UWA FURY(3/12/89)
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“UWA FURY”
Taped March 6, 1989 at the Showboat Sports Pavilion in Las Vegas to air March 12, 1989 at 8 PM on TNT
Commentary: Les Thatcher & Magnum TA
Interviewer: Boni Blackstone
Ring Announcer: Mark Lowrance
VTR OPENING:
As the music plays, we see The Organization with Undisputed World Champion Michael Rotunda on their shoulders! Then, we see BADD Company holding the World Tag Team belts over their heads!! We see Missy Hyatt blowing a kiss! Sgt. Slaughter waving Old Glory! Kevin Von Erich hitting a flying bodypress! Jimmy Valiant dancing and clapping his hands!! Bad News Brown hitting a ghetto blaster! Tito Santana hitting a flying forearm! Mil Mascaras hitting a flying bodypress! Chris Adams nailing a superkick!
LES: Welcome to UWA FURY! We’re in Vegas and we have a HUGE card! What could be better, Magnum TA?
MAGNUM: We have two matches in the tournament to determine a number one contender to Chris Adams’ World Junior Heavyweight Title! We’ll see Kevin Von Erich defend his TV Title against Hollywood John Tatum! Junyard Dog will face the toughest fight of his life as he takes on Bad News Brown! Sgt. Slaughter takes on a tough looking newcomer, Mukhan Singh! The Texas Broncos team up with double tough Blackjack Mulligan agains the Iron Sheik and the Russian team of Zhukov & Volkoff! Les, who’s on Personality Profile?
LES: A very impressive newcomer, “Latin Heartthrob” Al Perez! Ladies and gentlemen, our first two matches are tournament matches to determine a top contender for the World Junior Heavyweight title! Who better to join us on commentary than the champ himself? GENTLEMAN CHRIS ADAMS!!!
Chris Adams joins Les & TA at ringside!
ADAMS: Thank you! I am excited to see some great Junior heavyweight action! We have some incredible athletes competing for a shot at this belt that I’m wearing on April 5th in Seattle! All of them are great wrestlers and whoever wins will give me a tough match!
MAGNUM: The first match is in the ring, Chris!
ADAMS: Let’s get to it!
RANGER ROSS VS. EL SAMURAI: Adams really puts both men over on commentary and they work really hard to live up to his comments. Ross wins after a combat kick. Les asks Adams how Ross’s kick compares to his own. Adams says he’s very confident about having the best kick, but he doesn’t take Ross lightly!
COMMERCIAL
Including…
VTR:
We see scenes from Seattle as pyrotechnics explode. We see scenes from the Mariners, Sonics, and Seahawks!
MARK LOWRANCE: Seattle is a big league city with big league action!
We see action highlights of UWA action!
LOWRANCE: On April 5th, exclusively on TNT, it’s a Super spectacular of big league wrestling action, live from Seattle! It’s the SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE! 8PM, April 5th, ONLY ON TNT!
SCOTTY THE BODY VS. CHAVO GUERRERO: While the last bout was a scientific one, Scotty uses every dirty trick in the book here. Chavo is a technical wizard and outwrestles the cocky youngster. Scotty sneaks a Tennessee chain out of his tights and uses the foreign object to flatten Chavo and get the pin. Adams tells Magnum that he prefers technical wrestling, but if Scotty wins the tournament and wants that kind of match, Chris will fight fire with fire!
COMMERCIAL
TITO SANTANA VS. JACK VICTORY: Victory has his moments, but falls prey to a flying forearm from Tito. Santana gets his hand raised and lets out an “ARRIBA!”
PERSONALITY PROFILE
VTR:
We see a handsome man driving a red convertible through Miami.
LES: They call him the “Latin Heartthrob”. At only 29 years old, Al Perez has risen to the top of the world of professional wrestling! He stands 6’1 and weighs in at 245 pounds. He has held championships in every organization that he has competed in. After coming up on the mean streets of Miami, he now lives the life of a playboy and is seen here with the lovely Baby Doll.
Cut to footage of Perez and Baby Doll dancing in a club.
Perez: (voice over) I work hard, I wrestle hard, I party hard, and I live the life I love! Baby Doll and I found each other recently. I’ve always loved beautiful blondes. I think I deserve to have a lovely lady by my side!
We see in ring action of Perez against various opponents. Perez hits German suplexes and applies the spinning toehold.
PEREZ: (v/o) I’ve been watching UWA FURY on TNT! I know that I’m ready for any competition that they throw at me! I honestly believe that I’ll dominate and be ‘the man’ in the UWA and it won’t take long!
