NWA Lutte Internationale TV LIVE!
Kitchener, ON
February 8th, 1986
(After the opening credits, we join Guy Hauray & Édouard Carpentier at their broadcast booth to start the show)
Guy Hauray: Good evening and welcome to NWA Lutte Internationale LIVE! We come to you from Kitchener, Ontario and we have quite the night for you in store, including the NWA World Heavyweight Championship match between Rick Martel and NWA Canadian International Tag Team Champion Mad Dog Vachon. As well as the Falls Count Anywhere Match featuring the Fantastics and the team of Richard Charland & King Tonga
Édouard Carpentier: Both matches will certainly be interesting. We also specify that with this new format, every championship match in Lutte Internationale have a 60-minute time limit. We’ll see if Mad Dog Vachon will have recovered from his very quick loss to the new NWA National Heavyweight Champion Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy!
Guy Hauray: And speaking of which, we have indeed our inaugural National Heavyweight Champion Terry Gordy and here he comes along with his fellow Fabulous Freebirds.
(Badstreet hits on the PA system and out comes all 3 Fabulous Freebirds. Gordy proudly wears the National Heavyweight Championship over his shoulder as both Michael Hayes and Buddy Roberts saunter their way to the booth.)
Guy Hauray: First and foremost, congratulations Terry on becoming the inaugural NWA National Heavyweight Champion with a spectacular victory over Armand Rougeau – as well as a spectacular first title defense last night against Mad Dog Vachon in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Terry Gordy: You know, sir, when the Freebirds tell you something, you can take it to the bank. I guaranteed all of you that I would win the National Heavyweight Championship in Atlanta in our backyard and that’s exactly what I did. I also promised that I would come here and destroy the competition and I started last night by beating Mad Dog Vachon almost as quickly as I did with the weaker Rougeau. So you can still bet that this title isn’t going anywhere.
Michael Hayes: You damn right, brother! We said last week that we were going to take Lutte Internationale for a wild ride and by golly, we have already started. Now, there has been some rumors that we heard about and I know that Bruno Sammartino is around here somewhere and I’d like to speak to him.
Guy Hauray: Well, I don’t know if....well, wait a minute, here he comes!
(Almost on cue, NWA Board of Directors Enforcers Bruno Sammartino comes out and joins the gang at the broadcast booth)
Michael Hayes: Thank you, sir, for coming out here but there is something that Buddy Jack and I need to know and you might be able to shed some light on things.
Bruno Sammartino: What do you want, Hayes? I’m busy, I got no time to fool around.
Michael Hayes: Look....There are some rumblings around the NWA that there might be a tournament to also crown National Tag Team Champions. Can you confirm that fact for Buddy Jack and I?
Bruno Sammatino: Well, actually, yes, I can, I just got off the phone with Bill Watts and he wanted to ask me to send some teams to compete in that tournament. But...
Michael Hayes: Alright, Buddy and I want in that tournament.
Bruno Sammartino: Well, to be honest, that would be Fritz Von Erich’s call, not mine.
Michael Hayes: C’mon Bruno, we both know that Fritz wants no part of us in that tournament if he’s sending his boys in it. Look, I’m ready to do anything to get Buddy and I in the tournament.
Bruno Sammartino: ...did you just say anything?
Michael Hayes: Damn right I said, are you getting deaf, Bruno? I said anything. And I’ll do anything to get a shot at that tournament.
Bruno Sammartino: Well, fair enough, Michael. If you say yes to what I’m gonna offer you, I’ll give you a shot you and Buddy Roberts to enter the National Tag Team title tournament.
Michael Hayes: YES! Hahahaha, Buddy...
Bruno Sammartino: So, it is official, you and Buddy will have their shot at entering the tournament if tomorrow night, they can win their Ladder Match against The Great Samu & Prince Alofa Fatu in Calgary! And in a preview of this match, tonight, Buddy Roberts will take on The Great Samu!
Michael Hayes: And we’ll get that damn contract and we’ll win the whole thing. And the Andersons better get ready because this time, we’re bringing back the NWA World Tag Team Titles home! C’mon Terry, let’s get you ready for your next title defense.
Bruno Sammartino: Well, it’s a good thing, that Terry is willing to be focused on his next title defense but if I were him, I wouldn’t share strategies with you.
Michael Hayes: What do you mean by that?
Bruno Sammartino: Because Terry Gordy will indeed defend his National Heavyweight Championship tonight. But he will do it against.....you, Michael Hayes!
(The Fabulous Freebirds are livid at this announcement! Bruno leaves the set and the Freebirds chase him, trying to reason with him!)
Guy Hauray: It seems like Bruno Sammartino has roped the Fabulous Freebirds into getting them in an unwanted match tonight!
Édouard Carpentier: Bruno is a savvy individual, Guy. He knew that Michael Hayes would be willing to do anything to be involved in the National Tag Team Championship tournament so he pulled a fast one on him!
Guy Hauray: We should have more information on this tournament as well as who will represent Lutte Internationale in this tournament in the upcoming weeks. But first we have for our opener a very special attraction, featuring talents from Mid-Atlantic and the UWF going at it one-on-one!
Match #1
Pedro Morales beat Wahoo McDaniel in 23:15 with the Caribbean Cannonball. Postmatch, both veterans shook hands.
