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MID SOUTH WRESTLIN
TV FOR WEEKEND OF JUNE 28, 1985
TAPED JUNE 25, 1985
IRISH MCNEIL BOY’S CLUB
SHREVEPORT, LA
ANNOUNCERS: JIM ROSS & COWBOY BILL WATTS
RING ANNOUNCER: MIKE MCGUIRK
REFEREES: Alfred Neely & Jerry Usher
VTR:
Mark Lowrance is standing in front of the World Class logo along with Kerry, Kevin, & Mike Von Erich.
LOWRANCE: Hello, Mid South Wrestling! My name is Mark Lowrance and these young men surrounding me probably don’t need an introduction if you’re a true wrestling fan, but just in case, they are “The Modern Day Warrior” Kerry Von Erich, “High Flying” Kevin Von Erich, and young Mike Von Erich. These men are heading to New Orleans on July 6th for the Superdome Summer Spectacular. Guys, I don’t think you have ever face more bizarre opponents than you’ll meet on that day: Kevin Sullivan, Lord Humongous, &” Purple Haze” Mark Lewin.
KERRY: Yeah, they are some strange, wacked out dudes, that’s for sure. We’ve known Mark Lewin for a long time and he’s always been odd, but I think he’s the most normal one of the three!
KEVIN: They are like something out of a horror film, but like the Book says “I will fear no evil!” We don’t scare easy and we’re ready for anything that these three throw at us!
MIKE: They are weird, but they’re tough! But I have the two best partners anybody could have: my brothers! I’ve never been in the Superdome before and I’ve never wrestled in Louisiana. I hope those Louisiana people are as excited about us coming as we are about going there!
LOWRANCE: I’m sure that they are Mike and I’m sure that they are ready for a spectacular night of action!
WATTS: I’m here with Kevin Sullivan. I know that you and your men have targeted Magnum TA, but on July 6 at the Superdome, you face a very tough team of three brothers!
SULLIVAN: The Von Erichs! Kerry, Kevin, and Mikey! Hoss, Adam, & Little Joe! You children had better be wise enough to leave old Pa Cartwright at the Ponderosa! I saw you kids on the 700 Club the other night! Your Elmer Gantry routine does not impress me or my dark soldiers! I see it all clearly… First, Humongous crushes musclehead Kerry! Then, Purple Haze puts barefoot Kevin out with the Shanghai Sleeper! Then, it’s little Mikey! He’s young and impressionable, his mind as weak as his pipe cleaner body! We will either cripple him for life or bring him over to the dark side!
WATTS: You’d better take these boys more seriously, Kevin!
SULLIVAN: Oh, Bill Watts, I take destroying punks like the Von Erichs and Magnum TA VERY seriously! Magnum TA, we still have plans for you and those plans do not include you being World Champion! BWAHAHAHAHA!
WATTS: Greg Gagne takes on John Tatum of the Love Train, right after this!
COMMERCIAL
Greg Gagne takes on Hollywood John Tatum(w/Christopher Love), ½ of the Mid South Tag Team Champions Love Train in a preview of the upcoming four team elimination match at the Superdome on July 6th! Love spens most of the match at the announcing desk, complaining to Bill Watts about how “unfair” the four team match is to his “beautiful Love Train”. Watts seems even more disgusted than ususal by Love this week. Gagne wrestles his best match in years, keeping Tatum off balance with flying headscissors, dropkicks, and armdrags. About five minutes in, the Zambuie Express walks out to ringside and stand there observing, arms folded and scowls on their faces. The Mantell Corporation team looks very intimidating. Finally, Greg catches Tatum with the vaunted Gagne Sleeper, right in the middle of the ring! The referee checks the arm…it drops! The bell rings! The ten minute time limit has expired and it’s a draw! The Zambuies climb onto the ring apron! Gagne drops Tatum and bails out! Gagne grabs a chair and climbs back into the ring, stsnding up to the Zambuie Express! Randy Rose , Tatum’s Love Train partner, climbs into the ring to protect his partner! Finally, Ken mantel walks out and gets his men to stand down, ending this confrontation. Jack & Jerry Brisco walk out to the desk.
ROSS: The Brisco Brothers are here. Jerry will wrestle Magnum TA in our next match. Do you men have a comment?
JACK: Yessir. Them boys are all acting tough right now, but when they go up against a couple of wrestling machines like us at the Superdome, they won’t act so tough!
ROSS: Magnum TA against Jerry Brisco is coming up!
COMMERCIAL
ROSS: I’m here with the man who will wrestle Ric Flair for the NWA World Title on July 6th at the Superdome Summer Spectacular, Magnum TA!
