USWA "Championship Wrestling (9/21/85) & Coliseum show
Sept 21, 2019 13:22:01 GMT
Post by Grigs2.0 on Sept 21, 2019 13:22:01 GMT
THE USWA presents: “Championship Wrestling”
Live from the studios of WMC in Memphis, TN
Taped to air on stations throughout TN, KY, IN, MS, AR, OH, MO, and IL
Announcers: Dave Brown & Michael St. John
DAVE: Championship Wrestling is back! Dave Brown and Michael St. John along ringside for a great program this week! The big news is that we are now proudly affiliated with the United States Wrestling Association, the USWA! This organization is, in my opinion, the #1 governing body for wrestling in the world today! The President of this organization is a gentleman we are all very familiar with. Welcome my friend, Eddie Marlin!
Eddie walks out and joins the announcers at the desk. He gets a warm welcome from the studio audience.
DAVE: Great to see you, Mr. President!
MARLIN: I might have an important title, but I'm still just “Eddie”, ok?
MICHAEL: Eddie, the USWA has some exciting things planned, doesn't it?
MARLIN: We do. The USWA has an open door policy. The fans in Memphis, Louisville, Lexington, and all the other great towns will see the best wrestlers the world has to offer! The USWA World Champion is a French Canadian wrestler named Dino Bravo and he's going to defend his title in the area very soon. We have a special on him and I think they have it ready....
DAVE: Let's roll that video, guys!
VIDEO:
As the above music plays, we see footage of a limo pulling up outside an arena. Dino Bravo exits the car, dressed in a suit. We see him enter the arena. We see Dino lacing up his boots and warming up. Then, there are several action clips of Bravo dominating several opponents. The last images we see are of Bravo putting on his title belt and ring jacket and walking out of the dressing room toward the ring...
END VIDEO
DAVE: A very impressive looking individual, Dino Bravo.
EDDIE: The USWA also has World Tag Team Champions and it's a team we all know well. Watch the video...
VIDEO:
END VIDEO
DAVE: Rex and Spot, the Moondogs! One of the wildest and toughest teams I've ever seen, Eddie!
EDDIE: They'll be defending those belts this Monday night. They won't have an easy time of it. We have another video on their opponents. I'm sure when you see them, you'll agree that this will be tough competition...
VIDEO:
END VIDEO
MICHAEL: Wow! Porkchop Cash & Troy “Dream Machine” Graham, the Bruise Brothers! The Moondogs had better be at their best Monday night!
DAVE: Eddie, what about the Southern Title? That's a championship that has always meant a lot around here.
EDDIE: Glad you asked, Dave Brown. The Southern Heavyweight Title is currently vacant. Monday night, we'll rectify that situation with a two ring, triple chance battle royal! Instead of a cash prize, the winner will be crowned Southern Champion and #1 contender to the USWA World Championship in this area! Monday night will be one of the biggest cards we've ever had at the Coliseum and to top it off, general admission tickets for kids under 12 will be 2 dollars! You can afford to bring the whole family!
DAVE: Championship Wrestling is back and it's a can't miss card! We'll have somebody you don't want to miss after our first commercial break...
COMMERCIAL
The fans are buzzing and this music plays...
JERRY “THE KING” LAWLER IS BACK IN MEMPHIS!!! The studio crowd goes crazy!
DAVE: The King is back! Welcome home, Jerry Lawler!
LAWLER: It's great to be back home in Memphis, Tennessee! Dave, since the big blowup with the NWA, I've been all over the world. Recently, I've been up in Chicago. It's just not the same. I really wasn't myself up there. They just don't get the King like my hometown folks do. I'd pull down the strap and they would sit on their hands! I hope that I never have to leave this part of the country again!
DAVE: Jerry, Monday night, the Southern title is on the line. Have you signed up for the two ring, triple chance battle royal?
