were sold...
The only stuff taped was the TV shows. Something could be shot for a specific use, like to use footage to build up something.
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| Tojo Mojo - September 27th, 2013 01:36 GMT |
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Rufus R. Jones & Bob Brown--yawn, both boring.
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| Tojo Mojo - September 27th, 2013 01:37 GMT |
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I would of enjoyed those top two matches, though.
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| Old Ringsider - September 27th, 2013 11:45 GMT |
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Filming at Kiel or The Arena was VERY rare under Muchnick. They used a couple of Mike Gratchner's movies and once or twice had something filmed to promote a rematch. Brisco vs Murdoch and DiBiase vs Race are two times I can remember for sure they did this.
The theory at the time was that if you broadcast your best stuff, who would pay to see it live? That thinking certainly held true in Kansas City where they routinely broadcast every weekly show, often to its conclusion.
KPLT in its limited vision reused its video tapes and copied over all of the WATC shows. Other copies exist but mostly from the seventies onward. Very sad.
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| chrisstlouis - September 27th, 2013 21:16 GMT |
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KPLR....and werent the size of the tapes huge?
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| Old Ringsider - September 30th, 2013 13:17 GMT |
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Dumb typos--hard to believe I got through a whole book, isn't it? 
Yes, the tape reels would have been about 15 inches or so in diameter and the tape width as I recall was more than an inch.
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