UWA FURY DEBUTS!!!
Jan 7, 2022 17:16:02 GMT
Post by grigs on Jan 7, 2022 17:16:02 GMT
The United Wrestling Alliance presents UWA FURY!!!
Taped Saturday, January 15, 1988 at the Portland Sports Arena to air Sunday, January 16, 1988 at 9 PM on the USA Network
Announcers: Lee Marshall, Don Coss, & Stan Stasiak
Ring Announcer/interviewer: Mark Lowrance
COLD OPENING:
VTR:
Ron Fuller is standing in front of the steel cage at the Portland Sports Arena mere moments after the recent Portland Special. Dan Spivey, with a bloody bandage on his head, and the Master of Pain stand behind him...
FULLER: Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Ron Fuller, the Tennessee Stud! In the cage behind me, the man on my left, Dan Spivey, was robbed of the Undisputed World Championship! On the premiere episode of UWA Fury, Spivey and my man, the next World Champion, the awesome Master of Pain, will take on that paper so called “Champion”, Billy Jack Haynes and his sidekick, that Indian,Wahoo McDaniels! Wahoo, they say the only good Indian is a dead Indian! Before the night is over, you just might be a good Indian!
VTR:
Billy Jack Haynes and Wahoo McDaniel are in the locker room. They are dressed to wrestle and Haynes has the World Title belt around his waist!
WAHOO: Danny Spivey and the Master of Pain are big and bad, but I have the World Champion on my side! I like our chances in this fight!
HAYNES: First ever episode of UWA FURY and it's right here in my hometown of Portland! Spivey, we've gone round and round and I came away with this belt!Tonight, you have one of the most awesome wrestlers to come along in years on your side, but I have Wahoo. This man can chop down anybody who stands in his way! Stay tuned, folks, this will be a war!
VTR OPENING:
As the music plays we see the following:
Billy Jack Haynes holding a championship belt above his head!
Haynes overhead press slamming an opponent!
Rock and Roll Express hitting a double dropkick!
Dan Spivey powerbombing Billy Jack on the concrete floor!
Wahoo McDaniel chopping an opponent!
Ron Fuller leading Master of Pain to the ring!
Buzz Sawyer hitting a powerslam!
Ron Garvin nailing a right hand!
Abdullah the Butcher dropping an elbow!
Billy Jack Haynes applying the full nelson!
In the five nights since the last card at the Sports Arena, the place has got a makeover. The UWA logo is everywhere! There's a new ring with the logo on the turnbuckles and ring skirt. The Crow's Nest has a backdrop with the logo. The announce team is dressed in red blazers, each with a patch bearing the UWA logo.
MARSHALL: Welcome to UWA FURY on the USA Network! We're here at the legendary Portland Sports Arena. Don Coss and Stan Stasiak, we have an action packed 90 minutes featuring the stars of the United Wrestling Alliance!
COSS: You heard the participants in our Main Event at the top of the program: Living Legend Wahoo McDaniel and Undisputed World Champion Billy Jack Haynes will take on former World Champion Dangerous Dan Spivey and the awe inspiring Master of Pain from the Tennessee Stud Stable. Speaking of the Tennessee Stud, Ron Fuller and his beloved cousin Gentleman Jimmy Golden will take on the two men who Fuller has vowed to destroy: Ronnie Garvin and “Ragin Bull” Manny Fernandez! That's not all, Stan Stasiak!
STASIAK: The UWA World Tag Team titleholders, the Rock and Roll Express will be in action! We also have a TV Title match tonight! Professional wrestling at its finest here on the USA Network!
MARSHALL: Our colleague Mark Lowrance is ready to introduce our opening match...
“Golden Boy” Jerry Grey and Jose Luis Rivera are in the ring with Lowrance. Then we hear music...
Two men who Stan Stasiak calls “young lions” enter the arena to loud pop.
“Midnight Soldier” Brian Adams & Johnny Ace vs. “Golden Boy” Jerry Grey & Jose Luis Rivera: The announce team raves about Adams and Ace. The two youngsters live up to the hype as they destroy their opposition! Ace pins Rivera after an Ace Crusher.
COMMERCIAL
VTR:
Superstar Bill Dundee is standing in front of what appears to be a tenement building.
DUNDEE: For those of you people who don't keep up with professional wrestling, my name is Superstar Bill Dundee! I am one of the greatest wrestlers ever, but here lately, I been working as an advisor to some of the best talent in wrestling! I got the Canadian Freight Train, Jos LeDuc! I got the most awesome man in wrestling today, Nord the Berzerker! Now, I'm getting into the tag team business, daddy! I found a team that makes those punks, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson look like a couple of schoolboys! As you can see, I'm in a rough neighborhood. That's where these guys hang out! They are streetfighters and the meaner the streets are, the better they like it! Here they are! Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags...THE NASTY BOYS!!!