LAWLER: Dave, that's like going to a restaurant and asking if they're going to serve dinner! I'm signed up and I'm ready to go! I'm also in a six man tag team match and I have two of the top wrestlers in the world as my partners. But there's something I want to get straight before I wrestle. If I can get President Marlin out here!
Eddie Marlin walks out and shakes hands with the King...
EDDIE: What can I do for you, Jerry?
LAWLER: I've had a handicap for my entire career, Eddie. My favorite move and my best move is the piledriver. For reasons I have never understood, it's always been illegal in theis area, an automatic DQ. The NWA upheld that, so did the CWA, and the AWA barred it as well. I hear it's legal in the USWA...
EDDIE: The piledriver is a legal hold in the USWA. Another difference in rules in the USWA, coming off the tope rope is legal, too!
LAWLER: YEAH! Now, maybe the King can accomplish something!
DAVE: That changes things. Let's see if those rules affect any of our matches here today...
JERRY LAWLER VS. ART CREWS: Lawler dominates the action. A desperate Crews resorts to eye rakes and other illegal tactics. The King pulls down the strap and starts throwing right hands! Lawler takes full advatage of the rules change and piledrives Crews. Three seconds later and the King is your winner!
COMMERCIAL
DAVE: I have to do this folks. I apologize in advance. Jimmy Hart is scheduled at this time...
HART: This is the greatest day of my life, even though Jerry “the Queen” Lawler and decrepit old fossil Eddie Marlin tried to ruin it! Can you believe that the deadly piledriver is legal? What kind of rule is that? What kind of jerkwater organization is this USWA? It doesn't matter, Weather Clown Brown! I have a new and improved First Family that even I can't believe! First of all, the baddest man in wrestling....”Dr. D” David Shults!
Dr. D walks out and joins Hart...
DR. D: Don't you worry about the Queen and his piledriver! Dr. D has the best piledriver in the business, baby! I'll put his lights out just for you, Jimmy Hart!
HART: He's the most unusual wrestler in the world, baby! Parental discretion is advised!
THE MISSING LINK!!!
The Link comes out, carrying a steel chair! He uses the chair to bang his own skull. David Shults shakes his head and laughs.
DR.D: Jimmy, thanks for getting him to be on our side!
HART: Ain't he great? Ain't he great? This next man is also great! He sings, he dances, and he is a great wrestler! THE HONKYTONK MAN!
Honky comes out, strums his guitar, does some hip shaking moves and generally makes a fool of himself...
HONKY: Thank you! Thank you very much! The Honkytonk Man is here to entertain you! I'm here to win every title! The First Family is the greatest collection of talent since Bill and Scotty, the Sweet Inspirations, & JD Sumner & The Stamps! We're ready to TCB in the USWA, baby!
HART: You talk about great athletes, look at this stud! Buddy Landel!!!
LANDEL: Dave Brown, I need to make sure that you have a few things straight! First of all, you always introduce me as “Nature Boy” Buddy Landel! Make sure on the commentary that you and Michael St. John let all these hillbillies know that I am the one and only true Nature Boy! Accept no substitutes! Don't be fooled by some imposter! Honky, baby, you and me got a bunch of impersonators, but we're the genuine articles!
HART: There's nobody quite like him and I know you people love him...Phil Hickerson is in the First Family!
HICKERSON: Jimmy Hart, this is the greatest day of my life, too! When you're surrounded by friends, the fun never ends! It don't matter if it's Lawler, that Canadian boy, Bravo, or anybody else! The First Family is gonna wipe'em out!
HART: One more introduction!
BROWN: There's more?
HART: You've seen specials on some other tag teams, but the First Family has a real tag team! Ken Wayne & Danny Davis...The Nightmares!
VIDEO:
(Just pretend they are wearing the face paint instead of masks)
HART: OK! Now, I'm gonna send three of these great athletes into the ring to kick some tail, baby!
