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    Downtown Bruno is out with his ‘Dream Team, the USWA tag team champions, ‘Primetime’ Brian Lee and Don ‘The Stomper’ Harris. Dave Brown says that Jeff Jarrett will have a mystery partner to take on the champions, but Bruno thinks this partner is non-existent, that no-one actually wants to be his partner and that is why he hasn’t named them. He says that his team have only been back in the USWA for a little over two weeks and they’re already the tag team champions of the world. This team can’t be beaten, they’re the ‘Dream Team’! Dave then says it was only three weeks ago he was talking about the ‘Wild Things’ the same way and saying that they were the greatest team he ever saw. Bruno replies that even geniuses like him make a mistake once in a while! Gaylord, looking camp as they come with his hands on his hips, has a look of shock and disgruntlement on his face whilst he is saying this. He says that Scott Braddock was a loser so he fired him, but kept Jeff Gaylord along as he thinks he won’t be such a disappointment. He’s used to only managing winners and champions though, so in that respect, Gaylord is a bit of a disappointment at the moment! If he can follow his guidance and years of experience, then maybe he can be somebody, but he’s losing too many matches and it’s costing him money! Gaylord has some funny old facials, but I think he’s trying to convey anger and that he’s fuming on hearing this from Bruno. He’s heard enough though, lifts Bruno up off his feet and throws him to the floor, blaming him for him losing all those matches. He then says something unintelligible to Harris and Lee before shoving them, Gaylord gets in the ring for his match with Don Kelly, but he’s jumping around in there like some sort of maniac. The match doesn’t go long before Gaylord is jumped by Lee and Harris. ‘Primetime’ clocks him in the head with a chair twice busting him open and Bruno is even getting involved in the beat down. The Dream Team hold Gaylord and Bruno repeatedly slaps him before kicking him in the groin between his legs! Lee with more chair shots to the back and Gaylord is left bloodied in the ring with Bruno saying that you don’t mess with the Dream Team, and you don’t mess with the living legend Downtown Bruno (although Bruno seems a little tired from his exertions in the attack!) Back from a commercial break and Eddie Marlin and a bloodied and bandaged Gaylord are with Dave. Marlin has made a call of Jeff Jarrett on Gaylord’s behalf, explained what just happened here and that he wants to be his partner for the tag match. Jeff agreed and he’ll now be teaming with Jeff Gaylord to face Downtown Bruno’s ‘Dream Team’. A raging and eyes bulging Gaylord cuts a laughable promo on them and says how they didn’t finish what they started and the three of them will be the ones who are finished when he gets hold of them. He throws down a chair and then storms off in anger. This was good for all the wrong reasons. Gaylord really should have attended some acting classes whilst going to wrestling school (if he ever went that is!).
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    Bill Dundee says that Tony Anthony may think he’s got one over on ‘The Superstar’ because Tessa can’t come to ringside any more, but it’s time to get payback in this ‘hospital elimination match’ this week and he’s going to get busted open, compliments of him! Jerry Lawler explains the rules of the match and that someone is only eliminated when they’re busted open, not until then. It doesn’t matter if you pin somebody, piledrive them and break their neck, they stay until they get busted and are bleeding, then they’re eliminated. When a man is eliminated that leaves his partner to go it alone until he gets the same treatment. He then tells the Dirty White Gilr is she interferes in the match or if she has any hidden objects, he’ll slap her too! Pretty similar interview to the one on 8/25 when Lawler explained the rules for the six-man hospital elimination tag. I think that Lawler is second to only Cornette when it comes to making sense and explaining match stipulations like this.
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    Last minute or so and Hennig is browbeating Kerry in the corner telling him he’s ‘in there with Mr Perfect, the Intercontinental champion’. A couple of punches have no effect and Kerry grabs his legs and catapults him into the corner. He flies over the turnbuckle and bumps his head on the ring post, Iron claw, discus punch and we have a new Intercontinental champion. Perfect like a trooper is still selling the discus punch after the match, staggering around at ringside while ‘The Brain’ is arguing with the referee. Gene Okerlund had planned to speak to Sapphire, she arrived at the Spectrum earlier in the day with Dusty Rhodes but for some reason she’s not available. He is interrupted by an irate Bobby Heenan who claims that was the worst officiating he’s ever seen in his life! There was no justice in there and the Texas Tornado broke every rule from the moment the bell rang until the match was over. Okerlund tells him not to cry and ‘The Brain’ almost grabs him and tells him to get off his case or he’ll knock him out! Perfect says that Kerry Von Erich came from under everyone and took the Intercontinental championship, but he will be back to reclaim what rightfully belongs to the family. Heenan continues to work himself into a frenzy complaining about the officiating, and that the referee can’t count, while Perfect again tells him that he’ll be back. Huge pop for Kerry winning and I liked Curt’s wobbly legged selling of the claw. You knew he was going to bump for that discus punch too! Fantastic post-match interview with ‘The Brain’ losing it and almost clocking Okerlund. Again, remember where Kerry was just over a month ago!
