Post by AWA on Jan 13, 2017 1:36:22 GMT
Gorilla Monsoon: Welcome everyone to another action packed edition of AWA All-Star Wrestling! I am joined here at ringside tonight by my broadcast colleague Ken Resnick! Ken, how are you tonight?
Ken Resnick: I am doing great Gorilla as we are only one week away from the next huge AWA pay per view spectacular, AWA Superdome Spectacular.
Gorilla Monsoon: Still some questions as to what matches will be filling out that card, so hopefully we’ll get some answers tonight.
Andy Kaufman: Are you two done? The king is in the ring and he is about to speak. Maybe you two should shut your yaps down there at the announce table and let the man that everyone wants to hear speak!
John Studd: Grrrrrr.
Andy Kaufman: Calm down now big guy, I know you’re looking for a fight. This man is looking for a fight because when you are the ONLY giant in pro wrestling, it’s hard to well, find somebody to pick on that’s your own size!
Gorilla Monsoon: That’s Andre the Giant entering the ring, perhaps John Studd has found somebody his own size.
Andre the Giant: Thank you Jim Ross for holding the microphone for me. I have heard enough from the so called king. We all know who the one and only true giant of pro wrestling is, that’s me. There are no others that can come close, not even John Studd. If you really want to prove if you are the biggest man in pro wrestling, I am challenging you to a match, but it won’t be your normal match. It is a body slam match. The first man to be body slam their opponent wins the match!
Jim Ross: Kaufman…Studd…what do you say to that challenge?
Andy Kaufman: What do I say to that match? I say that my man just doesn’t get in the ring with anybody, something needs to be at stake. I’ll tell you what Andre, fair is fair and I needed to put something up as well. The AWA US title will NOT be defended in this match, however I will put up $15,000 of my own money….but you need to put your hair on the line!
Jim Ross: Andy Kaufman has accepted the challenge and upped the ante, what do you say Andre?
Andre the Giant: I say I’ll see you next week in the New Orleans at the Superdome!
Jim Ross: There you have it, next week at AWA Superdome Spectacular we will have a body slam challenge with $15,000 of Andy Kaufman’s money going against Andre the Giant’s hair! Back down to ringside to Ken and Gorilla!
Ken Resnick: We now join Michael Hayes and Buddy Roberts for this pre-taped interview.
Michael Hayes: Von Erichs, here we are sitting on your home turf. Here we are sitting in the Sportatorium in Dallas and we are marking our territory and wanting more. Next week at AWA Superdome Spectacular, if I checked my map right, New Orleans is about half way between Dallas and Badstreet in Atlanta, a piece of neutral ground. So the challenge is being made, no more of these singles matches, no more of these tag matches, all of the Freebirds are going to be in this match. Three on three, the Freebirds versus the Von Erichs. We’ll bring the fight, but will you?
Ken Resnick: There you have it folks, another match has been made for AWA Superdome Spectacular as the Von Erichs take on the Fabulous Freebirds.
Gorilla Monsoon: Moving along here on AWA All-Star Wrestling, Jimmy Garvin hopes to get himself pointing in the right direction towards as a title as he teams up with the man he formerly held the AWA World Tag Team Championship with, Ronnie Garvin, to take on the team of Jim Brunzell and Billy Robinson.
Ken Resnick: Jimmy really wants to prove his worth here in the AWA and there may be no better way than to defeat an old crafty veteran the likes of Billy Robinson. Jimmy Garvin connects with a knee to the mid-section that has Billy Robinson crumpled up in pain on the mat.
Gorilla Monsoon: I don’t think I have ever seen Jimmy Garvin attempt, let alone even come close to landing a head butt. Jimmy is pulling out all the stops here as he hopes to pave a golden highway to the championships of the AWA.
Ken Resnick: Billy Robinson has had enough of the punishment from Jimmy Garvin as he quickly scampers to the corner and is looking for a tag out to his partner in this match, Jim Brunzell.
Gorilla Monsoon: Meanwhile, Jimmy is making a tag out to the man known as the “Hands of Stone” for that tremendous knockout punch that he possesses. One swing from Ronnie Garvin and he can easily have you knocked down and out for the three count.
Ken Resnick: Perhaps we are seeing a different side of the Garvin team as they have shaken things up when it comes to their offensive attack. Ronnie has Jim Brunzell up for a high vertical suplex.
Gorilla Monsoon: Ronnie Garvin connects with yet again a move we are not use to seeing out of the Garvins, a leg drop.
Ken Resnick: Here it comes, the big Hands of Stone punch, Jim Brunzell is going to be stars.
Gorilla Monsoon: Eddie Gilbert is back! What’s he doing down at ringside confronting Jimmy Garvin?
