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- Will Gonzalez
Welcome to
another installment of SWCW where
today I will talk about the last months of the promotion. Last time I
talked about the many stars that had made appearances in the area, but
Joe Blanchard was going to bring some big guns in for an outdoor show at
Harlindale Memorial Stadium. He was going to bring in such superstars
as: Carlos Colon, Abdullah the Butcher, Jimmy "The Boogie Woogie
Man" Valiant, Blackjack Mulligan, Kevin Sullivan, as
well as bringing back the Rock N Roll Express.
The build-up to this card was
something else. The football
stadium which seats about 15,000 people was only going to be open on one
side to make sure all fans would be able to see all the action. With
only over 9,500 seats it
was sure to sell out quickly. In the coming weeks matches were being
announced and the main event was going to consist of 3 matches. One of
the most interesting matches was going to be the long standing feud
between Colon and the Butcher. All their
matches all over the country were
bloodbaths and this match would
probably be no different.
The card consisted of 15 matches and lasted almost 5 hours, below
are the results of the important matches on this card:
Carlos Colon vs.
Abdullah The Butcher No Contest
In a Steel cage: The
Sheepherders Beat The Zambuie Express
Evelyn Stevens Beat Susie Green
Blackjack Mulligan beat Kevin Sullivan by DQ
after Sullivan threw a fireball at Mulligan
Jimmy Valiant Beat Killer Brooks by DQ
Fabulous Blondes Beat the Rock N Roll
Express.
This card was held in late
August but by this time the financial problems were getting worse, but
in late September Joe
Blanchard brought in the best
tag team in the country at the time the Road Warriors, along with Jos
Leduc, and Brett Sawyer.
But later in the year disaster struck for
the company. Fred
Berhend, a local bail bondsmen
and Blanchard's partner did something that all but killed the promotion.
Berhend was helping Fritz Von Erich promote many cards in South Texas,
and decided to sell most of the SWCW Television time slots to World
Class Championship Wrestling.
This only left a handful of English
stations and the rest were Spanish
stations that carried SWCW.
This was a shock because Southwest mainly held cards all over
Texas.
By Jan 1985 the promotion was all but done with the company
all but finished. Blanchard
decided to change the name to Lone Star Wrestling. It would take in
effect in Feb of that year.
The following were the last
SWCW Champs at the time the promotion closed.
SWCW Champion- Kevin Sullivan
SWCW Tag Team Champions- The Wild Maoris
SWCW Junior Champion- Ron Sexton.
Once Lonestar come aboard the end of a great era had come, for many like
myself who were fortunate to see SWCW knew that we lost something that
will never come back ever again.
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