Portland Wrestling(10/23/87)
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“Portland Wrestling”
Taped live on 10/23/87 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! The faction known as Los Diablos have joined me. Men, things didn't exactly go your way this past Tuesday!
MANNY FERNANDEZ: Don't gloat, Mister Announcer Man!Business will pick up here tonight! I got Billy Jack for his title and the Grappler and Brooks have a shot at the tag belts! Too bad Prichard is a coward or we'd be bringin home the TV Title, too!
GRAPPLER: The Rock and Roll Express don't stand a chance against two real men, brother!
BROOKS: That's right!
FERNANDEZ: Abdullah is gonna send Wahoo back to the reservation, but they're too scared to put that on TV! Nobody does it better than Los Diablos, baby! Tonight's the night!
Los Diablos exit. Superstar Bill Dundee enters the Crow's Nest.
COSS: I know you are advising a new team and you believe they are the next tag team champions...
DUNDEE: I ain't takin nothin off Manny and his guys. They're fair wrestlers, but here are the next champions! Exotic Adrian Street, Flamboyant Eric Embry, and, of course, the lovely Miss Linda!
Embry, Street, & Linda enter.
STREET: We will be in the first match, but it won't be long until we will be in Main Events! This partner of mine reminds me of myself when I was a bit younger. Those Van Halen rejects, what do they call them, William, Punky and Hoot? What silly nicknames for grown men! They will be short lived titleholders!
EMBRY: IT's real simple, man! There ain't nobody can stop us! You wanna a wrestling match, we can do it better than anybody! You wanna fight? We can do that, too! The belts are coming to us!
COSS: It would be a mistake to look past Sam Houston & Vic Steamboat, your opponents this week!
DUNDEE: They ain't got a chance, Don Coss! Not a chance!
COSS: We'll find out after this message from Tom Peterson!
COMMERCIAL
Exotic Adrian Street & “Flamboyant” Eric Embry(w/ Miss Linda & Superstar” Bill Dundee) vs. Sam Houston & Vic Steamboat: Fast paced, evenly fought bout. Steamboat misses a flying bodypress and lands on his face. Street follows that with a crucifix pin when Steamboat struggles to his feet.
COMMERCIAL
Rock and Roll RPMS vs. Akio Sato & Tarzan Goto (w/ Mr. Fuji): Two excellent teams go at it here. The RPMs are de facto faces due to recently being dumped by former advisor Bill Dundee and Fuji's interference. The two teams are so evenly matched that the time limit comes and goes with no pinfall or submission. We have a draw.
COMMERCIAL
COSS: I am joined by Iceman King Parsons and the man you called on to help you against the Bod Squad of Kevin Kelly & Steve DiSalvo. A man you introduced as Bad Leroy Brown!
PARSONS: Have mercy! Like Mama said, “It bes dat way sometimes!” I knew I couldn't take on those two muscleheads all by myself, so I called on this man!The biggest and toughest man in the city of Chicago! He is Bad Bad Leroy Brown! His opponents are like grass and when the bell rings, he's like a lawnmower!
BROWN: When this man said he needed me, I was proud to come and stand by his side! Right now, it's time for him to kick some booty!
Iceman King Parsons(w/ Bad Leroy Brown) vs. Texas Red: Red has a size advantage, but with his friend cheering him on at ringside, Iceman uses his speed and skill to get the best of the masked man. Parsons gets the duke after the butt bump.
COMMERCIAL
The Bruise Brothers(w/Percy Pringle) vs. Art Barr & Alan West: As Pringle cheers them on, his team demolishes their opponents. Ron Harris pins West after a shoulderbreaker. Then, we cut to the Crow's Nest...
COSS: I'm here with Buzz Sawyer. Buzz, it must be hard to watch the Bruise Brothers after what they did to your brother, Hack Sawyer!
BUZZ: Yeah, it kinda makes me sick! I'm not gonna just sit around though! Yeah, Brett is out with a broken arm! What a lot of people might not understand is that my brother isn't the only guy I ever teamed up with! There's a guy in the Northwest right now that has been my partner in the past. We've held titles all over the USA and up in Canada, too! You know him well!