MAGNUM: Jim, I’m really excited about my big opportunity! Flair is the greatest wrestler in the world today, but I’m ready! I’m not looking past Gerald Brisco today, but he’ll get me ready fro Flair! He’s slick like Flair, he has a lot of moves like Flair, and he’s smart like Flair! He also has the figure four leglock! Flair, you had be better for the match of your life, champ, because I’m ready! Kevin Sullivan, I showed you and your guys that you don’t intimidate me one bit last week here on TV! You won’t intimidate my friends, the Von Erichs either! I promise you that!
Magnum TA wrestles Jerry Brisco (w/Jack Brisco) in our next bout. Despite the Briscos recent penchant for rulebreaking, this is a clean match for the most part. Brisco, who is coached and cheered on by his brother gets an advantage and starts working Magnum’s legs. Jerry finally goes for the figure four, but Magnum counters with a rollup for the 1-2-3! Jack smacks the mat in frustration and Watts says if that happens in the match with Flair on July 6th, we’ll have a new World Champion! After the bout, Watts calls for Magnum to come back to the desk.
WATTS: Terry, I think you need to see this next piece of footage from the studios of WTBS in Atlanta for motivational purposes, if nothing else….
VTR:
David Crockett and Ric Flair are on the set of “World Championship Wrestling” at TBS Studios.
CROCKETT: From Atlanta, GA, I’m David Crockett and I’m here on special assignment for Mid South Wrestling. With the greatest, the NWA World’s Heavyweight Champio, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair! Champ, on July 6th, you are going to the Superdome in New Orleans and your opponent…MAGNUM TA!
FLAIR: Let me tell you and the world a dirty little secret, David Crockett! NWA Champions from Lou Thesz to Pat O’Connor to the great Buddy Rogers to Nick Kiniski to Handsome Harley Race! Both Funk Brothers and Jack Brisco! Even short timers like Dusty Rhodes and Kerry Von Erich! They have all traditionally avoided one territory, one area of the country! The Mid South! Why, you may ask? Because, traditionally, Mid South has had the big brawlers like Bill Watts! Grizzly Smith! Butch Reed! Jim Duggan! That kind of big, mean, nasty, tough individual! Who do they stick in there with the Nature Boy on July 6th? Terry Allen, Magnum TA! Son, when I used to defend the Mid Atlantic Title and the US Title in Virginia, you’d show up and offer to carry my bag in exchange for an autograph! Bill Watts has gone from promoting tough guys to promoting punks! Terry Allen, that’s what I’m calling him, David Crockett! I know Tom Selleck and, Allen, you’re not in his class whatsoever! Terry Allen, you wear your blue jeans and your Harley Davidson T shirt and your little leather vest. You have a few undersexed housefraus squealing over you like a Chippendale dancer! Well, you are looking at class now, the Nature Boy! The man who beat your hero Dusty Rhodes for this belt! The man who beat the great Harley Race in the middle of a cage for this belt! And woooooooooooo…the man who took another punk, Kerry Von Erich and gave him the wrestling lesson of a lifetime to win the ten pounds of gold for a third time! I wear custom made suits, Rolex watches, alligator shoes! I travel in Lear jets and loooong black limousines! And the finest women in New Orleans are just dying to see the Nature Boy make his way back to town! I don’t own a pair of blue jeans! I don’t have a Harley, I drive a Mercedes Benz like a real man when I’m not being chauffeured around like Prince Charles! Magnum, we’re going to school in front of 35,000 people in the Superdome! I’ll be the teacher and you’ll be my prize pupil!
DAVID: Awww, we all know you’re the greatest, Champ! You’re also going to be on Mid South Wrestling next week!
FLAIR: David, Grizzly Smith runs up a big phone bill every week, calling your big brother Jim and asking for dates on the champ! Begging to have Ric Flair on his TV to get the ratings up! So, next week, I’ll condescend to go to the nothing happening Irish McNeil Boys’ Club and I’ll walk the aisle and put on a show! I’ll take some preliminary Mid South preliminary wrestler to school! As soon as this interview airs, they’ll start lining up outside the building, waiting for the Nature Boy! Just to catch a glimpse of the limo! Just hoping to see the jet flyin, limousine ridin, kiss stealin, heart breakin, punk beatin NWA World Champion! Yeah, I’ll give them their highest rated TV ever! Then, I’ll go on to the Superdome and give Terry Allen the wrestling lesson of a lifetime! Then, I’ll give New Orleans a party like it has never known! All of you ladies get out your party dresses and your high heels ‘cause the nature Boy is coming to town! WOOOOOOOOOO!
DAVID: Ladies and gentlemen, there is only one….
FLAIR: WOOOOOOOOOOO!
DAVID: Magnum TA, you had better watch out! The nature Boy is coming to New Orleans!
FLAIR: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WATTS: Magnum, if that doesn’t motivate you….