BUDDY LANDEL, HONKYTONK MAN, & MISSING LINK (W/JIMMY HART) VS. BRIAN ADIAS, ROCKY DELLA SERRA, & DAVID HASKINS: Jimmy Hart adds an uninvited guest commentator to the announce teamwhile Hickerson and Shults make this a de facto lumberjack match at ringside. Despite that, the First Family's opponents give them a competitive bout. Landel pins Haskins after a corkscrew elbow, but the faces showed that they have a bright future in the USWA!
COMMERCIAL
DAVE: I'm joined by a man who is a real legend in this part of the country, Tojo Yamamoto!
TOJO: You introduce me right, Mister Weatherman! Greatest Japanese Imperial wrestler of all time, Honorable Tojo Yamamamoto!
DAVE: I beg your pardon...
TOJO: Now, I am starting in the managing business! I manage only the best talent! Not like that puny American, Jimmy Hart! No American wrestler!I got Kabuki! I got Killer Khan! I got Akio Sato! You know what, Dave Brown? I still wrestle! I can still fight! I still got hardest chops! I'm still strong! You watch this match, Dave Brown! BANZAI!!!
AKIO SATO, KILLER KHAN, GREAT KABUKI, & TOJO YAMAMOTO VS. SD JONES, JIM JAMISON, PAT HUTCHINSON, & CHRIS CARTER: SD starts out and he's on fire, dominating the action with punches and head butts. Things go downhill when “Special Delivery” tags out. Tojo's men batter their overmatched opponents. After Pat Hutchinson absorbs a terrible beating, Tojo is tagged in. Tojo chops the weakened wrestler and covers “Handsome Hutch” for the pinfall.
BROWN: We're seeing a lot of familiar faces today and here's another one, Jonathan Boyd!
BOYD: Dave Brown, the pleasure is all bloody yours! One thing everybody knows about me: I got no use for bloody Yanks!Not long ago, I got a call from two Yanks and, surprisingly, they spoke to me with respect! They realize that I'm the foremost tag team wrestler on the planet. I was the brains behind the Sheepherders' success and the reason the Sheepherders have won titles in 37 diferent countries. They mortgaged their bloody homes to raise the money to hire me as their advisor. Now, I'm gonna lead two Yanks to the top! Their names are Eric Embry & Ken Timbs. They call themselves The Fabulous Blondes!
The Blondes enter the studio!
BOYD: Now, we have a grievance to air! I need to see that drugstore cowboy, Scott Casey!
Cowboy Scott Casey has arrived!
BOYD: OK, we're scheduled in the bloody expiration of time six man tag team match. You see my team! Who is on your team? I need to get the Blondes prepared...
CASEY: This is a special day! Wrestling is back in Memphis, Tennessee! I want to give these fans a big surprise! You'll find out when these great wrestling fans find out! That sounds fair to me!
Casey walks away and Boyd is fuming!
BOYD: You bloody cowpoke! It doesn't matter! We'll take on anybody you bring out here!
COMMERCIAL
MASTER G, “SUPERSTAR” BILL DUNDEE, & BRICKHOUSE BROWN VS. KEITH ERIC, LOU WINSTON, & GARY ROYAL: The quickness of Dundee & Brown keeps their opponents off balance for most of the match. Master G gets the submision win for his team with the masterlock on Big Lou.
DAVE: I want to get the Superstar over here....Billy, great to see you! I just got word that your opponent at the Coliseum on Monday night will be the Exotic Adrian Street. I'm sure Miss Linda will be there with him. He's kind of odd, but he's tough...
DUNDEE: People take one look at him and underestimate him. They do the same with me, Dave. With either one of us, it's a mistake! Street looks like a fairy, but believe me, he wrestles like a mad dog! I just wanna say to Miss Linda: Stay out of my way, sweetheart! I'd hate to have to turn you over my knee!
COMMERCIAL
DAVE: “Tennessee Stud” Robert Fuller is here for a singles match. You don't look happy...
FULLER: Yessir, I'm in a foul mood after that last match! I saw some poor excuse for a so called “wrestler” try to use my Fuller Leglock! My daddy invented that hold and taught it to my brother Ron and me. We perfected it! I guess we should have got a patent on it, too! I want a match with that jerk what stole my hold! Monday at the Coliseum, I want a chance to give him a wrestling lesson!
