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This week's show is greatly abbreviated because of time constraints and will be confined to a very short "format." The normal length should return in two weeks. NWA Championship Wrestling from Amarillo KFDA Studios October 21, 1977 Steve Stack and Paul Boesch introduce the show and hype today's matches as well as this Thursday's landmark card in Lubbock. Our main event tonight will be Chris Taylor, Johnny Weaver, and NWA World Heavyweight Champion Wahoo McDaniel against Masa Saito, Mr. Fuji, and the One Man Gang from Halstead Street. -1- In the 7-Minute Challenge, Mick McManus pinned Blue Panther after a running knee strike to the forehead and a double stomp to the chest. (5:43) INTERVIEW: Bobby Davis, Gino Hernandez, Jerry Brisco, and Robert Fuller all alledge that conspiracies abound here in the NWA and Davis says that NWA President Jack Adkisson screwed Brisco out of the Jr. Title, but he and Joe Blanchard will not commit anymore tragedies this Thursday night and they will keep their gold (no matter what the stipulation is in the tag match) and win more when Fuller beats Funk. -2- The #1 contenders to the Western States Tag Team Titles Bobby Eaton & Paul Orndorff defeated Billy Spears & Buddy Wayne after Eaton got the pin on Wayne with a leg drop from the top rope. Jerry Brisco came out and scouted during the match. (8:32) INTERVIEW: NWA International Heavyweight Champion Dory Funk Jr. says that he's trained very hard for his latest match with Robert Fuller and he'll be ready for whatever Robert has up his sleave. Funk closes by saying that the NWA is the premiere league in professional wrestling and any other groups claiming otherwise are pretenders to the throne. -3- Porkchop Cash pinned Ricky Thompson with a vertical suplex after brutalizing the young man for an exedingly long period of time. After the match, Cash continued beating on Thompson, until Rufus R. Jones ran in and cleared the ring. Rufus got on the microphone and said that he was gonna give his former friend a "whoopin" in Lubbock. (6:34) INTERVIEW: Joe Blanchard made the special announcement that there would be a special referee for the Western Statest Tag Team Title Match since Bobby Davis had a way of interfering so often. Blanchard said he couldn't think of anyone better than DICK MURDOCH, who came out to a big ovation! Murdoch came out with a big smile on his face and said he'd call things right down the middle. Gino Hernandez and Bobby Davis came out from the back ranting and raving, but Blanchard said the decision was made. Dick Murdoch just laughed and told his "pal" Gino that he wished him nothing but luck this Thursday night! -4- In the main event, Masa Saito, Mr. Fuji, & One Man Gang (w/ Playboy Gary Hart) defeated Chris Taylor, Johnny Weaver, & NWA World Heavyweight Champion Wahoo McDaniel when Mr. Torture shocked the world by catching Wahoo in a Saito Suplex and pinning him, while his partners fought off the good guys. This gives Masa Saito tremendous momentum going into this Thursday's NWA World Heavyweight Title match in Lubbock. (16:43) Steve Stack and Paul Boesch are in shock over what we've just seen, but they do a hard-sell for this Thursday's big card in Lubbock and of course really hype the NWA as the premiere name in wrestling, which it is of course. They remind everyone that due to this Thursday's supercard, next week's TV broadcast will be a restrospective on the "Best of Dory Funk Junior," but we'll be back live in two weeks here on "Championship Wrestling from Amarillo!" FRIDAY NIGHT!!! OCTOBER 26, 1977!!!! THE NWA GOES TO WAR WITH THE AWA IN LUBBOCK!!! NWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE: CHIEF WAHOO MCDANIEL V MASA SAITO INTERNATIONAL HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE: DORY FUNK JR. V ROBERT FULLER WESTERN STATES TAG TEAM TITLE: GINO HERNANDEZ & JERRY BRISCO V BOBBY EATON & PAUL ORNDORFF (SPECIAL REFEREE: DICK MURDOCH) “THE KING OF WRESTLING” RUFUS R. JONES V PORKCHOP CASH JOHNNY WEAVER V MR. FUJI THE DEBUT OF PAMPERO FIRPO V THE ORIGINAL SUPER DESTROYER CHRIS TAYLOR V ONE MAN GANG COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE NWA, THE ONLY NAME IN WRESTLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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