Matt Borne walks out!
BORNE: Like John Belushi and Dan Akroyd said, “We're getting the band back together!” Bruise Brothers, you're big and bad, but we've beat bigger and badder! Percy Pringle, you better get these goons ready because we're just as mean and nasty as you guys are! I saw how you hurt my buddy Hack and that won't stand as long as I'm around!
COMMERCIAL
Cutie Suzuki vs. Madusa Miceli: The ladies see action tonight. Suzuki gives Madusa a rugged match. It looks like the Japanes grappler will get a convincing win, but Madusa pulls it out pinning Cutie with a German suplex.
COMMERCIAL
Manny Fernandez leads Bad News Brooks & the Grappler down to the ring. They enter the rin and look extremely confident.
Here come the PNW Tag Champs! The crowd goes wild! Ricky and Robert give as many hugs and high fives as possible as they make their entrance.
PNW TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: Rock and Roll Express © vs. Bad News Brooks & the Grappler(w/Manny Fernandez): The heels actually control much of the match, isolating Morton and working him over. Eventually, the fast break Rock and Roll comeback kicks in and the heels are in trouble! Fernandez attempts to interfere with a chair but ends up hitting the Grappler instead! Ricky and Robert follow up by hitting the masked man with a double dropkick! Gibson pins Grappler and the champions retain! After the bout, Brooks and Fernandez have a shouting match that nearly comes to blows!
COMMERCIAL
Stan Stasiak is standing by in the Crow's Nest...
STASIAK: I'm here with a man who made his first appearance here the other night. His name is Dangerous Dan Spivey! Dan, what brings you to the Northwest?
SPIVEY: I have gone from coast to coast, looking for a man named Billy Jack Haynes! Haynes, I finally tracked you down! I've got you cornered you here in your hometown, punk!
If you back down now, all of your homefolks will find out what kind of a man you really are! I'm here to take your title and destroy you!
STASIAK: OK, why Billy? What's your gripe with Billy Jack Haynes?
SPIVEY: That's my business, you has been!
STASIAK: Haynes is about to defend his championship!
SPIVEY: I'll be watching!
MAIN EVENT: PACIFIC NORTHWEST TITLE MATCH: Billy Jack Haynes © vs. “Ragin Bull” Manny Fernandez:
First Fall: A hard hitting brawl! Haynes throws the Bull around the ring as Spivey looks down from the Crow's Nest. After several minutes of rugged action, Fernandez surprises the fans by hitting Haynes with the flying burrito and going up one fall to none!
Second Fall: Early on, Haynes still seems affected by the shot he took to end the last fall. However, after taking a beating for a few minutes, Haynes seems to block out any pain! Haynes tears into the challenger and evens it up at one fall apiece by pinning the Bull after an overhead press slam!
Between falls, Dan Spivey leaves the Crow's Nest and comes to ringside! Spivey yells threats and makes aggressive gestures toward Haynes! Haynes comes back with trash talk of his own!
Third fall: Spivey's presence distracts Haynes and gives Fernandez the opportunity to attack Billy from behind! The Ragin Bull beats Haynes from pillar to post for much of the fall! Haynes finally makes a comeback and applies the full nelson! Fernandez has no choice but to submit! Spivey climbs onto the ring apron! Haynes and Spivey are nose to nose, yelling at each other! Referee David Manning is between them and soon he is joined by Sandy Barr! Sooner or later, these two will collide! Meanwhile, A defeated Fernandez stumbles out of the arena!
DARK MATCHES
Ron Garvin fought Jos LeDuc to a double countout.
Wahoo McDaniel beat Abdullah the Butcher by DQ when Manny Fernandez interfered on Abdullah's behalf.
Undisputed World's Champion Dory Funk, Jr. and Ken Patera were both disqualified in a title match. Jos LeDuc wandered to ringside to watch his rival Patera. Then, Billy Jack haynes came down to keep LeDuc from getting involved. Both interlopers ended up in the ring and referee Sandy Barr had to throw the match out! The brawl continued for several more minutes after the decision.