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    Sean Mooney is backstage and he says that the Million Dollar Man is in his private suite, but has just noticed that his limousine has pulled up and expects them any minute. Virgil comes out followed by Ted Dibiase with Sapphire. Mooney tries to find out what’s going on with Sapphire and what she’s doing with him. Dibiase tells him to take a long hard look and learn the lesson that there is nothing that money can’t buy! The then camera cuts to Dusty Rhodes running back up the aisle after his loss to Randy Savage. He gets to where the limousine is but Virgil sees him coming, hops in and they drive off with the Dream chasing after them.
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    End of a Jarrett squash and Akhbar is carried down to ringside on a stretcher by Gary Young, John Tatum and Rod Price. Craig Johnson explains that he was carried out of the arena on a stretcher last night, and the three of them place him on the announcer’s desk and gently sit him up before he takes a seat. Jarrett steps out of the ring to see what’s going on and Akhbar wonders if this is the American way? He says that Jeff Jarrett tried to put him out of wrestling, he can’t walk and wonders if all the people watching want their children to grow up like this heathen? Obviously they do judging by the loud cheer from the Sportatorium crowd! He tells Jeff that he and Jerry Lawler should be real proud of themselves, and Jarrett says that he is, and he deserved it after everything he’s done to the people around here. Akhbar tells him that he’s got something to say to him, stands up out of his chair and throws fire at Jarrett. Johnson goes over with a towel to tend to Jeff and the General casually gets back on his stretcher! Billy Joe Travis is out (he’s not taking his time today like the other week), and the three of them carry Akhbar back out on the stretcher while he shouts ‘Devastation! Devastation! Devastation!’ I’m on my own here I think. The throwing of the fire looked bad as it seemed to take an age, and from the moment Akhbar stood up I was waiting for it (even though I’d never seen this before). I said previously that Akhbar is the one person in Dallas I struggle to get into, and imagine I would have enjoyed this a whole lot more if it was say Percy Pringle in that position instead. The way that he got back on the stretcher after throwing the fire was the highlight for me. Disappointed to see John Tatum reduced to someone who is having to carry a stretcher.
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    Lawler says that he’s sure Skandor Akhbar was proud of himself when he got Terry Taylor, the Red Rooster, to agree to be one of his members of Devastation Inc. He was real tough when he helped them jump Jeff Jarrett when he was all by himself. However when he found out he was going to have to face Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Lawler on Friday night, the Red Rooster turned into a big yellow chicken and didn’t even show up! Akhbar found himself a replacement though because there is always plenty of scum beneath the rocks he reaches under, and in the bottom of those barrels he has to dig down to, in order to find his members of Devastation Inc. that listen to the garbage he spouts out. Akhbar can find as many of those scumbags as he likes but it doesn’t matter, he is their final goal, and Jeff and he will knock them off one by one until they get to him. At the end of this road they’re going down there is a big prize, its Skandor Akhbar, and this Friday they are going to reach the end of that road. All the oil money he’s supposed to have, all the wealth and riches he’s supposed to possess aren’t going to do him any good Friday, with the exception that they may be able to buy him a nicer hospital room! He better make that reservation because around midnight on Friday, he’s going to be needing it! Another good Lawler Dallas promo, but Akhbar is the one thing that I just can’t get into on this side of the USWA.
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    Jim Ross is with Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and Sid Vicious and he says that it’s showdown time at the Clash. Flair says showdown is right, and it’s the destiny of Lex Luger to be beaten for the U.S. title. Luger dogged him for two years, everywhere he went his name was on a contract for a World title match, this time the shoe is on the other foot! There’s a lot of bad blood between them, but at Clash of the Champions, Ric Flair will becomes the new United States Heavyweight champion, and if he has to beat Luger to get to Sting, so be it! Typically great Flair interview in the lead up to a big show. Flair/Luger is a programme that probably shouldn’t care about or have any interest in. Due to Flair’s promos, I’m fully invested in it and want to see the match.
