World Class Championship Wrestling
Sportatorium
Dallas, TX
Referees-Bronk Lubich and David Manning
Announcer-Bill Mercer and Lord Alfred Hays
Ring Announcer-Mark Lowrance
Taped-1/25/83
Airs-1/26/83 MERCER: Welcome to another exciting edition of World Class Championship Wrestling. Today, we have an great hour of professional wrestling. We will see the mysterious masked man, the Durango Kid, in action, Lord Alfred Hays.
HAYS: After his heinous actions toward the Cornette Dynasty last week, this man should not only be suspended, but arrested on felony charges!
MERCER: Ivan Koloff will take on Don Kernodle, Sgt. Slaughter’s partner and friend.
HAYS: The Russian Bear is a great international star while Kernodle is a jingoistic redneck who is representative of the failures of American public education. This should be a mismatch.
MERCER: The American Champion Scott Casey will wrestle Chick Donovan in a non-title match.
HAYS: David Shults should rightfully be American Champion. I hope Jim Cornette has retained extra security this week in case the Durango Kid rears his ugly head!
MERCER: Our Main Event will see the Texas Tag Champions, The Midnight Express against World Champion David Von Erich and Kevin Von Erich in a non-title match.
HAYS: This will be a great match and I predict that my friend Jim Cornette’s strategic genius could be the margin of victory for his proteges.
MERCER: Right now, Mark Lowrance is standing by with David and Kevin Von Erich.
LOWRANCE: Later today, these two great wrestlers, David & Kevin Von Erich, will take on Jim Cornette’s Midnight Express.
KEVIN: Jim Cornette and his so called Dynasty are being a thorn in my family’s side. They cost us our Texas Tag Team Title and Kerry has had to give up his Texas Title, thanks to David Shults sticking his nose in our business. Now, Shults is trying to take Dave’s World Title. Midnight Express, you are a great team, but the Von Erichs have a score to settle with you. I know the belts aren’t on the line today, but we have a chance to teach you guys a lesson and that’s what we plan to do!
DAVID: Dr. D, I want you to watch real close today! We’ve got a Texas Death match coming up in Houston for this World Title. I promise the people of Texas that you’ll take this belt over my dead Texan body! I hold you and the Midnight Express personally responsible for my brother Kerry being ordered by the doctors not to wrestle and losing his Texas Title! Shults, last week, you stuck your nose in my business ! I wouldn’t advise doing that again!
LOWRANCE: Last week, David, the Durango Kid came to your aid. What do you know about this masked man?
DAVID: Not much. He just seems to have problem with Cornette and his men, too.
LOWRANCE: He will wrestle in an official match after these messages.
COMMERCIAL
Durango Kid takes on Akio Sato. The Kid wears a bodysuit, but obviously has a muscular build. There is some curly hair sticking out of the back of the mask leading Hays to deduce that it might be Kerry Von Erich under the mask. However, the masked man works a more brawling style, closer to what Bruiser Brody might. After Sato misses with a savate kick, Durango Kid kicks the Japanese wrestler in the gut and piledrives him. Durango Kid gets the pin and then hurriedly leaves the Sportatorium! MERCER: I am joined by Jim Cornette and members of his Dynasty: the Texas Tag team Champions, The Midnight Express, “Dr. D” David Shults, and Gino Hernandez.
CORNETTE: Who is that no good masked man, Bill Mercer? That coward tried to murder me last week! Mama’a attorneys are working on an injunction as we speak! I can’t wait until Valentine’s Day, Bill! Not because I have some romantic evening planned…my heart belongs to Mama! No, because the Dynasty will rule wrestling after the 14th! Dr. D, NWA World Champion! Dennis and Bobby, World Tag Champions! Gino, new Texas Champion! Bill, I might even oust that old geezer McMahon as NWA President and rule wrestling with an iron fist!
SHULTS: Von Erich, I heard you running your big Texan mouth, boy! You think you’re John Wayne with your big Stetson hat and your buckskin jacket. You ain’t even John Travolta, boy! You’re a lousy excuse for a World Champion and on Valentine’s Day, I’m gonna kick your booty in the Texas Death Match and win the title, then buy my old lady a case of Blue Ribbon as a Valentine’s Day gift and celebrate like a real man. Durango Kid, you ever lay a hand on my manager again and I’ll rip off that mask and shove it down your throat!
