USWA Saturday Night Wrestling(2/20/87)
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USWA presents: “SATURDAY NIGHT WRESTLING”
February 20, 1987. Airing live from the Civic Center in Thibodeaux, LA on The Nashville Network
Ring Announcer: Mike McGuirk
Announce team: Gordon Solie & Lance Russell
VTR OPENING:
As the music plays, we see the following scenes:
Jerry Lawler hitting a fist drop on a prone opponent
Jim Cornette leading the Midnight Express to the ring
Austin Idol applying the Las Vegas Leglock
Big Bubba Rogers brawling with Jos LeDuc in the Steel Gauntlet cage
Brad Armstrong hitting the Russian leg sweep
Jerry Lawler making his helicopter entrance at the Memphis In May card at the Liberty Bowl
The Fabulous Ones getting out of a limo.
LES THATCHER (voice over): The United States Wrestling Association presents Saturday Night Wrestling! For the next 90 minutes, you'll see America's best professional wrestling action! Now, here is your award winning broadcast team of Gordon Solie & Lance Russell!
GORDON: Welcome to Saturday Night Wrestling. Lance, the Valentine's Day Massacare was an incredible pay per view!
LANCE: Yowza! The son of a gun absolutely would not quit! We have a video package of highlights. Let's take a look back at this awesome spectacular!
VTR:
Highlight video set to the above tune. If you haven't read the show, it's here:
atomicgiants.proboards.com/thread/3329/uswa-valentines-day-massacare-ppv
LANCE: Gordon, one of the biggest highlights for me was the USWA World Tag Team Title changing hands as Stan & Steve, the Fabulous Ones, defeated Jim Cornette's Midnight Express!
GORDON: It certainly was an outstanding bout and we have the privilege of seeing the new champions in our opening match.
THE FABULOUS ONES(STAN LANE & STEVE KEIRN) VS. TERRY ADONIS & RON SEXTON: The Fabs live up to their name tonight. The champions score a very convincing win as Stan pins Adonis after a reverse heel kick to the back of the head.
VTR:
Jimmy Valiant is standing in a blackened studio.
VALIANT: Whoa mercy, daddy! The Boogie Man is live and in living color here on prime time cable TV! People are asking me: “Handsome Jimmy, what is next?” Paul Jones, the Weasel, has ran off! He's gone! He's in parts unknown! I'm here to tell each and every one of you what is next for your Boogie Man! Austin Idol is my brother! Everybody knows that I would take a bullet for the Universal Heartthrob! Kevin Sullivan would have starred in “The Omen” as the son of Satan, but he wasn't nice enough! He's the scum of the earth! Not only is he a lowlife, he's got an army of lowlifes! “Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer! The Undertaker! Kendo Nagasaki, the Black Ninja! All of mean and ugly! They got my man Austin outnumbered! Now, I will fight by Austin Idol's side, daddy!
Austin Idol walks out and hugs Valiant.
IDOL: Good friends are hard to find! Friends like Jimmy Valiant, a man who grew up in New York City and learned to fight on the streets, are few and far between! Kevin Sullivan and his jerks tried to put me under the other night in Oklahoma City! Handsome Jimmy, if you hadn't been there, I'd be in a hospital in a body cast! Sullivan, you wanna rumble, you creep, you gotta rumble! With this man by my side, I'll walk into any dark alley in the world! The Boogie Woogie Man and the Universal Heartthrob are coming for you and your whole gang of scumbuckets!
VALIANT: Have mercy, sho got that right!
COMMERCIAL
The crowd pops huge as Austin Idol leads his friend, the Boogie Woogie Man to the ring!
“BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN” HANDSOME JIMMY VALIANT (W/AUSTIN IDOL) VS. TOM “ROCKY STONE: Handsome Jimmy destroys his overmatched opponent and gets the pin after the big elbow drop. Lance & Gordon agree that Sullivan and his gang had better get ready for these two!
