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Match
Results (From KC, Wichita,Topeka, & Lincoln)
Records indicate Buck
Robley winning the TV Title in January. It is not known who he defeated,
as the TV Title had been vacated in late '83 when Tommy Fulton left the
area...Harley Race feuds with Crusher Blackwell throughout the summer
and fall in a series of chain and cage matches...Tiger Mask (Ken Wayne)
debuts early in the year. This is not the original Japanese Tiger Mask...Wahoo
McDaniel makes a mid year tour...
NWA Champion Ric Flair's
Title defenses in the area included January 23 in Wichita drawing Bruiser
Brody, a January 26 KC defense against Harley Race, February 23 in KC
drawing JYD, defeating Bob Brown in St Joe on February 24, beating Buzz
Sawyer in KC on April 19, a July KC defense against Race, and beating
Crusher Blackwell via COR in KC on November 29
JANUARY,
FEBRUARY, and MARCH
Buck Robley wins TV Title from ? in Des Moines (1-18)
Tully Blanchard wins CS title from Tyler in KC (1-26)
Tiger Mask feuds with Roger Kirby
Buzz Tyler regains CS title in barbed wire cage match in KC (2-9)
Grapplers (Len Denton & Tony Anthony) win vacated tag titles
in KC tournament final win over Oates brothers (3-29)...titles held up
due to loaded boot used by Grapplers...Oates bros win rematch in KC on
4-4 to win titles...Grapplers win titles 1 week later in KC (4-11)
Buck Robley leaves the area, vacates TV Title (March)
APRIL,
MAY, and JUNE
Luke Graham wins CS title from Tyler KC (4-19)...Graham and Tyler
feud throughout April in May in a series of cage and chain matches
Art Crews wins tourney in Topeka to claim the vacated TV Title
(5-21)
Stan Hansen and Baron Von Raschke go to a wild NC in KC (May)
Ted Oates wins CS belt from Graham in KC (6-21)...on the same card,
The Uptown Boys (Marty Janetty & Tommy Rogers) defeat Grapplers for
tag belts
MEB (Man Eating Beast) debuts (June)
Ted Oates turns from face to heel (June)
JULY, AUGUST,
and SEPTEMBER
Grapplers
regain tag belts from Uptown Boys in KC (7-26)
Buzz Tyler wins CS title in Columbia, MO (8-12)
Uptown Boys regain tag belts from Grapplers in KC (8-23)
Gypsy Joe wins TV Title from Art Crews (Sept)...Buzz Tyler wins
belt in Lincoln, Neb (9-12)
Gypsy Joe regains TV Title from Tyler (Sept)
OCTOBER, NOVEMBER,
and DECEMBER
Hacksaw
Higgins defeats Tyler for CS title in KC (10-6)
Mr
Pogo & Gypsy Joe win tag titles from Uptown Boys in KC (10-11)
Marty
Janetty wins TV Title from Gypsy Joe in Des Moines (10-13)
Harley
Race wins CS title from Higgins in KC (10-25)
Bob
Brown & Marty Janetty win tag titles from Pogo & Gypsy Joe in
KC to begin the longest reign in Central States/ North American/World
tag Team Title history. Pogo turns on Joe after the match (12-9)
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