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    Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee are back out to talk about the upcoming hospital elimination match. Dundee doesn’t do the best of jobs here, but says that there is also a Battle Royale at the end of the night which might end up just being a 16 man Battle Royale as there are going to be three men that are badly beaten up before it takes place. Fortunately ‘The King’ is on hand to save the day and explain everything. Lawler says that he asked Bill Dundee after the cage match ‘where did the Dirty White Boy and the Gilbert’s learn to fight. Kentucky Fried Chicken?’ They tried to cause dissension in their team, they tried to make them think that had to watch out for Austin Idol, they tried to plant the seed that he was going to turn on them because they knew in their own minds that was the only hope and prayer they had. He didn’t turn on them though and Eddie Gilbert’s own punk brother had to sit there and get his head shaved. He reckons Eddie also got another spanking off his mamma when he got him after she saw what he’d let happen to his little brother! This week the spanking and hair cutting will be trivial to what they’re going to do, because a ‘hospital elimination match’ is where you settle the score once and for all. Falls don’t count and it goes until one man is busted open, then he’s eliminated. The match doesn’t stop there though, and keeps on going until an entire team is eliminated. Eddie Gilbert is their target and they’ve something big in store for them Monday night, he’s going to be so bloody that when they get home his own momma won’t recognise him. Austin Idol music video set to ‘The Kid Is Hot Tonight’ by Loverboy immediately follows. Another very 80s Memphis music video featuring the stuff you’d come to expect from any promo piece for Idol (going against the Road Warriors, posing, in the hot tub etc). Some nice clips of him against Stan Hansen and Jos Le Duc amongst all this. Dundee wasn’t very good here, but Lawler explains everything in his usual reliable and concise way. There were some models behind the announcer’s desk for some reason, and the one couldn’t keep a straight face when ‘The King’ was telling his jokes.
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    We return from the commercial break and a still excitable Dirty White Boy wants Dave Brown to get them to play the tape. It’s a ‘battle of the valets’, Dirty White Girl vs Tessa in a cage from the Mid-South Coliseum, and the loser can’t be a valet any more. Last 40 seconds and the White Girl throws powder in Tessa’s face, takes her down and pins her. Fortunately we only get the ending of this as it looked dire. We return to the studio and Tony Anthony is clapping in approval. Eddie Gilbert is there with him and he says there is nothing more to say, their Dirty White Girl has retired Tessa Ray and she’s no longer around, poor Bill! The White Boy then wants to give Dave and all these many fans of the Dirty White Girl the pleasure, and asks them to bring out the ‘Queen of Lady Valets’. Natalie Cole’s ‘Wild Women Do’ plays and the White Girl is sat on a chair, carried by Sam Lowe and Doug Gilbert, wearing a tiara and waving her hand as if she is royalty! This is hilarious! Kim says she proved who was tough around here, and that cheap little floozy that they got off a street corner somewhere couldn’t handle the White Girl! They all know who the real lady is now and if Jerry Lawler has another floozy ‘bring her on’, as the White Girl took care of one and she can take care of two! Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee head out, with Eddie Gilbert saying how the Dirty White Girl is the smartest, most beautiful, toughest girl, to which Dave adds ‘and can throw the best powder’! Lawler says that he is sure they are proud of themselves, the Dirty White Girl did win the match and Tessa Ray can no longer be their valet. Tony Anthony finds this most amusing and taunts Dundee asking where his valet is? Dundee says there is an old saying ‘whoever laughs last laughs loudest’, he taught that hussy well, but they’ve got themselves a new valet (which Kim bets they got out of a bar downtown or off another street corner). Lawler says that maybe they were right, that Tessa was too much of a lady and wasn’t as tough as she needed to be. He then introduces their new valet, Vicious Vicki, who looks like she should be driving trucks somewhere. Vicki goes over to the White Girl, grabs her and throws her in the ring, while Lawler picks up a chair to prevent anyone from coming to Kim’s aid. Camera shot right up the White Girl’s dress which Vicki strips her out of, and down to her underwear, before she runs out of there. Vicki has got a cigar in her mouth which I had missed and tells the Dirty White Girl that she doesn’t play, she doesn’t cat scratch and she doesn’t hair pull, but she’s going to kick her butt and that’s a promise. So long Tessa then! Seeing the Dirty White Girl being chaired into the studio whilst waving her hand might be one of my favourite things I’ve seen her do. There is something about her promo style though, it’s as if she’s memorised it beforehand and is just trying to recite it, as you can almost see her trying to play it over in her mind. First time I saw this I was pretty surprised that they allowed/showed this stripping (as I posted previously it was pixilated out on the Evansville feed) while we get a competent promo from Vicki. The potential matches don’t inspire me much, although that goes for anything physical involving Kim.
