WWA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING 7/1/88: FIRST BIG WWA CARD SET!
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WWA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
JULY 1, 1888 broadcast
TAPED JUNE 20, 1988
OLYMPIC AUDITORIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA
ANNOUNCERS: JOEL WATTS AND RIPPER SAVAGE
REFEREES: MARK NULTY AND DANNY DAVIS
RING ANNOUNCER: JIMMY LENNON
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Intro
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Joel Watts: “Fans, the return of Championship Wrestling to the Olympic is only 1 WEEK AWAY! Chavo Guererro defends the WWA Americas title versus Maya Singh in the main event, and fans I have been told by the end of the hour: THE ENTIRE CARD WILL BE REVEALED, including the participants in a tournament for the WWA World Tag Team Championship, to be held that same night!
Ripper: “Within the hour? This El Topo sure likes to jerk everyone around!
Joel: “In this hour: 2 of those possible tag teams, Dr. D David Schultz, and Ted Arcidi! Let’s go to the ring!
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MIKE DAVIS def. BRIAN ADAMS, 7:44
Joel: “Mike Davis brings a lot to the ring in terms of resume, and the experience continues to pay off in the WWA! Lots more when we return.
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The Magnum PI theme plays and once again we visit Hawaii to check in on Magnum Scott Hall.
The vignette starts with hall, wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball cap and jersey, hitting home run after home run in a batting cage. He then takes the mound, and strikes out batter after flustered batter. Then, in the final scene he chases down an impossible fly ball.
The final scene is of him taking off his jersey, posing, and a bikini clad hot chick grabbing each arm with the caption on the TV reading:
MAGNUM SCOTT HALL: MAKING HIS WWA IN RING DEBUT JULY 8!
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El Topo joins Joel and Ripper and announces:
Magnum Scott Hall will face . . . . DR D DAVID SCHULTZ JULY 8!!!!
Also on July 8:
BATTLE OF THE WORLDS STONGEST MEN:
TED ARCCIDI V HERCULES AYALA
TOP CONTEDNERS MATCH
GREG GAGNE V MIKE DAVIS
And by the end of the hour: THE FOUR TAG TEAMS FOR THE WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLE ELIMINATION TOURNAMENT!
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Joel: “The ring awaits!
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IRON MIKE SHARPE + TEIJHO KHAN w/Assassin V BART BATTEN + SCOTT PUTSKI
Sharpe and Khan seem fired up by Topo’s announcement, and decimate their foes in 4:57!
They all join Joel and Ripper and Hercules Ayala joins the gang as well!
Assassin: “I have a lot of respect for my good friend Paul Jones, and certainly Mr Jones has purchased a world class tag team of Russian War Machine and Amazing Malenko, but Joe Watts did you just see what happened? Jones demands WWA award the tag team titles to his men? With all due respect again, that simply makes no sense. Iron Mike Sharpe and Teijho Khan truly are the tag team to beat in the WWA, and I predict they will roll over what opponents El Topo throws in front of them July 8!
Joel: “Assuming they are in the tournament, Assassin, but I would agree they are worthy contenders----speaking of July 8, Hercules Ayala you just heard it: you will get your chance v Ted Arcidi July 8 to find out who indeed is the World’s Strongest Man!
Ayala: “That is all I ask, Ese! Ted Arcidi, it is one thing to play tug of war, and pull on cars on ESPN . . . it is another to face the Worlds Strongest Man, Hercules Ayala, in the ring, Amigo, and when I defeat you, LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO, SAN FRANCISCO, ALL OF YOU WILL BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME!!!!!
Herk poses: “AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
Joel: “FANS SO MUCH TO GET TO SO LITTLE TIME, ONE WEEK JULY 8 IS WHAT THE WRESTLING WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT AT THE OLYMPIC, SATURDAY NIGHT 8PM BELLTIME, BE THERE!!!! COMMERCIAL BREAK!
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Mike Davis is interviewed. He says he is much honored to earn a “top contenders” match v Greg Gagne next week July 8 at the Olympic, and looks forward to a clean, scientific match to determine who should be next in line for the Americas title!
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TED ARCIDI DEF MOTOR CITY MADMAN, 7:18
As Arcidi leaves what must have been a 5 star match with a military press slam into a pin, who is in the aisle but HERCULES AYALA!!!! ARCIDI Squares right UP AND BOTH MEN ARE BELLY TO BELLY, FACE TO FACE!!!! THE LOCKER ROOMS EMPTY AND THE TWO RIVAL STRONGMEN ARE SEPERATED AS WE GO TO A COMMERCIAL BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MANDO + EDDIE GUERERRO DEF. BEEF WELLINGTON + BEN BASSARAB, 7:00
Mando, Eddie, and CHAVO GUERERRO enter the interview area where they are greeted by EL TOPO. Topo announces the 4 tag teams for the World Tag Team Tournament to be held NEXT WEEK RIGHT HERE IN THE OLYMPIC!
