WWF Wrestling Channel 8/13/87: A GIANT stipulation + Piper!
Aug 13, 2016 17:11:50 GMT
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WWF: Wrestling Challenge
Taped: 7/30/1987
Aired: 8/13/1987
Hersheypark Arena (Hershey, PA)
Announcers: Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan
Gorilla Monsoon: Welcome everyone to Wrestling Challenge! I’m Gorilla Monsoon - and joining me as always is Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan. Brain, your man Johnny Ace is going to face off with the Hot Rod - ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper is here on Wrestling Challenge.
Bobby Heenan: My close personal friend the Million Dollar Man wants Piper taken care off. All I’ll say is that Johnny Ace better take of that skirt-wearing freak, or he can hit the bricks.
Gorilla Monsoon: He’ll have his work cut out for him, Brain. We also have the Slickster’s Twin Towers - Bam Bam Bigelow and the One Man Gang - right here today. That’s right, the Gang’s been on the injured reserve for a few months, but you can’t keep the big man down.
Bobby Heenan: I’ve got to hand it to Slick - he has put together the largest team in the World Wrestling Federation history. Oh and Monsoon, I've heard Brother Love has Larry Zbyszko as his special guest. I'm not too thrilled, I'll just say that.
Gorilla Monsoon: I’m sure you’ll be listening very closely to that one. Right now, let’s go down to Howard Finkel - here comes the Intercontinental Champion!
Cue the music:
WWF Intercontinental Championship
Ultimate Warrior
(champion)
VS.
Iron Mike Sharpe
Canada’s Greatest Athlete tries to get the jump on Warrior by hammering him with the loaded forearm as he shakes the ropes. It has no impact on Warrior, who drills Sharpe with a flying forearm. Warrior shoots Sharpe off the ropes - what a clothesline! Ultimate Warrior scoops Sharpe up, presses him above his head several times and then slams him to the canvas. Warrior off the ropes now with the big splash and cover for the 1-2-3! What a win for the Intercontinental Champion! Larry Zbyszko, are you watching?
WINNER: WWF INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION ULTIMATE WARRIOR
Gorilla Monsoon: I think the Living Legend is in serious trouble at SummerSlam. Right now, let’s go back to Mean Gene with the Slickster.
Mean Gene Okerlund: Joining me at this time is manager extraordinaire is the Doctor of Style, Slick. And this man - the One Man Gang - he looks VERY different from the last time we saw him.
Slick: Oooooooh my goooodness, Mean Gene! This aiiiiiiiiiiiin’t no One Maaaaaaaan Gaaaaaang anymore, ya understand? I sent this maaaaaaaan over to his real homeland - Africa, ya hear? He's found his REEEEEEEEEEEEEl her-i-taaaaaaage! Seeeeeee he’s more than a Gaaaaaaang. He’s a Dreeeeeeeeeeeeam! He’s the African Dreeeeeeeeam! He’s Akeeeeeeeeem, the African Dreeeeeeeam!
Mean Gene Okerlund: What do you have to say about this, Gang?
Slick: Don’t you eeeeeeeeever call him the Gaaaaaaang again - if you know what’s gooooooood for you. The Gaaaaaaaaang is dead - it’s Akeeeeeeeeem the African Dreeeeeeeeam for life!
Akeem: The Slickster has showed me the light, bay-bee! Oooh, I got the rhythm in my soooul and I’m gonna spread it aaaaaaaaaall over the Dubya Dubya Eff!
Mean Gene Okerlund: Well, this is quite a strange turn of events! The One Man Gang is dead - and in his place is Akeem the African Dream! We’ll seen him in action coming up on Wrestling Challenge.
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COMMERCIAL BREAK
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Gorilla Monsoon: Right now, let’s go back to yesterday’s edition of WWF All American Wrestling for the Brother Love Show. His special guest - none other than the Living Legend!
[VTR]
WWF Superstars - Joined in progress
8/12/1987
The Brother Love Show
Brother Love: Hello broth-ers and sis-ters and wel-come to the Broth-er Loooooooooove Show - I looooooooooooove you! Thank you once again to maaaaaah benefactor - Broth-er Millioooooon Dollar Man - for helping me bring maaaah looooooooooove to all of yoooooou! My guest today - Broth-er Living Legend, Larry Zbyszkooooooooo! Wel-come Broth-er Living Legend!
