Southwest Championship Wrestling 1983 - The continuation

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Results from July-mid November can be found here: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/31398-southwest-championship-wrestling-results/

 

Champions:

Southwest Heavyweight Champion: Tully Blanchard

Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane & Steve Keirn)

Southwest Television Champion: Mike Masters

 

Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 11/21

 

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 11/26 in local markets

 

-Show intro-

 

Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling! We've got another action packed in store for you this week like we do every week here on Southwest Championship Wrestling but before we get to any of that I want to let you know about the events that took place last Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena in the main event between 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and the Southwest Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard. It was a wild affair that saw both referees, Jack Howe and Carl Fergie, end up getting knocked out of the ring during the contest with Jack Howe the original referee having to be helped back to the locker room and then Carl Fergie taking over the match only to also be knocked out of the ring later in the contest. At that point both Mr. Saito & Yoshi Seito became involved in the match and attacked Jim Duggan only for David Von Erich to make his surprise return by clearing them out of the ring with a chair and then attacking Tully Blanchard. Unfortunately for Jim Duggan however, Carl Fergie regained his senses while that was going on and upon seeing David Von Erich attacking Tully Blanchard, he disqualified Jim Duggan and declared Tully the winner. This meant that Jim Duggan would be ineligible to receive any future Southwest Heavyweight Title matches while Tully is the champion due to the stipulations of the match. After reviewing the tape of what happened Stanley Blackburn has made a ruling that due to the outside interference by Mr. Saito and Yoshi Seito and under the circumstances that Duggan was disqualified he will allow Jim Duggan one more opportunity to earn a Southwest Heavyweight Title match by competing in a tag team match this Sunday night with a partner of his choice against Tully Blanchard and a partner of his choice. When we come back from the break we'll get the reactions of 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and also find out who his partner will be this Sunday night, so don't go away we'll be right back!

 

-First commercial break-

 

 

Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan. Jim it was definitely a wild one last Sunday night and it seemed like you'd been robbed out of your chance to ever beat Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Heavyweight Title but it seems like now you've got a bit of a reprieve. Do you know who your partner is going to be this Sunday night?

 

Jim Duggan: Well Steve Stack it wasn't a hard decision for me to make when I found out Stanley Blackburn's decision earlier in the week. I knew I wanted a tag team partner I can trust and that's why I did everything I could to get a hold of Ron Starr even though I know he went down to Puerto Rico to chase after Abdullah the Butcher. I haven't been able to actually get him on the phone but we played some phone tag and I talked to someone down there who assured me that Ron Starr got my message and if I paid for his flight back here then he'd be my partner Sunday night.

 

-Suddenly David Von Erich comes out

 

 

Jim Duggan: What do you want out here!? This is my interview time and I don't want nothing to do with you!

 

David Von Erich: Look I know you're mad at me because you got disqualified last Sunday night, but don't forget that I came down to the ring and helped you when you had 3 guys trying to beat your brains out. I don't want you to get stuck without a partner hoping that Ron Starr is actually going to show up Sunday night, I'm right here right now telling you face to face, not through other people over the phone, that I can be your partner.

 

Jim Duggan: First of all, I don't like you. Second of all, I don't trust you. I don't want you for my partner. If I got word from Ron Starr that he's going to be there Sunday night, then he'll be there. You don't want to help me you just want to get your hands on Tully Blanchard and you don't care if you get disqualified in doing it. I want to win the match, I want to earn another shot at the Southwest Heavyweight Title and I want to win it for all these people who deserve a real champion.

 

David Von Erich: I'm not going to come out fighting like a wild man, I got a lot of that out of my system last Sunday night. I don't want to just beat Tully's brains out I want to defeat him and I want him to lose that Southwest Heavyweight Title.

 

Jim Duggan: I'm sure you do. But you want him to lose it to YOU and that's another reason I can't trust you in this match. How do I know if I got the match won you're not gonna try and jump me and try to take me out of the match so you can win it for yourself? I know what kind of a man Ron Starr is, I know I can trust him. With you any time I got for a cover I'll need to have eyes in the back of my head looking for a loaded purse from your girlfriend.

 

David Von Erich: Now look don't you bring Sunshine into this! I'm out here offering to help you as a man, don't insult me!

 

Jim Duggan: I don't want your help, I don't need your help and I'd rather fight alone Sunday night than have you in my corner so how's about that tough guy!

 

-Jim Duggan and David Von Erich get nose to nose

 

Steve Stack: Gentlemen please! Control yourself out here, this isn't the time or the place for this!

 

David Von Erich: You're right Steve Stack. Duggan you had your chance if you're stuck out there on your own this Sunday night you won't have anyone to blame but yourself and I won't feel sorry for you.

 

-David Von Erich walks off

 

Jim Duggan: I don't need anyone to feel sorry for me! I know Ron Starr is gonna be in my corner Sunday night and I know that at the end of the night I'm gonna have my hand raise and I'm gonna earn myself another shot at the Southwest Heavyweight Title!

 

-Jim Duggan leaves the interview area

 

Steve Stack: I'm glad that didn't end up coming to blows, I could have cut the tension between those two with a knife. Last week here on this program you all saw the shocking return to the area of The Assassins, their brutal assault on The Fabulous Ones and the revelation that The Canadian was actually Assassin #2 the whole time. Now after The Fabulous Ones were successful in their title defense against the team of Mr. Saito and Yoshi Seito they demanded a match this Sunday night with The Assassin to exact their revenge on The Assassins for that assault. Stanley Blackburn made that match and so this Sunday night it will be The Fabulous Ones defending the Southwest Tag Team Titles against the team of the masked Assassins. This decision has upset a few teams in the area that were looking for a title shot at the tag team belts but none more than the team I'm about to bring out here now the team of Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert.

 

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Steve Stack: Gentlemen I know you guys were very hot when you hot that The Assassins had been granted a Southwest Tag Team Title match this Sunday night and caused such a ruckus about it that Stanley Blackburn has made a match for here on TV today with you two against The Assassins and if you win it will instead be you in the tag team title match this Sunday night.

 

Ken Lucas: I don't think it's fair to say we caused a ruckus, we simply demanded what was right. We've been fighting over the past month ever since Eddie Gilbert returned from injury to get a shot at the tag team titles and we've been trying to do it the right way. The Assassins comes back here after being gone for 3 months and just attack the champions and immediately get themselves a title match, well of course that didn't sit well with us.

 

Steve Stack: To be fair, The Fabulous Ones did request the match against The Assassins.

 

Ken Lucas: Steve, I've been a champion here before, Ricky Morton and I held those Southwest Tag Team Titles for a long time and you know and I know that the champion doesn't get to make their own matches. Sure, The Fabulous Ones might have requested that match but Stanley Blackburn should have recognized we were more deserving of the title match without me having to call him and complain.

 

Steve Stack: Well it seems like everything is going to work out in the end as you'll be facing The Assassins here on TV today and the winners of that match will be the team to face The Fabulous Ones Sunday night.

 

Eddie Gilbert: And we intend to be the ones getting that title shot. We know the Assassins are a big tough team that will do anything to win, we saw what they were capable of last week when they pulled that trick on The Fabs and injured Steve Keirn's shoulder. But we teamed up together to become the Southwest Tag Team Champions and we know to do that we have to beat teams like The Assassins we have to beat teams that are bigger than we are because that's what being a champion is all about. So Steve Stack if you or anyone else is counting us out today, you get ready to be surprised because we're gonna be the ones in that title match this Sunday night.

 

-Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert leave the interview area

 

Steve Stack: Fans there you have it, today in the main event here on TV we're going to see The Assassins take on Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert and I know it's going to one heck of a fight. And we've got a heck of a fight for you coming up right after the break because Art Crews has challenged Timothy Flowers to a match here on TV this week and Art Crews has vowed that if he can't defeat his former partner this time out then he will leave the Southwest area! You won't want to miss that match so don't go away, we'll be right back!

 

-Second commercial break-

 

Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and before we get to the ring for our first match of the day I wanted to get a quick word from Art Crews the man who made the challenge for this match and vowed to leave the area if he failed to defeat Timothy Flowers here on TV.

 

 

Steve Stack: Art when we first saw you come into the area you were teamed up with Timothy Flowers but then it seems like once you guys got around Jim Holliday he got convinced that he could do better things on his own under the guidance of a manager. What are your thoughts on your former partner ditching you and taking up with 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday?

 

Art Crews: When Tim and I made the decision to come down here to Texas together it was because we heard this was one of the best areas for tag team action in the country. We had just started teaming together up in the Portland area and we thought we could get more experience and improve ourselves by coming down here to face the stiffer competition of the area. But then Tim let a snake like Jim Holliday get in his head and convince him that he was already a star and that I was the one holding him back. Well he's been able to cheat me the last two weeks at the HemisFair Arena and his manager didn't want to give me another rematch so I had to offer to leave the area if I failed to win. But I didn't pack my bags Steve Stack, I didn't call around to find myself another place to wrestle if I don't win. Because I know I'm going to win, I'm going to beat Timothy Flowers right in the middle of that ring and show everybody that he made the biggest mistake of his career turning his back on me.

 

-Art Crews heads down to the ring

 

Steve Stack: Well fans we're about to find out together if that's true, let's take it down to the ring for our first match of the day!

 

 

 

 

Art Crews vs. Timothy Flowers

 

Art Crews rushes at Flowers and attacks him right at the bell. Crews is all over Flowers in the corner and referee Jack Howe steps in to try and get him to break and stop using his fists. Flowers cheap shots Crews during the break and starts pounding on him but Crews quickly fights back and catches Flowers with a body slam and then runs the ropes but gets tripped by Jim Holliday. The ref missed the trip but suspects what happened and while the ref is arguing with Holliday, Flowers hits a low blow on Art Crews! Flowers then rolls him into a small package and gets the 3 count!

 

Steve Stack: What a despicable way to send a man looking for a new job! I can't believe that! Let me bring in Jim Holliday now and talk to him about how that match went down and the matches his men are involved in this Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena.

 

 

Holliday: Wasn't that just the greatest thing you've ever seen Steve Stack? My man Timothy Flowers just kicked Art Crews to the curb AGAIN and this time he's gotta go pack his bags and find a new place to work because he's gone from Southwest Championship Wrestling!

 

Steve Stack: It was something all right. Somehow you've managed to avoid having your man Mike Masters defend the Southwest Television Title here on TV today and instead he'll be defending the title against this Sunday night against Roy Lee Welch at the HemisFair Arena. Why did you work so hard to avoid having that match on TV?

 

Holliday: Because I don't want these people to get tired of seeing the greatest young star in all of wrestling having to face the same tired competition on TV here every week. I tried to get Stanley Blackburn to give him a fresh opponent but instead he insisted on Roy Lee Welch getting his rematch and so I thought it best to have that match at The HemisFair Arena instead.

 

Steve Stack: If you want Mike Masters to face fresh competition then why don't you have him answer the challenge of Man Mountain Link?

 

Holliday: Because Mike Masters deserves to wrestle men who are actually worth of a title shot. What has Link done? And to show how magnanimous I am I've even provided for Link to earn the opportunity to face Mike Masters. This Sunday night it will be Timothy Flowers teaming up with Goldie Rogers, who I taken under my advisement on a trial basis, against the team of Man Mountain Link and his worthless brother Tiny Anderson and if Link's team wins the match, which of course won't happen, then he'll receive a title shot right here next week on TV.

 

Steve Stack: Assuming Mike Masters is able to retain it against Roy Lee Welch first.

 

Holliday: Steve Stack please, there's no need to assume what is already obvious to everyone but yourself. Now I believe I've wasted my time enough talking to you I have to get back to the locker room and celebrate Timothy Flowers great victory.

 

-Jim Holliday leaves the interview area

 

Steve Stack: Well fans you just heard it from Jim Holliday, two more matches that you'll be seeing this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena: Goldie Rogers and Timothy Flowers teaming up to take on the brother team of Man Mountain Link and Tiny Anderson and also Mike Masters defending the Southwest Television Title against Roy Lee Welch. We've got to take another break but when we come back we're going to be talking to the Southwest Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard about his tag team match this Sunday night so don't go away, we'll be right back with more Southwest Championship Wrestling!

 

-Third commercial break-

 

Steve Stack: We're back here on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is the Southwest Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard.

 

Tully Blanchard: STILL the Southwest Heavyweight Champion Steve Stack! Just like I told you I would be last week when you were out here acting like there was no way I was going to keep my title against the "great" Jim Duggan. Well who is out here with this belt today? Me! Not Jim Duggan!

 

Steve Stack: And it only took the help of Mr. Saito and Yoshi Seito to keep Jim Duggan from beating you and David Von Erich causing Duggan to get disqualified for you to be able to keep that belt.

 

Tully Blanchard: Do I have to tell you every single week not to get smart with me? Or should I just show you one good time why you shouldn't so you can remember? Don't blame me for the stupidity of David Von Erich, even if I did scramble his brains, he was stupid well before that! And he's so stupid that he thought he would be able to call Stanley Blackburn and get himself a Southwest Heavyweight Title match with me this week. He didn't tell you that part did he? No, he tried to get Stanley Blackburn to give him a title match despite the fact that he's nothing but a LOSER. When is the last time David Von Erich even won a match? He lost the TV Title to that run Roy Lee Welch, he caused us to lose the Southwest Tag Team Titles to The Fabulous Ones and the rematch in the cage and then he sat at home for a month drinking his meals through a straw and trying to remember how to spell his name after I cracked his skull with the cage door. What makes him qualified to wrestle the greatest Southwest Heavyweight Champion of all time?

 

Steve Stack: There are some very small kernels of truth in that story you're telling but certainly the fact that you DID slam his head in the steel cage door should give him the right to wrestle you.

 

Tully Blanchard: Well I disagree Steve Stack and you can see that Stanley Blackburn did as well. David Von Erich is going to have to work his way up the ladder before he can get to me, that's why this Sunday night he's facing Yoshi Seito. Mr. Saito and I have been a little disappointed in his performance here in Texas but Saito has assured me he's got Seito back on the right track and that he'll beat David this week and keep him from even dreaming about getting in the ring with me.

 

Steve Stack: Well since you just brought up your two associates and Yoshi Seito will apparently be wrestling David Von Erich, is it safe to say your partner this Sunday will be Mr. Saito?

 

Tully: Of course it's Mr. Saito. There's not a man I trust more to protect me and my reign as the greatest Southwest Heavyweight Champion of all time. I shouldn't even be in this tag team match, I already beat Duggan and he wasn't ever supposed to get another title match but Stanley Blackburn is the most biased match maker in the history of wrestling so he wanted to give Duggan another chance. Well there won't be another chance, he will won't get a shot at this title because there is no way he can beat me and Mr. Saito especially once his partner doesn't even show up. How stupid is Jim Duggan to trust a guy he hasn't even talked to is going to come back from Puerto Rico to be his partner? He's about as stupid as David without the excuse of me slamming a cage door on his head.

 

Steve Stack: Alright Tully I think that's about enough from you for today, I've got to move on with the show.

 

Tully: I am the show, there's no one more important to talk to or see than me but I'm tired of looking at you anyway Steve Stack.

 

-Tully walks off from the interview area

 

Steve Stack: Now let me bring in Jose Lothario who says he has some news about the fine that was levied on The Cuban Assassin that has kept him from being able to wrestle here in Southwest Championship Wrestling.

 

 

Steve Stack: Jose despite The Cuban Assassin being barred from wrestling here until his fine is paid we saw appear at the HemisFair Arena again last Sunday night and attack El Gran Apollo. I heard that Stanley Blackburn increased the fine due to that attack, is that true?

 

Jose Lothario: Yes it's true Steve Stack! Now instead of $2500, I was supposed to pay $5000 before The Cuban Assassin is allowed to wrestle here! But you know what happened? That idiot El Gran Apollo paid the fine! Hahaha!

 

Steve Stack: Wait a minute Jose, you're saying that El Gran Apollo paid the fine and that now The Cuban Assassin will be allowed to wrestle here in the area?

 

Jose Lothario: That's right Steve Stack! That fool was so desperate to get a match with The Cuban Assassin that he gave Stanley Blackburn the $5000 and now this Sunday night The Cuban Assassin will make his debut at the HemisFair Arena against El Gran Apollo in what will be the FINAL appearance of El Gran Apollo not just at the HemisFair Arena but in any wrestling ring anywhere in the world!

 

Steve Stack: Well it's certainly a surprise that Apollo would be so anxious for the match that he would pay $5000 to get it but I think that alone should tell you not to count him out Jose.

 

Jose Lothario: I not only have counted him out but I knocked him out! Did you see that punch I gave him last Sunday night that turned his lights out?

 

Steve Stack: Yes I saw it and it's exactly why you aren't allowed to wrestle with that cast on your hand.

 

Jose Lothario: I don't need to wrestle with this cast Steve Stack, I have The Cuban Assassin to wrestle for me until I have this cast off and by the time my hand is healed El Gran Apollo will be a former wrestler and so will Mil Mascaras if he's stupid enough to come back here after his suspension is over!

 

Steve Stack: Jose I'm incredibly sorry to have to cut this interview short now, truly I am, but we have to take another time out for our sponsors but don't go away when we come back we'll talk to The Fabulous Ones and we've still got our main event of Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert vs. The Assassins to come so don't go away!

 

-Fourth commercial break-

 

Sheik Adnan: Jim Duggan do not think I have forgotten about you just because you have not heard from me in a few weeks. I told you I will never stop until your career is over and you are broken and begging me to stop my war against you. You like to wrap yourself in the flag and think of yourself as an American hero will now I have found someone who will teach you otherwise Jim Duggan. I have a real hero of your country who will be coming to see you very shortly to teach you the error of your ways. This is a man who has been in combat, he has been to war and now he has joined my army, The Sheik's army to wage war against YOU Jim Duggan. You are his enemy now Jim Duggan and he has promised me that he will wipe you out! So enjoy the last fleeting moments of your career while you can Jim Duggan because they will soon be over!

Steve Stack: Apparently we've gotten another paid for video by Sheik Adnan. I don't really know what to make of the things he just said so I'm just going to move this show along and bring out the Southwest Tag Team Champions, The Fabulous Ones!

 

 

Steve Stack: First of all congratulations on your victory over Mr. Saito and Yoshi Seito last Sunday night, I know that was a tough match not just because of the quality of your opponents but with shoulder injury Steve Keirn that left Stan Lane to almost have to go it alone.

 

Steve Keirn: My shoulder might be a little banged up right now but I could have gotten in there and wrestled last Sunday night, that's just not how the match ended up playing out. They did a good job of keeping Stan Lane from being able to make the tag but everything worked out in the end as you can see by us standing out here now with these belts.

 

Steve Stack: I know you guys requested a match with The Assassins, what are your thoughts on Ken Lucas & Eddie Gilbert facing the Assassins on TV today with them getting the title shot against you instead of The Assassins if they come out victorious?

 

Stan Lane: Look, we like Eddie and Ken. We had some problems with them in the past but that's all water under the bridge now and we consider those guys friends of ours. We'd like to give them a title shot but The Assassins came out here last week and jumped us and beat us up right here on TV. How are we supposed to just let that go and not try to get our revenge on them? Of course we asked for a match with The Assassins and we certainly won't be rooting for them to beat Gilbert and Lucas but we still want that match with them this Sunday night.

 

Steve Stack: Steve, I've got to ask what is the status of that left shoulder we saw The Assassins attack last week?

 

Steve Keirn: I'm not going to lie Steve Stack, it's still sore, it still hurts me and I don't have full mobility of my left arm right now. But luckily for me I'm right handed which still means I can throw my best punch and so I'm not too worried about it. I'm not going to let it slow me down or keep me from defending these belts.

 

Steve Stack: Well gentlemen I look forward to seeing you in action this Sunday night against whichever team you end up facing in your title defense. Right now let's head to the ring for our second match of the day with the newly formed team of Larry Hamilton and Steve Pardee taking on Paul Peller and Mike Fever.

 

 

 

Mike Fever & Paul Peller vs. Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton

Larry Hamilton and Steve Pardee show some surprising continuity for a brand new team, working well together and making quick tags in and out while they have Paul Peller isolated in their corner. They win the very short match after a Steve Pardee Bulldog on Paul Peller

 

Steve Stack: That was an impressive first showing of the newly paired team of Larry Hamilton and Steve Pardee and it looks like they could be set to make some waves in the very competitive tag team division here in Southwest Championship Wrestling. Now we've got to take our last commercial break of the program but you won't want to touch that dial because when we come back we're going to see our main event of the day with Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert taking on The Assassins!

 

-Fifth and final commercial break-

 

Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling! Let's not waste any time, we want to make sure we can give you a finish to this big main event so let's head right down to the ring for Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert taking on The Assassins!

 

 

Ken Lucas & Eddie Gilbert vs. The Assassins

Eddie Gilbert starts the match and comes out strong against Assassin #2, using hit and run tactics to stagger the bigger man but eventually Gilbert misses a dropkick and Assassin #2 just starts mauling the young competitor with kicks, punches and stomps. He gets Gilbert in the Assassins corner and The Assassins start to double team Gilbert and make quick tags in and out to take advantage of the count to get out of the ring after a tag. Eventually Assassin #1 misses a big elbow drop which allows Gilbert to roll into his corner and make the tag to Ken Lucas! Lucas comes in fired up and tosses the interfering Assassin #2 out of the ring and then after a series of dropkicks he catches Assassin #1 in his patented Sleeper! Assassin #1 looks like he's starting to fake when Assassin #2 loads his boat on the floor and then rushes back in and catches Ken Lucas with a big running boot to the head! Gilbert rushes in and the two of them wind up outside of the ring fighting while Assassin #1 recovers from the Sleeper and drops a big elbow on the downed Ken Lucas and covers him for the 3.

 

Steve Stack: What a tough loss for Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert! The Fabulous Ones certainly have their work cut out for them Sunday night as The Assassins look even more vicious than they did here a few months ago. Fans we're out of time but make sure you get your tickets to see the action at the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night where we'll see The Fabulous Ones defending the Southwest Tag Team Titles against The Assassins, David Von Erich making his return to the ring taking on Yoshi Seito, Jim Duggan and Ron Starr facing off against Tully Blanchard and Mr. Saito, El Gran Apollo versus The Cuban Assassin and much more! You won't want to miss it and don't forget to join us here next week for more of the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling right here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

 

Scheduled for Sunday, November 27th at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX

 

Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Assassin vs. The Fabulous Ones

David Von Erich vs. Yoshi Seito

Jim Duggan & Ron Starr vs. Tully Blanchard & Mr. Saito

El Gran Apollo vs. The Cuban Assassin

Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas vs. Yin & Yang

Southwest TV Title:Roy Lee Welch vs. Mike Masters

Timothy Flowers & Goldie Rogers vs. Man Mountain Link & Tiny Anderson

Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton vs. Bruiser Costa & Terry Adonis

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Southwest Championship Wrestling @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 11/27/83

 

Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton vs. Bruiser Costa & Terry Adonis - Larry Hamilton starts the match with Terry Adonis and just ties him up like a pretzel on the mat. He wears him down with various holds with Adonis having no real answer for Hamilton's AAU amateur wrestling skills until Bruiser Costa comes in and kicks Hamilton in the head during an Oklahoma Roll to break the pin and Adonis is able to use that to his advantage raking Hamilton's eyes as he tried to clear the cobwebs after the kick to the head and then shoving him into the corner and making the tag to Bruiser Costa. Costa and Adonis keep Hamilton isolated in their corner and work him over for a while including an abdominal stretch from Costa with Terry Adonis providing illegal extra leverage while the referee is out of position to see it. The ref finally catches Adonis and makes Costa break the hold. Costa tries to put the abdominal stretch back on but Hamilton instead hip tosses out of it and makes a dash into his corner to tag in Steve Pardee. Pardee comes in and dropkicks a charging Bruiser Costa but then gets hit from behind by a cheap shot from Terry Adonis. Costa whips Pardee into the ropes and ducks down for a back body drop but instead Pardee grabs his head and Bulldogs him! Pardee makes the cover and Hamilton keeps Terry Adonis from breaking the pin, giving the new team of Steve Pardee and Larry Hamilton their first victory in the HemisFair Arena.

 

Winners: Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton in 7:17 after Steve Pardee hit the Bulldog on Bruiser Costa

 

Timothy Flowers w/Jim Holliday & Goldie Rogers vs. Man Mountain Link & Tiny Anderson - Rogers and Flowers both started the match refusing to get in the ring with Man Mountain Link. The referee got tired of their antics and rang the bell and started counting them out on the apron so they would just take turns going outside the ring until the count of 9, coming back inside to make a quick tag and then the new legal man would go right back outside the ring. Finally Link got tired of waiting for them to engage so he tagged out to Tiny Anderson. At that point Goldie Rogers came in and started mocking Tiny Anderson, telling him he'd probably never had a woman in his whole life while Goldie could pick any woman he wanted out of the crowd. Tiny responded by slapping him in the face and grabbing him into a side headlock which caused the HemisFair crowd to explode. Tiny tried to pull Rogers into the corner so he could tag in Link but Rogers slipped out of the headlock and quickly retreated to his corner and tagged in Timothy Flowers. Flowers challenged Tiny to stay in the ring so he went back into the center of the ring where Flowers wanted a test of strength. The crowd tried to warn Tiny not to go for it but eventually he was goaded into it by Flowers, Rogers and Holliday all mocking him. Flowers quickly gained the upper hand in the test of strength and forced Tiny down to his knees then started jawing at Link on the apron. Suddenly Anderson started to come back and work his way back to his feet but Flowers cut him off with a kick to the gut and then broke the test of strength and punched him and whipped him into the corner. Flowers & Rogers worked over Anderson in their corner, making tags in and out while being extremely arrogant and mocking Tiny and the crowd for supporting him. Flowers hit a bodyslam on Tiny and tried to cover him with one foot on his chest but Tiny kicked out at the count of 2. The crowd started to chant for Tiny which seemed to get his adrenaline going but they Flowers cut him off as he made a tag to Rogers and the two of them hit a double suplex on Anderson. Rogers went for a cover but then pulled Tiny up at the count of 2 and started slapping him around. Rogers got Flowers to hold Tiny while Rogers bounced off the ropes and came in with a big forearm but Tiny ducked out of the way at the last second and Rogers hit Timothy Flowers instead! Tiny quickly darted to his corner with Rogers chasing him but Tiny made it there first and tagged in Man Mountain Link! Rogers started backpedaling but Man Mountain Link grabbed him up and crushed him with the Falling Powerslam and pinned him as Timothy Flowers just looked on from the floor.

 

Winners: Man Mountain Link and Tiny Anderson in 8:58 after Link pinned Goldie Rogers following a Falling Powerslam

 

David Von Erich w/Sunshine vs. Yoshi Seito - David started this match fired up and was all over Yoshi Seito from the sound of the bell. David beat on him for a while until getting him down on the mat in a stomach claw. Seito had to keep fighting to keep his shoulder off the mat while he worked his way to the ropes and then finally got the break. Seito slipped outside the ring to try and regroup but David went out after him and Seito had to quickly roll back in the ring to avoid him. David came back in after him and caught a kick to the throat as he came in under the ropes after Yoshi Seito. Seito kicked and stomped on David and then put him into a side headlock but David quickly powered out of that with a big back suplex. Seito got up groggy and David whipped him into the ropes and hit a high knee on Seito as he came back and then put Seito in the Iron Claw as he was down on the mat. Seito tried to get to the ropes but David kept him from making it and eventually Seito had no choice but to submit to the Iron Claw.

 

Winner: David Von Erich in 6:42 after making Yoshi Seito submit to the Iron Claw

 

After the match Mr. Saito ran down to the ring and attacked David from behind while he was having his hand raised. Saito had David down on the mat and started chopping him in the throat when suddenly Sunshine got in the ring and jumped on his back! Saito shrugged her off and reached back to slap her when suddenly Yoshi Seito grabbed his hand! Mr. Saito started beating the crap out of Yoshi Seito and David Von Erich grabbed Sunshine and pulled her out of the ring. David started to try and go back to the locker room but Sunshine pleaded with him to go back and help Yoshi Seito. David looked conflicted about it but finally Sunshine convinced him and David grabbed a chair and ran back into the ring and chased off Mr. Saito who was just lighting into Yoshi Seito with stomps and kicks to the throat. Sunshine stayed on the opposite side of the ring from Saito as he went nuts at ringside and promised to hurt all 3 of them. Saito finally went back to the locker room and David Von Erich helped Yoshi Seito back to his feet at the urging of Sunshine. Yoshi Seito looked confused at first but eventually bowed to David Von Erich and left the ring by himself with David and Sunshine following shortly after

 

Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas vs. Yin & Yang - Yang started the match against Eddie Gilbert and the two of them shook hands before locking up. Yang got Eddie Gilbert on the mat and tried to control him but Gilbert showed a lot of fire and ability by countering out of Yang's holds or quickly pushing himself into the ropes. After a few minutes of that, Gilbert and Yang both tagged out and Yin came in fired up and wanting a brawl with Ken Lucas. That didn't work out so well for the man in the black bodysuit and white mask as Lucas got the better of their brawl. Yin wanted to go for another round only to get the same results and then retreated to his corner and tagged out to Yang. Yang came in and wanted a handshake which Ken Lucas obliged but then Yang pulled him in and headbutted him which dropped Ken Lucas like a ton of bricks. Yang quickly went for the cover and pinned Lucas for the count of 3.

 

Winners: Yin & Yang in 5:33 after Yang knocked out Ken Lucas with a headbutt and pinned him

 

Eddie Gilbert came in and wanted referee Carl Fergie to check Yang's mask but Yin & Yang were already half way up the aisle with the crowd suspecting some shenanigans just took place and starting to boo them. Eddie Gilbert and Carl Fergie had to help Ken Lucas out of the ring as he seemed totally out of it following the headbutt from Yang.

 

El Gran Apollo vs. The Cuban Assassin w/Jose Lothario - El Gran Apollo attacked The Cuban Assassin as soon as he got in the ring and started hammering him with punches. The Cuban Assassin tried to backpedal away but Apollo stayed right on top of him just pounding away at him with punches and forearms with The Cuban trying to fight back but to no avail. Finally referee Jack Howe got in the middle and tried to get Apollo to open up his fists which allowed The Cuban Assassin an opening to rake Apollo's eyes and then chop him in the throat. Jack Howe got on The Cuban about his illegal tactics but he only ignored him and started pounding on Apollo's back with forearms and then slammed him down to the canvas and put him into a chin lock. Apollo quickly was able to break out of it however and started firing away again with punches and had The Cuban staggered on the ropes. Apollo charged at him but The Cuban Assassin was able to duck his clothesline and pick Apollo up and drop him throat first across the top rope. The Cuban Assassin then dropped a big elbow down on the already injured throat of Apollo and tried to cover him but Apollo got his foot over the bottom rope to break the pin. The Cuban Assassin put another chin lock on Apollo and Apollo struggled back to his feet only to have his hair pulled and taken back down which the referee missed due to Jose Lothario causing him to be distracted. Apollo was able to work his way back to his feet again and this time drove himself backwards into the corner and kept slamming The Cuban Assassin's back into the turnbuckles into he finally broke free. Apollo climbed on top of The Cuban in the corner and started raining punches down on his head and then got down and slammed The Cuban Assassin's head into the mat. Apollo went up to the top rope and was looking to come off with his Flying Crossbody but Jose Lothario got up on the apron to try and shove him off. Instead, Apollo kicked Jose and sent him falling back down to the arena floor but it gave The Cuban Assassin the time to recover and grab Apollo and slam him off the top rope. The Cuban Assassin then covered El Gran Apollo and pinned him with his feet on the ropes for added leverage.

 

Winner: The Cuban Assassin in 8:19 after The Cuban Assassin pinned Apollo with his feet on the ropes after Apollo was slammed off the top rope following interference by Jose Lothario

 

After the match Jose tossed a spike into the ring and called for The Cuban Assassin to use it on Apollo but Apollo got up to fast and blocked The Cuban's attempt to spike him in the head! Apollo kicked The Cuban Assassin in the stomach and grabbed the spike away from him and went after The Assassin with it but Jose helped him get out of the ring in time to avoid it and they both quickly headed back to the locker room as Apollo stood in the ring with the spike challenging them to come back

 

Jim Duggan & Ron Starr vs. Tully Blanchard & Mr. Saito - Duggan started the match in the ring alone as Tully and Saito mocked him about not Ron Starr not showing up from Puerto Rico. They had stood jawing with Jim Duggan with their backs to the aisle and Starr suddenly ran out from the locker room and grabbed their heads and smashed them together and then he and Duggan started firing punches at Tully & Saito which sent them scurrying from the ring. Duggan challenged Tully to come in back in against him but Tully was having none of it. Duggan and Tully kept having their war of words while Mr. Saito tried to sneak around behind Duggan to attack him from behind but Duggan turned just at the last second and blasted Mr. Saito with a big punch that sent him down to the mat. Tully rushed in and tried to attack Duggan from behind but Duggan turned and hit him too and then he grabbed Tully and Saito and slammed their heads together and they rolled out of the ring together as the crowd went wild. Saito & Tully had a fit outside the ring as Duggan just stood in the ring with his hands on his hips. Saito slowly started to get back in the ring, complaining to the referee to keep Duggan back and Tully tried to sneak around Duggan's blindside while he was focused on Saito. Saito started into the ring just as Tully charged at Duggan but Duggan sidestepped out of the way and Tully and Saito crashed into each other and then Duggan slammed their heads together again much to the delight of the HemisFair crowd. Saito and Tully rolled out again while Duggan went into his corner and started doing his patented stomp as the crowd went nuts. Saito got back in the ring again and this time he called for Jim Duggan to make the tag out to Ron Starr. Duggan asked the crowd but they didn't want him to tag out so Duggan went back into the center of the ring and Saito retreated to his corner. He and Tully both kept calling for Ron Starr to come in and finally Duggan went back to his corner and tagged in 'Rugged' Ron Starr. Ron Starr came in and locked up with Saito and the two of them circled around trying to gain the advantage but neither man was able to and they broke off. They circled and went for another lockup but this time Saito hit a knee to the gut on Starr and then started blasting him with hard karate chops. Saito tried to whip Starr into the corner but Starr reversed it and sent Saito into the corner with Duggan and Duggan nailed him with a big punch that sent him staggering backwards into a dropkick to the back by Starr. Starr then grabbed an arm bar and started working it but Tully distracted the ref to allow Saito to break out of it with a rake to the eyes and then a chop to the throat for good measure.

 

Saito then got Starr into his corner with Tully and the two of them kept Ron Starr isolated there and took turns working him over. Tully went to work on Starr's leg to try and neutralize his big running knee lift. Tully put Starr into a figure four and just as Starr looked to be about to turn it over, Tully was able to reach out and make the tag to Saito who came in and cut off Starr's comeback with a big chop to the throat. Saito put Starr into his Scorpion Deathlock but Duggan ran in and broke that up with a big punch to Saito. Starr started to crawl his way to the corner but Saito tagged Tully who came in and dropped a big elbow to the back of Starr's head to cut him off from making the tag. Tully and Saito continued to work over Ron Starr when suddenly Sgt. Slaughter came from out of nowhere and pulled Duggan down off the apron and blasted him with the Slaughter Cannon! Slaughter started putting the boots to Duggan out on the floor and then picked up the big heavy wooden ring steps and dropped them down on Duggan's chest. Tully was distracted by this which allowed Ron Starr to hit him in the gut and double him over and then blast him with the big running knee lift. Starr collapsed again and then started crawling to his corner, not knowing that Duggan was down out on the floor. Slaughter's assault on Duggan was finally ended as arena security and police came and removed him from the ringside area. Tully and Starr both made it to their corners at the same time and Tully tagged in Saito but Ron Starr finally realized Duggan wasn't there and looked around confused until he saw Duggan laid out on the floor. Just as Starr started to turn around he got grabbed from behind by Mr. Saito and dumped on his head with a Saito Suplex and pinned for the 3 count.

 

Winners: Tully Blanchard & Mr. Saito in 14:25 after a Saito Suplex on Ron Starr. During the match Sgt. Slaughter appeared and attacked Duggan at ringside

 

Southwest TV Title:Roy Lee Welch vs. Mike Masters w/Jim Holliday - Mike Masters started out the match with his usual tactics of going out between the ropes to keep his opponent away from him and doing everything he could to avoid contact while strutting and posing whenever he had the referee in between him and Roy Lee Welch. Finally Roy baited him into contact by calling for a test of strength. Masters looked full of confidence as he put his hands up for it only to get a big punch to the jaw from Roy Lee Welch and get grabbed into a headlock. Welch just wrenched and wrenched on the headlock, grinding Mike Masters' ears in the process and forcing him down on the mat. Masters uses his strength advantage to work his way back up and tried to drop Welch back with a suplex but Welch shifted his weight and pulled Masters over with a headlock takeover instead. Masters tried again for the suplex only to get the same headlock takeover result. Masters then tried to push Welch off into the ropes but Welch held on. Finally Masters was able to break out of the headlock after Holliday jumped on the apron to distract Welch which gave Masters the momentary lapse he needed to drop Welch back with the suplex and dump him on his head. Masters then got up strutting and posing some more while Holliday yelled at him to stay on his opponent. Masters went to grab Welch but Welch started firing punches into his midsection and tried to grab the headlock again but got shot off into the ropes and came back into a hard shoulder block from Masters that put him down on the mat. Masters tried to follow up with an elbow drop but Welch moved out of the way. Welch grabbed Masters and tried to whip him into the ropes but Masters reversed it and whipped Welch into the corner and Welch did his usual bounce off the 2nd turnbuckle into a crossbody but Masters caught him and turned it into a hard powerslam and went for the cover but Welch was just able to get his shoulder up before the count of 3. Masters grabbed him up and hit a big bodyslam and went for another elbow drop that this time connect and tried another pin but Welch again was able to get the shoulder up. The ring announcer announced that there was only 1 minute left in the match and Masters seemed to get motivated to put him away as he grabbed Welch up and bodyslammed him again and then picked him back up and bodyslammed him two more times and went for another cover but Welch was still able to kick out. Masters then signaled for the Full Nelson and waited for Welch to get back to his feet. Welch got up and Masters went behind him and started to put him in the Full Nelson but Welch dropped down out of it and kicked his feet up and caught Masters right under the chin which put Masters down on the mat just as it was announced that there were 30 seconds left in the match. Welch then went for his Spinning Toe Hold and successfully got it on! He started turning it and turning it as Holliday yelled at Masters to hold on and not give up! Masters was screaming in pain and looked on the verge of quitting when suddenly Jim Holliday jumped in the ring and dove at Roy Lee Welch to break up the Spinning Toe Hold.

 

Winner: Roy Lee Welch by disqualification in 9:51 after Jim Holliday ran in the ring and broke Welch's Spinning Toe Hold

 

Roy dropped Holliday with one big punch and then put HIM in the Spinning Toe Hold much to the delight of the crowd but that turned out to be a poor decision as it allowed Mike Masters to get up and blast him in the back of the head with the Television Title. Masters picked up his manager and helped him limp back to the locker room as Roy struggled to get back to his feet in the ring.

 

Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Assassins vs. The Fabulous Ones - The Assassins attacked The Fabulous Ones just as they were stepping through the ropes and started beating the crap out of them. They threw Stan Lane over the barricade and into the crowd and then grabbed Steve Keirn and started smashing his shoulder into the ring post. Then the picked up up and dropped him shoulder first on the ring steps and Steve Keirn looked to be hurt badly. They continued pounding and kicking at the bad shoulder until Stan Lane grabbed a chair from the crowd and hopped back over the barricade and came after them. They just narrowly avoided Stan Lane swinging the chair at them and retreated to the safety of the ring. Stan checked on Steve Keirn and Steve seemed to be seriously injured. Carl Fergie came down to ringside and the scheduled referee Jack Howe who was already in the ring went outside to assess the situation. They decided to call of the match due to Steve Keirn's injury but The Assassin grabbed the microphone and said that they had a signed contract to wrestle for the Southwest Tag Team Titles and that if The Fabulous Ones didn't wrestle then that meant The Assassins would win via forfeit and be the new champions. Carl Fergie and Jack Howe refused to let Keirn wrestle with his shoulder in the shape that it was in but Stan Lane would not forfeit the match and declared that he would go it alone against The Assassins.

 

Stan Lane came in alone as Assassin #1 mocked him having to go at it 2 on 1 which only earned him a karate kick from Lane and then Lane jumped on him and started pounding the crap out of him. Lane started going after #1's mask which brought Assassin #2 in to boot him in the back of the head which caused Lane to slump down to the canvas. Assassin #1 bounced off the ropes and hit his big elbow drop on Stan Lane and rolled him over to pin him but Lane was able to get his shoulder up just before the count of 3. Assassin #1 tagged out and Assassin #2 came in and just started mauling Stan Lane with his hard hitting, mauling style. He tried numerous times to pin Stan Lane but couldn't keep him down. After wearing down Stan Lane in some holds Assassin #2 set up for his big Running Boot but Lane was able to duck it and grab him into the Russian Legsweep! Lane made the cover but it was broken up by a big elbow drop to the back of the head by Assassin #1. As the referee was focused on getting Assassin #1 back out of the ring, #2 loaded up his boot and this time caught Stan Lane with it right to the side of the head as Lane was struggling to get back to his feet. Assassin #2 pinned him for the count of 3 to win the Southwest Tag Team Titles!

 

Winners and the NEW Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Assassins in 8:40 after Assassin #2 pinned Stan Lane following a kick from his loaded boot

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Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 11/28

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 12/3 in local markets

-Show intro-


Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling! We've got a lot of things to get to in this hour but I'd like to start off by informing the fans that we have new Southwest Tag Team Champions as The Assassins were victorious last Sunday night in their match against The Fabulous Ones. I should say, their match against Stan Lane as The Assassins attacked Steve Keirn before the match and further injured his already bad shoulder to the point where Keirn was unable to compete. The match was going to be called off but The Assassins demanded they win the titles by forfeit if the match didn't take place and so Stan Lane tried to go it alone to hold on to the titles but he was unable to fight off both of The Assassins by himself. Stanley Blackburn has reviewed the events that took place before and during that match and has deemed The Assassins the rightful holders of the Southwest Tag Team Titles but he HAS fined them both $1000 for their attack on Steve Keirn prior to the match. He was ready to sign a rematch between The Fabulous Ones and The Assassin for the belts this Sunday night but Steve Keirn suffered a badly separated shoulder and is going to be unable to compete for at least a few weeks. We'll be hearing an update on his condition from The Fabulous Ones themselves later in the hour but they have promised a big surprise for The Assassins as they have apparently gotten a top tag team in the AWA to come in and take their place this Sunday night against The Assassins.

 

We'll have more information on that later in the hour but in other news from Sunday night, we saw a breakdown in the partnership between Mr. Saito and Yoshi Seito as Mr. Saito came down to the ring and try to slap Sunshine after Seito's loss to David Von Erich only to be stopped by Yoshi Seito himself. This caused Mr. Saito to become enraged and attack his young protege only to be chased off by David Von Erich, at the request of Sunshine. In the main event here on television today we will see the young Yoshi Seito try and gain a measure of revenge on his former mentor as he takes on Mr. Saito in one on one action. We've got that and more scheduled for today's program so don't go away during this commercial break because you won't want to miss a minute of the best that wrestling has to offer right here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

-First commercial break-

Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and before we talk to The Fabulous Ones we're going to head down to the ring for our first match of the day between the newly formed team of Larry Hamilton and Steve Pardee against Snake Brown and Paul Peller.

 

Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee vs. Snake Brown & Paul Peller

Larry Hamilton starts the match against Snake Brown and quickly takes him down to the mat and ties him up. Hamilton just rides Brown who is totally outclassed by Hamilton's amateur wrestling ability. Finally Hamilton just lets him up and tags out to Steve Pardee while Snake Brown tags out to Paul Beller. Peller wants a handshake and Pardee obliges only to get a cheapshot in return. Peller hammers on Pardee for a very short while until Pardee starts firing back and quickly finishes Peller off with a Bulldog while Hamilton cuts off Snake Brown from breaking up the pin.

 

Steve Stack: Another quick victory for the team of Hamilton and Pardee and I think these two young men could have quite future together as a tag team. This Sunday night we'll be seeing them in action against two newcomers in the area when they take on Pat Rose and Ron Sexton in the HemisFair Arena and I'm sure it's going to be an exciting match that you won't want to miss. Now I want to bring in two men who unfortunately will NOT be in action this Sunday night, the former Southwest Tag Team Champions, Stan Lane and Steve Keirn: The Fabulous Ones!



Steve Stack: Gentlemen first let me say how disappointed I was to see you lose your titles under such unfavorable circumstances. The Assassins jump you before the match and then you're still forced to either defend the titles or forfeit them which wasn't exactly the most fair set of circumstances to work with.

Stan Lane: Well Steve Stack, my momma taught me a long time ago that life ain't fair. And it proved to be true last Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena when we got robbed of OUR Southwest Tag Team Titles. But there's another old saying "what goes around comes around" and sooner or later we're going to get our revenge on The Assassins and not only are we going to get our belts back we might just take some masks off for good measure.

Steve Keirn: I can't help but feel responsible for what happened Sunday night, as it was my fault that my partner had to go it alone against The Assassins. And it's my fault we can't be there Sunday night to win back our titles for all our fans.
Stan Lane: Don't say that Steve, it's not your fault, it's The Assassins fault and everyone knows that.

Steve Keirn: Be that as it may, it's my injury that is going to keep us from being able to compete for the next few weeks. But I wanted to try and make it up to all the fans who have been so great to us since we came here to Texas and that's why I got on the phone and called one of the most exciting teams in all of professional wrestling to come and take our place in the match against The Assassins this Sunday night. And rather than tell you who they are, I got a video tape made to show you just who is coming in this Sunday night and who is going to be kicking some Assassin butt in our place.

Stan Lane: Before you show that video Steve Stack I just want to say that Steve Keirn and I are a team. We're not just partners in the ring, we're best friends and we do everything together. So while Steve is out, I'm not gonna going to be here wrestling by myself I'm going to be with Steve helping him rehab his shoulder injury and get ready to comeback and take back our Southwest Tag Team Titles. So you won't be seeing either of us around for a little while but I promise we will be back and when we do come back we're going to make up for lost time and give The Assassins a beating like they've never had before.

-The Fabulous Ones leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Alright fans you've just heard from The Assassins now let's take a look at this video tape and see who will be in action against The Assassins this Sunday night in the Southwest Tag Team Title match.

-A video set to the tune of Electric Light Orchestra's 'Rock N Roll Is King' plays with highlights of The Rock N Roll Express in action against teams like The Bruiser Brothers, The Japanese Assassins and The Road Warriors with a heavy emphasis on them double dropkicking their opponents

Steve Stack: Well judging by the response to that video here in The Junction, Rock N Roll might very well be king! It looks like The Assassins are in for quite a fight this Sunday night as they take on the team of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson, The Rock N Roll Express! Fans we've got to take another commercial break but don't go away because you never know what's next here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

-Second commercial break-

Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling! Last Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena we saw Jim Duggan and Ron Starr team up to take on Tully Blanchard and Mr. Saito with a lot on the line as Tully and Mr. Saito were trying to hold off Duggan and Starr from receiving any future Southwest Heavyweight Title matches as long as Tully is the champion while if Duggan or Starr won the match the winner of the fall would have received a title match this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena. Things didn't quite work out well for the team of the 'Hacksaw' and 'Rugged' Ron Starr however as Sheik Adnan made good on his word of having an American hero attack Jim Duggan as a former Drill Sergeant in the U.S. Marines who wrestles under the name Sgt. Slaughter appeared and attacked Jim Duggan, helping Tully and Mr. Saito secure a victory for their team. I had the chance to talk to Sgt. Slaughter backstage following that incident and let's take a look now at those videotaped comments.

