UWA FURY(7/3/88)
Jul 5, 2022 0:28:08 GMT
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The United Wrestling Alliance presents UWA FURY!!!
Taped on 6/18/88 at the Tulsa County Convention Center to air Sunday, 7/3/88, at 9 PM on the USA Network
Announcers: Lee Marshall & Magnum TA
Ring Announcer/interviewer: Mark Lowrance
Interviewer: Boni Blackstone
COLD OPENING:
VTR:
The Sheepherders and Ron Bass are standing in front of the UWA logo. Flagbearer Rip Morgan waves the New Zealand flag in the background.
LUKE: There aren't many Yanks we can stand, but this is one bloody Yank we like!
BUTCH: He's tough and likes to spill blood just like we do, cousin!
BASS: That's right, Terry Funk! I've got the next World Tag Team Champions on my side. You picked a couple of green kids to be your partners and you're just gonna git them boys hurt! Hurt really bad!
VTR:
We see Terry Funk in the locker room. He is flanked by Dustin Rhodes and Tracey Smothers.
FUNK: Bass, I knew you were low! I didn't expect you to stoop this low and team up with the Sheepherders! Well, I've got an All American team right here! You're looking at the future of wrestling-two of the young lions! You egg sucking dogs had better be ready for the fight of your lives!
VTR:
We see UWA President Frank Dusek seated behind his desk.
DUSEK: We're less than 24 hours away from the American Revolution pay per view! I have the entire card here tonight on UWA FURY!
VTR OPENING:
As the music plays we see the following:
Terry Gordy hitting the Bamm Bamm Slam on a hapless opponent!
“Midnight Soldier” Brian Adams slugging it out with Jos LeDuc!
Scott Steiner hitting a frankensteiner!
Dustin Rhodes hitting a bulldog!
Terry Funk piledriving an opponent!
Ron Fuller leading Master of Pain to the ring!
Buzz Sawyer hitting a powerslam!
Vader and Madusa coming down the aisle!
Nord the Berzerker coming to the ring, waving his sword above his head!
Austin Idol holding the American Title belt above his head!
Van Vader holding the Lord of the Ring trophy above his head!
MARSHALL: Tomorrow night, live from Reunion Arena in Dallas, AMERICAN REVOLUTION comes your way, available only on pay per view!
MAGNUM: We have many of the great wrestlers who will be a part of that spectacular card in action tonight!
MARSHALL: We're starting off with a great six man tag team match!
MAGNUM: The Nasty Boys have had quite a feud with Steve Keirn and Mike Graham. The Nasty boys are teaming up with the World Junior Heavyweight Champion and the head of the First Family, “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert. Steve and Mike have Dean Malenko for their partner. Dean fits into the Junior heavyweight weight class and I know he'd like a title match with Gilbert!
The Nasty Boys & “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert (w/Missy Hyatt) vs. Dean Malenko, Mike Graham, & Steve Keirn: As you would expect, we have an action packed bout here this week. IN a shocker, the faces win as Malenko traps Gilbert in a Texas Cloverleaf for a submission win! The announcers say that this should put Malenko into contenetion for Gilbert's title!
COMMERCIAL
“Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer (w/ Missy Hyatt) vs. Chris Carter: At the PPV tomorrow, Sawyer takes on the man he basically replaced in the First Family, Jos LeDuc. Eddie Gilbert is too upset over the previous match to come to ringside, but Sawyer doesn't need any help here. The Mad Dog goes through Carter like a hot knife through butter and finishes him off with the patented powerslam.
COMMERCIAL
Nord the Berzerker(w/Eddie Gilbert & Missy Hyatt) vs. Chuck Coates: Tomorrow night, Nord challenges American Champion Austin Idol.Tonight, he demolishes Coates. Nord is sending a message to Idol here and gets DQ'd in the process as he overhead presses his opponent and tosses him over the top rope to the floor below. Coates is stretchered out after that display of brutality! Let's go to Boni Blackstone!