We see Perez doing dumbbell curls at poolside while Baby Doll watches from a lounge chair.
We cut to a closeup of Baby Doll.
BABY DOLL: What a man! So sexy and so cool! The man of my dreams! He’s gonna destroy all the competition in the UWA and I’ll be by his side!
LES: Watch out for Al Perez in the weeks to come on UWA FURY!
Boni Blackstone is standing by.
BONI: after that Personality Profile, I wanted to talk with Tito Santana. Not long ago, Baby Doll was in your corner. It looks like she’s found a new friend!
TITO: Baby Doll, I don’t know what’s got into you! Your parents raised you better! I know all about your rep, Perez, and it’s no good! Boni, this guy only cares about one person and that’s himself! You come into the UWA, Perez! I’ll be waiting, amigo! ARRIBA!
BONI: Things are heating up in the UWA!
COMMERCIAL
IRON SHEIK, BORIS ZHUKOV, & NIKOLAI VOLKOFF(W/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK) VS. BLACKJACK MULLIGAN & THE TEXAS BRONCOS: For most of the match, the heels isolate Dustin and get tons of heat on him. Mulligan and son stomp the mat and lead a “USA” chant to try to inspire Rhodes, but it doesn’t seem to help much! Finally, Mulliagn has had enough! He hits the ring, slugging away at Volkoff, the legal man! That brings the big Soviet’s partners in and Kendall joins in as well! Before long, referee Scott LeDoux has no choice but to call for a no contest! This enrages Blackjack and he knocks the ref down! The Broncos try to calm BJM, but he has his fist clenched and it looks like he may be about to attack his son and his friend’s son! Finally, the younger Texans get the big man out of the ring!
COMMERCIAL
BONI: In our next match on UWA FURY, Bad News Brown takes on a true legend in our sport, Junkyard Dog! Bad News, the Dog has one of the most impressive won/loss records in our sport! Can you beat him?
BROWN: What an ignorant question! I expect announcers, even bleached blonde bimbo announcers to be less ignorant than these beer bellied sharecroppers out here! I guess it’s too much to expect! Dog used to be quite a man! He came up on the mean streets like I did! Too bad that he started reading his own press clippings! He started believeing what all of the hillbillies said about how great he was! He got spoiled, soft, and lazy! Yeah, he was top of the line once, but those days are over! I’m gonna tear him up right here on worldwide TV, Boni Blackstone!
Bad News Brown enters the ring and he looks like he’s ready to hurt somebody! Then, we hear…
THE JUNKYARD DOG ARRIVES TO A STANDING O!
JUNKYARD DOG VS. BAD NEWS BROWN: Brown doesn’t wait for the bell! He leaves the ring, grabs a chair and goes after JYD! The Dog sees him coming and counters by wrapping the chain around his fist and slugging Bad News! These two never get in the ring as they hammer away at each other at ringside! It takes President Bill Watts and every referee on hand to seperate these two! Referee Carl Fergie calls it a no contest!
COMMERCIAL
BONI: I’m joined by the Undisputed World Champion “Megabucks” Michael Rotunda, the First Lady of Wrestling, Missy Hyatt, and the rest of the Organization!
ROTUNDA: I need to speak to President Cowboy!
BONI: Cowboy Bill Watts, if you’re available, sir…
Watts enters the scene…
WILLIAMS: Hey, Bill, how’s it going?
The big Cowboy and Dr. Death shake hands, but Watts doesn’t seem too happy to see his former protege!
ROTUNDA: Don’t let my colleague’s good natured greeting fool you, Mr. President! This is strictly business! I am your Undisputed World Champion! I refuse to be a closet champion! I want the world to see me defending my title on TNT! But not against some rook who just flunked out of wrestling school! I want a match here on TV next week! No jabronis! No prelim bums! I want an opponent next week who has a worldwide reputation! I want a man who has wrestled in MSG, Boston Garden, the Omni, the Superdome, the Cow Palace, Budokan Hall, all the great wrestling arenas of the world! Do you think you can manage that, Cowpoke?
WILLIAMS: C’mon, ol’ pal! That ain’t too much to ask!
WATTS: I think we can accommodate you!
MURACO: One more thing, old timer! Last week, this man had the class to hand over the American Title! He recommended that you hand that over to a member of the Organization! So far, none of us have been presented with that belt!
WATTS: The UWA Board of Governors and I are discussing how we’ll determine a new champion! I promise you that we won’t hand it over to somebody who hasn’t earned it! Mike, you’ll have a suitable opponent here on UWA FURY next week!