Taped live on 10/23/87 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! The faction known as Los Diablos have joined me. Men, things didn't exactly go your way this past Tuesday!
MANNY FERNANDEZ: Don't gloat, Mister Announcer Man!Business will pick up here tonight! I got Billy Jack for his title and the Grappler and Brooks have a shot at the tag belts! Too bad Prichard is a coward or we'd be bringin home the TV Title, too!
GRAPPLER: The Rock and Roll Express don't stand a chance against two real men, brother!
BROOKS: That's right!
FERNANDEZ: Abdullah is gonna send Wahoo back to the reservation, but they're too scared to put that on TV! Nobody does it better than Los Diablos, baby! Tonight's the night!
Los Diablos exit. Superstar Bill Dundee enters the Crow's Nest.
COSS: I know you are advising a new team and you believe they are the next tag team champions...
DUNDEE: I ain't takin nothin off Manny and his guys. They're fair wrestlers, but here are the next champions! Exotic Adrian Street, Flamboyant Eric Embry, and, of course, the lovely Miss Linda!
Embry, Street, & Linda enter.
STREET: We will be in the first match, but it won't be long until we will be in Main Events! This partner of mine reminds me of myself when I was a bit younger. Those Van Halen rejects, what do they call them, William, Punky and Hoot? What silly nicknames for grown men! They will be short lived titleholders!
EMBRY: IT's real simple, man! There ain't nobody can stop us! You wanna a wrestling match, we can do it better than anybody! You wanna fight? We can do that, too! The belts are coming to us!
COSS: It would be a mistake to look past Sam Houston & Vic Steamboat, your opponents this week!
DUNDEE: They ain't got a chance, Don Coss! Not a chance!
COSS: We'll find out after this message from Tom Peterson!
COMMERCIAL
Exotic Adrian Street & “Flamboyant” Eric Embry(w/ Miss Linda & Superstar” Bill Dundee) vs. Sam Houston & Vic Steamboat: Fast paced, evenly fought bout. Steamboat misses a flying bodypress and lands on his face. Street follows that with a crucifix pin when Steamboat struggles to his feet.
COMMERCIAL
Rock and Roll RPMS vs. Akio Sato & Tarzan Goto (w/ Mr. Fuji): Two excellent teams go at it here. The RPMs are de facto faces due to recently being dumped by former advisor Bill Dundee and Fuji's interference. The two teams are so evenly matched that the time limit comes and goes with no pinfall or submission. We have a draw.
COMMERCIAL
COSS: I am joined by Iceman King Parsons and the man you called on to help you against the Bod Squad of Kevin Kelly & Steve DiSalvo. A man you introduced as Bad Leroy Brown!
PARSONS: Have mercy! Like Mama said, “It bes dat way sometimes!” I knew I couldn't take on those two muscleheads all by myself, so I called on this man!The biggest and toughest man in the city of Chicago! He is Bad Bad Leroy Brown! His opponents are like grass and when the bell rings, he's like a lawnmower!
BROWN: When this man said he needed me, I was proud to come and stand by his side! Right now, it's time for him to kick some booty!
Iceman King Parsons(w/ Bad Leroy Brown) vs. Texas Red: Red has a size advantage, but with his friend cheering him on at ringside, Iceman uses his speed and skill to get the best of the masked man. Parsons gets the duke after the butt bump.
COMMERCIAL
The Bruise Brothers(w/Percy Pringle) vs. Art Barr & Alan West: As Pringle cheers them on, his team demolishes their opponents. Ron Harris pins West after a shoulderbreaker. Then, we cut to the Crow's Nest...
COSS: I'm here with Buzz Sawyer. Buzz, it must be hard to watch the Bruise Brothers after what they did to your brother, Hack Sawyer!
BUZZ: Yeah, it kinda makes me sick! I'm not gonna just sit around though! Yeah, Brett is out with a broken arm! What a lot of people might not understand is that my brother isn't the only guy I ever teamed up with! There's a guy in the Northwest right now that has been my partner in the past. We've held titles all over the USA and up in Canada, too! You know him well!