MATCH #1
BUGSY MCGRAW + LAZERTRON V RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE + AMAZING MALENKO
MATCH #2
IRON MIKE SHARPE + TEIJHO KHAN VERSUS:
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. . . . .MANDO + EDDIE GUERRERO!!!!
MATCH #3
WINNERS OF EACH MATCH WILL FACE OFF FOR THE WWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES!
Mando: “WOW El Topo you and the WWA sure did not make it easy, Iron Mike Sharpe has won titles all across the world and is a Canadian Heavyweight Champion, and Teijho Khan comes from a long line of incredible Khans from Genghis to Kublai from Mongolia, but we would expect nothing less!
“The Guererro family is all about COMPETITION, being the best by beating the best, and unlike the Assassin or Paul Jones, we don’t expect ANYTHING to just be handed to us, we are out to earn it, and earn it we will! Me and little brother Eddie with the support of brother Chavo will compete, and WIN THE WWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES FOR ALL THE FANS JULY 8 AT THE OLYMPIC, JULY 8TH WE WILL NEED ALL OF OUR supporters, Mexican, Chicano, American to buy tickets and support us so we can win these titles and bring them home to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, CHICO!
Joel: “Fans, after that speech I want to do laps around the building! We will check our time and be right back!
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DR D DAVID SCHULTZ, THE RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE, AMAZING MALENKO AND #1 PAUL JONES ARE WITH US!
Paul starts to yap BUT DR D CUTS HIM OFF!!!
Dr D: “Paul Jones, ah told ya once, ah told ya twice, this is a BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT! AH DON’T LIKE YOU, AH DON’T LIKE THEM TWO COMMIES WERKIN FOR YA ------and ah DON’T LIKE TO HEAR AH GOTTA RASSLE THIS HAWAIIAN BEACH BUM, SISSY, SCOTT HALL July 8 NEXT WEEK AT THE OLYMPIC!
“Joel Watts, AH AINT HAPPY: GET ME AN OPPONENT!
WITH THAT, DR D STEALS THE CHAIN FROM AROUND RUSSIAN WAR MACHINES NECK, AND STORMS THE RING, where a seemingly hapless VIC ROSSITANI STEPS IN, AND DR D IMMEDIATELY BEATS HIM WITH A CHAIN, AND IMMEDIATELY GETS DQD BUT DR D WONT STOP!
Russian War Machine and Malenko try to step in, but are backed off by the chain, and Paul Jones intervenes to keep them out of the ring! Rossitani rolls out of the ring, and THE FINAL SHOT IS OF AN ENRAGED DR D, BEATING THE RING WITH A CHAIM, CHALLENGING ANYONE TO STEP IN!
FANS, FORGET PAUL JONES AND THE RUSSIANS: WHAT DOES MAGNUM SCOTT HALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IN JUST ONE WEEK AT THE OLYMPIC?
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Joel: “FANS, CHAOS HAS TAKEN OVER THE WWA!!!! WE WILL HAVE TO SORT THIS OUT AND BE BACK NEXT WEEK---IF WE CAN GET DR D DAVID SCHULTS OUT OF THE RING BY THEN!!!!!
WWA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
LIVE AT THE OLYMPIC!
LOS ANGELES, CA
SATURDAY JULY 8, 1988
8PM BELLTIME
MAIN EVENT
WWA AMERICAS CHAMPIONSHIP
CHAVO GUERERRO V MAYA SINGH w/Luna
WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
MATCH #1
BUGSY MCGRAW + LAZERTRON V RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE + AMAZING MALENKO w/Paul Jones
MATCH #2
IRON MIKE SHARPE + TEIJHO KHAN w/Assassin V MANDO + EDDIE GUERRERO
MATCH #3
WINNERS OF EACH MATCH WILL FACE OFF FOR THE WWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES!
MAGNUM SCOTT HALL V “DR. D” DAVID SCHULTZ w/Paul Jones
WHO IS THE WORLDS STRONGEST MAN?