KNOBBS: We ain't pretty! We ain't good! We're just plain NASTY! If you wanna see dropkicks and flying headscissors or ballet dancing, you can just change the channel!
SAGS: We hear that there's some real tough guys in the UWA! But the belts are held by a couple of little wimps who wanna sign autographs for teenage girls and kids in children's hospitals! Well, we don't care about teeny boppers or sick children! We just wanna hurt people! Superstar, do you have opponets lined up for us on the big TV show?
DUNDEE: I got some fresh meat for ya! You know what, boys? I can't wait to get up in the morning 'cause I get better lookin each day!
KNOBBS: We seem to get uglier!
SAGS: That's how we like it!
Cut to arena...
The Nasty Boys (w/Superstar Bill Dundee) vs. Keith Eric & Mike Jackson: Dundee's new team are straight ahead brawlers and they give their opponents a vicious beating. Jackson sells it like they are King Kong and Godzilla. Sags pins Jackson after dropping an elbow smash on him off the top rope.
COMMERCIAL
Super Samoans (w/ Ron Wright) vs. Italian Stallion & Gene Ligon: Afa & Kokina use their size and power to dominate the action. Kokina pins Ligon after a big splash. The announce team says that these guys are awesome and the Rock and Roll Express had better be ready!
COMMERCIAL
Alex Porteau and the Cuban Assassain enter the ring and immediately breate referee Sandy Barr. Then the music and the crowd gets so loud that the ref probably can't hear a word...
The UWA World Tag Team Champions are here!
Rock and Roll Express vs. Alex Porteau & Cuban Assassain: Porteau and the Assassain are no slouches and do manage to get some heat on Morton. However, Ricky and Robert show why they are on top and Robert pins Porteau after the champs hit their double dropkick.
Mark Lowrance gets a postmatch interview with the champs...
LOWRANCE: The team of Matt Borne and Buzz Sawyer have split, but it looks like your dance card will fill up fast! We've seen Ron Wright's
Super Samoans and Bill Dundee's combination, the Nasty Boys, tonight> Both teams look really tough!
RICKY: We don't duck anybody! The Nasty Boys are big and tough! The Samoans are even bigger! It's like the old man once said: It ain't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog! With all these nice people behind us, Rock and Roll is here to stay, baby!
ROBERT; That's right! We don't quit and we don't back down! Listen to this crowd chanting “Rock and Roll! Rock and Roll! Rock and Roll!” It don't matter who we have to take on! Buzz Sawyer, since your last partner has moved to the East Coast, maybe you could find another partner!Samoans, Nasty Boys, bring it on! We' re ready for anybody!
COMMERCIAL
As a nervous looking CW Bergstrom waits, we hear...
He has every right to be uneasy as Bill Dundee leads Nord the Berzerker into the arena!
Nord the Berzerker (w/Superstar Bill Dundee) vs. CW Bergstrom: Nord is an absolute wildman!After beating Bergrstrom all over the ring, he tosses the rookie over the top rope like an average guy would toss a bag of potatoes into the back of a truck! This gets an automatic DQ, but the Berzerker isn't through! He goes to the floor where he locks Bergstrom in an over the shoulder backbreaker! Nord refuses to relead the hold! Brian Adams rushes to ringside! Nord carelessly drops Bergstrom to the floor and starts slugging it out with the Midnight Soldier!It takes all the referees in the building and several wrestlers to put a stop to this brawl! Stan Stasiak says that somebody is goint to get hurt before this feud is over!
COMMERCIAL
“Tennessee Stud “ Ron Fuller & Gentleman Jimmy Golden vs. “Ragin Bull” Manny Fernandez & Ron Garvin: Thisb quickly turns into an all out brawl. Fuller has vowed that his Stud Stable will run Fernandez and Garvin out of wrestling. The Stud and his cousin make a pretty fair attempt at doing just that! In the end, the Grappler and Dutch Mantel both interfere and referee Sandy Barr throws the match out! Mantel uses Shoo Baby to chase away the heels!
COMMERCIAL
Lee Marshall stands in front of the UWA logo. He holds a title belt under his arm.