Steve Stack: Sgt. Slaughter I have to assume you were the man that Sheik Adnan was talking about when he said he had an American hero on the way to teach Jim Duggan a lesson, but I have to ask you WHY? Why would you align yourself with Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie a known enemy to this country?

Sgt. Slaughter: It wasn't an easy decision for me to make. I know what kind of person Sheik Adnan is, he's scum, he's slime, he goes against everything I fought for as a U.S. Marine when I defended this country. He kept making me offer and offer, more and more money but I didn't take this job for the money. I took it because he sent me a video tape of this guy Jim Duggan and I watched this maggot try and wrap himself in the American flag, MY FLAG and fool all these people into thinking that he's an American hero. Well doesn't represent me! He doesn't represent MY America! Look at that ridiculous hair! How can a man who has hair down to his shoulders be a hero to anyone? How can a man who listens to the devil's rock n roll music be a hero to the real patriots of this country? What has Jim Duggan ever done for this country? What branch of the military was he in? What wars did he serve in? It made me sick to my stomach to see people cheering him and chanting USA while he was in the ring and that's the only reason I took Sheik Adnan's money to come here. Because these people of Texas need to be educated on what a REAL American hero is! On what a REAL American hero looks like! Not that long haired hippie maggot! I'm gonna be back here next Sunday night and I'm gonna fight Jim Duggan right in the middle of that ring and after I get done beating him senseless, after I put him to sleep in the Cobra Clutch I'm going to give him an official Marine Corps approved haircut and shave him right in the middle of the ring. And maybe after that's over, maybe these maggots here in Texas will see what a real American hero is and I'll leave here with the people saluting me and chanting USA for ME and not that hippy fraud!

Steve Stack: Those were the comments of Sgt. Slaughter, now let me bring in 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and see what he has to say in response.



Steve Stack: Jim you just heard Sgt. Slaughter's explanation for why he attacked you last Sunday night, what are your thoughts?

Jim Duggan: I think I'm getting real sick and tired of all these mercenaries coming from Sheik Adnan and interfering in my matches! Now because of what happened, I'm barred from getting any Southwest Heavyweight Title matches while Tully Blanchard is still the champion. So let me tell you something Sgt. Slaughter, you're worried about my hair, you're worried about what kind of music I listen to well you better be worried about me taking this big fist and shoving it all the way down your throat! I have a lot of respect for people who have served and fought for this country but I don't have any respect for a man who would take money from a rat like Geek Adnan so Slaughter, this Sunday night when you step in the ring with me you better be ready to go back to war. You better be more worried about your own survival than trying to cut my hair because I'm looking to send you to the hospital a broken, beaten man as a warning to Sheik Adnan and anyone else who is thinking about taking his money to come here and mess with me!

-Jim Duggan leaves the interview area-

Steve Stack: A very understandably fired up Jim Duggan and I can assure you fans, the match between Jim Duggan and Sgt. Slaughter this Sunday night will be the war he just promised. Right now I'd like to bring in another man with a big match coming up this Sunday night, a man who will be taking on Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Heavyweight Title, former Television Champion, Roy Lee Welch.



-Roy Lee Welch comes into the interview area

Steve Stack: Roy you weren't here on the program last week so let me just say how disappointed I was two weeks ago to see your cousin Robert Fuller interfere and cause you to lose the Southwest Television Title.

Roy Lee Welch: Well thank you Steve it was a big disappointment to me also. But it's also given me a lot of motivation and that's why this week when I was offered a rematch against Mike Masters for the Television Title, I instead asked for a match with Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Heavyweight Title. I knew that Tully didn't have an opponent for this week and if I'm able to beat him and take that belt from him, it gives me a lot of leverage to reach to my goal. Because my cousin Robert Fuller thought he'd just get one last laugh on me and run back to Alabama. But I've got different plans. Robert is the AWA National Champion which means he has to defend that belt all across the country. Which is why, after I beat Tully for the Southwest Heavyweight Title I am going to be petitioning Stanley Blackburn to make Robert come back here to Texas, without his brother Ron Fuller or our cousin Jimmy Golden, and defend that National Title against me. Robert, I'm sure you'll find a way to see this or at least have the word get back to you. You caused me to lose my Television Title and now I'm going to take a title from you in return, I'm going to beat you for that National Heavyweight Title right in the middle of the ring, right here in my new home of San Antonio, Texas and then you can go back to Alabama and cry to the rest of the family how you got beat by the "runt" of the family!

-Roy Lee Welch leaves the area-

Steve Stack: Fans you just heard it, Roy Lee Welch is a man with a very clear goal in mind, he wants to get Robert Fuller back here in the area to defend that National Heavyweight Title but he has a very big hurdle in front of him because he has to beat Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Heavyweight Title first and no one has been able to do that in the nearly 6 months that Tully has held that title. We've got to take another time out for our sponsors but don't go away because when we come back we'll see the Southwest Television Title be defending as Mike Masters puts the belt on the line against the undefeated Man Mountain Link! You won't want to miss it!

-Third commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is the Southwest Television Champion, Mike Masters and his manager 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday. First Mike let me ask you about the match with Roy Lee Welch last Sunday night where you had your title saved when Jim Holli-

Jim Holliday: Hey! We're not our here to talk about Roy Lee Welch! He realized he was better off moving on from trying to get back the Television Title because he knew he could never defeat my man Mike Masters. Now if you don't have any other questions we're just going to cut this interview short and head to the ring.

Steve Stack: Alright then, let me ask you a question Jim. Last Sunday night we saw the team of Timothy Flowers and Goldie Rogers defeated by Man Mountain Link and Tiny Anderson which is what led to Link getting the TV Title shot here today. It looked like Timothy Flowers could have made the save for Goldie Rogers at the end of that match but seemingly you told him not to. Why is that?

Jim Holliday: Because great men can admit their own mistakes and I am nothing if not great. I realized that I was mistaken in giving Goldie Rogers a probationary period to see if he had what it took to be a part of the Gentleman's Club. He did not and I told Timothy Flowers that we were better off leaving him to be defeated rather than trying to carry him to success on our backs.

Steve Stack: So then it's safe to say that Goldie Rogers' probationary period with you is over?

Jim Holliday: Absolutely it is! The Gentleman's Club is the most exclusive in all of wrestling, I only want the finest athletes, the best up and coming stars in the sport to be under my management. And that's why Goldie Rogers was left behind because he just didn't make the cut. You can see what my managerial services provide, I've already gotten Mike Masters the Television Title and as soon as I find the appropriate partner for 'Diamond' Timothy Flowers then I will make him a tag team champion. But first I have to find the right person and Goldie Rogers was not it.

Steve Stack: Well before you head down to the ring, let me ask you what your thoughts are on this match getting ready to take place between Mike Masters and Man Mountain Link? Link has been undefeated since coming to the area and has barely even been taken off his feet, what is the strategy for Mike Masters to beat him here today?

Holliday: I'm not going to discuss my strategy with you! All I will say is that yes, sure, Man Mountain Link is undefeated but nothing lasts forever and today that streak is going to end at the hands of YOUR Southwest Television Champion, the greatest young star in this sport, Mike Masters. Now if you'll excuse us, we have to head down to the ring so Mike Masters can show all these people just what a great champion looks like.

-Mike Masters and Jim Holliday leave the interview area-

Steve Stack: Alright fans let's not waste any more time, we want to make sure we have enough time in case this match reaches the 10 minute time limit, let's head down to the ring now where Man Mountain Link is already standing by to face the TV Champion, Mike Masters!

 

Man Mountain Link vs. Mike Masters w/Jim Holliday - Southwest Television Title Match

Mike Masters starts the match with his usual tactics of avoiding contact and Man Mountain Link actually just lays down in the middle of the ring! Mike Masters gets cat called by the crowd for still avoiding him so Masters runs and tries for an elbow drop only for Link to roll out of the way! Masters tries to quickly scramble away from Link but gets caught and pulled into a big headbutt! Jim Holliday starts frantically motioning to the back for someone to come out as Link scoops up Masters and hits the Falling Powerslam but Timothy Flowers runs in and attacks him as he makes the pin and the referee disqualifies Mike Masters.

 

Timothy Flowers kicks and stomps on Link until Link starts to get back to his feet and Flowers quickly dives out of the ring as Jim Holliday pulls Masters out under the bottom rope. Link starts out of the ring after them but Flowers and Holliday get under each arm of Masters and high tail it back to the locker room and away from Man Mountain Link.

Steve Stack: And Mike Masters has his title saved on another disqualification! AWA President Stanley Blackburn is going to have to do something about this as that's no way for a champion to retain his title.

-Man Mountain Link comes charging into the interview area



Man Mountain Link: What kind of a champion is Mike Masters!? He has to have his manager and his buddy come out and save his title for him?! Well I'm not done with you yet Mike Masters and I'm not going to stop until I not only take that title from you but I squash you like the annoying little bug that you are! This isn't just about what you did to my brother Tiny Anderson anymore, this is about what you've done to me now! I'm going to make sure I get a rematch with you this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena! And you better show up because if you don't you're gonna be handing that TV Title over by forfeit!

-Link leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: After the events that just took place I can't imagine Stanley Blackburn not making a rematch for this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena! And I hope he does because Man Mountain Link deserves a fair shot at the TV Title and not that farce of a title match that we just saw. Fans, we've got to take a commercial break but don't go away when we come back we're going to be talking to David Von Erich and the lovely Sunshine about their match this Sunday night against Mr. Saito and we'll also hear from the Southwest Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard, you won't want to miss it!

-Fourth commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is David Von Erich and his lovely girlfriend Sunshine! David I didn't have a chance to tell you last week with all the tension between you and Jim Duggan but I wanted to say it's great to see you healthy again and have you back in the ring.

David Von Erich: Thank you Steve and it's great to be back. But what's not great is the fact that that lowdown good for nothing lackey of Tully Blanchard tried to come out last Sunday and slap Sunshine. Luckily for him Yoshi Seito grabbed his hand or he might be in a grave right now and I'd be in jail. But regardless of whether he hit her or not, he's still going to pay. This Sunday night I've got a match with Mr. Saito and I'm going to squeeze his fat head like a grape in the Iron Claw and make him beg and scream for forgiveness. And I don't care if he gives up, I don't care what the referee says, I'm not going to take the Claw off until Sunshine tells me that he's had enough.

Steve Stack: Now David this is an important match for you, not just to defend the honor of Sunshine but because Stanley Blackburn has said if you win this match you'll be facing Tully Blanchard next week in the HemisFair Arena. I know you want to make Mr. Saito pay but surely your number one goal is to get that match with Tully Blanchard.

David Von Erich: You're right Steve Stack, that's obviously the thing I want most in this world right now, a match with the scum of the earth Tully Blanchard. So I guess I should try and temper my emotions this Sunday night, I can't get disqualified or I know Tully will keep right on trying to hide from me and avoid getting the payback that he has coming to him. Tully, I promised you the beating of your life for what you did to me and what you did to Sunshine and I intend to follow through on that promise. It wouldn't matter if you put Andre the Giant in front of me this Sunday night, I'd find a way to beat him so I could get to you. So you just get ready for it because next week it WILL be you and me in that ring and it's going to be a long, painful, bloody night for in the HemisFair Arena.

Sunshine: Tully Blanchard are you proud of shoving me around? Are you proud of sending your bodyguard out to try and slap me? Is that the kind of man you are? Is that who your mother and father raised you to be? You're a disgusting excuse for a man and you don't deserve to be called a champion. I stood by David Von Erich in the darkest moments of his career and I helped him get ready for this comeback and I can not wait to see him give you the beating that you deserve. And after it's all over Tully, after he's beaten you and left you in a pool of your own blood I want you to know I'm going to be right there to smile in your face and spit on you like the worthless trash that you are!

David: I think Sunshine just said everything that needs to be said Steve Stack.

-David Von Erich and Sunshine leave the interview area-

Steve Stack: Indeed she did. It will certainly be interesting to see what happens if David Von Erich is victorious this Sunday against Mr. Saito and receives that one on one match with Tully Blanchard. Now before we talk to the aforementioned Southwest Heavyweight Champion, let me bring out the new Southwest Tag Team Champions and talk to them about their win last Sunday night and their opponents this Sunday, The Rock N Roll Express.

-The Assassins come into the interview area



Steve Stack: First let me ask you how you feel about the way you won the Southwest Tag Team Titles by forcing Steve Keirn out of the match and beating Stan Lane in what was essentially a handicap match?

Assassin #1: Do you think I'm going to say that I feel ashamed? That I feel bad for The Fabulous Ones for how they lost the titles? Well I don't feel that way Steve Stack, I feel great about standing out here with this belt on my shoulder. Why should I have any remorse about the way we won the titles? It's not our fault that Steve Keirn is weak and couldn't take what we dished out. I have nothing but contempt for The Fabulous Ones and not an ounce of sympathy anywhere in my body. The only thing I regret is that we didn't injure Stan Lane as well.

Steve Stack: Alright then since you've made your feelings about The Fabulous Ones perfectly clear, let me ask you about your opponents this Sunday night, The Rock N Roll Express.

Assassin #1: The Rock N Roll Express...those 2 little teenybopper idols think they have what it takes to step into the ring with the most dangerous tag team in wrestling? Did they not see what we just did to The Fabulous Ones? Do they not realize that they are here to wrestle the greatest tag team in the world and not go to some rock concert? There won't be any music videos made about what we do to them this Sunday night, there won't be anyone screaming Rock N Roll, there will just be a trail of tears from their little teenage girl fans as they get carried back to Memphis on stretchers. I don't know what The Fabulous Ones have against Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson but they must not like them very much to put them into the ring with us because we aren't playing games, we are going to hurt them and we are going to hurt them bad.

-The Assassins leave the interview area and suddenly Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert come in

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Eddie Gilbert: Look Steve, you don't have to tell me we didn't have any time on today's show because we already know that. So I'll make this short and sweet. We aren't happy about getting passed over once again for a tag team title shot by two guys who have never even wrestled together as a team in this area.

Steve Stack: But they are one of the top teams in the AWA rankings and Ricky Morton is a former Southwest Tag Team Champion and Ken you know that better than anyone because YOU were his partner!

Ken Lucas: Of course I know that Steve, and I don't have a problem with Ricky Morton. He's a heck of a wrestler and I'm happy to see him having success in other parts of the country with a new partner. But that doesn't mean he should be able to come here and leapfrog us for a tag team title match.

Steve Stack: Look, I don't want to start any trouble out here but you two were defeated last Sunday night by Yin and Yang, it would have been tough to justify you even getting a tag team title match over them much less the Rock N Roll Express.

Ken Lucas: You know that Yang put something in his mask to win that match! There is no way he could have completely knocked me out with a headbutt otherwise. Look I see your producer trying to get you to push us out of here so I'll just say this. We want to face whoever wins the Southwest Tag Team Title match this Sunday night and there won't be any reason not to give us that match because we are going to beat Yin and Yang this Sunday and it won't matter what they put in their masks this time because we're going to be ready.

-Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert leave the interview area and Tully Blanchard comes in



Tully Blanchard: Oh boo hoo for Eddie Gilbert and Ken Lucas, they didn't get their tag team title match. Well maybe they should have been like me and won their tag team match last Sunday night. Did you see that beating Mr. Saito and I put on Jim Duggan and Ron Starr? It's a good thing for them they are barred from getting a shot at this Southwest Heavyweight Title, at least it saves them another beating from me.

Steve Stack: It seemed to me that you were the lucky recipient of interference by Sgt. Slaughter but I don't want to talk about that, I wanted to ask you about your match this Sunday night against Roy Lee Welch.

Tully Blanchard: Who does that little runt think he is? He's out here talking about beating me so he can get a match with someone else? What a joke! Who is he to look past the greatest Southwest Heavyweight Champion there has ever been? I'm gonna embarrass and humiliate that punk this Sunday night and make sure he doesn't get anywhere close to earning a National Title shot. If Robert Fuller is going to come here and defend that title against anyone, it's going to be ME!

Steve Stack: And what about the comments from David Von Erich out here earlier?

Tully Blanchard: What about them? You want me to comment on everyone's dreams and wishes that won't come true? First you ask me about Roy Welch's pipe dream of beating me to get to Robert Fuller now you ask me about David's fantasy of him actually being able to beat Mr. Saito and get a match with me. Steve Stack, I think you must have been drinking during the show today to waste my time asking me about these fantasies so I'll leave you now and give you some more alone time with whatever bottle you're sipping out of.

-Tully leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: It appears Tully Blanchard isn't very interested in contemplating the idea of getting in the ring with David Von Erich next week. Well that interview was scheduled to go a little longer but that's fine this gives me the time to talk about some of the other events that went on over the past week. Last Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena we saw the debut of The Cuban Assassin who was victorious over El Gran Apollo but not without some controversy as he had some help from his manager Jose Lothario in picking up that win. Due to those circumstances El Gran Apollo has been given a return bout this Sunday night. I've also heard that El Gran Apollo paid that $5000 fine that was levied against The Cuban Assassin with a little help from Jim Duggan who agreed to paid him a finder's fee if he helped Jim Duggan get in contact with Ron Starr while he was in Puerto Rico and paid Apollo an undisclosed amount of money once he was sure that Ron Starr was in the arena last Sunday night. Regardless, I know that Apollo had to be very upset at paying off the fine to allow The Cuban Assassin to compete only to be defeated by him last Sunday night and I have to image he'll be even more fired up this Sunday night than he was last week to get his revenge.

Right now we've got to take our final commercial break of the program but don't go away because when we come back we're going to see our TV main event between Mr. Saito and his former protege, Yoshi Seito!

-Fifth and final commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and before we go to the ring for our main event, Mr. Saito had something he wanted to say.

Mr. Saito: Yoshi Seito write me letter, ask me bring him here to America, train him, help him become great wrestler like Mr. Saito. 3 months I train him karate, judo, wrestling, I try make him #2 after #1 Saito. But he disappoint me, he embarrass me, and last week he stop me from slap Sunshine like she deserve. So now I finish with Yoshi Seito, now his turn to be embarrass, his turn to be humiliate. Because today I finish him for good, I send him back to Japan broken, after today he never wrestle again. Yoshi Seito today you learn your final lesson from me, never cross Mr. Saito!

-Mr. Saito heads down to the ring

Steve Stack: Well one thing is for sure Yoshi Seito definitely has his work cut out for him today against the angry Mr. Saito.

 

Yoshi Seito vs. Mr. Saito -

Mr. Saito starts the match by pie facing Yoshi Seito who comes back and charges at him with a double leg takedown and starts pounding on him! Referee Jack Howe breaks it up and Saito goes for a chop to the throat but Seito instead grabs Saito's arm and takes him over with an armdrag and then follows up with a dropkick that has Saito roll out to the floor to break his momentum. Saito comes back into the ring after composing himself and bows to Yoshi Seito in a sign of respect. Yoshi Seito returns the bow only to be kicked in the head by Saito! Saito is then all over Seito chopping, kicking and pounding on him! Saito grabs Yoshi Seito and slams him down with a brutal Saito Suplex! He goes for a cover but then pulls Seito up before the count of 3! He then does another Saito Suplex on Seito and pulls him up again just to hit a 3rd Saito Suplex! He then pulls a nearly unconscious Yoshi Seito up off of the mat and puts him in the Japanese Sleeper and Jack Howe doesn't even check his arm he just immediately calls for the bell as Seito was already out of it from the 3 Saito Suplexes.

 

 

Mr. Saito refuses to break the Japanese Sleeper after the bell is rung however and demands the Jack Howe check his arm. Howe tried to get Saito to break the hold, telling him the match is already over but Saito refuses and finally Jack Howe relents and raises Yoshi Seito's arm 3 times and lets it fall. But Saito STILL refuses to let go of the hold until suddenly David Von Erich runs out to the ring with a chair and Mr. Saito seems him coming and drops the lifeless Yoshi Seito and retreats from the ring just in time to avoid getting hit by David Von Erich. Mr. Saito motions to David Von Erich that he's next and walks back to the locker room as Jack Howe and David Von Erich check on the unconscious Yoshi Seito.

Steve Stack: I hate to say it but it looks like Mr. Saito may have been correct, that may very well have been the last time Yoshi Seito ever wrestles. That was one of the most disturbing beatings I have ever seen in professional wrestling and I hope that Yoshi Seito did not suffer any permanent injuries as a result of that match. What a low point to end this program on but fans we're out of time. Make sure to get your tickets for this Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena to see the debut of The Rock N Roll Express as they take on the Southwest Tag Team Champions, The Assassins! You'll also Jim Duggan go to war against Sgt. Slaughter, Tully Blanchard defend the Southwest Heavyweight Title against Roy Lee Welch, Stanley Blackburn has called in to inform us that he WILL force Mike Masters to give Man Mountain Link a rematch for the TV Title, all that and much more this Sunday night, you won't want to miss it! And make sure to join us here again next week for more of the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

Scheduled for Sunday, December 4th at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX

Jim Duggan vs. Sgt. Slaughter
Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Rock N Roll Express vs. The Assassins
Southwest Heavyweight Title: Roy Lee Welch vs. Tully Blanchard
David Von Erich vs. Mr. Saito
Ken Lucas & Eddie Gilbert vs. Yin & Yang
El Gran Apollo vs. The Cuban Assassin
Southwest Television Title: Man Mountain Link vs. Mike Masters
Ron Sexton & Pat Rose vs. Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee
Ron Starr vs. Goldie Rogers

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EDIT: Double post

 

I will use this space then to say that Art Crews has left the area after losing to Timothy Flowers on the 11/26 TV episode and Snake Brown has taken his place on the roster.

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Southwest Championship Wrestling @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 12/4/83

Ron Sexton & Pat Rose vs. Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee - Steve Pardee started the match against Ron Sexton and the two men shook hands after the bell. They locked up and Pardee got Sexton in a headlock and took him to the mat. Sexton worked to counter into a headscissors and after Pardee fought it off a few times Sexton was finally able to transition into the headscissors. Pardee worked to get himself out of the headscissors and finally popped out and the two men scrambled up to their feet and locked up again. Pardee arm dragged Sexton over and then started working on the arm with an arm bar. Sexton eventually pushed his way into the ropes and got a clean break and both men broke off to tag out to their partners.

Hamilton came in and offered a handshake which Pat Rose accepted and they locked up with Hamilton quickly going behind Rose and taking him down to the mat but Rose sat up and countered out and quickly got back to his feet. They locked up again and this time Rose blocked the go behind with an elbow and grabbed Hamilton's head and took him down with a headlock takeover. Hamilton countered the headlock into a headscissors and Rose eventually rolled over onto his stomach and popped out and spun over Hamilton and put him into a front facelock. Hamilton pushed himself into the ropes for the break and Rose gave him a clean break as the ring announcer announced 10 minutes gone in the match with 5 minutes remaining.

Hamilton and Rose both tagged out and Sexton & Pardee came in against each other again. Pardee and Sexton locked up and Sexton used the hair to pull Pardee into a headlock. The crowd got upset and told Jack Howe about the hair pulling by Ron Sexton denied it. Pardee tried shooting Sexton off into the ropes but Sexton again used the hair, this time to hold onto the move and the crowd got even more riled up about it. Sexton continued to deny the hair pulling but got caught the 3rd time as Pardee tried to shoot him off in the ropes and Jack Howe saw him using the hair to hold on and forced him to break the hold. Sexton broke the hold and Pardee came charging at him and started firing punches at him but Sexton kept backpedaling into his corner where Rose tagged him on the back and came in without Pardee seeing the tag and blasted Pardee with a rabbit punch and then took him down with a headlock takeover. Pardee quickly broke out of it and put Rose into a headlock of his own and Rose tried to roll Pardee over on his shoulders for a pin while using the tights but Pardee was able to kick out before the count of 3. Pardee complained to the referee about the tights being pulled but Rose did it again and the referee missed it while he counted Pardee's shoulders but Pardee got a shoulder up before the 3 and rolled back over. Rose got caught on the 3rd time he rolled Pardee over using the tights and Jack Howe pushed him back over without counting the pin. Pardee pulled Rose up to his feet and went to set him up for the Bulldog but Sexton grabbed Rose's tights and pulled him back out of it.

Pardee thought about charging into their corner and attacking them both but thought better of it and instead went to his corner to tag out to Larry Hamilton as it was announced that there was only 1 minute left in the match. Hamilton came in as Sexton also tagged in and Hamilton shot in with a double leg takedown and grabbed Sexton's legs and rolled on top for a pin only for Sexton to counter into a sunset flip and the two men exchanged pinning combinations until Hamilton secured the Oklahoma Roll but Pat Rose ran in and kicked him in the head to break the pin attempt. Pardee came in and attacked Rose and all 4 men were in the ring fighting when suddenly the bell rang to signal a time limit draw.

Result: 15 minute time limit draw

Hamilton and Pardee called for 5 more minutes but Rose and Sexton left the ring and went back to the locker room to some boos from the HemisFair crowd.

Ron Starr vs. Goldie Rogers - Goldie Rogers was more interested in ogling the women in the front row and than starting the match but Ron Starr didn't share the same sentiments and came up behind Rogers and picked him up and brought him down in a big atomic drop. Rogers staggered around awkwardly and then got spun around and nailed with a big right hand that sent him scurrying to the outside. Rogers shouted at Starr from the floor about embarrassing him in front of all the women in the audience. Starr held open the ropes and motioned for Rogers to come back inside but Rogers continued to pace out on the floor and yell at the women in the front row who laughed at him when he was staggering around after the atomic drop. Rogers finally got back in the ring at the count of 9 only to immediately go back outside the ring and start a conversation with a woman in the front row. Ron Starr then went out after him and grabbed Rogers by the back of the head and slammed it into the guard rail and rolled him back in under the bottom rope. Starr stepped back through the ropes but Rogers was able to kick the rope up from his back which crotched Ron Starr and made him fall awkwardly into the ring. Referee Carl Fergie warned Goldie Rogers and threatened to disqualify him but Rogers didn't pay him any attention as he immediately pounced on his opportunity and started kicking and stomping on Ron Starr. Starr started back to his feet and Rogers picked him up and dropped him throat first across the top rope which caused Fergie to threaten to DQ him again. Rogers then put Starr into chinlock to wear him down. Starr started to fight his way back to his feet but Rogers grabbed his hair and pulled him back down. The referee saw it however and forced Rogers to break. Rogers tried to grab Starr and set him up for his finishing maneuver the Neckbreaker but Starr jammed an elbow hard into Rogers' midsection which doubled him over and then backed up and came rushing in and blasted him with a big Running Kneelift and then pinned him for the victory.

Winner: Ron Starr in 7:47 after a Running Kneelift

Southwest Television Title: Man Mountain Link vs. Mike Masters - Before the match it was announced that due to Mike Masters' recent actions he would lose the title if he was disqualified in this match!

Mike Masters had a fit when it was announced that he would lose the title on a disqualification. He went outside the ring and had a consultation with his manager Jim Holliday before finally stepping between the ropes so that the bell could ring to start the match. Man Mountain Link stood in the center of the ring and challenged Masters to come to him. Masters stepped into the middle of the ring, slapped Link hard across the face and then ran and dove out of the ring and grabbed his Southwest Television Title and ran back to the locker room! Link shouted at him to be a man and come back but Masters was already almost in the locker room by that time and Carl Fergie had no choice but to count Mike Masters out.

Winner: Man Mountain Link by count out in 37 seconds

El Gran Apollo vs. The Cuban Assassin w/Jose Lothario - El Gran Apollo charged at The Cuban Assassin in his corner and attacked him right at the bell. Jack Howe got in between them to force a break and get them out of the corner and The Cuban Assassin tried to take a cheap shot over Howe's shoulder but Apollo ducked it and came with with a big right hand of his own and started circling The Cuban Assassin and peppering him with jabs and then put him down with a big dropkick. The Cuban Assassin rolled out of the ring and tried to bait Apollo into following him outside where he could get help from Jose Lothario but Apollo instead held the ropes open for The Cuban Assassin to come back into the ring which upset he and Jose. The Cuban Assassin made his way up the ring steps and back onto the apron as Jose complained to the referee to keep Apollo away from the ropes. Jack Howe got in between Apollo and the ropes to get him back and The Cuban Assassin tried to take the opportunity to charge at him but Apollo caught him in an arm drag instead and then hit another big dropkick as The Cuban Assassin got back to his feet. El Gran Apollo whipped The Cuban Assassin into the ropes and went for a Thesz Press on him as he came back in but The Cuban Assassin held on to Apollo and dropped him throat first across the top rope. Apollo laid on the mat holding his throat and The Cuban Assassin pressed his advantage by dropping a leg right across the throat of Apollo and then going for a pin but Apollo was able to kick out. The Cuban Assassin then put El Gran Apollo into a front facelock and kept moving his body around so the referee couldn't see him hitting Apollo in the throat. Apollo was eventually able to push The Cuban Assassin backwards into the ropes to force a break but The Cuban Assassin took another cheap shot to the throat off the break and then put Apollo into a side headlock back in the center of the ring. The Cuban Assassin continued with his previous strategy of keeping the ref out of position to see him taking shots at Apollo's throat. Apollo looked to be fading in the headlock when suddenly with a big burst of energy he picked The Cuban Assassin up and dumped him on his head with a belly to back suplex.

 

Both men were down on the mat with Jack Howe counting but Apollo started back to his feet first. The Cuban Assassin got back up at nearly the same time and started charging at him but Apollo caught him with a drop toehold and The Cuban Assassin landed throat first on the middle rope! Apollo then grabbed the middle rope and pulled it upwards while keeping his knee in The Cuban Assassin's back, choking him as Jose Lothario went nuts at ringside. Jack Howe started the count and Apollo broke at the count of 4 only to start choking The Cuban Assassin again. Jose Lothario jumped up on the apron and Apollo let go of The Cuban Assassin to grab Jose and pull him over the top rope into the ring! Jose tried to beg off but Apollo kicked him in the face and then got on top of him and started pounding on him which turned out to be a bad mistake as The Cuban Assassin came behind him and buried a big knee in his back and then picked him up and dropped him across his knee with a big back breaker. Jose rolled out of the ring as The Cuban Assassin pulled Apollo up off the mat and put him into a bearhug, continuing to work on his back. Apollo broke out of the bearhug by biting The Cuban Assassin and then tried to put The Cuban Assassin into an abdominal stretch but The Cuban Assassin hiptossed his way out of it and one of Apollo's feet ended up hitting Jack Howe in the face as he was coming down. Jack Howe went down on all fours holding his face and Jose Lothario quickly jumped up on the apron and signaled for The Cuban Assassin to bring Apollo over to him. The Cuban Assassin grabbed Apollo's arms behind his back and moved him towards Jose who wound up for a big haymaker with his cast but Apollo ducked at the last second and The Cuban Assassin is the one who got hit with it! The Cuban Assassin dropped like a ton of bricks and Apollo nails Jose with a big punch that dropped him off the apron and then pinned The Cuban Assassin just as Jack Howe recovered and turned around to count the pin.

 

Winner: El Gran Apollo in 9:14 after Jose Lothario's interference backfired

 

El Gran Apollo looked down at The Cuban Assassin who was still knocked out and then at Jose Lothario on the outside. Jose realized what that meant and started running towards the locker room as Apollo came out of the ring after him and the two had a foot race back to the dressing room while Jack Howe had to help The Cuban Assassin up to his feet and back to the locker room as he was still punch drunk from being hit with the cast.

Ken Lucas & Eddie Gilbert vs. Yin & Yang - Yang started the match and offered a handshake to Ken Lucas but got a right hand to the jaw instead! Lucas started pounding on him and then whipped him into the corner where Gilbert held him for Lucas to come in with a big knee to the midsection. Gilbert and Lucas made quick tags and isolated Yang in their corner taking out their frustrations on him over their loss the previous week and getting passed over for a Southwest Tag Team Title shot. After a few minutes of working over Yang, Lucas got him into the Sleeper and Yin tried to come in and break it up but Eddie Gilbert saw him coming and quickly climbed the top rope and cut him off with a Top Rope Dropkick and Yang's arm was checked 3 times by the referee and it dropped, making Lucas and Eddie Gilbert the winners in quick and dominating fashion.

Winners: Eddie Gilbert and Ken Lucas in 3:52 after Ken Lucas made Yang pass out in the Sleeper

David Von Erich w/Sunshine vs. Mr. Saito - Mr. Saito started the match mocking David Von Erich and telling him he was going to break him like Yoshi Seito. Saito then pointed to Sunshine and mimed that he was going to slap her which caused David to jump on him and started pounding on him and the two men quickly engaged in a wild brawl. After a few minutes of back and forth fighting, Saito cut off David with a chop to the throat and then grabbed his right hand and smashed it into the top turnbuckle a few times before referee Jack Howe forced the two men to separate and come out of the corner. David started shaking out his hand as Mr. Saito put his hand into a claw and then shook his finger at David Von Erich, indicating that he was going to keep David from using his Iron Claw by attacking the hand. The two men circles and locked up and Saito grabbed hold of David's right arm and started to wring it but David broke out of it with a big left hand to Saito's jaw and then put Saito in a headlock. Saito got out of the headlock and grabbed David's right arm again and quickly jerked it, slamming David down onto the mat and then stomping on David's right hand. David rolled away and started shaking out his hand again as Mr. Saito stood back laughing at him. The two men circled and looked to lock up again when Saito suddenly chopped David in the throat and bodyslammed him down onto the mat. Saito then jumped into the air and did a double stomp on David's hand which caused David to howl in pain. Saito backed off and put his hand into a claw and started laughing at David again. Saito challenged David to a test of strength but David surprised him with a quick dropkick instead and then pulled Saito into a side headlock. Saito eventually fought out of the side headlock and ended up behind David and put him in the Japanese Sleeper! David fought hard to find a way out of it but Saito kept it locked on and David started to fade and had his hand raised and dropped twice but the third time he was able to keep it up and make a desperate lunge forward to get into the ropes. Saito broke the hold but then David in position for a Saito Suplex but as he lifted him, David kicked off the ropes and shifted his weight and landed on top of Mr. Saito and hooked his legs and got the 3 count to win the match!

 

Winner: David Von Erich in 8:03 after kicking off the ropes and shifting his weight on a Saito Suplex to cause himself to land on top of Saito.

 

Mr. Saito got up enraged and started attacking David Von Erich. He started stomping on David's right hand again, trying to break it when suddenly Sunshine got in the ring and jumped on his back and started clawing at his eyes! Saito started swinging around try to shake her off and Sunshine finally fell off his back and down on the mat. Saito started grasping blindly trying to find her but instead he found David Von Erich's left fist as David started pounding on him and then threw him over the top rope to the floor. David put Sunshine behind him and guarded her as Saito got up on the floor and threatened both of them while still trying to clear his vision. Saito got up on the apron to get back in the ring but David charged at him with a high knee and knocked him back down which set Saito into a rage. Saito looked to try to get in the ring but eventually thought better of it and headed back to the locker room, the whole while keeping his eyes locked on David & Sunshine and making threats to both of them

AWA Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Rock N Roll Express vs. The Assassins - The Rock N Roll Express started the match using their speed and quickness to outmaneuver The Assassins and keep them off balance, and just totally dominating the early going. After a few minutes of hit and run tactics from Ricky & Robert, things finally shifted towards The Assassins when Ricky went for a flying headscisscors on Assassin #2 but was close enough for Assassin #1 to grab his head and slam him down neck first across the top rope. This led to The Assassins getting Ricky isolated in their corner and working him over with Assassin #1 using holds while Assassin #2 was content to just pound, kick, punch and stomp on Ricky to wear him down. Assassin #1 eventually missed a big elbow drop and Ricky crawled to the corner and made the tag before Assassin #1 could stop him but referee Carl Fergie missed the tag due to Assassin #2 rushing into the ring just as Ricky was going to tag and getting Fergie's attention. Fergie turned back around to see Robert Gibson punching Assassin #1 and not knowing there was a tag, forcing Robert back out of the ring. Assassin #1 then got Ricky back into his corner and the beating continued for Morton with Assassin #2 coming in and just stomping on every part of his body. Finally Ricky was able to make the tag again after Assassin #2 loaded up his boot and went for his Running Boot but Ricky slid under it and dove to tag in Robert! All hell broke loose after that as all 4 men wound up fighting in the ring and Ricky & Robert hit a Double Dropkick on Assassin #2. The referee focused on getting Ricky Morton out of the ring as Robert went to cover Assassin #2 which allowed Assassin #1 to drop a big elbow on the back of Robert's head and cover him while helping Assassin #2 roll out of the ring just as Carl Fergie turned back around to make the pin.

 

Winners and STILL AWA Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Assassins in 14:45 after Assassin #1 pinned Robert Gibson following an elbow drop to the back of the head, despite not being the legal man

AWA Southwest Heavyweight Title: Roy Lee Welch vs. Tully Blanchard - The match starts with Tully offering a handshake and Roy not taking the bait. Tully still tries for a slap but Welch is able to back away from it and then comes back firing punches as Tully avoids them by retreating to the corner while complaining to referee Jack Howe about the closed fists. Tully comes back into the center of the ring and looks for a lockup but instead buries a knee into the midsection of Welch and then drops an elbow on the back of Welch's head and tries to whip him into the corner but Welch reverses and then catches Blanchard with a hip toss as he comes stumbling back out of the corner. Tully quickly begs off into the corner and calls for a time out. Tully comes back out and locks up with Welch and quickly pulls him into a headlock and then catches him under the chin with an uppercut where the referee can't see it. Tully keeps repositioning the hold to keep his back to Jack Howe as he fires some more punches at Welch as he's trapped in the headlock. Welch gets his arm up to block one of the punches however and then switches out of the headlock and puts Tully into a headlock of his own and starts firing punches at Tully's face right in front of the referee who forces him to break the hold. Tully again retreats to the corner and complains about the closed fists while Welch challenges him to come back out and meet him in the center of the ring. Tully slowly comes out of the corner and then quickly dives at Welch's leg and takes him down and starts to twist on his ankle but Welch quickly kicks him off, gets back to his feet and Tully backs off into the corner again. Tully warily makes his way out of the corner and locks up with Welch who quickly grabs Tully's arm and starts wringing on it and twists it so hard Tully flips over and falls to the mat and then Welch drops down on the arm with a leg drop and maintains control of the arm with an arm bar. Tully tries to fight his way out of the hold but Welch turns him over on his back with one arm pinned under him and puts the other arm under his shoulder, forcing Tully to have to exert energy to keep his shoulders off the mat for a 3 count. Tully is able to squirm towards the corner and get his foot outside of the ring to force a break. As Welch lets go of the hold, Tully rakes his eyes and then quickly climbs to the 2nd turnbuckle and comes off with an elbow to the back of the head of a kneeling Roy Lee Welch and goes for a cover but Welch kicks out at the count of 2.

 

Tully keeps attacking the neck with more elbows and then gets Welch down in a sitting position on the mat and really starts twisting and wrenching on his neck. Tully lets go of the hold for a moment to drop some elbows on Welch's face and then puts the hold back on. Welch grabs one of Tully's arm's and is able to break Tully's grip but Tully uses his free arm to drop another elbow into Welch's nose and put the hold back on. Welch finally breaks out of the hold with punches and tries to grab hold of Tully who slips away and rolls out of the ring to break Welch's momentum and regain his composure. Welch goes over to the ropes and starts to go out after him but Jack Howe stops him which gives Tully the opening to pull his legs out from under him and slam his leg down over the apron. Tully held on to Welch's leg and rolled back in the ring and dropped an elbow on it and then put draped it over the bottom rope and came down with all his weight on it. Tully pulled Roy into the center of the ring and tried to set him up for a figure four but Welch kicked him off. Welch scrambled up to his feet, favoring his left leg but Tully quickly came in with a chop block and put him back down on the mat and this time was able to lock in the figure four. Welch was eventually able to pull his weight and Tully's into the ropes to get a break but not until after the damage had been done to his knee. Jack Howe forced Tully to let go of the hold and Welch quickly pulled himself up using the ropes but Tully kicked his leg out from under him and started pulling him back into the center of the ring. Tully started to put the figure four back on but Welch caught him with a kick right under the chin which put Tully down on the mat. Welch and Tully got to their feet at the same time and Tully went for a punch but Welch ducked it and did a double leg takedown on Tully and put on the Spinning Toe Hold! Welch started really turning and cranking on it as Tully squirmed and wiggled his way into the ropes. Jack Howe forced a break and Tully got up limping. Welch kicked Tully's leg out from under him and pulled him back into the center of the ring and started setting up for the Spining Toe Hold again. Tully started kicking at Welch's bad knee with his free leg and broke out of Welch's grasp and then rolled him into a small package and held onto Welch's tights to keep him from kicking out as Jack Howe made the 3 count.

 

Winner and STILL AWA Southwest Heavyweight Champion: Tully Blanchard in 13:09 with a small package with a hand full of tights

 

Roy complained to the referee about his tights being pulled but Jack Howe claimed he didn't see it. Tully was already halfway up the aisle with the Southwest Heavyweight Title as Jack Howe started asking the fans at ringside about it. Jack Howe could only explain to Roy Lee Welch that he didn't see it and eventually Roy left the ring very upset and limped back to the locker room.

Sgt. Slaughter vs. Jim Duggan - Slaughter attacks Duggan as soon as he comes into the ring and starts pounding on him. Carl Fergie tries to get a break but then decides to just ring the bell and start the match. Sarge goes to the eyes once Duggan starts to fire back and then Slaughter grabs him by the hair and slams his head into the top turnbuckle and continues pounding on him. Fergie tries to get Slaughter to give Duggan a break in the corner but Slaughter is right on top of him just pounding and kicking away and then starts choking him. Fergie warns Slaughter that he's going to disqualify him but Sarge shouts back that he doesn't care! Fergie looks ready to call for the bell when suddenly Duggan fights out of the choke by nailing Slaughter with a big right hand. Slaughter stumbles backwards but then tries to come in with a big double sledge but Duggan hits him in the stomach and then starts teeing off on him with big punches. Duggan has Slaughter reeling on the ropes and charges at him with a big clothesline that sends both men flying over the top rope and crashing hard on the outside. Rather than start counting, Fergie goes outside to see if either man is injured and then heads back in the ring and starts a slow 10 count. Duggan and Slaughter both start to get up at around the count of 4 but seemingly pay no attention to Carl Fergie counting them out and just start pounding on each other again. Duggan is getting the better of the fight until Slaughter goes after the eyes again and slams Duggan's head off the ring apron. Slaughter goes to slam Duggan's head into the ring post as Fergie gets to the count of 8 but Duggan blocks it with his hands and then throws an elbow back and catches Slaughter in the side of the head and rams HIS head into the post. Fergie leaves the ring and pleads with Duggan to get back in the ring but Duggan ignores him and goes after Slaughter who is stumbling around and nails him with a big punch that sends Sarge stumbling backwards into the ring steps. Fergie goes back in the ring and starts his count again as Duggan gets down in the 3 point stance and charges at Slaughter but Slaughter moves out of the way and Duggan goes flying into the steps hard. Fergie pleads with Slaughter to get back in the ring as he reaches the count of 7 but Slaughter instead starts slamming Duggan's head off the wooden steps and now Duggan is busted open also. Finally Carl Fergie reaches the count of 10 and has no choice but to count out both men and declare the match a draw.

Result: Double count out in 5:43

 

The bell ringing had no effect on Sgt. Slaughter as he continued to attack Jim Duggan. He got Duggan set up to bodyslam him down on the floor of The HemisFair Arena but Duggan blocked it and picked up Slaughter and hit a bodyslam of his own! Duggan staggered and tried to clear the blood from his eyes as Slaughter stumbled back up to his feet and the two men started firing punches at each other again. Carl Fergie motioned for help from the back and suddenly Bruiser Costa, Terry Adonis, Mike Jackson and Tony Torres came out to try and break up the brawl only to wind up involved in it as Duggan and Slaughter started fighting them off to get back to fighting with each other. More wrestlers came out from the back as Ron Sexton, Pat Rose, Steve Pardee and Larry Hamilton came out and tried to help restore order but Slaughter and Duggan still were trying to get at each other causing Eddie Gilbert, Ken Lucas, Ron Starr, and El Gran Apollo to come out and finally with 12 wrestlers out there, they were able to keep Slaughter and Duggan apart and bring an end to their bloody brawl. Both men were led to their respective locker rooms but had their eyes locked on one another the whole time, shouting and making threats even as they disappeared behind the curtains of the separate locker rooms.

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Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 12/5

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 12/10 in local markets

-Show intro-


Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling! We've got another action packed in store for you this week like we do every week here on Southwest Championship Wrestling! We've got an incredible main event planned here on TV today with Mike Masters defending the Southwest Television Title against Man Mountain Link in a match where Mike Masters will lose the title if he is disqualified or counted out. But before we get to any of today's matches let me first talk about some of the things we saw last Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena. If you weren't there you missed one of the hottest nights of action we've ever seen here in the Southwest area. In the main event Jim Duggan and Sgt. Slaughter had a wild bloody brawl that spilled outside of the ring and neither man had any intentions of getting back inside the ring that forced referee Carl Fergie to count them out and declare the match a draw. Their battle ended in a stalemate but both men have indicated that the war is far from over and later in the hour we'll be hearing from both of them as they talk about their match this Sunday night which has been declared a "Boot Camp" match. I'll just let the video from Sgt. Slaughter fill you all in on what exactly a Boot Camp match is.

We also saw Tully Blanchard successfully defend the Southwest Heavyweight Title against Roy Lee Welch but not without some controversy as Tully had a handful of Roy Lee's tights when he rolled him up for the pin. But controversy might as well be Tully Blanchard's middle name at this point. I'm sure he's going to come to the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night with all kinds of tricks up his sleeve as he has to defend the title against David Von Erich after David successfully defeated Mr. Saito last Sunday night. I know that David has been dreaming of all kinds of ways to inflict punishment on Tully ever since his head was slammed in that steel cage door and I can only imagine what's going to go down between them when they meet in the main event this Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena. I'm going to talk to both men later on in the hour to get their thoughts about what is surely going to be one of the hottest main events we've ever had in the HemisFair Arena.

And in in the Southwest Tag Team Title match, we saw The Assassins retain their recently won gold against the newcomer team of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson, the Rock N Roll Express although Robert Gibson was pinned by Assassin #1 despite him not being the legal man. Stanley Blackburn reviewed the tape of what went down in that match and he decided that this Sunday night there will be a return bout as The Rock N Roll Express will once again challenge The Assassins for the Southwest Tag Team Championships. I will be talking to The Rock N Roll Express right after this commercial break so don't go away you won't want to miss it!

-First commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is a team making their first appearance together here in The Junction, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson: The Rock N Roll Express! Gentlemen it's great to have you hear in the area and Ricky I'm glad to see you've continued to have success in your career after leaving the Southwest area, it seems like your team with Robert has reached even greater heights than the team you had here with Ken Lucas.

