War Memorial Auditorium
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Sunday December 19th, 1986
Bell Time: 4:00pm
Tag Team Contest
The Caribbean Connection (SD Jones/Tyree Pride) defeated The Bounty Hunters (I/II) when Pride pinned II after a Double Headbutt.
Singles Contest
Sabu w/ The Sheik & Skandor Akbar vs "Beach Boy" Allen West
A fast paced affair from the start that saw both men in control at different points. Coming down the line, Sabu looked to have things in control and was working on the back of West setting up the Camel Clutch. Sabu went to the top for the Legdrop, but "Beach Boy" rolled out of the way at the last minute causing Sabu to crash and burn. Both men were slow to their feet, but Sabu was first to recover and charged West who caught him in a Belly to Belly Suplex and pinned him for the One, Two, Three! The fans went crazy and West rolled quickly out of the ring to celebrate with them. As soon as the count came down, Akbar threw up his hands in disgust and walked away from ringside.
Singles Contest
"Luscious" Lanny Poffo w/ Woman & Man beat Tom Zenk with a roll up and a handful of tights.
Singles Contest
Texas Red vs The Spoiler
Even after getting slapped in the face, Red was still hesitant to fight his mentor. Spoiler has no such reservations and laid into his protege with hard rights and lefts and anything else he could think of. For several minutes Red fought only defensively, until finally Spoiler pie faced him to the mat and audibly yelled "Fight me you big red sissy" which seemed to light a fire in the lanky Texan. Red came back with a vengeance beating Spoiler from pillar to post until the masked man used a kick to the groin to halt the momentum of Red. Spoiler raised his gloved hand into the air calling for the Claw, but as he went to apply it, Red caught his wrist and jerked his arm back behind his head in position for the Heart Punch. He drew his other fist back, but hesitated and shook his head...until Spoiler yelled out "Do it you Son of a Bitch!" Red glared at Spoiler for just a moment and mouthed something to him, before plowing his fist into the chest of his mentor, sending him collapsing to the canvas. Texas Red didn't even bother to cover The Spoiler, he simply walked to a corner as the referee checked on the masked man and declared him unable to continue. Red raised his fist into the air and left the ring, passing the gurney in the aisle.
Singles Contest
"Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal and Kazaharu w/Skandor Akbar wrestled to a Time Limit Draw in 20 Minutes
-INTERMISSION-
Six Man Tag Team Contest
The Cartel ("El Jefe" Jose Estrada, Fidel Sierra, Ricky Santana) vs "Chief" Joe Lightfoot, Cocoa Samoa, ???
The Cartel were already in the ring when Lightfoot and Samoa made their entrance. Samoa took the microphone and repeated what he said on television that since The Cartel took out Sivi Afi, he had to call his little cousin to come in and take his place. "El Jefe" and the boys seemed to be having a good laugh at Samoa and his little cousin, until Cocoa introduced the 6'4", 375lb Kokina as their partner. The laughing was quickly replaced with looks of concern after that.
This started as a heated but fairly normal tag team affair with Samoa and Lightfoot squaring off against all three Cartel guys, but the whole atmosphere changed when big Kokina finally tagged in. He tossed Ricky around like he was nothing, then the larger Fidel came in and didn't fair a whole lot better. Finally Estrada came into the ring, and instead of getting physical offered Kokina a crisp, clean one hundred dollar bill. The big man happily accepted it, and then began to eat it much to the horror of Estrada and the delight of the crowd. Estrada then charged at Kokina and ate a giant headbutt for his trouble.
Finally all three members of The Cartel decided to try at once, which brought Lightfoot and Samoa into the ring. Soon a donnybrook had erupted and it didn't take long for the referee to throw the whole thing out. The brawl continued, and that is when things took a bad turn. In the melee, Estrada got knocked out of the ring early, and then somehow the ensuing brawl saw both of the other Cartel members and both Samoans fight out of the ring. This left Joe Lightfoot alone in the ring watching them brawl on the floor, and he failed to see "El Jefe" sneak into the ring behind him!
Estrada was clutching what looked to be a screwdriver that he must have gotten from under the ring in his hand as he snuck up on Lightfoot. The crowd was screaming and pointing which caused Lightfoot to turn around, and when he did "El Jefe" went for the eye again and Lightfoot collapsed to the mat, clutching his eye and screaming out in pain. Estrada quickly escaped as Cocoa Samoa and Kokina headed back for the ring, and The Cartel regrouped and headed for the back. A steady stream of blood could be seen coming from between the fingers of Lightfoot as he clutched his face, and for the second time tonight, medical personnel were quickly headed to ringside.
