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Universal Wrestling Federation
“Power Pro Wrestling TV”
Sunday, June 24th, 1992
Taped at the Bronco Field House in Edmond, Oklahoma
UWF President Cowboy Bill Watts welcomes us to the show and says there isn't an opening video this week because he'd like to spend that time talking about one of Oklahoma City's big matches – Gary Albright vs. “Dr. Death” Steve Williams.
Watts being a fan of amateur wrestling cannot be more excited about this match. He talks about Gary Albright's extensive career in amateur wrestling including being a Montana State Champion in 1980, a Big 8 Champion and All-American, a United States team member for 4 years, and a National Open Freestyle Champion in 1982. Here in the Mid-South area, credentials like that turn heads. He talks about Albright's time in the UWFi promotion in Japan where he's been highly touted as a dangerous suplex machine, knocking out opponents with his nasty German suplex.
The Cowboy says that “Dr. Death” Steve Williams needs no introduction to the Mid-South fans. In college Williams was a very accomplished in football and wrestling becoming an All-American in both and making it to the NCAA Championship in wrestling. Putting all that aside, “Dr. Death” has shown to be one of toughest and most versatile men in the sport of professional wrestling as well as a former UWF Heavyweight Champion. Watts says that he has never seen someone with the type of injury that Williams has, WANT to come back after a couple weeks. He hypes up their battle next Sunday night in Oklahoma City as a brutal affair that no one will want to miss.
Jim Ross chimes in to welcome everyone to another exciting episode of “Power Pro Wrestling.” He cannot do a better introduction then Watts so instead he runs down the card for tonight:
Bob and Brad Armstrong will be in tag team action!
“Dr. Death” Steve Williams makes his return against the Masked Assassin!
After secluding himself and training heavily for the last week, Jim Duggan will be in action!
And the television main event needs no introduction and needs no hype – Big Van Vader battles the Junkyard Dog for Mid-South supremacy!
The camera pans to the announce booth where there is a giant wooden crate behind the booth just to the right of the entrance way. Ross notes that the wooden crate arrived earlier today for Michael Hayes and is not to be opened until next week. The ring crew tried to open it themselves but it appears to ONLY open from the inside.
In other news, the situation between KTBS and the Sheepherders has come to a close. The anonymous source behind the funding of the lawsuit to put the Herders on TV has dropped it in exchange for a managerial role here in the UWF. Bill Watts says he has no qualms with bringing this anonymous source aboard to drop this lawsuit against KTBS and he will debut in two weeks right here on “Power Pro Wrestling.” In other words, the Sheepherders are GONE from the UWF!
Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy, the Fabulous Freebirds join Watts for an interview. Hayes tells Watts that he knows this crate is a gift from Jim Cornette and Cornette must be stupider then he looks if he thinks the Freebirds are going to open it up. He tells Cornette to stop being a coward and hiding behind gimmicks like this, come out, face him like a man and bring his worst. The Birds aren't going anywhere.
Gordy cuts a passionate promo about how being a Freebird put him on the map and over the years they've dominated EVERY territory they've been in and held EVERY regional tag title but the NWA World Tag Titles have always eluded him and Hayes. He says that Rick and Scott remind him a lot of him and that's the biggest compliment he can give anyone. Gordy expects nothing less then the fight of his life but he and Hayes have been a team a lot longer and are THICKER then brothers and he knows they will be the NEW NWA World Tag Team Champions next Sunday night.
Ross sends the show to a commercial break by saying that next Sunday night, THE tag team of he '80s meets THE tag team of the '90s!
Commercial Break – Local advertisements air for this Wednesday at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion in Tulsa where an 8-Man Battle Royal will decide FOUR matches for the evening!
10 Minute Time Limit: Bob and Brad Armstrong vs. Barry Horowitz and Sir David Taylor – Father and son make an excellent tag team, making short work of Horowitz and Taylor. Unique finish as Bob clotheslines Barry while Brad hits him with a Russian led sweep. Brad floats over for the pin at 4:33.
Bob and Brad Armstrong join Bill Watts where Bob presents a video tape. Bob says this is a video tape of the New Orleans show and next week he intends on showing this to NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Jushin Liger to show Liger just what type of man “Nature Boy” Buddy Landel really is.