BONI: I want to speak with one of the competitors in our next match… a newcomer to the House of Humperdink and the UWA, Mukhan Singh!
SOH: I want you to look at this amazing physical specimen out of Karachi, Pakistan! He is over 400 pounds of fighting fury and he moves like a man half that size! Sgt. Slaughter, you had better get your affairs in order, Gomer! You might not survive this encounter with this brute!
SINGH: Slaughter, all your fans and all your flag waving won’t help you when I squash you like a grape! C’mon, Sir Oliver! Let’s get it done!
We see Singh and his manager stalk to the ring. We’ll see the Sarge’s entrance when we return!
COMMERCIAL
Here comes Sgt. Slaughter, waving the American flag and looking like he’s ready for war!
SGT. SLAUGHTER VS. MUKHAN SINGH(W/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK): Singh attacks the rugged veteran and dishes out a bunch of punishment! In spite of the beating, Slaughter makes a comeback and flattens Singh with a Slaughter cannon! Humperdink sees his man in dire straits and intervenes! SOH throws powder in Slaughter’s eyes, earning an automatic DQ! The Iron Sheik runs in and takes advantage of the situation and beats his archenemy down! Thankfully, Dustin Rhodes runs in and makes the save!
MAGNUM: We have a TV Title match coming up next!
COMMERCIAL
UWA TV TITLE MATCH: KEVIN VON ERICH © VS. HOLLYWOOD JOHN TATUM: Tatum is not a man to be taken lightly and he gives the high flier from Denton County all he wants here tonight! Kevin is not to be denied, however, and he pins his cocky challenger with a high cross bosy off the top rope! Magnum says it will take a great wrestler to win the title from Kevin!
Don’t miss next week’s UWA FURY!
ANOTHER JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CONTENDER’S TOURNAMENT MATCH: DEAN MALENKO VS. RANGER ROSS!!!
AL PEREZ MAKES HIS UWA DEBUT!!!
THE MOONDOGS & THE GREAT KOKINA TAKE ON BLACKJACK MULLIGAN & THE TEXAS BRONCOS!!!
WORLD CHAMPION MICHAEL ROTUNDA DEFENDS THE TITLE!!!
THE VON ERICHS IN SIX MAN TAG!!!
Taped March 6, 1989 at the Showboat Sports Pavilion in Las Vegas to air March 12, 1989 at 8 PM on TNT
Commentary: Les Thatcher & Magnum TA
Interviewer: Boni Blackstone
Ring Announcer: Mark Lowrance
VTR OPENING:
As the music plays, we see The Organization with Undisputed World Champion Michael Rotunda on their shoulders! Then, we see BADD Company holding the World Tag Team belts over their heads!! We see Missy Hyatt blowing a kiss! Sgt. Slaughter waving Old Glory! Kevin Von Erich hitting a flying bodypress! Jimmy Valiant dancing and clapping his hands!! Bad News Brown hitting a ghetto blaster! Tito Santana hitting a flying forearm! Mil Mascaras hitting a flying bodypress! Chris Adams nailing a superkick!
LES: Welcome to UWA FURY! We’re in Vegas and we have a HUGE card! What could be better, Magnum TA?
MAGNUM: We have two matches in the tournament to determine a number one contender to Chris Adams’ World Junior Heavyweight Title! We’ll see Kevin Von Erich defend his TV Title against Hollywood John Tatum! Junyard Dog will face the toughest fight of his life as he takes on Bad News Brown! Sgt. Slaughter takes on a tough looking newcomer, Mukhan Singh! The Texas Broncos team up with double tough Blackjack Mulligan agains the Iron Sheik and the Russian team of Zhukov & Volkoff! Les, who’s on Personality Profile?
LES: A very impressive newcomer, “Latin Heartthrob” Al Perez! Ladies and gentlemen, our first two matches are tournament matches to determine a top contender for the World Junior Heavyweight title! Who better to join us on commentary than the champ himself? GENTLEMAN CHRIS ADAMS!!!
Chris Adams joins Les & TA at ringside!
ADAMS: Thank you! I am excited to see some great Junior heavyweight action! We have some incredible athletes competing for a shot at this belt that I’m wearing on April 5th in Seattle! All of them are great wrestlers and whoever wins will give me a tough match!
MAGNUM: The first match is in the ring, Chris!
ADAMS: Let’s get to it!
