I guess this will do if you’re in for a dream match for the NWA World Title.

NWA World Title: Harley Race vs. Jack Brisco
Date: August 12, 1978
Location: Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, Florida

Well if you insist. Race is defending and this is from Championship Wrestling From Florida. We’re going to have a lot of clipping here and don’t actually hear the opening bell. Race bails into the corner but Brisco hammers away and throws him over the top, which is usually a DQ in the NWA but doesn’t seem to be the case here. The ring announcer reminds us that this is No DQ so there’s your answer.

Back in and Race hits a headbutt to set up a front facelock to slow things down. We’re clipped to Brisco fighting up but Race drives him down again. We’re clipped again to Race still working on the same hold and even hanging on as Brisco grabs a fireman’s carry. The camera stays on the referee for some reason until Brisco punches the leg to escape.

Race is down and we’re clipped to Brisco yelling at the referee and hammering away at Race in the corner. The Figure Four goes on and we get the four minute call (it’s a 60 minute time limit and we’ve barely seen six minutes so that is some serious clipping) but Race turns it over. Brisco turns over (with Race still facing down) and kicks him in the ribs with three minutes left.

A belly to back suplex drops Race for a second, followed by a collision for a double knockdown (with Race doing the slow motion fall). Race goes up top with two minutes left but gets slammed down. Brisco hits a dropkick and grabs the Figure Four with a minute left but Race is in the ropes in a hurry. A backbreaker gives Brisco two and he grabs a rollup as time expires at about 10:00 shown of 60:00. Way too much clipping to rate but there is a reason that these people are as revered as they are. You could see the great match in there and the ending had some drama. Watch as much of these two as you can find.

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Date: July 1, 1978
Location: KXTV Studios, Sacramento, California
Commentator: Hank Renner

Jerry Monte vs. Buddy Rose

Guy Lambert vs. Roddy Piper

We get some more bagpipes before the match. Piper takes his sweet time in taking off the kilt before we can get going. Lambert scores with a quick slam to send Piper outside and three armdrags into an armbar. Piper fights out of a wristlock (how did he ever manage to do that?) and hammers away in the corner, followed by a clothesline for two of his own. A high backdrop gets the same but Lambert puts on a freaky abdominal stretch. That goes nowhere and Piper punches a lot more before finishing with a pair of swinging neckbreakers.

The rest of the tape is cut off.

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Date: June 24, 1978
Location: KXTV Studios, Sacramento, California
Commentator: Hank Renner

Roddy Piper vs. Tony Milan

Those trademark punches in the corner and some more forearms to the back of the head continue the squash as Piper is showing some awesome fire out there. A clothesline gets two but Piper pulls him up twice in a row. Piper does the same thing off a swinging neckbreaker before a second is enough to finally end Milan. Total squash and Piper looked like a star.

House show ads tell us of a show on Tuesday, June 27, meaning this is taking place in 1978. The announcer saying that today is June 24 makes it a bit easier. At the house show taking place that night: Harley Race defending the NWA World Title against Dean Ho.

Dean Ho shows us a Harley Race match.

Harley Race vs. Mike Stallings

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Date: November 11, 1978
Location: WMC-TV Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Commentators: Lance Russell, Dave Brown

The announcers run down the card for the day as is their custom.

Wayne Ferris/Jimmy Valiant vs. Danny Davis/Sammy Holt

Valiant, by far the biggest star in the match at this point, sends Davis (the Nightmare, not the referee) into the corner to start. The much larger Valiant throws Davis around and pokes him in the eye before slamming him down for two. Ferris comes in, gets in a single shot, and brings Valiant back in for a slam.

Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee come out to congratulate Valiant on his success with Dundee suggesting a concert along with Lawler. Valiant likes the idea of having Jerry playing some hillbilly music before Valiant would come out and rock like Meat Loaf. Jerry leaves and Dundee has a petition to get a woman named Heather a match against a man to be named later. Apparently Heather recently beat a wrestling bear.

Bounty Hunters vs. Robert Gibson/Jackie Welch

Novak blocks an armdrag attempt and drops an elbow before laying out Gibson with a knee to the head. Off to Welch who has about the same luck against David. Tag off to Jerry Novak so at least we know both of their names. Welch is thrown to the floor but Jerry punches him off the apron to be an evil jerk. Gibson comes in sans tag but the distraction allows Malone to piledrive Welch on the floor for the countout.

Post match Malone and the Hunters destroy Gibson until Lawler and Dundee make the save.

Terry Sawyer apologizes to Tommy Gilbert over something not important enough to mention.

Don Fargo/Bill Dromo vs. Tommy Gilbert/Terry Sawyer

Koko Ware vs. Steve Brody

Jerry Lawler apologizes to the fans for what happened but not to Valiant.

Pat Kelly/Mike Kelly vs. Bill Dundee/Jerry Lawler

The announcers quickly wrap things up to end the show.

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Date: August 28, 1978
Location: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York
Commentator: Vince McMahon

Stan Stasiak vs. Dominic DeNucci

They fight over a full nelson and exchange control of it more than once each. DeNucci finally says screw this and forearms Stasiak in the face. This match has time limit draw written all over it. They slug it out with Stasiak being staggered. Stasiak hooks a hammerlock and they slug it out some more. DeNucci hooks an abdominal stretch which he drops very quickly.

Baron Mikel Scicluna vs. Haystacks Calhoun

Special Delivery Jones vs. Victor Rivera

WWWF World Title: Bob Backlund vs. Ivan Koloff

Bob puts him on the top rope to counter and hooks something like a spinning toehold. Thankfully this one lasts less than the usual two hours with Ivan kicking him in the ribs. Ivan sends him into the ropes but they ram heads, sending Bob to the floor. Koloff is smart and breaks up the count so he can still win the title. Backlund gets rammed into the post and a backbreaker gets two.

Ivan goes up top for the biggest pop (and possibly the only one so far) of the match but his top rope knee drop misses. Backlund sends him in but gets kicked down again, this time back to the floor again. Koloff breaks up the count again, this time by going up top and jumping down onto the apron, kicking Bob in the head on the way down. That would be considered a big spot back then.

Luck Graham vs. Peter Maivia

Dusty Rhodes vs. Billy Graham

Who do you think is defending? Moolah looks very different with black hair. Vicki whips her around by said hair to start and grabs an armbar. Moolah takes her down into a cross armbreaker but Vicki easily counters. That counter sequence goes on for awhile until Moolah says screw this wrestling nonsense and chokes away in the corner. Sunset flip gets two for Vicki. Moolah grabs a rollup out of nowhere for the pin.

Spiros Arion/Yukon Lumberjacks vs. Andre the Giant/Tony Garea/Dino Bravo