Larry Zbyszko: Brother Love, the pleasure is all mine. Even if I'm forced to stand here in front all of these spudheads in the audience and watching on the boob tube.
Brother Love: Broth-er Living Legend, I have to aaaaaaaaaask. Broth-er Bobby the Brain has given you an ultimatuuuuuum, defeat the Ultimate Waaaaaaarior or leave the Heeeeeenan Family.
Larry Zbyszko: All due respect to Bobby Heenan, nobody gives the Living Legend ultimatums. As far as I’m concerned, Bobby Heenan can go his way and I’ll go mine right now.
Brother Love: Oh maaaaah gooodness, you are leeeeeeeaving the Heeenan Fam-ily, Broth-er Living Legend?
Larry Zbyszko: Let’s just put it this way. Bobby Heenan has his goals. I have mine. Never the two shall meet - and there won’t be a problem. My problem is with the Ultimate Spudhead!
Brother Love: Broth-er Living Legend, the Ultimate Warrior took that Intercontinental Championship from yooooooooou. How can take down a man like the Waaaaar-ior?
Larry Zbyszko: The Ultimate Spudhead wears himself out running around the ring. When he’s sucking wind, I’ll move in and break his arm or his leg. Make no mistake, the Intercontinental Championship is coming back to the Living Legend. After 10 glorious years in this business, you can bank on it!
Brother Love: There you haaaaave it, broth-ers and sis-ters! Join us next week for more of The Broth-er Loooooooooooove Shoooooow. And remember, I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOOOOOUU!
[End VTR]
Gorilla Monsoon: You just got dumped, Brain.
Bobby Heenan: I wash my hands of Zbyszko. If he stays out of my way, that’s fine. He better actually stay out of my way though!
Gorilla Monsoon: Right now, let’s go back to the ring.
Cue the music:
THE ROCKERS
VS.
LOS CONQUISTADORS
Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty are getting their shot at the World Wrestling Federation Tag Champions at SummerSlam when they battle champions Demolition. Here on Wrestling Challenge, they get a spotlight to show off their aerial arsenal. Michaels and Jannetty connect with a double super-kick on one of the Conquistadors, and Shawn makes the cover for the pin.
WINNERS: THE ROCKERS
Gorilla Monsoon: True innovators of offense! We’ll be right back.
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COMMERCIAL BREAK
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WWF SummerSlam: Control Center
With Mean Gene Okerlund
Mean Gene Okerlund: The eyes of the sports world are fixed on Madison Square Garden, where the superstars of the World Wrestling Federation will bring you SummerSlam. Hello, I’m Mean Gene Okerlund. As we know, World Wrestling Federation Champion the Million Dollar Man will defend his title against the man, the myth, the legend that is ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper.
However, we have a major development on this front. Because of the tactics of the Million Dollar Man in winning the WWF Heavyweight Championship, WWF President Jack Tunney has a very special announcement to make. Let’s go to Jack Tunney now.
[VTR]
Jack Tunney: In the interest of making the World Wrestling Federation Title match as fair as possible at Summerslam and given the Million Dollar Man’s history of buying influence, the board of directors have felt it necessary to assign a special enforcer to guard the ring during Mr. Dibiase’s title match against ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper. I could think of only one man for the job. That man - more than a man - is the 7’4 eighth wonder of the world… Andre the Giant!
Andre the Giant: Dibiase! Piper! Keep it in line… or Andre will KEEP you in line! I’ll see you all… at Summerslam!
[End VTR]
Mean Gene Okerlund: Oh my goodness, Andre the Giant will be ringside as the special enforcer at Summerslam! Let’s not forget that we’ll also have Intercontinental Champions Ultimate Warrior defending against Larry Zbyszko. WWF Tag Team Champions Demolition put the titles on the line against The Rockers.
The British Bulldogs have a tall order ahead of them as they square off with the Slickster’s Twin Towers. There will also be six-man tag action as the Mouth of South’s Nasty Boys and the Honky Tonk Man face off against the Hart Foundation and Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake. 'Macho Man' Randy Savage goes one-on-one with Big John Studd!