RANGER ROSS VS. EL SAMURAI: Adams really puts both men over on commentary and they work really hard to live up to his comments. Ross wins after a combat kick. Les asks Adams how Ross’s kick compares to his own. Adams says he’s very confident about having the best kick, but he doesn’t take Ross lightly!
COMMERCIAL
Including…
VTR:
We see scenes from Seattle as pyrotechnics explode. We see scenes from the Mariners, Sonics, and Seahawks!
MARK LOWRANCE: Seattle is a big league city with big league action!
We see action highlights of UWA action!
LOWRANCE: On April 5th, exclusively on TNT, it’s a Super spectacular of big league wrestling action, live from Seattle! It’s the SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE! 8PM, April 5th, ONLY ON TNT!
SCOTTY THE BODY VS. CHAVO GUERRERO: While the last bout was a scientific one, Scotty uses every dirty trick in the book here. Chavo is a technical wizard and outwrestles the cocky youngster. Scotty sneaks a Tennessee chain out of his tights and uses the foreign object to flatten Chavo and get the pin. Adams tells Magnum that he prefers technical wrestling, but if Scotty wins the tournament and wants that kind of match, Chris will fight fire with fire!
COMMERCIAL
TITO SANTANA VS. JACK VICTORY: Victory has his moments, but falls prey to a flying forearm from Tito. Santana gets his hand raised and lets out an “ARRIBA!”
PERSONALITY PROFILE
VTR:
We see a handsome man driving a red convertible through Miami.
LES: They call him the “Latin Heartthrob”. At only 29 years old, Al Perez has risen to the top of the world of professional wrestling! He stands 6’1 and weighs in at 245 pounds. He has held championships in every organization that he has competed in. After coming up on the mean streets of Miami, he now lives the life of a playboy and is seen here with the lovely Baby Doll.
Cut to footage of Perez and Baby Doll dancing in a club.
Perez: (voice over) I work hard, I wrestle hard, I party hard, and I live the life I love! Baby Doll and I found each other recently. I’ve always loved beautiful blondes. I think I deserve to have a lovely lady by my side!
We see in ring action of Perez against various opponents. Perez hits German suplexes and applies the spinning toehold.
PEREZ: (v/o) I’ve been watching UWA FURY on TNT! I know that I’m ready for any competition that they throw at me! I honestly believe that I’ll dominate and be ‘the man’ in the UWA and it won’t take long!
We see Perez doing dumbbell curls at poolside while Baby Doll watches from a lounge chair.
We cut to a closeup of Baby Doll.
BABY DOLL: What a man! So sexy and so cool! The man of my dreams! He’s gonna destroy all the competition in the UWA and I’ll be by his side!
LES: Watch out for Al Perez in the weeks to come on UWA FURY!
Boni Blackstone is standing by.
BONI: after that Personality Profile, I wanted to talk with Tito Santana. Not long ago, Baby Doll was in your corner. It looks like she’s found a new friend!
TITO: Baby Doll, I don’t know what’s got into you! Your parents raised you better! I know all about your rep, Perez, and it’s no good! Boni, this guy only cares about one person and that’s himself! You come into the UWA, Perez! I’ll be waiting, amigo! ARRIBA!
BONI: Things are heating up in the UWA!
COMMERCIAL
IRON SHEIK, BORIS ZHUKOV, & NIKOLAI VOLKOFF(W/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK) VS. BLACKJACK MULLIGAN & THE TEXAS BRONCOS: For most of the match, the heels isolate Dustin and get tons of heat on him. Mulligan and son stomp the mat and lead a “USA” chant to try to inspire Rhodes, but it doesn’t seem to help much! Finally, Mulliagn has had enough! He hits the ring, slugging away at Volkoff, the legal man! That brings the big Soviet’s partners in and Kendall joins in as well! Before long, referee Scott LeDoux has no choice but to call for a no contest! This enrages Blackjack and he knocks the ref down! The Broncos try to calm BJM, but he has his fist clenched and it looks like he may be about to attack his son and his friend’s son! Finally, the younger Texans get the big man out of the ring!
COMMERCIAL
BONI: In our next match on UWA FURY, Bad News Brown takes on a true legend in our sport, Junkyard Dog! Bad News, the Dog has one of the most impressive won/loss records in our sport! Can you beat him?
BROWN: What an ignorant question! I expect announcers, even bleached blonde bimbo announcers to be less ignorant than these beer bellied sharecroppers out here! I guess it’s too much to expect! Dog used to be quite a man! He came up on the mean streets like I did! Too bad that he started reading his own press clippings! He started believeing what all of the hillbillies said about how great he was! He got spoiled, soft, and lazy! Yeah, he was top of the line once, but those days are over! I’m gonna tear him up right here on worldwide TV, Boni Blackstone!