Ricky Morton: Well Steve, I have to give a lot of the credit for my success to Ken Lucas you know when I first came here I was just a wet behind the ears kid and riding up and down the roads with Ken Lucas and listening to him and just trying to do everything the way he was teaching me really paid off not just here but everywhere I've been all around the country since then. Robert and I have won the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles, we've challenged the AWA World Tag Team Champions, The Road Warriors and now we're here to try and win the AWA Southwest Tag Team Team Titles from The Assassins.

Steve Stack: Last Sunday night we saw you in action against The Assassins and it seemed like you had the match won after hitting a double dropkick on Assassin #2 but then Assassin #1 came dropped an elbow on the back of your head Robert and pinned you despite not being the legal man.

Robert Gibson: I know being the referee in a tag team match is a tough job, it's not a job I would want to do but the referee was out of position and he had his back turned to the action when all that went down. Hopefully this Sunday night we'll -

-Suddenly Eddie Gilbert comes out with Ken Lucas behind him trying to stop him

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Eddie Gilbert: Excuse me Steve, I'm sorry but I couldn't sit back there and listen to any more of this. Last week we were told we couldn't get a shot at the Southwest Tag Team Titles because we lost to Yin and Yang. Well we beat them in under 4 minutes last week and now this week AGAIN these two guys just swoop right in and take a title shot that should go to Ken Lucas and I.

Steve Stack: Eddie I understand your frustration but this is the interview time of the Rock N Roll Express and -

Eddie Gilbert: No, no Steve Stack I don't think you do understand. Ricky Morton is out here saying he owes all the success in his career to my partner Ken Lucas well then why doesn't he show his gratitude by stepping aside and giving Ken and I the tag team title shot.

Robert Gibson: We aren't stepping aside for anybody brother, we got a contract for the match and we're gonna wrestle in it.

Eddie Gilbert: Well why don't you wrestle us first then? If you two are such big shots then you shouldn't have any problem beating us and actually earning that tag team title shot.

Ken Lucas: Wait just a minute now Eddie. I didn't want to come out here and interrupt these guys in the first place and now you're just talking crazy. I don't want to get in the ring with Ricky Morton, he's like a son to me. All these people here have seen us team together, they saw us win the Southwest Tag Team Titles and defend them against teams like The Grapplers and The Sheepherders, they don't want to see us wrestle each other.

Ricky Morton: Thank you Ken and the feeling is mutual, I don't think I could ever get in the ring and compete against you after everything you do for me. But as for you Eddie Gilbert, since you seem to have such a problem with me how about I wrestle YOU? Right now, I'll go get in the ring and you come on and follow!

-Ricky Morton heads down to the ring

Steve Stack: Now hold on, this isn't the match we have scheduled right n-

Eddie Gilbert: It doesn't matter what's scheduled right now, because I'm going down to that ring!

-Eddie Gilbert heads down to the ring

Steve Stack: Well I guess we better get a referee out here and make this a match otherwise it's just going to be a fight because they're both ready to go.

Ken Lucas: Steve I apologize for disrupting the show like this, if you don't mind I'm going to stay here with you and watch this match and hope these guys just wrestle a clean bout.

 

Ricky Morton vs. Eddie Gilbert -

They start the match with a lockup and things quickly go to the mat with both men countering out of the other's holds at a fast pace until they both wound up back on their feet again facing off. Eddie Gilbert started ringing on Ricky's arm but Ricky countered by it by whipping Eddie off into the ropes and then dropped down as he came back and leapfrogged him on the 2nd time around and then both men went for a dropkick at the same time and quickly got back up to their feet and locked up again and ended up going through a combination of pin attempts and counters until Eddie Gilbert went for a sunset flip but Morton sat down on it and held Gilbert's legs and got the 3 count!

 

Steve Stack: What a fast paced match! Ken, I'm sorry but it looks like you won't be taking that Southwest Tag Team Title match this Sunday night.

Ken Lucas: Steve I'm just happy that they wrestled each other like men and it didn't turn into a nasty fight.

Eddie Gilbert stands in the ring looking frustrated as Ricky Morton heads up to the interview area and hugs Ken Lucas

Steve Stack: We've got to take a commercial break but don't go away because we'll be back with more Southwest Championship Wrestling right after this!

-Second commercial break-

Steve Stack: We're back and there was quite the commotion during the break! Luckily we kept our cameras rolling so let's take a look and just what happened.

Tape plays of Eddie Gilbert still standing in the ring when suddenly Yin & Yang come from out of nowhere and attack him! Yang puts in in the Stretch Plum while Yin keeps kicking at him and suddenly Ken Lucas runs down to the ring and tries to fight them off. Yang lets go of the Stretch Plum to help Yin fight off Lucas and they start a 2 on 1 on him when suddenly Ricky Morton runs back down to the ring and helps out Lucas. Ricky Morton and Ken Lucas fight off Yin and Yang and send them running out of the ring. Morton and Lucas hug in the ring as Eddie Gilbert gets up looking at them. Lucas tries to get Eddie to shake hands with Ricky Morton but instead Eddie Gilbert just leaves the ring leaving Ken Lucas looking disappointed

Steve Stack: Yin and Yang looked to be out for revenge for their loss last Sunday night but luckily Ken Lucas and Ricky Morton were there to help out Eddie Gilbert although he didn't seem to grateful for the help. Lucas and Gilbert are going to need to be on the same page though as they are scheduled for a rubber match with Yin and Yang this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena. Now let me bring out the team that arguably started that argument between Eddie Gilbert and Ricky Morton, the AWA Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Assassins!



Assassin #1: I heard all the crying and excuse making you and the teenybopper idols were making out here earlier and I don't know what you're talking about. I pinned Robert Gibson fair and square in the middle of the ring and these belts are proof of that.

Steve Stack: Well talking about proof we have the video tape of the closing moments of that match let's go ahead and play the clip and have you walk us through it. Ok we're starting the tap now as Assassin #2 is stomping that boot against the mat which some have claimed is him loading that boot with some kind of foreign object.

Assassin #1: Completely false Steve Stack, that is just him shaking out some soreness in his leg as he gets ready for his Running Boot and there you see Ricky Morton get lucky and duck out of the way and make the tag to Robert Gibson. Now Ricky and Robert and both in the ring, completely illegally and so I have no choice but to come in and help my partner.

Steve Stack: Well it didn't seem to help him much as you can see right here he gets hit with that Double Dropkick and Robert Gibson is pinning him while Carl Fergie is trying to get Ricky Morton out of the ring and there you are with the elbow drop to the back of Robert's head and you help roll Assassin #2 out of the ring and pin Robert although you were not the legal man.

Assassin #1: I don't know what you did to this tape Steve Stack, you've altered it somehow to remove the perfectly legal tag that was made between myself and Assassin #2 and I was only correcting the mistake of Robert pinning the man who wasn't legal in the ring. If that wasn't the case then why did Carl Fergie count the pin.

Steve Stack: That tape was not altered in any way and you know that. As for why Carl Fergie counted the pin, it's a hard job being 1 referee trying to keep track of 4 guys and he simply made a mistake.

Assassin #1: I'm not going to be out here and listen to these blatant lies and have you try and slander me on television. We won that match perfectly legally, we're the Southwest Tag Team Champions and after this Sunday when we beat The Rock N Roll Express again we will STILL be the champions.

-The Assassins leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Fans I can assure you that was totally unedited footage from last Sunday night. And since we're talking about rematches let me bring in Jose Lothario and his client The Cuban Assassin who will be facing El Gran Apollo again this Sunday night with some special stipulations.



Jose Lothario: I can't believe this Steve Stack! Stanley Blackburn said that if The Cuban Assassin loses this Sunday night then my manager's license will be revoked! Why would he do such thing!?

Steve Stack: I don't know Jose, it may have something to do with you interfering in the last two matches between Apollo and The Cuban Assassin. But since you're both out here together, I wanted to ask you about just why you're managing him. You were out here for months talking about how the Spanish speaking fans here shouldn't cheer for the Cuban El Gran Apollo but then you bring in The Cuban Assassin to take him on AND when Mr. Mexico had his mask taken off it revealed another Cuban underneath in Fidel Sierra.

Jose Lothario: I told you that Fidel Sierra was only Mr. Mexico for one night! Why won't people believe me!? It's not my fault that the real Mr. Mexico had a family emergency and had to go back to Mexico!

Steve Stack: Well assuming that's true it's been over a month now, hasn't he been able to come back?

Jose Lothario: Why are we talking about Mr. Mexico!? That's in the past! I want to talk about this Sunday night.

Steve Stack: I am just trying to get down to the bottom of your issues with El Gran Apollo, since you said you didn't like the fans here cheering for a Cuban but you've aligned yourself with two other Cubans ever since your partnership with El Gran Apollo dissolved. It almost seems like you weren't upset about the fans cheering a Cuban you were just upset about them cheering for El Gran Apollo more than you in your tag matches.

Jose Lothario: I should have The Cuban Assassin spike you right now! How dare you speak to me this way, I'm a legend in this state of Texas! I don't have to stand out here and listen to any more of these insults, I'm leaving!

-Jose Lothario and The Cuban Assassin leave the interview area

Steve Stack: I guess Jose didn't like me pointing out the hypocrisy in his actions but he should be more worried about losing his manager's license if The Cuban Assassin loses this Sunday night to El Gran Apollo. Fans we're going to have to take another time out for our sponsors but don't go away because when we come back we're going to see Mike Jackson team up with Tony Torres to take on Bruiser Costa and Terry Adonis and we'll also hear from the Yellow Rose of Texas, the man who is going to face Tully Blanchard in the main event this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena: David Von Erich! Don't touch that dial you won't want to miss a minute of it!

-Third commercial break-



Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling! With me now is the lovely Sunshine and the man who will be challenging Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Heavyweight Title this Sunday night in the main event at The HemisFair Arena but that match is about a whole lot more than just that belt isn't it David?

David Von Erich: It's about a whole lot more Steve. It's about pride, it's about revenge and it's about making things right. When I came here to Southwest Championship Wrestling I did it for the wrong reasons, I did it because my pride was in the wrong place. I wanted to show that Texas belonged to Texans so I teamed up with Tully Blanchard to try and run The Fabulous Ones out of the state. But now I see just how wrong I was, I see that the man I really should have been trying to get rid of was the man who was my partner. Tully there is no place in MY state for men, well you're not a man so I can't say that, for dogs who would put their hands on a woman the way you did to Sunshine. There is no place in my state for backstabbers and liars and that's why when we step into the ring this Sunday night I'm going to beat you so bad you're not going to want to wrestle here anymore. You're going to be so humiliated after I get done with you that you're going to pack your bags and you're going to go somewhere far far away from me. And before you go, I'm gonna let Sunshine give you a nice parting gift. She hasn't been bringing the purse with her since I came back here a couple weeks ago, but Sunday night she's going to have it with her. And once I finish with you, I'm going to hold up your bloody, beaten carcass and I'm gonna let Sunshine smack you in the head with that purse because she deserves her own measure of revenge.

Sunshine: Tully for me it's not about what you did to me, it's about what you did to David. I had to spend weeks watching him struggle to recover from the damage you did when you slammed that cage door on his head. I had to see the pain in his face, not just physical pain but the emotional pain. So when the match is over and David is celebrating with the Southwest Heavyweight Title, I'm not going to put that purse upside your head for me. I'm going to do it for David and this is a terrible thing to say but I hope you have to get carried out of the arena the way David did.

-David Von Erich and Sunshine leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Fans you all know just how personal that rivalry is, you saw the footage of David having his head slammed in the cage door, you saw the videos from David on his family's ranch as he tried to recover and get ready to return and I know you will never forgive yourself if you miss the chance to finally see the confrontation as The Texas Dynasty collides and David Von Erich and Tully Blanchard do battle. Now let me bring in Roy Lee Welch who apparently does NOT have a match this Sunday night as his scheduled opponent has seemingly disappeared as no one has been able to get in touch with Mr. Saito all week.



Steve Stack: Roy you made your intentions known last week that you were after Robert Fuller's AWA National Championship but without an opponent this week it's going to be hard to climb up the rankings to get that match.

Roy Lee Welch: Steve I don't know what's going on. I was originally told that I was supposed to be rasslin Mr. Saito this Sunday night but then they told me when I got here today they said that Mr. Saito hadn't made any of his bookings and no one could get in touch with him and that apparently he'd gone back to Japan!

Steve Stack: That IS the rumor going around but I've yet to have it confirmed and I'll try and ask Tully Blanchard about that when he's on later in the hour. But actually right now we've got a match scheduled between Mike Jackson and your protege of sorts in the young Tony Torres as they are set to take on the team of Bruiser Costa and Terry Adonis and I'd like to have you stay out here with me on commentary so we can talk about your match last Sunday with Tully Blanchard, your quest to get a match for the National Title and also the progress of your protege Tony Torres.

Roy Lee Welch: Of course Steve, that would be my pleasure.

Steve Stack: Alright then let's send it down to the ring now where Bruiser Costa & Terry Adonis are making their way down the aisle where Mike Jackson and Tony Torres are already awaiting their arrival.

 

Mike Jackson & Tony Torres vs. Bruiser Costa & Terry Adonis -

Mike Jackson started the match against Terry Adonis and used his quickness to outmaneuver Adonis and frustrate him until he tagged out to the big Bruiser Costa. Costa tried to trap Jackson in the corner but Jackson was able to dodge out of it and then monkey flip Costa as he charged at him. Jackson then tagged out to Tony Torres while Costa was having a fit about getting caught in the monkey flip. Torres came in and went to lock up with Costa only to catch a thumb to the eye for his trouble. Costa body slammed him and then tagged out to Terry Adonis who came in and dropped an elbow on Torres and then put him in a chin lock. Torres worked his way back up to his feet and Adonis broke off the chin lock to whip Torres into the corner and charge in after him. Torres bounced off the 2nd turnbuckle and turned around into a crossbody, catching Adonis by surprise and pinning him for the 3 count before Bruiser Costa could get in to break up the pin!

 

Steve Stack: I know you've got to be proud to see Tony Torres get a big victory like that here on TV Roy!

Roy Lee Welch: Absolutely Steve, I told you he and I had been training hard and I knew it was going to pay off soon and I can't tell you just how happy I am to see he and Mike win that match, especially with a move that I taught him. I'm going to head down to the ring and congratulate them, excuse me Steve.

-Roy Lee Welch leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well Roy might be upset about suddenly being without an opponent this Sunday night but that victory certainly seems to be helping to lift his spirits. We've got to take another commercial break but don't go away because when we come back we're going to hear from Sgt. Slaughter and find out just what that Boot Camp match is going to be when he faces 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan this Sunday night!

-Fourth commercial break-



Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling! With me now is 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and Jim before we talk about your match this Sunday night let's take a look at the video that was sent in by Sgt. Slaughter to explain the rules and stipulations.

Sgt. Slaughter: Jim Duggan, I don't have a lot of time to waste on you. I have my own mission that I was attending to before I got the call from Sheik Adnan to come and get rid of you. I was busy in Puerto Rico trying to teach English, along with some manners, respect and decency to the people there who have been mistakenly labeled United States citizens. And I still have a long ways to go in that mission so I told Sheik Adnan he needed to get me the right kind of match so I can end this little excursion and get back to the real task that I have at end. So with his high priced lawyers, he got the contract made up and Stanley Blackburn signed it and now this Sunday night Jim Duggan you have to face me in MY kind of my match! A Boot Camp match! It means I can wear whatever I want, including my military used steel combat boots that can kick a hole through anything, including your head Jim Duggan. It means there are no rules, there is no disqualifcation, there is no count out, the fight can go all around the building, into the parking lot, into the street, the falls count anywhere. And the referee doesn't do a thing, he doesn't count, he doesn't even open his mouth to say a word, all he does is count when I have you down and finished and I pin you. I didn't come here to win a match against you, I didn't care about that last week or I would have done it. No, I came here to collect the bounty on your head, to injure you for Sheik Adnan's money. And for my own personal enjoyment of shaving your head after I do it so the maggots of Texas who cheer you like you're some kind of American hero can see what a disgrace to my country you really are. So now you know what a Boot Camp match is and now you know this Sunday night I'm going to give your disability discharge from the sport of professional wrestling!

Steve Stack: Well Jim now we know what exactly that Boot Camp match is, what are your thoughts about facing a man like Sgt. Slaughter in such a dangerous contest?

Jim Duggan: Dangerous for who? I'm not the one who is in danger Steve Stack, Sgt. Slaughter is the one who made his bed and now he has to lie in it. When I don't have any rules to follow it means somebody is going to get hurt and that somebody ain't the Hacksaw. I've been facing the biggest and baddest the Sheik Adnan can find, I've taken down Bruiser Brody, I've taken down the Zambuie Express and this Sunday night I'm going to take down Sgt. Slaughter too! He can talk about his steel toed combat boots, that's just fine. Since I can wear anything I want, I might just go back to my roots and wear a football helmet and we'll see if you can kick a hole in my head with that on! You know me Steve Stack, I'm not afraid to fight anyone, anywhere, any time and this Boot Camp match doesn't scare me at all. I'm gonna be ready Sunday night and I might walk out bloody, I might walk out bruised but I am going to walk out the winner AND with all my purty hair intact!

-Jim Duggan leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: That's the one and only 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan ladies and gentlemen! I can only imagine just how wild and out of control that match is going to be after the way those two went at each other last Sunday night as there won't be anyone to come out and separate them for fighting on the floor, this time they can fight anywhere they want to. It's certainly going to be a match you won't want to miss. But speaking of matches you won't want to miss, now let me bring out the man who will be in the main event in a match I KNOW you won't want to miss, the Southwest Heavyweight Champion, Tully Blanchard!



Steve Stack: Tully, you heard the comments from David Von Erich and Sunshine earlier on in the program what do you think about Sunshine threatening to bring her purse down to the ring Sunday night and hit you over the head with it?

Tully Blanchard: Are you really asking me that question? You really expect me to be intimidated by what that floozy, that piece of street trash had to say about me?

Steve Stack: Oh come on Tully let's not -

Tully Blanchard: No Steve Stack, you wanted to talk about Sunshine let's talk about her. What exactly is she good for? She cost David Von Erich that TV Title, she cost us the Southwest Tag Team Titles, she's an airhead, a bimbo and why should I be worried about her trying to hit me with that purse? She'd probably miss and hit David anyway so let her try. But one thing I know that I am going to do after the match, after I celebrate with MY Southwest Heavyweight Title as I stand over the brain damaged David Von Erich. I am going to grab Sunshine, I'm going to pull her real close...and I'm going to slap her right across her face!

Steve Stack: That's disgusting Tully! How can you -

-Suddenly David Von Erich runs out to the interview area and attacks Tully Blanchard! David starts beating the hell out of him before Tony Torres, Mike Jackson, Roy Lee Welch, Ken Lucas and the Rock N Roll Express run out and pull him off!

Steve Stack: I think that's enough we'd better go ahead and just go to break early before -

Tully Blanchard: Don't you cut me off! I'm not finished! David Von Erich I'm going to hurt you! I'm going to crack your skill wide open and spill your blood all around the HemisFair Arena! And then I'm gonna slap that ugly girlfriend of yours and rub her face in it!

-Tully Blanchard walks off from the interview area

Steve Stack: Fans I apologize for those despicable comments by Tully Blanchard, we're going to go to break now and when we come back we've got our main event Television Title match between Mike Masters and Man Mountain Link, don't go away.

-Fifth and final commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and Man Mountain Link is already in the ring awaiting Mike Masters but what is this Jim Holliday!? Mike Masters is out here on crutches!

Jim Holliday: Unfortunately Mike Masters slipped on some ice as he was leaving the gym yesterday and happened to sprain his ankle and is unable to compete today. But don't you worry, I've already talked to Stanley Blackburn who has allowed him to postpone that match until his ankle heals, which it will surely do inside the 30 day window that he has to defend the title.

Steve Stack: What about our main event! Man Mountain Link is already in the ring....I don't want to say this seems fishy that Mike Masters isn't able to wrestle today when he's supposed to defend the title in a match where if he loses by disqualification or count out he will lose the title but -

Jim Holliday: Then don't say it because that couldn't be further from the truth. Mike Masters is a fighting champion and he'd love nothing more than to get in the ring with Man Mountain Link today but that's not going to be possible. Stanley Blackburn has allowed me to make the substitution of Timothy Flowers however and the 'Diamond' himself is headed towards the ring right now as you can see.

Steve Stack: Well fans I apologize, no one told me we weren't going to have the TV Title main event today it looks like instead the match is going to be Timothy Flowers against Man Mountain Link, let's head down to the ring now.

-'Gentleman' Jim Holliday goes to the ring to be in Timothy Flowers' corner with Mike Masters following him on crutches

 

 

Timothy Flowers vs. Man Mountain Link -

Man Mountain Link is irate about Mike Masters not wrestling him and is still talking trash to Masters and Holliday as the bell sounds which allows Timothy Flowers to attack him from behind. Flowers punches, kicks and pounds on Link's back as Link and then starts choking him over the top rope when suddenly Link just flings Flowers backwards off of him. Flowers gets up quickly off the mat and charges at Link again only to get caught up and put in the Falling Powerslam position when suddenly Mike Masters rushes into the ring with one of his crutches and cracks Link across the back so hard with it that the crutch breaks! Referee Jack Howe immediately disqualifies Timothy Flowers and declares Man Mountain Link the winner.

 

Link drops Flowers down out of the Falling Powerslam position and drops to one knee and Masters and Flowers start pounding on him. Tiny Anderson rushes out from the back and tries to come to his brother's aid only to get thrown over the top rope by Masters & Flowers. As they turn back around however they run into a double clothesline from Man Mountain Link! Link is fired up and tries to grab Mike Masters but Jim Holliday helps pull him out of one side of the ring and Timothy Flowers bails out from the other side and they quickly get out of dodge as an irate Link stands in the ring challenging them to come back in and fight him.

 

Steve Stack: What a farce! I knew there was something fishy going on with Mike Masters being on those crutches and that just confirms it! He is doing anything and everything he can to avoid giving Man Mountain Link a real chance at winning that Southwest Television Title but sooner or later he's going to have to do it and I don't think making the big man more and more angry before it happens is the best way to go about it!

 

-Man Mountain Link comes into the interview area

 

 

Man Mountain Link: This is a joke! Mike Masters somehow weasels out of giving me my title match because he said he was injured, well it didn't seem like anything was wrong with that ankle when he was running like an Olympic sprinter to get away from me! Since it's obvious there is nothing wrong with that ankle I am going to make sure Stanley Blackburn gives me that match I was supposed to have here on TV at the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night instead. And Mike Masters, if you get disqualified, if you get counted out, and I'm sure now there will be one more stipulation that if you find some phony excuse or a doctor's note to keep from wrestling, you're gonna be handing that belt over to me. So I hope you do find some courage because I would like it a whole lot more to squash you like a bug and take that belt from you than have you run away and hand it over!

 

-Man Mountain Link leaves the interview area

 

Steve Stack: I think Link is right, I can't see any reason that Stanley Blackburn won't make that match this Sunday night and with the amazing card we already have planned that just might put it over the top as the greatest night of action we've ever had schedule for the HemisFair Arena. It's going to be Tully Blanchard defending the Southwest Heavyweight Title against David Von Erich in perhaps the most personal, intense main event we've ever had, Sgt. Slaughter against Jim Duggan in a Boot Camp match, The Rock N Roll Express challenging The Assassins for the Southwest Tag Team Titles, and much much more! You're going to want to buy your tickets now so you won't get caught standing outside the arena Sunday night when it sells out! We're out of time this week but be sure to join us for more of the hottest, most exciting hour in professional wrestling right here next week on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

 

Scheduled for Sunday, December 11th at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX

 

Southwest Heavyweight Title: David Von Erich vs. Tully Blanchard
Southwest Tag Team Title: RNR Express vs. The Assassins
Boot Camp Match: Jim Duggan vs. Sgt. Slaughter
Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas vs. Yin & Yang
If The Cuban Assassin loses, Jose Lothario loses his manager's license: El Gran Apollo vs. The Cuban Assassin
Southwest Television Title: Man Mountain Link vs. Mike Masters (If Mike Masters is counted out, disqualified or fails to appear he loses the title)
Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton vs. Pat Rose & Ron Sexton
Ron Starr vs. Timothy Flowers

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Thought it was time for a bit of a roster update with some recent departures:

Southwest Heavyweight Champion: Tully Blanchard
Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Assassins
Southwest Television Champion: Mike Masters

Referees: Jack Howe & Carl Fergie
Managers: Jose Lothario, Sunshine & 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday

Tully Blanchard
The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane & Steve Keirn)
'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan
David Von Erich
Mr Saito
Eddie Gilbert
Ken Lucas
The Assassin
Assassin #2
El Gran Apollo
Ron Starr
Roy Lee Welch
Steve Pardee
Larry Hamilton
Mike Jackson
The Cuban Assassin
Mike Masters
Tiny Anderson
Tony Torres
Man Mountain Link
'Diamond' Timothy Flowers
Ron Sexton
Pat Rose
Goldie Rogers

Yin

Yang

Temporary Appearances: Sgt. Slaughter, The Rock N Roll Express

TV Jobbers:
Snake Brown
Paul Peller
Jimmy Doo
Mike Fever

Recent departures: Art Crews, Bruiser Costa, Terry Adonis, Yoshi Seito

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Southwest Championship Wrestling @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 12/11/83

Ron Starr vs. 'Diamond' Timothy Flowers w/Jim Holliday - Ron Starr started off the match dominating Timothy Flowers with his rough, always moving forward style as Flowers tried in vain to stay out of his reach. At around the 5 minute mark Jim Holliday was distract Ron Starr from the outside long enough to allow Timothy Flowers to take over. After a few minutes of beating on Starr, Flowers whipped him into the ropes and lowered his head for a back body drop but Ron Starr recovered coming off the ropes and instead met the bent over Timothy Flowers with his big running knee lift and covered him for the win!

 

Winner: Ron Starr in 8:12 with a Running Knee Lift

Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton vs. Pat Rose & Ron Sexton - This match started as a clean scientific bout just like the week before. Neither team was able to gain a solid advantage for the first 7-8 minutes until Ron Sexton Irish whipped Larry Hamilton and Pat Rose kneed him in the back when he hit the ropes. Pardee protested the interference to referee Carl Fergie which only allowed Rose & Sexton to double team Hamilton in the corner. As Fergie turned back around Rose was in the ring without a tag and had Hamilton down in a chin lock. Fergie questioned whether there was a tag with Rose & Sexton both vehemently swearing they had made one. Hamilton fought his way out of the chin lock and tried to make it to his corner to make the tag but Ron Sexton ran in illegally and cut him off. As the referee was getting Sexton out of the ring, Pat Rose tried to waistlock Hamilton and pull him back into the center of the ring but Hamilton used his amateur wrestling skills to quickly go behind Rose and shove Rose into the corner and then make the hot tag out to Steve Pardee! Pardee came in fired up but Carl Ferige didn't see the tag and kept him from coming in! While this was going on Pat Rose grabbed the distracted Larry Hamilton and dropped him throat first across the top rope and covered him just as Carl Fergie was turning around to make the pin count.

 

Winners: Ron Sexton & Pat Rose in 11:43 after Pat Rose dropped Larry Hamilton throat first across the top rope

Southwest Television Title (If Mike Masters is counted out, disqualified or fails to appear he loses the title): Man Mountain Link vs. Mike Masters w/Jim Holliday - Mike Masters quickly bails out of the ring when the bell rings. He lets the count get up to 9 and then re-enters the ring only to quickly duck out again once Link comes after him. Man Mountain Link tries to go out after him but referee Jack Howe stays between the ropes and Link to keep him from going outside. Masters keeps goading Link to come out after him as Masters tries to buy time outside the ring without being counted out. Finally Link backs off and lets Jack Howe start his count again only for Masters to get in at the count of 9 and quickly exit again before Link can get his hands on him. Link just quickly retreats from the ropes and allows Jack Howe to start his count over again but Masters only breaks the count at 9 again and then rolls back out. Masters and Jim Holliday mock Man Mountain Link from outside the ring and Link manages to get around Jack Howe and go outside the ring after them! Link chases Masters around the ring and Masters slides in under the bottom rope and then stomps Link right in the head as Link tries to pull himself up onto the apron. Link stumbles back and then comes forward to try again only to eat another boot to the head from Masters. On the 3rd try as Masters goes to kick Link, Link grabs his leg and pulls him down to the mat and then yanks him out of the ring! Man Mountain Link picks Masters up in a bearhug and then rams Masters into the ring post! He does it again and again, ignoring the count by Jack Howe and eventually both men are counted out!

 

Result: Double count out in 5:11

 

After the match Man Mountain Link drives Mike Masters into the ring post a few more times until Jack Howe is finally able to talk him into letting Masters go, and Link drops the limp TV champion down to the arena floor. Link grabs the TV title off the timekeeper's table and holds it up to the delight of the crowd but Jack Howe takes it away from him and Link walks back to the locker room as Jim Holliday tries to revive his charge who is down on the floor of the HemisFair arena holding his ribs.

Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas vs. Yin & Yang - Ken Lucas wanted to start the match for his team but Eddie Gilbert argued with him about it until Lucas finally relented and allowed Gilbert to start the match. Eddie and Yang charged at each other at the sound of the bell and both started unloading with punches. Yang got the better of the exchange and whipped Eddie Gilbert into the corner with Yin where Yin tried to grab hold of him but Eddie blasted him with an elbow that knocked him off the apron and dodged a Yang charge into the corner. Eddie monkey flipped Yang out of the corner and Yin tried to come in under the ropes to attack Eddie but referee Carl Fergie cut him off and forced him back onto the apron. While Fergie's back was turned, Eddie went into his tights and then blasted Yang with a punch that put him out cold. Eddie made the cover and Carl Fergie turned around and counted the 3.

 

Winners: Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas in 3:27 after Eddie Gilbert knocked Yang out with a punch

After the match Yin tried to alert Carl Fergie that Eddie Gilbert used a foreign object but Eddie blasted him with a punch that sent him flying out through the ropes. Eddie celebrated his victory until Ken Lucas came in the ring and started arguing with him. Ken tried to get Eddie to open up his right fight but Eddie refused. He shoved Ken Lucas away and left the ring on his own, still happily celebrating his win.

 

If The Cuban Assassin loses, Jose Lothario loses his manager's license: El Gran Apollo vs. The Cuban Assassin w/Jose Lothario - El Gran Apollo attacks Cuban Assassin as soon as the bell rings and is all over him with punches and chops. Jack Howe steps in and tries to get him to open up his fists which allows the Cuban Assassin a chance to cheap shot Apollo and then grabs his head and rake his eyes across the ropes. Apollo tries to swing blindly at the big Cuban Assassin but he misses wildly and then gets hit in the gut with a big knee and then taken to the mat and put in a nerve hold. Apollo tries to fight his way back to his feet but gets taken back down with a hair pull as Jose Lothario had the referee distracted. Apollo again makes his way up to his feet and this time is able to break out of the nerve hold with some elbows to the midsection of the big Cuban Assassin and then shoves the Assassin into the ropes and catches him with a dropkick that takes the big man off his feet. El Gran Apollo catches the Assassin with another big dropkick as he gets up again but on the 3rd attempt the Assassin is able to duck out of the way and Apollo crashes hard into the mat where The Cuban Assassin quickly pounces on him and puts him in a chin lock. Apollo tries a few times to get out of the hold only to be thwarted with a hair pull or a yank of the tights as Jose Lothario runs interference distracting referee Jack Howe. Finally Apollo is able to break out of the chin lock and shoves Cuban Assassin off into the corner and then Apollo charges in and mounts The Assassin and reigns down 10 punches on his head as the crowd counts along. Jose Lothario jumps up on the apron while Apollo is on top of the Cuban Assassin in the corner which distracts Apollo long enough for the Cuban Assassin to get out from under Apollo and then shove him from behind causing Apollo to drop down on the top turnbuckle and crotch himself. Cuban Assassin tries to follow that up with a belly to back suplex but Apollo keeps fighting him off and eventually knocks him down off the top rope with a big elbow that causes The Cuban Assassin to fall off the top rope and crash down into the ring. El Gran Apollo then is able to stand up on the top rope and perch himself to come off with the Flying Crossbody! Jose Lothario tries to warn the Cuban Assassin but as he gets back to his feet El Gran Apollo flies off the top rope and catches him flush with the Flying Crossbody! Jack Howe makes the count of 3 and the crowd erupts as El Gran Apollo defeats The Cuban Assassin!

 

Winner: El Gran Apollo in 9:56 after a Flying Crossbody on The Cuban Assassin!

Southwest Tag Team Title: Rock N' Roll Express vs. The Assassins - Robert Gibson started the match against Assassin #2 and used his quickness to avoid the bigger man and kept him off balance with hit and run tactics. Assassin #2 wound up in the corner of the RNR Express and found himself totally overwhelmed as Ricky and Robert continually used quick tags to keep switching out and keeping Assassin #2 from being able to mount an offense or get away. Finally Assassin #2 was able to get to his corner to make a tag after Ricky didn't quite get high enough on a leapdrop and Assassin #2 inadvertently headbutted him in the groin. Assassin #1 came in with Ricky on the mat in pain and he quickly took advantage of the situation by dropping down on him with a big splash and going for the cover but Robert came in at the last moment and broke up the pin with a kick to the head. Assassin #1 pulled Ricky Morton over to his corner and he and Assassin #2 started working him over but Ricky refused to submit or stay down for a 3 count. After a long time of getting beat down in the corner of the Assassins, Assassin #2 came in and loaded up the boot and charged at Ricky, but Ricky was able to roll under the big boot and dive into his corner for the tag! Robert came in and blasted Assassin #2 with a big dropkick! Assassin #1 tried to come in and cut off Robert but caught a dropkick of his own! Ricky then came back in to help and he and Robert connected with a Double Dropkick on Assassin #2! Robert went for a pin on Assassin #2 but Assassin #1 shoved Ricky Morton out of the ring and broke up the pin with a big elbow drop to the back of Robert's head! Carl Fergie tried to get Assassin #1 out of the ring but he just kept dropping elbows on Robert Gibson and after the 3rd elbow drop Carl Fergie called for the bell and disqualified the Assassins!

 

Winners: The Rock N Roll Express by DQ in 13:44 after Assassin #1 broke up a pin attempt and wouldn't stop attacking Robert Gibson

 

After the match The Assassins tried to double splash Robert Gibson but Ricky Morton pulled him out of the way and then they hit Double Dropkicks on both Assassins that sent them out of the ring! The RNR challenged The Assassins to come back in the ring for more but The Assassins grabbed their tag team titles and ran off back to the locker room!

Boot Camp Match: Jim Duggan vs. Sgt. Slaughter - Jim Duggan comes out to the ring with a football helmet on while Sgt. Slaughter comes out with his combat boots and helmet on. Sgt. Slaughter called Duggan a coward and tried to get him to take off the football helmet only for Duggan to shake his head. Slaughter offered to take his own helmet off if Duggan would remove the football helmet. Duggan refused and Slaughter took his helmet off first as a sign of good faith and then as Duggan as soon as Duggan got the football helmet off his head, Slaughter charged him and blasted Duggan over the head with the combat helmet. Slaughter kept pounding on Duggan with the combat helmet until he opened up a cut on Duggan's head and then threw him over the top rope out to the floor of the HemisFair Arena. Slaughter talked trash to the fans at ringside as he held up Duggan's football helmet and then as the big Hacksaw tried to get back up to his feet Slaughter threw the football helmet down on top of him and then went out after him and kept up the assault, continuing to beat Duggan over the head and back with the combat helmet. Slaughter went to hit Duggan with the combat helmet again but this time Duggan grabbed it with one hand and then blasted Slaughter with a big punch with the other hand, causing Slaughter to fall backwards and let go of the combat helmet! Duggan then started wailing on Slaughter with the combat helmet and Slaughter retreated back into the high ground of the ring. Duggan tried to follow him in under the bottom rope but Slaughter caught him with a kick to the head with the steel toed combat boots and stopped the bloody Hacksaw in his tracks. Slaughter then waited for Duggan to start to get back up and came in with a running kick right into his ribs with the combat boots and that sent Duggan back out of the ring again. Sgt. Slaughter followed him out of the ring and grabbed a chair and brought it down over Duggan's head and then went for a cover but somehow Duggan was able to kickout at the count of 2! Slaughter argued with referee Jack Howe about a slow count as Duggan tried to get back up to his feet, spurred on by the sold out HemisFair crowd chanting his name but Slaughter booted him right in the face as he got up to his knees and sent him sprawling back to the floor. Slaughter went for another cover but Jim Duggan managed to kick out again. Slaughter grabbed Duggan by the hair and pulled him around to the big wooden steps and slammed his head off of them and then stepped back away from Duggan as he started to struggle back to his feet again.

 

Slaughter sized the big Hacksaw up for a running boot with the steel toed combat boots but Duggan grabbed the boot as Slaughter was coming in! Duggan kicked Slaughter's other leg out from under him and then started to untie the steel combat boot and yanked it off of Slaughter's foot! Duggan put the boot on his fist and wound up for a big punch but Slaughter came up holding Duggan's football helmet and managed to block the punch from Duggan with the football helmet! Both men swung their weapons at each other and both connected as Slaughter nailed Duggan upside the head with the football helmet just as Duggan connected with a wild swing of the steel toed combat boot. Both men went down to the floor and came up bloody with Sgt. Slaughter now having a cut opened up on his head as well. Duggan threw the combat boot at Slaughter but missed him and then Slaughter swung at Duggan again with the football helmet but Duggan was able to grab it and pull it away from Slaughter! He quickly put it on his head and headbutted Slaughter with it which sent him staggering backward! Duggan then dropped down into a three-point stance with the football helmet on and launched himself at Sgt. Slaughter with a huge Spear that looked to about break the Sgt. in half! Duggan then made the cover and Jack Howe made the 3 count as the crowd in the HemisFair Arena erupted at seeing 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan defeat yet another of Sheik Adnan's mercenaries!

 

Winner: Jim Duggan in 12:19 after a Spear with the football helmet on

Southwest Heavyweight Title: David Von Erich w/Sunshine vs. Tully Blanchard - David Von Erich came out to the ring to a thunderous ovation from a crowd eager to see him finally get revenge on Tully Blanchard. Tully came out looking completely confident, his usual arrogant self as he came down to the ring with the Southwest Heavyweight Title around his waist. Before the match he blew a kiss at Sunshine who looked disgusted and David Von Erich came charging at him and had to be he held back by Carl Fergie. Tully continued to antagonize David and Sunshine as Carl Fergie desperately tried to get things calmed down to where he could ring the bell to start the match. Finally Carl Fergie was able to get both men into their corners and just as Fergie turned to the timekeeper to tell him to ring the bell Sunshine jumped up on the apron behind David Von Erich and blasted him in the back of the head with the brick loaded purse! Fergie turned around to see David crumble to the mat and Tully quickly cover him! Carl Fergie was conflicted about making the cover, knowing that something was wrong but not having seen what Sunshine did he had no choice but to make the pin count.

 

Winner: Tully Blanchard in 5 seconds after Sunshine blasted David Von Erich in the back of the head with the brick loaded purse!

 

The crowd in the HemisFair Arena were stunned at what happened until Tully grabbed Sunshine around the waist and started making out with her in the middle of the ring! Then they started to boo the hell out of Tully & Sunshine and started throwing trash into the ring. David started to try and groggily get back to his feet looking totally out of it and Sunshine slapped him and then Tully blasted him in the head with the Southwest Title, sending him crashing back down to the mat! Tully picked Sunshine up in his arms and carried her out of the ring making sure to step on David Von Erich on his way out. Tully and Sunshine then had to quickly make their way back to the locker room being pelted with trash and surrounded by San Antonio's finest to keep the crowd off of them.

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Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 12/12

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 12/17 in local markets

-Show intro-



Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling! We've got a lot of news to get to after the incredible night of action last Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena! 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan was victorious in the Boot Camp match against Sgt. Slaughter and has sent demented drill sergeant back to Puerto Rico, El Gran Apollo defeated The Cuban Assassin and ended the short managerial career of Jose Lothario, The Rock N Roll Express defeated The Assassins but The Assassins kept the Southwest Tag Team Titles due to the match ending in a disqualification but without a doubt the biggest news coming out of last Sunday night is that Tully Blanchard is still the Southwest Heavyweight Champion after a BIG assist from none other than Sunshine herself! We knew all the fans who were in the arena last Sunday night and have heard about the result since then were going to want to know all about it so as soon as we come back from this commercial break we are going to have Tully Blanchard & Sunshine out here and we are going to show the video footage of just how Tully defeated David Von Erich, if you want to call it that. So ladies and gentlemen don't go away, we'll be right back after these messages!

-First commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is -

Tully Blanchard: I don't need an introduction from you Steve Stack! You just hand that microphone over to Sunshine and let her introduce me in the manner befitting the great champion that I am.

Sunshine: Standing in front of you now is the greatest Southwest Heavyweight Champion of all time, the man who defeated David Von Erich in FIVE seconds and proved once and for all that the Blanchard family is the greatest wrestling family to come out of Texas, he is Tully Blanchard!

Tully Blanchard: Thank you! You see how it's done Steve Stack? That's the way I should be introduced.

Steve Stack: Well before we go any further I want to show these people just how it was that you "defeated" David Von Erich in 5 seconds last Sunday night.

Tully Blanchard: Don't you take that tone when you say the word defeated! The tape doesn't lie, I pinned him in record time, the fastest Southwest Heavyweight Title match that there has ever been! I proved once and for all that the Von Erichs can't hold a candle to the Blanchard name.

The footage from Sunday night is shown where Sunshine hit David Von Erich in the back of the head with her brick loaded purse as the ref was turned to the timekeeper to get him to ring the bell to start the match and then Tully immediately covering him for the pin

Tully Blanchard: There it is Steve Stack! You just stood there and watched it and all these people saw it, I pinned the man in 5 seconds and had my hand raised as the winner. That's all there is to it!

Steve Stack: I don't think that's really ALL there is to it Tully because I want to know, and I'm sure all these people want to know WHY Sunshine hit David Von Erich with her purse?

Tully Blanchard: If you were smarter you'd have already figured that out Steve Stack but I know that's asking a lot from you so I'll spell it out for you. As Sunshine was trying to help David Von Erich remember what his name was and figure out how to eat solid food again after the last time I beat his brains out, she quickly realized what a lost cause he really was. The whole time she was with us as The Texas Dynasty she couldn't see that because of how good I was at propping David up and making him look like he actually was a champion. But as soon as I dropped him, as soon as she saw him on his own for what he really was, she knew she was with the wrong man. So it wasn't even a week of her being on that ranch that she called me and begged me to take her back. And I told her to stay right there with David, help him recover, get him ready to come back to me so that together we could crush him again and for good.

Steve Stack: Sunshine is that true!?

Sunshine: Every bit of it! I'm a high class lady, I deserve the finest things that money can buy and there I was stuck on some smelly ranch surrounded by David's stupid family and having to eat his mother's awful cooking every night! His family tried to put me in jeans and boots! Me! In jeans and boots! I wear dresses made by the finest designers in the world and his mother bought me Levi's Jeans! I eat caviar and drink champagne and they wanted me to have hot dogs and beer for dinner! It was disgusting! It was the worst month of my life and the only way I got through it was because I knew at the end of it all I would have my revenge on David Von Erich and I would be standing her at the side of a real man, MY MAN, Tully Blanchard!

Tully Blanchard: You heard her Steve Stack! Now before you try and ask any more questions or make any stupid remarks let me just say that Sunshine and I are NOT going to the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night. With David Von Erich out of action and Jim Duggan and Ron Starr barred from title shots there's just no one worthy for me to defend against and so Sunshine and I are going to spend OUR Sunday evening in the finest restaurant in all of San Antonio.

Suddenly Stanley Blackburn comes onto the set

Stanley Blackburn: Wait just a minute Mr. Blanchard! Despite your status as the Southwest Heavyweight Champion, I'm still the one who makes the matches around here. And I received a phone call late Sunday night from a very angry member of the Von Erich family demanding a match with you. Now since this man does not wrestle for the AWA and will not be staying around the Southwest area anyway, I couldn't grant him a Southwest Heavyweight Title match but I DID grant his request. So Sunday night Tully Blanchard you WILL be in action against one of the younger brothers of David Von Erich: The Modern Day Warrior, Kerry Von Erich!

Stanley Blackburn leaves the interview area as Tully Blanchard starts screaming at him to come back

Tully Blanchard: Get back here Blackburn! You can't do this to me! I already made reservations at The Palm! You don't just cancel reservations at The Palm!

Steve Stack: Tully I think you have bigger problems than cancelled dinner reservations if you're going to step into the ring Sunday night with Kerry Von Erich! You've injured his brother twice and he's going to be out for blood.

Tully Blanchard: Well he better be careful what he wishes for because blood is exactly what he's going to get! I've already got plenty of Von Erich blood in my hands, what's a little more!? I'll give David Von Erich a little company in his recovery room at the ranch when I beat the brains, the very little of them that he has, out of his little brother Kerry's head! That's all I've got to say about it Steve Stack so you can take that microphone and shove it!

Tully Blanchard and Sunshine storm off the set

Steve Stack: Well fans you just heard it, this Sunday night Tully is going to have to answer for his actions when he steps into the ring against The Modern Day Warrior, Kerry Von Erich! We've got to take our second time out of the program but don't go anywhere because when we get back we've got a very interesting message from Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie directed towards Jim Duggan!

-Second commercial break-

 

Sheik Adnan: Jim Duggan it seems you have once again defeated the man I sent to destroy you. For this I blame myself. I should have known better than to send an American military man to do the job. Everyone knows the American military hasn't won anything since World War II! But just because you Americans are famous for leaving fights left unfinished does not mean that I will do the same. Instead I have finally found the man who wants your head just as badly as I do. A man who you had a few run ins with just a few short months ago. This Sunday night the Monster from Mongolia is returning to Southwest Championship Wrestling! Death will ride a horse right into the HemisFair Arena and YOU Jim Duggan will ride out of the arena in an ambulance just as so many others did at the hands of Killer Khan!

Steve Stack: Well Jim you just heard from Sheik Adnan that Killer Khan is going to be here this Sunday night, what do you have to say about it?

Jim Duggan: I can only say bring it on! I sent him running for the hills before and that's what I'm going to do again! Eventually Sheik Adnan is going to run out of people to send in here after me, I've already taken out Bruiser Brody, The Zambuie Express, Sgt. Slaughter and now I'm going to take out Killer Khan for the second time! Just because he's now handled by Sheik Adnan instead of Tully Blanchard doesn't change anything. And speaking of Tully Blanchard I want all the people to know I haven't forgotten about him. Just because I can't receive any title shots against him doesn't mean he's going to get avoid me forever! If there is anything left of him after Kerry Von Erich finishes with him then I want him on Christmas night so I can give him the stocking full of coal that he deserves!

Jim Duggan leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well ladies and gentlemen you've just heard from 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan who is apparently going to do battle with Killer Khan once again this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena! Now let's head down to the ring for our first matchup of the day as we get our first look at Ron Sexton & Pat Rose on TV taking on the team of Jimmy Doo and Mike Fever!