BONI: I am here with “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert, Missy Hyatt, and two members of the First Family: Nord the Berzerker and “Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer!
GILBERT: I told'em if they dumped that has been Dundee and joined our First Family that Missy and myself would lead'em to the promised land!
NORD: HUSS! HUSS!
GILBERT: My man, Nord the Berzerker has a shot at Austin Idol and his American belt tomorrow night!Idol, you saw what he did to that bum he just wrestled! That was just a sample of what you have to look forward to tomorrow night! Jos LeDuc, you were dead weight and we dropped you like a bad habit! Tomorrow night, the Mad Dog is gonna hurt you real bad!
SAWYER: That's right, Eddie! LeDuc, I'll run you back to Canada and you can go back to chopping trees for a living!
GILBERT: Graham and Keirn, the Nasty Boys are sick of you two jabronis! They will take care of business tomorrow night!
BONI: I have to ask about the match earlier where you and Knobbs and Sags lost to Graham and Keirn and Dean Malenko....
GILBERT: The sun shines on a dog's butt once in a while, Boni! That was a fluke, plain and simple!
BONI: Dean Malenko is a junior heavyweight and he beat you right in the middle of the ring!
GILBERT: You seriously think one lucky match makes him some kind of contender? Who has be beaten one on one?No way! That is Hot Stuff's final word on the subject! We are outta here!
The First Family stalks away!
COMMERCIAL
Johnny Ace vs. Curtis Thompson: Two finely tuned athletes go at it this week. Thompson has his moments, but Ace is just better at this point. Ace hits the Ace crusher to finish Thompson off! Then, Ace joins Boni.
BONI: Let's hear from one of wrestling's young lions: Johnny Ace!
ACE: Boni, there are a lot of goals that I have! I'd love to challenge Van Vader or Austin Idol or the Midnight Soldier for one the belts! I wouldn't even mind finding the right partner and challenging for the World Tag Team belts! But there's one thing that I need to take care of before any of that! There's something I have to prove to myself and somebody else! I need to end this thing with Cactus Jack! I have to kinow and he has to know that I am the better man! This has to be settled before I can move forward in my career! Frank Dusek, I know you are busy with the big show tomorrow. I'm not asking for a spot on the pay per view. All I need is a one on one match with Cactus Jack here on UWA FURY next week!
BONI: I'm sure that can be arranged, Johnny! And that will be a great match for our fans!
ACE: No crazy stipulations, no gimmicks! I want Cactus Jack straight up, one on one! Here on USA where every man, woman, and child can see it!
BONI: A challenge has been made. Will Cactus Jack have the courage to accept?
COMMERCIAL
Antonio Inoki vs. Iron Mike Sharpe: Inoki has his chance for revenge against Kabuki on the PPV tomorrow night. He looks ready. Inoki wrestles a very aggressive style as he tears into “Canada's Greatest Athlete with a vicious series of kicks! After kicking Sharpe all over the ring, the Japanese legend locks in the sleeper and puts him away! Sir Oliver Humperdink had better have kabuki ready for a war!
COMMERCIAL
BONI: A new manager has already made a big impact on the UWA. His name is Downtown Bruno and he's here with his Downtown Connection-Kokina, Hollywood John Tatum, & BADD Company!
BRUNO: That's right, Boni baby, all the way from Fort Duquense Boulevard in Pittsburgh, P-A! Look at this incredible collection of superstar talent live on the USA Network!
Hold on! Jimmy Valiant is here!
VALIANT: I'm disappointed in all of my brothers and sisters! You need to make Bruno feel welcome! Chant this man's name! Do it for your Boogie Man! Come on, lemme hear it! WEASEL! WEASEL! WEASEL! (crowd picks up the chant) Ain't I a good cheerleader?
BRUNO: Ha! Ha! Very funny, Valiant! So funny I forgot to laugh!