COMMERCIAL
LANCE: In the weeks leading up to the Valentine's day Massacare Pay per view, we had told you that PWF President Frank Dusek had an announcement. Let's go back to the PPV and hear what Mr> Dusek had to say:
VTR:
DUSEK: I promised an announcement and never let it be said that I'm not a man of my word! Jim Crockett, Mr. USWA President, I hope you are listening to this! This might make you angry, but I'm not here to make friends! As you people probably know, my organization, the Pacific Wrestling Federation, based in Tokyo, the premiere wrestling promotion in the world today, has merged with the United States Wrestling Association. During the negotiations, many things were settled. One major item was left unaddressed-Which organization's championships would be defended after the merger. You've just seen the caliber of athlete that the PWF has as our champions! Comparing the PWF titleholders to their USWA counterparts is like comparing caviar to horse manure! Honestly, I'm glad the issue wasn't settled in negotiations. Champions should be decided in the squared circle!
Here's what the PWF proposes: On March 19, the USWA is having a special on the Nashville Network. They call it March Madness and it will be held at Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY. On that card, We challenge the USWA to a six man elimination tag team match. The PWF's team will be the three men standing with me in the ring! The USWA can selct any three of their wrestlers that they want! Any three! Lawler! Idol! Valiant! LeDuc!Any of the Armstrongs! Bubba Rogers! We'll wrestle any of'em! If the USWA wins, things continue as they are. If PWF wins, our belts will be recognized as the championships! USWA Saturday Night Wrestling will turn into PWF Saturday Night Wrestling! The PWF logo will be on the referee's shirts instead of the USWA logo! That's our challenge! What say you, Jimmy Crockett?
USWA President Jim Crockett comes to ringside, Dusek tosses him the microphone...
CROCKETT: Dusek, you said I'd probably be mad at you, but I'm not! You're right, championships should be decided in the ring, not the boardroom! The USWA is happy to accept your challenge under your terms! I have full confidence in our wrestlers, especially in World Champion Jerry “the King” Lawler! Jerry will captain our team on March 19. I will allow Jerry to choose his partners! With the stakes this high, I'm sure he will choose very wisely. Mr. Dusek, we'll see you on March 19 and may the best organization win!
Back to the arena...
The USWA World Champion makes his way to the ring.
JERRY “THE KING” LAWLER VS. MR.EBONY: This will be a non-title match. Lawler's masked opponent is an impressive looking athlete and he overpowers Lawler until the King pulls down the strap and goes to town! After unloading on Ebony with rights and lefts, Lawler piledrives him and gets the 1-2-3!
LANCE: Jerry, if I can have a word. We just saw the footage of Frank Dusek's challenge and Jim Crockett's acceptance. You will be selecting a team to represent the USWA. Have you decided on who your partners will be?
LAWLER: Lance, I can't answer that. The element of surprise is on my side! There are many great wrestlers here in the USWA. We aren't going to have the PWF taking over our organization! I promise you that the two men I select will be two guys who will make the USWA proud and defend our home turf from this hostile takeover!
LANCE: I do congratulate you on the successful title defense against Brad Armstrong. You have to admit that he gave you a whale of a match in there!
LAWLER: He's the Southern Heavyweight Champion and you don't hold that belt unless you are tough! Just look how man times I've held it, Lance! I know this won't be his last title match either. Brad, if you want another shot, I'll be waiting! You know what, Lance? Ol' Brad might be a good guy to have on the USWA team at Rupp Arena. Not saying anything, just talking!
LANCE: That's coming up on March 19 at 8 p.m. Right here on America's Country Home, the Nashville Network! You do not want to miss that one!
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
We see a strange looking individual in a martial arts dojo. Several men dressed in gis attack him and he fights them off with martial arts skills. After his workout is over, joins a well dressed man holding a microphone.
INTERVIEWER: Good evening, wrestling fans. My name is Hugo Savinovich. The young man who you just saw in action is known as TNT. He is one of the top wrestlers here in Puerto Rico. TNT does not speak English so I will translate for him...
TNT: My name is TNT. I have been wrestling in my native land of Puerto Rico for only a few years. I was trained by The Black Ninja, Kendo Nagasaki. Kendo turned on me and injured me. The doctors thought I would never wrestle again, but I was tougher than they thought! I swore that I would get revenge on Kendo for stabbing me in the back! I now know that he is in the USWA. I am coming to the USWA! Kendo Nagasaki, you will pay! The student will become the teacher and you will learn a very painful lesson!
“BLACK NINJA” KENDO NAGASAKI(W/KEVIN SULLIVAN & FALLEN ANGEL) VS. KEN RAPER: Nagasaki methodically takes Raper apart this week. Kendo gets the pin after a thrust kick that appears to catch his opponent in the throat. After the match, Sullivan, Angel, & Nagasaki join Gordon Solie.