 

Ron Sexton & Pat Rose vs. Jimmy Doo & Mike Fever

Ron Sexton starts against Jimmy Doo and quickly establishes control of him and gets him into the corner with Pat Rose. Rose & Sexton make some quick tags working over Jimmy Doo just totally dominating him. Ron Sexton misses a running splash and Jimmy Doo is able to make the tag out to Mike Fever but Fever's offense is very short lived as he gets cut off by Pat Rose who made a blind tag in. After grounding Mike Fever with a bodyslam, Pat Rose climbs to the top rope and drops a big elbow on Mike Fever and pins him for the dominant victory.

 

 

Steve Stack: An impressive showing by Pat Rose & Ron Sexton who will be in action this Sunday night against the team of Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee who are looking to avenge their loss last week at the HemisFair Arena! We've got to take another commercial break but you won't want to touch that dial because when we come back we are going to show a video of something very interesting that happened last Sunday night in the match between Eddie Gilbert and Ken Lucas and the masked team of Yin & Yang!

-Third commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is the team of Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert! Before we really start to talk about what happened last Sunday night I'm going to just show a quick video of what happened in the closing moments of the match.

Video is played of the finish of the tag match from the HemisFair Arena with Eddie Gilbert going into his tights and then punching Yang who immediately went down and got pinned

Steve Stack: Now Eddie I don't want to take anything away from you, I know you've got quite a punch but it seems clear you went into your tights and used something to help you knock out Yang at the end of that match. Especially considering how you refused to open your hand up after the match was over when Ken Lucas asked you to.

Eddie Gilbert: Ok Steve Stack, I'm not going to come out here and lie to you or my partner Ken. I *did* pull a chain out of my tights last Sunday night and use it to knock out Yang. Two weeks ago they put some kind of foreign object in their masks to beat us and I thought turn about was fair play. Fight fire with fire as my father used to always tell me. But I know that Ken Lucas was not very happy about winning the match that way so all I can do is apologize to him and promise that in the rematch with Yin & Yang this Sunday night I will not bring a chain or anything else with me out to the ring.

Ken Lucas: Eddie I understand why you did it but we didn't need to beat Yin & Yang that way and I don't think we proved anything by doing it. So this Sunday night I want us to prove once and for all that we're a better team they are by beating them fair and square without anything to cause doubt in anyone's mind.

Steve Stack: Well now that we have that sorted out I did want to ask about something else that took place last week. Eddie it seemed like there was some jealousy going on last week when you refused to shake Ricky Morton's hand and left he and Ken Lucas in the ring after they saved you from the attack by Yin & Yang.

Eddie Gilbert: Well that attack you mentioned is another reason why I felt justified in knocking them out with a chain last Sunday night. But as for what you said about being jealous, that's not true. I know that Ricky Morton and Ken Lucas were a team here for a long time and they are very good friends. I'm not jealous about that because Ken and I are friends too. But what I don't like is Ricky Morton coming in here and for 3 weeks in a row getting a tag title shot when Ken and I deserve that title shot more. Personally, I think it's about time for the Rock N Roll Express to find their way back to Memphis and get out of our way!

Eddie storms out of the interview area

Ken Lucas: Steve I'm sorry about that, Eddie has been very hot headed as of late. All I can tell you about Ricky Morton is that I wish him luck in his rematch against The Assassins this Sunday night and I hope he and Robert are able to take the Southwest Tag Team Titles away from them. As for Yin and Yang, I'm getting pretty sick of getting in the ring with them and I can promise you this Sunday night is going to be last time it happens because I asked for a special stipulation from Stanley Blackburn when I saw he was here. So Steve Stack I'm announcing right now that this Sunday night the loser of the match between myself and Eddie Gilbert and Yin & Yang will have to disband as a tag team!

Ken Lucas leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Wow that's huge news! I had no idea that match was going to have such a big stipulation! Speaking of stipulations let me now bring out a man who just ended the short managerial career of Jose Lothario and who will receive a Southwest Television Title shot right here in the main event on TV today, El Gran Apollo!

Suddenly Goldie Rogers comes out instead!



Goldie Rogers: What's the big idea trying to keep me off this TV show!? Don't you know the ladies of Texas are dying to see my pretty face!? Don't you know they need a real man to restore their faith after the chumps like The Fabulous Ones and David Von Erich have been destroyed in front of their eyes lately?

Steve Stack: Mr. Rogers I'm very sorry but we do not have time for you on today's program, this is El Gran Apollo's time and I would like to speak to him about his Television Title match here on TV today.

Goldie Rogers: What do you want to talk to him for?? He can barely even speak English! Alright Jack you just keep trying to wave me off this stage like I care about what you think! Ladies of San Antonio since they refuse to let me be out here on TV then you're going to have to pay your money to see me at The HemisFair Arena this Sunday night when I step on that little runt Roy Lee Welch!

Goldie Rogers leaves the interview area and El Gran Apollo comes in



Steve Stack: Apollo let me apologize for that interruption by Goldie Rogers and then let me congratulate you on your victory last Sunday night over The Cuban Assassin that has now caused the managerial career of Jose Lothario to end!

El Gran Apollo: Thank you Steve. I hope now Jose Lothario leave me alone for good. I don't want to fight Jose no more I just want to be champion and make my fan happy.

Steve Stack: Well you've certainly got the chance to do that with a big TV Title match in the main event of this program today as you take on a man you've had a few run ins before, Mike Masters!

Apollo: I know Mike Masters is strong and tough but I know too I can beat him. Today I leave here with the TV belt and I make all my fans proud of me!

El Gran Apollo leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Fans we've got to take a time out for our sponsors but you won't want to go anywhere because not only do we have the big main event of El Gran Apollo facing Mike Masters for the TV Title today but when we come back we are also going to see The Rock N Roll Express in action right here on TV! You won't want to miss it!

-Fourth commercial break-



Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling! With me now are tag team that has been setting the crowds on fire since coming here to the Southwest area a couple of weeks ago, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson: The Rock N Roll Express! Gentlemen this Sunday night you are going to be facing The Assassins again for the Southwest Tag Team Titles. You've faced The Assassins twice now and come away empty handed what do you think it's going to take for you to leave the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night with those tag team belts?

Robert Gibson: You know Steve they say the 3rd time is the charm and for us it's going to be true. We know The Assassins are big and mean and tough but we know what we gotta do now and we're going to do it and walk out the Southwest Tag Team Champions.

Ricky Morton: All it's going to take for us to talk out as the champions is to hit both of those big Assassins with the double drop kick so the other one can't come in and save his partner the way things have gone down the past two weeks. And that's just what we plan on doing Steve! But actions speak louder than words so we're going to go down to the ring now and show you just how it's done!

 

The Rock N Roll Express vs. Paul Peller & Snake Brown

The match ends in less than a minute as Robert Gibson dominates Paul Peller at the start and then tags out to Ricky Morton and they hit Paul Peller with a double dropkick and then do the same to Snake Brown as he tries to run in and then Ricky pins Paul Peller as Robert also covers Snake Brown

 

 

Steve Stack: Well if The Rock N Roll Express manage to do that to The Assassins this Sunday night then we surely will be seeing new Southwest Tag Team Champions!

Suddenly The Assassins come out to the interview area




Assassin #1: Steve Stack do you really think it is going to be that easy for those little punks this Sunday night? We are the premier tag team in all of wrestling we're definitely NOT like the men you just saw The Rock N Roll Express defeat.

Steve Stack: Clearly you present a larger challenge than the team of Snake Brown and Paul Peller I was simply saying if they manage to hit both of you with the double dropkick it would seem as if there would be no way for them to lose at that point.

Assassin #1: And that's exactly why you will not see them hit both of us, or even one of us, with the double dropkick this Sunday night. I won't take anything away from them they are a great young team. They have the potential to be one of the top tag teams in all of the world. Well they would have had that potential. But unfortunately for them they made the mistake of taking The Fabulous Ones' phone call and coming here to our territory. We didn't get the names of The Assassins for nothing. We don't just beat our opponents, we take them out. And right now I am going to promise you Steve Stack this Sunday night IS the last time that you will be seeing Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson teaming up together in this area. This Sunday night we are going to leave one or both of them hurt and hurt bad. Because that's the price to be paid when you try and take what belongs to The Assassins.

The Assassins leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Well I'm not one to take anything The Assassins say lightly but I'm not sure they are going to be able to fulfill that promise as The Rock N Roll Express look like they might just have their number. Either way we are going to find out this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena! We've got to take our last commercial break of the program but don't go away because when we come back we're going to have a quick word with Mike Masters about a very special match he has this Sunday night against Man Mountain Link and we're also going to see him defending the Southwest Television Title against El Gran Apollo! Don't go away!

 

-Fifth and final commercial break-

 

 

Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and before we got to the ring for our main event I wanted to get a quick word with Mike Masters and Jim Holliday about the big Lumberjack match this Sunday night against Man Mountain Link, a match that will be for the TV Title assuming Mike Masters is able to successfully defend that title against El Gran Apollo.

 

Jim Holliday: First of all there is no IF about it, Mike Masters WILL successfully defend the TV Title today. As far as the lumberjack match goes, it's a joke! How many chances is that fat slob Link Anderson supposed to get!? He's failed for over a month now to defeat Mike Masters for that title, it's time to move on!

 

Steve Stack: Well considering that he's actually defeated Mike Masters by countout and disqualification I think he's entitled to this match where a pinfall or a submission is guaranteed to take place. Your man Mike Masters has been trying to run away from the challenge of Link and now there won't be anywhere to run as the ring will be surrounded by men ready to throw him back inside if he does.

 

Mike Masters: I don't run from any man!

 

Jim Holliday: We don't have any more time to listen to your lies out here Steve Stack! It's time for Mike Masters to go to the ring and defend HIS TV Title against that Communist Cuban El Gran Apollo.

 

El Gran Apollo vs. Mike Masters w/Jim Holliday - Southwest TV Title Match

The match never gets started as El Gran Apollo is attacked during his entrance by The Cuban Assassin and Jose Lothario

The Cuban Assassin & Jose Lothario beat on El Gran Apollo at ringside as Mike Masters stands in the ring and points and laughs. Jose blasts Apollo with a big punch from his cast covered hand and then suddenly The Cuban Assassin pulls out a pair of scissors and starts cutting the cast off of Jose's hand! Jose goes up to the interview area with Steve Stack while The Cuban Assassin continues his assault on El Gran Apollo at ringside.

Steve Stack: What is this Jose!? What is going on here!?

Jose Lothario: My hand is fully healed now, I've been cleared to return to competition and now El Gran Apollo is going to have to face the beating he's had coming to him! He's going to have to get in the ring with me again and Mil Mascaras isn't going to be around to save him this time!

Suddenly at ringisde The Cuban Assassin picks up the scissors and goes to spike Apollo's head with them but Apollo blocks it and fights the scissors away from The Cuban Assassin which sends The Cuban Assassin running for cover! Apollo runs up to the interview area after Jose Lothario who also takes off running

El Gran Apollo: Jose! Vuelve cobarde! You still want fight me!? Then fight me! I know you too coward to fight me alone so bring you friend and I find one for me!

El Gran Apollo storms out of the interview area

Steve Stack: Fans I don't really know what that means for this Sunday night, but it seems inevitable we are going to see some kind of further interaction between El Gran Apollo and Jose Lothario at The HemisFair Arena. I apologize to everyone that we were unable to give you that TV Title match between Mike Masters and El Gran Apollo but the fault for that lies at the feet of Jose Lothario and The Cuban Assassin. Right now we're all out of time for today's program but make sure to get your tickets for what is sure to be an action packed night at The HemisFair Arena Sunday night as Kerry Von Erich takes on Tully Blanchard, Killer Khan returns to the area to face 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan, The Assassins defend the Southwest Tag Team Titles against The Rock N Roll Express, Mike Masters defends the Southwest Television Title against Man Mountain Link in a Lumberjack match and much more! And make sure to join us again next week for more of the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

Scheduled for Sunday, December 18th at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX

Kerry Von Erich vs. Tully Blanchard

Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Rock N Roll Express vs. The Assassins

Jim Duggan vs. Killer Khan

El Gran Apollo & ? vs. Jose Lothario & The Cuban Assassin

Lumberjack Match for the Southwest TV Title: Man Mountain Link vs. Mike Masters

Losing team must disband: Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas vs. Yin & Yang

Goldie Rogers vs. Roy Lee Welch

Pat Rose & Ron Sexton vs. Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee

[goc]

So this topic seems to get a lot of views after I make a put up a show but no one ever posts in here so if someone besides google & facebook bots are actually reading this pop in and leave a comment. I can fantasy book in my head a lot faster than I can type it out if I'm just doing this solely for my own amusement.

[NotJayTabb]

Well, I for one am glad to see this back off hiatus. Mainly because I really want to see who finally dethrones Tully.

[goc]

Well, I for one am glad to see this back off hiatus. Mainly because I really want to see who finally dethrones Tully.

Maybe I'll eventually get there because I have an outline in my head that goes to around July 84. Whether or not it takes that long for Tully to finally get his we'll just have to wait and see.

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Southwest Championship Wrestling @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 12/18/83

Pat Rose & Ron Sexton vs. Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee - Steve Pardee started the match against Pat Rose and they both tried to establish control over the other, with Rose having the weight advantage and Pardee having the height advantage but neither man was able to get the other in a hold without having it quickly broken or countered. Pardee then tagged out to Larry Hamilton, whose AAU amateur background gave him an advantage over Pat Rose, who he quickly took down with a waistlock and spun around him to lock in a front facelock. Rose used his weight to push Hamilton back into the ropes to cause a break and challenged Hamilton to try that again. Hamilton quickly took Rose down with another waistlock and regained the front facelock only for Rose to again push himself towards the ropes for a break. Rose challenged Hamilton to get down into the referee's position and Rose got on top of him only for Hamilton to quickly spin out and gain control of the situation with Rose again having to use the ropes to get free of Hamilton's grasp. Rose got frustrated and tagged out to Ron Sexton who challenged Hamilton to get back into the referee's position. This time however as Hamilton was prone on the mat, Sexton kicked him hard in the ribs and then started stomping on Hamilton's back! Sexton grabbed Hamilton up off the mat and slammed him face first into the turnbuckle and he and Rose made a series of quick tags and continued working Hamilton over in their corner. Sexton eventually got Hamilton into a headlock and started wrenching on it but Hamilton was able to counter it with a big back suplex and then crawled to the corner to tag in Steve Pardee! Pardee came in fired up and started pounding on Ron Sexton as he got back to his feet! Pat Rose came in to try to help his partner and then Larry Hamilton came back in and Carl Fergie had to try and regain control of the match as things broke down with all 4 men in the ring. Carl Fergie got Larry Hamilton separated from Pat Rose just as Steve Pardee grabbed Ron Sexton into a headlock and set him up for the Bulldog! As Steve Pardee ran towards the center of the ring to drop Sexton with the Bulldog, Pat Rose came off the second rope with a clothesline that nearly took Pardee's head off! Sexton then quickly crawled on top of Pardee for the cover as Carl Fergie turned around to make the pin and Pat Rose cut off Larry Hamilton from making the save!

 

Winners: Pat Rose & Ron Sexton in 10:52 after Ron Sexton pinned Steve Pardee following a clothesline off the 2nd rope from Pat Rose

 

Goldie Rogers vs. Roy Lee Welch - Roy Lee Welch starts the match in control, getting Goldie Rogers down on the mat and working over his leg to soften him up for the Spinning Toehold. After a few minutes of dominating Rogers on the mat, Welch goes for the Spinning Toehold but Rogers kicks him as he starts to spin and Welch goes flying out through the ropes and lands hard on the floor. Rogers struts and preens for the crowd as Welch tries to get back to his feet to beat the 10 count administered by referee Jack Howe. Welch makes it back up to the apron but Rogers rushes in with a hard knee to the midsection that sends Welch down off the apron to land hard on the arena floor. Rogers starts talking to a woman in the front row about where she can find him after the matches as Welch again fights his way back to the apron only to be knocked off the apron again by Goldie Rogers. Jack Howe warns Goldie Rogers that he has to let Welch back in the ring or he'll disqualify him only for The Man From Hollywood to ignore the referee and go back to his strutting and mocking of the crowd as Jack Howe starts his 10 count over again on Welch. Welch fights back up to his feet and this time catches Rogers foot as he attempts a kick through the ropes! Welch starts slamming Rogers' leg down over the ring apron as Jack Howe starts over his 10 count, this time at a faster pace to try and get Welch to get back in the ring. Welch finally lets go of Rogers' leg and rolls back into the ring only to grab hold of his leg again and pull him back into the center of the ring where he quickly puts him in the Spinning Toehold and Goldie Rogers has no choice but to submit.

 

Winner: Roy Lee Welch in 7:34 after making Goldie Rogers submit to the Spinning Toehold

 

Losing team must disband: Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas vs. Yin & Yang - Yin & Yang demand a thorough check of Eddie Gilbert before the match begins, looking to avoid a repeat of the previous week. After Carl Fergie is done, Lucas demands the same check of Yin & Yang seeing as they also have a history of hiding foreign objects somewhere on their person.

 

After all that is finally over, Ken Lucas started the match against Yin and they wrestled on the mat with neither man able to gain the advantage in their battle of holds. They locked up again and this time Yin grabbed a handful of hair to pull Ken Lucas into a headlock. Eddie Gilbert complained to Carl Fergie who didn't see the hair pull but Yin vehemently denied it and pulled Lucas over to his corner and tagged in Yang. Yang came in and blasted Lucas in the head with a kick as he was still in the headlock which dropped Lucas to the mat where Yang then dropped on him with a big leaping legdrop and tried for the cover but Lucas kicked out before the count of 2 could even be administered. Yang kept a knee on the throat of Lucas and tagged Yin back in who then put Ken Lucas into a figure four. Lucas tried to pull himself into the ropes but just as he was about to reach them, Yin broke the hold momentarily to drop Lucas back into the middle of the ring and put him right back in the figure four. Lucas then started to try and over and reverse the pressure of the figure four but just as he was about to turn it over, Yang ran in and blasted him with a kick to the face that allowed Yin to firmly regain control of the hold. As Carl Fergie was getting Yang out of the ring however Eddie Gilbert ran in and landed a big fist drop on Yin which caused him to break the hold and ran back out of the ring just as Carl Fergie was turning around. Lucas tried to crawl to the corner to make the tag but Yin was able to cut him off and whipped him into the corner with Yang and distracted the referee as Yang started to choke Lucas with the tag rope. Eddie Gilbert tried to rush in and help his partner which only allowed Yin to go over to the corner and start pounding on Lucas as Yang continued to choke him with the tag rope. Just as Fergie started to turn around, Yang let go of Lucas and Yin hit an arm drag on Lucas to get him out of the corner and tagged in Yang. Yang quickly climbed up to the top rope and looked to finish off Ken Lucas with the Diving Headbutt but Lucas was able to roll out of the way and Yang crashed hard on the mat! Lucas started to crawl to the corner to finally tag Eddie Gilbert into the match as Yang crawled to his own corner. Yang made the tag first but just as Yin was about to cut off Ken Lucas, Lucas was able to dive into the corner to tag in Eddie Gilbert!

 

Gilbert came in fired up and started pounding away on Yin! Yin, the scientific wrestle of his team, was unable to do much to fight back as Eddie Gilbert just unloaded on him! Yang tried to rush in and help his partner but Gilbert caught him come in with a big uppercut and then grabbed him and tossed him out through the ropes! Gilbert then body slammed Yin and started to climb up to the top rope! Yin started to get back up to his feet and just as Eddie Gilbert was about to come off with the Top Rope Dropkick, Yang shook the ropes from the outside of the ring which caused Eddie to lose his balance and crotch himself on the top rope! Ken Lucas chased after Yang outside the ring as Eddie fell awkwardly off the top rope and onto the mat where Yin quickly pulled him away from the ropes and made the cover! Carl Fergie made the count and Eddie was unable to kickout before the count of 3!

 

Winners: Yin & Yang in 9:07 after Yin pinned Eddie Gilbert

 

Ken Lucas rushed back into the ring as he realized that Eddie was being pinned but got back in too late to break the pin. Yin & Yang quickly exited the ringside area as Ken Lucas stood in the ring looking dejected about the loss, as he knew it meant the end of his team with Eddie Gilbert. Ken Lucas helped Eddie Gilbert back to his feet but Eddie shoved him away! Eddie Gilbert stared at Ken Lucas as Lucas tried to apologize to him for going after Yang outside the ring and not breaking up the pin. Ken Lucas said just because they couldn't team anymore didn't mean they couldn't still be friends. Lucas stuck out his hand for Eddie to shake and Eddie started at it for a moment before grabbing the hand and pulling Ken Lucas in for a hug! Eddie looked emotional as he and Ken Lucas then left the ring together to applause from the crowd.

Lumberjack Match for the Southwest TV Title: Man Mountain Link vs. Mike Masters - There were 12 lumberjacks outside the ring for the match with 3 to each side. Tiny Anderson, Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton took a side, with Roy Lee Welch, Tony Torres & Mike Jackson on their right with Pat Rose, Ron Sexton, Goldie Rogers, Timothy Flowers, 'Gentleman" Jim Holliday and Snake Brown taking up the other 2 sides.

 

Mike Masters starts the match trying to stay away from Man Mountain Link but eventually he gets cornered by Link. Masters jumps out through the ropes but quickly finds himself confronted by Welch, Torres & Jackson on the outside who grab him and roll him back into the ring where Man Mountain Link grabs him and pulls him up to his feet. Masters tries to beg his way out of the grip of the big Man Mountain Link but Link just laughs at him. Masters then starts pounding on the arms of Link to get free but Link just grabs him and hurls him halfway across the ring! Masters tries to roll out again only to find himself on the side of the ring with Tiny Anderson, Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton who quickly deposit him back into the ring! Masters looks around wildly as he realizes he can't run away from Man Mountain Link this time and again tries to beg Link for forgiveness. Masters offers a handshake to Link but as Link just smiles at him, Masters tries to kick him in the stomach but Link grabs his foot and then blasts Masters with a clothesline as he's off balance! Masters quickly gets back up to his feet only to get grabbed by Link and dropped with a bodyslam. Link runs off the ropes for a splash onto Masters but has his foot grabbed by Timothy Flowers! Link stops and stomps on Flowers' hand as Tiny Anderson runs around the ring and attacks Flowers as he hops around holding his hand! A brawl breaks out at ringside between the lumberjacks and as Jack Howe is distracted by it, Jim Holliday hands Mike Masters a pair of brass knuckles which he uses to KO Man Mountain Link as he turns around! Masters tosses the knucks back out to Holliday and makes the cover! Masters shouts at Jack Howe who turns back around from the brawl at ringside and makes the count of 3!

 

Winner: Mike Masters in 5:33 after knocking out Man Mountain Link with brass knuckles

El Gran Apollo & ? vs. Jose Lothario & The Cuban Assassin - Jose Lothario & The Cuban Assassin came out first and then El Gran Apollo came out on his own as Jose & The Cuban Assassin mocked him for not being able to find a partner. Apollo then motioned to the back for someone to come out and "Rugged" Ron Starr made his way to the ring! Jose Lothario & The Cuban Assassin had a fit inside the ring as Ron Starr shook hands with Apollo outside the ring.

 

El Gran Apollo tried to get Jose Lothario to start the match against him but Jose refused and instead sent in the Cuban Assassin to start the match. The Cuban Assassin found himself at a disadvantage at the start of the match as Apollo used his speed to avoid the bigger man and played hit and run while peppering The Cuban Assassin with jabs. Jose Lothario complained to referee Carl Fergie about the use of a closed fist and El Gran Apollo challenged Jose to get in the ring with him but Jose instead counseled The Cuban Assassin from the corner and refused to tag in. Apollo kept up the hit and run tactics on Assassin while trying to goad Jose into the ring and eventually The Cuban Assassin refused to come out of the corner, calling for Apollo to tag out to Ron Starr. Ron Starr gladly accepted the tag from Apollo and came in and took over where Apollo left off, using his speed to get the better of the big Cuban Assassin. Starr goaded The Cuban Assassin into charging at him and then countered with a drop toehold and grabbed the Assassin into a chinlock. Jose Lothario started to complain to Carl Fergie and while he was distracted, The Cuban Assassin took his infamous Spike out of his pants and stabbed Ron's leg with it to break out of the hold. Apollo tried to come in and help but was cut off as Carl Fergie turned around and saw him coming into the ring and stopped him. The Cuban Assassin then dug the Spike into Starr's head as Carl Fergie had his back turned and then tagged out to Jose Lothario. The crowd and Apollo tried to tell Carl Fergie about The Cuban Assassin's Spike, but he was able to hide it under the ring apron as his foot before Carl Fergie could come over to check him for it. While Fergie was busy looking for the Spike, Jose choked Ron Starr on the mat and pounded at the cut he had on his head from the Spike. Carl Fergie turned back around after being unable to find the Spike and backed Jose away from Ron Starr as he checked the cut. Jose then mocked El Gran Apollo and shadow boxed at him, goading the young hothead into the ring and as Carl Fergie rushed to stop him from coming in, Jose was tossed the Spike by The Cuban Assassin and jammed it into Ron Starr's forehead again before quickly tossing it back out to The Assassin. Jose covered Ron Starr and Carl Fergie turned back around to make the pin but somehow Ron Starr was able to kick out before the count of 3!

 

The crowd cheered for Ron Starr to make the tag but Jose dropped him with a big uppercut as he made his way back to his feet and then made another cover but Starr again was able to kick out. Jose tagged The Cuban Assassin back in and distracted Carl Fergie long enough for The Cuban Assassin to grind into Ron Starr's face with the Spike! El Gran Apollo again tried to rush in to help and this time was able to attack The Cuban Assassin but not for long as Carl Fergie quickly pushed him back and threatened to disqualify him! Apollo and Fergie argued as Apollo tried to again tell Fergie about the Spike but while this was going on it allowed The Cuban Assassin to continue grinding the Spike into Ron Starr's forehead, who was now covered in blood. The Cuban Assassin tossed out the Spike to Jose as Carl Fergie turned around and started to check him again. After Fergie was unable to find the Spike, The Cuban Assassin dropped an elbow on Ron Starr and covered him for the pin but Starr was once again somehow able to get his shoulder up before the count of 3. Jose Lothario called for the tag and as he came in, The Cuban Assassin kept Fergie distracted so that Jose could drive the Spike into Ron Starr's head again! Jose hid the Spike in his boot and started to go for a cover when suddenly El Gran Apollo rushed into the ring with a chair and started swinging it wildly! Jose was able to dive out of the ring to avoid it and The Cuban Assassin jumped off the apron just in time to avoid the swing from El Gran Apollo as Carl Fergie called off the match and disqualified the team of El Gran Apollo & Ron Starr!

 

Result: Jose Lothario & The Cuban Assassin by DQ in 11:28 after El Gran Apollo ran into the ring with a chair

 

 

Jose and The Cuban Assassin celebrated at ringside and mocked El Gran Apollo until he came flying out of the ring after them with the chair at which point they quickly ran back to the locker room. El Gran Apollo momentarily thought about chasing after them but instead went back to the ring to check on Ron Starr. Apollo argued with Carl Fergie for a moment about the Spike and the disqualification but then he and Fergie both helped Ron Starr back to his feet. Ron Starr was a bloody mess after being repeatedly assaulted with the Spike and he had to be helped back to the dressing room with El Gran Apollo and Carl Fergie under each arm.

Jim Duggan vs. Killer Khan - Jim Duggan comes out first to a big ovation from the crowd in the HemisFair. "Death Rides a Horse" by Ennio Morricone begins to play as the crowd and "Hacksaw" watch the aisle for the entrance of Killer Khan but he doesn't come out. Duggan starts shouting "Come out tough guy!" as he paces back and forth with his eyes on the aisle when suddenly Killer Khan comes from out of the crowd behind him! Killer Khan makes his attack just as the crowd see him and try to warn the big Hacksaw but it's too late as Killer Khan blasts him in the back of the head with a big Mongolian Chop! Duggan stumbles into the ropes which Killer Khan wrap around his neck, choking him! Referee Jack Howe tries to intervene to free Duggan but Killer Khan shoves him out of the way. Killer Khan then backs off and blasts Duggan with a big running boot that causes Duggan to be loosed from the ropes and fall to the apron and then down onto the floor of the HemisFair Arena. The crowd try to cheer Duggan back to his feet as Killer Khan follows him out and raises his tape covered thumb into the air! Duggan stumbles back to his feet, still reeling from the attack and the momentary lack of oxygen and turns right into the attack of Killer Khan as he rushes in and stabs Duggan in the throat with the thumb, the same attack that put Scott Casey & Bob Sweetan out of Southwest Championship Wrestling!

 

Suddenly Ken Lucas, Eddie Gilbert, Roy Lee Welch, Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton come rushing out to the ring and chase off Killer Khan, who retreats out of their reach and then holds up his thumb into the air in celebration as the crowd quietly boos him but is more concerned at the moment for the welfare of Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Killer Khan eventually retreats back through the crowd, glaring menacingly at any of the fans who get to close to him as Duggan is attended to at ringside. Gilbert, Lucas & Welch try to help Duggan back to his feet he pushes them away and gets up on his own! Duggan holds his throat as he slowly makes his way back to the locker room, but he makes sure to walk of his own power without any help as the crowd cheers him on.

 

Result: No contest as the match never even gets under way

Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Rock N Roll Express vs. The Assassins - The Assassins jump The Rock N Roll Express before the bell and have a wild brawl with them around ringside before the match even begins. The Assassins toss Robert Gibson into the wooden steps and then they each grab an arm of Ricky Morton and slam his back into the ringpost. The Assassins then leave the RNR down at ringside and go into the ring and hold up the Southwest Tag Team Titles to loud boos from the crowd in the HemisFair Arena. The Assassins try to get Carl Fergie to award them the match by forfeit but he refuses and goes outside the ring to check on The Rock N Roll Express who once they are able to recover a bit, demand that the match still take place.

 

After a short delay while Carl Fergie talks to Ricky & Robert to make sure they can compete, he rings the bell and the match starts with Robert Gibson against Assassin #2. #2 tries to goad Ricky Morton into starting the match, knowing that he's the one who got the worst of the pre-match assault but the RNR don't take the bait and Ricky nails Assassin #2 with a dropkick as he's busy mouthing off to Ricky Morton! Robert is all over Assassin #2 at the start of the match, not letting him regain his balance and just peppering the big Assassin #2 with punches, kicks and dropkicks. Assassin #2 gets away from Gibson long enough to tag in Assassin #1 but he doesn't fare any better as Robert puts him on the mat with a dropkick and then gets a headlock on him. Assassin #1 eventually is able to shove Gibson off into the ropes to break the headlock and tries to catch him with a clothesline as he comes back but Gibson is able to duck the clothesline and come back with a crossbody that almost gets a 3 count but Assassin #1 is able to kick out just at the last moment. Assassin #1 rolls out of the ring where he and Assassin #2 have a strategy session while Robert and Ricky Morton lead the crowd in a chant of "Rock N Roll!" The Assassins start shouting at the crowd to shut up and while they're distracted by the crowd, Ricky and Robert sneak up on them outside the ring and smash their heads together which makes the crowd even louder and the Assassin more infuriated! Robert gets back in the ring and holds the ropes open for the Assassin, mocking him which causes The Assassin to stomp off and threaten to walk out of the match! Carl Fergie got up to the count of 8 before The Assassin changed his mind and went back to the ring.

 

The Assassin called for a test of strength once he got back into the ring and the crowd told Robert Gibson not to do it. The Assassin continued to insist as Robert looked to the crowd for what to do and finally he accepted and put his hands up for the test of strength. As he did as The Assassin swung with a wild punch but Robert ducked it and then came back with a big right hand of his own which spun The Assassin around and then Robert followed up with a dropkick to his back which sent The Assassin flying into his corner where he crashed into Assassin #2! The Assassins started to argue with each other as Ricky and Robert again got the crowd to chant "Rock N Roll!" and The Assassins stopped arguing long enough to make a tag and Assassin #2 came back in. Assassin #2 circle around Robert Gibson until Gibson had his back to the Assassin' corner and then Assassin charged in and shoved Robert into the corner! The Assassins tried to take advantage of Gibson being caught in their corner but Robert was able to fight his way out of the corner as ducked around Assassin #2 and then drop kicked him and sent him crashing back into his corner where he and Assassin #1 got into another argument. Assassin #1 tagged back in and tried to get Robert to tag out to Ricky Morton. Robert looked to the crowd for guidance and Assassin #1 tried to rush and attack him as he did so but Robert dodged out of the way but as he did so, but got too close to Assassin #2 who grabbed him from behind! Robert spun and knocked Assassin #2 off the ring apron with a punch but left himself vulnerable as Assassin #1 came flying into the corner and caught Robert with a huge Avalanche splash. Assassin #1 started stomping the hell out of Robert, taking his frustration of being humiliated out on him and then tagged out to Assassin #2 as he got back up on the apron. The Assassins kept Robert isolated in their corner and worked him over for several minutes as Ricky kept leading the crowds in chants of "Rock N Roll" to try and cheer Robert on. The Assassins tried several times to pin Robert but he kept kicking out and then Assassin #1 had him down in the ring and bounced off the ropes for his big elbow drop but Robert was able to roll out of the way!

 

Ricky cheered Robert on to get the corner and make the tag! Assassin #1 made the tag and Assassin #2 tried to rush in to cut off the crawling Robert but Robert made it to the corner and made the tag before #2 could get there and instead Assassin #2 rushed right into a big punch from Ricky Morton! Morton came in a house of fire and dropped the big Assassin #2 with punches and then put Assassin #1 down on the mat as he rushed in to try and help his partner! Robert got back into the ring and he and Ricky went for the Double Dropkick on Assassin #2, but #2 ducked at the last moment and Carl Fergie took the double dropkick instead! Ricky Morton tried to check on Carl Fergie but got attacked by Assassin #1 and everything completely broke down with the referee down and all 4 men in the ring fighting each other! Jack Howe rushed down to the ring and tried to to restore order but in the chaos Eddie Gilbert suddenly appeared at ringside and pulled Ricky Morton out of the ring and attacked him! Eddie Gilbert kicked Morton in the stomach and then grabbed him into a Piledriver and dropped him with it right on the concrete floor! Robert Gibson saw what happened and rushed out of the ring to help his partner as Eddie Gilbert saw him coming and took off! Jack Howe turned around too late to see the Piledriver, only seeing Eddie Gilbert running back to the locker room and both members of the Rock N Roll Express outside the ring! Jack Howe started to make the count of 10 as Robert was too beside himself at the injury of his partner to pay attention to the count and the Rock N Roll Express were counted out as Jack Howe reached the count of 10!

 

Winners and STILL the Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Assassins by countout in 19:11 after Eddie Gilbert Piledrove Ricky Morton on the concrete floor of The HemisFair Arena!

 

The Assassins celebrated in the ring with the Southwest Tag Team Titles as Robert Gibson desperately called for help for his partner at ringside. Ken Lucas came running out to check on his former protege and Robert shoved him away and started arguing with him about what Eddie Gilbert did. Ken Lucas looked overcome with emotion as he swore to Robert Gibson that he had no idea why it happened. Finally a stretcher was brought to ringside and Ricky Morton was put onto the stretcher with the help of Ken Lucas and Robert Gibson who followed at his side as he was carried away from the ringside area

 

Kerry Von Erich vs. Tully Blanchard w/Sunshine -

 

The crowd was relatively quiet at the start of this match after seeing Ricky Morton carted out of the arena on a stretcher but after Tully spent the first few minutes running away from Kerry Von Erich and refusing to fight him, they were sucked back in and started cheering for Kerry Von Erich to destroy the most hated man in Texas. Tully kept bailing out of the ring every time that Kerry got near him and finally Kerry went out after him and chased him around the ring! Tully dove back into the ring first and then started kicking and stomping at Kerry as he rolled in after him. Kerry started to make his way back to his feet as Tully kicked and pounded on him to try and stop him from doing so but finally Kerry was back on his feet and started firing back with punches to meet Tully's and then dropped Tully with a big discus punch! Tully tried to escape the ring but Kerry grabbed him and pulled him back into the center of the ring and put the Iron Claw on him! Tully quickly fought his way into the ropes to cause a break but Kerry refused to break the Iron Claw! Referee Jack Howe threatened to disqualify Kerry if he didn't let go of the hold but Kerry ignored him and Howe made the count of 5 without Kerry breaking the hold and Jack Howe had no choice but to disqualify Kerry Von Erich!

 

Winner: Tully Blanchard in 6:47 by DQ after Kerry Von Erich refused to break the Iron Claw!

 

Even after the match was over, Kerry refused to break the Iron Claw! The crowd had started to boo after the match ended in a DQ but then started cheering Kerry Von Erich as he continued his punishment of Tully Blanchard with Sunshine screaming at ringside for someone to help her man! With no help in sight for Tully, Sunshine entered the ring and tried to hit Kerry with her loaded purse but Kerry saw her coming and finally broke the hold on Tully Blanchard so he could grab Sunshine and snatch the purse away from her! Sunshine quickly retreated from the ring away from The Modern Day Warrior and Kerry started swinging the purse as he waited for Tully Blanchard to get back to his feet and then BLASTED him upside the head with it as the Southwest Heavyweight Champion stumbled back to his feet! Tully went down in a heap and then Kerry Von Erich put him back in the Iron Claw as the crowd cheered him on! Jack Howe tried to pull Kerry off of Tully only to get shoved out of the ring with Kerry's free hand as Kerry refused to let go of Tully! Wrestlers then started coming out of the locker room to try and pull Kerry off of Tully and Kerry let go of the Iron Claw long enough to dispatch Yin & Yang from the ring and then blasted Snake Brown with a discus punch that sent him flying over the top rope! Kerry put the Iron Claw back on Tully again but this time MR. SAITO came down to the ring and attacked Kerry! Kerry and Mr. Saito had a wild brawl in the ring and then around ringside before the entire locker room emptied and got the two men separated and then got Kerry Von Erich back to the locker room!

 

Sunshine asked Mr. Saito to help her get Tully back to the locker room and they went into the ring together to help Tully. A dazed Tully started to pull himself up on Mr. Saito's leg when suddenly Mr. Saito kicked him off! Sunshine started screaming at Saito and Saito grabbed the Southwest Heavyweight Title away from her and held it in Tully's face and shouted at him in Japanese! Mr. Saito then threw the title down in Tully's face and left the ring leaving Tully and Sunshine alone in the ring.

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Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 12/19

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 12/24 in local markets

-Show intro-



Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling! We've got so many things to get to here in this hour but before we do that I have to talk about some of the many things that took place last Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena! We saw the return of Killer Khan to the area but his match with Jim Duggan didn't exactly happen as scheduled as Killer Khan just attacked Jim Duggan and left him laying and we'll be talking about that more later on as Sheik Adnan has sent in a video with a big challenge to Jim Duggan, we saw Mike Masters retain his TV Title in the Lumberjack Match with Man Mountain Link although not under the most honorable of circumstances, we saw Yin & Yang defeat the team of Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas, ending their partnership but that wasn't the last we saw of young Eddie Gilbert that night as later on he helped The Assassins retain their Southwest Tag Team Titles when he pulled Ricky Morton out of the ring nad gave him a piledriver right on the hard concrete floor of the HemisFair Arena! We'll talk to Ken Lucas to get an update on Ricky Morton's condition later in the hour but before we get to that I have to talk about the main event where we saw Tully Blanchard get a victory over Kerry Von Erich by disqualification but he left the ring looking like anything but a winner as Kerry was disqualified for refusing to let go of the Iron Claw on Tully and kept that devastating hold on him for number of minutes while wrestlers tried to pull him off of Tully without success. Then we saw Mr. Saito make a return after a sudden disappearance to get Kerry Von Erich off of Tully only to then see Mr. Saito attack Tully himself and challenge him to a Southwest Heavyweight Title match! That match WILL take place this Sunday night, Christmas Night in what is going to be possibly the biggest night of action to ever take place inside the HemisFair Arena! And speaking of title matches, I have a very special video to show from the team that will be coming in to San Antonio this Sunday night to face The Assassins for the Southwest Tag Team Titles so let's play that now and after the video we'll have a commercial break and then come back to talk to The Assassins themselves about their match this Sunday night!

 

A video set to the tune of Billy Squier's "Everybody Wants You" starts to play as a video for The Fabulous Ones plays with a short highlight reel of them, ending with them holding the Southwest Tag Team Titles over their heads.

Steve Keirn: Assassins we told you we weren't going to be gone long and there's nowhere else we would want to spend Christmas Night than right there in San Antonio in front of the best fans in the world! My shoulder is healed and we're ready to come and take back what you stole from us!

Stan Lane: This year our Christmas gift is going to be those two shiny gold belts you two fat boys have been wearing around your waists for the last month, but it's not going to be because of Santa that we get them back, it's going to be because we're going to beat you like the two dogs that you are and take them from you! They say it's better to give than to receive well that's good for us because Assassins we are going to give you the beating of your lives!

-First commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now are the Southwest Tag Team Champions, The Assassins! Gentlemen you just saw the video from The Fabulous Ones announcing they're coming home for Christmas, what are your thoughts about having to defend your titles against the former champions?

Assassin #1: Steve Stack do you remember what it was like as a child spending weeks and weeks leading up to Christmas, hoping and dreaming about the gift you wanted most? Did you ever spend all that time dreaming and wishing only to wake up on Christmas morning and find out that what you wanted most was missing from under the tree? That's the feeling that is in store for The Fabulous Ones this Christmas because there is no way in hell they are going to these belts from us not even if Santa and all his reindeer show up to the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night to help them! Don't forget, we're the team that took these titles away from them in the first place, we're the team that beat them up and hurt Steve Keirn's shoulder and ran him off for a few weeks. And also don't forget that we stood out here last week and promised that one or both of The Rock N Roll Express would get seriously injured for continuing to challenge us for these belts and Ricky Morton was stretchered out of the HemisFair Arena.

Steve Stack: But that was at the hands of Eddie Gilbert, you had nothing to do with Morton's injury!

Assassin #1: The only reason we didn't injure Ricky Morton is because Eddie Gilbert beat us to it, As far as I'm concerned Ricky Morton should consider himself lucky that all he had to suffer as that piledriver on the concrete because it saved him from what we had in store for him. Be that as it may, the point is that I'm out here promising this week that these belts are going to stay right where they are. And my promise is worth a whole lot more than The Fabulous Ones' Christmas wish.

The Assassins leave the interview area and Roy Lee Welch comes in



Steve Stack: And now since I'm talking about the title matches that are going to take place this Sunday night, let me welcome in the man who will be getting a long awaited rematch for the Southwest Television Title, Roy Lee Welch! Roy it's been a little over a month now since you had the TV Title taken away from you by Mike Masters, with some help from your cousin Robert Fuller, and now on Christmas Night you will finally get your chance to regain that title.

Roy Lee Welch: They say good things come to those who wait, well I plan to make that saying true when I take back my TV Title on Christmas Night. I had one rematch against Mike Masters after he stole that title away from me, which I won by disqualification, and since then his manager Jim Holliday has been doing everything possible to make sure I didn't get another shot. Well now I've another shot at that belt and this time I'm going to make it count. But the TV Title isn't the only belt I plan on collecting because I've got a promise from AWA President Stanley Blackburn that if I win the TV Title this Sunday night then I will finally get my National Title shot against my cousin Robert Fuller. And Robert, just because it's Christmas time doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to get warm and fuzzy feelings about you. You and Jimmy Golden just about killed me with a tire iron and stuffed me in the trunk of a car, you helped Mike Masters steal the TV Title from me, and when I take that National Title away from you I'm going to finally have my revenge!

Roy Lee Welch leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well there you have it from Roy Lee Welch, you'll be able to see him in action this Sunday night challenging for the Television Title and you may very well be able to see him challenging Robert Fuller for the AWA National Title very soon as well! But right now you're about to see Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee in action against the team of Mike Fever & Snake Brown!

 

Mike Fever & Snake Brown vs. Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton

Larry Hamilton and Steve Pardee work more aggressively in this contest than their previous matches on TV, possibly showing the frustration after their recent losses to the team of Ron Sexton & Pat Rose. After a few minutes of dominating their opponents, Larry Hamilton wins the match by catching Mike Fever in the Oklahoma Roll and getting the 3 count.

 

Steve Stack: Another impressive win on television for the young team of Larry Hamilton and Steve Pardee! They seemed to have a bit more fire in them today, perhaps due to their recent frustrations and being unable to beat the team of Pat Rose & Ron Sexton! This Sunday night they have a different challenge in front of them however as they will be taking on the masked team of Yin & Yang who just last week were victorious against Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas and ended their partnership so Pardee & Hamilton certainly have their work cut out for him! But right now we've got to take another time out for our sponsors but don't go away because when we come back we're going to see a video from Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie and talk to 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan about the attack on him last Sunday night by Killer Khan. Don't go away!

-Second Commercial Break-

Sheik Adnan: Jim Duggan! Did you like the early Christmas gift that I sent you last Sunday night!? Did you enjoy the feeling of gasping for air!? Did you enjoy the fear of not knowing whether you would be able to draw your next breath!? I will admit Jim Duggan you did impress me. I thought that after Killer Khan was done with you, you would have to be carried out the way Killer Khan caused so many others to be carried out after having his thumb jammed into their windpipe. But you must be made of stronger stuff than the likes of Eric Embry, Rick McGraw, Scott Casey & Bob Sweetan. But you WILL be carried out nonetheless Jim Duggan! Because I have a contract made up only waiting for your signature for a match this Sunday night that you can not possibly win. A match that Killer Khan has never been defeated in! A match that the only way to win IS to force your opponent to be carried out! That's right, Jim Duggan I am challenging you to face the Monster from Mongolia to his very own match, the Mongolian Stretcher Match! This Sunday night, Death Will Ride a Horse and YOU will ride a stretcher! Jim Duggan I will finally see you broken before me and how sweet it will be to have it come on the most special day of your country, on Christmas Day it will be *I* who celebrates! Hahaha!

Steve Stack: Jim you just heard the challenge from Sheik Adnan and at least on this point he is telling the truth: Killer Khan has never been defeated in a Mongolian Stretcher match. It was only a few months ago that we saw him compete in a Mongolian Stretcher match in the HemisFair Arena where he ended the career of Bruiser Bob Sweetan! You've answered every challenge that Sheik Adnan has thrown your way before, but are you sure you're willing to answer this one?

Jim Duggan: You better believe I am Steve Stack! I've never been afraid of nothing in my whole life and it's too late to start being afraid now! I know how tough that big Mongolian is, I've fought him before and last Sunday night I found out just how much it hurts when he jams his thumb into your throat! But unlike everyone else he did that to here, I got up and walked away! I didn't have to be carried out after it was over with! So Killer Khan, I've already taken your best show and you couldn't put me down so what is there for me to fear!? The last time we actually had a match I watched you run away and this time I'm going to watch you get carried out! So if you didn't figure it out yet, YES I accept the challenge for the Mongolian Stretcher match and Killer Khan I doubt that you celebrate Christmas but it's not going to stop me from giving you two gifts this Sunday night tough guy, these two big fists right here! Hoooooo!

Jim Duggan leaves the interview area and 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday comes in



Steve Stack: Now let me welcome in the manager of the Southwest Television Champion, 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday. Jim it seems you and Mike Masters defied the odds last Sunday night by defeating Man Mountain Link in the Lumberjack match although not without some controversy.