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    The Gilberts and Tony Anthony are with Dave Brown and he has a video to show why Doug Gilbert is wearing this mask. Highlights of a six-man cage match from the Mid-South Coliseum, with the loser of the fall getting their head shaved. This in edited form looks like it was another tremendous match with a hot crowd. Lawler has a piledriver for Tony Anthony, but Doug Gilbert has one for him. A spiked piledriver for ‘The King’, and somewhere in this Jerry Calhoun gets bumped. Lawler holds the Dirty White Boy and Austin Idol comes at him with a clothesline, but the White Boy moves and he accidentally hits Lawler instead. Anthony makes the cover and a great near fall with the groggy Calhoun making the count and Lawler kicking out at two. Doug Gilbert grabs ‘The King’ and the White Boy takes off his boot and climbs to the top turnbuckle. He comes off, but Lawler moves and he clobbers Doug with the boot. ‘The King’ makes the cover, Doug drops the fall losing the match for his team and will also now be losing his hair. A barber then shaves off his hair whilst Dundee and Idol hold him in the chair, and Lawler is on guard with a chain to prevent anyone from stopping the hair cut. Back in the studio and the heels have Sam Lowe with them. Dave explains that everyone’s hair was at stake in the match, Doug’s head was shaved just days ago and now he is out here under a mask. Eddie says how he could come out here and say how they bought powder into the ring, how they pulled off the Dirty White Boy’s boot and hit Doug with it, and that was the only way they won the match. He could come out here and cry over spilled milk, but he’s not going to do that because they’re Gilberts and they’re not like anyone else. Almost 100 years ago Great Granny Gilbert left them a famous potion called ‘Granny Gilbert’s Hair Elixir’, and all they had to do was rub a bit on Doug’s scalp and about an hour later his hair grew back! They take the mask off Doug to reveal the most unconvincing of wigs that Dave isn’t buying at all. Eddie says how they can put them in any hair match and they will come out okay! An excitable Dirty White Boy asks where Tessa is and wonders if Dave has some film that they can show? Dave tells him they’re going to take a break as he wants to have a few minutes to recover from Eddie Gilbert’s magic elixir, while the White Boy tries to get production to roll the tape.
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    Jim Cornette has a very special guest tonight who is going to clear up a few of the mysteries in the world of professional wrestling, the six time champion of the world, and soon to be number seven, Ric Flair. Flair says how it’s good to be here and he hopes Jim is right about that seventh time! Cornette says at Clash of the Champions on September 5th, it will be Ric Flair challenging Lex Luger for the U.S. title, and Sting will be defending the World Heavyweight title against the Black Scorpion. He queries that a lot of people think that this is some sort of plot by the Horsemen, and asks Flair if he knows who the Black Scorpion is and whether he is associated to the Horsemen? Flair says that he has no idea who he is, and he guarantees everyone that the Black Scorpion is not associated with them and has nothing to do with the Horsemen. If a member of the Horsemen had a shot at the World title, their name would be in large black letters on that contract against Sting, not the Black Scorpion. They don’t conceal their identity and are very open about their lifestyle! Cornette wonders what he thinks about Sting not defending the title against him, although winning that U.S. belt from Lex Luger would catapult him right back up there for a title shot match with Sting. Flair says that there are ‘powers that be’ in the Turner Organisation that would like to see him on the sidelines, taught a lesson, humbled! If he has to step over Lex Luger at the Clash of the Champions to get to Sting, then that will be the goal he lives for until that night. Lex Luger is a prima donna, has no reputation and is walking on thin ice! If he wants to beat Ric Flair on national television he better show him a lot more than he has in the past! Guess they’re not bypassing Flair/Luger after all!
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    A suited Masakre picks up his son (?), they kick a non-existent ball and his son shows him how to head a football before having a kick about with someone. We then see the two of them looking intently at a statue and finally getting in a car to head off somewhere. Not sure what any of this has to do with wrestling, especially as the graphics seemed to indicate he is ‘un Gran Rudo’.
