Leroy McGuirk's Tri-State Wrestling

Leroy McGuirk's Tri-State Wrestling - December 5, 1981

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KrisZ891979

4 жыл бұрын

Again featuring a young Jim Ross on PBP
Billy Starr, Ali Bey, & El Toro promo
Porkchop Cash vs. Mike Reed
Scott McGhee vs. Bobby Patterson
Doug Somers & Cowboy Lang vs. Siva Afi & Lone Eagle
Terry Gibbs vs. Hans Von Bruner
Ricky Youngblood & Mark Romero vs. Ali Bey & El Toro
Frank Hill brawls with Billy Starr
Frank Hill & Ricky Youngblood promo

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@shawnsmith9367 2 жыл бұрын

My first wrestling event as a kid was Championship Wrestling in March of '82. It was at the National Gard Armory in Oklahoma City . I guess it was one of their last shows. The main event was Ric Flair vs. Paul Jones.

@zalterman5616 3 жыл бұрын

I love how Jim Ross has to keep telling the fans what colors the Wrestlers are wearing in case they have black and white sets.

@davidmitchell6873 11 ай бұрын

in 1981 pretty much everyone had a color tv in the living room but it wasn't unusual to have black and white tv in a bedroom.

@Sargebri 4 жыл бұрын

A few months later Bill Watts would buy the territory and rename it Mid-South. Also, he broke away from the National Wrestling Alliance, but he still maintained good relations with the other NWA members.

@Sargebri 3 жыл бұрын

@Dominik Easton What does this have to do with this video?

@fredicagoillanoise1309 2 жыл бұрын

Mid South Wrestling ran at the same time as this video. Bill Watts and Leroy McGuirk were co-owners of Tri State until a split in 1979...Watts took Mississippi and Louisiana naming it Mid South while McGuirk kept Oklahoma,Arkansas and Southern Missouri. Watts did indeed withdraw from the NWA as you stated and remained a close ally. Later around 1982-83,Watts bought out McGuirk adding Oklahoma,Arkansas and Southern Missouri. Texas was added through Watts association with Houston promoter Paul Boesch.

@JonathanHoodShow 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing like a little Ronnie Laws to start the show. Hot sax. ☺️❤️

@dantegood2195 3 жыл бұрын

That song is so 🤩

@HoustonIsImmortal 4 жыл бұрын

These territory vids kick ass like Cowboy Lang after 2 shots of tequila!!

@BuckeyeJAG 3 жыл бұрын

Blast fromnthe past. I started watching pro wrestling when living in oklahoma and this was it.

@libra42ful 3 жыл бұрын

It always "felt" good to watch as a 12yr old...still does...

@mrobins71 4 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing. any more tri-state wrestling would be great to see.

@dannymcdowell8524 3 жыл бұрын

Leroy and Bill watts did a fantastic job. I saw many programs, live and on TV. It was special. Akbar, doctor x, grizzly Smith, Bob sweeten, to many stars to list. It was great.

@CatherineBurk 4 жыл бұрын

What a young Jim Ross.

@dantegood2195 3 жыл бұрын

Still looked like he was 45 even in his 20s, lol

@liveclassictunes 4 жыл бұрын

Ali Bey as a tag team champs... wow!

@thedoncrazephaze5375 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting how champs like Terry Gibbs go to NYC & become jobbers(or "jobber to the stars"). WWF(E) brought down a lot of names that were big elsewhere.

@Sargebri 4 жыл бұрын

Same here in Los Angeles.

@paulweston8408 4 жыл бұрын

After he came back Gibbs was a main event jobber most of the time.

@MisterBeauJanGels Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing Terry Gibbs on the radio in 1981. Casey Kasem told us that Gibbs was a blind female country singer. What an amazing transformation.

@musclehal 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to see Terry Gibbs win a match. He was the better and stronger wrestler. Great match. Thanks

@seanabbins5481 4 жыл бұрын

Now I know what his finisher is; I have always wondered. I would have liked to see the introduction, so I could see if he did that thing with his arms that he always did when introduced in his WWF matches.

@bobbylincoln7869 4 жыл бұрын

thank you

@MrChristopherHaas 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the historical post. It’s weak, but it’s history

@paulweston8408 4 жыл бұрын

This was my territory till it got bought out. I still can't believe we had Jimmy Sunka before he went to NY. Him and Paul Jones were the best we got outside a young Ricky Morton.

