WWWF Championship Wrestling 7/9/1977

WWWF Championship Wrestling 7/9/1977

Note - We only have a partial version of this.

Larry Zbyszko and Tony Garea vs Joe Turco and Rocky Tamayo

Larry and Joe go at it. Joe teases some punches. Larry armlocks him and Joe pulls the hair. Joe clubs him and backs off. Joe is scared off by Tony. Joe pulls the hair and side headlocks Larry but Larry rolls him into a pin attempt off the side headlock. Joe puts his feet on the ropes and Tony keeps removing the foot. Tony puts his boot in Joe's face and breaks it up.

Joe clubs Larry's chest and Larry chest clubs him down. Larry hammerlocks RT and they do reversals. Larry wristlocks him and is eye raked. Larry's head is banged off of Joe's boot and RT punches Larry. Joe clubs Larry and bangs his head off the buckles. Joe chinlocks him. 

RT stomps Larry and bangs his head off the buckles. Larry is held for a boot from Joe. Joe is lifted and carried into the other corner. Tony gets in and is fired up. Tony hits shots to the chest of Joe then nails RT also. Tony dropkicks Joe and Joe tags out.

RT and Tony lock up. RT hits shots to the gut and elbows him in the back of the neck. Joe boots Tony and clubs on him. Joe shoulders Ton over. Tony hits a hiptoss and an armdrag. Larry gets in and arm wringers Joe.

RT tags in. RT gives him the up yours signal. Larry arm wringers him then Tony kicks the arm. Tony arm wringers RT then hammerlock takedowns him into a top wristlock. RT trips him and goes for a pin but Tony tags out.

Larry arm wringers RT then hammerlocks him. RT trips him. Joe is held for chest shots from Tony. Joe eye rakes him. Tony double boots RT out of the corner then hits shots on him. Tony drops down and RT runs into Larry's bearhug. RT then taps out.

Thoughts: It was simple wrestling here with the heels doing some basic cheating and the faces sticking to chest forearms and armwringers. Tony's offense didn't look that good here. The heels were effective and Joe was amusing taking old man bumps.

"High Chief" Peter Maivia vs Pete Doherty

 
Pete is young here and doesn't even have a beard. PM rolls at PD multiple times. PD misses a shot on the ropes and takes armdrags. PD hiptosses PM then is armdragged again. PM hip throws PD. PD eye rakes him a couple of times. PM chops him in the gut and makes him jump. PD's head is banged off the buckles. PM does a dance.

PM spanks PD out of the abdominal stretch. PM then lays on the buckles. PD charges at him, misses a splash and goes over the top. PD gets back in and does his own dance. PM gutbusters him. 

PD side headlocks him then eye rakes him. PD clubs him. PD bends over and takes euros. PM then stump pullers him and submits him.

Thoughts: It was an entertaining squash here. Doherty bumped around well and showed personality. Maivia is such an unusual wrestler who is really into looking cool and he had a lot of fun messing with Doherty here. I've never really seen such an unconventional guy like Maivia before.

Overall thoughts: There's sadly only 2 matches out there from this show and I watched both of them. The opener had some enjoyable moments but was mostly armwringers, basic heel work and bad forearms from Garea. Doherty/Maivia was an entertaining squash with both guys showing a lot of personality. There was nothing must see here but what exists of this wasn't bad.