WWF Championship Wrestling (Australia) (November 22, 1985)

 

Original Airdate: November 22, 1985

From Poughkeepsie, New York; Your Hosts are Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura

The Killer Bees v Tiger Chung Lee and Jerry Adams: Taped August 20. Freddie Blassie is out to do guest commentary, campaigning for the Manager of the Year award. They’ve been hyping this for months… who does a year end award in August? The Bees with a combo on Adams at 2:28. DUD

Lord Alfred Hayes is in the studio with Update, discussing the $25,000 bounty on Paul Orndorff’s head, courtesy of Bobby Heenan 

Iron Mike Sharpe v Jim Young: Taped October 1. Iron Mike Sharpe gets a squash?! What crazy world is this? Sharpe makes the most of it with a clothesline at 2:50. DUD

Gene Okerlund catches up with Jim Brunzell. Just Jim Brunzell. Was B. Brian on the toilet, or something? Gene gets a funny line about how the fans in Australia are finally getting to see the 'real superstars of wrestling' here

Steve Lombardi v Tony Parisi: Taped October 1. Tony with a somersault cradle at 3:29. How did this shit make TV? DUD

Okerlund catches up with Adrian Adonis, who is a true original 

Adrian Adonis v Mike Saxon: Taped August 20. Bobby Heenan managed Adonis?! You really do learn something every day. Dino Bravo is out before the bell, paying respects to Adonis and Heenan. Adonis with a powerslam at 0:56. DUD

Roddy Piper hosts Piper’s Pit, with guests Big John Studd and Bobby Heenan. Roddy introduces clips of Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling cartoon, and then things get more cartoonish, as Roddy brings out Studd and Andre the Giant action figures, and lets John squash Andre’s figure with his

Randy Savage v Joe Mirto: Taped August 20. I think this is the only time I’ve seen Macho do red/white/blue patriotic gear during his short trunk era. Macho with a flying elbowdrop at 1:21. DUD

We get clips of the Dream Team defeating the US Express to win the WWF Tag Team title on August 24 in Philadelphia 

Gorilla Monsoon caught up with the new champions on August 26 in Brantford Ontario Canada. They finally moved on to the all silver ‘Bulldog’ style tag belts, thankfully

Okerlund catches up with Heenan, who makes excuses for everything under the sun. Bobby with curly hair is bugging me

BUExperience: So this was cobbled together from the September 7 domestic Championship Wrestling episode, mixed in with Australian exclusives (the matches taped on October 1). It was mostly the same, except for those two matches replacing a Don Muraco squash and a Cousin Junior squash. It wasn’t very good, but I enjoyed the big tag title news, and Piper’s Pit was funny.