Match #2
The Botswana Beast (w/Eddy “The Brain” Creatchman) beat “Mr. Electricity” Steve Regal in 16:29 with a splash
(After the match, Eddy Creatchman heads to the commentary booth for an interview)
Édouard Carpentier: Eddy, for weeks you’ve promised a new monster to join your Creatchman Family. Can we finally see that man?
Eddy Creatchman: Patience is a virtue, Mr. Carpentier, but the wait is gonna end soon. I promised a new member to my Creatchman Family and he will be on this program, next week!
Édouard Carpentier: Next week? Really?
Eddy Creatchman: Yes, sir, my new monster will be on this program next week and no one is safe. Absolutely no one. Not even you, gentlemen. But fear not, I’ll make sure he doesn’t come too close to you. But I can’t make the same promise to the rest of the locker room!
(The Brain retreats with Botswana Beast as Édouard Carpentier joins Guy Hauray back at the booth.)
Édouard Carpentier: I’ll tell you what, Guy, I don’t know if we should tell the good people of Saint-Ambroise next week to lock their doors and stay away because this could get ugly in a hurry.
Guy Hauray: Indeed, Saint-Ambroise is our location next week as we return home in La Belle Province and we should see some fantastic action there, not mentioning the impending arrival of Eddy Creatchman’s newest acquisition. Until then, we still have more action as after the break, Terry Gordy must defend the National Heavyweight Championship against Michael PS Hayes!
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Match #3
NWA National Heavyweight Championship
Terry Gordy beat Michael PS Hayes in 12:38 to retain with a roll-up. Some dissension was teased after the match by both men as Buddy Roberts ran in to separate the two. But eventually, we got a group hug instead of a fist fight and Buddy Roberts challenged The Great Samu to come out right now to start their match!
Match #4
The Great Samu (w/Floyd Creatchman) beat Buddy Roberts (w/Michael Hayes & Terry Gordy) in 10:45 with a top rope splash. Postmatch, Michael Hayes attacked Samu until Prince Alofa Fatu ran in to save his partner. A showdown previewing tomorrow night’s Ladder Match in Calgary to see who will earn their ticket for the National Tag Team Championship tournament!
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Match #5
Falls Count Anywhere Match
Richard Charland & King Tonga beat The Fantastics in 14:13 after Tonga piledrove Bobby Fulton head first on the broadcast booth’s table!
(After the match, the broadcast booth receives word that they got a live feed from a hotel room somewhere in Texas with Stud Stable members Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden. Robert is on the phone with his brother Ron, who’s currently touring with Lutte.)
Robert Fuller: Yeah, Ron....I was able to watch that tag match. That King Tonga is one bad ass...Yeah, raise some hell, my brother. We’ll get in touch in Dallas early this week.
(Robert hangs up)
Jimmy Golden: Just spitballing here, Robert but I know that this King Tonga is one tough dude but c’mon, I think you could take him on.
Robert Fuller: Yeah, maybe but that’s still impressive.
Jimmy Golden: Don’t sell yourself short, cuz. With all the bar fights we’ve been in.... I mean, remember that one in Knoxville with the two hicks who thought we were getting their whiskey? We kicked their asses that night!
Robert Fuller: Hell, that was one bar fight to remember. Or about that one in Houston with that guy who thought you squeezed his girl’s ass and you knocked him out cold with that beer bottle.
Jimmy Golden: Ha! Yeah, it’s a bit surprising that they still allow her in Texas after that one...But, seriously, I think we should test that King Tonga dude. Let’s just go over there and see how tough he is.
Robert Fuller: You know what? Maybe we should. I’m gonna call Bruno Sammartino down there and see if he can have something arranged for us. Hell, I wanna show up next week and see if King Tonga can handle me in a street fight.
Jimmy Golden: There you go, Bobby! That’s the cousin I know and love. Hey...just make sure, you leave some for me. I hear that Edmonton is a real nice place, even though we’ll probably freeze to death.
Robert Fuller: Meh, we’ll just get more booze and we’ll be fine. I’ll call Sammartino right now.
(The feed ends abruptly)
Guy Hauray: So, the Stud Stable wants to test King Tonga? Are they drunk?
Édouard Carpentier: Probably not but they’re not lacking any confidence. Who in their right mind want to face King Tonga just for fun, let alone in a no DQ environment?
Guy Hauray: I guess we’ll see in relatively short order what the Stud Stable has planned. I’m told that as we speak, Bruno Sammartino & Frank Valois are on the phone with both Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden so we’ll keep you posted until next weekend. After the commercial break, it’ll be time for our main event!
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MAIN EVENT
Match #6
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
Rick Martel beat NWA Canadian International Tag Team Champion Mad Dog Vachon in 58:17 with an inside cradle to retain. The match had barely ended that The Fabulous Freebirds hit the ring and attack Martel! They all stomp on Martel, who can barely defend himself because of the exhaustion. Roberts & Hayes hold up Martel and Terry Gordy hit Martel with a stiff Lariat! Terry Gordy picks up the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and poses with it until the Rougeau Brothers hit the ring. Raymond Rougeau is able to take a swing at Gordy, before he left the ring. This week’s show ends with a staredown between Terry Gordy and Raymond Rougeau, while Jacques Rougeau tends at Rick Martel.
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