SOLIE: You and your Army of Darkness are certainly in demand. Jimmy Valiant & Austin Idol have declared war on your entire entourage while TNT is coming in from Puerto Rico and wants Kendo Nagasaki...
SULLIVAN: Abbuda Dein himself told me that dark times were coming! A storm is brewing, Gordon Solie! Sawyer, the Undertaker, and the Black Ninja know no fear! We have been to the seventh step of the thirteenth pyramid where we chewed the betel nut and partook of the cosmic cookie! We were emptied of fear and vanity, as well as sympathy and empathy! Idol, you are dragging that urchin Valiant into the pit where he will suffer along with you and any other miscreants that you find along the way! (Sullivan holds up the Golden Spike) The power of the Golden Spike will be the doom of you all! Jimmy Valiant, I saw you out here dancing like a fool earlier! Remember that some dance to remember, but some dance to forget, Boogie Man! Some dance to forget!!!
SOLIE: The cryptic comments of one Kevin Sullivan. We'll be back...
COMMERCIAL
PWF President Frank Dusek is at the announce table.
SOLIE: We are joined by Frank Dusek. To what do we owe the pleasure of this visit, sir?
DUSEK: Gordon, I wanted to give you a small sample of what you and all of the viewers of Saturday Night Wrestling can look forward to after the PWF takeover.
SOLIE: That remains to be seen...
RUSSELL: Your guys have to take on Jerry Lawler and his two partners. If I know the King, he'll have two great ones by his side.
DUSEK: Well, the three men who will represent the Pacific Wrestling Federation at March Madness on March 19 at Rupp Arena are up in the ring. Get ready for a display of state of the art professional wrestling!
GENICHIRO TENRYU, MASAHIRO CHONO, & RUSHER KIMURA VS. KEITH ROBERSON, ALAN WEST, & BOB BRADLEY: West and Bradley get in some offense, but the three Americans are mostly outgunned here. Tenryu powerbombs Roberson and scores the pin for the PWF contingent.
DUSEK: The next match features a man who hasn't wrestled on American television in almost 10 years. This is typical of the unique programming the PWF can offer.
SOLIE: We'll find out who he's referring to when we return.
COMMERCIAL
THE ORIGINAL SHEIK VS. LOU WINSTON: Lance & Gordon point out that the Sheik is banned in most states and several foreign countries. Dusek says that the PWF's legal team made it posible for the legendary wildman to appear this evening and that the USWA would be too scared to put this man on TV! The Sheik uses a foreign object to gain the advantage on the capable Winston. Eventually, the legendary heel locks Winston in the camel clutch and secures the win. Dusek informs us that next week, Tenryu will be here to defend the “only real world championship” the PWF World Title.
COMMERCIAL
GORDON: Still to come, we will have a Southern Title defense by Brad Armstrong as he faces the challenge of “Dirty White Boy” Tony Anthony.
LANCE: Brad may have come up short against the King for the World Title, but he's a great champion in his own right, inside and outside of the ring. Here's a special look at Brad Armstrong.
VTR:
We see the closing seconds of Brad Armstrong beating Bad News Brown to win the Southern Title. Then, the music starts...
We see Brad raising an American flag up a flagpole. Then we see him driving a pickup truck. We see Brad visiting a children's hospital and a nursing home, allowing several children and elderly people to hold his title belt. We see footage of Brad in the ring against several opponents. We see Brad, his brothers, and father around a dinner table. Brad says grace before they eat. Then, we see Brad in the dressing room. He laces his boots. He puts his title belt and jacket on. Then, we see him going down the aisle, high fiving and hugging fans as he goes. The last scene shows Brad standing on the turnbuckles, holding the title belt above his head as the graphic reading: BRAD ARMSTRONG....OUR SOUTHERN HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION appears on the screen.
SHANE DOUGLAS(W/BOB BACKLUND) VS. DIRTY DUTCH MANTEL: Fresh off his win and unmasking of the Midnight Rider(Jerry Stubbs), Dirty Dutch faces a rising young grappler in Douglas. With Backlund advising him at ringside, Shane gives Mantel a spirited bout before Dutch hits Douglas with a short clothesline and gets the 1-2-3. Douglas seems really angry about the loss and nothing Backlund says seems to placate him at all.
