Portland Wrestling (10/2/87)
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“Portland Wrestling”
Taped live on 10/2/87 at the Portland Sports Arena in Portland, Oregon to air at 11 PM on KPTV and an edited tape of this show airs in syndication as “Big Time Wrestling” the next week on stations throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia.
Announcers: Don Coss & Stan Stasiak
Ring Announcer: Don Owen
Referees: Sandy Barr & David Manning
COSS: Welcome to Portland Wrestling. We have another great program this week. Let's get it started with our first bout!
The Real Thing (w/Manny Fernandez & Bad News Brooks) vs. Alan West: The Real Thing is a raging wildman tonight! He batters West with punches, kicks and headbutts before getting himself disqualified for throwing West over the top rope! After the match, the Thing tosses a fireball into West's face! Billy Jack Haynes and Wahoo McDaniel run down to make sure that the heels don't do any further damage!
COMMERCIAL
STASIAK: I'm here with Billy Jack Haynes & Wahoo McDaniel. Men, something has to be done about Los Diablos, especially the Real Thing!
HAYNES: Somebody has to put a stop to these jerks, Stan! Here's my idea: Wahoo is famous for the strap match! I've settled some feuds with a chain match! Hook me up to the Thing with a 10 foot steel chain! Hook Wahoo to that jerk Fernandez with the strap! Put all four of us in the ring together! No DQ! No time limit! No stopping the match for any reason!
WAHOO: They can even put it in a cage as far as I'm concerned!
HAYNES: Sounds like a good deal to me, Wahoo! There's the challenge! Do you have the guts? That's the question, boys!
COSS: Los Diablos is scheduled for an eight man tag in our next match!
“Ragin Bull” Manny Fernandez, Bad News Brooks, the Grappler, & Abdullah the Butcher vs. Brickhouse Brown, Vic Steamboat, CW Bergstrom, & Ben Bassarab: Los Diablos finds themselves against a young, athletic team tonight. Brown and Steamboat have their moments, but Los Diablos gets the win as Abdullah pins Bergstrom after the Sudanese Meat Cleaver elbow drop. Don Owen approaches the Ragin Bull after the bell...
OWEN: Manny, there's been a challenge made...
FERNANDEZ: Oh, really?
OWEN: Billy Jack and Wahoo want you and the Real Thing in a combination chain/strap/cage match. I have a big Portland Special set for the 19th. That would be a good time for the match if you accept...
FERNANDEZ: Get the contract ready, granddad! We ain't backin down from them guys or anybody else!
OWEN: Be in my office after we go off the air!
STASIAK: Folks, get your tickets as soon as they go on sale!
COMMERCIAL
Akio Sato/Tarzan Goto(w/Mr. Fuji) vs. Cowboy Scott Casey/Sam Houston: Two members of Fuji's Samurai Stable square off with two Texans. The Texans give the Japanese combo all they want tonight! In the end, Fuji has to strike Casey in the back with his cane to set up a big elbow drop and pin by Sato!
We cut to the Crow's Nest...
STASIAK: I'm here with Ron Garvin. Ron, you just saw two of Fuji's men steal one!
GARVIN: Yeah, that's how that weasel operates, Stan! I'm still wearing a patch on my eye because of that crap Kendo Nagasaki spit at me! Fuji, I believe in the principle of an eye for an eye! I'm gonna run you and your goons outta here and that's a promise!
STASIAK: They might want to check the prices on airline tickets to Japan! This man doesn't make idle threats!
COMMERCIAL
Brett Sawyer vs. “Flamboyant” Eric Embry: Two evenly matched competitors go it. They are so evenly matched that a 10 minute time limit isn't enough and they end up in a draw!
COMMERCIAL
Bambi vs. Leilani Kai: The ladies give the fans a good show this week. After almost ten minutes of action, Bambi gets a mild upset by pinning her more experienced opponent after a flying bodypress.
Cut to the Crow's Nest...
STASIAK: It seems all of the great talent is coming to the Northwest, including this young man out of Boston-they call him “Strangler”...STEVE DISALVO! I understand that you are unhappy!