Gorilla Monsoon: Ronnie Garvin has secured the pin fall in this match but meanwhile, Eddie Gilbert is attacking with the Long Riders, as they are beating down Jimmy Garvin and holding back Precious! Who is that girl that they have with him? I’ve never seen her before. We knew Eddie Gilbert had found a technicality in the contract for that Loser Leaves Town match between him and Rick Rude quite a few weeks back. And now Eddie Gilbert is attacking and maybe this is how the Long Riders want to get their lost wages back, by getting a bonus from Eddie Gilbert.
Ken Resnick: Just like a thief in the night, Eddie Gilbert and the Long Riders attack and are gone just as quickly as they appeared. Ronnie Garvin is tending to Jimmy Garvin as a grudge that has been boiling in the AWA since the very beginning has just erupted! We’ll be back after these messages with Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen.
Ric Flair: Woooo! Wooooo! Wooooo! The Nature Boy is here and I am stylin’ and profilin’. Next week the AWA has Superdome Spectacular coming up. But there’s only one problem, I don’t have an opponent. Once I defeated Harley Race back at When Worlds Collide, there was no one left to face. No one wants to go toe to toe with a living legend like me. I am a true living legend In this sport, the case in which you’ll never see a man even as half as great as me ever again. I have vanquished them all and so I guess Stanley Blackburn and the AWA Championship Committee have decided to give me the night off.
Gorilla Monsoon: Hold your horses just for a minute there Flair. You’ve got company! Here he comes the former WWWF World Heavyweight Champion, the one and only Italian strongman, Bruno Sammartino!
Ric Flair: What are you doing in my ring Sammartino? This ring is for the present and the future of this sport, not old washed up has beens like you!
Bruno Sammartino: Mr. Flair, I am not knocking your accomplishment, you are indeed a great wrestler and I respect you for that. What I do have a problem with is hearing you come out here and proclaim to be the only living legend in professional wrestling. Haven’t you heard what I’ve been called for years? I am the living legend of wrestling. I take exception to what you’re saying and would like to show you a thing or two and prove you wrong. So before I came out here it sure sounded like you were issuing an open challenge for AWA Superdome Spectacular. So what do you say Flair, the mega dream match, Sammartino vs. Flair.
Ric Flair: What do I say to that? I say yes. I say that when I defeat you at AWA Superdome Spectacular that I am not only going to take your dignity and honor, but I am going to take your moniker as the living legend. You’ll never defeat me, the odds are too stacked against you.
Bruno Sammartino: You know I had thought about that whole part about the odds being stacked against me. That’s why I went out and decided to get myself some help. This man was a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion and a man I know could still show you a trick or two, my good friend Lou Thesz will be in my corner in New Orleans to make sure no funny business goes on with you, the Horsemen and Heenan!
Gorilla Monsoon: There you have it, you run your mouth here in the AWA and you get called out. Bruno Sammartino with Lou Thesz in his corner will challenge Ric Flair for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship next week at AWA Superdome Spectacular. We’ll be right back after this commercial break.
Ken Resnick: Back here on AWA All-Star Wrestling and Ric Flair seems to be none too happy over the comments that Bruno Sammartino made about him.
Ric Flair: Can you believe Bruno? I’m going to teach him that he’s past his prime next week, this guy needs put in his place. I am the living legend! I am the living legend!
Bobby Heenan: I know Ric, I know Ric, calm down.
Ric Flair: What the…..
Ken Resnick: That’s Lord Humongous again! He’s attacked Barry Windham and left him laying on a table in the locker room. Look at Flair and Heenan quivering in fear! They don’t know who he is and what to make of him!
Lord Humongous: I AM BACK! I WILL KEEP HAUNTING YOU! I WILL SHOW YOU THAT THERE IS A NIGHTMARE FROM YOUR PAST THAT YOU THINK WAS LONG FORGOTTEN BUT LORD HUMONGOUS DOES NOT FORGET. YOUR STORY HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN FLAIR AND YOUR STORY ENDS WITH COMPLETE DESTRUCTION AT THE END. LORD HUMONGOUS WILL HAVE HIS REVENGE!
Gordon Solie: A chaotic scene in the locker room area that we seemed to have lost the video feed to. Lord Humongous seems to have some sort of super powers to make things go haywire. Meanwhile, I am joined here by Eddie Gilbert and his new valet. Who is this woman and why did you attack Jimmy Garvin earlier tonight?