Matt Borne walks out!
BORNE: Like John Belushi and Dan Akroyd said, “We're getting the band back together!” Bruise Brothers, you're big and bad, but we've beat bigger and badder! Percy Pringle, you better get these goons ready because we're just as mean and nasty as you guys are! I saw how you hurt my buddy Hack and that won't stand as long as I'm around!
COMMERCIAL
Cutie Suzuki vs. Madusa Miceli: The ladies see action tonight. Suzuki gives Madusa a rugged match. It looks like the Japanes grappler will get a convincing win, but Madusa pulls it out pinning Cutie with a German suplex.
COMMERCIAL
Manny Fernandez leads Bad News Brooks & the Grappler down to the ring. They enter the rin and look extremely confident.
Here come the PNW Tag Champs! The crowd goes wild! Ricky and Robert give as many hugs and high fives as possible as they make their entrance.
PNW TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: Rock and Roll Express © vs. Bad News Brooks & the Grappler(w/Manny Fernandez): The heels actually control much of the match, isolating Morton and working him over. Eventually, the fast break Rock and Roll comeback kicks in and the heels are in trouble! Fernandez attempts to interfere with a chair but ends up hitting the Grappler instead! Ricky and Robert follow up by hitting the masked man with a double dropkick! Gibson pins Grappler and the champions retain! After the bout, Brooks and Fernandez have a shouting match that nearly comes to blows!
COMMERCIAL
Stan Stasiak is standing by in the Crow's Nest...
STASIAK: I'm here with a man who made his first appearance here the other night. His name is Dangerous Dan Spivey! Dan, what brings you to the Northwest?
SPIVEY: I have gone from coast to coast, looking for a man named Billy Jack Haynes! Haynes, I finally tracked you down! I've got you cornered you here in your hometown, punk!
If you back down now, all of your homefolks will find out what kind of a man you really are! I'm here to take your title and destroy you!
STASIAK: OK, why Billy? What's your gripe with Billy Jack Haynes?
SPIVEY: That's my business, you has been!
STASIAK: Haynes is about to defend his championship!
SPIVEY: I'll be watching!
MAIN EVENT: PACIFIC NORTHWEST TITLE MATCH: Billy Jack Haynes © vs. “Ragin Bull” Manny Fernandez:
First Fall: A hard hitting brawl! Haynes throws the Bull around the ring as Spivey looks down from the Crow's Nest. After several minutes of rugged action, Fernandez surprises the fans by hitting Haynes with the flying burrito and going up one fall to none!
Second Fall: Early on, Haynes still seems affected by the shot he took to end the last fall. However, after taking a beating for a few minutes, Haynes seems to block out any pain! Haynes tears into the challenger and evens it up at one fall apiece by pinning the Bull after an overhead press slam!
Between falls, Dan Spivey leaves the Crow's Nest and comes to ringside! Spivey yells threats and makes aggressive gestures toward Haynes! Haynes comes back with trash talk of his own!
Third fall: Spivey's presence distracts Haynes and gives Fernandez the opportunity to attack Billy from behind! The Ragin Bull beats Haynes from pillar to post for much of the fall! Haynes finally makes a comeback and applies the full nelson! Fernandez has no choice but to submit! Spivey climbs onto the ring apron! Haynes and Spivey are nose to nose, yelling at each other! Referee David Manning is between them and soon he is joined by Sandy Barr! Sooner or later, these two will collide! Meanwhile, A defeated Fernandez stumbles out of the arena!
DARK MATCHES
Ron Garvin fought Jos LeDuc to a double countout.
Wahoo McDaniel beat Abdullah the Butcher by DQ when Manny Fernandez interfered on Abdullah's behalf.
Undisputed World's Champion Dory Funk, Jr. and Ken Patera were both disqualified in a title match. Jos LeDuc wandered to ringside to watch his rival Patera. Then, Billy Jack haynes came down to keep LeDuc from getting involved. Both interlopers ended up in the ring and referee Sandy Barr had to throw the match out! The brawl continued for several more minutes after the decision.
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