Bad News Brown enters the ring and he looks like he’s ready to hurt somebody! Then, we hear…
THE JUNKYARD DOG ARRIVES TO A STANDING O!
JUNKYARD DOG VS. BAD NEWS BROWN: Brown doesn’t wait for the bell! He leaves the ring, grabs a chair and goes after JYD! The Dog sees him coming and counters by wrapping the chain around his fist and slugging Bad News! These two never get in the ring as they hammer away at each other at ringside! It takes President Bill Watts and every referee on hand to seperate these two! Referee Carl Fergie calls it a no contest!
COMMERCIAL
BONI: I’m joined by the Undisputed World Champion “Megabucks” Michael Rotunda, the First Lady of Wrestling, Missy Hyatt, and the rest of the Organization!
ROTUNDA: I need to speak to President Cowboy!
BONI: Cowboy Bill Watts, if you’re available, sir…
Watts enters the scene…
WILLIAMS: Hey, Bill, how’s it going?
The big Cowboy and Dr. Death shake hands, but Watts doesn’t seem too happy to see his former protege!
ROTUNDA: Don’t let my colleague’s good natured greeting fool you, Mr. President! This is strictly business! I am your Undisputed World Champion! I refuse to be a closet champion! I want the world to see me defending my title on TNT! But not against some rook who just flunked out of wrestling school! I want a match here on TV next week! No jabronis! No prelim bums! I want an opponent next week who has a worldwide reputation! I want a man who has wrestled in MSG, Boston Garden, the Omni, the Superdome, the Cow Palace, Budokan Hall, all the great wrestling arenas of the world! Do you think you can manage that, Cowpoke?
WILLIAMS: C’mon, ol’ pal! That ain’t too much to ask!
WATTS: I think we can accommodate you!
MURACO: One more thing, old timer! Last week, this man had the class to hand over the American Title! He recommended that you hand that over to a member of the Organization! So far, none of us have been presented with that belt!
WATTS: The UWA Board of Governors and I are discussing how we’ll determine a new champion! I promise you that we won’t hand it over to somebody who hasn’t earned it! Mike, you’ll have a suitable opponent here on UWA FURY next week!
BONI: I want to speak with one of the competitors in our next match… a newcomer to the House of Humperdink and the UWA, Mukhan Singh!
SOH: I want you to look at this amazing physical specimen out of Karachi, Pakistan! He is over 400 pounds of fighting fury and he moves like a man half that size! Sgt. Slaughter, you had better get your affairs in order, Gomer! You might not survive this encounter with this brute!
SINGH: Slaughter, all your fans and all your flag waving won’t help you when I squash you like a grape! C’mon, Sir Oliver! Let’s get it done!
We see Singh and his manager stalk to the ring. We’ll see the Sarge’s entrance when we return!
COMMERCIAL
Here comes Sgt. Slaughter, waving the American flag and looking like he’s ready for war!
SGT. SLAUGHTER VS. MUKHAN SINGH(W/SIR OLIVER HUMPERDINK): Singh attacks the rugged veteran and dishes out a bunch of punishment! In spite of the beating, Slaughter makes a comeback and flattens Singh with a Slaughter cannon! Humperdink sees his man in dire straits and intervenes! SOH throws powder in Slaughter’s eyes, earning an automatic DQ! The Iron Sheik runs in and takes advantage of the situation and beats his archenemy down! Thankfully, Dustin Rhodes runs in and makes the save!
MAGNUM: We have a TV Title match coming up next!
COMMERCIAL
UWA TV TITLE MATCH: KEVIN VON ERICH © VS. HOLLYWOOD JOHN TATUM: Tatum is not a man to be taken lightly and he gives the high flier from Denton County all he wants here tonight! Kevin is not to be denied, however, and he pins his cocky challenger with a high cross bosy off the top rope! Magnum says it will take a great wrestler to win the title from Kevin!
Don’t miss next week’s UWA FURY!
ANOTHER JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CONTENDER’S TOURNAMENT MATCH: DEAN MALENKO VS. RANGER ROSS!!!
AL PEREZ MAKES HIS UWA DEBUT!!!
THE MOONDOGS & THE GREAT KOKINA TAKE ON BLACKJACK MULLIGAN & THE TEXAS BRONCOS!!!
WORLD CHAMPION MICHAEL ROTUNDA DEFENDS THE TITLE!!!
THE VON ERICHS IN SIX MAN TAG!!!
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