TED ARCIDI V HERCULES AYALA w/Assassin
TOP CONTENDERS MATCH
MIKE DAVIS V GREG GAGNE
SPECIAL 6 MAN TAG TEAM MATCH
JACKIE GUERRERO + JULES STRONGBOW + SCOTT PUTSKI
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MOTOR CITY MADMAN + THE ROMERO BOYZ
JULY 1, 1888 broadcast
TAPED JUNE 20, 1988
OLYMPIC AUDITORIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA
ANNOUNCERS: JOEL WATTS AND RIPPER SAVAGE
REFEREES: MARK NULTY AND DANNY DAVIS
RING ANNOUNCER: JIMMY LENNON
0000
Intro
0001
Joel Watts: “Fans, the return of Championship Wrestling to the Olympic is only 1 WEEK AWAY! Chavo Guererro defends the WWA Americas title versus Maya Singh in the main event, and fans I have been told by the end of the hour: THE ENTIRE CARD WILL BE REVEALED, including the participants in a tournament for the WWA World Tag Team Championship, to be held that same night!
Ripper: “Within the hour? This El Topo sure likes to jerk everyone around!
Joel: “In this hour: 2 of those possible tag teams, Dr. D David Schultz, and Ted Arcidi! Let’s go to the ring!
.
.
.
.
MIKE DAVIS def. BRIAN ADAMS, 7:44
Joel: “Mike Davis brings a lot to the ring in terms of resume, and the experience continues to pay off in the WWA! Lots more when we return.
.
.
.
.
.
.
900
1200
.
.
.
.
.
The Magnum PI theme plays and once again we visit Hawaii to check in on Magnum Scott Hall.
The vignette starts with hall, wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball cap and jersey, hitting home run after home run in a batting cage. He then takes the mound, and strikes out batter after flustered batter. Then, in the final scene he chases down an impossible fly ball.
The final scene is of him taking off his jersey, posing, and a bikini clad hot chick grabbing each arm with the caption on the TV reading:
MAGNUM SCOTT HALL: MAKING HIS WWA IN RING DEBUT JULY 8!
.
.
.
El Topo joins Joel and Ripper and announces:
Magnum Scott Hall will face . . . . DR D DAVID SCHULTZ JULY 8!!!!
Also on July 8:
BATTLE OF THE WORLDS STONGEST MEN:
TED ARCCIDI V HERCULES AYALA
TOP CONTEDNERS MATCH
GREG GAGNE V MIKE DAVIS
And by the end of the hour: THE FOUR TAG TEAMS FOR THE WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLE ELIMINATION TOURNAMENT!
.
.
Joel: “The ring awaits!
.
.
.
.
IRON MIKE SHARPE + TEIJHO KHAN w/Assassin V BART BATTEN + SCOTT PUTSKI
Sharpe and Khan seem fired up by Topo’s announcement, and decimate their foes in 4:57!
They all join Joel and Ripper and Hercules Ayala joins the gang as well!
Assassin: “I have a lot of respect for my good friend Paul Jones, and certainly Mr Jones has purchased a world class tag team of Russian War Machine and Amazing Malenko, but Joe Watts did you just see what happened? Jones demands WWA award the tag team titles to his men? With all due respect again, that simply makes no sense. Iron Mike Sharpe and Teijho Khan truly are the tag team to beat in the WWA, and I predict they will roll over what opponents El Topo throws in front of them July 8!
Joel: “Assuming they are in the tournament, Assassin, but I would agree they are worthy contenders----speaking of July 8, Hercules Ayala you just heard it: you will get your chance v Ted Arcidi July 8 to find out who indeed is the World’s Strongest Man!
Ayala: “That is all I ask, Ese! Ted Arcidi, it is one thing to play tug of war, and pull on cars on ESPN . . . it is another to face the Worlds Strongest Man, Hercules Ayala, in the ring, Amigo, and when I defeat you, LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO, SAN FRANCISCO, ALL OF YOU WILL BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME!!!!!
Herk poses: “AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
Joel: “FANS SO MUCH TO GET TO SO LITTLE TIME, ONE WEEK JULY 8 IS WHAT THE WRESTLING WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT AT THE OLYMPIC, SATURDAY NIGHT 8PM BELLTIME, BE THERE!!!! COMMERCIAL BREAK!
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.
.
.
.
.
2400
2700
.
.
.
Mike Davis is interviewed. He says he is much honored to earn a “top contenders” match v Greg Gagne next week July 8 at the Olympic, and looks forward to a clean, scientific match to determine who should be next in line for the Americas title!
.
.
.
.
TED ARCIDI DEF MOTOR CITY MADMAN, 7:18
As Arcidi leaves what must have been a 5 star match with a military press slam into a pin, who is in the aisle but HERCULES AYALA!!!! ARCIDI Squares right UP AND BOTH MEN ARE BELLY TO BELLY, FACE TO FACE!!!! THE LOCKER ROOMS EMPTY AND THE TWO RIVAL STRONGMEN ARE SEPERATED AS WE GO TO A COMMERCIAL BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
.
.
.
3600
3900
.
.