DISALVO: All I've heard for years is “Go to Portland to make a name for yourself!” This is where you first came to prominence, Stan Stasiak! Roddy Piper came through here! Buddy Rose! Superfly Snuka! The Sheepherders! Even Billy Jack Haynes! I got out here several weeks ago and this is the first time I've been on TV! (flexes muscles) I know I'm intimidating, but surely, some of these great stars has the guts to give me a match! I don't want a rook like Art Barr or CW Bergstrom! I want a name brand opponent! I'm mean a Billy Jack! A Wahoo! Abdullah the Butcher! Maybe Ronnie Garvin! Or Matt Borne! Kenn Patera! Stan, I'd even settle for you coming out of retirement!
STASIAK: Don't hold your breath, kid!
DISALVO: Anybody! Anybody! Nobody? Seriously?
Iceman Parsons enters the picture!
ICEMAN: Stan, my man, I thought we were doing an interview...
DISALVO: Go back to the clubhouse and hang out with Spanky and Alfalfa!
ICEMAN: OK, rooty poot, you wanna match? I'll give you a match! You want a wrestler with a big name? I've headlined the Kiel in St. Louis, Reunion in Dallas, and the New Orleans Superdome! We can get it on anytime you believe you've reached manhood!
DISALVO: Next week, right here on TV!
ICEMAN: Like Momma says, “It bes that way sometimes!” It'll be a blessin to teach you a lesson!
STASIAK: I look forward to that match!
COMMERCIAL
COSS: Recently, Jos LeDuc made a challenge: He would wrestle anybody present here at the Sports Arena. If anybody beat him, LeDuc would pay out $1,000! Let's see how that went!
VTR:
Footage of LeDuc beating several large men at arm wrestling.
COSS: He's obviously a strong man. Stan is standing by with possibly THE strongest man in the world today...
STASIAK: I'm here with former Olympian Ken Patera. Jos LeDuc is offering a cash prize for anybody who can take him in an arm wrestling contest! Interested?
PATERA: I see a lot of videos of this LeDuc showing off how strong he is. I'll tell you what, LeDuc: Next week, I'll show you how strong I am! After you see what I can do, we'll see if you want to arm wrestle me!
COMMERCIAL
The music brings PNW Tag Champions the RPMS to the ring, followed by thir advisor, Superstar Bill Dundee, then Exotic Adrian Street & Miss Linda! Coss informs the fans that Street performed, wrote, and produced the tune we are hearing. Then, the tune changes!
Four of the most exciting athletes in the Northwest enter the arena to a HUGE pop!
Main Event(2/3 falls)Rock and Roll Express, Tiger Mask, & Tom Prichard vs. Rock and Roll RPMS, Superstar Bill Dundee, & Exotic Adrian Street(w/Miss Linda):
First Fall: After an incredible display of aerial manuvers, Tiger Mask misses a dropkick and for the next several minutes, he plays the Ricky Morton role! The Japanese great ironically makes a hot tag to Ricky Morton, who comes in fist and fire and turns the tide of battle! The faces take the first fall after Robert Gibson pins Tommy Lane with the Gibson leglock.
Second Fall: After about five minutes of fast and furious action, Adrian Street strikes Tom Prichard with a foreign object, knocks him out and pins him to even the match at a fall apiece!
Between falls, Coss announces that next week's main event will be a PNW Tag Title bout with the Rock and Roll Express challenging the RPMs!
Third Fall: A still groggy Tom Prichard has to start the fall. He takes a vicious beating until he hits an enzuguri kick on Davis and tags out! Soon, everybody is in the ring in a pier six brawl! The Express hits a double dropkick on Bill Dundee and Morton pins him! Next week, if one of the RPMS takes that move, we'll have new champs!
ROLL CREDITS
DARK MATCHES:
Undisputed World Champion Dory Funk, Jr. beat Brad Rheingans via submission to the spinning toehold.
PNW Champ Billy Jack Haynes pinned “Tennessee Stud” Ron Fuller after a clothesline.
Rock and Roll Express defeated Texas Red & Jos LeDuc via DQ as the RPMs attacked Ricky and Robert. The two teams brawled all over the building for several minutes!