VALIANT: Here's the deal, weasel! Last week, I was in a six man tag with my brothers, the Killer Bees! Somebody hit me with something and my lights went out! Nobody does that to me and gets away with it! Do you hear me? Tomorrow at American Revolution! I'll take any of your stooges! I'll take on the 400 pounder!
BRUNO: Nuh uh! Yoko has a TV Title match!
VALIANT: I'll take on your tag team (sings) all by myself...
BRUNO: No way! Diamond and the Sensei have a match with the Bees!
VALIANT: OK, who does this bleached blonde gigolo have a match with? And how much is he paying her?
TATUM: Valiant, you look like a wino! Ypu smell like a wino! You can't wrestle worth two cents! I'll leave you for dead!
VALIANT: This boy is an expert on winos! How do you know so much about winos! I'll bust you open and knock you out! Bruno, if you have any guts, sign the match!
Valiant dances away!
BRUNO: You derelict! You loudmouth! Look at Johnny Tatum! Look at this fine tuned stud athlete! (Tatum flexes) Tomorrow night, you'll see the end of the Boogie Woogie Man, once and for all!
“Universal Heartthrob” Austin Idol vs. Goldie Rogers: Idol wrestles a tuneup match for his bout with Nord the Berzerker tomorrow. After the match begins, Nord, along with Eddie Gilbert and Missy Hyatt, makes his way to ringside. When the American champ catches sight of the big man, it fires him up! Idol takes his veteran opponent apart and finishes him with the Las Vegas Leglock! Idol looks ready for anybody!
COMMERCIAL
Hacksaw Butch Reed & Scott Steiner vs. “Pretty Boy” Doug Sommers & Gorgeous Gary Royal: The veteran Reed and the rookie Steiner have a big match on PPV tomorrow against the Oliver Humperdink managed pairing of Big John Studd & the Master of Pain. Reed and Steiner put on a display of power here. Sommers and Royal have held championships in regional territories, but they are cannon fodder tonight. Steiner hits the Frankensteiner to pin Royal. When Sommers runs in for the save, he is the victim of an overhead press slam by the Hacksaw! The House of Humperdink has a fight on it's hands!
BONI: I am joined by Sir Oliver Humperdink, manager of Kabuki, Big John Studd, & the Master of Pain! Your men will have their hands full tomorrow!
HUMPERDINK: Girlie, you are delusional! Kabuki's honor has been insulted by Antonio Inoki! If you had my education and you understood the Oriental mind, you would know what a dangerous situation Inoki has placed himself in! I hope you enjoyed Inoki's match earlier because that was his final match on UWA FURY! Scott Steiner, you couldn't stand against the House of Humperdink so you dragged Butch Reed into it! Reed, I've always admired you, even considered you House of Humprdink material! Unfortunately, you've allowed that punk Steiner to con you! He's convinced you to do his dirty work! Studd and the Master are two wrecking machines! They can bulldoze anybody who stands in their way! Even you Hacksaw Reed! And especially you, Scotty Steiner!
BONI: IT sounds like the House of Humperdink is ready for tomorrow night!
COMMERCIAL
Three wrestlers stand in the ring. Then, we hear...
The Freebirds have arrived! We'll see the World Tag Champions and the number one contender for the Undisputed World Title together in one match!
Fabulous Freebirds vs. Jeff Gaylord, Joel Deaton, & Ken Raper: The 'Birds are fired up tonight!In spite of pretty good efforts by Deaton and Gaylord, it's a fairly one sided affair. Gordy pins Raper after the Bamm Bamm Slam.The Badstreet Boys haven't always been favorites in Oklahoma, but they get a hero's welcome tonight!
VTR:
We see a closeup of a Badstreet USA T shirt. Suddenly, the shirt is torn to shreds. The camera pulls back and it's UWA World Champion Big Van Vader who has destroyed the shirt!