MARSHALL: Fans, we have some major news items for you. First, news about a major championship: Billy Jack Haynes defeated “Dangerous” Dan Spivey this past week to win the Undisputed World Title. UWA bylaws state that when a wrestler wins the World Title, he must vacate any other previously held titles. As a result (Marshall holds belt above his head), the American Title is currently vacant. That leads into our second announcement. The UWA will enter the pay per view market on Febraury 19 with WINTER WARFARE! This spectacular card will originate from McNichols Arena in Denver. If you want to be there in person, you can get tickets now by calling the number on the screen. To see the event in the comfort of your own home, call your cable provider and ask for Winter Warfare! There will be a tournament for this vacant American Title that night. The UWA has also mandated title defenses for the World Title and World Tag Team Championship! We'll have more details in the weeks to come. Right now, let's hear from one of the great wrestlers you'll see on UWA Fury in the coming weeks...
VTR:
“Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer is seated on a stool in a balckened studio.
SAWYER: Well, things haven't been going my way here lately. Ol' “Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer is down and out. Rock and Roll Express are still champions and they ran my tag team partner out of the territory! I've been concentrating on tag team wrestling for months, so I'm not in line for any singles title matches. Yeah, you people who don't like me are probably reall happy seeing me in this shape! You need to remember something! I am an ANIMAL! A Mad Dog is like any other animal! When he's hurt and wounded, when he's cornered, THAT'S WHEN HE”S THE MOST DANGEROUS! Rock and Roll Express, you think I can't find another partner? TV Champion Tommy Prichard, World Champion Billy Jack, look over your shoulder, I might be coming after you! They are having a big tournament for the American Title! Don Owen, I better be in that tournament!1988 will be the YEAR OF THE MAD DOG!!! AHHHHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Get ready! Buckle your seatbelts for a bumpy ride!
Sawywer stands, kicks the stool, and sends it flying! He uses his dog chain to beat the floor!
COMMERCIAL
UWA TV TITLE MATCH: Tom Prichard © vs. The Grappler: Prichard's first title defense on the USA Network is against a rugged veteran. The champ has his hands full and the Grappler comes very close to winning the belt here this week. Prichard lands an impressive enzuguri kick and pins Grappler to retain the title. After the bell, Exotic Adrian Street and Miss Linda make an appearance in the Crow's Nest. Street has a mic.
STREET: I ralize that we are being broadcast on the USA Network. If the USA Networks is like the country from which it gets it's name, the viewers are most likely quite ignorant! Here is some relevant information! I am Adrian Street! I aam an international wrestling star as well as a critically acclaimed recording artist. I once held that title that was just defended, but that hooligan Tom Prichard and another crooked American named Eric Embry concocted a scheme and I was robbed of my beautiful belt! I am thouroughly disgusted by this creep Prichard! His illegal tactics, his matted and filthy hair, and all of his simpleton fans...I am sick of all of that! I understand there will be a pay per view spectacular in Denver next month! Prichard, if you have the intestiunal fortitude, I challenge you to defend that belt against me that night! Let's make it interesting: LOSER LEAVES TOWN!!!
Mark Lowrance enters the ring with Prichard.
LOWRANCE: Tom, in the interest of fairness, I'm giving you equal time to respond!
PRICHARD: I ain't gonna waste valuable air time, flapping my gums like that freak did. My answer to your stinking challenge is “YES!!!!” At WINTER WARFARE, you can kiss the two bit David Bowie impersonator goodbye! And I might give his interfering woman a kiss goodbye so she can experience a real man for the first time!Pack your bags 'cause you're going back to the Royal Forest of Dean, Street! As far as I'm concerned, February 19th can't get here fast enough!
COMMERCIAL
We come out of commercial with a wide shot of the Portland Sports Arena crowd.
MARSHALL: (voice over) The feud between Dan Spivey and Billy Jack Haynes has been a hard hitting, brutal situation. Here is a special look...
VTR:
As the music plays, we see highlights of the war between Haynes and Spivey. The last scene is Haynes wearing the Undisputed World Title belt.
Back to arena
Ron Fuller, now dresed in a suit and cowboy hat leads an awesome combination to the ring: his man, Master of Pain, and Dangerous Dan Spivey!
The music changes...
The World Champion and his mentor head to the ring. The fans give them a huge pop!
MAIN EVENT: Billy Jack Haynes & Wahoo McDaniel vs. Dangerous Dan Spivey & The Master Of Pain(w/ “Tennessee Stud” Ron Fuller): As hard hitting a match as you will ever see! Both teams dish out a bunch of punishment and it looks like the faces are getting the worst of it. While Wahoo is lured out of the ring to go after an interfering Fuller, Spivey locks Haynes in his own full nelson! Master of Pin is in the ring, he's ready to throw the heart punch! Here comes the heart punch! Haynes gets out of the way and Master of Pin nails Spivey with the heart punch! Spivey goes down like a ton of bricks and Haynes gets the pin! After the match, Fuller and Master of Pain walk away, leving Spivey unconscious in the ring!
MARSHALL: Next week, we'll have another great program of UWA Fury!
Working on it now.