August 29th 1992
Hammerstein Ballroom - New York City, NY
The show opens with Joey Styles and Jesse Ventura in the ring a rabid New York City crowd blowing the roof off the Hammerstein Ballroom as 'Royalty' blares over the PA system and Jerry Lawler makes his way to the ring to a huge reaction. Lawler steps through the ropes shakes hands with Joey Styles and pauses staring Jesse Ventura straight in the eye before also shaking hands with The Body.
Joey Styles: We are in mid town Manhattan and this is Pro Wrestling USA TV.... Jerry Lawler you shocked the pro wrestling world when you turned down overtures from the World Wrestling Federation and signed a multi year contract with the newest national promotion in the country. You seem to have come in here with a bullseye marked on your back and a number of wrestlers in the back appear unhappy with Mr. Baba's decision to appoint you.
Jerry Lawler: Joey Styles, I could care less what the boys think of me, I've been up and down the road with most of them over the years and after 20 years of killing myself in this ring I've had enough. Mr Baba gave me the opportunity to come here as a trouble shooting commisioner and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
Jesse Ventura: Let me get this straight Lawler you mean you're not going to get in the ring? And take it easy..
Jerry Lawler: I'd thought I would take a leaf out of your book Jesse and do exactly that, you were smarter than the rest of us and packed up while you can still walk.
Joey Styles: I believe you have made some pretty bold moves already, would you share with us what decision you have come to?
Jerry Lawler: You know what I can give you a taster but there are things I'm going to let brew before letting the whole word know about them. For tonight though and the Global Heavyweight Title tournament semi final match between Terry Funk and Jake Roberts it's clear Ric Flair and his Revolution have got a problem with The Funker and in the past two weeks Jake Roberts has had wild brawls all over the arenas with Cactus Jack. I'm not prepared to let this title tournament descend into anarchy so tonight Funk and Roberts will go one on one in the confines of a steel cage.
Jesse Ventura: Some would say Lawler that this stinks because of your history with Funk and putting him in a brutal match to lessen his chances of winning the title. Are you not using Ric Flair's actions as a cushion to hide your real animosity for Funk?
Jerry Lawler: That was 10 years ago Jesse, we need winners and losers here in PW USA and that's what Mr Baba pays me to deliver... Now enough of this talking lets get this show on the road.
Jushin 'Thunder' Liger vs Shawn Michaels
HBK walks into a high dropkick from Jushin Thunder Liger. Liger hits a massive spinning kick to the jaw. Hard back suplex on HBK. Liger hits a dropkick on Shawn Michaels. Shawn Michaels pulls a mule kick out of nowhere. HBK uses a basement dropkick to the knee. Super kick by Shawn Michaels. 1 - 2 - kick out. Liger pushes out of a Shawn Michaels hold. Spinning bulldog in the corner, HBK is down. 1 - 2 - shoulder up. Springboard dropkick from Jushin Thunder Liger...cool. 1 - 2 - 2.999 Shawn Michaels pulls a mule kick out of nowhere. HBK hits a wicked chop that echoes through the building. HBK only gets knees on a splash. DDT by Jushin Thunder Liger. Brad Armstrong comes running down the aisle and into the ring! Shawn Michaels turns around. Brad Armstrong spins HBK around. Brad Armstrong hits the Russian Legsweep! Brad leaves the ring, the damage done! 1 - 2 - 3.
Winner: via pinfall Jushin 'Thunder' Liger (9 minutes 22 seconds)
Jushin Thunder Liger pinned HBK. Jushin Thunder Liger, having taken the victory thanks to the outside interference of Brad Armstrong, goes over and shakes hands with him, showing that their plan was a success.
Joey Styles: Brad Armstrong continuing to show his true colours attacking Shawn Michaels after their Junior Heavyweight Title tournament match last week and now seemingly alligning with Jushin Liger
Jesse Ventura: He's just showing he's also Violent By Design, Styles. This must be seen as a coup for Harley Race getting a second generation star into his stable.
Joey Styles: We shall have to wait and see but you have got to feel that The Rockers won't be happy and will come after Armstrong for sure as well as Liger. Liger advances to meet the winner of a match later this hour Dynamite Kid v Ricky Morton!!!
**45 minutes remaining**
**Commercial Break**
Jesse Venutra: Make way Styles, we're joined by a man who made his name in booths like this Paul E. Dangerously!
Paul E. Dangerously: Thank you Mr. Ventura I thank you for your warm compliment and now the whole world is going to see the harmony in the Dangerous Alliance when Brian Pillman and Owen Hart out class Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes
Joey Styles: Harmony? Brian Pillman didn't look very harmonious last week when to quote J.R he was stomping a mudhole out of Owen Hart
Paul E. Dangerously: Joey Styles, that was just a difference of opinion, everything is fine between The Hollywood Blondes, Bulldog and Owen.
Jesse Ventura: Just sit back and enjoy Styles, we are in for a treat and also the first hand insight of Mr Dangerously!