Loser Leaves Town Match
"Hollywood" John Tatum w/Dark Journey vs Steve Keirn
Tatum was extra obnoxious tonight, strutting and stalling and mouthing off to the crowd. The cheers for Keirn were deafening, which made Tatum put on his pouty face, and have Dark Journey cover his ears. Finally when the match got under way, Keirn took it to Tatum much to the delight of the Fort Lauderdale crowd. Tatum was tossed around the ring by Keirn, and bailed out to the floor several times, only to get the same treatment when he returned to the ring. Keirn definitely seemed to have his number to the point that Tatum attempted to walk out for the Count Out, only to be reminded of the Loser Leaves Town stipulation which sent him running back down to the ring just in the nick of time!
Tatum finally managed to take control with a rake of the eyes and was able to work over Keirn for a bit, but Steve didn't stay down for long and began firing back with lefts and rights that had "Hollywood" rocking. Keirn shot Tatum into the rope, and hooked him in the Sleeper Hold on the rebound which had the crowd going crazy. Tatum looked to be just about out of it when Dark Journey got up on the apron and distracted the referee. With the referees attention turned, Tatum kicked his leg backwards and caught Keirn in the groin, which got him to release the hold. A groggy Tatum fired off the California Kick directly into the chin of Keirn who was holding his groin and caught him hard underneath the chin. Keirn went down, Tatum collapsed on top of him, Dark Journey dropped down off the apron, and the referee turned around and counted the One, Two, Three as the crowd sat in shocked silence!
Florida Tag Team Title Match
Good & Plenty (Ray Candy/Skip Young) beat The Fabulous Blondes (Chick Donovan/Rip Rogers) when Candy pinned Rogers following the Tootsie Roll to retain the Florida Tag Team Titles.
Florida Heavyweight Title Match (Bob Backlund has agreed to leave CWF if he loses)
Hercules Hernandez w/Skandor Akbar vs Bob Backlund
Backlund started this match rationally and controlled Hercules with pure wrestling in the opening minutes. Hercules was able to take over after powering out of a Backlund waistlock, and began using his brute strength to beat Backlund down for several minutes, attacking his back with hammer blows and forearms. Hernandez made a mistake and went for his Torture Backbreaker far too early, which allowed Backlund to slip out and hit his classic Atomic Drop which sent Hercules sailing out of the ring. It was here that the whole tempo of the match changed as Backlund followed Hercules to the floor, and Skandor Akbar attempted to interfere. Backlund snapped and laid Akbar out with a headbutt that left the General with a trickle of blood running from between his eyes. Backlund then tossed Hercules back into the ring and attacked him with a renewed ferocity, mauling the left of arm of Hercules with elbow drops, stomps, and anything else he could think to do to it. Finally Backlund called for the Crossface Chicken Wing, and he underhooked the left arm of Hercules, and tried to wrap the right arm around his huge neck, but Hercules struggled the best he could, and between the sheer size of his chest and arms and the amount of struggling, Backlund was unable to hook the hold. So instead Bob grabbed Hercules around the waist, ran him into the ropes and dropped back for his patented O'Connor Roll. Much to the surprise of Backlund, Hercules sat down with all of his weight, halting the momentum and pinning Backlund's shoulders to the mat, and the referee counted One, Two, Three!!
WINNER, and STILLLL... FLORIDA HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION..... HERCULES HERNANDEZ!!
Hercules quickly exiting the ring, clutching the championship belt with his right arm, and was followed out by Akbar who was holding his bleeding head. In the ring Backlund was sitting in the center of the ring absolutely stunned. After a few moments of this, he locks eyes with the referee and begins yelling at him. Backlund gets quickly to his feet as the referee makes a hasty retreat out of the ring and begins heading up the aisle. Backlund is locked in on his target though and chases the referee up the aisle!
The referee makes it through the curtain and out of sight, and just as Backlund reaches the curtain, Man comes out from behind the curtain and levels him with a big clothesline. Just a few steps behind him comes "Luscious" Lanny Poffo who moves around behind Backlund who is already trying to struggle to his feet. As soon as he reaches a standing position, Poffo locks Backlund in the Crossface Chicken Wing and drags him to the ground. Security attempts to intervene but the 6'5", 300lb Man holds them all at a bay until Poffo has apparently made his point. Lanny releases the hold, gets to his feet and brushes himself off, then follows Man behind the curtain as he parts the security like the Red Sea. The security personnel are joined by medical as they help Backlund out of the arena, and out of CWF.
Tag Team Cage Match (Losing Team May No Longer Be Partners)
The Highwaymen (Bobby Duncum/Phil Hickerson) vs The Glamour Boys (Steve Doll/Steve Simpson)
As soon as the cage door closed, the war was on, and this time The Glamour Boys were the aggressors. Doll and Simpson were all over Duncum and Hickerson just blasting them with punches and kicks and forgetting any semblance of actual wrestling. Simpson drew first blood, grinding the face of Hickerson into the cage and then scraping it back and forth across the mesh before tossing him hard to the canvas. When Hickerson got back to his feet, he was pouring like a faucet. While he was down that allowed The Glamour Boys to double team Duncum, and they ran him from one side of the cage to the other smashing his face into the cage on one side, the back across to taste the steel on the other side. It wasn't long before the big cowboy joined his partner in wearing the crimson mask.
