CWA APRIL '87 UPDATE
Jul 8, 2016 20:16:47 GMT
Post by grigs on Jul 8, 2016 20:16:47 GMT
April 1987 CWA Catchup
CWA World Title Picture: In one of the most brutal matches on record, Jerry “the King” Lawler defended his championship against Terry Funk in a barbed wire match. After 20 bloody minutes, Lawler piledrove and pins the challenger. Funk showed up on TV the next week in a neck brace and covered with bandages, swearing that it wasn't over and that he would destroy Lawler or die trying! Funk and the Double Cross Gang gave it their best effort. Lawler took on Dutch Mantel in a non-title match and Mantel was DQ'd for using Shoo Baby to choke “the King” hang him over the top rope. At the Coliseum, Lawler managed to pin Mantel and retain the belt, but Funk and Bob Orton jumped in and delivered a postmatch spike piledriver to the King. The next week at the Coliseum, Lawler defended against Cowboy Bob Orton. The bout went to a 1 hour draw, but as the time expired, Orton was executing a superplex. After the bell, Orton hit two more superplexes on Lawler and Funk came in to help Orton deliver another spike piledriver. All of this punishment took its toll and when the King entered the ring for his title defense against Terry Funk on April 25th, Lawler was wearing a neckbrace. The King fought valiantly, but couldn't overcome his injuries and lost the World Title to Funk. On TV that weekend, the King announced that he would be taking a few weeks off.
Tag Title Scene: Jeff Jarrett & BT Express entered the month as CWA World Tag Team Champions. Bad Company was hot on their trail, plus many wrestlers were interested in the $1,000 bounty that Ron Wright had put on BT's mask. BT Express lost a match to “Mr. Magnificent” Kevin Kelly on TV and was unmasked by Kelly, Fallen Angel, & Wright and it was Billy Travis under the mask! Travis/Express had to leave the CWA. The next week, at the Coliseum, Jarrett had to defend the titles himself against Bad Company! The odds were too much and Bad Company regained the belts! Bad Company spent the rest of April defending against the Texas Broncos, the Bruise Brothers, and the “thrown together” team of Jarrett & Tommy Rich.
Southern Title Scene:Bill Dundee defeated Jimmy Valiant to regain the belt in a televised bout on 4/9 with a bunch of help from Adrian Street. Dundee spent the rest of the month defending against Bugsy McGraw and Koko Ware, many times using help from Killer Khan or a chain to get the job done. On the last TV of April, Jeff Jarrett did a VTR interview where he said he thought it was time he did something on his own and he was coming after the Southern Title. In the studio, Jerry Jarrett did an interview about how proud he was of Jeff and that he was confident Jeff could beat Dundee. This led to the Superstar coming out and slapping Jerry around! This should add more intensity to the Dundee/Jarrett matches!
Mid America Title: With his partner Phil Hickerson “on a tour of the Orient”, Loverboy Dennis Condrey set his sights on Shane Douglas and the Mid America belt! Douglas and Condrey have a great series of matches and Douglas barely manages to retain his belt each time!Shane also defends the title against Koko Ware in a fast paced clean match that ends in a draw and steals the show. Afa and Sika each get title matches as well.
Austin Idol: After Kevin Kelly unmasks BT Express, he becomes obsessed with unmasking Idol and “showing the world his ugly bald head!” This distracts Mr. Magnificent in their matches and Idol wins most of them. It also helps that Idol gets in the habit of having a second to counter Fallen Angel. Among Idols's seconds include Bugsy McGraw, Mike Graham, Jimmy Valiant, & Big Mama (CATFIGHT!). Finally, Kelly challenges Idol to a match where only submissions to either the Las Vegas Leglock of the Full Nelson will count. Idol agrees to the match. On the April 30 edition of Championship Wrestling, Idol wins a squash and Fallen Angel comes out and climbs onto the apron, distracting the Universal Heartthrob. Kelly sneaks in behind Idol and applies the full nelson! Idol can't break it and passes out from the pain! Kelly tells Lance Russell that Idol is done for! Lance, of course, points out that Kelly jumped Idol from behind!
Valiant/Street: Street interfering to cost Handsome Jimmy his Southern Title only adds fuel to this fire! Valiant takes on Street in regulation matches as well as a street fight and a dog collar match. The wins are split pretty evenly in these bouts. In addition to their confrontations at ringside, Miss Linda and Big Mama also have matches. These are set up by music videos showing Street and Valiant training their ladies. In one match, the loser will have to be the winner's servant for a day! Big Mama pins Miss Linda! With a camera crew present, Linda prepares breakfast, washes dishes, brushes Jimmy Valiant's hair, shines Valiant's boots, gives Big Mama a manicure and pedicure, and washes Big Mama's Cadillac. As Linda is washing the Cadillac, Jimmy and Mama are having a few laughs at her expense. Adrian Street shows up out of nowhere! Street and Linda give Jimmy and Mama a vicious beatdown! This feud is far from over as April ends.