Rhodes and Windham vs Owen Hart and Brian Pillman
Hart uses a basement dropkick to the knee. Super frankensteiner on Rhodes, who hit hard. 1 - 2 - shoulder up. Hart tags out to Brian Pillman. Brian Pillman scoops up Rhodes. Hart bounces off the ropes and hits a flying Hart Attack clothesline. Brian Pillman hits a rolling kick on Rhodes. 1 - 2 - kick out. Brian Pillman scores with a back heel kick on Rhodes. Rhodes counters a sleeper hold by turning it into a jaw breaker. Death valley driver by Dustin Rhodes, Brian Pillman got planted hard...that was cool. Rhodes tags out to Barry Windham. Bodyslam by Windham. Stiff spinebuster by Barry Windham. Pillman reverses a Barry Windham hammerlock. Tag to Owen Hart. Spinning bulldog in the corner, Windham is down. DDT from the top rope by Owen Hart, that was cool. 1 - 2 - 2.999 Spinny weird kick from Owen Hart. Owen Hart misses a clothesline. Stiff spinebuster by Barry Windham. Owen Hart can barely stand. Lariat! 1....2....3.
Winner: via pinfall Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes (10 minutes 44 seconds)
Pillman and Hart remain in the ring, arguing. Owen Hart looks really angry. Brian Pillman pushes Hart away but levels a punch straight to the jaw of Pillman. Pillman dazed slightly but fires right back... Paul E. Dangerously slams down the announcing headset and runs to the the ring, Steve Austin and The British Bulldog hit the ring as well penning their respective tag partners back in opposite corners. Dangerously grabs a mic and looks furious and nervous at the same time...
Paul.E Dangerously: Guys... Guys... Guys.. we can't keep doing this in public. I have the best two team in pro wrestling today, both of you are as good as each other. We need to do whats best for all of us and get the gold.
Hart and Pillman are both still seething and being held back by Steve Austin and The Bulldog but slowly they get out of the ring gesturing and shouting to each other from opposite sides of the ring.
**31 minutes remaining**
**Commercial Break**
Terry Funk is backstage sat in his dressing room, taping up with hands, he has a towel draped around over the top of his head which is slightly bowed down concetrating on taping his hands
Terry Funk: My father used to use a four letter word, it's a dirty word, it's a shocking word, I can't even think about saying it on national television so I'm going to have to spell it out..
Funk removes the towel from his head and stares unblinkingly into the camera with the four letters printed on his forehead
F - E - A - R
Terry Funk: And that's exactly what Ric Flair has when it comes to me. I've broken his neck, I've taken him to the limit on more than one occasion and now I've becoming the target for his little group. Well when I step inside that steel cage tonight with that Snake, Jake Roberts.. F-E-A-R is the last thing that will be on my mind. I'm gonna climb to the very top of that steel cage, but I'm not going to run away. I'm going to look down and spit on Jake Roberts, then look to the skies and with my daddies help dive off that cage and crush Jake Roberts into dust. Then Ric Flair I will hope and pray that you weasle yourself into the Global Heavyweight Title match at Fall Brawl because I want to see the F-E-A-R in your eyes before I break your neck again for what you have tried to do to me!
The scene cuts to the commentary booth with Joey Styles looking shocked, Jesse Ventura looking speechless...
Joey Styles: Terry Funk not mincing his words...
Jesse Ventura: The man is insane, Jerry Lawler's first full night in the promotion and he's going to have Jake Robert's blood on his hands. What was he thinking when he decided to lock these two men up in cage!
Joey Styles: He wants a fair fight, one that Jake Roberts can't runaway from and one that Ric Flair and his cronies can't get involved in.
Jesse Ventura: It's disgusting, this maybe Lawler's last night with the company it's going to be a disaster.
Joey Styles: Well on the opposite end of the scale the following match should be great The Dynamite Kid about to go up against Ricky Morton!!!
The Dynamite Kid vs Ricky Morton
Big kick on Morton by The Dynamite Kid. Morton walks into a high dropkick from The Dynamite Kid. DDT by The Dynamite Kid. Kid hits a dropkick on Ricky Morton. Kid walks into a trip. Big clothesline on Kid. Ricky Morton hits a bulldog off the ropes. 1 - 2 - shoulder up. Kid pushes out of a Ricky Morton hold. Spinning bulldog in the corner, Morton is down. 1 - 2 - kick out. Weird-but-cool looking DDT thing from The Dynamite Kid, Morton is out. 1 - 2 - almost a 3. Morton blocks a kick from The Dynamite Kid. Dropkick connects...Kid goes down like a skanky hooker. Ricky Morton gets taken down out of nowhere. Legsweep. There's probably a Japanese name for that....like Golden Dragon Nuclear Spike....that'll do, i'll call it that from now on. The Dynamite Kid has Ricky Morton down on the canvas and is ascending the corner. Through the air, Swandive Headbutt! 1....2....3.
Winner: via pinfall The Dynamite Kid (10 minutes 12 seconds)
The Dynamite Kid offers a handshake to Morton...and he accepts it!
