WORLD WIDE WRESTLING FEDERATION
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
TAPE DATE: JULY 11, 1977 IN HAMBURG, PA
AIR DATE: JULY, 21, 1977
 
MUSICAL INTRO  
 
 Vince McMahon welcomes us to Championship Wrestling!  
 
“Hello everyone and welcome to Championship Wrestling, this is Vince McMahon here at ringside. Scheduled this week we will have the likes of Pat Patterson with The Grand Wizard, former WWWF Tag Team Champions Ken Patera and Jesse Ventura with Captain Louis Albano will see action, that notwithstanding, returning to the WWWF after a long absence “POLISH POWER” himself Ivan Putski is here, nevertheless Gorilla Monsoon, who is a great wrestler and a great man will make an appearance. In addition to all of that, NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk is also somewhere in the building, and when we return, the man who is hot on Mr. Funk's heels one Superstar Billy Graham, the WWWF Champion, will be in non title action”
 
"We will begin with the festivities in just a moment"  
 
COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
Vince: "The following television program requires participatory viewer discretion."  
 
 
Ring Announcer Joe McHugh is standing in the middle of the ring.
 
“Welcome to another action-packed card of Championship Wrestling. These matches are sanctioned and supervised by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission Chief Deputy Commissioner is the Honorable J.J. Bins. Timekeeper at the bell, Mike Mittman. The doctor in attendance at ringside, Dr. George Zaharian. The referees for this hour of wrestling, Dick Wohrle  and Dick Kroll. And I'm your ring announcer, Joooooe McHuuuuuuuuugh.  
 
Our opening contest is scheduled for one fall with a ten minute time limit. In-tro-ducing in the red corner, from Cooo-lu-mb-us, OOO-hiooo..Fraaa-nk—ie Wi-lli-ams and his opponent co-ming down the isle, he is from Par-a-dise Va-ll-ey, A-riz-on-a  , SU-PER-STA-R BIIIILYYYY GRAA-HAAM!!! “
 
WWWF Champion Superstar Billy Graham easily defeats Frankie Williams in our opening match, but the real action happened outside of the ring as NWA World Champion Terry Funk appeared at ringside and STOLE the WWWF Championship!!!! Once Graham realized what happened he ran into the locker room in hot pursuit of Funk!!
 
COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
Vince says that Graham is searching for Funk all over the dressing room and promises to give us updates throughout the show
 
 Gorilla Monsoon defeats  Tom Lynch with an Airplane Spin. After the match Vince stops Monsoon in front of the ring for an interview, Vince mentions Monsoon standing up to Nikolai Volkoff at Madison Square Garden. Monsoon says it is time someone stands up to Nikolai and at Madison Square Garden he will shut Nikolai up once and for all.
 
COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
Before the match it is revealed that Graham is still om Funk's trail, but Funk has so far alluded him.
 
Pat Patterson with The Grand Wizard defeats Argentina Apollo. After the match, Patterson grabs a microphone and calls Graham a coward, he says Graham should be defending the WWWF title against him instead of chasing Terry Funk. Patterson promises that Graham won't ignore him any longer.  
 
 
COMMERCIAL BREAK
   
Vince has another update for us as we return from the break, it has been reported to him that NWA World Champion Terry Funk jumped into a car and took off down the road!!! It is assumed that he still has the WWWF Title in his possession, Superstar Graham is not yet aware of this and is still searching the building.
 
“Polish Power” Ivan Putski makes his long awaited return to the World Wide Wrestling Federation and defeates Doug Gilbert with the Polish Hammer!!
 
 
COMMERCIAL BREAK  
 
Before the final match begins, Vince reports that he has just been handed a note stating that Superstar Graham found out that Terry Funk had taken off in a car with the WWWF Title, and Graham jumped on a Motor Bike and took off after Funk!!!!!  
 
 
In our final match, former WWWF Tag Team Champions Jesse Ventura and Ken Patera with Captain Louis Albano defeat Pete Sanchez and Danny Johnson.
 
COMMERCIAL BREAK  
 
Vince is getting ready to close the show when Pat Patterson and The Grand Wizard come back out to ringside, Patterson has something wrapped in a towel. Patterson asks if anyone has heard anything from Graham, Vince says they have not and restates that Graham was last seen getting onto a motor bike and chasing after Funk who jumped into a car and headed down the road with the WWWF Title Belt. Patterson said chuckled and said “You mean...THIS BELT?” and unwrapped the WWWF Title from the towel!! Patterson said Funk left the belt with him. Vince says that belt is the property of Billy Graham. Patterson says possession is 9/10ths of the law. He calls Graham a coward again, and says that if Graham refuses to face him, then he doesn't deserve the belt. Wizard hand Patterson a hammer and Patterson destroys the WWWF Title with it while Vince screams for him to stop!! Patterson then hands the broken pieces of the title belt to Vince and leaves. We don't get a closing, just Vince standing there with what remains of Superstar Billy Graham's WWWF Title!  

Great wins for Graham and Putski!
 
Great stuff with Graham/Funk/Patterson!
 
Destroying the WWWF Title! This should get good.......very good!!!
 
Great show!

Very good show. I wonder what happened to Pat Patterson since he left San Francisco. Maybe he needs to return and go "straight", metahporiacally speaking. I'm really enjoying the WWWF.

I agree with just about everyone in that the Graham-Funk-Paterson triad will be something exciting to watch the rest of the summer. I'm not too sure that the Superstar can handle both alone though...
 
Monsoon - Volkoff will be one heck of a match to see down the line, but I'm not too sure that the big man from Siberia will have enought to take down the massive man from Manchuria.
 
Nice return for Pustki, who I see possibly taking the Monsoon role as face gatekeeper in the not too distant future, and a solid rebound win for Patera and Ventura. When those two fall apart, that will be an awesome feud.
 
Good TV from the Mecca of the NWA.