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    We see Llanes looking out over the skyline holding his finger up to indicate he’s number one, posing and flexing, and working on his submission holds in the wrestling ring. Lovely robe he’s wearing at the end of this!
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    Quick promo to hype that there will be two cage matches on the same card this week. First of all it’s the Dirty White Girl vs Tessa, and then it’s a six man tag with Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee and Jeff Jarrett against Tony Anthony, Eddie Gilbert and presumably John Tatum (although Tatum is never mentioned in the promo and they just refer to Anthony and Gilbert). Lawler says that they are the ‘dream team’, and he knows of three guys that will not be getting any sleep between now and this match. Every week they’ve been saved by outside interference, but not this week, it’s going to boil down to whoever is the toughest, and that’s them!
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    Paul E. makes it clear that if there is any trouble on the Danger Zone today, the person who initiates it will be fined and suspended by the NWA. His first guest is the NWA champion, Sting, and he says that he is going to defend the title against anyone who is worthy enough, otherwise he would be a so called ‘true champion’. The rematch has been signed and his first defence is going to be against Ric Flair. Heyman then introduces ‘the greatest Heavyweight champion this sport has ever seen, Ric Flair’. The ‘Nature Boy’ tells him to put a cap on the accolades as he knows who he is! Flair says that Jim Herd is monitoring this so they both have to be gentlemen, they are in their own right, the difference being that Sting is the World Heavyweight champion, he’s Ric Flair, he’s history, and he doesn’t like that! Flair tells him that the next time they meet he’s making history and he’s taking that title back. He’s a thinking man’s champion, he’s got a bunch of friends called the Horsemen and they don’t like Sting being the champion, they like Ric Flair being the champion, and wherever he goes, they go! Sting tells him that he’s going to give him the opportunity of his life because he gave him one once, but he’s got pals of his own, the ‘Dudes with Attitude’, who will be hanging out backstage to make sure the Horsemen don’t get involved. Arn Anderson and Sid Vicious join Flair and he wonders where Lex Luger, the Junkyard Dog and Paul Orndorff are now? Stings just walks off and Flair says how he’s been outsmarted again and he better learn that the Horsemen call the shots! Looks like they’ve ditched the Luger/Flair programme to go back to Sting/Flair instead. Sting didn’t look strong at all in this segment, playing second fiddle to the Horsemen and then just walking off when Arn and Sid joined them. Heyman had already said that if there was any trouble the person who instigated it would be suspended and Flair had said how Jim Herd is watching. Sting was fully aware that they weren’t going to touch him because of the consequences, yet still he skulks off. Just front it out and stand tall to them Stinger!
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    Jerry Lawler is on the phone while Devastation Inc. are in the Sportatorium with Craig Johnson. ‘The King’ says that he understands it’s a mystery no longer, Skandor Akhbar and Gary young have reached down to the bottom of the barrel and dug up the ex-Red Rooster, Terry Taylor, as their partner. Lawler says that he had all the potential in the world, all the talent and should have gone straight to the top of the sport, but somewhere along the way he got distracted. He tells him he made the mistake of his life when he signed on with Akhbar as he is a marked man, and his name is already on the bottom of what he calls a ‘death certificate’. He has some serious plans for Akhbar and anybody who follows along behind him; they are all wanted men and ‘The King’ is coming for them Friday night. Taylor says that he was just like Jerry Lawler, but he was jealous of him because he was better looking, a better wrestler and he won all the matches he wishes he could have. Now he gets on the telephone and tells everyone what a big tough wrestler he is, and that he’s going to take him out? Don’t make him laugh! Nobody in the WWF could do it and he’s no different. Jerry Lawler is the one who made his own bed, they’ve stretchered one out today and on Friday they’re stretchering out two! Taylor was fired up here! Shame we don’t appear to be getting the tag match due to his no-showing of the card.