MANDO + EDDIE GUERERRO DEF. BEEF WELLINGTON + BEN BASSARAB, 7:00
Mando, Eddie, and CHAVO GUERERRO enter the interview area where they are greeted by EL TOPO. Topo announces the 4 tag teams for the World Tag Team Tournament to be held NEXT WEEK RIGHT HERE IN THE OLYMPIC!
MATCH #1
BUGSY MCGRAW + LAZERTRON V RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE + AMAZING MALENKO
MATCH #2
IRON MIKE SHARPE + TEIJHO KHAN VERSUS:
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. . . . .MANDO + EDDIE GUERRERO!!!!
MATCH #3
WINNERS OF EACH MATCH WILL FACE OFF FOR THE WWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES!
Mando: “WOW El Topo you and the WWA sure did not make it easy, Iron Mike Sharpe has won titles all across the world and is a Canadian Heavyweight Champion, and Teijho Khan comes from a long line of incredible Khans from Genghis to Kublai from Mongolia, but we would expect nothing less!
“The Guererro family is all about COMPETITION, being the best by beating the best, and unlike the Assassin or Paul Jones, we don’t expect ANYTHING to just be handed to us, we are out to earn it, and earn it we will! Me and little brother Eddie with the support of brother Chavo will compete, and WIN THE WWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES FOR ALL THE FANS JULY 8 AT THE OLYMPIC, JULY 8TH WE WILL NEED ALL OF OUR supporters, Mexican, Chicano, American to buy tickets and support us so we can win these titles and bring them home to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, CHICO!
Joel: “Fans, after that speech I want to do laps around the building! We will check our time and be right back!
.
.
.
.
5000
5300
DR D DAVID SCHULTZ, THE RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE, AMAZING MALENKO AND #1 PAUL JONES ARE WITH US!
Paul starts to yap BUT DR D CUTS HIM OFF!!!
Dr D: “Paul Jones, ah told ya once, ah told ya twice, this is a BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT! AH DON’T LIKE YOU, AH DON’T LIKE THEM TWO COMMIES WERKIN FOR YA ------and ah DON’T LIKE TO HEAR AH GOTTA RASSLE THIS HAWAIIAN BEACH BUM, SISSY, SCOTT HALL July 8 NEXT WEEK AT THE OLYMPIC!
“Joel Watts, AH AINT HAPPY: GET ME AN OPPONENT!
WITH THAT, DR D STEALS THE CHAIN FROM AROUND RUSSIAN WAR MACHINES NECK, AND STORMS THE RING, where a seemingly hapless VIC ROSSITANI STEPS IN, AND DR D IMMEDIATELY BEATS HIM WITH A CHAIN, AND IMMEDIATELY GETS DQD BUT DR D WONT STOP!
Russian War Machine and Malenko try to step in, but are backed off by the chain, and Paul Jones intervenes to keep them out of the ring! Rossitani rolls out of the ring, and THE FINAL SHOT IS OF AN ENRAGED DR D, BEATING THE RING WITH A CHAIM, CHALLENGING ANYONE TO STEP IN!
FANS, FORGET PAUL JONES AND THE RUSSIANS: WHAT DOES MAGNUM SCOTT HALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IN JUST ONE WEEK AT THE OLYMPIC?
??Joel: “FANS, CHAOS HAS TAKEN OVER THE WWA!!!! WE WILL HAVE TO SORT THIS OUT AND BE BACK NEXT WEEK---IF WE CAN GET DR D DAVID SCHULTS OUT OF THE RING BY THEN!!!!!
WWA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
LIVE AT THE OLYMPIC!
LOS ANGELES, CA
SATURDAY JULY 8, 1988
8PM BELLTIME
MAIN EVENT
WWA AMERICAS CHAMPIONSHIP
CHAVO GUERERRO V MAYA SINGH w/Luna
WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
MATCH #1
BUGSY MCGRAW + LAZERTRON V RUSSIAN WAR MACHINE + AMAZING MALENKO w/Paul Jones
MATCH #2
IRON MIKE SHARPE + TEIJHO KHAN w/Assassin V MANDO + EDDIE GUERRERO
MATCH #3
WINNERS OF EACH MATCH WILL FACE OFF FOR THE WWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES!
MAGNUM SCOTT HALL V “DR. D” DAVID SCHULTZ w/Paul Jones
WHO IS THE WORLDS STRONGEST MAN?
TED ARCIDI V HERCULES AYALA w/Assassin
TOP CONTENDERS MATCH
MIKE DAVIS V GREG GAGNE
SPECIAL 6 MAN TAG TEAM MATCH
JACKIE GUERRERO + JULES STRONGBOW + SCOTT PUTSKI
V
MOTOR CITY MADMAN + THE ROMERO BOYZ
Working on it now.