Holliday: The only controversy about that match is how Man Mountain Link managed to keep getting title match after title match after failing over and over to beat Mike Masters. But that's over now, Man Mountain Link will NEVER get in the ring with my client Mike Masters ever again. And since Roy Lee Welch was out here getting ahead of himself, talking about how he's going to face the AWA National Champion after he takes the TV Title from Mike Masters let me just say first of all, that's never going to happen. Mike Masters beat that little runt before and he's going to beat him again this Sunday night. And when Mike Masters does defeat Roy Lee Welch it's going to be Masters who gets that AWA National Title shot! And that's not the only gold I've got my eye on! I've decided, in this spirit of Christmas, to take another man under my wing after seeing him have some struggles in gaining traction here in Southwest Championship Wrestling. I know that I gave him a trial period previously and decided not to manage him but what can I say it's Christmas and I'm in a giving mood. So right here on TV today the team of 'Diamond' Timothy Flowers and Goldie Rogers is going to reunite and in the main event, rid this area once and for all for the Slob Brothers, Tiny Anderson and Man Mountain Link! Now that's all I've got to say Steve Stack, I won't be answering any of the stupid questions I'm sure you're waiting to ask me.

Jim Holliday leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well thankfully he had already answered the question I had about why I was seeing the main event match of Timothy Flowers & Goldie Rogers vs. Man Mountain Link & Tiny Anderson on my format sheet. And speaking of questions I've got plenty to ask to the next guest we're going to see on the program as after this break I am going to be talking to the Southwest Heavyweight Champion, Tully Blanchard and I can't wait to ask him just how this issue with Mr. Saito came to pass! Don't go away, we'll be right back!

-Third commercial break-

The show comes back from the break with a video of the months long feud between El Gran Apollo & Jose Lothario. It highlights their whole history starting with Jose & Apollo teaming together, to Jose turning on him, the introduction of Mr. Mexico, Mil Mascaras getting involved in the fight, the series of tag matches between Mil & Apollo against Jose & Mr. Mexico, the injury of Omar Atlas, the unmasking of Mr. Mexico, Jose having his hand broken by Mil Mascaras, the introduction of The Cuban Assassin into the feud, his spike attacks on Apollo and Apollo defeating The Cuban Assassin a couple weeks ago. The video ends with the announcement that this Sunday night El Gran Apollo will finally receive his singles match against Jose Lothario with The Cuban Assassin barred from ringside!

Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling! I know you just saw that video of the long history between El Gran Apollo and Jose Lothario and this Sunday night, Apollo will FINALLY receive his one on one match with Jose Lothario! I know there's nothing that El Gran Apollo or his fans could have wanted more for Christmas and AWA President Stanley Blackburn is finally making it happen! Just another reason why you want to be in attendance this Sunday night for what is sure to be the biggest night of action ever in the HemisFair Arena! And now let me welcome to the program the Southwest Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard who will be in a match many people never though they would see as he will be defending the Southwest Title against Mr. Saito!



Tully Blanchard: Steve Stack you want me to tell you why Mr. Saito is suddenly attacking me and challenging me for my Southwest Heavyweight Title? Well I have no idea! I brought the man here from Japan, I helped him get his visa to come here, I paid him LARGE sums of money to protect me against my many enemies and this is how he repays me? By attacking me after I've already been viciously assaulted by Kerry Von Erich, a man who I DEFEATED Sunday night by the way, and then challenging me for MY Southwest Title? What has he done to deserve a title shot anyway? The man just disappears for a few weeks and then he gets to just come back and find himself in a title match with the greatest champion in all of professional wrestling? It's not right Steve Stack, it's not right at all!

Suddenly Mr. Saito comes rushing out to the interview area and Tully Blanchard sees him coming and grabs Sunshine's arm and takes off



Mr Saito: Why he run like coward!? You run today Tully Blanchard but Sunday night you don't run from me! Sunday night I break you and take your belt away! Steve Stack you want to know why I fight Tully now? You want to know why don't see me here for 2 weeks? When I first come to wrestle here Tully help me with my visa, tell me his Dad get me visa for be a wrestler. But after I lose the match 3 weeks ago to David Von Erich, Tully fire me as his bodyguard and then I find out my visa really was for be his bodyguard. Because Tully fire me for his bodyguard I can't stay here and have to go back to Japan but I get promoters in Japan to help me, they talk to Stanley Blackburn and get me new visa. This time like what Tully told me the first time, to be wrestler here in Southwest Championship Wrestling. So Tully you lie to me, you play trick on me, you try and force me to go back to Japan but now you pay. Now I take from you what I know is most important in the world to you, I take your Southwest Title! I help you many times keep that belt but no more! Now I will be the Southwest Champion! Maybe I even take your woman too and you have nothing! I know how she always look at me when we all together, she want big strong Japanese man like Saito not little wimp like you!

Mr Saito leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well fans it looks like we finally got the answers for why Mr. Saito is now after Tully Blanchard and why he disappeared back to Japan for a few weeks. Tully certainly has his work cut out for him this Sunday night as we've all seen what Mr. Saito is capable of when he's angry as we saw just a month ago right here on television when he ended the career of Yoshi Seito. Fans we've got to take another commercial break but don't go anywhere because when we come back we're going to talk to 'Rugged' Ron Starr and we're also going to have an update on the condition of Ricky Morton after being piledriven on the concrete floor of the HemisFair Arena by Eddie Gilbert.

-Fourth commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling with a man who unfortunately has been missing from television for the past few weeks, 'Rugged' Ron Starr! Ron Sunday night we saw you team up with El Gran Apollo and help him in his seemingly never ending battle with Jose Lothario as you two took on the team of Jose and The Cuban Assassin. Things didn't go so well for you in that match as The Cuban Assassin worked you over pretty good with his Spike and left you so bloody you had to be helped from the ring.

Ron Starr: First of all, let me just say I'm not too happy about the way I've been treated here since my return to Southwest Championship Wrestling. I've never received a proper TV Title match despite the way I was robbed of a fair chance in the tournament finals due to the attack by Abdullah the Butcher. I was cheated out of any chance of getting a shot at the Southwest Heavyweight Title due to the machinations of Sheik Adnan and Sgt. Slaughter. And this past Sunday night I try and help out El Gran Apollo and get repaid for my services by having The Cuban Assassin try and give me a new hole in my head. Well I've got my chance for revenge this Sunday night with a one on one match with The Cuban Assassin, and he doesn't need to be banned from ringside for Apollo's match with Jose because when I get done with him he won't be going anywhere but straight to the hospital! Killer Khan isn't the only person who is going to wind up carried out of the arena on a stretcher Sunday night, let me tell you that! And once I finish with the Cuban Assassin, I don't care who the TV Champion is whether it be Roy Lee Welch or Mike Masters they better be more worried about defending that belt against me than trying to go after Robert Fuller!

Ron Starr leaves the interview area and Ken Lucas comes in



Steve Stack: Ken thanks for being on the program today, I know right now this is a very difficult time for you. I'd like to play the video of what happened to Ricky Morton at the HemisFair Arena before we talk about it, is that ok?

Ken Lucas: Well Steve I really don't want to see that video but I suppose you have to show it for the people who weren't in the arena Sunday night.

Steve Stack: Fans at home, before we run the tape let me warn you this is disturbing footage.

Video is shown of the closing moments of the Assassins/RNR Express Southwest Tag Team Title match where all four men in the ring and Jack Howe was trying to restore order after original referee Carl Fergie had been taken out of the match by an errant Double Dropkick by the RNR Express. While Jack Howe had his back turned to Ricky Morton, Eddie Gilbert rushed down to the ring and pulled Ricky Morton out through the ropes and gave him a piledriver right on the concrete floor! Ricky Morton was left motionless and his partner Robert Gibson rushed out of the ring to check on him, causing the RNR Express to lose the match by countout. Ken Lucas ran out after the match to check on his former protege and Ricky Morton eventually had to be taken out of the arena on a stretcher

Steve Stack: Ken earlier in the night before that happened we saw you and Eddie Gilbert suffer a loss to the masked tag team of Yin and Yang and you were forced to end your partnership due to the stipulations of that match. Do you think that had anything to do with Eddie Gilbert's decision to attack Ricky Morton?

Ken Lucas: I have no idea Steve Stack. After the match Eddie and I hugged in the middle of the ring and we promised that just because our team was through that we would remain friends. I told Eddie that I would always be here for him and that I would help him in any way that I could. I went to take a shower and when I came back Eddie was gone from the locker room and I assumed he just left the arena. So I was shocked when I saw him run out to the ring and attack Ricky Morton. And since that happened I've been unable to get in touch with Eddie. He won't return my phone calls, he's not been at his apartment, I've even called his father who I also used to be in a tag team with and is a great friend of mine and he hasn't heard from Eddie either. So I don't know what is going through the man's mind, I know he didn't show up here to The Junction for TV today so who can really say. I know maybe some people would imagine that I'm angry with Eddie and that I want to get revenge for what he did to Ricky Morton but the only thing I feel in my heart right now is tremendous sadness. Ricky Morton and Eddie Gilbert are both like my sons to me, I've been up and down the road with both of them, teaching them everything I know about professional wrestling and to see one of them very possibly end the career of the other has broken my heart. I don't know why Eddie did it but I need to know why. So Eddie if you're watch this on TV today, call me, come to my house, get in touch with me somehow. I don't hate you son, I just need to know why you would hurt Ricky Morton like this. Why would you hurt me like this? I'm sorry to get emotional out here Steve but this truly the worst time in my career and I'm considering just retiring from wrestling this has gotten me so down.

Steve Stack: Well Ken I'd hate for that to be the outcome here, I know the fans here in the area certainly don't want to see you retire on these kinds of terms. I have to ask you, I know you've been at the hospital, just how is Ricky Morton doing after suffering that piledriver on the concrete floor?

Ken Lucas: Steve I don't know if I can even talk about that here on camera without breaking down. All I can tell you is that he's not doing so good...the doctors don't know if he'll be able to wrestle ever again and....I'm sorry Steve I can't continue this interview, I've got to get out of here.

Ken Lucas leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Fans I'm sorry we couldn't get a more thorough update on Ricky Morton for you but I'm sure you can understand the emotions that Ken Lucas is going through right now. I've known Ken Lucas for many years and I've never seen him torn up inside like this. Eddie Gilbert if you're watching this show please get in touch with Ken Lucas or if you don't want to do that, then come on the program next week and explain why you did what you did to Ricky Morton. Right now we've got to take our last commercial break of the day but don't go away because when we come back we have our television main event of Tiny Anderson & Man Mountain Link taking on Gentleman Jim Holliday's team of 'Diamond' Timothy Flowers and Goldie Rogers!

-Fifth and final commercial break-

Steve Stack: Our show is running a little long today so let's not waste any time and go right down to the ring now for our main event!

 

 

Tiny Anderson & Man Mountain Link vs. Timothy Flowers & Goldie Rogers w/Jim Holliday

Man Mountain Link starts the match for his team with Timothy Flowers & Goldie Rogers arguing with each other about who will starts the match against him, with neither man wanting to face that task. Finally Jim Holliday settles it for them and yells at Flowers to start the match. He rushes in and goes behind Man Mountain Link with a waistlock which goes badly as Link rushes backwards and smashes his weight against Flowers into the turnbuckles. Link then whips Flowers into the opposite corner where Flowers quickly makes the tag out to Goldie Rogers. Rogers and Flowers have a short argument before Rogers goes into the center of the ring and offers a handshake to Man Mountain Link. Link quickly accepts but Rogers ends up on his knees begging as Link squeezes hard on Rogers' hand. Link eventually lets go and Rogers crawls to the corner and tries to tag back out but Flowers avoids him. Holliday shouts at both men and has them come out of the ring for a strategy session. After they huddle up they both get back in the ring and Flowers accepts the tag from Rogers and comes back in but instead of engaging with Man Mountain Link, he challenges Link to tag in his brother Tiny Anderson. Link doesn't want to tag but Flowers, Rogers & Holliday mock Tiny Anderson to the point that Anderson demands the tag in and his larger brother finally relents. Flowers and Tiny Anderson lock up and Anderson gets a headlock on Flowers much to the approval of the crowd only to find himself quickly dumped on his head as Flowers lifts him up and brings him backwards with a big suplex. Flowers then tags back out to Goldie Rogers and the two men stomp on Tiny Anderson together which causes Man Mountain Link to try and come in to help his brother only to be held back by referee Jack Howe, which allows Flowers & Rogers to just continue their 2 on 1 assault. Flowers & Rogers make quick tags in and out and continue just pounding on Tiny Anderson who is unable to mount any offense at all, despite the crowd cheering him on, until eventually Goldie Rogers hits him with a Reverse Neckbreaker and covers him for the 3 count. Man Mountain Link tries to break up the pin but is just a split second too late and Rogers & Flowers are declared the winners.

 

 

Flowers & Rogers quickly leave the ring and celebrate at ringside with 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday as Man Mountain Link stands in the ring looking down at his brother, disappointed.

 

Steve Stack: What a disappointing loss for the brother team of Tiny Anderson & Man Mountain Link! It looks like 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday is much happier with the performance of Flowers & Rogers as a team this time around. Well ladies and gentleman that's all the time we have for this week's edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, but make sure to buy your tickets for the Christmas Night Spectacular at the HemisFair Arena as 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan faces Killer Khan in a Mongolian Stretcher match, The Fabulous Ones make their return to the area to challenge The Assassins for the Southwest Tag Team Titles, Mr Saito challenges Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Heavyweight Title, El Gran Apollo receives his long awaited singles match with Jose Lothario and much much more! Have a Merry Christmas and make sure you join us next week for more of the most exciting hour in professional wrestling right here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

 

Scheduled for Christmas Night Sunday, December 25th at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX

 

Mongolian Stretcher match: Killer Khan vs. Jim Duggan

Southwest Tag Team Titles:The Fabulous Ones vs. The Assassins

Southwest Heavyweight Title: Mr. Saito vs. Tully Blanchard

El Gran Apollo vs. Jose Lothario

Southwest Television Title: Roy Lee Welch vs. Mike Masters

Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee vs. Yin & Yang

Ron Starr vs. The Cuban Assassin

Ron Sexton & Pat Rose vs. Mike Jackson & Tony Torres

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Southwest Championship Wrestling - Christmas Night Spectacular @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 12/25/83

Ron Sexton & Pat Rose vs. Mike Jackson & Tony Torres - Mike Jackson starts against Ron Sexton and they have a nice exchange of holds on the mat with neither man gaining a definitive advantage before both men tag out to their partners. Pat Rose comes in and wants a handshake with Tony Torres but then cheap shots Torres when he accepts and starts beating on him. Rose whips Torres into his corner and he and Ron Sexton keep Torres isolated there, working him over and repeatedly trying to pin him but Torres keeps kicking out without being able to really mount a comeback. Torres eventually manages to make it to the corner and tag in Mike Jackson after a missed splash by Pat Rose. Mike Jackson comes in and fires up on Rose. He goes to whip Rose into the corner but Rose reverses it but as Jackson goes into the corner he hops up onto the turnbuckles and sets up to launch himself back with his patented crossbody but instead Ron Sexton comes running down the apron and blasts him with a big forearm that causes him to fall back down into the ring where he's covered by Pat Rose for the count of 3.

Winners: Ron Sexton & Pat Rose in 7:01 after Pat Rose pins Mike Jackson

Ron Starr vs. The Cuban Assassin - Ron Starr started this match wanting a war but The Cuban Assassin kept away from him and kept stepping out through the ropes to keep referee Jack Howe in between him and Ron Starr. The Cuban Assassin kept complaining about Ron Starr coming after him with closed fists and after a few rounds of ducking and running from Starr, The Cuban Assassin finally found his opening to cheap shot Starr while he was arguing with the referee. The Cuban Assassin quickly started wearing down Ron Starr with nerve holds and pulling on Starr's tights and hair to keep control of him any time Starr started to mount a comeback. Jack Howe finally caught The Cuban Assassin pulling Starr's hair and forced him to break the hold which allowed Ron Starr the chance to BLAST The Cuban Assassin in the face with a punch that sent The Assassin ducking out of the ring for cover. Ron Starr didn't allow him to find any sanctuary outside the ring though as Starr followed him out and continued the assault. The Cuban Assassin and Ron Starr almost got counted out brawling outside the ring but Starr broke the count at 9 by rolling back in the ring. Ron Starr tried to go back out after The Cuban Assassin but referee Jack Howe got in between Starr and the ropes, which put his back to The Cuban Assassin who then pulled the Spike out of his boot! He got back up on the apron and as Ron Starr charged at him, The Cuban Assassin jabbed the Spike into his head and then quickly hid it in his pants before Jack Howe saw it. Starr went down and came up bleeding and The Cuban Assassin came into the ring and started biting and pounding on the cut on Ron Starr's forehead. The Cuban Assassin got Starr down on the mat and put him back in a nerve hold but Starr went into the pockets of The Cuban Assassin and pulled out the Spike! Ron Starr jabbed the Spike into the leg of The Cuban Assassin to break out of the nerve hold and then tried to stab The Cuban Assassin in the head with it but The Cuban Assassin instead dove out of the ring to get away from him! Referee Jack Howe saw the Spike in Ron Starr's hand and disqualified him but the bloody Ron Starr didn't care as he continued to challenge The Cuban Assassin to get back in the ring with him! The Cuban Assassin had no desire for a taste of his own medicine however and instead quickly retreated to the locker room.

Winner: The Cuban Assassin by disqualification in 9:54 after referee Jack Howe saw Ron Starr with the Spike in his hand

Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee vs. Yin & Yang - Larry Hamilton started the match against Yin and used his amateur wrestling ability to beat Yin at his own game of mat wrestling, something that Yin was not at all accustomed to. Yin tagged out to his partner Yang who came in and avoided a Larry Hamilton take down with a side step and then kicked him in the mouth. Yang stomped and pounded on Hamilton for a bit but Hamilton eventually was able to grab one of Yang's kicks and take him down, buying him the time to tag out to Steve Pardee. Yang met Pardee with punches as he came into the ring but Pardee fired back with some of his own and won the brawl a short time later put Yang away with his patented Bulldog, gaining the team of Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee a fairly dominant victory over Yin & Yang.

Winners: Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee in 6:22 after Steve Pardee pinned Yang following a Bulldog

Southwest Television Title: Roy Lee Welch vs. Mike Masters w/Holliday - Mike Masters mocks Roy Lee Welch's size and flexes on him while Welch responds by mocking Masters' tendency to run away from fights. This got Masters very angry and he charged at Welch who dodged out of the way, sending Masters crashing into the turnbuckles. Welch went to work on the arm of the Television Champion, hoping to take away some of the power he uses for the Full Nelson but Masters eventually gained control of the match with the help of Jim Holliday distracting Roy Lee Welch. Masters maintained control over Welch for a few minutes, mostly focusing his attack on Welch's neck to soften him up for the Full Nelson. When Masters went for the Full Nelson however, Welch was able to drop down onto his back to get out of the Full Nelson and as Masters bent down to try and grab him again, Welch rolled him up into a pin and got the 3 count!

Winner and NEW Southwest Television Champion: Roy Lee Welch in 7:47 after countering the Full Nelson into a pin

Mike Masters tried to attack Roy Lee Welch after the match but Roy evaded him and quickly got out of the ring and celebrated at ringside with the Television Title as Mike Masters had a temper tantrum in the ring, kicking the ropes and arguing with referee Jack Howe

El Gran Apollo vs. Jose Lothario - Jose Lothario came out to the ring first with the cast back on his hand and announced that he had re-injured it and would be unable to compete. The crowd started booing him as he said that he apologized to them because he knew they wanted to see him beat El Gran Apollo and send him back to Cuba. El Gran Apollo came out and said he'd wrestle Jose even with the case on his hand but Jose refused. He left the ring and El Gran Apollo stuck his head between the ropes to shout at him some more and Jose blasted him with a punch with the cast covered hand which seemed to knock El Gran Apollo completely out as he fell lifeless back into the ring! Jose got on the mic and said he changed his mind, he would now have the match! Jose demanded that Carl Fergie ring the bell and get it started but Carl Fergie refused to do so as El Gran Apollo wasn't even conscious! Carl Fergie also refused to allow Jose to compete with a cast on his hand so Jose just simply pulled the cast right off which caused the crowd to get even more furious. Carl Fergie and Jose argued until El Gran Apollo stumbled back to his feet looking very punch drunk and demanded that the match be started. Carl Fergie kept asking El Gran Apollo if he was sure he could compete and Apollo demanded to have the match so Carl Fergie reluctantly rang the bell to get things underway.

Jose laughed at El Gran Apollo as he stumbled around punch drunk and Jose baited him into walking into a huge uppercut which put Apollo down on the mat. Jose covered him for the pin but Apollo kicked out at 2 much to the delight of the crowd! Carl Fergie backed Jose into the corner and checked on El Gran Apollo to make sure he could compete and while this was going on, Jose went into his tights and put brass knuckles on his fist! As Carl Fergie consented to let Apollo continue the match Jose came in with a big straight right hand with the brass knuckles that put El Gran Apollo back down on the mat and pinned him. Jose hid the brass knuckles back in his tights while Carl Fergie counted to 3.

Winner: Jose Lothario in 1:06 after knocking out El Gran Apollo with brass knuckles

Southwest Heavyweight Title: Mr. Saito vs. Tully Blanchard - Tully tried to make peace with Mr. Saito as the bell rang, offering him a handshake but Saito was not interested. Tully continued to try and avoid a fight as he rubbed his fingers together to signify he would give Mr. Saito money but Saito responded with sign language of his own that he was going to break Tully and take his title! Sunshine then jumped up on the apron to shout at Mr. Saito which distracted him long enough for Tully to attack him from behind! Tully started pounding on Saito and then choked him on the ropes up until the count of 4, as Jack Howe threatened to disqualify him. As Jack Howe was admonishing Tully, Sunshine slapped Saito as his head was on the ropes which had the effect of firing Saito up! Saito went flying out of the ring after Sunshine and she took off running around the ring! She slid into the ring and Saito came flying in after her but got caught with a big clothesline from Tully. Tully grabbed Saito and put him in a chin lock. The crowd wasn't quite sure if they wanted to cheer on Saito but eventually got behind him as they decided they wanted to see him kick Tully's ass. Saito started to get back to his feet and break out of the chin lock but Tully pulled his hair and brought him back down to the mat. Saito started back to his feet again and this time when Tully pulled his hair Saito stayed on his feet and started putting elbows into Tully's ribs and Tully broke the hold and quickly back pedaled away from Saito and ducked out of the ring. Tully shouted at Sunshine to grab his Southwest Title from the timekeeper's table and started to walk away from the match but Saito rushed out of the ring and attacked him! Saito rolled Tully back in the ring but then Saito got hit in the back of the head with the Southwest Title by Sunshine as he was climbing back into the ring! Tully covered Saito but Saito was able to kick out at the count of 2! Tully started choking Saito on the ropes again and kept breaking at the count of 4 just to go right back to it. Referee Jack Howe finally threatened to disqualify Tully and Tully pulled Saito off the ropes and went to set him up for the Slingshot Suplex but Saito blocked it! Tully tried again to get Saito up but this time Saito reversed it and picked Tully it up and spun him around and hit a Slingshot Suplex of his own! Saito covered Tully but Sunshine put Tully's foot on the bottom rope to break the pin. Saito started arguing with Jack Howe about how Sunshine put Tully's foot on the rope and while Jack Howe & Saito had their backs turned, Tully pulled a chain from out of his tights and wrapped it around his fist. Saito turned around and Tully swung at him with a punch with the chain covered fist but Saito ducked under it it and grabbed Tully into position for the Saito Suplex! Saito lifted him up for it but Tully punched him with the chain in mid air and Saito dropped Tully who fell on top of Saito and pinned him for the count of 3!

Winner and STILL Southwest Heavyweight Champion: Tully Blanchard in 10:38 after knocking Saito out with a chain

Tully called for Sunshine to throw him her purse and he got ready to hit Saito over the head with it as he started to get up when suddenly David Von Erich ran into the ring and tackled him! David started pounding on Tully as the crowd went wild but Sunshine grabbed Tully and helped pull him out of the ring away from David! David started to go out after them when suddenly Saito got up and attacked David! David and Saito brawled in the ring as Tully & Sunshine ran like hell back to the locker room! David ducked a chop from Saito and then threw him out through the ropes and looked around for Tully & Sunshine and saw them running up the aisle and chased after him but they had way too big of a lead on him and got away.

Southwest Tag Team Titles:The Fabulous Ones vs. The Assassins - This match starts wild as The Fabulous Ones attack The Assassins as soon as they get in the ring and they have a wild brawl that spills outside of the ring and goes around ringside. The Assassins end up gaining control however Steve Keirn goes for a clothesline as Assassin #2 is up against the ring post and Assassin #2 moves out of the way causing Steve Keirn to clothesline the ring post with the arm he'd previously injured. The Assassins quickly retreat to the ring and want the match started immediately as they sense that Keirn has re-injured himself.

Steve Keirn tries to play off that he's not injured so The Assassins goad him into staring the match against Assassin #1. Stan Lane tries to talk him out of it but Keirn assures him that he's ok and starts the mach against Assassin #1 who focuses all of attention on Keirn's bad shoulder. Keirn manages to stay out of harm's way and gets Assassin #1 down on the mat in a headlock until Assassin #2 runs in and hits a big running boot on Keirn's injured shoulder. Stan Lane tries to run in for revenge but he gets held out of the ring by referee Carl Fergie which allows The Assassins to double team Keirn and just pound, stomp and kick at Keirn's shoulder before switching out without making a tag. The Assassins continue the assault on Keirn and puts him in various holds to keep working on the shoulder but Stan Lane keeps running in and breaking them up. Every time Lane runs in and draws the attention of the referee, The Assassins make an illegal switch behind the ref's back. After this goes on for a while, Assassin #2 whips Keirn into the ropes and goes for a big boot but Keirn ducks under and comes back off the other side of the ropes with a big Flying Forearm! Keirn and Assassin #2 are both down on the mat and start crawling to their corner and make the tag at the same time! Stan Lane and Assassin #1 come rushing into the ring at the same time and Stan Lane catches Assassin #1 with a big karate kick that takes him down! As Assassin #1 gets up, Lane grabs him and sets him up for the Russian Legsweep but Assassin #2 comes flying in with a big running boot that puts Lane down on the mat before he can hit the Russian Legsweep. Steve Keirn runs in and attacks Assassin #2 which leads to all 4 men in the ring! The Assassins are getting better of the fight and end up in opposite turnbuckles from each other beating on The Fabs so The Assassins attempt to whip The Fabs into the middle of the ring into each other but The Fabs reverse it, sending The Assassins crashing into each other in the middle of the ring! Assassin #2 goes down while Assassin #1 stumbles around dazed where Stan Lane catches him with the Russian Legsweep and pins him for the count of 3 while Steve Keirn makes sure Assassin #2 doesn't break the pin!

Winners and NEW Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Fabulous Ones in 13:27 after Stan Lane pins Assassin #1 following a Russian Legsweep

Mongolian Stretcher match: Killer Khan vs. Jim Duggan - Killer Khan came out first pushing a stretcher that had a "Reserved for Jim Duggan" sign on it, just like how he did in his previous Mongolian Stretcher match with Bob Sweetan. Killer Khan watched the aisle for Jim Duggan to come out but Duggan instead wound up coming through the crowd and attacking Killer Khan from behind as revenge for the way Khan attacked him the previous week! Duggan just beat the hell out of Killer Khan in the early going as Khan was unable to mount any kind of offense as Duggan was all over him with punches and kicks and stayed right on top of Khan even as Khan tried to take refuge outside of the ring. Khan was finally able to take control of the match only after Duggan want for a Spear that Khan dodged out of the way of and Duggan went crashing into the big wooden steps. Khan had to take a moment to shake the cobwebs out of his head before following up the advantage and attacking Duggan. He slammed Duggan's head off the wood steps and then put a big boot upside Hacksaw's head. Killer Khan grabbed a chair and went to bring it down on Duggan's head as he got back to his feet but Duggan grabbed it as it came down and Duggan and Khan had a tug of war over the chair until Khan kicked Duggan low to end the tug of war and then brained Duggan with the chair. Duggan struggled to get back up and Khan slammed the chair on his back a few times before tossing the chair away. Killer Khan lifted his thumb up into the air and stepped back, reading himself for the Death Blow that finished off so many men previously but Duggan caught Khan as he came rushing in with a big Spear! Both men were down on the floor of the HemisFair Arena with the fans cheering for Duggan to get back up and he stumbled back to his feet as Khan tried to do the same and Duggan blasted Khan with a big punch that sent him crumpling back down to the floor. Duggan grabbed the chair off the floor and unfolded it and set it down and the grabbed Khan as he was getting up and tried to slam Khan throat first into the seat of the chair but Khan blocked it with his hands and then back kicked Duggan between the legs! Khan then pulled the chair up and slammed it down over Duggan's head! Duggan went down to one knee and Khan blasted him again with the chair which put him down and seemingly out! Khan climbed up to the ring apron and went to dive off with a knee drop to Duggan's throat but Duggan move out of the way and Khan crashed hard on concrete floor! Duggan stumbled up to his feet, bleeding but saw Khan down on the floor holding his knee and grabbed the chair and started slamming it down on the injured leg of Killer Khan! Khan screamed in pain as Duggan repeatedly slammed the chair down on Khan's leg until finally the bell rang and the match was called off.

Winner: Jim Duggan in 12:19 after breaking Killer Khan's leg with a steel chair

Duggan wouldn't stop beating on Khan's leg despite the bell ringing and finally The Fabulous Ones, Ron Starr & Roy Lee Welch ran out and pulled him off Killer Khan who lay on the floor of the HemisFair Arena screaming and holding on to his leg. Duggan held the chair up in the air as the crowd cheered him on and celebrated with The Fabs, Ron Starr & Welch as Killer Khan was loaded onto the stretcher and carried out of the arena.

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Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 12/26

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 12/31 in local markets

-Show intro-


Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling! We've got an action packed hour in store for you just like every week here on Southwest Championship Wrestling! Before we get to any of that let me fill in everyone in that we have some new champions now, if you missed out on the great Christmas Night Spectacular then you missed Roy Lee Welch taking the Southwest Television Title away from Mike Masters and The Fabulous Ones returning to the area and regaining their AWA Southwest Tag Team Titles from The Assassins! Unfortunately Roy Lee Welch won't be on the program today as he's on his way to Alabama to face the AWA National Champion Tommy Rich, who also won his title on Christmas night. I know Roy Lee Welch has to be disappointed that he won't be facing his cousin Robert Fuller for that title but I'm sure he's still eager to try and come back here to the Southwest area with more gold around his waist. In other news from last Sunday night, 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan was victorious in the Mongolian Stretcher Match after breaking Killer Khan's leg, Tully Blanchard retained the Southwest Heavyweight Title against Mr. Saito with the help of a chain and the big showdown between El Gran Apollo & Jose Lothario turned out to just another chance for Jose Lothario to avoid having a real match against his young adversary from Cuba.

We'll be talking more about the fallout from Jose's actions Sunday night later in the hour but right now I have a big announcement to make and that is on today's program, live and in person, I will be talking to none other than Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie! We all know he was banned from Texas after a match with Jim Duggan but Sheik Adnan paid a very large sum of money to local charities as a way to get AWA President Stanley Blackburn to lift that ban for 1 day only and he claims he is here to make a peace offering to Jim Duggan! And speaking of the 'Hacksaw' here is he now to talk about Sheik Adnan being here today and a big match he has this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena!



Jim Duggan: I don't know what kind of trick Sheik Adnan has up his sleeve but just because I don't look like the smartest guy in the world doesn't mean I'm a dummy! I know he isn't here to make any kind of peace offering to me but I don't want to talk about that right now. I'm not worried about Sheik Adnan, I've taken everything he can throw at me, what's left? I've beat Bruiser Brody, I've beat The Zambuie Express, I sent Sgt. Slaughter back to Puerto Rico, I broke Killer Khan's leg after all of that who is there left that he can really throw at me? There's only one thing that I have left to clean up from my past with Sheik Adnan and I have the chance to do that this Sunday night! I've been asking Stanley Blackburn to get me a match with the fake 'Hacksaw" Butch Reed ever since he he took Adnan's money to turn on me I finally got it! This Sunday night it's going to be a battle of the Hacksaws and I'm going to prove there is only one REAL Hacksaw in professional wrestling and that's who you're looking at! Geek Adnan I know you're in the building somewhere plotting something for later today but let me just warn you I'm not in the mood to play any games with you and I might just break your leg the way I did Killer Khan's and send you to the hospital to keep him company! Hoooo!

Jim Duggan leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Wow! What an announcement from Jim Duggan, we're finally going to see the battle of the Hacksaws that I know fans have been wanting to see here for months ever since Butch Reed turned his back on Jim Duggan for a briefcase full of Sheik Adnan's money! We've got to take our first commercial break of the program but don't go anywhere we've got so much more to come on this hour, including a big announcement about the rematch between El Gran Apollo and Jose Lothario for this Sunday night!

-First commercial break-

Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling! Last week we played that video detailing the long and storied history between El Gran Apollo & Jose Lothario and we know a lot of fans went to the HemisFair Arena Sunday night to see those two finally face off in a one on one match. Unfortunately that match didn't turn out the way many fans had hoped, with Jose attacking El Gran Apollo before the match and then goading him into having the match in an injured state. This left a bad taste in many people's mouths especially the AWA President Stanley Blackburn. Due to this, an immediate rematch has been signed to take place this Sunday night and this time there won't be any reason for disappointment because there MUST be a clear and decisive winner and there won't be any rules for Jose Lothario to bend or break because THIS match will be a No Holds Barred Texas Death Match! Fans have been waiting for many months to finally see a decisive battle take place between El Gran Apollo and Jose Lothario and it WILL take place this Sunday night!

Jose Lothario comes storming out to the interview area



Jose Lothario: What are you talking about Steve Stack!? A Texas Death match!? Why should I have to have a Texas Death Match with this punk when I've beat him so many times already!? I beat him on Christmas night, I beat him in a hundred tag matches, I injured his friends, why in the world does he deserve another match with me!?

Steve Stack: I don't know Jose, maybe Stanley Blackburn didn't like the way you feigned injury and attacked Apollo with a cast before your match on Christmas night.

Jose Lothario: Don't try to get smart with me Steve Stack! You think I'm afraid of El Gran Apollo don't you? Why should I be afraid of a young punk like him who has never done anything in this business except ride the coat tails of great stars like myself and Mil Mascaras? I've held championships all over this country, what has that mocoso ever done!? Nothing! I'm not afraid of him! My people have turned their backs on me to support this embustero! How could they cheer this communist from Cuba instead of me?? Everything I've done I've done for my people and they repay me now by booing me and throwing trash at me and cheering for that mocoso! Well it is going to end Sunday night. I gave this kid so many chances to go away and save his career but he's out of chances now. I've been in more Texas Death matches than almost any man in wrestling, how in the world does anything think this kid whose never been in one can beat me? The first night of 1984 is going to be the last night of El Gran Apollo's career!

Jose Lothario storms off from the interview area

Steve Stack: Big words from Jose Lothario but we've seen for a long time that his tough talk about Apollo hasn't always been backed up in the ring. But all the talking is going to end Sunday night and we're going to find out once and for all who is the better man when Jose and El Gran Apollo meet in the most decisive match in wrestling: The Texas Death match! Now let's head down to the ring for our first match of the day as Mike Jackson & Tony Torres team up to take on Snake Brown and Paul Peller!

 

Mike Jackson & Tony Torres vs. Snake Brown & Paul Peller

Mike Jackson starts the match against Snake Brown and uses his speed to his advantage to keep the larger man off balance and then gets him down on the mat into a headlock. Jackson works the headlock for a bit before getting shoved off into the ropes by Snake Brown and Paul Peller knees Jackson in the back as he's coming off the ropes which allows Snake Brown to take over on him. Snake Brown gets Mike Jackson in his corner and he and Paul Peller work him over for a bit, tagging in and out and double teaming Jackson before some miscommunication causes Brown & Peller to collide with each other and allow Jackson the opportunity to take in his partner Tony Torres! Torres comes in and takes Brown & Peller both down with dropkicks. He grabs a headlock on Snake Brown as he's coming back to his feet but Brown shoves him off towards the corner and goes charging in after him but Torres takes a page out of his partner Mike Jackson's book and jumps onto the 2nd turnbuckle and turns around in the air with a flying bodypress that catches Snake Brown by surprise and then pins for the 3 count!

 

Steve Stack: An impressive showing for the young Tony Torres in this match! He looks to be coming along nicely under the tutelage of Roy Lee Welch and Mike Jackson! We've got to take a time out for another commercial break but don't go away because when we come back we're going to be talking to the new AWA Southwest Tag Team Champions, Stan Lane and Steve Keirn: The Fabulous Ones!

-Second commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and let me introduce the new AWA Southwest Tag Team Champions, The Fabulous Ones! Guys it's great to have you back here in The Junction!

Steve Keirn: Steve Stack no one is happier about us being back here than we are, especially to be standing out here with OUR belts back around our waists. It was a long hard fight for us to get these belts away from The Texas Dynasty only to have them stolen from us by The Assassins but now everything is right again because my shoulder is healed, the belts are back where they belong and The Fabulous Ones are here to stay!

Stan Lane: Sometimes you don't get everything you want for Christmas but this year we definitely did because we got the Southwest Tag Team Titles back! But having these belts back isn't enough, we still have a score to settle with The Assassins. It was almost 2 months ago now that they pulled their little trick on us by having Assassin #2 hide under the mask of The Canadian and surprise us while Assassin #1 was hiding in the crowd without his mask waiting to jump in. I'll give them credit it was a great little plan and it worked, they managed to get hurt my partner Steve Keirn and they stole the belts away from us. But all wounds heal and Steve Keirn's shoulder is healed, we showed that on Christmas night when we beat The Assassins and got back our belts. Now it's time to finish the war that The Assassins started, now it's time to send THEM out of Texas with a busted shoulder, a broken arm, a broken leg, whatever it takes to get rid of them!

Steve Keirn: You got to savor the victory of the first battle but it's all downhill from here for you two because we're not going to stop until one or both of you is hurt and hurt bad! We've got a rematch with you this Sunday night and that might just be all we need to get the job done and if not we'll just keep on beating on you until something breaks because San Antonio is now OUR town and no one is going to get away with running us out of it even if it was just for a few weeks! Assassins you wanted a war with The Fabulous Ones, well be careful what you wish for because now you've got it!

The Fabulous Ones leave the interview area

Steve Stack: The Fabulous Ones are fired up to be back here in San Antonio and so are the fans here in The Junction! You're not going to want to miss their match with The Assassins this Sunday night in the HemisFair Arena so buy your tickets now! We're going to be talking to The Assassins later on in the hour but right now I'd like to bring out Rugged Ron Starr whose waging war against his own assassin right now, The Cuban Assassin.

Ron Starr comes into the interview area



Ron Starr: You've got that right Steve Stack, I am at war right now with The Cuban Assassin but I intend to end that war this Sunday night. He's been treating me like a pin cushion over the past few weeks with that Spike of his but this time I've got a chance to return the favor. This Sunday night he and I are going to be wrestling in a match where his Spike is going to be hanging from the top of a 10 foot pole in the corner and whoever can climb that pole and retrieve the Spike can do whatever they want with it. By looking at him, I don't even know if The Cuban Assassin is going to be able to climb the pole but I know I can and I know when I get that Spike I am going bury it right between his eyes! Cuban Assassin you've stabbed and cut me for the last time! For the fans out there who are squeamish and don't like the sight of blood, plan to take your bathroom break or your trip to the concession stand during my match Sunday night because I promise you when I finish taking that Spike to the Cuban Assassin the ring is going to look like a slaughterhouse!

Ron Starr leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: I think Ron Starr is right about one thing, fans who don't like the sight of blood are definitely going to want to look away during that match because whoever climbs that pole and retrieves the Spike is going to do some serious damage to his opponent! Now let me bring in a man whose out for blood in his own right, the man who came up just short of defeating Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Heavyweight Title on Sunday night, Mr. Saito!



Mr. Saito: Steve Stack I want to know why I don't get rematch with Tully Blanchard Sunday night!? Why I have to face David Von Erich when everyone see how Tully use chain to beat me!?

Steve Stack: I can't answer that Mr. Saito, all I know is that with both yourself and David Von Erich having been cheated in recent title matches with Tully Blanchard, Stanley Blackburn couldn't decide which one of you should receive the first title match against him and decided to have you wrestle each other to decide it.

Mr. Saito: David Von Erich don't deserve title match before me! I the number one wrestler from Japan, I the number one wrestler in Southwest Wrestling, I deserve title match! David Von Erich want to get in my way then he going to pay the price! I never like him and I don't care about his problem with Tully Blanchard! He never going to get his revenge now because when I drop him on his head with Saito Suplex he going to need to go back to the hospital! And then next week it will be Mr. Saito who fight Tully Blanchard and win the Southwest Title!

Mr. Saito leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: . With the hatred that Mr. Saito and David Von Erich both have for Tully I am sure they are going to have one heck of a hard fought match against each other this Sunday night with the winner being the one who gets the next Southwest Title match. I don't know who is going to be facing Tully Blanchard next week but I'm sure that Tully is happy to see his two biggest rivals have to fight each other Sunday night to get the chance to do so. It's almost time to take another commercial break but don't go anywhere because when we come back we're going to play a video tape with a much anticipated statement from Eddie Gilbert about his actions a couple of weeks ago where he ended the career of Ricky Morton with a piledriver on the concrete floor and hear his message to his former partner and mentor Ken Lucas!

-Third commercial break-

Eddie Gilbert: I know everyone, especially Ken Lucas, has wanted to know why I did what I did to Ricky Morton. Everyone wants to know why would I attack him and piledrive him on the floor and end his career. Well I'm not sure I can really answer that question. I wasn't myself that night, I was depressed about having to end my team with Ken Lucas and I wasn't sure whether I wanted to even stay here in Texas since the whole reason I came here was to team with him. When I saw his former partner getting ready to win the Southwest Tag Team Titles, a goal I wanted so badly to achieve with Ken Lucas and failed to do so....I don't know what came over me. It's like something just took over my body and somehow someone else was out there dropped Ricky Morton on the concrete floor. I know that's no comfort to Ken Lucas or Robert Gibson and certainly not to Ricky Morton but I don't know what else to say because that's the truth. I've been thinking hard about it for the past 2 weeks and there is really only one thing I can think to do that can even begin to make up for ending Ricky Morton's career. And that's to end my own. As long as Ricky Morton is unable to wrestle, neither will Eddie Gilbert. So I guess this is my farewell to the fans. And to Ken Lucas, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I hurt someone who was so close to you and I'm sorry I wasn't a better partner, I'm sorry I let you down and I hope you won't retire like you said you might last week because you're one of the best ever, I grew up watching you team with my Dad and I know from teaming with you myself that you've still got a lot of gas left in the tank and I don't want you to quit wrestling over me. That's all I've got to say now, I hope the fans will forgive me and Ken I hope in time you can too. Goodbye.

Steve Stack: Well I don't know quite what to say after seeing that video. It seems like the night of December 18th 1983 is going to be a very sad one in the history of wrestling as apparently it was the end of 3 men's careers in Ricky Morton, Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert. But the show must go on here on Southwest Championship Wrestling and right now I'm going to bring out two men who've made their name by ending wrestling careers, the former Southwest Tag Team Champions, The Assassins!



The Assassin: The only sad thing Steve Stack is that you're out here giving credit to Eddie Gilbert for another name that belongs to us. Ricky Morton stepped into the ring for a match against The Assassins and got carried out on a stretcher at the end of it, that's what history should say about the end of his career. But that's not what I'm out here to talk about right now. I'm out here to talk about those pretty boys who were out here bragging about how they won back how they won back the Southwest Tag Team Titles and declaring war on The Assassins. It seems to me that Stan Lane and Steve Keirn should take their own advice when it comes to being careful what you wish for because there is only one way that war against The Assassins ever ends and that's with the end of a career. And not our own. Steve Keirn you may think you know what it means to get hurt by The Assassins but what we did to you was only a small taste of what's to come now that you've declared war on us. When we finish with you that busted shoulder we gave you is going to seem like a skinned knee. Or maybe it won't be you, maybe it will be Stan Lane who gets to feel what it's like to go to the hospital courtesy of The Assassins. But whichever one it is one thing is for sure the war between The Assassins and The Fabulous Ones is not going to end until one or both of you has your careers ended. You don't get the name of The Assassin by just winning matches, you get that kind of name and reputation by finishing people for good. And that's just what we plan to do because rest assured sometime in 1984 the team of The Fabulous Ones is going to end forever!

The Assassins leave the interview area

Steve Stack: The Assassins have certainly made their reputation as men who can back up their talk about ending careers but I'm not sure they've ever had to deal with a team as tough as The Fabulous Ones. One thing is for sure, their match this Sunday night is certainly going to be the war that both teams have been promising. And speaking of war let me bring out now a man whose fighting his own war right now against the Southwest Heavyweight Champion, the Yellow Rose of Texas, David Von Erich!



David Von Erich: Steve Stack it's good to be back here on TV and I'd like to thank all the fans who sent me letters to get well soon and telling me not to give up in my fight against Tully Blanchard. And I can promise you I won't ever stop fighting Tully Blanchard until I run him out of MY state of Texas for good! Tully, the beating that my brother Kerry gave you a few weeks ago is NOTHING compared to what I am going to do to you once I finally get my hands on you again.
Steve Stack: Well David for you to do that you'll have to get through Mr. Saito. What are your thoughts about your match against him this Sunday night?

David Von Erich: I've been in the ring with Mr. Saito before, both as a partner and as an opponent and I know how tough he is. He's one of the toughest men in all of professional wrestling and I know that I'm going to have a heck of a fight on my hands this Sunday night. But nothing and I mean NOTHING is going to stop me from getting to Tully Blanchard and I will beat Mr. Saito because whatever I have to do to get my rematch against Tully Blanchard, I will do it.

Steve Stack: David I know this is going to be a touchy subject but this is the first time you've had a chance to talk to the people since your match against Tully Blanchard 3 weeks ago so I have to ask you about Sunshine's betrayal and how she hit you with that loaded purse to effectively end your match with Tully before it even began.

David Von Erich: There are a lot of things I want to say about Sunshine but unfortunately not too many of them are going to be allowed to air on TV. So I'll just say this: Sunshine you are the lowest of the low, the absolute scum of the earth. You didn't just betray me you betrayed my whole family. We took you into our home, my momma cooked for you and fed you and then you come out here and insult her on TV? You better enjoy those caviar and champagne dreams your living now because it's not going to last for long because I'm going to get my revenge on Tully Blanchard and then you're going to get a chance to be by HIS side when he needs someone to feed him and take care of him because of how badly he's hurt. And when the checks stop coming in do you think Tully is going to be able to keep up that high priced lifestyle you love so much? Do you think he's going to be able to keep buying you those high dollar dresses and taking you out to the 5 star restaurants once I end his wrestling career? I can't get my revenge on you with my hands, as much as I might want to, because my father raised me to never strike a woman even though you are a sorry excuse for one. The best revenge I can take against you is to end your meal ticket and the good thing is, I already planned to do that. So Sunshine you better enjoy the good life now because it's going to end and it's going to end real soon.