The tide would start to turn when Doll had Hickeron in the corner and was up on the turnbuckle drilling punches into his face. The crowd was counting along, but at 6, Hickerson got out from underneath Doll and stiff armed him in the crotch. Hickerson then climbed up onto the ropes with Doll and began to slam his face into the cage! Meanwhile Simpson was still taking it to Duncum across the cage, but when he saw his partner in trouble he left Duncum to go and help. While he managed to pull Hickerson down off the ropes, it was too late as Doll ended up busted open too. This also allowed Duncum enough time to recover and he blasted Simpson with a big lariat when Simpson came back after him.
The Highwaymen then took control of the match, as Hickeron made Simpson pay for earlier as he began grinding his face into the cage unmercifully and soon Simpson made it so all four men were bleeding. Duncum meanwhile went to work on the neck of Steve Doll, driving elbows into his neck and dropping knees on it while he was face down on the canvas. A swinging neckbreaker inflicted even more damage, and then Duncum ran him into the cage top of the head first jamming the neck even further. With Doll down, The Highwaymen shot Simpson into the ropes and gave him a huge double flapjack into the cage that drew an audible gasp from the crowd! With Simpson now incapacitated, they decided to go for the kill and set Doll up for the Spike Piledriver! Hickerson went up on the ropes, while Duncum got him into position and, WHAM... Spike Piledriver!! Both Highwaymen took a moment to posture for the booing crowd, then Hickerson covered Doll for the One, Two, Thr... KICK OUT!!!
Hickerson and Duncum were beside themselves and yanked Doll up by the hair. Hickerson slapped him in the face several times then shoved him back into the arms of Duncum who once again got him into position for a piledriver. Hickerson climbed up onto the second rope, and Steve Simpson came flying from out of nowhere and plowed into Hickerson who sailed over the ropes and crashed hard into the cage. A stunned Bobby Duncum stood holding Doll for the piledriver, and Simpson came to his feet and hit a dropkick between the legs of Doll to the face of Duncum!
Simpson helped his partner to his feet as the Fort Lauderdale crowd was going insane for The Glamour Boys. Bobby Duncum was the first to his feet, and The Glamour Boys put him down with a Double Dropkick. Then Phil Hickerson was pulling himself up using the cage, still in between the ropes and the cage. Doll and Simpson ran at him in tandem and nailed him with a running Double Dropkick that sent him face first into the cage, ricocheted him back into the ropes and propelled him back into the cage again before he collapsed to the mat in a heap.
The Glamour Boys then turned their attention back to Bobby Duncum who was starting to get back to his feet. Doll pointed to Simpson who nodded his head and went to one turnbuckle. Doll ran across the ring to the turnbuckle closest to Duncum and quickly climbed it. When Duncum got back to his feet, Doll leapt off and caught him with a Flying Dropkick that caught him directly in the face and sent him back down. Steve Simpson then raised his arms in the air to hit the second half of "Glam, Slam, Thank You Ma'am" but Doll shook his finger at him, then made the motion of pointing upwards. Simpson turned around and looked from the top turnbuckle to the top of the cage and the crowd exploded. Steve Simpson turned around on the buckle and scaled to the top of the cage as the crowd got even louder. Once on top he shakily got to his feet, flashed the heavy metal sign of the horns hand gesture, and dove onto the prone form of Bobby Duncum!!!
Simpson landed with such momentum that be bounced off of Duncum, and rolled over clutching his ribs. Doll quickly covered Duncum and the astonished referee quickly closed his hanging jaw and counted the One, Two, Three!! The crowd exploded and Doll jumped off of Duncum pumping his fists, he helped Simpson to his feet and The Glamour Boys shared a quick embrace before having their arms raised triumphantly into the air!!
A couple of minutes later
Phil Hickerson wipes the blood from his face and stares for a moment at the fallen Bobby Duncum. With a disgusted shake of his head he limps to the door of the cage, exits, and heads for the back, leaving his now former partner behind. Steve Doll and Steve Simpson who had climbed on to the cage to celebrate come down and pull Duncum to his feet, for a moment Bobby looks ready to fight both of them, but then he sticks his hand out to Doll who shakes it, then to Simpson who also shakes it. Duncum says something to the two Glamour Boys who both nod and clap Duncum on the back before heading out of the cage.
Bobby Duncum stands bleeding in the center of the ring looking out at the crowd and after a bit "Highwayman" by The Highwaymen replaces "Cum on Feel the Noize" on the PA System. Duncum nods his head as if coming to grips with something and sits down in the center of the ring and begins removing his cowboy boots. He leaves them sitting in the center of the ring and heads for the exit of the cage, turning back and looking for just a moment as he gets to the door. The fans in the War Memorial have realized that they are seeing something special at this point and have begun clapping for the man they were heartily booing just minutes earlier. Duncum waves to them as he heads up the aisle for the last time.
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