This statement brings out Buddy Landel, hiding behind Mr. Hughes. Landel complains that ONCE AGAIN Bob Armstrong is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. He asks Bob just who Liger is going to believe? The man who has taken him under his wing during his first few trips to the States or a man whose trying to make his son a World Champion? Bob says that Landel is weak, sad excuse for a man who prays on other people and he is not going to sit back and let Buddy take advantage of the naive Liger.
Buddy pokes his head over Hughes' shoulder and asks Bob so what if he is taking advantage of Liger? What is Bob going to do about it? Last Buddy checked it was Bob who got beaten in New Orleans. Buddy says that tape proves nothing and will accomplish EVEN less because he has Liger wrapped around his little finger.
Tensions run high and as the Armstrongs turn to leave, BUDDY LANDEL GRABS THE VIDEO TAPE AND HIGH TAILS IT OUT OF DODGE! Bob and Brad try to chase but Mr. Hughes stands in the entrance way! Bob puts his face right in Hughes' and tells him that one day real soon he is going to beat the hell out of him and get his hands on Landel.
Commercial Break - Local advertisements air for this Wednesday at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion in Tulsa where “Prime Time” Brian Lee will be apart of the 8-Man Battle Royal. Lee prays that “Dirty” Dutch Mantell is there so he can get his hands on him. Regardless, Mantell won't be able to run next Sunday night in Oklahoma City.
The Junkyard Dog is with Bill Watts coming back from the break. JYD cuts an inspirational interview about coming up from nothing and becoming one of the greatest athletes in pro wrestling because of the people. Not just any people but THESE people. The people all around the Mid-South area, the rich, the poor, black, white, men and women all got behind him and pushed him to greater heights then he could ever imagine.
He calls Big Van Vader a monster. A monster he wasn't prepared for last time but unlike ALL of his other opponents, JYD was able to stand up after their match. Vader doesn't care about JYD's friends, the other wrestlers in the locker room, the fans, and even the UWF – all he cares about is the NWA Word Heavyweight Championship. JYD isn't going to let him bulldoze the UWF, he's not going to let him represent the UWF and these people. “THIS ENDS TONIGHT, VADER!”
10 Minute Time Limit: Jim Duggan vs. Rex King – Duggan comes out looking more determined and inspired then he has since the first Vader fight. No thumbs up, no 2x4, no “Hooooo!”, no American flag, and no “USA.” He's changed his attire to a pair of regular blue jeans, belt, and work boots.
Ross mentions that since last week Jim Duggan has secluded himself to a cabin in the woods where he's been doing nothing but training for his war with Big Van Vader next Sunday night.
Rex King does not fair well. Duggan looks the best he's looked in a long time. After a devastating lariat, Duggan lifts up King and flips him in the air – POWER BOMB! POWER BOMB! WOW! ONE, TWO, THREE! Jim Duggan has won here in 3:55!
Jim Duggan has made a statement here today using Vader's own finishing move! The camera zooms in on Duggan's face where he promises to beat Vader...OR DIE TRYING!
Commercial Break - Local advertisements air for this Wednesday at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion in Tulsa where The Fabulous Freebird will warm-up for their NWA World Tag Team Championship against the Midnight Express in the main event!
While the Masked Assassin makes his entrance, Watts makes mention that he's never seen TWO empty front row seats at a UWF TV Taping. The Masked Assassin looks a lot thicker and rounder then usual, clad in his black mask and body suit.
With his arm still taped up and in a cast, “Dr. Death” Steve Williams arrives on the scene to a huge pop. He looks all business as he marches down to the ring. Once in the ring, Williams snatches the microphone and says he DOES NOT want to wait till next Sunday night to get his hands on Gary Albright. He tells Albright to get his ass out there so they can finish what they started last week.
Instead, Jim Cornette comes out! Cornette laughs at Doc and says he knows he is only Albright's manager for another week but even he isn't foolish enough to let Albright come out now. The BIG money is in next week's match, not today. The Masked Assassin makes his way towards Doc as Cornette quips that Doc should turn out...BAM! THE ASSASSIN DRILLS WILLIAMS IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH A SERIES OF FOREARMS!
GERMAN SUPLEX! OH MY GOD! STEVE WILLIAMS WAS JUST DROPPED ON HIS HEAD! THE ASSASSIN TAKES OFF HIS MASK...IT'S GARY ALBRIGHT! HE WAS PARADING AS THE MASKED ASSASSIN!
Alright stomps at the cast arm of Williams but when it won't give, he APPLIES THE CROWBAR CROSS ARM BREAKER TO DOC'S LEFT ARM! The pain snaps Doc back into reality but luckily officials are able to break up the melee!
