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Pro Wrestling USA
Episode 1
Sept. 18, 1984
Taped at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee
Host/Interviewer: Jack Reynolds
Ring Announcer: Lance Russell
Play by Play: Gordon Solie
Color Commentator: Terry Funk
Segment 1
Jack Reynolds welcomes fans and explains how Pro Wrestling USA is a merger of some of the best wrestling promotions in the United States today for the good of you the fans.
He then introduces the participating promoters, who come in and all shake hands. They pose for the camera with big smiles. This is Verne Gagne of the AWA, Jim Crockett of the NWA, Jerry Jarrett of the CWA and Fritz Von Erich of WCCW.
They exit and Reynolds brings in the neutral third party who will serve as the commissioner of PWUSA, Eddie Einhorn.
Einhorn talks about how PWUSA will be innovative and forethinking in its presentation, looking at the future of pro wrestling not the past. He announces the first super show, Super Clash, for Thanksgiving night at at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Three matches are already known. NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair and AWA World Heavyweight Champion Rick Martel will face in a title unification match. CWA Mid-America Champion Randy Savage and WCCW America Heavyweight Champion Kerry Von Erich will face to form the PWUSA All-American Championship. NWA World Tag Team Champions Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle will have a title unification bout with AWA Tag Team Champions The High Flyers of Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne.
Plus, there will be a 10-men battle royal with the winner getting $25,000 and a future shot at the PWUSA Unified Title. And qualifying matches for the battle royal will be over the next few weeks.
Match 1
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Sgt. Slaughter vs. “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert
Referee: Bill Alphonso
Finish: Gilbert complains of hair pulling in the corner and the referee backs him off. This allows Gilbert to pull a small chain out of his boot he wraps around his fist. Slaughter ducks a wild swing that turns Gilbert all the way around. Slaughter grabs Gilbert from behind for an atomic drop and then a Cobra Clutch Slam for the win.
Winner: Sgt. Slaughter by pinfall
Time: 7:11
Segment 2
Jacky Reynolds has Ric Flair. “Since the start of my career in professional wrestling it has been the number one goal of the Nature Boy to be on top of that mountain. Now, they go and build a bigger mountain with Pro Wrestling USA. Woo! Rest assured I will also be the king of the PWUSA mountain come Super Clash. All I have to do is defeat Little Ricky Martel. Little Ricky is a child pretending to be a man and, as I always say, Jack Reynolds, to be the man you have to beat the man, woo! And the boy that is Little Ricky Martel will never, ever beat the real man that is ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair. Woo!”
Match 2
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Thunderbolt Patterson vs. Barry Horowitz
Referee: Marty Miller
Finish: Horowitz is caught on a Thesz Press attempt with a bearhug and rag dolled. Patterson slams Horowitz out of the bearhug and wins with a running leg drop.
Winner: Thunderbolt Patterson by pinfall
Time: 3:11
Segment 3
Jack Reynolds has Rick Martel. “Ric Flair was out here earlier calling me a child, calling me Little Ricky. Well, that’s just fine. Flair can call me whatever he wants to. My entire career, Jack Reynolds, I’ve been underestimated. I’ve been too young. I’ve been too small. I’ve been too good looking to be taken seriously. So, you go ahead and underestimate me all you want, Ric Flair. Call me whatever you want to call me. Jumbo Tsuruta underestimated me. Nick Bockwinkel has underestimated me. Jimmy Garvin has underestimated me. King Tonga has underestimated me. But, I’m still the AWA World Champion and come Super Clash I’ll be the unified champion.”
Match 3
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat vs. “The Crusher” Jerry Blackwell with Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: Blackwell misses a falling headbutt and Steamboat comes back with a series of chops and a dropkick. A flying crossbody off the ropes gets a two count. Steamboat goes to the top rope, but Al-Kaissie whacks him with his cane in full view of Tommy Young. Blackwell is disqualified. Blackwell and Al-Kaissie do a post match beatdown until The Crusher makes the save.
Winner Ricky Steamboat by disqualification
Time: 8:32
Segment 4
Jack Reynolds is with Randy Savage. “Freak out! Freak Out! Yeah! Come Super Clash the Macho Man will be champion of all the Americas, brother. North, south, east, west - the sky’s the limit and space is the place. Oh, yeah! Dig it! And all I have to do is beat Kerry Von Erich. And not only, can I beat you up, Kerry, but my dad can beat up your dad. Dad get in here.”
Angelo Poffo enters and turns around to show his jacket with the number 6,033, signifying the number of sit-ups he did to set a world record in 1945. “My boy will be the first ever and only Pro Wrestling USA All-American Champion, because he’s never going to lose the title. Then he and his brother, Lanny, will win the unified tag titles. And if Flair or Martel aren’t careful, maybe I’ll take the unified belt too. The Poffos are the first family of wrestling.” Angelo puts up one finger and walks. Savage follows after yelling. “Kerry Von Erich, you are yesterday’s news. Oh yeah!”
Match 4
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Bob Backlund vs. Mr. Saito with Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie
Referee: Bill Alphonso
Finish: Backlund starts going for the cross face chicken wing. Al-Kaissie jumps up on the ring apron. Alphonso gets him down, but this allows Saito to get a mule kick. Thumb jab to the throat and he finishes with the Saito suplex. Bit of an upset and Backlund is very frustrated afterward.
Winner: Saito by pinfall
Time:10:03
Segment 5
Jack Reynolds is in-studio with Kerry Von Erich. “Randy Savage is one of the most intense wrestlers in our sport today. That isn’t lost on me. But, to come out here and say ‘my dad, can beat your dad,’ that’s schoolyard bullying. Ric Flair was calling Rick Martel, who is a great wrestler, a child out here earlier. Well, I beat Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Title earlier this year. He learned I was the man, because I beat the man and the Macho Man will be defeated by this man at Super Clash for the All-American Title.”