@jaimewells1725 2 жыл бұрын

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@mauricekaysen9783 2 жыл бұрын

@Jaime Wells flixportal :P

@jaimewells1725 2 жыл бұрын

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@mauricekaysen9783 2 жыл бұрын

@Jaime Wells glad I could help xD

@pooddescrewch8718 3 ай бұрын

This is very rare . Too bad so much of Leroy’s promotion is lost .

@pumpkinsdontcry 4 жыл бұрын

man the 80s murdered the saxophone for the rest of us.

@user-ym9pt7gk7j 12 күн бұрын

excellent wrestling action 🎬 -

@johnsawh8459 Жыл бұрын

Pork Chop Cash, seeing him for the first time, Jim Ross said that Scott McGhee will wrestle later, excellent

@rict5878 3 жыл бұрын

Billy Starr was actually a cool heel manager with the Masonic Lodge Warriors.

@pooddescrewch8718 3 ай бұрын

Ali Bey was a long time opening match guy in TriState and MidSouth . Its telling of the talent pool Tristate was attracting .

@comic_food_guy 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Always enjoy seeing a hammerlock takeover.

@khalidalshakar5226 4 жыл бұрын

Man this is classic Leroy was partner with Bill watts

@americasevilgenius 4 жыл бұрын

Within about three months from the airing of this show, it would all be over for McGuirk's Championship Wrestling.

@willnchicago696 4 жыл бұрын

This was pretty bad. JR was even bad. He developed into a great announcer working with Bill Watts and Boyd Pierce.

@MrChristopherHaas 4 жыл бұрын

willnchicago and JR has admitted it

@mdhotstuff 4 жыл бұрын

Well that's not a shock... they were weak as hell

@simplysteve68 4 жыл бұрын

@@willnchicago696 Boyd Pierce was also an announcer, for the Von Erichs territory, before Bill Mercer and Mark Lowrance.

@patrickpatterson3410 4 жыл бұрын

I used to watch Leroy McGuirk's Tri-State Championship Wrestling back before the split with Watts and attend live matches in Joplin,MO. A cool trip back in time

@mighty690am 4 жыл бұрын

What states was this territory?

@patrickpatterson3410 4 жыл бұрын

@@mighty690am it covered Oklahoma,parts of Arkansas,and parts of south Missouri. Joplin,MO had live matches at the Memorial Hall

@jerryhenry662 4 жыл бұрын

would like to see some great and mighty bolo matches, irish mike clancey, and joe mccarthy

@alanstrong3295 3 жыл бұрын

KJRH-TV provided the place for the program.

@rogertemple7193 3 жыл бұрын

"Prior to the change to Mid South with Bill Watts."-🤔🖥🍺🇺🇲..

@mdhotstuff 4 жыл бұрын

Cool - I never knew about this territory or that ole JR was the host... fun stuff - Frank Hill would go onto become Jules Strongbow and win WWF Tag belts with Jay Strongbow. Siva Afi - journeyman. The return of Terry Gibbs - best known as a WWF jobber

@madbrowniac7871 2 жыл бұрын

He did have an interesting run with both Sawyer Brothers in NWA PNW. Terry Gibbs that is. Upper Mid Card. Around the time of a big Roddy Piper extravaganza that as usual pretty much dominated the Territory.🤔🤷‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎤🤼‍♂️B.W.

@madbrowniac7871 2 жыл бұрын

There is a magazine picture of Buddy Rogers and his old "Rogers's Corner" segment interviewing The Strongbows about circa 1983 pre expansion so they were The WWWF Tag Champs.🤔🎤🤼‍♂️B.W.

@madbrowniac7871 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed it was. And I appreciate the chronological correction.🤔B.W.

@timfrederick9305 4 жыл бұрын

As a fan who grew up on southeastern-Continental wrestling it’s weird seeing Porkchop Cash as a heel he was a popular baby face here

@paulmoholland6568 4 жыл бұрын

i thought he was a good guy in other leagues never saw him back then just read in wrestling mags i was north east wwwf until my uncle got a satelite dish..then got to see eddie grahams wrestling from florida and the shieks big time wrestling. around 1978

@MrHmg55 3 жыл бұрын

He had even been a face in Tri-State before the split. I'm not sure whether he was turned heel in the ring or if he left the area for a while and returned as a heel with no explanation.

@madbrowniac7871 2 жыл бұрын

In NWA Southeastern he was known as "Porkchop" Bobby Cash. A young man who eventually "matriculated down the field" at Mississippi State was obviously impressed. He grew up to become SEC Football Legend "Pork Chop" Floyd Womack in honor of a great regional Pro Wrestler from back in the day!🤔🎤🏈🤼‍♂️B.W.