Steve Keirn/Mike Graham: “Fabulous One” Steve Keirn continued to feud with his former partner. Their matches are instant classics and when you throw in the tag matches with Keirn teaming with Kevin Kelly and Graham teaming with Austin Idol or Bugsy McGraw, this is one intense feud! When Graham and Keirn have a match on TV and Graham gets the pin, Keirn batters Graham with his walking stick, leading to a Texas Death match between the two at the Colsieum. Due to Kevin Kelly's interference, Keirn gets the win in that one.
Tommy Rich/Jos LeDuc: “Wildfire” continues his feud with the “Canadian Lumberjack”. Lots of bloody brawls and double countouts or Double DQ s. On the 4/16 TV show, Tommy no shows a scheduled Southern Title match with Bill Dundee. Dundee brags that Rich is scared, but LeDuc comes out with Rich's ring jacket and says fear had nothing to do with it! Later on the show, LeDuc is wrestling a squash match when a bloodied Rich attacks him, leading to one of the wildest brawls ever seen on TV! Rich says he stopped on the way to the studio to get gas when LeDuc, who must have been following him, attacked him from behind! This only intensifies a wild and wooly feud!
Double Cross Gang: Cowboy Bob Orton not only backed up Terry Funk in April, they also made enemies of Sam Houston & Kendall Windham, the Texas Broncos! Orton called the Broncos “drugstore cowboys while Mantel claimed they were from Wisconsin and not Texas! This led to some fantastic matches! Dory Funk, Jr. sent in some videos from the Double Cross Ranch. The former NWA World Champion said he supported what his brother was doing 100% and he was only a phone call away!
Coming attractions: Music videos of Tito Santanna, who Lance and Dave put over as being one of the top wrestlers in the world, began airing. Also, videos of Paul “Number One” Jones bragging about a young man who was destined to be World Champion. Paul finally introduced a music video of this young man: AL PEREZ! The video showed Perez in action from various territories as well as showing Perez living the high life: designer clothes, limousines, hot tubs, dance clubs, and beautiful women. During his interviews, Steve Keirn also hyped Perez.
CWA World Title Picture: In one of the most brutal matches on record, Jerry “the King” Lawler defended his championship against Terry Funk in a barbed wire match. After 20 bloody minutes, Lawler piledrove and pins the challenger. Funk showed up on TV the next week in a neck brace and covered with bandages, swearing that it wasn't over and that he would destroy Lawler or die trying! Funk and the Double Cross Gang gave it their best effort. Lawler took on Dutch Mantel in a non-title match and Mantel was DQ'd for using Shoo Baby to choke “the King” hang him over the top rope. At the Coliseum, Lawler managed to pin Mantel and retain the belt, but Funk and Bob Orton jumped in and delivered a postmatch spike piledriver to the King. The next week at the Coliseum, Lawler defended against Cowboy Bob Orton. The bout went to a 1 hour draw, but as the time expired, Orton was executing a superplex. After the bell, Orton hit two more superplexes on Lawler and Funk came in to help Orton deliver another spike piledriver. All of this punishment took its toll and when the King entered the ring for his title defense against Terry Funk on April 25th, Lawler was wearing a neckbrace. The King fought valiantly, but couldn't overcome his injuries and lost the World Title to Funk. On TV that weekend, the King announced that he would be taking a few weeks off.
Tag Title Scene: Jeff Jarrett & BT Express entered the month as CWA World Tag Team Champions. Bad Company was hot on their trail, plus many wrestlers were interested in the $1,000 bounty that Ron Wright had put on BT's mask. BT Express lost a match to “Mr. Magnificent” Kevin Kelly on TV and was unmasked by Kelly, Fallen Angel, & Wright and it was Billy Travis under the mask! Travis/Express had to leave the CWA. The next week, at the Coliseum, Jarrett had to defend the titles himself against Bad Company! The odds were too much and Bad Company regained the belts! Bad Company spent the rest of April defending against the Texas Broncos, the Bruise Brothers, and the “thrown together” team of Jarrett & Tommy Rich.