DAVE: We'll see if we can arrange that for you. Right now, you have an opponent waiting in the ring!
“TENNESSEE STUD” ROBERT FULLER VS. MIKE FEVER: Fuller wrestles a very aggressive match and wins by forcing his opponet to submit to the Fuller leglock.
COMMERCIAL
EXOTIC ADRIAN STREET (W/ MISS LINDA) VS. KEN RAPER: Street looks very impressive as he gets a convincing win, getting the pin with a crucifix rollup. Afterwards, he and Linda join Dave Brown.
STREET: Dave Brown, why is it that wherever I go, that silly Elvis impersonator Bill Dundee follows? I grow weary of his greasy hair and his silly jumpsuit. Linda can't stand to look at him! The idea of him giving Linda corporal punishment is disgraceful! Dundee, I plan on beating you within an inch of your miserable pathetic life! When I finish with that, I make take that ugly jumpsuit and throw it in the nearest trash can! Or perhaps give it to the Honkytonk Man. Now, there is a man who looks good in a jumpsuit!
BROWN: Here's a look at another great wrestler on his way in. I think you'll be glad to see him...
VIDEO:
Randy Hales is standing in front of the USWA logo...
RANDY: USWA Wrestling is coming to the Mid South Coliseum, Monday night at 7 p.m. General admission tickets for kids under twelve are only 2 dollars. Bring the entire family for a great lineup of wrestling:
“DR. D” DAVID SHULTS VS. SCOTT MCGHEE
BUDDY LANDEL, HONKYTONK MAN, & MISSING LINK VS. TONGA KID, BRIAN ADIAS, & SD JONES
SUPERSTAR BILL DUNDEE VS. EXOTIC ADRIAN STREET
ROBERT FULLER VS. MASTER G
USWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: MOONDOGS VS. BRUISE BROTHERS
JERRY LAWLER, AUSTIN IDOL, & BLACKJACK MULLIGAN VS. AKIO SATO, KILLER KHAN, & GREAT KABUKI
FOR THE SOUTHERN TITLE: TWO RING, TRIPLE CHANCE BATTLE ROYAL!!!
RANDY: Let's go back to the studio for our expiration of time match!
The Fabulous Blondes & Jonathan Boyd come out and stop by the announce position.
BOYD: I still say it's not bloody right!
As the Blondes and Boyd enter the ring, Cowboy Scott Casey comes out alone. He has a big grin on his face as he comes to the announcer's table.
CASEY: I told you this was a big surprise...hit that music!
The fans are going crazy.... Boyd is furious!
STAN & STEVE, THE FABULOUS ONES!!!!
DAVE: The Fabs! Great to see you guys!
STAN: Like Judy Garland said in “The Wizard of Oz”, “There's no place like home!”
STEVE: I heard Jerry Lawler talking earlier and we feel the same way. We wrestled in a lot of big arenas in front of a lot of fans, but they weren't our fans and we never felt like the home team! I'm getting chills up and down my spine just being here!
STAN: We love each and every one of you people and we're gonna fight our hearts out for you!
FABULOUS ONES & COWBOY SCOTT CASEY VS. THE FABULOUS BLONDES & JONATHAN BOYD: Casey gets isolated in his opponets' corner and takes a pretty vicious beating. Casey finally tags out and the brawl is on! Lane hits a heel kick to the back of Boyd's head and gets the pin. Dave says they'll check the time and see if they can have a second fall and maybe more...
COMMERCIAL
DAVE: We still have some time left. The Fabs & Casey won the first fall and they are in the ring, waiting for Jonathan Boyd and the Blondes, who are here at the announcer's table. You got in some good shots on Casey, but came up short...
BOYD: Bloody Rome wasn't built in a day, Yank!
FALL TWO: The match turns into an all out brawl and referee Paul Neighbors can't control it! He Dqs both teams.