Eddie Gilbert: This woman is the most drop dead gorgeous woman you will ever lay eyes on. She is the newest member of Hot Stuff International and my personal assistant and secretary, Missy Hyatt. She is here to make sure that Precious and any other woman here in the AWA doesn’t stick their nose in where it doesn’t belong. But onto the other the other matter at hand, why am I back? I’ll tell you why I am back. Jimmy Garvin cost me a lot of money when I had to leave the AWA for that extended period of time. You see Hot Stuff International was not just myself and the Long Riders, there were many investors that kept Hot Stuff International going. When I was forced to leave and Hot Stuff International was not running, this left those investors out in the cold and I was forced to do some things I would rather not talk about in order to make those investors whole money wise. These are some bad characters. But when I looked back on what started this all, it was two things, Jimmy Garvin and Precious. So now it’s time to get revenge on these two for the things they have done to me, the Long Riders not having a paycheck and all the investors in Hot Stuff International. Jimmy Garvin, you thought it was great running me out of the AWA like you did, well we’ll see how great it is when I run you out of the AWA permanently!
Gorilla Monsoon: Here we are moving onto our main event of the evening as Jake Roberts teams with One Man Gang to take on the team of Bruiser Brody and Dick Murdoch. Brody and Murdoch are still searching for the answer why Dusty Rhodes turned on them and joined the Snake Pit back at AWA When Worlds Collide. It doesn’t look like they’ll be getting anymore answers tonight as Dusty Rhodes is not at ringside tonight.
Jake Roberts: Brody, Murdoch, I don’t know what to tell you. I am going to tell you the truth, I know you’re looking for Dusty but I have not seen him in over two weeks myself. I am not sure what has happened to him. He did get an extra strong spell put on him, so sometimes those can go a little sideways, the following of the Snake Pit is a strong thought in the mind and oh well, I guess his brain short circuited. You’ll never have Dusty back to the way he was. His brain has been fried by the magic spells of the mystical club!
Ken Resnick: If Jake Roberts won’t give them the information they need on the whereabouts of Dusty Rhodes, then it looks like Brody and Murdoch are going to beat it out of them!
Gorilla Monsoon: I find it highly unusual that neither Jake nor Brody and Murdoch seem to know exactly where Dusty is and more importantly, what frame of mind he is in after that spell of Jake Roberts was placed on him.
Gorilla Monsoon: Brody and Murdoch are continuing the onslaught here as Brody is setting up for his Flying Knee Drop on Jake. Looks like we may have a quick main event here.
Ken Resnick: There he is! The American Dream is back!
Gorilla Monsoon: I wouldn’t be making any rush to judgement here Ken, we do now know what state of altered mind he is in. Jake Roberts really messed with his mind from all accounts. Brody and Murdoch are looking on very skeptically as Dusty approaches the ring in the sheep follower mask that Jake Roberts puts on the head of shall we say his victims.
Ken Resnick: An interesting situation here, it seems as though Jake, Brody and Murdoch are all stunned by the sudden appearance of Dusty Rhodes. Who’s side will Dusty align himself with?
Gorilla Monsoon: Unfortunately, my money may be on Jake’s side as his all-powerful spells tend to have a long lasting effect on their victims. Dusty may never come out of that spell for all I’m concerned.
Jake Roberts: Come to me…come to me…come to me my follower…
Dusty Rhodes: I….I….I am a follower of…..
Dusty Rhodes: I am a follower of…THE AMERICAN DREAM!
Gorilla Monsoon: I can’t believe it! Dusty has come out of Jake’s spell and has just dropped the Bionic Elbow right down on the cranium of Jake Roberts! I’ll admit that I was wrong and the American Dream has returned! Was he playing possum? Was the spell broken? Did it ever have an effect on him in the first place?
Dusty Rhodes: Jake Roberts, I’ll never be a true follower of your gosh darn, no good, Snake Pit. The Dream is tired, the Dream is fed up, the Dream is ready to take you down and out and send you to a place where the sun don’t shine and it is hot, hot hot! Next week, AWA Superdome Spectacular, it all comes to a finish between me and you. The Last Battle of New Orleans if you will, me and you, locked inside a steel cage with a roof on it. Nobody escapes, nobody enters. First man to not answer the ten count is the loser. Jake, you know you want this as much as I do, I’ll see you in New Orleans!
Gorilla Monsoon: What a card we will have next week at AWA Superdome Spectacular. We’ll give you a quick rundown of the card as we only have a few more moments of airtime left. As you just saw, Dusty Rhodes will meet Jake Roberts in a Last Battle of New Orleans cage match. The Fabulous Freebirds will be taking on the Von Erichs in a six man match. Andre the Giant puts his hair on the line against $15,000 that Andy Kaufman has put up on behalf of John Studd in a Body Slam Challenge match. The New Zealand Sheepherders challenge the team of Buddy Rose and Doug Somers for the AWA Tag Team Championship. And in the main event we will see Ric Flair defending the AWA World Heavyweight Championship against the man that I believe is the true living legend of pro wrestling, Bruno Sammartino who will also have Lou Thesz in his corner. All this and much more at AWA Superdome Spectacular next week, for Ken Resnick, I am Gorilla Monsoon, good night everybody!