Taped live on 10/2/87 at the Portland Sports Arena in Portland, Oregon to air at 11 PM on KPTV and an edited tape of this show airs in syndication as “Big Time Wrestling” the next week on stations throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia.
Announcers: Don Coss & Stan Stasiak
Ring Announcer: Don Owen
Referees: Sandy Barr & David Manning
COSS: Welcome to Portland Wrestling. We have another great program this week. Let's get it started with our first bout!
The Real Thing (w/Manny Fernandez & Bad News Brooks) vs. Alan West: The Real Thing is a raging wildman tonight! He batters West with punches, kicks and headbutts before getting himself disqualified for throwing West over the top rope! After the match, the Thing tosses a fireball into West's face! Billy Jack Haynes and Wahoo McDaniel run down to make sure that the heels don't do any further damage!
COMMERCIAL
STASIAK: I'm here with Billy Jack Haynes & Wahoo McDaniel. Men, something has to be done about Los Diablos, especially the Real Thing!
HAYNES: Somebody has to put a stop to these jerks, Stan! Here's my idea: Wahoo is famous for the strap match! I've settled some feuds with a chain match! Hook me up to the Thing with a 10 foot steel chain! Hook Wahoo to that jerk Fernandez with the strap! Put all four of us in the ring together! No DQ! No time limit! No stopping the match for any reason!
WAHOO: They can even put it in a cage as far as I'm concerned!
HAYNES: Sounds like a good deal to me, Wahoo! There's the challenge! Do you have the guts? That's the question, boys!
COSS: Los Diablos is scheduled for an eight man tag in our next match!
“Ragin Bull” Manny Fernandez, Bad News Brooks, the Grappler, & Abdullah the Butcher vs. Brickhouse Brown, Vic Steamboat, CW Bergstrom, & Ben Bassarab: Los Diablos finds themselves against a young, athletic team tonight. Brown and Steamboat have their moments, but Los Diablos gets the win as Abdullah pins Bergstrom after the Sudanese Meat Cleaver elbow drop. Don Owen approaches the Ragin Bull after the bell...
OWEN: Manny, there's been a challenge made...
FERNANDEZ: Oh, really?
OWEN: Billy Jack and Wahoo want you and the Real Thing in a combination chain/strap/cage match. I have a big Portland Special set for the 19th. That would be a good time for the match if you accept...
FERNANDEZ: Get the contract ready, granddad! We ain't backin down from them guys or anybody else!
OWEN: Be in my office after we go off the air!
STASIAK: Folks, get your tickets as soon as they go on sale!
COMMERCIAL
Akio Sato/Tarzan Goto(w/Mr. Fuji) vs. Cowboy Scott Casey/Sam Houston: Two members of Fuji's Samurai Stable square off with two Texans. The Texans give the Japanese combo all they want tonight! In the end, Fuji has to strike Casey in the back with his cane to set up a big elbow drop and pin by Sato!
We cut to the Crow's Nest...
STASIAK: I'm here with Ron Garvin. Ron, you just saw two of Fuji's men steal one!
GARVIN: Yeah, that's how that weasel operates, Stan! I'm still wearing a patch on my eye because of that crap Kendo Nagasaki spit at me! Fuji, I believe in the principle of an eye for an eye! I'm gonna run you and your goons outta here and that's a promise!
STASIAK: They might want to check the prices on airline tickets to Japan! This man doesn't make idle threats!
COMMERCIAL
Brett Sawyer vs. “Flamboyant” Eric Embry: Two evenly matched competitors go it. They are so evenly matched that a 10 minute time limit isn't enough and they end up in a draw!
COMMERCIAL
Bambi vs. Leilani Kai: The ladies give the fans a good show this week. After almost ten minutes of action, Bambi gets a mild upset by pinning her more experienced opponent after a flying bodypress.
Cut to the Crow's Nest...
STASIAK: It seems all of the great talent is coming to the Northwest, including this young man out of Boston-they call him “Strangler”...STEVE DISALVO! I understand that you are unhappy!