COMMERCIAL
DAVE: The decision on the last match is since The Fabs & Casey took the only fall, they are the winners. A big day of action today and next week, even more Championship Wrestling!
MICHAEL: Dave, with the USWA in town, I think that the future is bright!
DAVE: So long, we'll see you next week!
USWA @ The Mid South Coliseum
9/23/85
Memphis, TN
1.“Dr.D” David Shults pinned Scott McGhee in 9:01 after an elbow off the top rope. This was a very competitive bout.
2.“Nature Boy” Buddy Landel, Honkytonk Man, & Missing Link (w/Jimmy Hart) defeated Rocky Della Serra, Brian Adias, & SD Jones after 7:05 of red hot action. Honky pinned Della Serra after the “shake, rattle, & roll” neckbreaker.
3.Exotic Adrian Street (w/Miss Linda) fought Superstar Bill Dundee to a double countout in 8:21.
4.Robert Fuller pinned Master G in 12:22 after nailing him with a foreign object.
5.The Fabulous Ones beat The Nightmares (w/ Jimmy Hart) as Steve Keirn pinned Danny Davis after a forearm smash. Time of the fall: 13:33.
6.USWA Tag Team Champions The Moondogs beat The Bruise Brothers after 8:21 of wild brawling as Rex pinned Troy Graham after nailing him with a bone.
7.Jerry Lawler, Austin Idol, & Blackjack Mulligan beat Aki Sato, Killer Khan, & the Great Kabuki via DQ in 11:44 due to Tojo's interference.
8.Two ring, triple chance battle royal for the Southern Title
Ring 1(order of elimination)
1. Adrian Street( by Bill Dundee)
2. Troy Graham(by Killer Khan & Kabuki)
3. Scott McGhee( by Robert Fuller)
4. Honkytonk Man( by Jerry Lawler)
5. SD Jones (by David Shults)
6. Robert Fuller (by Master G)
7. Master G (by Missing Link)
8. Steve Keirn (by the Nightmares & Buddy Landel)
9. Austin Idol( by David Shults)
10.David Shults (By Austin Idol)
11. Blackjack Mulligan (by Killer Khan)
12. Killer Khan (By Blackjack Mulligan)
13. Akio Sato (by Stan Lane)
14. Bill Dundee (by The Nightmares)
15. Stan Lane (by Kabuki)
16. Danny Davis (by Jerry Lawler)
17. Porkchop Cash (by Kabuki)
18. Kabuki (by Jerry Lawler)
19. Jerry Lawler(by Buddy Landel, Honkytonk Man interfered)
20. Brian Adias (by Buddy Landel)
Winner of Ring 1: Buddy Landel
Ring 2 (Order of elimination)
1.Honkytonk Man (y Master G)
2.Robert Fuller (by Master G)
3.Master G (by Killer Khan)
4.Troy Graham (by The Nightmares)
5.Akio Sato (by Kabuki accidentally)
6.Missing Link (by Killer Khan)
7.Killer Khan (by Missing Link)
8.Stan Lane (by Kabuki)
9.Kabuki (by Stan Lane)
10.Scott McGhee( by David Shults)
11.Adrian Street (Austin Idol)
12.SD Jones (by the Nightmares)
13.Porkchop Cash (by Blackjack Mulligan)
14.Brian Adias (by David Shults)
15.Tonga Kid (by David Shults)
16.Steve Keirn (by the Nightmares)
17.Bill Dundee (by Jerry Lawler)
18.Austin Idol (by Ken Wayne & David Shults)
19.Blackjack Mulligan (by Nightmares & David Shults)
20.Ken Wayne (by Danny Davis accidentallu)
21.Danny Davis (by Jerry Lawler)
22.David Shults (by Jerry Lawler when Budd Landel's interference backfired)
Winner of Ring 2: Jerry Lawler
Jerry Lawler pinned Buddy Landel after a piledriver at the 14:33 mark to win the Southern Heavyweight Championship.