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    Steve Austin is scheduled for a match against Mark Burns. Before the match commences Craig Johnson calls them over for an interview, but Percy Pringle says that Jeannie wants him to conduct the interview and he is surplus to requirements! Austin says that he was involved in two matches last night. Firstly a tag team match he was contracted to with Percy Pringle against Chris Adams and Chris Von Erich, where the same thing happened that had done the week before, Percy beats the tar out of Von Erich and pins him in the middle 1-2-3 (Steve and his selective memory again!). The other match he wasn’t supposed to be involved in, and that was a cage match between Toni and Jeannie. The reason he was involved in that match was because after Jeannie pinned Toni in the middle of the ring for the win, Chris Adams came out with a steel pipe to try and put Jeannie out of wrestling for good. The cage was there to try and keep the likes of Chris Adams out of the ring, he still interfered, but they still won the match, and he tells Jeannie that he was never prouder of her than he was last night. Jeannie says that after pinning Toni she proved herself, and tells her that she will not be wrestling her again ‘as she doesn’t have to’. Austin says that Chris Adams lies at every opportunity he gets, he has been to the promoters, lied and claimed that ‘he’ interfered in the match. As a result they’ve got this ‘Pilsbury’ match, where if Jeannie or Toni interfere they are put in a penalty box. He says that the penalty box is a cage, they’ve never interfered and will not be taking part in this match. Jeannie insists she has never interfered, although the crowd reactions state that they know otherwise! Austin tells them to take the cage away and the match won’t take place as they own the USWA. Just as the interview is finishing a producer comes over to Craig Johnson and informs him that they’re trying to get Jerry Lawler on the phone. End of the Austin/Burns match and Austin tosses Burns over the top rope, with him taking an uncomfortable tumble to the floor. He holds him so that Jeannie can get a few shots in, before telling Johnson that there isn’t going to be any ‘Pilsbury’ match with Chris Adams or anyone associated with him. They’ve beaten them fair and square, time and time again, and he doesn’t need another match to prove himself to them. The Adams’ and Chris Von Erich head out and Steve and Jeannie scarper. Chris says he doesn’t care if Austin wants the match or not ‘It’s on! ‘Queensbury Rules’ not ‘Pilsbury Rules’!’ If they win this they get the match of their choice, and he again wants the people to write in to let him know what match they want. Von Erich then tells Percy Pringle that if he ever looks like he’s going to interfere, he will be all over him!
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    Craig Johnson is joined by Chris and Toni Adams, and this time they have a ‘Queensbury Rules’ match scheduled. That means that there will be no kicking, no punching and no interference from the ladies, otherwise they will end up in a penalty box. Chris says that even in a cage match last night, that’s meant to keep everybody out and keep the two girls in, somehow Percy Pringle and Steve Austin still managed to interfere. Toni and he are sick of it and something needs to be done about it. He went to the USWA officials and asked them to let him, and all the fans who watch USWA wrestling, choose a match where they can hopefully have no interruptions. They told him that he can’t have everything his own way, so he then asked if he could have something that Steve Williams knows nothing about, a professional wrestling match ‘Queensbury Rules’. He explains it’s a scientific wrestling match and if Austin does anything against the rules, if he punches, kicks, gauges an eye, he wins. If he wins that match, then he gets the match of his choice, and he wants all the fans to write in and tell him what type of match they want to see him and Toni in against Steve and Jeannie. The final stipulation for the ‘Queensbury Rules’ match is that should either of the girls interfere, they will be locked up in the penalty box for one minute. Toni says that she knows Jeannie is going to interfere and end up in that penalty box, and when she does, she is going to go up to the referee and slap him in the face so she can be in there with her! Then she is going to tear her limb from limb because the war has only just begun! I’m guessing that Chris spoke to Toni ‘at home’ like he said he was going to and they just reconciled. A bit of a damp squib to that part the angle as it was taking an interesting turn with that storyline.