Jim Ross sends the show to commercial while they try to figure this mess out!
Commercial Break – Next week on “Power Pro Wrestling,” just hours before the BIG show in Oklahoma City, the Midnight Express will meet the Heavenly Bodies in the TV main event!
Officials are trying to help “Dr. Death” as the show comes back to air. Holding the back of his head, Doc SHOVES officials off of him, refusing ANY help. Doc snatches a microphone and asks Albright if that was the best he had. He asks Albright what he is going to do next Sunday night when Albright can't attack him from behind. Doc says it doesn't matter if Albright breaks both of his arms or legs or anything by then, “Dr. Death” is going to find a way to KICK HIS ASS.
15 Minute Time Limit: Hacksaw Butch Reed vs. Mando Guerrero – With the extra time available, Guerrero and Reed are sent out for a standby match. Reed shows why he is one of the top wrestlers in the UWF by amply putting away Mando at 4:01 with a gorilla press slam.
Butch Reed stops by for a word with Bill Watts. Watts reveals that next Sunday night Hacksaw Butch Reed will be in singles competition against a former USWA Tag Team Champion who has been racking up quite the winning record all over the NWA – The Demolisher.
A highlight video is shown of the Demolisher, clipped to show him dominating foes such as the Bruise Brothers, Danny Davis, Marcus Bagwell, and the Fantastics. A fanatical laugh is heard as Darryl Van Horne's face appears. He says that the Demolisher just travels from territory to territory, axing, smashing, crushing and demolishing the competition. The Demolisher is coming to the UWF to continue his path of destruction, and DESTROY Hacksaw Butch Reed, in the name of the New Dawn, and in the name of Darryl Van Horne.
Reed says he backs down from no man, especially a fool wearing make up. He's seen the tape and he calls the Demolisher a dangerous man but Butch Reed wants, no NEEDS, a shot at the NWA World Heavyweight Title and it DOESN'T MATTER who he has to beat to get to it, he WILL.
Commercial Break - Local advertisements air for this Wednesday at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion in Tulsa where “Nature Boy” Buddy Landel is going to WIN the 8-Man Battle Royal...as long as his neck is healed up from the heinous attack of that banana-nosed Bob Armstrong.
The camera pans over to the TWO empty seats from earlier. They are now filled up by...”DIRTY” DUTCH MANTELL AND “DIRTY WHITE BOY” TONY ANTHONY! A lady is being forced to stand in between the seats and behind both men. Jim Ross walks over to them and asks them what they are doing here. Dutch shows his tickets and says that tonight they are just paying customers like everyone else. Even though they are suspended from TV, when they heard Vader was fighting the JunkFOOD Dog, they couldn't stay away. They DID NOT want to miss seeing the Dog getting put out to pasture...as he should for sticking his nose in the business of the DIRTY DUO. Ross tries to ask who the lady with them is but before she can answer, Tony Anthony tells her to SHUT HER MOUTH and then tells Ross that the “DIRTY WHITE GIRL” ain't none of his damn business!
Back at the announce desk, Jim Cornette leads out the mammoth Big Van Vader. Vader is huffing and puffing like the big bad ass wolf he is. Cornette repeats the accomplishments of Vader before talking about how he couldn't be here last week because he was DESTRYOING Hiroshi Hase over in Japan. He immediately jumps on the fans for being ignorant and not knowing who Hase is but lets the people know that HE IS a big deal in Japan. Cornette talks about the pile of bodies that Vader has left lying so far. It's a WHOSE WHO of pro wrestling. Vader is a mastodon, the REAL King Kong of pro wrestling, a walking wrestling machine of death and destruction. He calls Duggan absolutely crazy for picking fight AGAIN with Vader after he was lucky to survive the first one. The ONLY thing that kept Duggan from being crippled WERE the rules. This time there are NO rules. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING can stop Vader from CRIPPLING or even KILLING Duggan if he wants too. Cornette says he always knew that Duggan had more guts then brains but what he's done is SUICIDE. Big Van Vader gives NO MERCY.
20 Minute Time Limit – Television Main Event: Big Van Vader vs. The Junkyard Dog – The “Dirty Duo” hurl insults at JYD as he makes his entrance. As the bell rings Vader beats his chest and asks JYD “WHOSE THE MAN?!”