**19 minutes remaining**
**Commercial Break**
Joey Styles: A great show of sportsmanship before the break between Dynamite Kid and Ricky Morton. We now have another match confirmed for Fall Brawl two innovators in junior heavyweight wrestling Jushin Liger will face Dynamite Kid to crown the first PW USA Global Junior Heavyweight Champion.
Jesse Ventura: I can't wait for that Styles it's going to be amazing action, however there's a very uneasy feeling in this arena right now as the steel cage has been place around the ring!
Joey Styles: There is an eerie hush amongst these rabid New York fans an....
'Snakebit' hits the arena and Jake Roberts slowly makes his way to the ring inside the Hammerstein Ballroom a chorus of boos almost drowning out his entrance music. He wanders right around the ring shaking the chain link cage and takes a microphone from the ring announcer.
Jake Roberts: Cut the music......Terry Funk, you may have FEAR on your mind, but I create FEAR in this ring, you may want to dive off the top of this cage and crush my ribs but that FEAR is going to drag you down. Then when I drop you with my DDT the poison while paralyze you in your fearful state and all you will be good for is a pine box and a dirt hole.
Desparado by The Eagles hits the Hammerstein Ballroom and Terry Funk explodes through the curtains sprinting to the ring he makes a beeline for Roberts who charges right at The Funk laying in right and lefts Funk tries to whip Roberts into the barricade but it's reverse and Funk flies back first into the security rail. Roberts then grabs him by the head and rolls him through the cage door.
Terry Funk vs Jake Roberts
Roberts steps up into the ring Terry Funk hits back with some punches. Terry Funk throws Roberts into the cage. Terry Funk climbs the cage, but gets pulled down by Roberts! Thrown slam by Terry Funk. Back elbow connects, Roberts staggers backward. Jake Roberts pulls a mule kick out of nowhere. Jake Roberts launches Funker into the cage wall. Spear by Jake Roberts. Jake Roberts climbs the cage, but gets pulled down by Funker! Funker kicks Jake Roberts in the gut to reverse the momentum. Massive backbreaker, Roberts got planted. Lariat, apparently Funker thinks he is Stan Hansen. Roberts kicks Terry Funk in the gut to reverse the momentum. Jake Roberts fires off some right and left hands. Terry Funk ducks a clothesline attempt. Terry Funk and Roberts climb the cage....but both end up crashing back to the canvas after a struggle! Running knee lift from Terry Funk. Jake Roberts can barely stand. Here it comes - Piledriver. Terry Funk and Roberts climb the cage....until Jake Roberts gets knocked off by a right hand! Funker climbs to the top but instead of climb over edge looks down at Jake Robert, looks to the sky and DIVES OFF WITH A HUGE MOONSAULT!!!!! Funk collapses over Roberts 1....2....3.
Winner: via pinfall Terry Funk (14 minutes 15 seconds)
Joey Styles: What a massive victory for the Funker he did what he told us all he flew off the top of the steel cage crushing Jake Roberts...
Jesse Ventura: But at what expense Styles, neither man is moving, the referee is opening the door we need EMT's down there now..
Joey Styles: Look Jesse, Steven Regal has just made his way out of the entrance way I don't like the look of this and now the rest of Revolution!
Ric Flair, Mr Perfect, Arn Anderson and Steven Regal sprint to ringside as the referee unlocks the cage door. Regal sends the referee flying and The Revolution enter the ring Terry Funk and Jake Robert still lying motionless on the canvas. Arn Anderson is carry a set of handcuffs, Mr Perfect has a chair in hand and Ric Flair directing traffic. Flair locks the door behind himself with a padlock he takes from his own pocket.
Regal and Anderson drag Funk off the limp torso of Jake Roberts dragging him over to the ropes before cuffing Funk to the chain link cage. Regal slaps the almost unconcious Terry Funk who slightly revives and sees Ric Flair right in front of him. Funk tries to get to Flair but can't reach him and with the renewed signs of fight Anderson, Perfect and Regal put the boots to Funk.
Roberts begins to stir in the middle of the rings and sees Revolution destroying Funk he slowly slides to the opposite corner and sits in the corner sadistically laughing. As Anderson and Perfect drag Funk to feet, Flair now has the chair in hand and levels the Funker with a destructive chair shot. Funk collapses to the floor a nasty cut appearing on his hair line and blood begins to flow freely down his face.
Cactus Jack and Ricky Steamboat appear at ringside trying to break into the cage but to no avail Roberts who has returned to his feet kicking the cage each time they begin to climb.
Jesse Ventura: Jerry Lawler has a lot to answer for his penchant for blood has not made any difference!
Joey Styles: Ric Flair is the reason for that Jesse, he and his Revolution executing a heinous attack upon the Funker. Cactus Jack and Ricky Steamboat can do nothing about it! And look at Jake Roberts viciously laughing at Funk's misfortune!
The rabid New York crowd begins to chant for RANDY SAVAGE but the scene fades to black as the chants turn to rapturous booing.
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