DISALVO: All I've heard for years is “Go to Portland to make a name for yourself!” This is where you first came to prominence, Stan Stasiak! Roddy Piper came through here! Buddy Rose! Superfly Snuka! The Sheepherders! Even Billy Jack Haynes! I got out here several weeks ago and this is the first time I've been on TV! (flexes muscles) I know I'm intimidating, but surely, some of these great stars has the guts to give me a match! I don't want a rook like Art Barr or CW Bergstrom! I want a name brand opponent! I'm mean a Billy Jack! A Wahoo! Abdullah the Butcher! Maybe Ronnie Garvin! Or Matt Borne! Kenn Patera! Stan, I'd even settle for you coming out of retirement!
STASIAK: Don't hold your breath, kid!
DISALVO: Anybody! Anybody! Nobody? Seriously?
Iceman Parsons enters the picture!
ICEMAN: Stan, my man, I thought we were doing an interview...
DISALVO: Go back to the clubhouse and hang out with Spanky and Alfalfa!
ICEMAN: OK, rooty poot, you wanna match? I'll give you a match! You want a wrestler with a big name? I've headlined the Kiel in St. Louis, Reunion in Dallas, and the New Orleans Superdome! We can get it on anytime you believe you've reached manhood!
DISALVO: Next week, right here on TV!
ICEMAN: Like Momma says, “It bes that way sometimes!” It'll be a blessin to teach you a lesson!
STASIAK: I look forward to that match!
COMMERCIAL
COSS: Recently, Jos LeDuc made a challenge: He would wrestle anybody present here at the Sports Arena. If anybody beat him, LeDuc would pay out $1,000! Let's see how that went!
VTR:
Footage of LeDuc beating several large men at arm wrestling.
COSS: He's obviously a strong man. Stan is standing by with possibly THE strongest man in the world today...
STASIAK: I'm here with former Olympian Ken Patera. Jos LeDuc is offering a cash prize for anybody who can take him in an arm wrestling contest! Interested?
PATERA: I see a lot of videos of this LeDuc showing off how strong he is. I'll tell you what, LeDuc: Next week, I'll show you how strong I am! After you see what I can do, we'll see if you want to arm wrestle me!
COMMERCIAL
The music brings PNW Tag Champions the RPMS to the ring, followed by thir advisor, Superstar Bill Dundee, then Exotic Adrian Street & Miss Linda! Coss informs the fans that Street performed, wrote, and produced the tune we are hearing. Then, the tune changes!
Four of the most exciting athletes in the Northwest enter the arena to a HUGE pop!
Main Event(2/3 falls)Rock and Roll Express, Tiger Mask, & Tom Prichard vs. Rock and Roll RPMS, Superstar Bill Dundee, & Exotic Adrian Street(w/Miss Linda):
First Fall: After an incredible display of aerial manuvers, Tiger Mask misses a dropkick and for the next several minutes, he plays the Ricky Morton role! The Japanese great ironically makes a hot tag to Ricky Morton, who comes in fist and fire and turns the tide of battle! The faces take the first fall after Robert Gibson pins Tommy Lane with the Gibson leglock.
Second Fall: After about five minutes of fast and furious action, Adrian Street strikes Tom Prichard with a foreign object, knocks him out and pins him to even the match at a fall apiece!
Between falls, Coss announces that next week's main event will be a PNW Tag Title bout with the Rock and Roll Express challenging the RPMs!
Third Fall: A still groggy Tom Prichard has to start the fall. He takes a vicious beating until he hits an enzuguri kick on Davis and tags out! Soon, everybody is in the ring in a pier six brawl! The Express hits a double dropkick on Bill Dundee and Morton pins him! Next week, if one of the RPMS takes that move, we'll have new champs!
ROLL CREDITS
DARK MATCHES:
Undisputed World Champion Dory Funk, Jr. beat Brad Rheingans via submission to the spinning toehold.
PNW Champ Billy Jack Haynes pinned “Tennessee Stud” Ron Fuller after a clothesline.
Rock and Roll Express defeated Texas Red & Jos LeDuc via DQ as the RPMs attacked Ricky and Robert. The two teams brawled all over the building for several minutes!
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