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    Chris Von Erich looks like a mini-Kerry so much when he is making his way down the aisle to the ring. I had low expectations for this, but it was better than I thought it would be. The faces clean the ring straightaway, and we get about three minutes of Pringle and Von Erich to open up. I felt Percy was the better of the two here, helped primarily by his selling and his stooging. He is a manager, and not a wrestler, so things are not ‘supposed’ to look smooth and crisp. Chris had a super slow drop toe hold, looks uncertain running the ring ropes, bumps awkwardly and has one of the worst dropkicks you’ll ever see. He looks like someone who is at the start of his wrestling training, which he probably is, but because of his surname we’re seeing that ‘training’ on TV in front of a crowd instead of behind closed doors. The action picks up when Austin and Adams are in there, and Adams has such a mean looking clothesline that impresses me every time I see it. Austin takes a great bump halfway across the ring when Adams kicks his legs out from under him. On a few occasions Adams would tag Von Erich in to try and get the pin, however as soon as Austin would kick out, he’d tag the Gentleman back in. Nice enziguiri, but he tags in Von Erich one too many times as Austin is able to grab him and preventing him from tagging out after he kicks out of the cover. The heels get the heat on Von Erich, which was pretty good, with Austin in charge and Percy getting in a few licks too. Bronco misses a tag to Adams behind his back, before Von Erich is finally able to get the hot tag to him. He catapults Austin into the corner but he accidentally tags Percy in the process. He doesn’t want to get in there, but Adams brings him in anyway and he is on his knees begging for him not to do anything. Adams unloads on him, superkick to the mid-section and Von Erich comes off the top with a sunset flip for the pin. The heels immediately jump them after the match with Percy choking Von Erich. Adams is getting the better of Austin until he tosses him over the top rope to the floor. Austin with a powerslam on Von Erich and Adams is back in there with a chair. He gets a shot in on Austin, while Percy has already made his escape and the two of them head back to the dressing room. I missed the ladies being at ringside for this. The opening few minutes when it was Percy and Von Erich wasn’t very good, but that’s my only real complaint about this. The match was laid out smartly, Von Erich never was on top against Austin, and he’d only come in to make a cover on him and then tag straight back out. He took a beating off Austin getting in zero offense, and was only in again for the sunset flip finish. Percy was exactly what you’d expect a heel manager to be with his cheating, stooging and backing off and the one who dropped the fall. Obligatory post match beating to leave Team Adams laying after the match!
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    Think this is after a Jarrett victory and Skandor Akhbar is at ringside. Jarrett says that curiosity has got the better of him, and he wants Akhbar to tell him who this mystery partner is so that Jerry Lawler and he can find out who they are facing. Akhbar says that Jarrett must think he was born yesterday if he’s going to give him or any of these idiots information. He’s too smart for that! Jarrett then threatens to beat it out of him if he doesn’t tell him, then follows Akhbar into the ring. Percy asks Craig Johnson ‘to make it stop’, and when Jarrett has the General cornered he is jumped from behind by Gary Young. The two of them go at it, but two Jarrett dropkicks send Young flying out of the ring and he’s all alone with Akhbar again. He starts beating on him and has him set up for a piledriver when, from the back, comes Terry Taylor to make the save. The three of them triple team Jarrett while Pringle speculates as to whether he is the mystery partner. He then says that Jeff Jarrett needs a good beating, and no-one could call Terry Taylor a chicken! Percy is revelling in the beating that Jarrett is taking and Akhbar then confirms to him that Taylor is the mystery partner. On seeing who the partner is, he reckons that Jerry Lawler will now just cash in his plane ticket and won’t be coming back to Dallas! Taylor posts Jarrett and chokes him with the camera cables. A bunch of jobbers try to help but they can’t even get past the General. Spiked piledriver and finally Billy Joe Travis and, I think, Skip Young are out to put a stop to this. Another one of those overly long beat downs that have been a staple of the 1990 Yearbook. What on earth was Billy Travis doing for so long and why wasn’t he out there sooner to help his partner? Terry Taylor looked great here and I’m quite excited to see him in the USWA. From memory I think he was in the NWA before the year was out so this is probably only a flying visit as he is passing through. Posts in a previous thread mention that he ended up no-showing the tag match so it was a quicker visit than I would have even imagined!
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    Jerry Lawler says that ‘he’s back’, thanks to Jeff Jarrett’s win over Devastation Inc. The suspension is lifted and he’s on his way back to Dallas, TX. Skandor Akhbar is trying to play his little mind games, trying to confuse them by saying he’s got a mystery partner for Gary Young, and he’s not going to let them know until Friday night who their competition is. Is that supposed to scare them and strike fear into their hearts? These tricks don’t work on ‘The King’, and he doesn’t care if he gets King Kong and Godzilla because Jeff Jarrett and he are going to be ready for whomever he gets. Last time he was there they had to carry Sweet Daddy Falcone out on a stretcher, and this time he’s gone and scraped the bottom of the barrel and got someone who is such a nothing happening nobody that he’s ashamed to show his face and tell them who he is! He doesn’t care who he gets and how many people he lines up in front of him, Skandor Akhbar is who he is after, he’s the one who pushed the suspension through, the one who needs to be hurt and the one that everyone in Dallas has had enough of. He is nothing more than a leech that sucks blood out of his wrestlers that he gets to do his dirty work because he’s not man enough to do it himself. This Friday he’s going to go through his mystery man until he gets to him, and when he does, it won’t be a pretty sight! I’ve missed Lawler cutting these serious promos in Dallas and this was another great one here. Terry Taylor is the mystery partner that ‘The King’ is referring to, and is revealed before the end of the episode.
