WCCW TV (06/03/1988)
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World Class Championship Wrestling
June 3, 1988
Taped on May 26, 1988
The Sportatorium
Dallas, Texas
Announcer: Bill Mercer
Ring Announcer: Mark Lowrance
Referees: Bronko Lubich, Ralph Pulley, & David Manning
MERCER: Hello and welcome to World Class Championship Wrestling! We want to thank each and every fan who made the Parade of Champions a rousing success! Right now, before we begin this edition of World Class Championship Wrestling, let's look at highlights from that wrestling spectacular!
VTR:
A music video set to the above featuring highlights from Parade of Champions. You can catch the entire card here:
atomicgiants.proboards.com/thread/2350/wccw-parade-champions-28-1988
Iceman King Parsons vs. Gary Royal: The Iceman looks fantastic this week as convincingly defeats Royal after the butt bump.
COMMERCIAL
MERCER: And, now, let's look at a new sensation making his way into World Class. This is THE PATRIOT!
VTR:
A large masked man is standing beside a pickup truck...
PATRIOT: Hello, wrestling fans! My name is the Patriot and I'm coming to World Class! In fact, I'm headed that way right now! I'm gonna hop into my American made pickup truck and drive from here in Georgia across this great country to Texas! I'm gonna do as much sightseeing as I can along the way because I love this great country of ours! Hopefully, I'll be able to wrestle for you great fans on TV next week!
The Patriot climbs into his truck and the music plays. Over the next few minutes, we see the masked man at several landmarks between Georgia and Texas, talking with fans and posing. As the song ends, the Patriot's truck pulls into the parking lot at the Sportatorium. Fritz Von Erich is waiting for him there. The Patriot and Fritz shake hands and enter the Sportatorium.
MERCER: And now, for something totally different, let's hear from Warlord Jonathan Boyd...
VTR:
Jonathan Boyd is standing in front of the World Class logo.
BOYD: For those of you bloody Yanks who don't know anything about professional wrestling, my name is Jonathan Boyd! I take pride in three things: One,I am from New Zealand, two, I am the toughest and most brutal professional wrestler who has ever lived, and, most importantly, I'm not a bloody American! Right now, World Class is the hottest promotion going! Of course, I want to be where the action is, but I know how American promotions do everything in their power to hold me back! One man alone, even a man of my calibre, can't fight the bloody system you Yanks have in place! That's why I'm building an army! And no bloody yank will be accepted in my army! This will be the INTERNATIONAL ARMY! And I have my first soldier! He is the most awarded amatuer athlete ever to compete in this sport and he's won every title and award there is to win as a professional!
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The Iron Sheik joins Boyd!
SHEIK: Jonathan Boyd, it is a great honor to be here with you! Gary Hart is great manager, but he is American and I really can't trust him!This International Army will be greatest thing in wrestling! Iran, munber one! International Army, number one! Jonathan Boyd, number one! USA? Hack phooey!
BOYD: That's right, mate! All of you bloody Yank wrestlers...Tony Atlas....Sid Vicious....Iceman...Armstrong...this bloody maksed fool they just showed! We will destroy all of them!
SHEIK: Ronnie Garvin, we will take your title!Al Perez and New Breed, we want your titles, too!
BOYD: Bloody right, Sheik!
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
Bill Mercer stands outside of a large house, best described as a mansion.
MERCER: Welcome to the beautiful Volunteer State of Tennessee! I'm here at the palatial estate of one “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert. If you follow the wrestling rankings around the nation, you will recognize the name of Eddie Gilbert as one of the top stars in our sport! He's coming to World Class very soon and he's not coming alone. He's bringing with him the First Family. I've been invited to Mr. Gilbert's home today to meet the First Family! Let me go see if they are ready for this meeting...
Mercer makes his way to the front door and rings the doorbell.
Eddie Gilbert answers the door and shakes Bill's hand.
