With my 7th pick in the draft, I am proud to select in the Match category –
from Stampede Wrestling circa 1983 – Bad News Allen Punks Archie ‘The Stomper’ Goldie
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In 1983, a riot broke out during a match at the Ogden Auditorium in Calgary during a match between Bret Hart, Davey Boy Smith and Sonny Two Rivers against Bad News Allen, The Stomper and Stomper's kayfabe son Jeff Gouldie. Longtime Stampede announcer Ed Whalen reportedly became distraught during the riot, in which a women was trampled, causing him to quit from the Stampede on air. Speaking of the events he remarked, "We're starting to scare the patrons with this violence outside the ring, and I will not be associated with it anymore." The event led to Stampede Wrestling being banned from Calgary for six months by the city's wrestling and boxing commission, and within a year the operation was sold to the World Wrestling Federation.”
A little Q&A with Bad News Allen from Slam Sports:
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Q: Back in the 1980's (around 1984-85) there was a match where you fought in a tag team against Archie Gouldie and his son [Editor's note: actually another person acting as Gouldie's son]. To make a long story short, there was a fork involved, and at the end Ed Whelan "quit" as an announcer for Stampede Wrestling. Was this an angle to cover up the selling of Stu Hart's promotion to the WWF at the time?
A: No, it wasn't.
Q: What are your memories of that one?
A: [Laughing] Ed Whalen really flipped out. I didn't know he was going to do that. Actually it was about a year later that Stu sold his promotion. It wasn't an angle. Ed Whalen really went off the deep end that night.
Q: How did that affect you? Did you try to talk to him afterwards to try to bring him back?
A: Well, I didn't. Personally, I was happy to see him leave. I thought he was a terrible commentator and he wanted to get too involved with the wrestlers all the time. He was always up in the heels' faces all the time and I didn't think that was a good thing. But then, a year when he did come back, they actually brought me down and I had to promise that I would behave myself and all this nonsense. And they actually turned me babyface for a while there, so he would come back. Otherwise he refused to come back as long as I was working there…”
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ŕ Stampede Wrestling circa 1983 – Bad News Allen turns on Archie the Stomper