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    Jim Ross brings us the ‘Wrestling Wrap Up’ which focuses on the second match of the three match series between the Fabulous Freebirds and the Southern Boys for the Birds ‘Southern’ Tag Team championship. The final match is on Main Event tomorrow, but Ross has some highlights from the end of last week’s match where the Freebirds evened the series up. The Southern Boys are double teaming Michael Hayes and the referee is trying to get Tracey Smothers out of there. Steve Armstrong with an O’Connor roll on Hayes, but Garvin is in with a DDT on Armstrong behind the referee’s back and Hayes then makes the cover to tie things up. Comments from the Southern Boys follow and Tracey says how everyone has just seen how they got robbed, and states that it’s not going to happen again. Steve says how they’ve been bringing that trophy out for weeks, bragging about this and that, but the trophy means nothing to them, what does will be tomorrow on TBS. Thanks for the explanation about the ‘Southern tag team’ championship, as I had no idea what was being referred to here. The Freebirds looked beyond ridiculous in the get up that they were wearing.
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    Gene recaps what happened on last week’s episode of Superstars of Wrestling, where after a Mr Perfect victory he was confronted by Kerry Von Erich who came to ringside and challenged him for the Intercontinental title. Okerlund speculates as to whether that match will take place at Summerslam, and has comments from them both. Bobby Heenan says that they accept the Texas Tornado’s challenge, but it’s going to backfire in his face. Hennig tells ‘The Brain’ it’s not going to backfire, it’s going to explode in his face! He’s not only going to feel the heat of Summerslam, but he’s going to feel the heat of Mr Perfect. Kerry says that it’s one week until Summerslam, he was ready a week ago and he’s feeling better than he’s ever felt in his life. He’s coming fist and fire, the tornado will land and they will find out he is not absolutely Perfect! Gene then confirms that the match has been signed for Summerslam. After seeing his promos from the USWA earlier in the year all I can think of is how many takes this might have taken! Kerry, physically, looked fantastic and a short, WWF style promo, even with a tornado reference. Crazy to think where he was a little over a month ago, and now he’s facing the Intercontinental champion at Summerslam.
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    Brother Love welcomes to his show the only man to put Hulk Hogan out of commission, the Earthquake (who is accompanied by Dino Bravo and Jimmy Hart). Love is very excited to have them as his guests, so much so that his legs are shaking and Vince McMahon quips ‘does he have to go to the bathroom?’ Hart is wearing a jacket that says ‘Hulkamania is Dead’ and he hopes that Hulk Hogan and Tugboat have plenty of Earthquake insurance. Love mentions to Bravo how Tugboat is going to be in the Hulkster’s corner, but he doesn’t think he will be able to push the World’s Strongest Man around. Dino says that he’s got that right, and they’re going to make sure that the Earthquake only has to concentrate on Hulk Hogan in that match. He’s a man of his word and he guarantees that Tugboat won’t be doing anything come Summerslam. ‘Brother’ Earthquake says how Hulk Hogan is talking about him making a mistake? Well he’s the one who’s making the mistake by saying that he’ll be coming back for Summerslam to go against him, the only man who has put him out of commission. At Summerslam he’s going to send him back to that hospital once and for all and Hulkamania will be dead! Really liked Earthquake here, and he came across as a pretty scary and intimidating dude. Plenty of heat from the crowd for this too as they were doing their best to drown Earthquake out with boos and jeers.
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    John Tatum says how Jerry Lawler thinks that everyone is scared of him, he thinks that he’s a real tough, bad man going around hitting people in the head with baseball bats. That’s real impressive, but he’s got a package in Eddie Gilbert and the Dirty White Boy that’s even more impressive. Tony Anthony tells Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee to bring the ball bats if they want to because they’re going to wrap them around their necks, and he’s getting sick of Jerry Lawler sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong. Gilbert tells them to not only bring three stretchers but bring three ambulances as well! They want to see them escorted out of the arena and they may even drive those ambulances too! Check out Tatum’s grin at the end of this! Oh, how I wish this match was taped and oh, how I wish these three remain as a unit for the rest of the year. As a note for Pete, the business suit that the Dirty White Girl was wearing here is the outfit that she was wearing for the ‘Back Alley Street Brawl’ that Tessa strips her out of on 8/6.
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