@madbrowniac7871 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I am quite aware that he could've been named "Bobby Womack!"😂🎼🎤🎸🎷B.W.

@parmaniac 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!! Someone find more McGuirk stuff PLEASE. What was the venue for these tapings?

@bobcollummusic 4 жыл бұрын

These were taped in one of the buildings at Expo Square in Tulsa. The building was actually across form the Expo Fair Pavilion which was where the house shows took place for Tri-State and occasionally Mid-South.

@zalterman5616 3 жыл бұрын

I love how the handlebar mustache kind of segues into the beard on the “Star Child” Billy Starr. I guess Bill Watts sent him packing once he bought the company. He was probably too “hippieish” for Watts.

@MisterBeauJanGels Жыл бұрын

Not really. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orCHmZlklrmaXZc.html

@pooddescrewch8718 3 ай бұрын

No , he worked opening matches for a while. He wasn’t around too long though

@jumptube 4 жыл бұрын

Jim Ross...........In his TWENTIES

@adamwright7954 4 жыл бұрын

the best part of that show was all the 80's jazz-fusion, everything else was pretty bad. Thank god for Bill Watts.

@daveschannel747 Жыл бұрын

Jim Ross' young commentating has humor when he Says PorkChops Cash!

@MrChristopherHaas 4 жыл бұрын

Ali Bay was born to do this.

@HitLeftistsWithHammers 3 жыл бұрын

The music!

@luthstar 4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what building this is?

@bobcollummusic 4 жыл бұрын

It's a building at Expo Square (The Fairgrounds) in Tulsa. It was next door to the Saturday Flea Market and across form the Pavilion.

@calliopivogiatzis2235 2 ай бұрын

I noticed that You Tube dosen't have any of the WWWF tv matches from when Bill Cardile was commentating, before Vince Mc Mahon. Peacock is a joke,they're idea of vintage is Hulk Hogan. Are there any sites out there that may have some of those hard to find tv matches?

@Atomykpimp 4 жыл бұрын

Has the ability to hypnotize himself from pain. Classic! Lol

@BASEMENTWORKOUT-s2o 9 ай бұрын

Wow look at good ol JR

@brettmahon2977 4 жыл бұрын

What state was this filmed?

@paulweston8408 4 жыл бұрын

Tulsa Oklahoma

@pooddescrewch8718 3 ай бұрын

Oklahoma

@TravisTarrant 4 жыл бұрын

Was Tri-State an NWA territory?

@paulweston8408 3 жыл бұрын

It was still NWA

@MrChristopherHaas 4 жыл бұрын

HEY HEY it’s ALI BAY! My favorite jobber has a STRAP

@darcyvachon7700 4 жыл бұрын

Wrestled top talent in WWWF. On the WWE Home Video DVD 'Most Powerful Families in Wrestling': match Baron Scicluna and Ali 'Baba' vs Jay Strongbow and Peter Maivia. Classic!

@loudenkliehr3633 Жыл бұрын

I have a friend that lives in the State of Northern England. I'm sure that JR would get a kick out of that. Or maybe turn red-face. But that's not the most irate thing that Billy Starr has ever heard from Ross.

@stephencaruso212 4 жыл бұрын

Chief Frank Hill=Jules Strongbow

@jamiemark 10 ай бұрын

If the date is correct, this show was still running at the same time that Mid-South Wrestling was already a thing. It's obvious at this point that Watts had the bigger stars. Exactly when did this show/promotion stop running?

@cheeseguy4998 3 жыл бұрын

Pork Chop Cash Also wrestled in Memphis

@troylowe814 2 жыл бұрын

Loved his tag team with Troy Graham. Look up "Bruise Brothers funeral" on YT

@markdarter1353 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the tune used as "bumper music" from 23:41 to 24:09 and from 39:26 to 40:10?

@MisterBeauJanGels Жыл бұрын

Shazam says it's "The Show" by Steve Hackett.

@markdarter1353 Жыл бұрын

@@MisterBeauJanGels You are correct. I checked it out and verified that. Thanks for the tip.

@CadillacL 4 жыл бұрын

I know Mark Romero is Mark Youngblood. Not sure who the other is?