Dutch stops by the announce position after the bout.
LANCE: Dutchman, I have to hand it to you: that was impressive.
DUTCH: I unmasked that Stubbs and sent him back to parts unknown. It's onward and upward from here on out, Lancer! My good buddy, Dirty White Boy is gonna beat Armstrong for the Southern Title here tonight. Then, next week, White Boy and me are gonna show the nasty Boys what nasty is all about and win the Southern Tag Team Titles!Then, I want me a World Championship match with that so called “King” Jerry Lawler! From now on, people had better learn to respect Dutch Mantel and that's a fact, brother!
COMMERCIAL
AMERICAN STARSHIP & BOSMAN BUBBA ROGERS VS. NIKOLAI VOLKOFF & JOS LEDUC(W/SLICK): Starship and Bubba want revenge for what Slick's men did to their pal Doug Furnas. This is a slugfest and after referee Jerry Calhoun gets knocked down a few times, he calls it a double DQ! This situation is far from over!
COMMERCIAL
SOUTHERN HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH: BRAD ARMSTRONG © VS. “DIRTY WHITE BOY” TONY ANTHONY (W/DUTCH MANTEL): Anthony is a very underrated wrestler and he takes it to the champion. Brad makes a comeback, but the wily Dutch Mantel manages to interfere without being caught by referee Rick Hazzard. After a three way collision sends both competitors and the ref to the mat, Dutch crawls into the ring. DWB holds Armstrong's arms and Dutch has a bag of powder! Dutch flings the powder at Brad's eyes...BRAD DUCKS!!! The powder goes into Anthony's eyes instead! The White Boy has been blinded! Brad dropkicks Dutch out of the ring! Brad hist the Russian leg sweep on Anthony! 1...2...3!!! Brad Armstrong wins! After the match, Dutch grabs a cup of water off of the announce table and washes the powder out of Tony's eyes. The Dirty White Boy is irate! He's yelling at Dutch! It looks like Mantel is apologizing, but Anthony ain't having it! He has his fist clinched and it looks like he's gonna slug Dutch! Hollywood John Tatum runs in and tries to play peacemaker. We're out of time as finally, Tatum convinces his fellow heels to join him in a group hug!
February 20, 1987. Airing live from the Civic Center in Thibodeaux, LA on The Nashville Network
Ring Announcer: Mike McGuirk
Announce team: Gordon Solie & Lance Russell
VTR OPENING:
As the music plays, we see the following scenes:
Jerry Lawler hitting a fist drop on a prone opponent
Jim Cornette leading the Midnight Express to the ring
Austin Idol applying the Las Vegas Leglock
Big Bubba Rogers brawling with Jos LeDuc in the Steel Gauntlet cage
Brad Armstrong hitting the Russian leg sweep
Jerry Lawler making his helicopter entrance at the Memphis In May card at the Liberty Bowl
The Fabulous Ones getting out of a limo.
LES THATCHER (voice over): The United States Wrestling Association presents Saturday Night Wrestling! For the next 90 minutes, you'll see America's best professional wrestling action! Now, here is your award winning broadcast team of Gordon Solie & Lance Russell!
GORDON: Welcome to Saturday Night Wrestling. Lance, the Valentine's Day Massacare was an incredible pay per view!
LANCE: Yowza! The son of a gun absolutely would not quit! We have a video package of highlights. Let's take a look back at this awesome spectacular!
VTR:
Highlight video set to the above tune. If you haven't read the show, it's here:
atomicgiants.proboards.com/thread/3329/uswa-valentines-day-massacare-ppv
LANCE: Gordon, one of the biggest highlights for me was the USWA World Tag Team Title changing hands as Stan & Steve, the Fabulous Ones, defeated Jim Cornette's Midnight Express!
GORDON: It certainly was an outstanding bout and we have the privilege of seeing the new champions in our opening match.
THE FABULOUS ONES(STAN LANE & STEVE KEIRN) VS. TERRY ADONIS & RON SEXTON: The Fabs live up to their name tonight. The champions score a very convincing win as Stan pins Adonis after a reverse heel kick to the back of the head.
VTR:
Jimmy Valiant is standing in a blackened studio.
