040 – MONDAY NIGHT MAYHEM
Live from WCCW Studios, Burbank, CA!
Belgian Brawler d. Tom Prichard via countout after a slam on the concrete floor knocked PRITCHARD out cold.
Iron Sheik d. Missing Link via pinfall after a kick with a loaded boot in a great back and forth match.
THE VALIANT BROTHERS d. BACK ALLEY PUNKS via pinfall when Johnny Valiant hit Virgil with a TOP ROPE ELBOW.
BILL APTER’S HOT SEAT
With Guests: WCCW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION KING HARLEY RACE & an update on the MIDNIGHT EXPRESS OPEN CHALLENGE!
(KING HARLEY RACE came out with THE ARMSTRONGS on either side of him.)
RACE: Apter, did you see that title bout on the last episode of MONDAY NIGHT MAYHEM? Did you see what PERFECT did?
APTER: Well, he slammed you into the ringpost and got himself disqualified.
RACE: Right! He did that to try and take me out! To try and take out the KING! You see, Perfect, for all his faults, is pretty smart. He knows he cannot beat the king. He knows he doesn’t posses the talent, the brains, the charisma, the strength to put HARLEY RACE on his back. So he’s trying to take me out by injuring me. By using illegal tactics to try and keep the king down. Well Perfect, I got news for you! You can’t keep me down! You can’t injure the KING! You can’t take the KING out! But you’d better be damned sure that the KING can take YOU out PERFECT! That’s why I’ve petitioned COMMISSIONER PATRICK to make a match for LAST NIGHT, the grandest Supercard of them all, you and me PERFECT, one more time! Of course i’ll put my WCCW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP on the line against you PERFECT, and that’s because I’M confident you won’t be able to take it! But I’m going to give you a little help. I’m going to give you your shot! Your chance! To try and take out THE KING! Because perfect, on December 31, when you step into the ring with me, it’s going to be in 15 Foot High STEEL CAGE! You’ll have the cage to use to your advantage PERFECT and you’d better use it quick because, the cage is MY playground. I pioneered the cage match here in the WCCW! I won this belt, with sweat blood and tears IN THE CAGE! I defeated the IRON SHEIK to win this prize, IN A CAGE! I defeated Ted DiBiase, IN A CAGE and sent him running out of the WCCW like a baby! And I even remember, when was it? Oh yeah, WRESTLEMANIA II! I defended this belt IN A CAGE and destroyed my opponent. Who was that opponent again….oh yeah, it was YOU PERFECT! I destroyed you once and I’m gonna destroy you again! And I’m going to beat you within an inch of your life! I’m going to beat you so badly, you’re going to to be laid up in the hospital for the first part of the new year, regretting the day you ever decided to mess with…THE KING!
(With that RACE and THE ARMSTRONGS left the ringside area. While this would have been a dynamite ending to the show, COMMISSIONER PATRICK came out next.)
PATRICK: Last time on MAYHEM, the MIDNIGHT EXPRESS came out here and issued an open challenge to any tag team in the LWA to a match at LAST NIGHT on December 31! I’d like to now bring out the manager of the WCCW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS, JIM CORNETTE.
(CORNETTE comes out to a chorus of boos.)
PATRICK: Now Jim, I have here the guest contract you offered up last week, and I have to tell you there has been a team that has accepted your challenge.
CORNETTE: Well of course someone accepted you moron, everyone wants a shot to step in the ring with the longest reigning tag team champions in the LWA.
PATRICK: Well I just wanted to clear up the stipulations of this match, you said last time that if this team beat the MIDNIGHT EXPRESS you will vacate the WCCW Tag Team titles and rank yourselves at the bottom of the tag rankings and work your way back up.
CORNETTE: Whoa, whoa whoa there PATRICK. You’re only partially right! The stipulation is if they CLEANLY defeat us by pinfall or submission! We’re not going to give up the belts if the match ends in a DQ or countout!
PATRICK: Okay, okay, well I’d say you’re going to have your men are going to have their hands full…
CORNETTE: Yeah, yeah yeah…it doesn’t matter who it is PATRICK, the MIDNIGHT EXPRESS will defeat them!
PATRICK: Well, we’ll see about that, because on December 31, the MIDNIGHT EXPRESS will face in a special challenge match…
CORNETTE: Come on, PATRICK, tell us who the losers are already!
PATRICK: Okay, well the two names here on the contract are…
CORNETTE: WHO!?!
PATRICK: On special loan from the HEARTLAND WRESTLING ALLIANCE for one night only, Former WCCW CHAMPIONS…HAWK AND ANIMAL THE ROAD WARRIORS!
CORNETTE: WHAT?!?!
(The crowd goes BEZERK, but not as much as CORNETTE! He’s tears off his jacket and is screaming at COMMISSIONER PATRICK who just keeps showing the contract to him. This is the scene we see as the show…)
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