@timfrederick9305 4 жыл бұрын

Lane Crooks Rick Youngblood was I think later called Chris Youngblood he was Mark and Jays brother

@willnchicago696 4 жыл бұрын

Tim Frederick I don’t think that is Chris, he would’ve only been 15 or 16 at the time. A Google search turned up Ricky Bird as Ricky Youngblood

@conniehill4483 4 жыл бұрын

He is Ricky Romero Jr

@richardbrazzel242 3 жыл бұрын

after the split from watts I often wondered how good mcguirk's wrestling was. This is sub par, most of these guys were mid card in his previous territory with watts. Did he not have a booker at this point and just booking for himself?

@phildodson6141 3 жыл бұрын

I believe george Scott was booking here

@tamalie2 2 жыл бұрын

This was the bitter end when the promotion only had about six months to go. George Scott had just taken over and he upgraded the talent and booking somewhat. However, the promotion expired before whatever he’d planned for the long run got off the ground.

@HorrorFreak68 2 жыл бұрын

Who would've won a match between Mike Reed and Mike Bond??? Lol

@lodi70005 Жыл бұрын

Are they the same guy? I sort of remember a jobber named Mike Bond. Maybe, he looked good in a suit, so they thought a gimmick name of Bond would help out. Nope.

@danburnette7674 9 ай бұрын

2 different wrestlers

@evdallas123 4 жыл бұрын

JR was a teenager

@simplysteve68 4 жыл бұрын

Nah, he looked to be in his late 20s early 30s here.

@MrHmg55 3 жыл бұрын

How in the world does McGhee weigh more than Patterson?

@TheLeebo1962 2 жыл бұрын

heights and weights were often exaggerated back then. they usually anounced don bass as 6' 1" and he wasn't even my height.

@daveschannel747 Жыл бұрын

Is this the Mike Reed jobber who wrestled for Fritz' World Class?

@danburnette7674 9 ай бұрын

Yep

@RandyDubin 4 жыл бұрын

"Porkchop Cash", ROTMFFLOLMMFAO!!!!!!

@mdhotstuff 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder what he likes to eat

@brianlefevre5154 3 жыл бұрын

Porkchops. Dummy.

@Game-ib3ql 4 жыл бұрын

Jr was 19 here.

@Batony 4 жыл бұрын

He was 29.

@chrischar1969 4 жыл бұрын

math is tough

@impalaman9707 2 ай бұрын

Central States junior

@calliopivogiatzis2235 Жыл бұрын

Bobby Patterson looks like he dosen't know what sport he's involved in

@montecarlo4294 4 жыл бұрын

Was Eric Bischoff there?

@paulmoholland6568 4 жыл бұрын

eric bischoff was,nt even in wrestling then he got in the awa 1986 or 87

@lodi70005 3 жыл бұрын

So,we have a Native American named Youngblood,but the Chief is a “Native” American named Frank Hill? Damn,systematic racism;).

@bradmartin3668 3 жыл бұрын

At 25:45, WTF?

@lodi70005 3 жыл бұрын

I know. It looks like either a lady or a kid in bed with some shady dude in a black hat and cloak doing something? It’s the inspiration for Dustin Rhodes as Platinum.

@steaveadams7937 2 жыл бұрын

This was taped over some bad porn😂

@rogertemple7193 3 жыл бұрын

"Tri-State Wrestling:(1981); With Host:Jim Ross; Porkchhop Cash: (Washington,D.C.;6'4",311); vs. "Exciting" Mike Reed: (Knoxville,Tenn.;6'1",243); _________ "the Scottish Superstar" Scott McGhee: (Aberdeen,Scotland;6'1",244); vs. "Playboy" Bobby Patterson: (Syracuse,N.Y.;6'1",241); "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers: (Minneapolis, Minn.;6'2",246); & Cowboy Lang: (Longview, TX.;4'6",100); vs. "the Islander" Siva Afi: (Samoa;6'1",245); & Lone Eagle: (Salem, Ore.;4'1";95); __________ "Mr. Terrific" Terry Gibbs: (Sarasota,Fl.;6'2",253) vs. "the Stomper" Hans von Bruner: (Hamburg,Ger.;6'3",277) __________ "Chief"Ricky Youngblood: (Tucson,Ariz.;5'11",239); & "Shooting Star" Mark Romero: (Tempe,Ariz.;5'10",229); vs. "Shiek"Ali Bey: (Cairo,Egypt;6'1",267); & El Toro: (Madrid,Spain;6'3",269); __________ "Chief"Jules Strongbow,Jr.: (Pawhuska,OKLA..;6'2",261); vs. "Mr. Nasty" Billy Starr: (Nashville,Tenn.;6'1",230) __________."-🖥🌐🌍🌎🌏🌐..