VALIANT: Whoa mercy, daddy! The Boogie Man is live and in living color here on prime time cable TV! People are asking me: “Handsome Jimmy, what is next?” Paul Jones, the Weasel, has ran off! He's gone! He's in parts unknown! I'm here to tell each and every one of you what is next for your Boogie Man! Austin Idol is my brother! Everybody knows that I would take a bullet for the Universal Heartthrob! Kevin Sullivan would have starred in “The Omen” as the son of Satan, but he wasn't nice enough! He's the scum of the earth! Not only is he a lowlife, he's got an army of lowlifes! “Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer! The Undertaker! Kendo Nagasaki, the Black Ninja! All of mean and ugly! They got my man Austin outnumbered! Now, I will fight by Austin Idol's side, daddy!
Austin Idol walks out and hugs Valiant.
IDOL: Good friends are hard to find! Friends like Jimmy Valiant, a man who grew up in New York City and learned to fight on the streets, are few and far between! Kevin Sullivan and his jerks tried to put me under the other night in Oklahoma City! Handsome Jimmy, if you hadn't been there, I'd be in a hospital in a body cast! Sullivan, you wanna rumble, you creep, you gotta rumble! With this man by my side, I'll walk into any dark alley in the world! The Boogie Woogie Man and the Universal Heartthrob are coming for you and your whole gang of scumbuckets!
VALIANT: Have mercy, sho got that right!
COMMERCIAL
The crowd pops huge as Austin Idol leads his friend, the Boogie Woogie Man to the ring!
“BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN” HANDSOME JIMMY VALIANT (W/AUSTIN IDOL) VS. TOM “ROCKY STONE: Handsome Jimmy destroys his overmatched opponent and gets the pin after the big elbow drop. Lance & Gordon agree that Sullivan and his gang had better get ready for these two!
COMMERCIAL
LANCE: In the weeks leading up to the Valentine's day Massacare Pay per view, we had told you that PWF President Frank Dusek had an announcement. Let's go back to the PPV and hear what Mr> Dusek had to say:
VTR:
DUSEK: I promised an announcement and never let it be said that I'm not a man of my word! Jim Crockett, Mr. USWA President, I hope you are listening to this! This might make you angry, but I'm not here to make friends! As you people probably know, my organization, the Pacific Wrestling Federation, based in Tokyo, the premiere wrestling promotion in the world today, has merged with the United States Wrestling Association. During the negotiations, many things were settled. One major item was left unaddressed-Which organization's championships would be defended after the merger. You've just seen the caliber of athlete that the PWF has as our champions! Comparing the PWF titleholders to their USWA counterparts is like comparing caviar to horse manure! Honestly, I'm glad the issue wasn't settled in negotiations. Champions should be decided in the squared circle!
Here's what the PWF proposes: On March 19, the USWA is having a special on the Nashville Network. They call it March Madness and it will be held at Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY. On that card, We challenge the USWA to a six man elimination tag team match. The PWF's team will be the three men standing with me in the ring! The USWA can selct any three of their wrestlers that they want! Any three! Lawler! Idol! Valiant! LeDuc!Any of the Armstrongs! Bubba Rogers! We'll wrestle any of'em! If the USWA wins, things continue as they are. If PWF wins, our belts will be recognized as the championships! USWA Saturday Night Wrestling will turn into PWF Saturday Night Wrestling! The PWF logo will be on the referee's shirts instead of the USWA logo! That's our challenge! What say you, Jimmy Crockett?
USWA President Jim Crockett comes to ringside, Dusek tosses him the microphone...
CROCKETT: Dusek, you said I'd probably be mad at you, but I'm not! You're right, championships should be decided in the ring, not the boardroom! The USWA is happy to accept your challenge under your terms! I have full confidence in our wrestlers, especially in World Champion Jerry “the King” Lawler! Jerry will captain our team on March 19. I will allow Jerry to choose his partners! With the stakes this high, I'm sure he will choose very wisely. Mr. Dusek, we'll see you on March 19 and may the best organization win!
Back to the arena...
The USWA World Champion makes his way to the ring.
JERRY “THE KING” LAWLER VS. MR.EBONY: This will be a non-title match. Lawler's masked opponent is an impressive looking athlete and he overpowers Lawler until the King pulls down the strap and goes to town! After unloading on Ebony with rights and lefts, Lawler piledrives him and gets the 1-2-3!