EDDIE: Bill Mercer, welcome to my humble home!
MERCER: I must say that this is very nice!
EDDIE: Only the best for the First Family of wrestling! The rest of the Family is out by the pool! Come with me!
We cut to a swimming pool. A beautiful woman in a bikini is sunbathing on a lounge chair while a young man is doing dives off the diving board.
EDDIE: The young guy jumping in the pool is my younger brother, Doug.
Doug climbs out of the pool and comes over to Eddie and Bill. He shakes hands with Mercer.
DOUG: Doug Gilbert, nice to meetcha!
EDDIE: Doug is a rookie, but he's well on his way, Bill Mercer. You just shook hands with a future great.
DOUG: That's right! Now, watch this!
Doug goes back to diving board and does a cannonball. Eddie applauds.
EDDIE: ( to Mercer) Hey, he's a kid. He's gotta have fun!
MERCER: Is the young lady part of the First Family?
EDDIE: An extremely important part! Cameraman, let me direct you. Start at her toes and slowly pan up that lucious body until you get to her gorgeous face!
The camera guy expertly follows Eddie's direction. Once the camera is on her face, the blonde speaks...
MISSY: I am Missy Hyatt, the undisputed First Lady of Professional Wrestling! Right now, there are a lot of happy guys and jealous wives and girlfriends down there in Texas! If you think I look good now, wait until my man, Hot Stuff, starts wrestling down there. I'll have his American Championship belt over one shoulder and his Texas belt on the other shoulder! Then, he and Doug might even take the Tag Team Championships! The First Family will rule World Class!
EDDIE: You people down there in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas thought you had a first family! They were called the Von Erichs! When the competition got too tough and the WWF waved a big paycheck under their noses, Kerry and Kevin went North! Once the First Family gets to Texas, you might see a lot more wrestlers go away! Tito Santana might hop on his burro and head back to Mexico! Sid Vicious might just go back to the farm! Chris Adams, you better get an airline ticket back to England! Brad Armstrong, Ronnie Garvin, Killer Bees, Simpson boys! You're all gonna take a back seat to the First Family!
MERCER: Well, Mr. Gilbert, I look forward to seeing you wrestle in World Class Championship Wrestling!When we come back, Kendall Windham will wrestle!
COMMERCIAL
Kendall Windham (w/ Blackjack Mulligan) vs. Jeff Sword: During the match, Mercer explains the whole Windham/Mulligan family tree to the fans. Mercer also announces that on July 5th, in Reunion Arena, WCCW presents the Firecracker Spectacular. Kendall is at a weight disadvantage, but it really doesn't seem to bother him at all. Windham bulldogs Sword to score a convincing win. Afterwards, Kendall and Blackjack speak with Mark Lowrance...
LOWRANCE: An impressive debut for Kendall Windham this week! Blackjack, you must be proud of your son!
MULLIGAN: Yessir, that's a fact! Mark, it seems that wrestling has become a family business. Brad Armstrong, the son of my old pal Bob Armstrong was out here wrestlingearlier on the program. We've had the Guerreros and the Youngbloods in World Class here lately. The Simpson Boys' daddy was a big star in South Africa and Europe. Not only do Fritz's sons wrestle, his nephew does, too! And I just saw where Tommy Gilbert's boys are about to come to World Class! Well, I wouldn't trade this one right here for any of'em! Kendall can wrestle scientifically with anybody. He's also a Golden Gloves boxin champ, so if you wanna go to Fist City, he's ready, willin, and able! I know that most of you folks get WTBS on your cable and get to see Barry Windham on a regular basis. I have a lot to be proud of!
Here comes Terry Funk followed by Big John Studd!
LOWRANCE: Terry Funk, we don't need any trouble out here!
FUNK: I'm sick and tired of the way things are going around here! You showed the Texas Stadium highlights and there wasn't more than 2 or 3 seconds of the highlight of the whole day: The big man and me wiping the floor with Adams and Idol! Now, you let this gorilla come out here with his Ethiopian son and insult my family!