David Von Erich leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Whether David Von Erich wins his match against Mr. Saito this Sunday night or not I think it's clear that there is surely a confrontation with Tully Blanchard in his near future! Right now we've got to take a time out for our sponsors but when we come back we're going to hear from the manager of the FORMER Southwest Television Champion, Gentleman Jim Holliday and also see his tag team of Goldie Rogers & 'Diamond' Timothy Flowers in a rematch from last week against the brother team of Man Mountain Link and Tiny Anderson so don't go away we'll be right back!

-Fourth commercial break-

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Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday! Mr. Holliday what do you have to say about last Sunday night when your client Mike Masters lost the Southwest Television Title to Roy Lee Welch?
Holliday: It was the biggest robbery that's ever taken place in this sport! Jack Howe made the fastest count in the history of professional wrestling, how else could you possibly explain Roy Lee Welch beating Mike Masters?

Steve Stack: Jack Howe has been a referee here for a very long time and he has the utmost integrity, I would appreciate if you didn't come out here and lie about the man just to excuse the short comings of your client.

Holliday: Who are you to call me a liar!? Do you know who I am!? You keep testing me and you'll be watching the television show from your couch instead of hosting it, I can make that happen! Now you just keep your mouth shut and I'll do the rest of the talking now. Mike Masters should have received an immediate rematch here on television or at the HemisFair Arena Sunday night but instead Roy Lee Welch ran back to his home state of Alabama to avoid that. I think that should be grounds for him to be stripped of the title and have it returned to Mike Masters but what is a certainty is that he will not have that Southwest Television Title for long and it will soon be back around the waist of my client Mike Masters. In the meantime he is being insulted with the competition that has been provided for him as this Sunday night he has to face some guy by the name of El Bracero? Who is that!? I've never heard of him!

Steve Stack: El Bracero is a very accomplished wrestler, he's been here in the area before and -

Holliday: I told you to keep your mouth shut! It doesn't matter who El Bracero is and especially what you think of him! Mike Masters is going to make short work of him in the HemisFair Arena and send him right back to wherever he came from. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go to the ring and instruct the Dream Team of Goldie Rogers and 'Diamond' Timothy Flowers to another victory over the disgraceful duo of Man Mountain Link and Tiny Anderson.

Jim Holliday leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well fans apparently this might be my last time on the program with you if Mr. Holliday has anything to say about it so let me just send it down to the ring where both teams are already in the ring awaiting the bell.

 

Tiny Anderson & Man Mountain Link vs. Timothy Flowers & Goldie Rogers w/Jim Holliday

Man Mountain Link is about to start the match against Goldie Rogers but Tiny Anderson keeps arguing with him and finally Link relents and lets his brother start instead. Anderson and Rogers lock up and Rogers quickly takes control of Tiny Anderson and gets him in the corner with Timothy Flowers where the two of them double team and totally dominate Anderson. Flowers & Rogers make quick tags in and out to maintain their ability to double team Anderson while Jim Holliday mocks Link from outside the ring. Link rushes into the ring and barrels past the referee and attacks Rogers & Flowers and knocks both of them out of the ring. He gets back to the corner and roots his brother on to make the tag but Flowers gets back in and cuts Tiny off right before he can make the tag to Link. Flowers drags Anderson back into the corner and he and Rogers continue their beat down on Tiny. Goldie Rogers hits his finished the Hollywood Blockbuster neck breaker and covers Tiny but pulls him up before the count of 3 so he can continue punishing Anderson. Link rushes into the ring again but this time the referee blocks his way which allows Flowers to throw Tiny over the top rope behind the referee's back and avoid disqualification. The ref turns back around and sees Anderson outside the ring and starts his count. Link rushes around the side of the ring and starts to help Tiny back to his feet. Link almost has Tiny back in the ring when he collapses again to the floor at the count of 9 and the referee completes the 10 count and declares Flowers & Rogers the winners via count out.

 

Steve Stack: Man Mountain Link looks to be furious but whether it's at the team of Timothy Flowers & Goldie Rogers or his own brother I'm not sure! We've got to take our last time commercial break of the program but don't go away because when we come back we're going to talk to the Southwest Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard and his girlfriend Sunshine and we've also still got the apparent peace offering from Sheik Adnan to come so don't go away we'll be right back with more Southwest Championship Wrestling!

-Fifth and final commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now are -

Tully Blanchard: The people know who I am Steve Stack, I don't need an introduction from you! I'm the man who has been the Southwest Heavyweight Champion for over 6 months now, the man who everyone wants a piece of until they get it and realize that I am the best! Last Sunday night I added Mr. Saito to the list of names of men who have tried and FAILED to take this Southwest Title away from me. And now because Stanley Blackburn couldn't decide which failed contender to give another undeserved title shot to, I've got this Sunday night off. Which is just fine for me because Sunshine and I had our previous reservations The Palm ruined by Blackburn and he owed me a night off anyway. But one thing is for sure whether it's Mr. Saito or David Von Erich whoever I wrestle next week WILL fail to take my Southwest Title away from me just like everyone else who has tried to do so over the last 6 months.

Steve Stack: Sunshine I have to ask you what are your thoughts about the comments that David Von Erich just made about you here today on television?

Sunshine: David can tough talk all he wants but I know inside he's heart broken because he knows he lost the greatest woman he could ever have. There isn't another woman in Texas as beautiful or as smart as me and now that David's had the best everything that comes after is just going to be 2nd rate. But that might not be a problem for long because if he ever does manage to get another match against my man Tully Blanchard he'll just suffer another injury to that already fragile brain of his and maybe he'll have the beneficial side effect of losing his memory so he can forget about how he loved and lost the best thing he's ever had.

Steve Stack: Well I think -

Tully Blanchard: No one cares what YOU think Steve Stack! We've blessed you with our presence enough for today it's time that Sunshine and I get out of here and enjoy our well earned time off!

Tully and Sunshine leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Ok fans it looks Sheik Adnan is headed down to the ring now so it must be time to hear his "peace offering" to Jim Duggan so let's listen in to hear what he has to say.

The shot changes to ringside where Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie is standing in the ring while the crowd in The Junction tries to drown him out with boos



Sheik Adnan: I came here to talk to Jim Duggan in person so please Mr. Duggan come to the ring so that I can make my peace offering to you. You can see I am alone, you have nothing to fear I do not want to fight with you, I only want to talk.

Jim Duggan comes down to the ring to a loud ovation from the crowd in The Junction

Jim Duggan: I wouldn't have anything to fear from you even if you did want to fight Geek Adnan or did you forget I already beat you before with one hand tied behind my back? Just say what you want to say because I don't want to be around you any longer than I have to, you stink like a camel!

Sheik Adnan: I will not resort to trading insults with you Jim Duggan, I did not come here for that either. I came here to admit that I have failed in my mission against you. I have sent some of the biggest and baddest men in wrestling after you: Bruiser Brody, The Zambuie Express, Sgt. Slaughter, Killer Khan and you have beaten them all. It has cost me a great deal of money to hire all of those men and I have nothing to show for it. So today marks the end of my vendetta against you Jim Duggan. You have won and as a token of my good will I have brought you something.

Sheik Adnan hands Jim Duggan a briefcase

Jim Duggan: I don't want any of your dirty money so you can just take this briefcase right back!

Sheik Adnan: It is not money inside that briefcase Mr. Duggan, please just open it and accept my peace offering.

Jim Duggan opens the briefcase and inside is only a letter which Duggan starts to read aloud

Jim Duggan: "Do you remember when I told you that there is no one you can trust, no one you can turn to, that no one will stand by your side when I have the unlimited resources to buy them away from you? Now you will learn how true those words were!" What is this!? Jim Duggan grabs Sheik Adnan by the throat Are you really so stupid that you're going to threaten me when you're close enough for me to wring your neck!?

Suddenly Ron Starr comes running out to the ring behind Jim Duggan as Sheik Adnan watches him with glee. But as Ron Starr is about to get in the ring Jim Duggan turns around and shoves Sheik Adnan at him and Ron Starr nails Adnan with a punch!

Jim Duggan: It looks like you over estimated the power of your money Geek Adnan! Ron Starr told me about your little plan to lure me into an attack and now we've got a peace offering of our own for you!

Ron Starr holds Sheik Adnan down on the mat with his right arm stretched out as Jim Duggan climbs to the top rope and comes off with a big kneedrop to Adnan's outstretched arm. Sheik Adnan starts screaming in pain as officials start to run out to the ring to keep any further violence from taking place. Ron Starr and Jim Duggan head to the interview area as Sheik Adnan is being helped from the ring, continuing to scream in pain.

Ron Starr: Now you know that there is at least one person that you can't buy Sheik Adnan! Ron Starr is not for sale! And you're going to find it's a lot harder to write those checks now with a broken arm!

Jim Duggan: There's OUR piece offering to you Geek Adnan and we hope you'll accept it with all the kindness we showed in giving it to you!

Jim Duggan and Ron Starr walk away from the interview area together

Steve Stack: Well I can't say I'm surprised that Sheik Adnan did not have good intention on his visit here today but I don't think he's going to be very happy about how it turned out! I don't know what the fallout from this will be but I definitely don't think this is the last we've heard from Sheik Adnan! Fans we're all out of time on today's program but make sure to buy your tickets for this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena as the year of 1984 gets started off with a bang as The Fabulous Ones defend the Southwest Tag Team Titles against The Assassins, El Gran Apollo battles Jose Lothario in a Texas Death match, David Von Erich faces Mr. Saito with the winner receiving a title match with Tully Blanchard, The Battle of the Hacksaws takes place with Jim Duggan against Butch Reed and much more! Make sure to be there Sunday night and be right back here next week for more of the hottest hour in all of professional wrestling right here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

 

Scheduled for Sunday, January 1st at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX

 

Texas Death Match: El Gran Apollo vs. Jose Lothario

Southwest Team Titles: The Assassins vs. The Fabulous Ones

Winner Receives a Southwest Heavyweight Title Match: Mr. Saito vs. David Von Erich

Battle of the Hacksaws: Jim Duggan vs. Butch Reed

Spike on a Pole Match: Ron Starr vs. The Cuban Assassin

Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee vs. Ron Sexton & Pat Rose

Mike Masters vs. El Bracero

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Southwest Championship Wrestling @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 1/1/84

 

El Bracero vs. Mike Masters w/Jim Holliday - El Bracero had Mike Masters completely flustered and off balance at the start of the match with his unorthodox style of acrobatics and rolling around the ring. Bracero kept goading Masters into charging at him and then avoiding him, essentially turning himself into a Matador and Mike Masters into a raging bull. Eventually Mike Masters was able to get his hands on El Bracero after Jim Holliday grabbed Bracero's foot and kept him from getting out of the corner as Mike Masters charged in at him. Masters then took out his earlier frustrations on El Bracero and beat on him for a few minutes before attempting his Full Nelson but El Bracero was able to drop down and counter it into a roll up the same way Roy Lee Welch did the week before to defeat Masters for the Southwest TV Title. This time Masters was able to kick out at the count of two however and then very shortly afterwards was able to catch El Bracero in the Full Nelson and force him to submit.

 

Winner: Mike Masters in 8:32 by submission with the Full Nelson

 

Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee vs. Ron Sexton & Pat Rose - Hamilton and Pardee started the match fired up as they looked to avenge their previous losses to Rose & Sexton but Sexton & Rose did all they could to stall and avoid contact in the early going to try to take the wind out of the sails of Hamilton & Pardee. Finally they were able to use Pardee's over aggression to lure him into their corner where they were able to use a 2 on 1 advantage to take control of the match. Rose & Sexton worked over Pardee in their corner, keeping him in holds and making sure he was unable to get anywhere close to making a tag to his partner Larry Hamilton. Pardee was almost able to escape and make a tag after a missed elbow drop by Pat Rose but Ron Sexton was able to rush in and cut him off before he got all the way to the corner. Pardee was then worked over some more but Rose & Sexton were unable to keep his shoulders on the mat for a count of 3 and eventually Sexton's frustration at Pardee's kickouts worked against him as Pardee was able to make a diving tag to Hamilton as Sexton argued with referee Carl Fergie about slow counts. Hamilton came in fired up and quickly took control of Ron Sexton and after dominating him on the mat for a bit he caught him in the Oklahoma Roll but Pat Rose ran in and broke the pin before Carl Fergie could make the count of 3. Rose and Sexton both attacked Hamilton which brought Steve Pardee in to aid his partner and things quickly broke down into all four men fighting in the ring. Carl Fergie desperately tried to regain order as Pat Rose tied up Larry Hamilton's arms in the ropes. During the chaos Steve Pardee hit the Bulldog on Ron Sexton and tried to cover him but Carl Fergie was still trying to untie Hamilton and didn't see the cover, allowing Pat Rose to come off the top rope with an elbow drop to the back of Pardee's head. Rose then rolled Sexton out of the ring and covered Steve Pardee and got the referee's attention who turned around and made the count despite neither Pardee nor Pat Rose being the legal man.

 

Result: Pat Rose & Ron Sexton in 11:47 after Pat Rose pinned Steve Pardee despite neither of them being the legal man

 

Spike on a Pole Match: 'Rugged' Ron Starr vs. The Cuban Assassin - Referee Jack Howe checked The Cuban Assassin before the match and pulled a Spike out of his pants pocket and took it away from him. As The Cuban Assassin argued with Howe and tried to take it back from him, Ron Starr jumped him from behind and started beating the hell out of him. Starr slammed The Cuban Assassin down on the mat and then started trying to climb the 10 foot pole but just as he was about to retrieve the Spike, the big Cuban was able to get up and pull him down off the pole causing Starr to drop down hard off the pole and onto the mat. The Cuban Assassin then started beating on Ron Starr and then put him in a nerve hold. After sensing that Starr was incapacitated, The Cuban Assassin let go of the nerve hold and tried to climb the pole but was having a lot of difficulty getting to the top. Finally just as he had finally struggled to the top, Ron Starr recovered and grabbed his foot and pulled him back down. Both men started fighting while standing on the top turnbuckle, with one hand holding the pole for balance and using their other hand for punching. They eventually both landed big hay makers at the same time and fell together back down into the ring. The crowd chanted for Ron Starr to get up first but he and The Cuban Assassin both struggled back to their feet at the same time and started trading punches again. Starr had The Cuban Assassin reeling and about to fall when The Cuban Assassin raked Starr's eyes and then chopped him in the throat. The Cuban Assassin then started choking Starr over the top rope and then picked him up and dropped him throat first across the top rope. The Cuban Assassin then started to try and climb the pole once more, this time actually getting to the top of the pole and retrieving the Spike! The Cuban Assassin quickly slid back down the pole and raised the Spike above his head with both hands getting ready to drive it down into the rising Ron Starr's head but Starr reached up and blocked it! Ron Starr and The Cuban Assassin struggled over the Spike until Ron Starr started headbutting The Cuban Assassin who lost his grip and Ron Starr gained control of the Spike! Starr tried to stab The Cuban Assassin with it but the big Cuban was able to cut him off with a big kick to the stomach, causing Starr to drop the Spike onto the mat. The Cuban Assassin bent down to get it but Starr stomped on his hands and then blasted The Cuban Assassin with a big knee lift while the Cuban was bent over trying to pick up the Spike! Ron Starr then climbed up to the top rope and as The Cuban Assassin groggily stumbled back up to his feet Starr came over the top rope with the Spike and drove it down into the head of The Cuban Assassin! The Cuban Assassin crumpled to the mat and Ron Starr covered him for the count of 3! .

 

Winner: Ron Starr in 12:19 after coming off the top rope and driving the Spike into The Cuban Assassin's head!

 

Ron Starr held the Spike up to cheers from the crowd as The Cuban Assassin stayed down on the mat which quickly started to turn red around him from the blood pouring out of his forehead

 

Winner Receives a Southwest Heavyweight Title Match: Mr. Saito vs. David Von Erich - Despite both men's animosity toward each other and their strong desire to get a Southwest Title match, this match started out slow as both men were cautious and wary of making a mistake in the early going. There was a long feeling out process with both men trying to get a hold on the other without much success. Things finally started to pick up as Saito got a headlock on David but was shoved off into the ropes and was then hit with David's patented high knee which dropped Saito to the mat. David scrambled on top of him and secured an abdominal claw but Saito was able to quickly get to the ropes to break that hold. Saito chopped David in the throat while the referee was getting him to break the abdominal claw and Saito then focused in on David's right hand and arm, trying to neutralize the famous Von Erich claw. After a few minutes of Saito working over David's arm, David was able to turn the tides when Saito missed a knee drop attempt to David's outstretched arm and David then went to work on Saito's legs, trying to take away his power base for the devastating Saito suplex. David eventually got Saito in a Boston Crab in the middle of the ropes and Saito had to make a long slow effort to drag himself to the ropes to break the hold. David backed off of Saito and then came charging at him for a high knee as Saito slowly got back to his feet but the momentum of the collision sent both men flying over the top rope. As the referee started a 10 count both men slowly got back to their feet when suddenly Tully Blanchard came running down to ringside with a chair and attacked both men! Referee Jack Howe had no choice but to call for the bell as Tully commenced a brutal assault on Mr. Saito and David Von Erich with a steel chair!

 

Result: No contest in 15:24 after Tully Blanchard ran out and attacked both men with a chair

 

Tully eventually left both men laid out at ringside after just brutalizing them with chair shots and walked back to the locker room bragging about how neither men would receive a title shot

 

Battle of the Hacksaws: Jim Duggan vs. Butch Reed - As soon as the bell rang both men charged at each other and started exchanging punches! They brawled for a short while with Jim Duggan getting the better of the fight which sent Butch Reed retreating to the outside of the ring where he started to complain to the referee about Jim Duggan's closed fists. Butch Reed got back in the ring and hit a cheap shot on Duggan as referee Carl Fergie was busy trying to get Duggan to open up his closed fists which kicked off another brawl between the two Hacksaws. Duggan eventually got the better of this fight as well and Reed then retreated again and demanded that Duggan be disqualified to punching. Butch Reed shouted that it's supposed to be a wrestling match not boxing so Duggan offered to let Butch Reed have a free headlock. Reed looked wary but Duggan bent over and put his hands behind his back to let Reed grab the headlock so Reed grabbed hold of the headlock and quickly started to mock Duggan for being stupid. This didn't last long as Duggan quickly shoved Reed off of him and into the ropes where Reed came back and collided with Duggan with neither man budging much. This led to the two men jawing at each other about their football days and how they could tackle the other. Butch Reed bounced off the ropes again and charged into Duggan with a shoulder block but was unable to really budge him. Reed challenged Duggan to do the same which led to pretty much the same result as Duggan's shoulder block didn't move Butch Reed. This led to repeated tries from both men until Butch Reed goaded Duggan into another shoulder block but this time met him coming in with a big clothesline that took Duggan down to the mat and then Butch Reed quickly followed up with a chin lock before Duggan could get back up. Butch Reed mocked Duggan for being stupid enough to fall into his trap as he maintained the chin lock. The fans cheered Duggan back to his feet and he was about to break out of the chin lock when Butch Reed pulled him back down by the hair. Reed argued with the referee about whether or not he pulled Duggan's hair with Butch protesting his innocence. Duggan again started to make his way back up but this time Reed yanked him back down by pulling on Duggan's trunks. Reed continued to argue his innocence to Carl Fergie as the fans tried to tell the referee about Reed using the trunks. Finally Duggan was able to break out of the long chin lock and shoved him into the ropes but as Reed came charging back, the heads of the Hacksaws collided and they both went down. Butch Reed got up first and climbed to the top rope and as Duggan stumbled back up to his feet, Reed came off with a Diving Shoulder Block but Duggan was able to dodge out of the way just in time as Reed crashed hard on the mat. Duggan then set himself down in the 3 point stance and as Reed got back up Duggan came charging in with a Spear and then pinned Butch Reed to win the match!

 

Winner: Jim Duggan in 10:37 with a Spear

 

Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Assassins vs. The Fabulous Ones - Assassin #1 and Stan Lane started the match against each other but almost as soon as the bell rang, Assassin #2 ran into the ring and attacked Lane. This brought in Steve Keirn and then all 4 men were fighting in the ring. As referee Jack Howe tried to restore order, Assassin #1 left the ring and grabbed one of the Southwest Tag Team Titles and came charging back in the ring and nailed Stan Lane with it, causing a disqualification.

 

Result: The Fabulous Ones in 0:45 after The Assassins were disqualified

 

Steve Keirn tried to grab the belt away from Assassin #1 but got jumped from behind by Assassin #2 and thrown over the top rope. Stan Lane tried to get back to his feet only to get hit in the head again with the Tag Title belt and busted open. The Assassins both took turns dropping elbows on Stan Lane until Steve Keirn recovered outside the ring and grabbed the other Tag Title belt at ringside and came charging into the ring with it, swinging it wildly around his head which sent The Assassins scrambling out of the ring. The Assassins went back to the locker room as Steve Keirn helped a bloody Stan Lane back to his feet.

 

Texas Death Match: El Gran Apollo vs. Jose Lothario - Jose attacked Apollo the moment he stepped through the ropes and just started beating the hell out of him. Jose threw Apollo out of the ring and whipped him into the wooden ring steps. Jose stayed on top of Apollo just hammering him with punches and kicks before body slamming him on the concrete floor and covering him for a 3 count. Jose shouted at referee Carl Fergie to count faster as he started the 10 count but Apollo was back to his feet before the ref even got to the count of 2.

 

Jose knocked Apollo back down with a clothesline and continued his assault. Jose tried to whip Apollo into the guard rail but Apollo reversed it and Jose went crashing into the steel rail instead. Apollo took a moment to regain his bearings and then tried to follow up on his momentary advantage but Jose raked Apollo's eyes as Apollo got close to him and Jose took back over on Apollo, slamming the young Cuban superstar's head into the guard rail, busting him open. Jose then started to work the cut, biting and punching at it. Jose slammed Apollo's head off the ring apron and then rolled him back in the ring and followed him inside where he dropped down on him with a big fist drop and covered him and got another pin fall. Apollo was still far from beaten however as he got back to his feet at the count of 4 after Carl Fergie started the 10 count.

 

Jose tried to nail Apollo with a big uppercut as he got back to his feet but Apollo ducked under it and came back with a big punch of his own to Jose's midsection. Apollo started peppering his former mentor with jabs and then dropped Jose with a big uppercut of his own. Apollo hit a big dropkick on Jose as he got back to his feet and sent him back down to the canvas. Apollo then quickly climbed up to the top turnbuckle and set himself up for the Flying Crossbody but as Jose was getting back to his feet he was fumbling in his tights for something and as Apollo came off the top rope, Jose threw powder in his eyes! Apollo was still able to connect with the Flying Crossbody however and pinned Jose to secure a pin fall! As Carl Fergie started a 10 count on Jose, Apollo desperately rubbed at his eyes while stumbling around the ring.

 

Jose made it back to his feet at the count of 6 and seeing Apollo still suffering from the effects of powder to his eyes, Jose followed up with a big uppercut that Apollo never saw coming. Apollo went limp and fell out through the ropes, landing hard on the concrete floor. Jose followed him out and covered him for another pinfall but Apollo was once again able to beat the 10 count, getting back to his feet at the count of 10.

 

Jose circled around his opponent, hitting him with jabs to the body and head as Apollo stumbled and tried to clear his vision, still suffering from the powder thrown by Jose along with having his own blood running down into his eyes as well. Jose caught Apollo flush on the chin with a big uppercut that just totally crumpled Apollo and made another cover for his 4th pinfall of the match. Apollo again was able to beat the 10 count though as he got back to his feet at the count of 8.

 

Jose started to seem frustrated at his inability to put Apollo away and came in with a wild haymaker as Apollo was using the guard rail to hold himself up but Apollo ducked under it and then back body dropped Jose over the guardrail into the crowd! Apollo grabbed Jose as he was getting back up and suplexed him back over the railing to the ringside area with Jose crashing hard on the concrete floor. Apollo was took weak to cover Jose though and both men stayed down on the concrete floor for a good while before starting to make their way back to a standing position at the same time. Jose started going into his tights again and came out with brass knuckles! He swung at Apollo with another wild haymaker but Apollo again ducked under it and Jose struck the steel ring post instead! Jose dropped the brass knuckles off his hand and screamed in pain as his hand was likely broken! Apollo saw the brass knuckles down on the arena floor and picked them up and put them on! As Jose slowly turned around, holding onto his injured hand Apollo uncorked a massive uppercut with the brass knuckles that just about took Jose's head off! Jose fell to the arena floor like a sack of bricks and Apollo covered him for a pinfall! Carl Fergie started the 10 count and Jose remained completely motionless on the floor of the HemisFair Arena as Carl Fergie finished the 10 count and declared El Gran Apollo the winner of the Texas Death match!

 

Winner: El Gran Apollo in 13:50 after knocking out Jose Lothario with his own brass knuckles

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Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 1/2

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 1/7 in local markets

-Show intro-



Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling! If you missed the action last Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena then you missed out on one of the best nights of action in the history of Southwest Championship Wrestling! We'll be talking about what took place there throughout the hour but there was one thing that happened Sunday night that is going to have a big impact on today's program and the upcoming card this week at the HemisFair Arena. David Von Erich and Mr. Saito were competing in a match to determine who would receive a Southwest Heavyweight Title match against Tully Blanchard on this week's card but that match was ruined when Tully ran down to the ring and attacked both men with a chair. Tully seemed to be quite pleased with himself last Sunday night as he thought that mean that neither man would be receiving a title shot against him but AWA President Stanley Blackburn has made a decision that I'm sure that Tully will NOT be pleased with. This Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena David Von Erich and Mr. Saito will BOTH be receiving a shot at the Southwest Heavyweight Title! In the opening match on the card Tully will defend the Southwest Title against David Von Erich and the winner of that match will then defend the title against Mr. Saito in the main event. In order to avoid a situation of the winner of the Tully/David match having to wrestle their 2nd match of the night against a fresh Mr. Saito, Saito will be wrestling in the second match on the card against El Gran Apollo, with El Gran Apollo receiving a Southwest Heavyweight Title match on the January 15th HemisFair Arena card if he is victorious over Mr. Saito. We'll be talking more about this situation throughout the other and hearing from all the participants in this unique situation but right now we've got to take a commercial break but don't go away because when we come back we'll be talking to the man at the center of all this controversy, the Southwest Heavyweight Champion himself, Tully Blanchard!

-First commercial break-



Sunshine: You just stand there and be quiet Steve Stack, I'll welcome everyone back to Southwest Championship Wrestling. Right now you are looking at the greatest wrestler to come out of Texas, the longest reigning Southwest Heavyweight Champion of all time, my man, The Texas Dynasty himself: Tully Blanchard!

Tully Blanchard: And the lady who just gave that great introduction is of course the lovely Sunshine, the most beautiful woman in the state and if anyone around here had any sense she'd be the new host of this show.

Steve Stack: Thank you for trying to give my job away Tully, I appreciate that. Now I'd like to ask you about the unique situation you find yourself in this Sunday night as there are two Southwest Heavyweight Title defenses schedule meaning that if you are victorious in your first title defense you will have to defend it again later on in the evening.

Tully Blanchard: Unique situation! That's what you call it Steve Stack!? I call it a conspiracy! Everyone around here is sick with jealousy, sick about the fact that not only do I have the most beautiful woman in Texas at my side but that I am also the longest reigning Southwest Heavyweight Champion in history, that now they've concocted this grand conspiracy to screw me out of my title. But it's still not going to happen! I've beaten Mr. Saito before already and everyone knows just how badly I've beaten David Von Erich so why should things be any different just because I have to beat them both in the same night?

Steve Stack: I have to say I'm a little surprised Tully, I expected you to come out here and rant and rave and try to get out of the situation but you appear to be confident in your abilities to retain the title even under these circumstances.

Tully Blanchard: And why shouldn't I be confident Steve Stack? I've held this title for over 6 months now, I've beaten everyone that has tried to take it away from me. Rick McGraw, Eric Embry, Scott Casey, Bob Sweetan, I ran all the old guard out of Southwest and now some of them can't even wrestle anymore! And then I beat everyone who came in after them El Gran Apollo, Ken Lucas, Eddie Gilbert, Jim Duggan, all of them have tried and failed to take this title from me! I even beat back the challenge of the 'great' Mil Mascaras! And then my star was shining so bright that even the men who were supposed to be my friends like David Von Erich and Mr. Saito tried to come for my title but they've failed too, and they will fail again this Sunday night! Steve Stack you and everyone else need to realize that I am not just the greatest champion that Southwest has ever known, I am the Texas Dynasty. The old saying goes 'Diamonds are forever' but it should say 'Dynasties are forever' and so is Tully Blanchard!

Tully and Sunshine leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Well whether you agree with what Tully just had to say or not, one thing is true about Tully is that he can always find a way to surprise you. Now my next guest out here is a man who is also involved in the unique situation taking place this Sunday night, although he will not be getting a direct title shot, he is one of the hottest young stars in professional wrestling, the man who defeated Jose Lothario last Sunday night in a Texas Death Match, El Gran Apollo!

El Gran Apollo comes out to the interview area



Steve Stack: First of all, let me congratulate you on your big win last Sunday night over Jose Lothario, a victory which I think is fair to say is the biggest one of your career so far.

El Gran Apollo: Yes Steve Stack, thank you. I think was the big win of my career Sunday night but I hope soon have one even bigger. Now that I finally finish my long fight with Jose I want to give back the people something for all they did for me. They support me in all the hard times against Jose and now I want to do something to make them even more proud for me. This Sunday I fight Mr. Saito and if win I get another match for Southwest Title. I want to be the champion for my people, to show them that our people can do anything here in America. I want to be the Southwest Champion for all the Spanish speaking people here in Texas and I hope this Sunday they support me in my match with Saito so I can win title shot for next week.

Steve Stack: I'm sure they will be there to support El Gran Apollo, just like they were there last week to support him in that Texas Death Match against Jose Lothario. And now we're going to get a look at Apollo in action right here on TV as he's scheduled in our first match of the day against Snake Brown so let's head down to ringside where Apollo is just stepping into the ring now.

 

El Gran Apollo vs. Snake Brown

Snake Brown wants a handshake to start the match and El Gran Apollo goes along and shakes his hand only to get suckered into an attack. Snake Brown rakes Apollo's eyes and pounds on him in the corner until referee Jack Howe forces him to break. As Snake Brown goes back into the corner to resume his attack, Apollo starts firing back! Apollo drops Snake Brown with punches and then hits a series of dropkicks on Snake Brown as he gets back up. Apollo then grabs Snake Brown and suplexes him close to the corner and goes up to the top rope and as Snake Brown gets up to his feet again, Apollo comes off with the Top Rope Crossbody and pins Snake Brown for a quick victory.

 

Steve Stack: An impressive victory for El Gran Apollo who was caught off guard at the opening of the match but quickly turned things around! This young man is rising high in the world of professional wrestling but he has a very formidable opponent in front of him this Sunday night in the form of Mr. Saito! We've got to take another time out for our sponsors but don't go away because when we come back we're going to be talking to El Gran Apollo's opponent this Sunday night, who will also be receiving a Southwest Title match against the winner of the David Von Erich/Tully Blanchard, the man from Japan Mr. Saito!

-Second commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is the main who will compete in the main event at the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night against the Southwest Heavyweight Champion, Mr. Saito! This is a rather unique situation that you find yourself in, knowing that you will have title match but not knowing who the champion will be, what are your thoughts?

Mr. Saito: I don't worry about who is the champion when I start my match because I know at the end Mr. Saito will be champion. I don't care if I fight Tully Blanchard or David Von Erich they are both weak Americans and stupid Texans who can not beat Mr. Saito. They know I am more stronger than them, why else do you think they asked for my help when they were tag champions together?

Steve Stack: Before you get to your Southwest Title match you have to compete against El Gran Apollo. We know your familiar with David Von Erich and Tully Blanchard, you've been in the ring with both of them but this is the first time you'll be competing against El Gran Apollo, what are your thoughts about that match?

Mr Saito: I think will be a nice warm up for Mr. Saito before real competition. I'm no old man like Jose Lothario, I don't need to worry about young kid like Apollo. Maybe Saito make a man out of him after I give him the beating old man Jose never could. I don't need to wrestle him, I can walk away from match and I don't lose nothing. But I will beat him anyway because I don't want anyone to say Mr. Saito is a coward. I will prove wrestlers from Japan better than all other wrestlers when I win two matches in one night and leave Southwest Champion.

Mr. Saito leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well fans let me now bring in two men who will also be receiving title shots this Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena, the former Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Assassins!



Steve Stack: Last week at The HemisFair Arena you didn't even attempt to win the titles as your only goal seemed to be to try and injure Stan Lane. Stanley Blackburn wasn't going to give you an immediate rematch for the belts due to the way you seemed to disregard your last one but The Fabulous Ones insisted that they wrestle you again this Sunday night. Do you plan to actually attempt to take back the Southwest Tag Team Titles this Sunday or are you just planning another attack on The Fabs?

The Assassin: If we were just planning another attack do you think I would really just come out here and tell you? Even you can't be that stupid Steve Stack. Whatever my plans are, they are my own and you'll have to wait and see what they are just like The Fabulous Ones will have to do and just like all these fans will have to do. Last week The Fabulous Ones were out here declaring war on The Assassins so I thought I would just give them a taste of what war against us is really like. The Fabulous Ones left the ring Sunday night as the victors in the match, they left as the Southwest Tag Team Champions but did they really leave the ring as winners? In warfare there is what's known as a Pyrrhic victory, when the victor of a battle suffers such heavy punishment that their victory in the battle is really a detriment to their war efforts. And that's what last Sunday night was, last Sunday night was a hollow victory for Stan Lane and Steve Keirn because we left the arena at 100% while Stan Lane was bleeding and battered. We did that just as a message to The Fabulous Ones, to let them know at any time we wish we can and will hurt them. Perhaps our lesson has made them reconsider whether they really want a war with The Assassins after all. But it won't matter. There is no way to call off a war with us once it is underway, the only way that war against The Assassins ends is with pain, agony and destruction. Will it end this Sunday night? Will this Sunday be the night that we break the arm of Stan Lane, break the leg of Steve Keirn, break the necks of both Fabulous Ones? Maybe so, maybe not. But one thing is for certain, that is their future now. It's only a matter of time before The Fabulous Ones are on borrowed time. Fabulous Ones, you wanted war and now you've got it. Until the end of your days.

The Assassins leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Well we're almost out of time in this segment but before we go to a break we've got one more title challenger to talk to, this time the man who will be facing off against the Southwest Television Champion this Sunday night, the former champion: Mike Masters!

Mike Masters and 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday come into the interview area



Steve Stack: Mike I didn't mention who you would be facing because right here on today's television main event Roy Lee Welch will be defending the TV Title against a very formidable challenger in the form of 'Rugged' Ron Starr. Do you have a prediction on who you think will win the match and do you have a preference of which of those men you'd like to face?

Holliday: Don't try to goad my client into saying whether he'd rather face Roy Lee Welch or Ron Starr! I'm sure you'd try and twist his words to say he was afraid of whoever he didn't name but the fact of the matter is that it doesn't matter who wins the title match today, they will only be losing that title to my client Mike Masters this Sunday night.

Steve Stack: Well obviously there is some history with Roy Lee Welch as he's the man your client both won the title from in the first place and lost it to two weeks ago, I thought maybe he'd prefer to regain it from Roy.

Holliday: Obviously Mike Masters would like to beat Roy Lee Welch and erase Roy's fluke victory from the record books but if Ron Starr is his opponent this Sunday night then he'll defeat him as well. And before you cut me off and go to commercial break I have one more thing I'd like to say. I have two other clients who deserve recognition around here and with The Assassins just wasting their title matches, my Dream Team of 'Diamond' Timothy Flowers and Goldie Rogers should have received the title match this week at The HemisFair Arena and instead they aren't even on the card! I will have Stanley Blackburn know what when Mike Masters wins back the Southwest Television Title this Sunday night he is going to take that title and leave with it unless the Dream Team gets the proper respect that they deserve! Everyone in my Gentleman's Club deserves to have gold around their waist but that can't happen unless they get the opportunity!

Steve Stack: Well I don't have any power on the matches that Timothy Flowers and Goldie Rogers do or do not get booked in and I also don't have any more time to discuss it because we've got to take a commercial break! Don't go away we'll be right back with more Southwest Championship Wrestling!

Jim Holliday: Don't you cut me off I'm not finished yet and -

-Third commercial break-

Sheik Adnan: Hello again Jim Duggan. Did you really think that breaking my arm was going to make me just disappear? Yes, it is a little harder for me to count my money and sign my checks now with this cast on my arm, but I assure you it has not stopped me. All you have done is made me hate you even more and I swear that you WILL pay for this no matter how much money it costs me I have already contacted two very strong, capable men to come to the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night to face you Jim Duggan, you and Ron Starr both. I will not tell you who they are now, I do not want you to have any time to prepare for them before you step into the ring. . When you are lying in a hospital bed with your eyes being the only part of your body not covered in plaster you will understand just who it is that you are dealing with. And as for you Ron Starr, you made the biggest mistake of your stupid worthless life. I offered you $5,000 to break Jim Duggan's arm and instead you break mine!? Why would you turn down my money just to help your friend, do you not understand that $5,000 could have only been the first gift of a very fruitful friendship for you. But you threw away that chance and now instead you will look back at your moment of betrayal as the day your life ended. Because you are now a hunted man, there will be no rest for you. I want to break Jim Duggan as a message to the American people, as a sign to them that their time at the top of the food chain is over, that it is time for the Arab people to take back the throne of the world. But you Ron Starr? What I do to you will just be simple revenge. It need not happen in front of an audience, it does not need to be broadcast on television. No matter where you go you will need to have eyes in the back of your head, you will have to wonder if today is the day, if this is the place that Sheik Adnan is going to have his vengeance upon you. And make no mistake vengeance WILL be mine.

Steve Stack: I've been informed that Sheik Adnan has paid for another video to be shown during the commercial break and I'm aware that he has sent in two men to face Jim Duggan and Ron Starr in tag team competition this Sunday night so let me go ahead and bring them out here now, the two men who were responsible for breaking the arm of Sheik Adnan here on television last week: 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and 'Rugged' Ron Starr!



Jim Duggan: We heard what Geek Adnan had to say and we're just shaking in our boots...NOT! Geek Adnan has already sent some of the biggest and the baddest men in professional wrestling here to try and hurt me and he hasn't been able to get the job done yet so what should be different this time? He's done run out of good help so now he's too embarrassed to even say who he is sending after us!

Steve Stack: Well since we don't know who your opponents are going to be Sunday night I can't very well ask you any questions about them, so let me ask Ron Starr about the money that Sheik Adnan offered him.

Ron Starr: Sheik Adnan called me last week and told me about his little plan to get his suspension lifted for one day so he could be here in person to see Jim Duggan get injured and he offered me $5,000 to be the one to do the job. Now, sure I could have refused his offer but then I knew he'd find someone else who would take his money so I lied to him and told him I'd do it and take his money after the job was done. And everyone saw just how that worked out for him last week. For Sheik Adnan to think that my integrity and my honor was for sale for the measly sum of $5,000 was a complete insult to me. Jim Duggan and I are friends and I wouldn't sell out my friends for any amount of money and certainly not for a 4 figure sum. If that means I'm going to be a hunted man then so be it, I'm always ready to fight whether it's in a wrestling ring, a parking lot, an airport it doesn't matter to me. Sheik Adnan is going to find out that just like Jim Duggan, I'm a hard man to get even with.

Steve Stack: Well Ron I know you've got a lot on your mind with Sheik Adnan but you've also got a Southwest Television Title shot right here in the main event on television today. Do you feel like you're able to focus on your match with Roy Lee Welch with all the other things going on with you right now?

Ron Starr: Of course I'm ready Steve Stack. As a professional wrestler you always have to be ready to face anyone on the roster no matter what. I was out here a couple of weeks ago saying that I want a TV Title match and now I've got it. When that bell rings today I'm going to be 100% focused on Roy Lee Welch and whoever Sheik Adnan has in store for me will just have to wait until Sunday.

Jim Duggan: Before we go, Geek Adnan you said that Ron Starr is going to have to watch his back wherever he goes well brother he won't have to because the Hacksaw is going to do it for him. From now on Ron Starr and I are going to be traveling everywhere together so there won't be any chances of you catching one of us off our guard. We're ready for whatever you can send at us!

Jim Duggan and Ron Starr leave the interview area together

Steve Stack: Well fans you can see them in action together this Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena and I don't know who they are going to be facing but the last tag team that Sheik Adnan sent in here after Jim Duggan was The Zambuie Express so I think it's safe to say whatever team is coming they are going to be big and bad. And speaking of tag team action let's go down to the ring now where we have the team of Mike Jackson and Tony Torres standing by getting ready to take on a team that's been very successful since coming to the Southwest area, Pat Rose and Ron Sexton!

 

Mike Jackson & Tony Torres vs. Pat Rose & Ron Sexton

Ron Sexton starts the match against Mike Jackson and the two of them exchange holds for a bit with Mike Jackson eventually getting the better of Sexton on the mat. Sexton tags out to Pat Rose whose weight advantage causes Mike Jackson to be unable to get him down to the mat and Rose takes over control of Jackson who eventually manages to get to the corner and tag out to the young Tony Torres. Torres comes in and uses his speed to outmaneuver Pat Rose for a bit before losing the advantage when Rose is able to avoid a dropkick and Torres lands awkwardly on the mat. Rose makes a quick tag to Ron Sexton and Sexton comes in and takes over on Torres. Eventually Torres breaks away from Sexton and makes the tag to Mike Jackson but Pat Rose rushed in just before the tag which caused referee Carl Fergie to miss the tag between Torres & Jackson due to his efforts to get Pat Rose out of the ring. Jackson comes in firing away on Ron Sexton but Carl Fergie turns around and forces him back out of the ring and while Fergie's back is turned, Rose & Sexton double suplex Tony Torres and then Ron Sexton comes off the top rope with a big knee drop on Tony Torres and pins him for the win.

 

Steve Stack: Pat Rose & Ron Sexton continue their winning streak and you have to imagine they are in line for a Southwest Tag Team Title shot in the very near future! And speaking of the Southwest Tag Team Titles we are going to be talking to the champions themselves, The Fabulous Ones when we come back from this commercial break so don't go away we'll be right back!

-Fourth Commercial Break-



Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling, standing with me now is the hottest tag team in professional wrestling and the Southwest Tag Team Champions, Stan Lane and Steve Keirn: The Fabulous Ones! Gentlemen I'm sure you heard what The Assassins said out here earlier, what is your response to their comments?

Stan Lane: I think they are really over estimating what they "accomplished" last Sunday night. All they did was bust me open with my own tag team belt and now they're out here claiming it's some great Pyrrhic victory? Well I've bled before and I'm sure I'm going to bleed a whole lot more in my career so I don't see that as anything to come out here and brag about!

Steve Keirn: The Assassins don't scare us, they can talk about how they are going to injure us and put us out of wrestling but it's one thing to say it and it's another thing to actually do it. They've already given us their best shot, they had Assassin #2 hiding here under The Canadian mask for months setting up their little plan and all it did was put me on the shelf for a month. We don't come out here and brag about how we can hurt people but that doesn't mean we can't actually do it. The Assassins want to make this about more than winning and losing, more than these belts, then that's fine. Because The Fabulous Ones can hurt people too and The Assassins just might find that out this Sunday night!

The Fabulous Ones leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Well with both teams seemingly promising to seriously injure the other this Sunday night I have a feeling the tag team title match between The Assassins and The Fabulous Ones is going to get out of hand. But right now I'm going to bring in another man who is involved in a title match this Sunday night, the man who will be challenging Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Title in the opening match of the card: The Yellow Rose of Texas, David Von Erich!

David Von Erich comes out to the interview area



Steve Stack: David you're in a unique situation this Sunday night as even if you defeat Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Title, you'll have to defend it again the same night against Mr. Saito. What are your thoughts about possibly having to wrestle twice on Sunday night?

David Von Erich: Well first of all there is no possibility to it, I will be wrestling twice because I am going to take the Southwest Title away from Tully Blanchard. Tully, this thing between us is about a whole lot more than just that belt around your waist but that doesn't mean I won't enjoy taking it away from you. But make no mistake, when I beat you for that title it's not going to be over between us. You betrayed me, you put me in the hospital, you insulted my family and you made a fool out of me with Sunshine. Beating you for a title isn't going to square all that away but it's a start.

Steve Stack: What do you think it will take to end this issue between you and Tully Blanchard?

David Von Erich: You know Steve Stack, Texas is a big state but I don't think it's big enough for me and Tully both. I don't see this thing between me and Tully ending until I run him clear out of Texas.

Steve Stack: Well we've talked about Tully but I don't want to overlook Mr. Saito, a man you will have to wrestle again Sunday night if you're victorious against Tully Blanchard.

David Von Erich: I'm not overlooking Mr. Saito, I've wrestled him twice now and I know just how tough he is. And he might just be as smart as he is tough because every time I wrestle him he goes after my right hand and my right arm and tries to take away my ability to use the Iron Claw. But he's going to have to find a way to take away both of my arms because all week I've been training how to use my LEFT hand to put on the Iron Claw and my grip might not be as strong with my left hand as it is with my right, but I still think it's going to be strong enough that if I get that Iron Claw locked in on him, even with my left hand, he won't be able to break out of it. I'm ready for Mr. Saito and at the end of the night I WILL be leaving the HemisFair Arena as the Southwest Heavyweight Champion, you can count on that Steve Stack!

David Von Erich leaves the interview area and Ken Lucas comes in



Steve Stack: Now I'd like to welcome in a man that asked for some time on today's program to respond to the video sent in last week by Eddie Gilbert. Ken Lucas it's good to see you back on the program and I hope you've decided against retiring which I know you mentioned was weighing heavily on your mind the last time you were here on Southwest Championship Wrestling.

 

Ken Lucas: Steve Stack I have thought a great deal about retiring since I was last here on the program but something that happened last week has also been weighing heavily on my mind. I saw that video that Eddie Gilbert sent in where he said he was quitting wrestling out of remorse for what he did to Ricky Morton and I just can't let that happen. I put so much into mentoring both Ricky Morton and Eddie Gilbert that I just can't imagine both of their careers being over so soon. I still don't understand why Eddie did what he did to Ricky Morton but retiring isn't going to change that fact. I want Eddie to know that I forgive him for what he did to Ricky and I need him to forgive himself. Please Eddie don't retire, you can't make up for what you did by walking away. The only way you can make up for what happened is by redeeming yourself, by showing everyone that in this life everyone should get a second chance, that even though you messed up, you have to forgive yourself, improve and do better. Now I know that ending Ricky Morton's career is something you're gonna have to live with for the rest of your life but running away from wrestling isn't going to make that memory go away. Eddie, I want you to come here to The Junction next week so I can talk to you man to man. I want to do it in front of these people because I want you to see that the fans have it in their hearts to forgive you too. Please Eddie, just come here next week and talk to me and if you still want to retire after that then I won't ever say another word about it.

 

Ken Lucas leaves the interview area

 

Steve Stack: Fans I don't really know what I can say about that except that I hope we'll see Eddie Gilbert here in person next week to answer Ken Lucas' plea. Right now we've got to take our last commercial break of the program and when we come back we're going to head straight to the ring for our big time television main event of Ron Starr challenging Roy Lee Welch for the Southwest TV Title so don't touch that dial!

