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Is there anyone here who remembers Columbus Championship Wrestling? It used to air on WRBL channel 3 in Columbus, every Saturday afternoon live, right after Soul Train. The host was Jim Carlisle, a local car salesman and radio host (and what better training could you have for hosting a pro wrestling show than selling cars?)
Every Saturday at 4 p.m., live from the Sports Arena (actually an old warehouse in downtown Columbus), you would have Columbus Championship Wrestling. Jim Carlisle would open the show and introduce the promoter, Fred Ward. Ward was always extremely friendly and would always open the show with "we're live here at the sports arena and there's still time for you to come down and join us, and for all of our sick friends and shut in friends, we hope you'll be up and at'em real real soon"
The Columbus show was a live show and as such the scene of some great moments. Such as the time Angelo Mosca and Bob Orton unmasked Mr. Wrestling II. II was at the desk talking to Carlisle, and Mosca and Orton came out and confronted him, and Mosca got II in a headlock and Orton pulled his mask off. II dropped behind the desk, and Carlisle looked down in shocked disbelief, "oh my god! mr. wrestling II! mr. wrestling II!" Carlisle took off his sports jacket and II left the studio with the jacket draped over his head. Orton later came back wearing the mask on his head, setting up the inevitable II vs. Orton "mask vs. mask" match
And then there was the classic angle, where Mark Lewin was in as a heel, the master of the sleeper hold. Carlisle wasn't convinced the sleeper actually worked. So Lewin took volunteers from the studio audience to have the sleeper put on them, and one by one, he put about 10 or 12 audience members to sleep. So now all these studio members are alseep on the floor next to the ring. Carlisle says, "okay now I'm convinced, wake them up" And naturally, being the heel, Lewin refused. Carlise nearly had a heart attack, "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! Mark, if you don't wake them up, they'll DIE!!!!!!!!!" Lewin laughs and starts to walk out of the studio. And of course, our hero, Mr. Wrestling II shows up to block his way out and they have a fight. II ends up running to the sleeping fans and desperately slapping them on the back to wake them up. Of course any heel who would dare risk the lives of fans risked the wrath of II, and the next Wednesday at Municipal Auditorium, was the big grudge match, Mr. Wrestling II vs. Mark Lewin, the Atomic Knee Lift vs. the Sleeper.
The Columbus show was live and anything could happen. To me wrestling hasn't been the same since that show ended.
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November 20th, 2003 04:52 GMT |
 
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Columbus was indeed a great show. Living south of Macon, we would always watch Macon's taped show on Saturday at noon, followed by Columbus at 4pm and GCW at 6:05pm. Carlisle was terrific, and those live matches with II, Superstar, Ole, Rich, Baron, Thunderbolt Patterson, and many, many more bring back great memories. A couple of commercials I remember that would air during the Columbus show included Pritchett's (a Catfish House starring Johnny Catfish) and The Moving Man (a downtown Columbus men's clothing store that sold what we now refer to as Pimp Suits!) FOR ADVANCED RESERVATIONS CALL 324-0243 . . . A FRED WARD PROMOTION!
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