LOWRANCE: Your family wasn't mentioned!
FUNK: EXACTLY! This jackass mentioned every family name in wrestling and deliberately left out the greatest family: the Funk family!
MULLIGAN: Terry, you're makin a fool out of yourself! I grew up watching Dory Funk, Sr. wrestle! He was my hero! He was a great man! I'm beginning to have a suspicion that he was even greater than I thought! Maybe he was so kind and generous that when somebody dropped you off on his doorstep in a laundry basket that he raised you as his own son!
FUNK: You egg suckin dog! You lover of chickens! How dare you? Do you have any idea what John Studd could do to you right now at this moment? All you have to back you up is this walking Q tip with his buggy whip arms and...
KENDALL: You'd better shut your filthy mouth or you'll find out exactly what kind of man he has backing him up! Why don't you and I climb in that ring and see if you can back up those words!
FUNK: Well, that's a grandstand play! You can see I'm not dressed for wrestling!
KENDALL: OK, we can do this when you are dressed for wrestling! They told me earlier today that on July 5th at Reunion Arena, they are having what they call a Firecracker Spectacular! Why don't you two find yourselves a partner? Dad and me will set up a family reunion for that night! We'll call my big brother Barry up in Atlanta and we'll settle this thing!
Big John Studd whispers in Fun's ear and Terry's face lights up!
FUNK: That's a great idea, John! We'll get a man who bites like an alligator and stings like a scorpine! He's a real man! He'll break that stack of dimes you call a neck, he'll bust Barry's head open, and he'll retire your old man, once and for all!
MULLIGAN: You bring it on! Mark Lowrance, this will make the shootout at OK Corral look like a girl's Sunday School class!
LOWRANCE: Well, the big card at Reunion will be worth the ticket price if the promoters can sign that match! We'll be right back!
COMMERCIAL
The Snowman vs. “Black Superman” Tony Atlas: As we come out of the break, Snowman is in the ring, mic in hand...
SNOWMAN: Tony, at Texas Stadium, I had it all planned out: I was gonna destroy you once and for all for what you did to my family! The plan didn't work for one reason: Parsons and Patera got in the way! Well, you can see that “Kryptonite” Ken Patera ain't nowhere to be found! I know Iceman is in the building, but you just leave him back there in the dressing room with the jobronis! Come out here and let's settle this one and for all!
Tony Atlas comes to the ring, looking more intense than we've ever seen him! As soon as Tony hits the ring, Snowman attacks, but Tony fires back with punches of his own!They brawl inside the ring, at ringside, up the aisle, and back! They barely beat the 20 count on a few occasions! During the commentary, Bill Mercer said he spoke to Atlas and Tony once had a realtionship with Snowman's sister, but they made a mutual decision to end the relationship, but Snowman somehow blames Atlas! It looks bad for Tony when Snowman brings a chair into the ring, but Atlas dropkicks the chair right into Snowman's face! Referee David Manning immediately DQs Snowman for bringing in the chair! After Snowman drops the chair, Atlas applies the sleeper on Snowman and puts him out! Atlas has won the battle and, apparently, the war! Iceman comes to the ring and manages to get Atlas off of Snowman. Atlas is angry and really doesn't seem inclined to wake Snowman up! Iceman wakes the Snowman up and Snowman hurriedly leaves the ring as Iceman raises Tony's hand in victory!
MERCER: Next week, we have a great program for you! Al Perez will defend the Texas Title against Brian Adias! Sunshine will lead the Missing Link into the ring to battle Buddy Roberts of the Fabulous Blondes! Speaking of the Blondes, the powerful Mr. Magnificent will be here with his incredible full nelson! We saw videotape features on both “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert and the Patriot. We'll see both of those newcomers in matches next week! We will also have information on the upcoming Firecracker Spectacular! Be sure and join us for World Class Championship Wrestling!