-Fifth and final commercial break-

 

Ron Starr vs. Roy Lee Welch - TV Title match

Roy Lee Welch and Ron Starr shake hands to start the match and then being a slow feeling out process. They exchange some holds with neither man able to get a definitive advantage over the other when suddenly Bill Irwin and Billy Jack Haynes hit the ring with their bull ropes and attack both men! Referee Jack Howe has no choice but to call for the bell as all hell breaks loose!

 

 

The Wild Bills throw Roy Lee Welch over the top rope to the floor and then begin wailing away on Ron Starr with the cowbell on their bull ropes!

 

Steve Stack: That's the former AWA World Tag Team Champions, The Wild Bills! We've seen them here before! That must be the team that Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie has hired to face Jim Duggan & Ron Starr this Sunday night!

 

Jim Duggan runs down to the ring to try and help Ron Starr but The Wild Bills see him coming and cut him off as he's sliding into the ring. The Wild Bills continue their brutal assault on Jim Duggan and Ron Starr until The Fabulous Ones, El Gran Apollo, Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton run down to the ring and chase them off!

 

Steve Stack: Fans I apologize for the way this show has ended, The Wild Bills have just robbed us all of what should have been a great Television Title match! We're out of time on today's program but make sure to buy your tickets for this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena as you'll see two Southwest Heavyweight Title matches as Tully Blanchard defends the title against David Von Erich and then the winner of the match faces Mr. Saito, The Fabulous Ones defend the Southwest Tag Team Titles against The Assassins, Jim Duggan & Ron Starr will look to get revenge against The Wild Bills for their attack here on TV today and much more! And be sure to join us again next week for another edition of the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling, right here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

 

Scheduled for Sunday, January 8th at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX

 

Southwest Heavyweight Title: Mr. Saito vs. the winner of the David/Tully match

Southwest Team Titles: The Assassins vs. The Fabulous Ones

Southwest Television Title: Mike Masters vs. Roy Lee Welch

Jim Duggan & Ron Starr vs. The Wild Bills

Man Mountain Link vs. Snake Brown, Paul Peller & Jimmy Doo

El Gran Apollo vs. Mr. Saito

Southwest Heavyweight Title: David Von Erich vs. Tully Blanchard

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Southwest Heavyweight Title: David Von Erich vs. Tully Blanchard w/Sunshine - Tully tries to run from the ring as soon as the bell sounds but David Von Erich grabs his foot as he tries to scramble under the bottom rope! Sunshine pulls on Tully's arms to try and help him get out of the ring as David pulls on his legs to try and get him back inside. David then suddenly lets go of Tully which causes Tully to go crashing out of the ring on top of Sunshine much to the crowd's delight! David then quickly goes out of the ring after Tully before he can recover and David starts beating the hell out of Tully! David pounds away on Tully as Tully tries to run away from him until Sunshine jumps in between David & Tully! Sunshine begs David for forgiveness and while Sunshine has David distracted, Tully tries to cheapshot David over her shoulder but David ducks his punch and comes back with one of his own that puts Tully down on the floor of the HemisFair Arena! David then pulls Tully up and shoves him back into the ring and goes to follow him back in but Sunshine grabs his foot as he's getting back up on the apron. David yanks his leg away and starts yelling at Sunshine from the apron when Tully recovers in the ring and comes charging at David with a big knee to midsection which doubles David over and then Tully suplexes David from the apron back into the ring and covers him while putting his feet on the ropes! Carl Fergie quickly gets down to make the cover but David is able to kick out at the count of 2, much to the chagrin of Tully Blanchard!

 

Tully decides to go back to his strategy of running away and bails out of the ring. He tells Sunshine to grab his belt and the two of them start up the aisle but David chases them down and bowls Tully over from behind! David drags Tully back to the ring and throws him back in. Sunshine starts to swing the Southwest Heavyweight Title at David's back but David turns around and grabs the belt away from her mid-swing! David pulls the belt away from her and starts to threaten her when Tully grabs David by the hair from inside the ring and rams his head into the steel ring post! Tully then goes back out after David and rams his head into the post again, opening up a cut on David's forehead! Tully thinks about heading back to the locker room and taking the count out but seeing David in bad shape he decides to continue his assault, slamming David's head off the ring apron and then rolling him back inside the ring. Tully works over David's cut and continues to try and pin him but David won't stay down for the 3 count.

 

After a few minutes of working over David, Tully tries to set him up for the Slingshot Suplex but David hooks his leg around Tully's and blocks the suplex and counters it into a front suplex of his own, slamming Tully down stomach first onto the mat. Tully gets up first before David and tries to go after him but David hits a punch to Tully's gut and staggers back to his feet, keeping Tully off balance with more punches. David whips Tully into the ropes and goes for his jumping high knee but Tully ducks out of the way at the last second and David crashes into Carl Fergie instead! David tries to check on Carl Fergie which leaves him exposed to Tully who attacks him from behind! Tully calls for Sunshine to throw him in the Southwest Title, which she does. Tully readies to blast David with the belt as he gets back up but David ducks under the incoming blow and then has a tug of war with Tully over the belt! David kicks Tully off and then blasts him with the title belt just as Carl Fergie is starting to stir. David throws the belt out of the ring and covers Tully but Carl Fergie is still groggy and makes a slow count which gives Sunshine time to put Tully's foot on the ropes and call Fergie's attention to it. David starts arguing with Sunshine which allows the now bloodied Tully the chance to get back to his feet. Tully is about to attack David from behind again when David turns around just in time to avoid Tully's double axe handle blow and then David catches Tully in the Iron Claw! Tully tries to reach out for the ropes but David pulls him towards the center of the ring! Blood starts pouring out of Tully's head as the pressure from the Iron Claw is opening up the cut on his head even more! Sunshine sees Tully fading and gets ready to run into the ring to try and help him but David trips her up as she comes charging in the ring at him with her loaded purse and she goes sprawling back out of the ring! Tully looks completely out of it and Carl Fergie raises and lowers his arm and it drops twice. Carl Fergie raises his arm a third time as Sunshine tries to get back in the ring again to cause a disqualification but Tully's arm drops for the third time before she can get there and David Von Erich is declared the winner and the new champion!

 

Winner and NEW Southwest Heavyweight Champion: David Von Erich in 14:22 after making Tully Blanchard pass out in the Iron Claw!

 

David Von Erich celebrates with the Southwest Title to a roaring ovation from the crowd who are elated to finally see someone beat Tully Blanchard and end his long reign as Southwest Heavyweight Champion. Sunshine tries to revive Tully Blanchard who is still laid out in a pool of his own blood and David comes and stands over her with the Southwest Title before leaving the ring. Sunshine screams at Carl Fergie to get help for Tully and eventually Carl Fergie, Jack Howe and Sunshine have to help Tully Blanchard from the ring and back to the locker room.

 

El Gran Apollo vs. Mr. Saito - The two men locked up to start the match and Apollo quickly took Mr. Saito down with an arm drag that caught Saito by surprise. Saito went for another lockup only to get taken down by another arm drag and hit with a dropkick as he was getting back to his feet. Mr. Saito rolled outside and stood on the floor looking surprised that Apollo was presenting him with any kind of challenge. Saito got back in the ring and locked up with Apollo again and this time got the better of it as he whipped Apollo into the ropes and ducked down for a back body drop but Apollo vaulted over him with a sunset flip and came very close to getting pinned as Saito was only able to get his shoulder up right before Jack Howe made the 3 count. Saito rolled out again and had a temper tantrum at ringside about getting shown up in the early going by the young Apollo. Saito got back in the ring and wanted a test of strength against Apollo but Apollo was wary about trusting him. Saito finally goaded him into the test of strength but much to everyone's surprise he didn't kick Apollo or sucker him into anything as the two of them jockeyed for position in the test of strength. Saito started to over power Apollo but Apollo used the adrenaline of the crowd chanting his name to push back up and come over the top and overpower Mr. Saito to win the test of strength! Saito tried to break off but Apollo instead pulled him in and hooked him up for a big vertical suplex and covered Saito for a pin but Saito was able to kick out after 1 and rolled back out of the ring again.

 

Mr. Saito started up the aisle to just walk away from the match so he could go into his Southwest Title match as fresh as possible but the crowd started mocking him and Saito got back in the ring just as Jack Howe was about to finishing counting him out. Saito went for another lockup but this time buried a knee in Apollo's midsection and started blasting him with chops. He kicked Apollo in the stomach and then took him over with a hard gutwrench suplex and pinned him but Apollo was able to quickly kick out! Saito grabbed Apollo into a chin lock and tried to keep him grounded but Apollo quickly got back up to his feet and fought out of the hold and shoved Saito into the ropes and caught him with a big drop kick as Saito came rebounding off the ropes. Saito got back up and ate another dropkick and then Apollo circled around behind Saito as he got up again and grabbed him into a big German suplex!

 

Apollo quickly climbed up to the top rope as Saito was down and as Saito got back up Apollo came flying off with the Top Rope Crossbody but Saito dodged at the last second and Apollo crashed hard on the mat! Saito quickly followed up the advantage by putting the prone Apollo in his unusual kneeling figure four hold, focusing on Apollo's legs to take away his speed and high flying ability. Apollo refused to quit in the hold and after a long grueling process of pulling himself to the ropes he was able to finally break the hold. Saito quickly pulled him back into the center of the ring however and re-established the kneeling figure four, shouting at Apollo to give up. Apollo refused to quit however and once again pulled himself towards the ropes. Saito then pulled Apollo back up and hit him with another hard gutwrench suplex and covered him for the pin but Apollo kicked out before the 3 count. As Apollo was getting back up Saito got around behind him and dropped him with a German suplex of his own and held it for a pin attempt but Apollo was again able to kick out before the 3 count. Saito argued with Jack Howe about not counting fast enough and then started kicking and stomping at Apollo was he tried to get back up. Saito pulled Apollo up and shoved him into the corner and started to set him up for a Superplex but Apollo started to fight back and knocked Saito off 2nd turnbuckle! Apollo tried to set himself up for another Top Rope Crossbody attempt but Saito was back up too quickly and knocked Apollo's feet out from under him, causing him to fall hard on the top turnbuckle and then into the ring. Saito scooped up Apollo off the mat and then dropped him on his head with the Saito Suplex and covered him for the pin but shockingly El Gran Apollo kicked out right before Jack Howe counted to 3! Mr. Saito was furious about his patented suplex being kicked out of and shouted at Jack Howe about a slow count! Saito looked like he was about ready to slap Jack Howe but then turned back to El Gran Apollo and started to pick him up with Apollo pulled Saito into a small package and pinned him to win the match!

 

 

Winner: El Gran Apollo in 12:58 after a small package

 

Mr. Saito is furious after the match, arguing with referee Jack Howe about the pin count. As Saito sees El Gran Apollo struggling back to his feet he grabs him around the waist and drops him on his head with another big Saito Suplex! Mr. Saito then goes back to arguing with Jack Howe threatening to attack him if he doesn't admit he made a fast count and restart the match. Jack Howe refuses to restart the match and starts to leave the ring when Saito grabs him and pulls him back in. Saito looks about ready to strike Jack Howe when he sees El Gran Apollo once again trying to get back to his feet. Saito gets enraged at Apollo getting up again and drops him with the 3rd Saito Suplex of the night! Finally help comes out from the locker room as Tony Torres, Mike Jackson, Tiny Anderson, Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton run out to try and get Apollo out of the ring while Pat Rose, Ron Sexton, Goldie Rogers & Timothy Flowers try and talk Saito out of attacking referee Jack Howe, telling him that he could lose his title match in the main event if he does so. Finally Saito leaves the ring and goes back to the locker room as El Gran Apollo has to be helped out of the ring.

 

Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee vs. Goldie Rogers & Timothy Flowers w/ 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday- Larry Hamilton starts the match for his team against Goldie Rogers and quickly gets Goldie Rogers down on the mat and dominates him there, using his AAU amateur wrestling skills to great advantage. Hamilton goes for a very fast victory as he gets Goldie Rogers in the Oklahoma Roll but Timothy Flowers rushes in and breaks the pin before the count of 3. Hamilton & Rogers both go their corners and tag out breaking in Steve Pardee against Timothy Flowers which turns into a brawl. Pardee gets the better of Flowers in the fight and then settles down and goes to work on Flowers' arm. Pardee makes a tag out to Hamilton while maintaining control of Flowers in an arm bar and Hamilton bounces off the ropes to drop an elbow down on Flowers' arm while it's in Pardee's arm bar but instead he gets tripped up by Jim Holliday on the outside of the ring. Hamilton goes out of the ring to chase after Holliday but winds up running into a big clothesline from Goldie Rogers. Rogers rolls him back into the ring and Flowers makes a cover but Hamilton kicks out at the count of 2. Flowers & Rogers keep Hamilton in their corner and work him over while Pardee gets the crowd to cheer Hamilton on. Rogers holds Hamilton while Flowers comes charging at him but Hamilton moves at the last second sending Rogers & Flowers crashing into each other! Hamilton quickly crawls to the corner to make a tag but Jim Holliday jumps up on the apron and causes the referee to miss the tag! Pardee comes rushing into the ring only to be held out by referee Carl Fergie! Pardee goes out of the ring and chases after Jim Holliday but while he does that, Goldie Rogers drops Hamilton with his Hollywood Blockbuster Neckbreaker and covers him for a 3 count before Pardee can get back in the ring to break up the pin.

 

Winners: Goldie Rogers & Timothy Flowers in 8:19 after Goldie Rogers pinned Larry Hamilton after interference from Jim Holliday

 

Handicap Match: Man Mountain Link vs. Snake Brown, Paul Peller & Jimmy Doo - This handicap match takes place without tag rules so all 3 men try to swarm Man Mountain Link at the sound of the bell but Link swats them all away like flies. Link whips them all into the corner in succession and then follows it up with a big running avalanche into the 3 of them piled up in the corner. Paul Peller and Jimmy Doo fall down onto the mat first but Link grabs Snake Brown who was the last man in the corner and scoops him up into the big Falling Powerslam! Link doesn't go for the pin though and instead hits the Falling Powerslam on Paul Peller and then Jimmy Doo and stacks up all 3 of his opponents in a pile and pins them all at once!

 

Winner: Man Mountain Link in 1:32

 

Jim Duggan & Ron Starr vs. The Wild Bills (Bill Irwin and Billy Jack Haynes) - The match starts as a wild all out brawl that starts even before the bell rings. The two teams battle each other all around ringside for a long time before things finally settle down and get into the ring where Carl Fergie is finally able to ring the bell and start the match with Ron Starr against Bill Irwin. The action inside the ring isn't much different from what was taking place outside a Ron Starr and Bill Irwin engage each other in a straight up brawl. Starr gets the better of it and winds up backing Bill Irwin into the wrong corner where he gets met with a big right hand from Jim Duggan and turns around into another one from Ron Starr. Bill Irwin gets turned into a ping pong ball between the fists of Duggan & Starr until Billy Jack Haynes runs in to help his partner and all hell breaks loose again. All 4 men wind up in the ring brawling and Starr & Duggan get Irwin & Haynes off in opposite corners and then whip them into the center of the ring where they crash hard against each other. Haynes rolls out of the ring and Duggan follows out after him and continues hammering on him. Ron Starr hits Irwin with a knee lift as he's getting back up and then backs off of him and sets up for his big running knee lift finisher but as he comes charging in, Haynes manages to grab his foot from outside the ring and stop him.

 

Duggan tossed Haynes into the guard rail and gets him off of Ron Starr but as Ron Starr turned to look at Haynes, Irwin was able to recover and attack Ron Starr from behind and throw him between the turnbuckles into the ring post. Irwin then focused his attack on Ron Starr's arm and shoulder and got him in the corner where he and Haynes took turns working over Ron Starr. They seemed intent on injuring Starr instead of pinning him as they relentlessly attacked the arm and never once went for a cover. After a long period of being worked over, Starr managed to counter Haynes' back body drop attempt with a knee lift and then tried to crawl and make a tag but Bill Irwin rushed in and cut him off. Starr wound up back in the wrong corner getting worked over again until after a few minutes Billy Jack Haynes had Ron Starr up in the air getting ready to hit a Shoulderbreaker on him when Starr managed to slip out behind him and make a diving tag to 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan! Duggan came in like a wild man and just floored Billy Jack Haynes with punches and then as Bill Irwin came charging at him, Duggan grabbed him and threw him out of the ring! Haynes attacked Duggan from behind as he was tossing Irwin out of the ring and then whipped Duggan into the ropes but Duggan ducked under a clothesline from Billy Jack and then came back with a huge Spear and pinned Billy Jack Haynes for the count of 3 to win the match!

 

Winners: Jim Duggan & Ron Starr in 13:01 after Jim Duggan pinned Billy Jack Haynes following a Spear

 

After the match The Wild Bills tried to attack the winners with their bull ropes but Duggan & Starr saw them coming and were able to fight them off before they could use their bull ropes and sent The Wild Bills back out of the ring. Duggan & Starr stood victorious in the ring and soaked in the crowd's cheers as they watched The Wild Bills run back to the locker room

 

Southwest Television Title: Mike Masters w/ 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday vs. Roy Lee Welch - Masters dominated the early goings of the match using his strength to over power Roy Lee Welch, working over Roy's neck to soften him up for the Full Nelson. After a few minutes of being in control, Masters tried to lock in the Full Nelson but Roy Lee Welch was able to slip out of it and roll out of the ring. Masters charged out of the ring after him but Welch got back in the ring before Masters and caught him as he was coming back in under the ropes. Welch took control of the match and started working on Masters' leg to set him up for the Spinning Toe Hold. After working over Masters' leg for a bit Roy was able to lock in the Spinning Toe Hold but Masters was close enough to the ropes that he was able to get himself into the ropes for a break before having to submit. With the time limit running out Welch went for the Spinning Toe Hold again only to be kicked off into the corner. Masters scrambled back to his feet and Welch tried to tackle his legs out from under him but Masters side stepped him and got around behind him and this time was able to lock in the Full Nelson! Masters cranked down on the Full Nelson but very shortly after that the bell rang and the 10 minute time limit ran out!

 

Result: Time limit draw in 10 minutes

 

Southwest Team Titles: The Assassins vs. The Fabulous Ones - The match started with Assassin #1 against Steve Keirn but they barely did more than circle and lock up before Stan Lane suddenly ran in the ring with a one of the tag team titles and nailed The Assassin with it, causing a disqualification!

 

Winners: The Assassins in 0:32 after The Fabulous Ones were disqualified

 

Stan Lane swung the belt like a whip across Assassin #1's back and Assassin #2 tried to run in the ring and help his partner but instead he ended up getting hit with the title belt as well! Assassin #1 rolled out of the ring and Assassin #2 tried to follow but The Fabs grabbed Assassin #2 and started to take his mask off! The Fabs almost had the mask all the way off when The Assassin grabbed his partner from outside the ring and pulled him out but the mask stayed in the ring with The Fabs! Assassin #1 quickly covered up his partner's face and they rushed back to the locker room as The Fabulous Ones celebrated in the ring with the mask of Assassin #2!

 

Southwest Heavyweight Title: Mr. Saito vs. David Von Erich - David comes out with his head bandaged due to the cut suffered in his earlier match and Saito goes right after it, trying to take off the bandage but David fights him off. David comes hard and fast at Saito in the early going, knowing that with the cut on his head the longer the match goes the more it favors Saito. David keeps the advantage in the early going and hits Saito with his high knee and goes for the pin but Saito kicks out before the 3. David tries for the Iron Claw but Saito fights it off and then slams David right in the throat with a hard karate chop and then starts pounding away on him. Saito rips off the bandage and re-opens the cut on David's forehead with chops. Saito keeps working on the cut but David starts fighting back and goes for the Iron Claw again, this time getting it on but Saito is too close to the ropes and is able to quickly get the hold broken. David tries to get Saito to come into the middle of the ring but Saito stays close to the ropes and lures David to him where Saito is able to grab hold of his arm and start working on it to try and neutralize David's Iron Claw. Saito works an arm bar on David and pulls him into the center of the ring away from the ropes. Saito starts to force David down onto the mat when suddenly David reaches out with his left hand and puts Saito in the Iron Claw! Saito tries to fight out of it but can't get out! Saito can't get to the ropes either as David keeps pulling him away from them! Saito starts to fade when suddenly Tully Blanchard runs down to the ring! Referee Jack Howe stops Tully from getting in the ring when suddenly Sunshine appears from out of the crowd on the opposite side of the ring! Sunshine gets in the ring and starts to swing her loaded purse at David, but David is alerted by the crowd and turns in time to block her swing! David grabs the purse away from Sunshine and throws it out of the ring but then Saito grabs him around the waist and drops him on his head with the Saito Suplex and goes for the cover! Tully sees David get hit with the Saito Suplex and drops off the apron as Sunshine also quickly scurries out of the ring! Jack Howe turns around, sees the pin and counts the 3, making Mr. Saito the new Southwest Heavyweight Champion!

 

Winner and NEW Southwest Heavyweight Champion: Mr. Saito in 10:36 after a Saito Suplex following interference from Tully Blanchard and Sunshine!

 

Tully extends his hand to Mr. Saito and wants Saito to join him in attacking David but Saito refuses and walks back to the locker room with the Southwest Title instead. Tully shouts at him that he is going to get that belt back soon and then Tully turns back to the bloody David Von Erich who is in the middle of the ring on his knees, struggling to get back to his feet. Tully kicks David in the head and knocks him back down and then gets on top of him and just starts beating the hell out of him! Tully yells at Sunshine to get him a steel chair and she slides him one in under the ropes. Tully picks up the chair and shouts at David to get back to his feet. David is able to get back up to one knee and Tully slams the chair down over his head. Tully shouts at David that he is going to end his career for good this time. Tully gets ready to hit David again when Carl Fergie and Jack Howe try to grab the chair away from him! Sunshine shoves Jack Howe away from Tully and Tully kicks Carl Fergie out of the ring and slams the chair down on David's head again! Tully gets ready for another swing when almost the whole locker room empties and rushes down to the ring! Tully gets off another chair shot on David before anyone can get to the ring to stop him and then Tully starts swinging wildly at anyone trying to get in the ring. Some of the wrestlers are able to pull David out of the ring under the ropes while Tully is busy swinging at people getting up on the apron and David is quickly carried back to the locker room as Tully stands in the ring with the chair swearing that he's not finished with David Von Erich!

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Seems like a good time for another roster update

 

Southwest Heavyweight Champion: Mr. Saito

Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane & Steve Keirn)

Southwest Television Champion: Roy Lee Welch

 

Referees: Jack Howe & Carl Fergie

Managers: Sunshine & 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday

 

Tully Blanchard

The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane & Steve Keirn)

'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan

David Von Erich

Mr Saito

Eddie Gilbert

Ken Lucas

The Assassin

Assassin #2

El Gran Apollo

Ron Starr

Roy Lee Welch

Steve Pardee

Larry Hamilton

Mike Jackson

Mike Masters

Tiny Anderson

Tony Torres

Man Mountain Link

'Diamond' Timothy Flowers

Ron Sexton

Pat Rose

Goldie Rogers

El Bracero

 

TV Jobbers:

Snake Brown

Paul Peller

Jimmy Doo

Mike Fever

 

Recent departures: Jose Lothario, The Cuban Assassin, Yin & Yang

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Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 1/9

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 1/14 in local markets

-Show intro-



Steve Stack:Welcome to another edition of the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling, Southwest Championship Wrestling! Here on the program today we're going to have a rematch of the Southwest Television Title match that was ruined last week as Ron Starr will once again take on the champion Roy Lee Welch and hopefully this week it won't be ruined by any of Sheik Adnan's goons. But before we get to anything else there is a lot of news coming out of last Sunday night's card at the HemisFair Arena as there was not one but TWO title changes involving the Southwest Heavyweight Title. We're going to be showing video highlights of the action later on in the hour but right now I'll just inform you that in the opening match on the card, David Von Erich defeated Tully Blanchard to become the Southwest Champion only to then lose the title to Mr. Saito in the main event thanks to some help from Tully Blanchard and Sunshine. Like I said, we'll be looking at the footage of those events later on in the hour but in other news from Sunday night, 'Rugged' Ron Starr and 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan were victorious over the team of The Wild Bills but we've gotten word that Sheik Adnan has already found another team to send after them this Sunday night. We'll be talking to Jim Duggan & Ron Starr about that later on in the hour as well but right now we've got to take a commercial break but don't go away because when we come back we're going to talk El Gran Apollo the man who will be receiving a Southwest Heavyweight Title shot this Sunday night against the new champion Mr. Saito! We'll be right back!

-First commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is the #1 contender for the Southwest Heavyweight Title: El Gran Apollo! Apollo we know that you are capable of defeating Mr. Saito because before Mr. Saito won the title last Sunday night he had to face you in a match in which you were victorious. What are your thoughts about facing him again this Sunday night, now with the stakes much higher as the Southwest Heavyweight Title will be at stake?

El Gran Apollo: I glad I have the match with Saito this week not just to be the champion but because how he attack me after the match. He did everything to me in the match but he can't keep me down and I win. So after he attacks me and tries to hurt me. But I ok Steve Stack and this time when I wrestle him I can take from him the Southwest Title and make happy all my people who will have a champion to be proud of.

Steve Stack: It seems like 1984 is certainly shaping up to be your year, you defeated Jose Lothario and seemingly sent him out of the Southwest area. You took everything Saito had to dish out, including kicking out of his Saito Suplex and defeated him and now you've got a chance to become the Southwest Heavyweight Champion all before the month of January is even through!

El Gran Apollo: Is true Steve Stack, 1984 is good year but not just for me, for all my people because I am doing everything for them. I want them to be there for me Sunday night and when I win the Southwest Title we can all celebrate together. Para mis hinches, te amo, gracias por su apoyo y prometo hacerte sentir orgulloso! Gracias!

El Gran Apollo leaves the interview area and The Fabulous Ones come in



Steve Stack: Now let me welcome in two men who also have a big match this Sunday night. Gentlemen the last two weeks at the HemisFair Arena you've been involved in matches with The Assassins that have lasted last than a minute each time as both you and The Assassins have quickly been disqualified for attack the other with one of the Southwest Tag Team belts. Stanley Blackburn has decided that this week he's going to avoid that problem of disqualifications by making this week's match a Texas Tornado Street Fight! What are your thoughts about having to face a team like The Assassins, who've made it very clear they intend to injure you, in such a dangerous type of match?

Steve Keirn: What do we think about facing The Assassins in a Texas Tornado Street Fight? We love it! There isn't a tag team in all of wrestling who is better in a Street Fight than The Fabulous Ones!

Stan Lane: When we wrestle The Assassins it's not like we aren't already prepared for a situation where anything goes, they don't care about the rules and they don't care about using any kind of weapon they can find. Assassin #2 always has something ready to load into his boot anyway so it's not like them being able to use chairs, boards, chains or whatever else is going to be all that different from what we usually have to deal with when it comes to The Assassins.

Steve Stack: Well I can see your point there but this time if The Assassins get you in trouble the referee won't be able to step in and no one will be able to come out to help you.

Steve Keirn: Right, and the same thing goes for The Assassins themselves doesn't it Steve Stack? They said this wouldn't be over until someone gets hurt so that means we're going to have to hurt one of them before they hurt one of us so it seems to be they are in just as much danger as we are.

Steve Stack: I guess I can't argue that point. One more thing before you go, last week after your match we saw you try to unmask Assassin #2. Is unmasking The Assassins in your plans for this Sunday night?

Stan Lane: We didn't TRY to unmask Assassin #2 we DID unmask him! His partner just managed to hide his face before it got exposed to everyone in the HemisFair Arena. Our plan this Sunday night is to beat the hell out of The Assassins and get them out of our lives for good. If the opportunity presents itself somewhere in there to take their masks off then we just might take it but our major goal is to just get rid of The Assassins one way or another.

The Fabulous Ones leave the interview area and 'Gentleman' Jim Holliday comes in


Steve Stack: Mr. Holliday I'm sorry but you aren't on the format for any interview time today and we've got to get down to the ring now for our first match of the day as your client Mike Masters faces off against Mike Fever.

Holliday: I'm aware that you've kept me from having interview time on this program today but that's ok because I will have my voice heard because I'm going to stay here and do commentary on this match while Mike Masters destroys this poor sap Mike Fever.

Steve Stack: Alright well I don't have time to argue about that, let's head down to the ring now for our first match of the day!

 

Mike Fever vs. Mike Masters

Masters wants a test of strength to start the match but Mike Fever is very hesitant. Masters mocks him and finally goads him into the test of strength which Masters quickly gets the better of. Masters laughs as he has Fever down on his knees begging Masters to let him out of the test of strength so Masters just boots him in the chest and lets him fall to the mat. Masters struts around the ring and flexes while Jim Holliday rants on color commentary. Masters toys with Mike Fever for a bit before finally locking him into the Full Nelson and making him submit.

 

*During the match Jim Holliday was on color commentary and Steve Stack barely got a word in as Holliday ranted about Masters/Welch going to a time limit draw while Welch was caught in the Full Nelson, about how The Assassins have gotten another title match and how his team of Timothy Flowers & Goldie Rogers were instead stuck facing Pat Rose & Ron Sexton this Sunday to determine the #1 contender's for the Southwest Tag Team Titles

Holliday: He could have finished that match a long time ago Steve Stack but I told him to drag it out so I could have enough time here to say what needed to be said!

Jim Holliday leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well you certainly did say a lot while you were here, that's for sure. Fans we've got to take another commercial break but when we come back we're going to show you the footage of last Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena and how the Southwest Heavyweight Title changed hands twice so don't go away!

-Second commercial break-

Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling! Right now I'm going to play some highlights of the action involving the Southwest Heavyweight Title from last Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena.

Clips are shown of the two title matches from the 1/8 card, first showing clips of the David Von Erich/Tully match and then clips of the Saito/David Von Erich match with a heavy emphasis on the finishing that involved Tully Blanchard & Sunshine interfering and then some of the post match attack of David Von Erich by Tully Blanchard is also shown

Steve Stack: Fans now you've seen just how the Southwest Heavyweight Title changed hands twice in one night and now I'm going to bring out a man who was involved in all of it, the former Southwest Heavyweight Champion, Tully Blanchard.

Tully Blanchard and Sunshine come out to the interview area

Tully Blanchard: Before you say anything Steve Stack I just want all these people to know that I was robbed of my title! What that tape conveniently failed to show was how I ended up busted open and that's because David Von Erich hit me with the Southwest Heavyweight belt! He should have been disqualified but instead that crooked referee Carl Fergie just magically happened not to be looking when that took place.

Steve Stack: Unfortunately we didn't have time to show everything that happened last Sunday night but the only reason that title belt ended up in the ring is because YOU asked Sunshine to give it to you when Carl Fergie got knocked down.

Sunshine: Here you go again out here telling your lies Steve Stack! I would never interfere in one of Tully's matches because he doesn't need any help to win a match! Certainly not against someone like David Von Erich who has been sent to the hospital TWICE at the hands of the toughest man to ever come out of Texas, MY man Tully Blanchard.

Steve Stack: Well I'm certain we aren't going to come to an agreement about how that belt got in the ring so let me move on and ask just why you two ended up at ringside during the match between Mr. Saito and David Von Erich because we DID show that part on tape and it clearly showed both of you down at ringside including Sunshine getting into the ring and trying to hit David with her loaded purse.

Tully Blanchard: Like I just said, David stole that title from me. Do you really think I would let a man rob me and not retaliate? I had no other choice but to get involved in that match and make sure that he didn't leave the HemisFair Arena with stolen property. Now, Mr. Saito has no real claim to that title either considering he got it from a thief but that couldn't be helped. Sooner or later I'm going to have to get that belt back from Mr. Saito but right now my focus is on David Von Erich. David you said last week that you didn't think Texas was big enough for the both of us, well for once you're right. Texas isn't big enough for both of us and that's why I am going to run YOU out of Texas. Twice before I've caused you to be carried out of the HemisFair Arena on a stretcher. This Sunday night we've got another match and after it's over, you're going to get carried out on a stretcher again. And like they say, the third time is the charm because THIS time you WON'T be coming back!

Tully and Sunshine leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Well fans we're going to hear from David Von Erich later on in the program but right now my next guests are going to be involved in a Texas Tornado Street Fight this Sunday night so let me bring in now the former Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Assassins!

The Assassins come out to the interview area



Steve Stack: Gentlemen this Sunday night you're involved in a match where anything goes, where you will have your best chance yet on delivering on your threat of injuring The Fabulous Ones. What are your thoughts about being involved in the Texas Tornado Street Fight?

The Assassin: First of all Steve Stack I have not come out here and made any threats. Everything I have said about injuring The Fabulous Ones was a promise. The Assassins don't deal in threats, only in guarantees. As to your question, my thoughts are that a Texas Tornado Street Fight is the perfect match to seriously injure a man and end his career. The Fabulous Ones tried to come out here and bluff you earlier Steve Stack, saying that this match was just as much to their advantage as it was theirs but they could not be more wrong. The Assassins have a history of injuring people, when wrestling fans anywhere around the world see this mask on their television screens they know it means that someone is about to get seriously hurt. We've made that reputation on the bodies of many broken men. Do The Fabulous Ones have that same kind of reputation? Have they ever ended a man's career? Have they ever had a man screaming and begging for mercy and then listened to the sounds of his bones break as his pleas were denied? No Steve Stack, no they have not. For all their tough talk, I don't think they have the guts to do that kind of work, not many men do and that's why there are only two men who wear the masks of the Assassins in professional wrestling.

Now one last thing I need to address here on television today. Last Sunday night, The Fabulous Ones tried to expose my partner. They took the mask off his head and tried to reveal his identity to the world. Luckily I was able to cover his face before anyone could see who he is but this kind of transgression can not go unpunished. These masks mean absolutely everything to us and no one and I mean NO ONE can be allowed to try and take them from us and not face the repercussions. Now Stan Lane, Steve Keirn, I've already come out here and promised that one or both of you are going to have your careers ended at our hands so there's really not much more I can say that I didn't already say. Except this: previously our issue with you was just business. Our business is injuring people and you made it our business to do that to you. But now since you've put your hands on these masks, since you've tried to expose one of us, you've made this personal. So now instead of just ending your careers, I'm not going to stop there. I'm going to make sure that we end your career in a way that not just impacts your livelihood but your quality of life. I am going to injure you in a way that you won't be able to spend one single moment of the rest of your lives without pain, without knowing who it is that you have to thank for that pain. And you will spend every moment of however long you have left in this world knowing that the greatest mistake of your life was to ever try and unmask one of The Assassins.

The Assassins leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Fans I've been in the wrestling business a long time, I've stood here and interviewed over a hundred wrestlers in my day but I'm not sure anyone has ever scared me as much as that man The Assassin. I hope for The Fabulous Ones' sake that he is not as capable of injuring them as he just sounded right now. We've got to take a time out for our sponsors and when we come back I've been informed that we've got another video message from Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie and then I'm sure we'll be hearing a response from Jim Duggan & Ron Starr so don't go away, we'll be right back with more Southwest Championship Wrestling!

-Third commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and we were scheduled to show a tape paid for by Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie but apparently there are some technical difficulties with that tape so instead we're going to talk to 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and 'Rugged' Ron Starr and hope we can get things sorted out with the tape in the mean time.

Duggan: Don't you worry about that video Steve Stack, there weren't any technical difficulties I went to the producer and asked him to show me the video that Geek Adnan sent in and when it was over I ripped all the tape out of it! I'm sick and tired of the people here having to listen to what that slimy jerk has to say about me, my country and my fans! I can sum up the tape for you if you want though, Geek Adnan found two more goons to come in here and fight me and Ron Starr this Sunday night so if you like seeing us beat people up then buy your tickets because this Sunday we're gonna be beating up Ken Patera and the One Man Gang!

Steve Stack: Ken Patera and the One Man Gang? Now I'm not doubting your abilities but Ken Patera is one of the strongest men in the world, he competed in the weightlifting competitions in the 1972 Olympic games and One Man Gang is 6'9 and weighs almost 450 pounds!

Duggan: Big deal Steve Stack! I don't care about Ken Patera's weightlifting because the thing about pushing around those weights is they don't push back and the Hacksaw does! As for One Man Gang, yea I know he's a big guy but I've fought plenty of big guys before and I've proven that the old saying is true, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Steve Stack: Well I'm sure we're going to find out if that holds true for the One Man Gang this Sunday night. Before we get to that tag match this Sunday night however, Ron Starr you've got a rematch here on TV today for the Southwest Television Title taking on the champion Roy Lee Welch. Last week you were blindsided by The Wild Bills, are you worried about the possibility of One Man Gang and/or Ken Patera doing the same thing this week?

Ron Starr: Am I worried about it? No, I'm not worried. I'm aware of the fact that it's a possibility but this week I'm going to have Jim Duggan at ringside watching my back to make sure no one catches me by surprise like The Wild Bills did. As for the champion Roy Lee Welch, I respect him. I've known him for a long time, I'm from Alabama and I started my wrestling career there and I think everyone knows Roy is from the Alabama area as well. I've competed against Roy many times and I know he's a great competitor. But I came out here a few weeks ago and told everybody I wanted to take that TV Title and my plan is to leave The Junction here today with it in my possession.

Steve Stack: Well gentlemen I wish you luck in your seemingly never ending war against Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie, right now I've got to bring in my next guest on the program, the Yellow Rose of Texas, David Von Erich!

Jim Duggan and Ron Starr leave the interview area as David Von Erich comes in and Jim Duggan bumps into David as he's leaving and David stares at him as he walks off



Steve Stack: It would appear that Jim Duggan has not forgiven you for the run-ins between you in the past.

David Von Erich: I don't really care about what Jim Duggan thinks about me to be honest with you Steve Stack, I've got a lot bigger things on my mind. You showed the people the tape earlier on the show, everyone saw how I won the Southwest Heavyweight Title fair and square from Tully Blanchard and then how he and that witch he runs around helped Mr. Saito steal it from me. As far as I'm concerned I'm the rightful Southwest Heavyweight Champion and I should have gotten a rematch for the belt before anyone else. But I'll have time to take care of that later. Right now my main objective is to do the one thing I've been wanting to do ever since Tully Blanchard slammed that cage door on my head. And that's get rid of Tully Blanchard from Texas, if not all of professional wrestling. Tully you came out here and bragged earlier about how you've had me carried out on a stretcher twice before and brother that's true. But just like the old saying goes, what goes around comes around and this Sunday night it's going to be YOUR turn to get carried out and for that witch of yours to be screaming and crying over you as they wheel you out of the HemisFair Arena!

David Von Erich leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well fans I hate to see anyone get injured but with Tully and David both talking about causing the other to get carried out on a stretcher I can only imagine what's going to take place when those two collide this Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena. But right now my next two guests are NOT involved in any scheduled matches coming up at the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night or otherwise. They are two men who have both talked about retiring from the sport of professional wrestling in the past few weeks and I've had to spend a lot of time on the phone to make this happen but I've got them both here in The Junction today to try and talk out their problems and hopefully get them back in the ring here in Southwest Championship Wrestling. So now let me welcome out here Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert.

Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert come to the interview area from opposite sides



Steve Stack: First off let me just thank you both for being on the program. I know you two haven't talked to each other since what happened on the night of December 18th so let's go back to what happened that night and -

Eddie Gilbert: Not to interrupt you Steve Stack but I think everyone here knows what happened that night and I really don't want to go back and rehash it all over again.

Steve Stack: Well alright Eddie if you don't want to then -

Ken Lucas: Hold on a minute Steve Stack I think we at least owe it to the fans and especially to Ricky Morton to mention the fact that he had his career ended by Eddie Gilbert that night and that's what this is all about.

Eddie Gilbert: Steve Stack didn't I just say I didn't want to go back and rehash that? I apologized for that on the video I sent in last week, I tried to call Ricky Morton and apologize to him but he wouldn't take my call, I've apologized for what happened that night and I didn't come here today to beat a dead horse.

Ken Lucas: Beat a dead horse? You apologized? You think apologizing for piledriving a man on concrete and ending his career makes it all better?

Eddie Gilbert: I didn't say it makes it better but neither does coming out here and talking about it over and over. It happened. I've already said I was going to retire from wrestling because I was sorry for what I did, I didn't know I was coming here to talk about it again or I wouldn't be here.

Ken Lucas: Well if you didn't want to talk about Ricky Morton why did you come here today?

Eddie Gilbert: I was told you had something you wanted to say to me and that's the only reason I came all the way back here to Texas from Memphis, TN. I thought you were going to apologize to me.

Ken Lucas: Me apologize to you!? What do I have to apologize for Eddie!?

Eddie Gilbert: I thought you were going to apologize for how we lost the match on December 18th that ended our partnership. I thought you were going to apologize for running around the ring after Yang instead of coming in the ring to break up Yin's pin on me. I thought you were going to apologize for embarrassing me by taking Ricky Morton's side when I was arguing with him about how he was stealing our chance to face the Southwest Tag Team Champions. I thought you were going to apologize for everything that happened being your fault.

Ken Lucas: My fault?! My fault!? You're blaming this all on me!?

Ken Lucas suddenly lunges at Eddie Gilbert and grabs him by the throat

Steve Stack: Hey! Ken calm down! That's not what this is supposed to be! We need some help out here!

Ken Lucas starts slapping Eddie Gilbert around when Larry Hamilton, Steve Pardee, Mike Jackson, Tony Torres, Carl Fergie and Jack Howe run out to the interview area and pull him off. Eddie Gilbert storms away from the interview area as everyone tries to calm Ken Lucas down

Steve Stack: Fans I don't know what to say about what just happened here, this was not at all what I expected when I brought Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert on the program to talk to each other. We're going to take a break and try and get things calmed down here in The Junction, we'll be right back.

-Fourth commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is -

Mr. Saito: You be quiet Steve Stack, I tell the people who I am. I Mr. Saito your new Southwest Champion and I very happy today. No just because I'm the new champion but really was very funny to me to watch what just happened here. Make Saito laugh very much to see Ken Lucas slapping Eddie Gilbert.

Steve Stack: Well that's just great Mr. Saito, I'm glad you can take such pleasure in the misery of others but that's not what you're here on the program to talk about today.

Mr. Saito: Hey I the champion, I talk about what I want! You need show me proper respect Steve Stack, when Saito come out here you need bow to the champion!

Steve Stack: I'll remember that for next time but I'd like to ask you about your match with El Gran Apollo this Sunday night and your thoughts on having to face him again after he defeated you last week.

Mr. Saito: He didn't defeat nobody! You need show the tape so everyone can see how the referee count so slow for Mr. Saito and so fast for El Gran Apollo! I put him on his head with Saito Suplex and everyone know nobody get up when I do Saito Suplex but the referee count so slow that somehow Apollo kick out! Then I argue with the referee to try teach him how to count and I turn around and Apollo do a small package to me and referee make a fast count and I lose! I don't wrestle again this week with same referee, I don't want Jack Howe be the referee for my match against Apollo! I don't know why he hate Saito, maybe he hate Japanese people because we are better, but I the champion now and I say he can not be the referee for my match!

Steve Stack: First of all I know that Jack Howe's counts are always consistent including the ones from your match against El Gran Apollo last week. I also don't think it says anything in the rulebook about the Southwest Heavyweight Champion being allowed to pick his own referee, you're going to have to take that up with Stanley Blackburn.

Mr. Saito: I don't care about Stanley Blackburn! I tell you right now I don't wrestle this Sunday if Jack Howe is referee!

Steve Stack: You've spent this entire interview talking about Jack Howe, I wanted to talk to you about your opponent -

Mr. Saito: I don't have nothing to say about El Gran Apollo! He can't beat Saito! He never beat Saito! This Sunday when I hit Saito Suplex on him he don't kick out and Saito prove he is number one wrestler in Southwest, number one wrestler in the world!

Mr. Saito storms out of the interview area

Steve Stack: One thing is clear, Mr. Saito is not at all happy about his loss to El Gran Apollo last week and I have a feeling he is going to do everything he can to avenge it this Sunday night with the Southwest Heavyweight Title now on the line. But El Gran Apollo certainly showed he is not a man to take lightly as he's the only person I've ever seen who was able to kick out of the Saito Suplex and let me assure everyone who was not in the HemisFair Arena that is was NOT due to a fast count. Anyway, we've got to take our last commercial break of the program and when we come back we are going to have Southwest Television Title match between Ron Starr and Roy Lee Welch! Hopefully this time there won't be anyone running out to ruin the match so don't go away, we'll be right back!

-Fifth and final commercial break-



Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling! With me now is the Southwest Television champion, Roy Lee Welch! Roy it's good to talk to you again, we didn't have a chance to talk last week and the week before you were in Alabama for your National Title match against Tommy Rich.

Welch: Well thank you for giving me this little bit of time before my match here, I just wanted to thank the fans for the support they gave me before I went off to wrestle for the National Title and I'm sorry I couldn't bring it back here to Texas for them but I know I'll get another chance.

Steve Stack: I'm sure you will Roy, we don't have much time so just let me ask you real quick about your opponent here today, Ron Starr, and your thoughts on defending the Southwest Television Title against him?

Welch: Well like Ron said out here earlier he and I know each other pretty well from both coming up in Alabama and we've wrestled each other quite a few times. Some of the times I beat Ron and some of the times he beat me, I think we're pretty evenly matched as wrestlers and I have a lot of respect for him. But I plan to keep this Southwest TV Title here today and if I do then I plan to keep it Sunday night against Mike Masters.

Steve Stack: Well Roy I wish we had a little more time to talk, especially about Mike Masters but right now you've got to head to the ring before your match, it was great to talk to you again!

Welch: It was great to talk to you too Steve, thank you for the time.

Roy heads down to the ring where Ron Starr is already waiting in the ring and Jim Duggan is standing guard at ringside

 

'Rugged' Ron Starr vs. Roy Lee Welch - Southwest Television Title Match

Ron Starr and Roy Lee Welch shake hands after the bell and then start a slow feeling out process against each other. Both men seem to be familiar with each other and know how the other likes to wrestle. They exchange holds for a bit with neither man able to gain a definitive advantage until Ron Starr breaks out of an arm bar with a big forearm that upsets Roy Lee Welch. Ron Starr argues that it was a forearm and not a closed fist and Roy Lee Welch answers back with a forearm of his own and things quickly turn into a fight where fists replace forearms. Referee Carl Fergie gets in between the two men and gets them to open their fists back up but both men are now far more aggressive than they were in the opening moments of the match. After some jockeying for position, Ron Starr shoots Roy Lee Welch into the ropes and drops his head for a back body drop but Welch vaults over him and then catches him with a big dropkick when he pops his head back up and turns around. Welch quickly tries to put on the Spinning Toe Hold but Ron Starr kicks Welch off and Welch goes flying backwards through the ropes and out of the ring. Ron Starr starts to go out after him when suddenly Mike Masters runs down to ringside from the opposite direction. Jim Duggan quickly cuts off Mike Masters from getting in the ring and their war of words quickly turns into a fight! Ron Starr hears the commotion and turns around to see what's going on and Roy Lee Welch gets back up on the outside and seeing Ron Starr's back to him, Roy slides into the ring and quickly rolls Ron Starr up and gets a 3 count!