LANCE: Jerry, if I can have a word. We just saw the footage of Frank Dusek's challenge and Jim Crockett's acceptance. You will be selecting a team to represent the USWA. Have you decided on who your partners will be?
LAWLER: Lance, I can't answer that. The element of surprise is on my side! There are many great wrestlers here in the USWA. We aren't going to have the PWF taking over our organization! I promise you that the two men I select will be two guys who will make the USWA proud and defend our home turf from this hostile takeover!
LANCE: I do congratulate you on the successful title defense against Brad Armstrong. You have to admit that he gave you a whale of a match in there!
LAWLER: He's the Southern Heavyweight Champion and you don't hold that belt unless you are tough! Just look how man times I've held it, Lance! I know this won't be his last title match either. Brad, if you want another shot, I'll be waiting! You know what, Lance? Ol' Brad might be a good guy to have on the USWA team at Rupp Arena. Not saying anything, just talking!
LANCE: That's coming up on March 19 at 8 p.m. Right here on America's Country Home, the Nashville Network! You do not want to miss that one!
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
We see a strange looking individual in a martial arts dojo. Several men dressed in gis attack him and he fights them off with martial arts skills. After his workout is over, joins a well dressed man holding a microphone.
INTERVIEWER: Good evening, wrestling fans. My name is Hugo Savinovich. The young man who you just saw in action is known as TNT. He is one of the top wrestlers here in Puerto Rico. TNT does not speak English so I will translate for him...
TNT: My name is TNT. I have been wrestling in my native land of Puerto Rico for only a few years. I was trained by The Black Ninja, Kendo Nagasaki. Kendo turned on me and injured me. The doctors thought I would never wrestle again, but I was tougher than they thought! I swore that I would get revenge on Kendo for stabbing me in the back! I now know that he is in the USWA. I am coming to the USWA! Kendo Nagasaki, you will pay! The student will become the teacher and you will learn a very painful lesson!
“BLACK NINJA” KENDO NAGASAKI(W/KEVIN SULLIVAN & FALLEN ANGEL) VS. KEN RAPER: Nagasaki methodically takes Raper apart this week. Kendo gets the pin after a thrust kick that appears to catch his opponent in the throat. After the match, Sullivan, Angel, & Nagasaki join Gordon Solie.
SOLIE: You and your Army of Darkness are certainly in demand. Jimmy Valiant & Austin Idol have declared war on your entire entourage while TNT is coming in from Puerto Rico and wants Kendo Nagasaki...
SULLIVAN: Abbuda Dein himself told me that dark times were coming! A storm is brewing, Gordon Solie! Sawyer, the Undertaker, and the Black Ninja know no fear! We have been to the seventh step of the thirteenth pyramid where we chewed the betel nut and partook of the cosmic cookie! We were emptied of fear and vanity, as well as sympathy and empathy! Idol, you are dragging that urchin Valiant into the pit where he will suffer along with you and any other miscreants that you find along the way! (Sullivan holds up the Golden Spike) The power of the Golden Spike will be the doom of you all! Jimmy Valiant, I saw you out here dancing like a fool earlier! Remember that some dance to remember, but some dance to forget, Boogie Man! Some dance to forget!!!
SOLIE: The cryptic comments of one Kevin Sullivan. We'll be back...
COMMERCIAL
PWF President Frank Dusek is at the announce table.
SOLIE: We are joined by Frank Dusek. To what do we owe the pleasure of this visit, sir?
DUSEK: Gordon, I wanted to give you a small sample of what you and all of the viewers of Saturday Night Wrestling can look forward to after the PWF takeover.
SOLIE: That remains to be seen...
RUSSELL: Your guys have to take on Jerry Lawler and his two partners. If I know the King, he'll have two great ones by his side.
DUSEK: Well, the three men who will represent the Pacific Wrestling Federation at March Madness on March 19 at Rupp Arena are up in the ring. Get ready for a display of state of the art professional wrestling!
GENICHIRO TENRYU, MASAHIRO CHONO, & RUSHER KIMURA VS. KEITH ROBERSON, ALAN WEST, & BOB BRADLEY: West and Bradley get in some offense, but the three Americans are mostly outgunned here. Tenryu powerbombs Roberson and scores the pin for the PWF contingent.
DUSEK: The next match features a man who hasn't wrestled on American television in almost 10 years. This is typical of the unique programming the PWF can offer.