June 3, 1988
Taped on May 26, 1988
The Sportatorium
Dallas, Texas
Announcer: Bill Mercer
Ring Announcer: Mark Lowrance
Referees: Bronko Lubich, Ralph Pulley, & David Manning
MERCER: Hello and welcome to World Class Championship Wrestling! We want to thank each and every fan who made the Parade of Champions a rousing success! Right now, before we begin this edition of World Class Championship Wrestling, let's look at highlights from that wrestling spectacular!
VTR:
A music video set to the above featuring highlights from Parade of Champions. You can catch the entire card here:
atomicgiants.proboards.com/thread/2350/wccw-parade-champions-28-1988
Iceman King Parsons vs. Gary Royal: The Iceman looks fantastic this week as convincingly defeats Royal after the butt bump.
COMMERCIAL
MERCER: And, now, let's look at a new sensation making his way into World Class. This is THE PATRIOT!
VTR:
A large masked man is standing beside a pickup truck...
PATRIOT: Hello, wrestling fans! My name is the Patriot and I'm coming to World Class! In fact, I'm headed that way right now! I'm gonna hop into my American made pickup truck and drive from here in Georgia across this great country to Texas! I'm gonna do as much sightseeing as I can along the way because I love this great country of ours! Hopefully, I'll be able to wrestle for you great fans on TV next week!
The Patriot climbs into his truck and the music plays. Over the next few minutes, we see the masked man at several landmarks between Georgia and Texas, talking with fans and posing. As the song ends, the Patriot's truck pulls into the parking lot at the Sportatorium. Fritz Von Erich is waiting for him there. The Patriot and Fritz shake hands and enter the Sportatorium.
MERCER: And now, for something totally different, let's hear from Warlord Jonathan Boyd...
VTR:
Jonathan Boyd is standing in front of the World Class logo.
BOYD: For those of you bloody Yanks who don't know anything about professional wrestling, my name is Jonathan Boyd! I take pride in three things: One,I am from New Zealand, two, I am the toughest and most brutal professional wrestler who has ever lived, and, most importantly, I'm not a bloody American! Right now, World Class is the hottest promotion going! Of course, I want to be where the action is, but I know how American promotions do everything in their power to hold me back! One man alone, even a man of my calibre, can't fight the bloody system you Yanks have in place! That's why I'm building an army! And no bloody yank will be accepted in my army! This will be the INTERNATIONAL ARMY! And I have my first soldier! He is the most awarded amatuer athlete ever to compete in this sport and he's won every title and award there is to win as a professional!
The Iron Sheik joins Boyd!
SHEIK: Jonathan Boyd, it is a great honor to be here with you! Gary Hart is great manager, but he is American and I really can't trust him!This International Army will be greatest thing in wrestling! Iran, munber one! International Army, number one! Jonathan Boyd, number one! USA? Hack phooey!
BOYD: That's right, mate! All of you bloody Yank wrestlers...Tony Atlas....Sid Vicious....Iceman...Armstrong...this bloody maksed fool they just showed! We will destroy all of them!
SHEIK: Ronnie Garvin, we will take your title!Al Perez and New Breed, we want your titles, too!
BOYD: Bloody right, Sheik!
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
Bill Mercer stands outside of a large house, best described as a mansion.
MERCER: Welcome to the beautiful Volunteer State of Tennessee! I'm here at the palatial estate of one “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert. If you follow the wrestling rankings around the nation, you will recognize the name of Eddie Gilbert as one of the top stars in our sport! He's coming to World Class very soon and he's not coming alone. He's bringing with him the First Family. I've been invited to Mr. Gilbert's home today to meet the First Family! Let me go see if they are ready for this meeting...
Mercer makes his way to the front door and rings the doorbell.
Eddie Gilbert answers the door and shakes Bill's hand.
EDDIE: Bill Mercer, welcome to my humble home!