MAGNUM: Ric Flair, you can criticize the way I dress, you can call me a punk, or anything else! While you shop for clothes and ride limos and plan parties, I’m in the gym, getting myself in peak physical condition! I’m watching every piece of footage I can get of you! I’ve talked with Kerry and I’ve talked with Dusty and they have told me exactly what to expect. I know you inside and out! You had better take me real seriously, champ, because I’m coming after that belt and I won’t give up no matter what you throw at me! They brought in Tenryu, the toughest man Japan has to offer and I beat him! I beat Mark Lewin and he had Kevin Sullivan and Lord Humongous backing him up! I just pinned Jerry Brisco, one of the top scientific wrestlers in the world! The Freebirds busted my face into pieces and experts said I’d never be back, but I’m here, Flair! Do you have any idea who you are dealing with, Flair?
WATTS: We have to go to break, but we’ll be back with more Mid South Wrestling!
COMMERCIAL
WATTS: On July 6th, the Superdome Summer Spectacular will host one of the top wrestlers in the world and probably the greatest Mexican wrestling star of all time as Mil Mascaras will take on the very capable Villano I in a match that should be a highlight of that spectacular card! Here’s a special look at the “man of a thousand masks”…
VTR:
A music video of Mil Mascaras highlights, mostly from Japan and Mexico, set to the following:
ROSS: Thanks for staying with us, folks. I’m joined by the man who will challenge North American Champion Michael ”P.S” Hayes, Terry Gordy. Terry, you won the battle royal here on TV last week to earn that match and your Freebird brother isn’t happy.
GORDY: I’m wearing a Badstreet USA T shirt, but I’m takin it off, Jim Ross! (Pulls shirt off and throws it on the floor) Ever since Mike made that record and made that video, he ain’t been the same! He thinks he’s some kind of rock star! We grew up together, Jim! When we was kids, he’d get a bunch of boys mad with his big mouth and I’d fight his battles for him! I’ve took up for him all his life! He said the promoters wanted him and not me, but it was just the opposite, Jim! Now, he’s all mad because he has to give me a title match! Don’t he think I deserve one, Jim? Yeah, we’re brothers, but brothers compete against each other all the time! Phil and Joe Neikro pitched against each other all the time! I ain’t goin in there to break Mike’s neck or bust his head, I’m just gonna rassle him and do my best to win that title on July 6th!
ROSS: Michael Hayes had these comments earlier…
VTR:
Michael Hayes is standing in a blackened studio, mic in hand.
HAYES: I guess it’s true what they say: “Money talks.” Well money called Bamm Bamm’s name and he came running just like his mom called “Come and get it!” Gordy, you’ve got your title match, you signed the contract! It’s me and you at the Superdome! I’m gonna treat you just like any other opponent! Remember how I treat my other opponents, Terry! I broke Magnum’s face! I beat the Von Erich boys half to death! For the first time, Terry, you’re gonna walk down Badstreet without me by your side! Do you think you can handle that, Terry? I know you as well as you know yourself, boy! You ain’t got what it takes! This North American Title is staying right here around my waist where it belongs!
ROSS: When we come back, Terry Gordy will wrestle the rugged Mr. Ebony when we come back!
COMMERCIAL
Terry “Bamm Bamm” Gordy takes on Mr. Ebony. The masked man has his moments, but Gordy piledrives Ebony to get the pin.
COMMERCIAL
Ken Mantell brings in three members of his Corporation, Stan Hansen & The Zambuie Express, in to wrestle hacksaw Jim Duggan, Hacksaw Butch Reed, & Tony “Mr. USA” Atlas. This is a hard hitting brawl that is especially brutal when Duggan and Hansen are legal. Duggan and Hansen spill out of the ring where Hansen slams Duggan’s head into the ring post, busting him open once again! That’s an automatic DQ in Mid South and Alfred Neeley calls for the bell! Reed & atlas brawl with the Zambuies as Hansen grabs his bullrope and uses the cowbell on Duggan until Magnum TA and Greg Gagne run out to make the save and Mantell leads his men away!
WATTS: Jim Duggan takes another vicious blow to the head and loses even more blood! This situation is getting ugly, Jim and I’m worried about Duggan’s well being!
ROSS: Me, too, Bill. We have another great hour of wrestling right here next week, folks! NWA World Champion Ric Flair will wrestle right here on TV! Magnum TA will wrestle Mr. Ebony! Stan Hansen will take on Nelson Royal! Hacksaw Jim Duggan is scheduled to defend his TV Title against the rugged challenge of the Mantell Corporation’s Jumbo Tsuruta! North American Champion Michael Hayes will be here in a non-title match and I’ll try to get Freebird Buddy Roberts’ thoughts on the North American Title match between his brothers and see if he is taking sides!
WATTS: By next week, Grizzly Smith and I should have the Superdome Summer Spectacular card finalized and I hope to be able to announce the complete lineup of matches!
ROSS: Great news, Bill! Be sure not to miss next week’s program, folks!
Working on it now.