World Class Championship Wrestling
Sportatorium
Dallas, TX
Referees-Bronk Lubich and David Manning
Announcer-Bill Mercer
Ring Announcer-Mark Lowrance
Taped-11/16/82
Airs11/17/82
 
QUICK RESULTS
The show opens showing Dusty Rhodes arriving in a long white limo earlier in the day.. Dusty enters the Sportatatorium.  
 
Mr. JR is shown in a VTR. JR says that Killer Brooks is riding high, but MR. JR is bringing the “real Killer”, KILLER KHAN to World Class to run Brooks out of the state! JR also says that today, Moondog King will teach Chrisw Adams not to mess in Moondog business and Scott McGhee will soon learn the same lesson!  
 
In the opening match, Moondog King (w/Mr. JR) colllides with Chris Adams. Adams pins King after a superkick, but Rex & Spot rush in as Mr. JR waves them on down! Fortunately, Scott McGhee runs in with a chair to run off the ‘dogs and make the save!
 
Dusty Rhodes and David Von Ereich do a joint interview. David demands that Dusty give him a World Title match at Thanksgiving Star Wars! Dusty says that  David deserves a shot and that Dusty plans on wrestling him ASAP, but first, former World Champ Dory Funk, Jr. will get a shot on today’s program. Dusty tells David to come to ringside and  take notes. David says that he will come down to make sure that the other members of the Double Cross Gang don’t come down and interfere and cost him his shot at the belt!
 
Kerry & Kevin Von Erich take on Tatsumi Fujinami & Akio Sato(w/ Lord Alfred Hays) Bill Mercer announces that The Texas Tag Champions, the Funk Brothers will defend the Texas Tag Titles against Kerry & Kevin at Thanksgiving Star Wars, but insisted on a stipulation that the loser of the fall will leave World Class! The Von Erichs are victorious here as Kevin pins Sato with the Iron Claw!
 
David Shults sends in another VTR. Shults says that he will make his debut at Thanksgiving Star Wars and that he will hurt his opponent, no matter who it is! He says that he has promised Terry Gordy and his Freebird brothers that he will get revenge for them!
 
Bill Mercer interviews Killer Tim Brooks. Brooks challenges Mr. JR to bring Killer Kahan to Thanksgiving Star Wars. Brooks says that he knows that Khan has crippled wrestlers all over the world, but nobody intimidates Killer Brooks!
 
A VTR Is shown of a young man in a suit and tie standing in a blackened studio . The man introduces himself as Jim Cornette and says that he manages the most amazing tag team in wrestling today, Loverboy Dennis & Beautiful Bobby, THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS! He goes on to say that World Class won a massive bidding war with promotions in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Mexico to bring the Midnight Express to their promotion. Cornette says that soon he will run World Class with an iron fist and nobody, not the Von Erichs, not the Funks, not the Moondogs, and not Jimmy Garvin and Gino Hernandez can stop him!
 
The Cobra Clutch Challenge this week sees Jerry Bryant accept the challenege. As ususal, Slaughter holds onto the clutch and Bryant passes out from the pressure! Slaughter says that he wants a Von Erich to step up to the plate at Thanksgiving Star Wars and try for the five grand!
That brings Fritz Von Erich to the ring! Sarge says that he doesn’t want a retired has been! Fritz says he is retired from wrestling, but not from being a Von Erich and a Von Erich always stands up for the family honor! Fritz says that he will put his iron claw up against the Cobra Clutch any day and accepts the challenge for Thanksgiving!
 
In the Main Event, Dusty Rhodes defeats the NWA World Title against Dory Funk, Jr.! David Von Erich takes a seat at ringside, as promised. David and Dusty nearly come to blows early on as Dusty takes a spill from the ring and David tries to help him back into the ring! Tery Funk and Stan Hansen come to ringside. After a huge reversal of a Funk suplex by Rhodes, Dusty drops a huge elbow onto the prone Funk for the win as David jumps on the ring apron with a chair to keep Terry Funk and Stan Hansen out! After the match, there is a staredown between Rhodes and Von Erich, followed by a tentative handshake. What will happen on Thursday night when these men meet in Reunion arena?

Good show and good build for the Thanksgiving show. Rhodes vs. Funk and then Rhodes vs. Von Erich would have been great. It would have been interesting to see Dusty in Dallas as the World Champion. Would the fans boo him, probably against the Von Erichs. I'm looking forward to the holiday show.

Fantastic set up show for Thanksgiving...I concur with the above!  Great stuff!