SOLIE: We'll find out who he's referring to when we return.
COMMERCIAL
THE ORIGINAL SHEIK VS. LOU WINSTON: Lance & Gordon point out that the Sheik is banned in most states and several foreign countries. Dusek says that the PWF's legal team made it posible for the legendary wildman to appear this evening and that the USWA would be too scared to put this man on TV! The Sheik uses a foreign object to gain the advantage on the capable Winston. Eventually, the legendary heel locks Winston in the camel clutch and secures the win. Dusek informs us that next week, Tenryu will be here to defend the “only real world championship” the PWF World Title.
COMMERCIAL
GORDON: Still to come, we will have a Southern Title defense by Brad Armstrong as he faces the challenge of “Dirty White Boy” Tony Anthony.
LANCE: Brad may have come up short against the King for the World Title, but he's a great champion in his own right, inside and outside of the ring. Here's a special look at Brad Armstrong.
VTR:
We see the closing seconds of Brad Armstrong beating Bad News Brown to win the Southern Title. Then, the music starts...
We see Brad raising an American flag up a flagpole. Then we see him driving a pickup truck. We see Brad visiting a children's hospital and a nursing home, allowing several children and elderly people to hold his title belt. We see footage of Brad in the ring against several opponents. We see Brad, his brothers, and father around a dinner table. Brad says grace before they eat. Then, we see Brad in the dressing room. He laces his boots. He puts his title belt and jacket on. Then, we see him going down the aisle, high fiving and hugging fans as he goes. The last scene shows Brad standing on the turnbuckles, holding the title belt above his head as the graphic reading: BRAD ARMSTRONG....OUR SOUTHERN HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION appears on the screen.
SHANE DOUGLAS(W/BOB BACKLUND) VS. DIRTY DUTCH MANTEL: Fresh off his win and unmasking of the Midnight Rider(Jerry Stubbs), Dirty Dutch faces a rising young grappler in Douglas. With Backlund advising him at ringside, Shane gives Mantel a spirited bout before Dutch hits Douglas with a short clothesline and gets the 1-2-3. Douglas seems really angry about the loss and nothing Backlund says seems to placate him at all.
Dutch stops by the announce position after the bout.
LANCE: Dutchman, I have to hand it to you: that was impressive.
DUTCH: I unmasked that Stubbs and sent him back to parts unknown. It's onward and upward from here on out, Lancer! My good buddy, Dirty White Boy is gonna beat Armstrong for the Southern Title here tonight. Then, next week, White Boy and me are gonna show the nasty Boys what nasty is all about and win the Southern Tag Team Titles!Then, I want me a World Championship match with that so called “King” Jerry Lawler! From now on, people had better learn to respect Dutch Mantel and that's a fact, brother!
COMMERCIAL
AMERICAN STARSHIP & BOSMAN BUBBA ROGERS VS. NIKOLAI VOLKOFF & JOS LEDUC(W/SLICK): Starship and Bubba want revenge for what Slick's men did to their pal Doug Furnas. This is a slugfest and after referee Jerry Calhoun gets knocked down a few times, he calls it a double DQ! This situation is far from over!
COMMERCIAL
SOUTHERN HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH: BRAD ARMSTRONG © VS. “DIRTY WHITE BOY” TONY ANTHONY (W/DUTCH MANTEL): Anthony is a very underrated wrestler and he takes it to the champion. Brad makes a comeback, but the wily Dutch Mantel manages to interfere without being caught by referee Rick Hazzard. After a three way collision sends both competitors and the ref to the mat, Dutch crawls into the ring. DWB holds Armstrong's arms and Dutch has a bag of powder! Dutch flings the powder at Brad's eyes...BRAD DUCKS!!! The powder goes into Anthony's eyes instead! The White Boy has been blinded! Brad dropkicks Dutch out of the ring! Brad hist the Russian leg sweep on Anthony! 1...2...3!!! Brad Armstrong wins! After the match, Dutch grabs a cup of water off of the announce table and washes the powder out of Tony's eyes. The Dirty White Boy is irate! He's yelling at Dutch! It looks like Mantel is apologizing, but Anthony ain't having it! He has his fist clinched and it looks like he's gonna slug Dutch! Hollywood John Tatum runs in and tries to play peacemaker. We're out of time as finally, Tatum convinces his fellow heels to join him in a group hug!
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