VADER: Terry Gordy! Tomorrow night! Worldwide pay per view! Vader Time on Badstreet, boy! I'm gonna take you apart and show the world why I am the Undsiputed Heavyweight Champion of the World! Nobody can stand in my way! Especially an ignorant redneck like you!
COMMERCIAL
UWA President Captain Frank Dusek stands in the interview area.
DUSEK: Wrestling fans, it is my pleasure to announce the complete card for American Revolution, live from Reunion Arena in downtown Dallas and airing worldwide on pay per view. There are a few seats left for the live event, but I suggest you hit Ticketmaster first thing in the morning! If you haven't ordered the pay per view and your local cable provider isn't open on the Fourth, I feel sorry for you! Here's the complete card, folks!
TITO SANTANNA'S UWA DEBUT!!!
JIMMY VALIANT VS. JOHN TATUM!!!
BADD COMPANY VS. THE KILLER BEES!!!
BUZZ SAWYER VS. JOS LEDUC!!!
MIKE GRAHAM & STEVE KEIRN VS. THE NASTY BOYS!!!
ANTONIO INOKI VS. THE GREAT KABUKI!!!
BIG JOHN STUDD & MASTER OF PAIN VS. SCOTT STEINER & HACKSAW BUTCH REED!!!
BULLROPE MATCH: TERRY FUNK VS. RON BASS!!!
TV TITLE: BRIAN ADAMS VS. KOKINA!!!
AMERICAN TITLE: AUSTIN IDOL VS. NORDS THE BERZERKER!!!
WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE: FREEBIRDS VS. SHEEPHERDERS!!!
UNDISPUTED WORLD TITLE: BIG VAN VADER VS. TERRY GORDY!!!
DUSEK: I don't care where you are in the world, if you're a wrestling fan, you can't miss this spectacular! Can I help you gentlemen?
Mike Graham, Steve Keirn, Dustin Rhodes, & Chris Adams are here...
KEIRN: Here's the situation, Captain: our friend Dean malenko proved here tonight that he can beat Gilbert for the Junior Heavyweight Title. You know how Dean is, he's quite and doesn't brag. We're here to stand up for our friend!
RHODES: You can surely make room on the pay per view for one more match!
ADAMS: It might seem like Mike and I are shooting ourselves in the foot since we're contenders for that belt, but we both know that Malenko won't duck and dodge top contenders like Gilbert does! This will be good for everybody!
GRAHAM: Except maybe Mr. Hot Stuff!
Terry Funk walks out.
FUNK: Can I join in? Looks, you know that Boris Malenko has been a friend of the Funk Family for years. The kid is even better than his old man was. Dean will be a great champion. He reminds me of my brother Junior and you know what a great champion he was. C'mon, Frank, do the right thing!
DUSEK: Awright, you got to me! I'm adding a World Junior Heavyweight Title match to the show tomorrow night! Gilbert vs. Malenko!
The faces slap Dusek on the back and walk away. Uh oh! Here comes Eddie Gilbert and Missy Hyatt!
GILBERT: What a weak minded individual you are, Frank Dusek! I'm glad you're president of the UWA and not the USA! The commies would take over in a week!
DUSEK: Look, Eddie, it's time for the six man tag!
GILBERT: I'm calling my attorney, the Honorable AM Bulancechaser, and you're getting impeached, mister!
Terry Funk, Dustin Rhodes, & Tracey Smothers vs. The Sheepherders (w/Rip Morgan) & Outlaw Ron Bass: This is basically a war on two fronts- Funk and Bass fight all over the arena while the Sheepherders have a tag match in the ring with the young American team. While the two Texans beat each other bloody, the New Zealanders hit a double gut buster on Smothers! Dustin is about to go for the save, but Rip Morgan nails him from behind with the steel flagpole! The Sheepherders get the 1-2-3 on Smothers and the heels steal one! The Freebirds run out and chase the Sheepherders and Morgan away! Funk posts Bass, grabs a chair and jumps in to stand tall with the faces!
Don't miss AMERICAN REVOLUTION on PPV!!!
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