MERCER: I must say that this is very nice!
EDDIE: Only the best for the First Family of wrestling! The rest of the Family is out by the pool! Come with me!
We cut to a swimming pool. A beautiful woman in a bikini is sunbathing on a lounge chair while a young man is doing dives off the diving board.
EDDIE: The young guy jumping in the pool is my younger brother, Doug.
Doug climbs out of the pool and comes over to Eddie and Bill. He shakes hands with Mercer.
DOUG: Doug Gilbert, nice to meetcha!
EDDIE: Doug is a rookie, but he's well on his way, Bill Mercer. You just shook hands with a future great.
DOUG: That's right! Now, watch this!
Doug goes back to diving board and does a cannonball. Eddie applauds.
EDDIE: ( to Mercer) Hey, he's a kid. He's gotta have fun!
MERCER: Is the young lady part of the First Family?
EDDIE: An extremely important part! Cameraman, let me direct you. Start at her toes and slowly pan up that lucious body until you get to her gorgeous face!
The camera guy expertly follows Eddie's direction. Once the camera is on her face, the blonde speaks...
MISSY: I am Missy Hyatt, the undisputed First Lady of Professional Wrestling! Right now, there are a lot of happy guys and jealous wives and girlfriends down there in Texas! If you think I look good now, wait until my man, Hot Stuff, starts wrestling down there. I'll have his American Championship belt over one shoulder and his Texas belt on the other shoulder! Then, he and Doug might even take the Tag Team Championships! The First Family will rule World Class!
EDDIE: You people down there in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas thought you had a first family! They were called the Von Erichs! When the competition got too tough and the WWF waved a big paycheck under their noses, Kerry and Kevin went North! Once the First Family gets to Texas, you might see a lot more wrestlers go away! Tito Santana might hop on his burro and head back to Mexico! Sid Vicious might just go back to the farm! Chris Adams, you better get an airline ticket back to England! Brad Armstrong, Ronnie Garvin, Killer Bees, Simpson boys! You're all gonna take a back seat to the First Family!
MERCER: Well, Mr. Gilbert, I look forward to seeing you wrestle in World Class Championship Wrestling!When we come back, Kendall Windham will wrestle!
COMMERCIAL
Kendall Windham (w/ Blackjack Mulligan) vs. Jeff Sword: During the match, Mercer explains the whole Windham/Mulligan family tree to the fans. Mercer also announces that on July 5th, in Reunion Arena, WCCW presents the Firecracker Spectacular. Kendall is at a weight disadvantage, but it really doesn't seem to bother him at all. Windham bulldogs Sword to score a convincing win. Afterwards, Kendall and Blackjack speak with Mark Lowrance...
LOWRANCE: An impressive debut for Kendall Windham this week! Blackjack, you must be proud of your son!
MULLIGAN: Yessir, that's a fact! Mark, it seems that wrestling has become a family business. Brad Armstrong, the son of my old pal Bob Armstrong was out here wrestlingearlier on the program. We've had the Guerreros and the Youngbloods in World Class here lately. The Simpson Boys' daddy was a big star in South Africa and Europe. Not only do Fritz's sons wrestle, his nephew does, too! And I just saw where Tommy Gilbert's boys are about to come to World Class! Well, I wouldn't trade this one right here for any of'em! Kendall can wrestle scientifically with anybody. He's also a Golden Gloves boxin champ, so if you wanna go to Fist City, he's ready, willin, and able! I know that most of you folks get WTBS on your cable and get to see Barry Windham on a regular basis. I have a lot to be proud of!
Here comes Terry Funk followed by Big John Studd!
LOWRANCE: Terry Funk, we don't need any trouble out here!
FUNK: I'm sick and tired of the way things are going around here! You showed the Texas Stadium highlights and there wasn't more than 2 or 3 seconds of the highlight of the whole day: The big man and me wiping the floor with Adams and Idol! Now, you let this gorilla come out here with his Ethiopian son and insult my family!