They go toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose. Vader tries to shove JYD backwards with his head but JYD doesn't budge. Instead, he shoves Vader back with his head and then NAILS him with a disgusting head butt! JYD is known for having one of the hardest heads in wrestling!
WAIT A MINUTE, “PRIME TIME” BRIAN LEE IS OUT AND HEADING TOWARDS THE DIRTY DUO! Lee is looking for a fight and Dutch Mantell stands out of his chair, LAUGHING at him! Meanwhile the Dirty White Girl can't stop staring at “Prime Time!” Mantell just keeps laughing at Lee which causes him to lose his cool and put grab Mantell by the collar! MANTELL IS JUST A FAN TODAY, LEE CAN'T DO THAT!
Dutch Mantell throws his hands up in innocence but before Lee drags him over the guardrail, TONY ANTHONY BLINDESIDES HIM WITH CUP TO THE SIDE OF THE FACE! Beer flies everywhere, going right into the eyes of Brian Lee! With Lee momentarily blinded, Mantell grabs him by the back of the head...AND SLAMS HIM FACE FIRST INTO THE GUARDRAIL! SUCH FORCE! The crack team of UWF security finally gets on the scene to break things up and Mantell is feigning innocence! Lee is helped to the back and the Dirty Duo are being ejected from the arena!
Back inside the ring, JYD is holding his own against Vader as the show goes to its LAST commercial break!
Commercial Break - Local advertisements air for this Wednesday at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion in Tulsa where Jim Cornette is going to be all too happy to watch Big Van Vader enter the 8-Man Battle Royal and eliminate the other 7 men BY HIMSELF.
Ross narrates a replay from during the commercial where JYD backs Vader into the corner and continues to beat on him with strikes.
Seeing that his head is his best weapon, JYD hits him with a jumping head butt. Vader stumbles out of the corner as JYD comes off the ropes with a ramming head butt! Vader shakes it off as JYD comes off the ropes again but this time Vader meets him head on with a ramming head butt of his own!
JYD falls down into the ropes while Vader staggers around for a couple of seconds, ALMOST falling over, but teetering into the corner instead! The hard head of JYD is paying off as he shows some FIGHTING SPIRIT with the crowd behind him, chanting “J-Y-D!”
An avalanche splash follows and Vader stumbles out of the corner. The Junkyard Dog hulks up and stomps his foot, letting the people know that the 'Big Thump' is coming up next. JYD goes for it...and...AND...ONE FOOT OF VADER COMES OFF THE MAT! JYD keeps trying and trying but Vader DRILLS him with an elbow to the back of the head! He wraps his arms around the chest of JYD and lifts him up before dropping JYD right over his knee!
Vader slaps JYD around and tells him to just stay down but JYD balls up his fists and shakes his head defiantly. Vader comes off the ropes – STIFF KNEE TO THE FACE! OH MY GOD! ELBOW STRIKE! ELBOW STRIKE! JYD is BUSTED OPEN!
BUT NO, JYD SHAKES HIS HEAD! As the blood trickles down his face, he grabs the singlet of Vader and pulls himself to his feet. JYD bounces off the ropes and lands a forearm. He balls up his fists and starts to let loose on Vader. RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT! RIGHT! RIGHT! JYD comes off the ropes looking for a big head butt BUT VADER AVALANCHES HIM! He sticks his thumb into the cut of JYD and tosses him into the corner.
Big Van Vader beats his chest before running at JYD like a locomotive. JYD tries to move out of the way BUT VADER is TOO QUICK! SQUASH! THE RING SHAKES! JYD falls out of the corner right into the arms of Vader! Vader picks him up in a bear hug and RUNS HIM RIGHT INTO THE BUCKLES! JYD's eyes fall back in his head as Vader lets go and he falls like a sack of potatoes to the mat.
Vader mockingly barks like a dog over JYD's body before ascending the second buckle. BOOM, BAM – VADER SPLASH! BUT NO, BIG VAN VADER IS HERE TO MAKE A STATEMENT. ON THE BUCKLES AGAIN – A SECOND VADER SPLASH! He just lays on JYD as Nick Patrick makes the count – ONE, TWO, THREE! Vader wins at 11:11.
Bill Watts puts over how courageous the Junkyard Dog fought and if even he can't beat Big Van Vader, then who can? Jim Cornette jumps into the ring with microphone to proclaim: “THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE NEW KING OF THE MID-SOUTH!”
© UWF, 1992
