Wrestling History Message Forum

[Bushinyou]

I have Jos LeDuc beating Jimmy Valiant for the NWA Television Title on 09/19/1982 in Charlotte. I have listings of him as champion until at least 10/26/1982, in a Mid-Atlantic title match against Jack Brisco.

Strangely enough, I have Ivan Koloff making a defense against Valiant on 10/03/1982 in Toronto.

It seems the lineage of the TV Title during this time frame might be a bit muddled.

[Bushinyou]

My main point, which I neglected to put in my original post, was to ask if anyone had a result with LeDuc taking on Johnny Weaver from September-November 1982.

[HMFiles]

My first thought was: perhaps the Toronto match was for the Canadian TV Title, which was contested by various JCP wrestlers in that timeframe. However, neither Koloff nor Valiant held that one.

Is it possible that the Koloff-Valiant match was from 3/10 (as in March 10) instead of 10/3 (Oct 3) ?

[HMFiles]

From
http://www.oldschool-wrestling.com/geeklog/article.php/Mid-Atlantic-wrestling-1982

10/3/82 Toronto
Jimmy Valiant beat Ivan Koloff
WWF Champion Bob Backlund beat Bob Orton Jr
Pvt. Kernodle & Private Nelson beat Leo Burke & Johnny Weaver
Buddy Rose beat Tony Garea
Tony Parisi & Nick DeCarlo beat The Destroyer & Chuck Conners
Abe Jacobs beat Kenny Hall

[Bushinyou]

This is what confuses me about the Toronto card:

October 2 1982 - Greensboro,NC
U.S Champ Wahoo Mcdaniel defeated Sgt.Slaughter by DQ
Jimmy Valiant beat TV Champ Jos Leduc by DQ
Greg Valentine and Pvt.Kernodle beat Jay Youngblood and Porkchop Cash
Johnny Weaver beat Pvt.Nelson
Gene Anderson beat Keith Larson


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And like I said, LeDuc is listed in Zordani's results as TV champion as late as this card:

October 26 1982 - Raleigh,NC
Mid Atlantic Champ Jack Brisco defeated TV Champ Jos Leduc
Greg Valentine beat Jimmy Valiant by DQ
Paul Jones beat Johnny Weaver
Pvt.Nelson beat King Parsons
Porkchop Cash beat Jim Dalton
Keith Larson beat Ken Timbs

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On Hisa's title history, this would be the title change:

10/17/82 Toronto
Rudy Kay drew Pvt Nelson, Terry Kay beat Ken Timbs, Buddy Rose beat Nick
DeCarlo, Johnny Weaver beat Leo Burke, Sal Bellomo beat Charlie Fulton, Swede
Hansen beat Tim Gerrard, Jimmy Valiant beat Ivan Koloff NY Street fight, Ric
Flair beat Dory Funk Jr.

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I believe something isn't right in the title history, but I can't seem to nail it down with 100% certainty.

[Dan Poutsma]

The info I have says that Leroy Brown won a battle royal on 11/27/82 to win the TV title after LeDuc was stripped. This comes from Richard Sullivan, who grew up on JCP/Mid-Atlantic and seems to know it inside out. However, there is no date given as to when he was stripped. It just says 1982. But given what you have, it seems that it occurred sometime after the 10/26 match with Brisco.

As for Koloff being TV champion on the Toronto cards and losing the title to Valiant, while Sullivan's title history mentions that the championship was also defended in the Toronto promotion, it does not list these title changes. According to his history, Valiant won the title from Koloff in early '82 (no location listed, but it is presumably the switch in Hampton) and was champion until losing to LeDuc on 09/19. While Toronto used JCP talent and titles, they were not part of the main circut. They had their own TV show, Maple Leaf Wrestling, and I don't think what they were doing there was ever acknowledged on Crockett's Mid-Atlantic Championship or World Wide Wrestling shows. So for whatever reason it appears that they were doing their own title switches there between Valiant and Koloff that were not recognized in the Mid-Atlantic. So even after LeDuc won the title from Valiant in the Mid-Atlantic, he and Koloff were still fighting over the title in Toronto. That's why the dates don't add up: Valiant was always champion in Crockettland until losing to LeDuc while the title kept changing hands between he and Koloff in Toronto.