LOWRANCE: Your family wasn't mentioned!
FUNK: EXACTLY! This jackass mentioned every family name in wrestling and deliberately left out the greatest family: the Funk family!
MULLIGAN: Terry, you're makin a fool out of yourself! I grew up watching Dory Funk, Sr. wrestle! He was my hero! He was a great man! I'm beginning to have a suspicion that he was even greater than I thought! Maybe he was so kind and generous that when somebody dropped you off on his doorstep in a laundry basket that he raised you as his own son!
FUNK: You egg suckin dog! You lover of chickens! How dare you? Do you have any idea what John Studd could do to you right now at this moment? All you have to back you up is this walking Q tip with his buggy whip arms and...
KENDALL: You'd better shut your filthy mouth or you'll find out exactly what kind of man he has backing him up! Why don't you and I climb in that ring and see if you can back up those words!
FUNK: Well, that's a grandstand play! You can see I'm not dressed for wrestling!
KENDALL: OK, we can do this when you are dressed for wrestling! They told me earlier today that on July 5th at Reunion Arena, they are having what they call a Firecracker Spectacular! Why don't you two find yourselves a partner? Dad and me will set up a family reunion for that night! We'll call my big brother Barry up in Atlanta and we'll settle this thing!
Big John Studd whispers in Fun's ear and Terry's face lights up!
FUNK: That's a great idea, John! We'll get a man who bites like an alligator and stings like a scorpine! He's a real man! He'll break that stack of dimes you call a neck, he'll bust Barry's head open, and he'll retire your old man, once and for all!
MULLIGAN: You bring it on! Mark Lowrance, this will make the shootout at OK Corral look like a girl's Sunday School class!
LOWRANCE: Well, the big card at Reunion will be worth the ticket price if the promoters can sign that match! We'll be right back!
COMMERCIAL
The Snowman vs. “Black Superman” Tony Atlas: As we come out of the break, Snowman is in the ring, mic in hand...
SNOWMAN: Tony, at Texas Stadium, I had it all planned out: I was gonna destroy you once and for all for what you did to my family! The plan didn't work for one reason: Parsons and Patera got in the way! Well, you can see that “Kryptonite” Ken Patera ain't nowhere to be found! I know Iceman is in the building, but you just leave him back there in the dressing room with the jobronis! Come out here and let's settle this one and for all!
Tony Atlas comes to the ring, looking more intense than we've ever seen him! As soon as Tony hits the ring, Snowman attacks, but Tony fires back with punches of his own!They brawl inside the ring, at ringside, up the aisle, and back! They barely beat the 20 count on a few occasions! During the commentary, Bill Mercer said he spoke to Atlas and Tony once had a realtionship with Snowman's sister, but they made a mutual decision to end the relationship, but Snowman somehow blames Atlas! It looks bad for Tony when Snowman brings a chair into the ring, but Atlas dropkicks the chair right into Snowman's face! Referee David Manning immediately DQs Snowman for bringing in the chair! After Snowman drops the chair, Atlas applies the sleeper on Snowman and puts him out! Atlas has won the battle and, apparently, the war! Iceman comes to the ring and manages to get Atlas off of Snowman. Atlas is angry and really doesn't seem inclined to wake Snowman up! Iceman wakes the Snowman up and Snowman hurriedly leaves the ring as Iceman raises Tony's hand in victory!
MERCER: Next week, we have a great program for you! Al Perez will defend the Texas Title against Brian Adias! Sunshine will lead the Missing Link into the ring to battle Buddy Roberts of the Fabulous Blondes! Speaking of the Blondes, the powerful Mr. Magnificent will be here with his incredible full nelson! We saw videotape features on both “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert and the Patriot. We'll see both of those newcomers in matches next week! We will also have information on the upcoming Firecracker Spectacular! Be sure and join us for World Class Championship Wrestling!
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