COMMERCIAL
MERCER: Recently, Mark Lowrance was on assignment in the Sunshine State of Florida where one Jimmy Garvin was rumored to be sequestered. Let’s look at some footage….
HAYS: I want all of you Texans to watch this and observe somebody who appreciates the finer things in life!
VTR:
Mark Lowrance is standing outside of a large, plantation style house.
MARK: Mark Lowrance here in Tampa, Florida. It’s my understanding that we can find Jimmy Garvin here.
Lowrance walks to the front door and rings the bell. A pretty blonde lady in a flower print sunddress answers the door.
MARK: Ma’am, I’m Mark Lowrance from World Class Wrestling TV. Mr. Garvin and I spoke on the phone earlier.
PRECIOUS: Nice to meet you. I’m Precious. I’m Jimmy’s valet and assistant. He’s in the Jacuzzi now. Follow me.
Cut to Jimmy Garvin sitting in a Jacuzzi, glass of white wine in hand. Jazz plays in the background.
MARK: Jimmy Garvin, good to see you again.
JIMMY: From now on, it’s GORGEOUS Jimmy Garvin, Marko. Precious, baby, he brought that Texas cow pasture smell in here. Can you take care of it, baby?
Precious sprays a substance from an aeresol can. This leads to a coughing fit from Lowrance. Precious pats him on the back to try to stop the coughing.
LOWRANCE: What is in that thing?
GARVIN: Hey, don’t worry about it! I know all of the people in World Class are dying to know what I’ve been up to. I’ve been here at my beautiful home in Florida, working out and resting up. I signed a contract to come back to Texas on Valentine’s Day and instead of flowers or jewelry or champagne, I’m giving Precious that Texas Title that poor little Kerry Von Erich got whiplash and couldn’t hold onto!
LOWRANCE: You’ll have to win it first. There are several great wrestlers entered including your former World Tag Team Title partner, Gino Hernandez. Hear from Gino much these days?
GARVIN: No comment on that! Just tell everybody in Texas that Gorgeous Jimmy is coming back with Precious by my side and we are gonna be the hottest thing ever, baby!
PRECIOUS: That’s right, Gorgeous J! MERCER: While in Florida, Mike also caught up with a great young star on his way to World Class very soon. Barry Windham!
VTR:
[/i]Mark Lowrance and Barry Windham are sitting at the announce desk at the Championship Wrestling from Florida set.
LOWRANCE: Mark Lowrance on assignment here in Florida with Barry Windham. Barry, we showed a video package regarding you last week on World Class Championship Wrestling and the response has been outstanding! The fans are all excited about you coming. When will you be there?
BARRY: Well, I have a special young lady in Eagle Pass that I plan to visit on Valentine’s Day and I plan to be at the Sportatorium the next night. I can’t wait to get there and show my home state what I can do!
LOWRANCE: Do you have any friends in World Class?
BARRY: Dusty has been out there since he lost the title and I’ve known him all my life. I’m not exactly close friends with the Von Erichs, but they are a good bunch of guys. We have a lot in common. When we were kids, our fathers weren’t exactly as popular as they are now. Being Blackjack Mulligan’s kid, some days I had to fight my way on to the school bus and fight my way off of it! So, we have kind of a kinship being wrestler’s kids.
LOWRANCE: What are your goals in World Class?
BARRY: Of course, like everybody else, I want to be World Champion. I think David Von Erich and I would be a great match. We’re both longer and leaner than the average wrestler and have similar styles. I’d like a shot at the American Title or the Texas Title. Maybe even find a partner and go for the tag titles. I want to win and I want to do it in a way I can be proud of.
LOWRANCE: Any words for the fans?
BARRY: I’ll always do my best for you and I hope I make you happy. Never hesitate to take my picture or ask for an autograph. I’m there for you and I plan on winning a lot of matches.Barry Windham will never give up and I’ll always give you everything I’ve got!
