WWF Wrestling Challenge
Gorilla Monsoon & Bobby The Brain Heenan in studio
Matches from Hershey, PA – Hershypark Arena
-Wrestling Challenge opens this week with footage from the special MSG event in which Hulk Hogan defeated Ted Dibiase to become the WWF Heavyweight Champion!
Gorilla: Welcome everyone to Wrestling Challenge! I am Gorilla Monsoon alongside Bobby the Brain Heenan… Brain how about it, we have a new WWF Champion.
Heenan: I don’t think so Monsoon…
Gorilla: What are you talking about? The Hulkster won the title in Madison square Garden!
Heenan: He won a title but he isn’t my WWF Champion…
Gorilla: You are off your rocker again. Fans, Hulkamania is alive and well and we will hear from the champion including a special look at his celebration this past week when he won the title. Also here today on Challenge, we will take a look at one of the premiere tag teams in the WWF, the British Bulldogs! Let’s take it to the ring!
The British Bulldogs defeated Johnny & Victor Rivera
-A great showcase for the Bulldogs. Davey Boy and Dynamite are in great shape. Gorilla puts them over as a team that may have a shot tonight in Boston to earn a title match tomorrow in Hollywood. Bobby puts over how they may be the reason that Sgt. Slaughter loses his career next week in Philly. We see the power slam to the diving head butt for the 1…2…3!! The Bulldogs are going to be in for a big couple of weeks, how will they handle the pressure?
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EVENT CENTER
WORLD TITLE TOURNAMENT RESULTS
-8/4 in the Meadowlands
Ted Dibiase defeated Randy Savage w/ Miss Elizabeth with help from Roddy Piper. Piper and Savage then got into a nasty brawl outside the ring.
Hulk Hogan defeated Big John Studd w/ Bobby Heenan via the Axe Bomber. King Kong Bundy came out to interfere but Tony Atlas helped fight him off!
-8/5 in Madison Square Garden
Hulk Hogan defeated Ted Dibiase with the AXE Bomber to win the WWF World Heavyweight Championship!
HULK HOGAN TITLE CELEBRATION
Mean Gene: Hulk Hogan, congratulations are in order… the NEW WWF WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION!
Hulk Hogan: Well you know something Mean Gene… the world was watching as I hit Ted Dibiase with the AXE BOMBER and dropped the biggest legs in the world across his chest for the 1…2…3!
Mean Gene: Wait just a moment… Andre the Giant! Welcome in here!
Andre The Giant: I came in here to tell you Hulk Hogan…. Congratulations! You are a true champion!
Hulk Hogan: You brother are the true champion. This man right here is my inspiration, my best friend till the end. You ever need someone to help you brother, you call on the Hulkster! Now I have got a bone to pick with one man… and that is Bobby the Brain Heenan. You wanna come out here and talk about your family dude… well I am going to go through each one of them and then brother, I am going to call out that big, bad, and ugly Killer Khan… and don’t think I forgot about you Masked Superstar. There is a long list of challengers and let me tell you something… to every man who wants a piece of the Hulkster… WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN I RIDE THIS HULKAMANIA TITLE WAVE RIGHT THROUGH YOU!!!!
TONIGHT’S EVENT IN BOSTON
-Mean Gene puts over the big ten team invitational tonight in the Boston Garden. Ten teams will be drawn at random to face off then all the teams will go into a ten team, twenty man tag team battle royal. The team that is the last standing will go on to face the tag team champions tomorrow night in Hollywood, Florida. Other matches include a special World Tag Team Title match with the Briscoes taking on Bob Orton & Dick Slater but there will be a SPECIAL RING ENFORCER to make sure the action is called right down the line. Plus the Main Event will be Hulk Hogan defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Hercules Hernandez!
CAREER VS MANAGER LICENSE
-Mean Gene puts over the big six-man tag team match in Philadelphia next week. He talks about the rules of an Elimination Cage match in which the first team to full escape the cage is the winner. The price of the victor is so much so that if Sgt. Slaughter’s team wins, Lord Alfred loses his manager’s license… of Lord Alfred’s team wins… then Sgt. Slaughter must retire!
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-WC is back with Gorilla poking fun at Bobby Heenan for Hulk Hogan calling him out. Heenan puts over how he has got Hercules set up to take that title from Hogan tonight. Gorilla says that Hercules is a great challenger, but he will fall to the hands of the Hulkster. They put over the team of Hogan and Andre and talk about next week in Philadelphia and the big tag team match. Heenan continues to put over Hercules as we head to the ring.
Hercules w/ Bobby Heenan defeated SD Jones
-Gorilla is all by his lonesome here as he puts over Hercules as a big challenger. Hercules handles SD with little to no problem as he breaks him down and then locks in the Full Nelson as SD is out of it. Hercules flexes for the camera and he is ready for the Hulkster tonight!
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-WC is back with Gorilla and Bobby talking about the issue with Sgt. Slaughter and Lord Alfred Hayes. They talk about the big showdown in Philly and the six-man cage match. They talk about how both men have so much to lose and Heenan says he can’t believe that Sgt. Slaughter… an American is going to trust two Brits to keep his career going. Gorilla says the Bulldogs are some of the best and he’d want them in his corner if he could… we have Killer Khan in action, let’s head to the ring.
Killer Khan w/ Lord Alfred defeated Barry Horowitz
-A very vicious contest with Khan looking indestructible. He destroys Barry and beats him within an inch of his life before nailing the Asiatic Spike for the 1…2….3! Gorilla and Bobby wonder just what Khan will do inside a steel cage with Slaughter next week in Philly!
*COMMERCIAL*
-WC is back with Gorilla and Jesse putting over the big tag team event in Boston tonight. They talk about some of the teams, Big John Studd & King Kong Bundy, Tony Atlas & Hacksaw Duggan, The British Bulldogs, The Russians, the Killer Bees, Masked Superstar & Krusher Kruschev. They talk about the tag title match and put over the special ring enforcer. They turn their attention to Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart and the Guerreros and talk about them being two favorites tonight… we head to the ring for action between the two teams from MSG this past week!
Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart vs Mando & Hector Guerrero
-A great little opener for around 11-minutes of action. Gorilla and Jesse put over Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart who have been teaming together as of late. They talk about their connection and the connection of Mando and Hector, the Guerreros. We get some very solid tag team action and smooth maneuvering but it is the strength of the Anvil that ends up being the trump card and we see him hit a NASTY powerslam on Mando for the 1….2…3! Bret and Jim work the crowd and Gorilla and Jesse talk about their hopes as a tag team and potential.