The big one - Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts steps into a 15-foot high steel cage against the one and only, ‘Immortal’ Hulk Hogan! The Hulkster is back in the World Wrestling Federation. Let’s go to pre-recorded comments from Jake the Snake.
[VTR]
Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts: I thought you were smarter than this, Hogan. The Brain, the Million Dollar Man, they all sell you short - but I always thought you were much smarter than everyone gave you credit for. See, a guy doesn't stay WWF Champion for as long as you did if they're mentally deficient. It turns out I was wrong - and that’s never something I like to admit. I can’t understand you, man. I nearly broke your neck - you were seconds way from losing everything. But I left just enough of you so that you could someday provide for your family again - never as a WWF superstar, but maybe bagging groceries or mowing lawns. I gave you a gift - and you chose to throw it away. No gifts this time, Hogan. This time, the DDT puts you down once and for all. Trust me.
[End VTR]
Mean Gene Okerlund: I’ll be back next week with news - for SummerSlam Control Center, I’m Mean Gene Okerlund. Now, let’s get back to the ring!
Cue the music:
The Twin Towers
(w/ ‘The Doctor of Style’ Slick)
VS.
Terry Gibbs and SD ‘Special Delivery’ Jones
Slick leads the massive duo of Bam Bam Bigelow and the re-christened Akeem down to the ringside area for a heck of a challenge. Terry Gibbs and Special Delivery are totally outsized here and so they're basically tossed around like rag dolls. Akeem jukes and jives as the delivers a brutal beatdown on SD Jones. Bigelow comes flying off the top rope with the headbutt and then Akeem hits the ropes for the 747 splash to score an easy win on Jones.
WINNERS: THE TWIN TOWERS
Gorilla Monsoon: Can anyone stop the Twin Towers? The British Bulldogs will try at SummerSlam. We’ll be right back!
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COMMERCIAL BREAK
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Gorilla Monsoon: Let’s go back to All-Star Wrestling earlier today, where Mean Gene Okerlund caught up with World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Champions Demolition.
[VTR]
WWF Superstars - joined in progress
8/6/87
Mean Gene Okerlund: My guests at this time will be defending their World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championships against The Rockers at Summerslam. They are Demolition - with their manager Mr. Fuji.
Cut to:
Mean Gene Okerlund: Mr. Fuji, it will be speed versus power at Summerslam. How will Demolition counteract the incredible speedy and aerial arsenal of the Rockers.
Mr. Fuji: My Demolition are masters of pain! They destroy! They demolish! Pretty boy Rockers, you try your flying. My Demolition will ground you… for good!
Smash: Shawn Michaels, Marty Jannetty - the girls all love your floppy hair and your neon T-shirts. Well Ax and I hate it! We hate YOU! What do we to do people we hate? We beat ‘em up! Heck, what do we do to people we like? We beat ‘em up! Bottom line, we’re gonna kick yer stinkin’ teeth down yer stinkin’ throats!
Ax: Rockers, you might impress all of these people but you don’t impress Demolition! Fluff your hair real nice and wear your best pink T-shirts… because SummerSlam is the last time anyone’s gonna see you! A pair of Demolition Decapitations are in your future!
Mean Gene Oklerund: There you have it fans - we’ll see the Rockers and Demolition square off at Summerslam!
[End VTR]
Gorilla Monsoon: What a match that’s going to be at SummerSlam. It’s main event time, let’s go down to the ring!
Cut to:
TV MAIN EVENT
‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper
VS.
Johnny Ace
The Hot Rod gets a massive reaction as he makes his way to the ring for his first WWF match in eight months, stopping to flash that sly smile a few times. Once the bell actually rings, it’s pretty much all Piper. Ace tries to connect with his Crusher early on, but Piper flings him out of it and then connects with a high knee to send Ace out of his boots. Roddy eventually locks in the sleeper hold and beofre long it's lights out for Johnny Ace. Roddy Piper is at the top of his game heading into SummerSlam!
WINNER: ‘ROWDY’ RODDY PIPER
Bobby Heenan: Hit the bricks, Ace. You’re fired.
Gorilla Monsoon: The Heenan Family is dwindling, Brain! We’re all out of time for this week’s edition of Wrestling Challenge. Join us next week to see
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