Southern Title Scene:Bill Dundee defeated Jimmy Valiant to regain the belt in a televised bout on 4/9 with a bunch of help from Adrian Street. Dundee spent the rest of the month defending against Bugsy McGraw and Koko Ware, many times using help from Killer Khan or a chain to get the job done. On the last TV of April, Jeff Jarrett did a VTR interview where he said he thought it was time he did something on his own and he was coming after the Southern Title. In the studio, Jerry Jarrett did an interview about how proud he was of Jeff and that he was confident Jeff could beat Dundee. This led to the Superstar coming out and slapping Jerry around! This should add more intensity to the Dundee/Jarrett matches!
Mid America Title: With his partner Phil Hickerson “on a tour of the Orient”, Loverboy Dennis Condrey set his sights on Shane Douglas and the Mid America belt! Douglas and Condrey have a great series of matches and Douglas barely manages to retain his belt each time!Shane also defends the title against Koko Ware in a fast paced clean match that ends in a draw and steals the show. Afa and Sika each get title matches as well.
Austin Idol: After Kevin Kelly unmasks BT Express, he becomes obsessed with unmasking Idol and “showing the world his ugly bald head!” This distracts Mr. Magnificent in their matches and Idol wins most of them. It also helps that Idol gets in the habit of having a second to counter Fallen Angel. Among Idols's seconds include Bugsy McGraw, Mike Graham, Jimmy Valiant, & Big Mama (CATFIGHT!). Finally, Kelly challenges Idol to a match where only submissions to either the Las Vegas Leglock of the Full Nelson will count. Idol agrees to the match. On the April 30 edition of Championship Wrestling, Idol wins a squash and Fallen Angel comes out and climbs onto the apron, distracting the Universal Heartthrob. Kelly sneaks in behind Idol and applies the full nelson! Idol can't break it and passes out from the pain! Kelly tells Lance Russell that Idol is done for! Lance, of course, points out that Kelly jumped Idol from behind!
Valiant/Street: Street interfering to cost Handsome Jimmy his Southern Title only adds fuel to this fire! Valiant takes on Street in regulation matches as well as a street fight and a dog collar match. The wins are split pretty evenly in these bouts. In addition to their confrontations at ringside, Miss Linda and Big Mama also have matches. These are set up by music videos showing Street and Valiant training their ladies. In one match, the loser will have to be the winner's servant for a day! Big Mama pins Miss Linda! With a camera crew present, Linda prepares breakfast, washes dishes, brushes Jimmy Valiant's hair, shines Valiant's boots, gives Big Mama a manicure and pedicure, and washes Big Mama's Cadillac. As Linda is washing the Cadillac, Jimmy and Mama are having a few laughs at her expense. Adrian Street shows up out of nowhere! Street and Linda give Jimmy and Mama a vicious beatdown! This feud is far from over as April ends.
Steve Keirn/Mike Graham: “Fabulous One” Steve Keirn continued to feud with his former partner. Their matches are instant classics and when you throw in the tag matches with Keirn teaming with Kevin Kelly and Graham teaming with Austin Idol or Bugsy McGraw, this is one intense feud! When Graham and Keirn have a match on TV and Graham gets the pin, Keirn batters Graham with his walking stick, leading to a Texas Death match between the two at the Colsieum. Due to Kevin Kelly's interference, Keirn gets the win in that one.
Tommy Rich/Jos LeDuc: “Wildfire” continues his feud with the “Canadian Lumberjack”. Lots of bloody brawls and double countouts or Double DQ s. On the 4/16 TV show, Tommy no shows a scheduled Southern Title match with Bill Dundee. Dundee brags that Rich is scared, but LeDuc comes out with Rich's ring jacket and says fear had nothing to do with it! Later on the show, LeDuc is wrestling a squash match when a bloodied Rich attacks him, leading to one of the wildest brawls ever seen on TV! Rich says he stopped on the way to the studio to get gas when LeDuc, who must have been following him, attacked him from behind! This only intensifies a wild and wooly feud!
Double Cross Gang: Cowboy Bob Orton not only backed up Terry Funk in April, they also made enemies of Sam Houston & Kendall Windham, the Texas Broncos! Orton called the Broncos “drugstore cowboys while Mantel claimed they were from Wisconsin and not Texas! This led to some fantastic matches! Dory Funk, Jr. sent in some videos from the Double Cross Ranch. The former NWA World Champion said he supported what his brother was doing 100% and he was only a phone call away!
Coming attractions: Music videos of Tito Santanna, who Lance and Dave put over as being one of the top wrestlers in the world, began airing. Also, videos of Paul “Number One” Jones bragging about a young man who was destined to be World Champion. Paul finally introduced a music video of this young man: AL PEREZ! The video showed Perez in action from various territories as well as showing Perez living the high life: designer clothes, limousines, hot tubs, dance clubs, and beautiful women. During his interviews, Steve Keirn also hyped Perez.
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