LOWRANCE: Barry, we’re all looking forward to seeing you in World Class.[/i]
COMMERCIAL
Don Kernodle takes on Ivan Koloff in our next match. Kernodle comes to the ring with two fistfuls of little American flags that he hands out to fans. It doesn’t take long for this match to degenerate into a brawl! Kernodle gets the cobra clutch on Koloff after about ten minutes of almost non stop action and Nikolai Volkoff runs in to aid his comrade! The Russians give Kernodle quite a beating until Sgt. Slaughter hits the ring! The Russians retreat as the Cobra Corps stands tall!
SLAUGHTER: (on the ring mic) Russians! You cowards, you maggots, you scum! On Valentine’s Night in Houston, you might have just signed your death warrant because you are gonna wrestle, well you’re gonna FIGHT Kernodle and myself in a BOOT CAMP MATCH! Wear whatever you want, bring whatever you want, come prepared to go to war! Listen to these people! USA! USA! USA! That’s music to my ears and Don Kernodle’s ears! And it’s the Russians’ worst nightmare! COMMERCIAL
American Champ Scott Casey wrestles Chick Donovan in a non-title match. This is a close battle and Casey finally score the pin after a backslide.
COMMERCIAL
MERCER: I’m here with the Russian team of Koloff and Volkoff. Gentlemen, Sgt. Slaughter announcing a boot camp match for Valentine’s Day in Houston….
KOLOFF: This is very, very good. We will be able to beat this Gomer Pyle and his redneck friend in their own kind of match. There are no disqualifications, really no rules. Can you imagine Comrade Volkoff with no rules to stop him from breaking Sgt. Slaughter in half or strangling Kernodle? There is no rule to stop me from bringing my Russian chain to whip this Gomer Pyle Slaughter. You Americans will see what happens when you get in the way of the Rusians!
MERCER: We will be right back with our main event!
COMMERCIAL
MERCER: Next week, a great program with an amazing MAIN EVENT! Kevin Von erich will take on “Dr. D” David Shults. Now, let’s go down to the ring where Jim Cornette has taken the microphone….
[b]CORNETTE: Ladies and gentlemen, the team that specializes in beating up Von Erichs, your future World Champions, Loverboy Dennis and Beautiful Bobby, the MIDNIGHT EXPRESS!
The Express ameks their way to the ring. Their music dies and “Texas When I Die” replaces it, bringing out World Champion David Von Erich and Kevin Von Erich! The Express look unbeatable early, using their teamwork to dominate Kevin. Kevin comes back with a big dropkick and the tide turns. The VoN erichs score several near falls on both Dennis and bobby. All four men end up in the ring and Kevin gets the claw on Bobby while David applies the claw to Dennis! Kevin gets too close to the ropes and Cornette whacks him with the tennis racket! Referee Bronko Lubich was trying to get Kevin and Bobby out of the ring and didn’t see that! Now, the Midnight Express take over on the World Champion! They are double teaming David! Here’s a facebuster by Condrey! Eaton comes off the top with a huge legdrop! David Shults has come to ringside and bobby and Dennis toss David out of the ring! Shults is setting David up for a piledriver! David backdrops out of it! The Express are beating on Kevin! David grabs the World Title belt and hits the ring, swinging it! The Midnight Express bail out! Bronko Lubich has called it a no contest! The Cornette Dynasty head out of the building as the Sportatorium rocks![/b
VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACARE
2/14/83
SAM HOUSTON COLISEUM
HOUSTON, TEXAS
MAIN EVENT!
TEXAS DEATH MATCH FOR THE NWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
DAVID VON ERICH
VS.
“DR.D’ DAVID SHULTS[W/JIM CORNETTE]
TOURNAMENT FOR THE VACANT TEXAS HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE, FEATURING:
KEVIN VON ERICH
DUSTY RHODES
MIL MASCARAS
KILLER KHAN
JIMMY GARVIN
GINO HERNANDEZ
BOBO BRAZIL
LARS ANDERSON
NWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH
RICK STEAMBOAT & JAY YOUNGBLOOD
VS.
THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS[W/JIM CORNETTE]
BOOT CAMP MATCH
SGT. SLAUGHTER & DON KERNODLE
VS.
IVAN KOLFF & NIKOLAI VOLKOFF
THE MOONDOGS[W/MR. JR]
VS.
ICEMAN PARSONS & ?????????????
MORE MATCHES ANNOUNCED NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!
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