 

Mike Masters quickly retreats from the fists of Jim Duggan after he hears the bell ring and runs back to the locker room as Ron Starr gets into a shouting match with Roy Lee Welch inside the ring

Steve Stack: What an unfortunate way for that match to end! Ron Starr and Roy Lee Welch were having a great match until Mike Masters caused a distraction and honestly I'm surprised at the way Roy Lee Welch took advantage of it, I'm not sure if he knew why Ron Starr had his back turned to him. Well we're just about out of time on today's program, don't forget to get your tickets for this Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena as Mr. Saito defends the Southwest Heavyweight Title against El Gran Apollo, The Fabulous Ones defend the Southwest Tag Team Titles in a Texas Tornado Street Fight against The Assassins, David Von Erich takes on Tully Blanchard, Jim Duggan & Ron Starr battle Ken Patera and the One Man Gang and much more! And be sure to join us next week for more of the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling, right here on Southwest Championship Wrestling!

Scheduled for Sunday, January 15th at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX
Texas Tornado Street Fight for the Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Assassins vs. The Fabulous Ones
Tully Blanchard w/Sunshine vs. David Von Erich
Jim Duggan & Ron Starr vs. Ken Patera and One Man Gang
Southwest Heavyweight Title: El Gran Apollo vs. Mr. Saito
Pat Rose & Ron Sexton vs. Goldie Rogers & Timothy Flowers w/Jim Holliday
Southwest Television Title: Mike Masters w/Jim Holliday vs. Roy Lee Welch
Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee vs. Man Mountain Link and Tiny Anderson

[NotJayTabb]

I can't believe we waited so long for someone to dethrone Tully, and another heel has the title within hours of the change. You're a cruel booker, man :-)

[goc]

I can't believe we waited so long for someone to dethrone Tully, and another heel has the title within hours of the change. You're a cruel booker, man :-)

Well you didn't expect Tully to be gracious in defeat did you? I was kind of looking for a way to get the title out of the Tully/David feud for a bit and a WM X scenario was about as good of an idea as I had. Plus it allowed me to keep Southwest Superstar El Gran Apollo from losing any of the momentum he had gained by finally winning his long ass feud with Jose.

[goc]

Southwest Championship Wrestling @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 1/15/84

Larry Hamilton & Steve Pardee vs. Man Mountain Link and Tiny Anderson - Man Mountain Link starts against Larry Hamilton and Hamilton tries to take him down to the mat but the massive size and weight of Link make it impossible for Hamilton to use his AAU amateur wrestling skills against him. After trying a few more times to get Link down onto the mat, Hamilton tags out to Steve Pardee. Pardee tries his luck against Man Mountain Link but just keeps getting tossed away as he tries to work to get an arm bar on Link. Pardee tags back out to Larry Hamilton and the two of them charge at Link and try to knock him down with shoulder blocks but Link stands his ground and knocks down Pardee and Hamilton instead! Pardee rolls out of the ring and Link grabs Hamilton as he's trying to get back up. Link hoists Hamilton up on his shoulder and backs up to his corner as he sets up for a Running Powerslam but as Link gets to the corner, Tiny Anderson tags himself in. Link doesn't seem to realize that his brother tagged himself in as he hits the Running Powerslam and pins Hamilton but referee Jack Howe refuses to count. Link argues with Jack Howe as Howe tries to tell him that he's not the legal man and then Link sees his brother getting in the ring and starts arguing with him. Jack Howe finally ends the argument by threatening to disqualify Link for not leaving the ring and Link finally goes back to his corner. As Tiny turns back away from Link to go after Larry Hamilton, Hamilton pulls him into an Oklahoma Roll and pins him!

 

Winners: Larry Hamilton and Steve Pardee in 6:19 when Hamilton pinned Tiny Anderson with an Oklahoma Roll

 

Man Mountain Link looked disgusted after the match and just walked away from Tiny Anderson as Anderson tried to apologize to him

 

Southwest Television Title: Mike Masters w/Jim Holliday vs. Roy Lee Welch - Mike Masters starts the match going hard after Roy Lee Welch, trying hard to avoid a repeat of last week's time limit draw. Masters can't get a hold of Welch though as Welch uses his speed advantage to avoid Masters. Welch ends up goading Masters into charging at him into the corner only to move at the last moment causing Masters to crash hard into the turnbuckles. Welch then starts to go to work on Masters' leg to soften him up for the Spinning Toe Hold. After a few minutes of working on Masters' leg, Welch has him in the middle of the ring and sets him up for the Spinning Toe Hold. Masters manages to fight it off for a bit but finally Welch is able to lock it in. Masters looks about ready to submit when Jim Holliday jumps up on the apron. As Carl Fergie goes over to get Holliday off the apron, Masters uses his free leg to kick Welch in the groin which forces Welch to break the Spinning Toe Hold. With Welch doubled over in pain, Masters scrambles to his feet and then locks him into the Full Nelson as Jim Holliday gets down off the apron and referee Carl Fergie turns back around. Welch valiantly tries to escape the Full Nelson or reach the ropes but Masters' strength advantage makes that impossible. Welch finally looks to pass out from the pain and Carl Fergie raises his hand and it falls 3 times, making Mike Masters the winnner.

 

Winner and NEW Southwest Television Champion: Mike Masters in 7:43 after Roy Lee Welch passed out in the Full Nelson

 

Pat Rose & Ron Sexton vs. Goldie Rogers & Timothy Flowers w/Jim Holliday - Ron Sexton & Goldie Rogers started out the match against each other and things started very slowly as both men tried to lure the other into their corner leading to not much action actually taking place. The crowd started to get restless and mock them as Jack Howe implored them to actually wrestle. Finally Ron Sexton managed to lure Goldie Rogers out of the corner by simply laying down on the mat. As Rogers charged at him, Sexton rolled closer to his corner where Pat Rose was able to grab Rogers as he was coming in and then Sexton & Rose took over on Rogers and started working him over. Jim Holliday was going nuts at ringside demanding that Rose & Sexton be disqualified for their double teaming but Rose & Sexton made sure to make quick tags in and out to keep resetting Jack Howe's 5 count. Flowers tried to rush in and help his partner but Jack Howe cut him off and while Flowers was arguing with the referee it just allowed Pat Rose & Ron Sexton more time to double team Rogers and make a switch without a tag. As Flowers got back in the corner and Jack Howe turned back to the action, Jim Holliday jumped up on the apron and argued with the referee about Rose & Sexton switching without a tag. As that was going on Flowers ran back in the ring and attacked Rose and threw him over the top rope behind Jack Howe's back. As Flowers was doing that however, Ron Sexton pulled out a chain and knocked Goldie Rogers out with it and covered him. Flowers turned around right after it happened and saw the chain on Ron Sexton's hand and tried to attack him but Pat Rose grabbed his feet from outside the ring and pulled him out. Ron Sexton put the chain back in his trunks and covered Goldie Rogers as Jack Howe finally got Jim Holliday off the apron by threatening to disqualify him and Jack Howe made the 3 count on Goldie Rogers who was knocked out from being hit with the chain.

 

Winners: Pat Rose & Ron Sexton in 8:24 after Ron Sexton knocked out Goldie Rogers with a chain

 

After the match Flowers told Jim Holliday about Ron Sexton knocking out Goldie Rogers with the chain and Holliday tried to get referee Jack Howe to check Ron Sexton for the chain but Pat Rose & Ron Sexton were already on their way back to the locker room

 

Southwest Heavyweight Title: El Gran Apollo vs. Mr. Saito - Mr. Saito talks trash to Apollo at the sound of the bell, telling him that this time Jack Howe is not the referee so nobody will be making a fast count to help him win. Apollo responds by decking Mr. Saito with a big punch and then taking him over with an arm drag as Saito gets back up and charges at him. Apollo tries to work over Saito's arm but Saito is too strong and bulls his way into the ropes. Saito is furious about Apollo standing up to him and charges at him again only to get taken down with a drop toe hold and Apollo quickly gets on top of Saito and puts him in a headlock. Saito powers his way back up to his feet and shoves Apollo off into the ropes but Apollo ducks Saito's attempt to clothesline him and comes back with a crossbody that pins Saito and comes very close to getting a 3 count before Saito is able to kick out. Saito rolls out of the ring and starts having a fit before trying to calm himself back down. Saito gets back in the ring at the count of 9 and then bows to El Gran Apollo and asks for a handshake. Apollo doesn't trust Saito and refuses to shake hands as Saito continues to insist on it. Apollo looks to the crowd to see if he should shake Saito's hand which gives Saito the opening he wants to try to cheap shot him but Apollo dodges out of the way and Saito charges into the ropes and gets caught up awkwardly before Apollo drop kicks him in the back and sends Saito sprawling out to the floor. Saito looks about ready to blow a gasket as he fumes outside the ring and then charges back into the ring after Apollo only to get hit with a dropkick that stops him in his tracks. Apollo hits Saito with another dropkick as he gets back to his feet and then gets around behind Saito as he gets back up and tries to hit him with a German Suplex but Saito blocks it and gets around behind Apollo and then drops him with his own German Suplex and holds on for the pin but Apollo kicks out even before the count of 2. Saito argues with the referee about his count only to repeat last week's mistake and turn around right into a small package from Apollo but this time Saito kicks out before the 3 count. Saito springs back to his feet, getting up before Apollo and goes ballistic on him, blasting him with chops and kicks. Saito pulls Apollo up and shoves him into the corner where he just continues to unload on him before Carl Fergie has to forcefully step in between them and threaten to disqualify Saito if he doesn't get Apollo out of the corner.

 

Saito tosses Apollo out of the corner and then puts him in the kneeling figure four. Saito shouts at Apollo to give up but Apollo refuses to submit and after a long inch by inch progress, Apollo pulls himself into the ropes and gets a break. Saito refuses to break the hold until the count of 4 as Fergie again warns him that he's about to be disqualified. Saito turns around and threatens to chop Carl Fergie and as Saito is arguing with the referee, Apollo gets back to his feet, grabs Saito around the waist and drops him with a big German Suplex but Apollo is unable to hold onto it for the pin. Both men are down on the mat as Fergie starts to count both men down. Saito gets up first and tries to grab Apollo but Apollo fights him off with punches to the midsection. Apollo gets fired up more with each punch as he fights his way back to his feet and then whips Mr. Saito in the ropes and tries to catch him with a big dropkick but Saito stops short and Apollo crashes to the mat where Saito quickly puts the kneeling figure four back on him. Apollo once again refuse to submit however and makes another agonizing push towards the ropes to break the hold. Saito quickly breaks the hold this time only to start stomping and kicking at Apollo, shouting at him to stay down. Carl Fergie again has to step in and force Saito to let Apollo get out of the ropes. Saito steps back for a moment only to then attack Apollo again as Apollo starts to use the ropes to pull himself back up. Carl Fergie tries to step in again only for Saito to grab him and throw him out of the ring where Carl Fergie lands hard on the floor of the HemisFair Arena and stays down. Saito continues his assault on Apollo, pulling him out of the ropes and tossing him into the center of the ring. Saito tries to put the kneeling figure four back on but Apollo starts kicking him off. Saito and Apollo continue to struggle over the hold when Apollo kicks Saito right under the jaw with a kick that sends him staggering backwards. Apollo gets back up to his feet as Saito stumbles punch drunk towards him and Apollo catches Saito with a big dropkick that floors the Southwest Heavyweight Champion. Apollo sees his chance and climbs up to the top rope, setting himself up for the Top Rope Crossbody. As Saito gets back to his feet, Apollo launches himself off and catches Saito with the Top Rope Crossbody but as soon as they hit the mat, the bell rings as referee Carl Fergie had recovered outside the ring and called for a disqualification due to Mr. Saito throwing him out of the ring.

 

Winner: El Gran Apollo by disqualification in 14:09 after Mr. Saito threw referee Carl Fergie out of the ring

 

Jim Duggan & Ron Starr vs. Ken Patera and One Man Gang - Duggan starts the match against Ken Patera who wants a test of strength. Duggan gets goaded into it when Patera keeps flexing and mocking that Duggan is afraid of him. Duggan and Patera look evenly matched at first but finally Patera starts to get the upper hand and starts to push Duggan down onto his knees but Duggan holds on and starts forcing his way back up. Patera starts to look worried as Duggan almost has the test of strength turned over and Patera breaks the test of strength with a big knee to Duggan's gut and then Patera drops a big clubbing forearm across Duggan's back. Patera tries to put a headlock on Duggan but Duggan slips out of it and then nails Patera with a big right hand that puts Patera on his ass. Patera scoots backwards to the corner and tags in One Man Gang. Gang challenges Duggan to try and take him down with a shoulder block. Duggan charges into OMG but barely even budges the big 450 pounder. Duggan tries again with the same result and then challenges Gang to charge at him. Gang comes off the ropes and charges at Duggan, but Duggan drops down at the last moment and Gang steps over him and when he comes back around Duggan nails him with a big punch that wobbles the Gang. Duggan fires off another punch that staggers Gang but the big man doesn't go down so Duggan bounces off the ropes and comes back with another big punch and this one is able to drop OMG much to the delight of the HemisFair crowd. Duggan tags in Ron Starr who catches Gang with a knee lift as he's getting back up and Gang stumbles to his corner and tags Ken Patera back in. Patera wants another test of strength this time with Ron Starr. Starr acts like he's going to go for the test of strength but then knees Patera in the stomach and hits Patera with a knee lift when he doubles over. Ron Starr sets up for the big running knee lift but Gang grabs Patera and pulls him out of the way as Ron Starr comes charging in and Patera and Gang bail out of the ring to have a strategy session outside the ring.

 

Patera gets back in the ring and wants to shake hands but Ron Starr slaps him instead! Patera charges at Ron Starr who dodges and Patera instead finds himself in the wrong corner as he gets clobbered with a big punch from Duggan and then turns back around into a clothesline from Ron Starr. Patera rolls back out of the ring and then gets back in on his side where he tags One Man Gang in. Gang challenges Ron Starr to try and take him down with a tackle and Ron Starr bounces off the ropes but then slides between One Man Gang's legs and tries to bounce off the ropes on the other side but Patera catches Starr in the back with a big knee and then One Man Gang hits Starr with a tackle of his own which sends Ron Starr flying out of the ring. Gang keeps the referee distracted while Ken Patera puts the boots to Ron Starr on the floor but Duggan quickly comes around and chases him off. Duggan helps Starr back into the ring but One Man Gang attacks him as soon as he's back in and gets him isolated in the corner. Patera gets tagged back in and starts going after Starr's arm. He keeps wrenching on the arm and then tags in Gang who comes in and drops a big elbow on the arm while Patera keeps it outstretched. Patera and Gang make quick tags in and out, repeating that strategy of Gang dropping on the arm while Patera holds it. Duggan keeps trying to come in and help his partner get out of the corner but only makes things worse as it allows Patera & Gang more time to double team Ron Starr while the referee is busy getting Duggan out of the ring. Finally Ron Starr is able to try and make a break for his corner after One Man Gang misses a splash. Starr is about to make it to his corner for the tag but Patera rushes in and nails Duggan hard which sends Duggan flying off the apron and into the guard rail. Patera and Gang get Starr back into their corner and double bodyslam him down onto the mat. Patera then picks up One Man Gang and is about to bodyslam him on top of Ron Starr but Duggan pulls Starr's legs from outside the ring and gets him out of the way as Gang gets slammed down hard onto the mat instead. Patera reaches out between the ropes and tries to grab at Duggan but gets hit with a big punch that causes him to fall out through the ropes to the floor.

 

Duggan rushes back to the corner and gets the crowd to cheer Starr on as he starts trying to make it to the corner to tag. Ron Starr makes it to the corner and dives to make the tag just as One Man Gang is about to stop him! Duggan comes in and unloads some big punches that have the giant One Man Gang reeling and then is about to bounce off the ropes with a Spear when Ken Patera trips him as he comes off the ropes. Ron Starr comes running around the apron and jumps off onto Ken Patera and they both go down on the floor of the HemisFair Arena. One Man Gang tries to charge at Duggan but Duggan side steps him and then bounces off the ropes on the other side of the ring and comes back with a huge Spear that drops One Man Gang and then covers him for a 3 count to win the match!

 

Winners: Jim Duggan & Ron Starr in 16:51 when Duggan pinned One Man Gang following a Spear

 

Tully Blanchard w/Sunshine vs. David Von Erich - David starts the match going straight after Tully, but Tully stalls and runs away from David with Sunshine trying to help keep David away from her man. Finally Sunshine is able to distract David long enough for Tully to attack David from behind and start working him over. Tully uses every dirty trick in the book to maintain his advantage on David, pulling hair, raking the eyes, choking, and pulling David's tights. Tully puts David's throat across the middle rope and chokes him and as the referee backs Tully off, Sunshine slaps David which only serves to wake him up as he quickly goes out of the ring after her! David chases Sunshine around the ring but ends up being cut off by a Tully clothesline and then Tully beats on David outside the ring. Tully slams David's head off the ring apron and the steps before sending him hard into the steel ring post. Tully goes back into the ring and waits for a count out win as Sunshine mocks David at her feet outside the ring. David manages to get back in the ring at the count of 9 but Tully jumps on him as soon as he gets back in and starts pounding on him some more. Tully looks to set David up for the Slingshot Suplex but David blocks it and Tully can't get him up in the air. Tully tries again and this time gets David up in the air but David gets out of his grip in mid-air and slips behind Tully and as Tully turns around, David puts the Iron Claw on him! Tully tries desperately to get out of it but David's grip is too strong so Tully then tries to get himself towards the ropes but David keeps him away! Tully looks to be fading so Sunshine runs into the ring and jumps on David's back, causing a disqualification!

 

Winner: David Von Erich by disqualification in 9:58 after Sunshine interference

 

Sunshine digs at David's eyes until he finally has to let go of the Iron Claw on Tully to get Sunshine off of him! David manages to swing Sunshine off of his back and she falls down onto the mat as David covers up his eyes. Tully sees David is blinded and chop blocks him, taking David down to the mat. Tully yells at Sunshine to pick her purse up from where she dropped it at ringside before running in to jump on David's back. Sunshine tosses the purse in to Tully who gets ready to hit David with it as he's getting back to his feet but David ducks it and grabs it away from Tully! David goes to swing it at Tully but Tully dives out of the ring and grabs Sunshine by the arm and they run back to the locker room together. David yells at Tully to get back in the ring but he's already almost back to the locker room so David opens up the purse and lets the brick fall down to the mat. David takes the brick and smashes it against the ring post and then throws the purse out into the crowd before walking back to the locker room.

 

Texas Tornado Street Fight for the Southwest Tag Team Titles: The Assassins vs. The Fabulous Ones - The Fabulous Ones jump The Assassins from behind as The Assassins make their entrance and The Fabs start beating on them with the Southwest Tag Team belts. With the match being a Street Fight anyway, Jack Howe just decides to ring the bell and start the match with the teams out fighting on the floor. The Fabulous Ones are all over The Assassins at the start, just beating the hell out of them and hitting them with anything they can find. The Assassins finally are able to turn the tides when Stan Lane takes a wild swing at Assassin #2 with a board and Assassin #2 ducks causing Steve Keirn to get hit instead. Lane tries to check on his partner and ends up getting attacked by both The Assassins instead who both grab one of his arms and whip him into the wooden steps. Then The Assassins both turn their attention to Steve Keirn who is bleeding from Stan Lane's missed shot with the board. Assassin #1 picks up the board and Assassin #2 holds Keirn while his partner starts slamming the butt end of the board into Keirn's midsection. Then Assassin #1 is about to smash the board over Keirn's head when Lane comes diving in and tackles him down. Lane tries to grab the board off the floor but Assassin #2 boots him in the back of the head instead. The Assassins toss Lane over the guard rail and into the first row of chairs and then go back to double teaming Steve Keirn. They work on Keirn's cut until he's covered in blood and then have him down on the floor of the HemisFair Arena. Assassin #2 holds out Keirn's leg and Assassin #1 picks up the heavy wooden steps and is about to drop them down on Keirn's leg when Stan Lane makes the save with a chair! He blasts Assassin #2 with a chair which allows Keirn to roll away just as Assassin #1 drops the steps. Lane then nails Assassin #1 with the chair which seems to knock him out as he crumples to the floor. Assassin #2 starts trying to get back up so Lane blasts him with the chair again. Keirn starts to recover so Lane tells him to hold out Assassin #2's leg and Stan Lane starts to pick up the steps to drop down on Assassin #2's leg when suddenly Assassin #1 throws powder into Lane's eyes and blinds him. Keirn grabs the chair and starts swinging it wildly at Assassin #1 who runs off to the locker room and Assassin #2 sees the fight is lost and takes off in the other direction.

 

Winners and STILL Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Fabulous Ones in 10:42 when The Assassins run away from the match

[goc]

Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 1/16

Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 1/21 in local markets

-Show intro-


Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling, the most exciting hour in all of professional wrestling! We've got a lot of things to get to in this hour just like ever week on Southwest Championship Wrestling as 1984 is already looking to be the hottest year ever in the Southwest area. Earlier in the week the AWA President Stanley Blackburn signed two huge matches and we'll be talking about them both here on the program. I've also been told that there is a lot of talent trying to make their way here to the Southwest area and that within the next few weeks we can expect to see some brand new faces and some wrestlers returning to the area who have not been here in quite some time, including someone who will be in action here on television today that I know the fans here in The Junction are going to be happy to see! Right now we've got to take a commercial break but when we come back I am going to talk to Tully Blanchard about one of those two huge matches I alluded to as he is going to give us his thoughts on the monumental Loser Leaves Texas match between Tully and David Von Erich that will take place Sunday January 29th at the HemisFair Arena! So don't go away I know you're going to want to hear more about that!

-First commercial break-



Sunshine: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling and right now you have the pleasure of looking at the power couple of professional wrestling, I'm Sunshine, the woman who should be the host of this program, and this is my man, the man who had the longest reign as Southwest Heavyweight Champion in history, The Texas Dynasty himself, Tully Blanchard!

Tully Blanchard: What a great introduction Sunshine, much better than Steve Stack could ever do. It's a shame they keep him around as the host of this show when you could do such a better job, but at least we know that Southwest is paying you a lot more than him.

Steve Stack: What does that mean Tully? I assumed Sunshine was being paid for her valet services by you.

Tully Blanchard: Well you know what they say about what happens when you assume Steve Stack but everyone knows you're one of those anyway. No Steve Stack Sunshine is not paid by me, she is officially employed by Southwest Championship Wrestling for her services as a MANAGER not a valet what a sexist thing for you to say. And I know what she gets paid by the promotion and I would imagine she's the highest paid manager in professional wrestling.

Steve Stack: Well being the son of the promoter obviously has it's perks seeing as how managers are almost always paid by the clients that they represent and not the promotion they work in.

Tully Blanchard: I resent that implication Steve Stack! My father just happens to be a smart man who knows the value of having the most beautiful and intelligent woman in wrestling right here in Southwest Championship Wrestling. But I'm certain we aren't out here to talk about who does or doesn't employ Sunshine. I know you wanted me to talk about the Loser Leaves Texas match between myself and David Von Erich that is going to take place next Sunday night at the HemisFair Arena.

Steve Stack: That's true, that is what I wanted to talk to you about. You and David Von Erich both wanted a Loser Leaves match to be signed but were unable to come to terms on just what the other stipulations of that match would be. So THIS Sunday you two will be wrestling to determine who gets to pick the rest of the stipulations of that Loser Leaves Texas match.

Tully Blanchard: That's right Steve Stack, I wanted a Texas Death Match so I can prove that I'm the Texas Dynasty not just by getting rid of David Von Erich but also beating him in the most definitive way possible. But David is too afraid to wrestle me in a Texas Death match and wanted some other kind of match, who knows what kind. Maybe he just wants a flower picking contest since he's got some sissy nickname like the Yellow Rose of Texas.

Steve Stack: Actually I'm quite familiar with the situation and I know that David Von Erich wanted the match to take place inside a Steel Cage because he wants to make sure the match is only between you and him and that Sunshine will not get involved.

Tully Blanchard: I don't care what David wants! I'm going to beat him this Sunday night to make sure that we fight in a Texas Death match and then next Sunday night I'm going to beat him in that Texas Death match and finally get him out of MY state once and for all! Now I've had just about enough of you that I can stand for the day Steve Stack, I'll leave you to do your usual inadequate job of hosting this show, come on Sunshine!

Tully and Sunshine leave the interview area

Steve Stack: Now I'm going to bring in two men who are set for action in our first match of the day, the brother tag team of Man Mountain Link Anderson and Tiny Anderson.



Steve Stack: Thanks for coming out to talk to me before your match. Link a couple of weeks ago we saw you in a 3 on 1 handicap match at the HemisFair Arena where you quickly dominated your competition but lately when you've been teaming with your brother Tiny you've been unable to find any real success as a team. Do you have any thoughts on what you and Tiny have been having such a rough patch lately?

Tiny Anderson: I'll answer for my younger brother. Every wrestler and every tag team goes through slumps and this is just a slump for us but -

Man Mountain Link: I'm not in any slump! I'm as good as I've ever been but somebody on this team doesn't want to listen me and it's been costing us matches.

Tiny Anderson: All you want to do is act like every one of our tag team matches is a handicap match! You don't even want to tag me in anymore I have to tag myself in!

Link: Maybe that has something to do with you losing every one of our matches.

Tiny: So that's it? You think you're better me than me? You don't need me any more? Ok so you just go prove how much better you are because I'm not going to the ring to team with you today, you go down there by yourself.

Tiny Anderson walks off from the interview area

Link: Hey Tiny come back here! Look I didn't mean that! You're my brother, I want you as my partner!

Steve Stack: Well he's gone Link and you've got your opponents already waiting in the ring it seems like you're either going to have to go it alone or forfeit.

Link: I'm not forfeiting anything Steve Stack, I can handle those two chumps in the ring all by myself.

Man Mountain Link heads down to the ring

Steve Stack: Well it looks like our first match of the day just turned from a tag team match into a handicap match, let's go down to the ring now where Man Mountain Link is getting ready to take on Snake Brown and Paul Peller!

 

 

Handicap Match: Man Mountain Link vs. Snake Brown & Paul Peller

Snake Brown & Paul Peller try to attack Man Mountain Link as he's getting in the ring but he shoves them both off of him and then hits them with a double clothesline. He grabs Paul Peller up off the mat and hits the Falling Powerslam on him and then does the same to Snake Brown, stacks them on top of each other and pins them.

 

Steve Stack: That couldn't have taken him more than 30 seconds to dispatch of both opponents! I wonder if he and Tiny Anderson will be able to have that same kind of success this Sunday night as a tag team when they take on the team of Mike Jackson and Tony Torres. Speaking of tag team action, when we come back we've got a video paid for by Sheik Adnan al-Kaissie that will announce the next tag team he is sending to the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night to take on 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and 'Rugged' Ron Starr and we'll hear Jim Duggan's response to it so don't touch that dial!

-Second commercial break-

Sheik Adnan: Congratulations Jim Duggan and Ron Star you have managed to survive another week. But it appears that is all over now. Jim Duggan, I know that Ron Starr has left Texas. And I know that you have still signed a contract to face my men this Sunday night with Ron Starr as your scheduled partner even though you haven't seen him since you left the HemisFair Arena last Sunday night. I don't know what excuse Ron Starr told you for his absence but I know the real reason is that he is tired of having to face my men. He knows he barely escape the ring last Sunday with all his limbs in tact as I told Ken Patera and One Man Gang to break his arm and they would have done so if you had not pulled him out of the ring at last second Jim Duggan. But even though Ron Starr did not suffer a broken arm, he did suffer a broken spirit. And he has left you high and dry Jim Duggan. And at the very worst possible time because at the same time Ron Starr realized he could not survive another battle against me, I realized why I have failed to destroy you so far. You see, I have been sending Americans to do my work for me and as I have stated many times, the time for America is over. You Americans have grown weak, you've gotten fat and lazy and the country that took over the world is now ready for a very hard fall from grace. It is time for my people to take back our place at the top and it all starts this Sunday night. I have called two of my very own countrymen to make the journey here to America for this important mission. This Sunday Jim Duggan you will not be facing Americans when you find yourself alone in the ring, abandoned by Ron Starr. You will find yourself face to face with The Iraqi Special Forces, and this time I GUARANTEE that you will be broken!

Steve Stack: Well fans you just heard what Sheik Adnan had to say and it would appear that there is at least some truth to what he had to say in regards to Ron Starr as he is not here in The Junction today.

Jim Duggan: No, Ron Starr is not here in The Junction today but I know 100% that he will be in the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night. Ron Starr called me early Monday morning and told me he had a family emergency and had to head back to Alabama to take care of some things but he also told me that he would be back by Sunday night and that I could count on him if Geek Adnan sent more mercenaries to fight us. Ron Starr has proven to me that he is a man of his word so if he told me I could count on him to be there for me, he's going to be there.

Steve Stack: So you know that Ron Starr will be your partner Sunday night, but it would seem that you have no idea who your opponents are going to be. I thought I knew of every tag team in the world of professional wrestling but I have to admit I've never heard of The Iraqi Special Forces.

Jim Duggan: Neither have I Steve Stack, but that doesn't worry me. I don't know if these guys are actually special forces, if they're actually Iraqi, if they're professional wrestlers or whether they even exists. All I know is that I plan to show up to the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night and beat up whoever gets in the ring with me!

Steve Stack: Well you haven't failed to do that yet Jim Duggan and I certainly wouldn't bet against you doing it this Sunday night either, I just hope Ron Starr will be there as your partner.

Jim Duggan: Take it from me Steve Stack, I know he will be and the fans can count on seeing us beat up Geek Adnan's goons like we've been doing for weeks now.

Jim Duggan leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Earlier in the program I talked about two big matches having been signed and earlier we discussed the Loser Leaves Texas match set to take place next Sunday night between Tully Blanchard and David Von Erich. Now I'd like to bring out one of the teams involved in the other big match that was signed, a match that will take places this Sunday night as my next guests, The Fabulous Ones, will put their Southwest Tag Team Titles on the line against the masks of The Assassins!



Steve Stack: Last Sunday night we saw you two defeat The Assassins in a Texas Tornado Street Fight and I thought that was going to be the last time we'd see you two wrestle for a while but it appears The Assassins demanded a rematch and Stanley Blackburn said they had to put up something of value to receive another title match after losing the Texas Tornado Street Fight and that's how it came to be that their masks are going to be on the line this Sunday night. What are your thoughts about facing The Assassins in this kind of match where they will be more desperate than ever to win as we know just how important those masks are to them.

Stan Lane: What's to be afraid of Steve Stack? The Assassin comes out here and talks tough but when the going gets tough, he runs just like he and his partner ran from the fight last Sunday night. We didn't even get a chance to properly beat them as they just high tailed it for the locker room once they realized they couldn't beat us.

Steve Keirn: We told them they couldn't beat us in a Street Fight and we proved it to them last Sunday night. Now we thought that might give them a wake up call that they're just no match for The Fabs but apparently they didn't quite get the hint. But that's fine with us because we know that once we beat them this Sunday night and take their masks to show those ugly faces of theirs, The Assassins will be finished and we won't ever have to worry about them again.

Steve Stack: It does seem strange to me that The Assassin would allow those stipulations after what he said last week about how important the mask was to him and how they were unable to defeat you in the Texas Tornado Street Fight but I suppose that was the only way he could get another match against you.

Stan Lane: Desperate men do desperate things Steve Stack and The Assassins knew that their time was up and that there's a long line of tag teams waiting for their title shot against us. But those teams won't have to wait much longer because this Sunday night we're going to get rid of The Assassins for good after we expose their faces to the world and we're going to be ready to take on all comers.

Steve Stack: You're certainly right about there being a long line of teams wanting a title shot against you as I know there is a very successful tag team getting ready to come into the area after them but that's something I can't talk about until next week.

Steve Keirn: Well we aren't going to sweat them or any other tag team because we know we're the toughest tag team out there and after we beat every team that Stanley Blackburn can line up against us he isn't going to have any choice but to give us an AWA World Tag Team Title shot against The Rod Warriors.

Steve Stack: That would certainly be one heck of a match to see, The Road Warriors might have something to say about you two calling yourselves the toughest tag team in the world.

Stan Lane: They can say all they want about it, but what can they do about it? We're ready to back it up in the ring any time they want to come here and defend those belts.

Steve Stack: I know I would definitely love to see that match myself but I wouldn't start looking too far ahead if I were you, you've still got to get past The Assassins this Sunday night.

Steve Keirn: Look, we know The Assassins are tough, we know they are going to do everything they can to keep those masks but the saving grace is that Stanley Blackburn said that if The Assassins are disqualified they lose the masks just like we'll lose the titles if we're disqualified. The Assassins can't afford to get TOO desperate or they'll get disqualified and without the ability to cheat us they can't beat us.

The Fabs leave the interview area

Steve Stack: I hope you're right about that, it would certainly be quite an event to see The Assassins finally unmasked. Fans make sure to buy your tickets for the HemisFair Arena this Sunday night because you'll want to be in attendance for one of the most historic nights in wrestling if The Assassins truly do have to take those masks off. Right now we've got to take a commercial break but when we come back we are going to be talking to The Assassins about that match and we're going to see the return to the Southwest area of a very popular wrestler so don't go away because we'll be right back!

-Third Commercial Break-



Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wre-

The Assassin: Stop right there Steve Stack! Before you say another word I want to know just what the heck you were talking about out here just a minute ago. Why are you talking about our masks being on the line against The Fabulous Ones!?

Steve Stack: What are YOU talking about? The contract was signed earlier in the week, I was in the office when your partner came in and negotiated the terms to get another title match with The Fabulous Ones.

The Assassin: My partner!? I never agreed to put my mask on the line! I didn't know anything about it until 5 minutes ago when you were talking to The Fabulous Ones! How can my partner sign a contract for me to put MY mask on the line!? I gave him that mask! He didn't spend the last 25 years making this black and yellow mask the most famous mask in wrestling, he isn't the one who built it's reputation, who made it so when a man sees this mask standing across the ring from him he knows he has to fear for his health! How could you sign a contract for this mask behind my back!? How could you betray me like this!?

Assassin #2: I didn't betray you I -

The Assassin: Don't say another word! Get out of here, go back to the locker room, I'll say what I have to say to you without any cameras around!

Assassin #2 looks like he's about to speak again but then turns around and leaves the interview area

The Assassin: Fabulous Ones, you might think you've got an advantage going into our match this Sunday night but that couldn't be further from the truth. This mask is my LIFE! You have no idea the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into making this mask mean what it means in this sport. You will never and I mean NEVER take it away from me. Fabulous Ones, when you come to the ring Sunday night you better be prepared to kill me because I swear to God the only way you will take this mask off my head is over my cold dead body!

The Assassin leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Fans I apologize for what The Assassin just said, clearly he is not in his right mind after finding out that apparently his mask was put on the line behind his back. My next guest is a man who also has a lot on the line this Sunday night as he'll be taking on Tully Blanchard to decide what the stipulations will be in next week's Loser Leaves Texas match against Tully Blanchard, he is the Yellow Rose of Texas: David Von Erich!



Steve Stack: David welcome to the program. Next Sunday night you'll be facing Tully Blanchard in what looks to be the final battle between you as the loser will be forced to leave the state of Texas. But before you get there you'll be meeting this week in a match that will determine just who gets to decide the stipulations of that penultimate match. Is is true that you want to face Tully inside a Steel Cage next week, and if so, why?

David Von Erich: It's true Steve Stack, I want to fight Tully in a Steel Cage when we have our Loser Leaves Texas match. Not just because it will keep Sunshine and whoever else Tully might decide to find to help him out of the ring, but because this whole thing with Tully and myself started in a Steel Cage. Tully slammed the door to the steel cage on my head three months ago and ended our partnership. And now I want to end this fight right here it began, inside a Steel Cage. And maybe I can repay the favor and slam Tully's head inside in that steel cage door and send him out of Texas in an ambulance.

Steve Stack: I don't wish that kind of injury on any man but if anyone has it coming to them it's Tully after all the things he's done to you over the past few months. But we both know how resourceful Tully is, this is a man who held the Southwest Heavyweight Title for over 6 months with seemingly everyone in the state gunning for him and you know with his back against the wall he's got to have some kind of plot or plan to make sure that you're the one who has to leave the state.

David Von Erich: Of course i know that Steve Stack. That's why I got Stanley Blackburn to make the match this week, because I refused to face Tully in a Loser Leaves Texas match without an assurance that he couldn't bring in someone to help him like he used Killer Khan and Mr. Saito. The Steel Cage is going to be the great equalizer and it's what is going to assure my victory and Tully's exit from MY state of Texas. If you notice Steve Stack, when I'm not getting hit in the head with a loaded purse my record against Tully is pretty good. I've beaten him two weeks in a row now. They say the 3rd time is the charm but in this case the 3rd time will only get me the Cage match, the fourth time will be the charm because it's going to be the one that gets rid of Tully for good!

David leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Well I hope for David's sake he does win this week and get that Cage match or who knows what kind of plan Tully will have concocted for a Texas Death Match where anyone could run out and interfere in the match. But right now it's time to reveal the surprise I talked about earlier in the show as we're about to send it down to the ring where Mike Fever is getting ready to take on a man making his return to the Southwest area after a long absence, a man I know the fans are going to be happy to see back: Tiger Conway Jr!

 

Mike Fever vs. Tiger Conway Jr.

Tiger Conway Jr. gets a big reaction from the crowd in The Junction and soaks in their cheers before the match begins. Conway and Fever lock up to start the match and Conway gets Fever in an arm bar and works on the arm for a bit before Mike Fever gets out of it by raking the eyes. Fever beats on Conway a little before Conway fires back and knocks him down with a dropkick and then climbs to the second rope and crashes into Mike Fever with a diving headbutt as soon as Fever is back on his feet then pins him for a 3 count.

 

Steve Stack: Tiger Conway Jr. looks to be in even better shape than the last time we saw him here in Southwest Championship Wrestling! I'm glad to see him back here in the area and I'm sure we're going to be seeing much of him in the weeks to come! Right now we've got to take a time out for our sponsors but don't go away because when we come back we're going to talk to El Gran Apollo about his rematch for the Southwest Heavyweight Title against Mr. Saito and we've also get Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert back here in The Junction as Ken Lucas wanted time to apologize for what happened last week on the program. Don't go away we'll be right back!

-Fourth Commercial break-



Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and with me now is the number one contender for the Southwest Heavyweight Title, one of the hottest young stars in professional wrestling: El Gran Apollo! Apollo last Sunday night we saw you defeat Mr. Saito by disqualification after Saito threw referee Carl Fergie out of the ring but right before Carl Fergie recovered and called for the disqualification we saw you hit Mr. Saito with your big Top Rope Crossbody and it looked like you were well on your way to pinning Mr. Saito and taking the Southwest Title. What are your thoughts about facing Mr. Saito again this Sunday night?

Apollo: I think this time is the time I take the belt and become the champion for all my people. Everyone who saw my match last Sunday know I have Mr. Saito beat and if the referee count the pin instead of disqualify Saito then I would be the champ now. But I don't get angry at the referee because I know I have another match and this time I don't let Saito get disqualify, I will beat him and be the new Southwest Champion.

El Gran Apollo leaves the interview area

Steve Stack: Alright fans last week on the show I invited Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert on to talk about the incident a month ago where Ricky Morton had his career ended from a piledriver on the concrete floor by Eddie Gilbert and how it's led to both Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert to talk about retiring from professional wrestling. I thought that having them talk to each other might lead one or both of them to reconsider their decision to retire but instead it led to Ken Lucas attacking Eddie Gilbert when Gilbert said he only came on the program because he thought Ken Lucas was going to apologize to him. That was not at all the result that I was expecting and I had planned to just leave the issue alone but Ken Lucas called me and begged me to have him back on the program and to invite Eddie Gilbert so he could apologize to him so I've done so and both men are here in The Junction today so let me first bring out Ken Lucas so he can say what he'd like to say.

Ken Lucas comes out to the interview area



Ken Lucas: First Steve Stack let me thank you for letting me come back on the program after the way I acted last week. It was not at all my intention to get in a fight out here but when Eddie Gilbert said he wanted me to apologize for being the one who caused all the problems it just really set me off and I couldn't control myself. So Steve Stack first let me apologize to you for doing that after you gave me time to talk to Eddie on the program. And now Eddie I know you're in the back so I'd like you to come out here now so I can apologize to you face to face, man to man.

Eddie Gilbert comes out to the interview area



Eddie Gilbert: I'm here Ken Lucas, go ahead and say what you have to say.

Ken Lucas: Eddie I know I was wrong for what I did last week. I know I had no right to put my hands on you after I asked you to come back here to talk to me. I know that I embarrassed you by slapping you on TV and I want to apologize to you in front of everyone who saw me do it. It wasn't right for me to put my hands on you and I can only ask you to forgive me and then let me say what I really came here to say to you last week.

Eddie Gilbert: Well Ken you're right you did embarrass me last week by slapping me around. I know you think I'm just some kid because you met me when I was almost just a baby back when you were teaming with my Dad. But just because I'm a lot younger than you doesn't make me a kid, I am a 22 year old MAN and I deserve to be treated with more respect than how you treated me last week.

Ken Lucas: You're right Eddie, I have been thinking of you as a kid because that's always how I've known you. But that was wrong of me and I realize you're a lot older now than when I first met you. I know that you've been wrestling almost 5 years now and you're a grown man and from now on I am going to treat you like a man.

Eddie Gilbert: Well Ken I think it's a little late for that but they say better late than never so I will accept your apology.

Ken Lucas: Thank you Eddie. Now I didn't get the chance to tell you this last week but what I really invited you here to tell you is that I don't want you to quit on your career. You're only 22 years old, you have such a bright future ahead of yourself in this sport and it would be a real shame to see you just throw it away. What you did to Ricky Morton was wrong, we both know that, but you can't make it right by walking away. I want you to come back to wrestling, whether it be here in Southwest or back in your home state of Tennessee or wherever. You've barely scratched the surface of what you can achieve in professional wrestling and I know it was your dream all of your life. Don't give up on it.

Eddie Gilbert: Ken I've given it a whole lot of thought and I just don't think it would be right for me to keep on wrestling when Ricky Morton can't. You say that it was always my dream to be a professional wrestler and that's true. But I grew up around Ricky Morton, his Dad is a referee in Tennessee and I used to see him around the matches when we were both just kids. We used to talk about how we'd both grow up to be wrestlers and we even talked about how we'd be tag team partners together. Things didn't quite work out that way though....I took away his dream.

Ken Lucas: Eddie please don't retire. If you can't wrestle for yourself do it for Ricky Morton. The man is going to need help, his career is over, he has no livelihood now you can try to make it right by sending him part of the money you make in the wrestling business. Or if you can't do it for Ricky, do it for me. I don't have any sons, you and Ricky were like the sons I never had. I tried to teach both of you everything I know about this sport and now with the doctors telling Ricky he can never wrestle again, you've all I got to keep my legacy alive.

Eddie GIlbert: I don't know Ken....I just don't know if I can ever make it feel right.

Ken Lucas: I can't tell you what to do or how to live your life. All I can do is try to give you advice and my advice to you is don't shut the door on being a wrestler. I've been watching you for a long time, I know that you can be one of the best there has ever been if you stick to it. But there's really nothing more I can say about this, I don't want to pressure you too much and make you angry with me. Right now the only thing I can do is extend my hand to you, ask you to forgive me for last week and let you know that no matter what you decide to do, I'll always be here for you.

Eddie Gilbert: Thank you Ken. I don't know what I'm going to do but thank you for being a good friend to me.

Ken Lucas extends his hand and Eddie reaches his hand out towards Ken's but suddenly kicks Ken in the stomach and starts pounding on him

Steve Stack: Eddie stop it! Stop it Eddie! The man just apologized to you!

Ken Lucas starts to fight back but Eddie kicks him in the groin and as Lucas is doubled over, Eddie grabs him and sets him up for a piledriver on the hard floor of the Junction. Eddie starts to pull Ken Lucas up when Steve Stack suddenly jumps in and grabs Ken Lucas' feet and pulls him back down. Eddie grabs Steve Stack by his tie and then shoves him down hard when suddenly a flood of wrestlers come out from the locker room and chase Eddie Gilbert away. The Fabulous Ones help Steve Stack back to his feet as Jim Duggan and Mike Jackson help Ken Lucas up. The show then suddenly goes to commercial

-Fifth and final commercial break-



Joe Blanchard: Fans welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling. I'm promoter Joe Blanchard and it's been a long time since I've hosted this show but Steve Stack is really shaken up after what just happened and the show must go on. We've got one more match to get to in the program but before we do I'd like to bring out one of the men who will be in that match, the Southwest Heavyweight Champion himself: Mr. Saito.



Mr. Saito: Oh Joe Blanchard so nice to see you here. Is good because when I try to find you and tell you need to pay Saito more money because I the champion now I can never find you.

Joe Blanchard: I can assure you that's NOT what this interview time is scheduled for. Instead I'd like to ask you why you assaulted referee Carl Fergie last week and how you plan to combat El Gran Apollo this week considering he looked to have you beaten after the Top Rope Crossbody that wasn't counted because you were already disqualified.

Mr. Saito: That punk don't have nobody beat! He can't beat Mr. Saito! He lucky I get disqualified or I show everyone how weak he is when I break his neck with Saito Suplex! I don't have time for more question Joe Blanchard, is time for me go to the ring. When your son the Southwest Champion he never want wrestle on TV but Saito want all the people to see how good is the champion, they need see how Saito is number one and nobody can beat him.

Mr. Saito heads down to the ring

Joe Blanchard: Well fans I would have liked to ask Saito a little bit more about El Gran Apollo seeing as how the young man from Cuba seems to have his number, having defeated him the past two weeks in a row. But now let's head to the ring where Mr. Saito is getting ready to take on Jimmy Doo in a non-title match.

 

Jimmy Doo vs. Mr. Saito

Mr. Saito bows to Jimmy Doo and wants Jimmy Doo to bow to him back but as soon Doo bows, Mr. Saito attacks him. Saito hits him with some chops and then takes him over with a hard gutwrench suplex. Saito puts Jimmy Doo in the kneeling figure four hold and Jimmy Doo quickly submits. Saito then picks Jimmy Doo up and dumps him on his head with a Saito Suplex. Saito picks a lifeless Jimmy Doo up off the mat and looks ready to hit him with another Saito Suplex when suddenly El Gran Apollo runs down to the ring and chases him off.

 

 

Joe Blanchard: Mr. Saito didn't look like he wanted any part of tangling with El Gran Apollo but he's not going to have any choice this Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena! We're out of time on today's program, be sure to be there Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena to see The Assassins put up their masks against the Southwest Tag Team Titles of The Fabulous Ones, Tully Blanchard versus David Von Erich to decide the stipulations of next week's Loser Leaves Texas match, Jim Duggan and Ron Starr teaming against The Iraqi Special Forces and much more! And join us next week where hopefully Steve Stack will be back hosting this show. So long everybody!


Scheduled for Sunday, January 21st at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX

Masks vs Titles: The Assassins vs. The Fabulous Ones
Winner picks stipulations for next week's Loser Leaves Texas match: David Von Erich vs. Tully Blanchard w/Sunshine
Jim Duggan & Ron Starr vs. The Iraqi Special Forces
Southwest Heavyweight Title: El Gran Apollo vs. Mr. Saito
Goldie Rogers & Timothy Flowers w/Jim Holliday vs. Steve Pardee & Larry Hamilton
Southwest Television Title: Roy Lee Welch vs. Mike Masters w/Jim Holliday
Man Mountain Link & Tiny Anderson vs. Mike Jackson & Tony Torres