Match 5
The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane and Steve Keirn) and “Wildfire” Tommy Rich vs. The Long Riders (Scott and Bill Irwin) and “Outlaw” Ron Bass with Black Bart
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: Long beat down on Lane by the heels. Scott telegraphs a backdrop and Lane rolls over him and tags Rich. He’s a house of fire and knocks the other two heels off the apron. Scott charges and runs into a Hot Shot. Rich pins Scott after the Fire Driver (sitout suplex slam).
Winners: The Fabulous Ones and Rich by pinfall of Rich on Scott
Time: 14:11
Segment 6
Jack Reynolds closes the show with Nick Bockwinkel, the former AWA World Champion. “Jack, I hate to speak ill of any grappler of the AWA. I’d hate to have to agree with a scallywag like Ric Flair. But, he was speaking nothing but truth out here earlier tonight, Mr. Reynolds. I cannot fathom a scenario where a wrestler like Rick Martel can defeat a wrestler like Ric Flair and become the Pro Wrestling USA Unified Champion. However, there is no doubt in my mind I can conquer Ric Flair and claim that unified title for the glory of the AWA. I should be the representative of the AWA in that match at Super Clash. Rick Martel, if you want to prove yourself a man and prove yourself worthy, you will answer my challenge for this fine television program next week. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Rick Martel for the AWA World Heavyweight Title with the winner advancing to face Ric Flair at Super Clash. Martel, you can think long and hard about this challenge, but in the end it is unquestionable the decision you need to make.”
Pro Wrestling USA
Episode 2
Sept. 25, 1984
Taped at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee
Host/Interviewer: Jack Reynolds
Ring Announcer: Lance Russell
Play by Play: Gordon Solie
Color Commentator: Terry Funk
Segment 1
Jack Reynolds starts off the show with a recap of what Pro Wrestling USA is and what happened on the first episode, including the Super Clash match announcements. Rick Martel has accepted Nick Bockwinkel’s challenge for the AWA World Heavyweight Title and that will be the main event today.
Dusty Rhodes then comes in. “Jack Reynolds. I can’t say that myself and Nick Bockwinkels see eye to eye on a lot in this life. But, I can’t say he didn’t have a good idea last week in challenging Rick Martel. A former champion saying I deserve that right to give it one more try, win that prestigious title one more time and be the man who goes into Super Clash on Thanksgiving night to unify the NWA and AWA belts. Ric Flair out here last week talked about being world champion like sitting on top of a mountain. I’ve been to the top of that mountain two times before, daddy, and I know I can climb it again.”
Reynolds asks if Rhodes is challenging Ric Flair to a similar match next week for the NWA World Heavyweight Title and Rhodes says yes. This immediately draws out Ric Flair.
“Dusty Rhodes, you’ve never had an original thought in your life before. Now, here you are stealing the best that a real, true world’s champion like Nick Bockwinkel had to offer. Woo! You’ve been to the top of the mountain twice. I’ve been there three times. And the last time you were there, it was me who knocked you to the bottom. If there is any man in this world, who has a claim for a title shot before Super Clash, it’s Harley Race. But we all know he’s off in Japan stylin’ and profilin’. Woo! I don’t need a warm up match for Super Clash, but it wouldn’t hurt. Rhodes, you asked for it and you’re going to get it. Main event next week of this very program, Ric Flair vs. Dusty Rhodes one more time for the last time for the NWA World Heavyweight Title. Woo!”
Match 2
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
“Superstar” Billy Graham vs. Tracy Smothers
Referee: Bill Alphonso
Finish: Smothers goes for a victory roll out of the corner, but Graham blocks it and delivers a wheelbarrow slam. Graham with a leg drop to the back of the head. He pulls Smothers up on the cover, shaking his head no. He locks in the full nelson and Smothers submits.
Winner: Billy Graham by submission
Time: 4:12
Segment 2
The Fabulous Freebirds of Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Buddy Jack Roberts are out with Jack Reynolds. “We are p*ssed off…” Reynolds tells Hayes not to swear on the air. “I don’t give a damn, censor me. The Fabulous Freebirds are the World Class Championship Wrestling Tag Team Champions and are going to be part of the tag title unification match at Super Clash? Nooooo! Who is, Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle vs Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzel. Who the hell are they?”
Reynolds tells Hayes not to swear again. “I’ll swear all I damn want, Jack. Look, in a tag team match each team has a corner of the ring that’s their corner they work out of with their partner on the apron holding that tag rope. That ring, last I checked had four corners, so you can have four teams. Down in Texas the Freebirds have been in plenty of four-man and six-man elimination tag matches. A man loses, he goes to the back. Same thing here. A team loses, they go to the back. No different.”
Reynolds asks if, using Hayes’ logic, if the CWA Tag Team Champions of the Fabulous Ones, of Stan Lane and Steve Kerin should be involved too.
“Hell, why not? I’m saying take the four tag champions here in Pro Wrestling USA right now. Let them all face off in one match and let the winner take all at Super Clash as the Undisputed, Unified Tag Team Champions.”
Match 2
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
“The Raging Bull” Manny Fernandez vs. Sam Houston
Referee: Marty Miller
Finish: Fernandez grabs the top rope to block Houston executing the bull dog. He falls on his back and Fernandez nails a series of elbow drops. He whips Houston into the ropes and goes for the flying forearm smash, but Houston ducks it. Fernandez dodges a dropkick and nails a second forearm smash for the duke.
Winner: Fernandez by pinfall
Time: 7:32
Segment 3
Eddie Gilbert is out with Jack Reynolds. “Man, Jack, I’m hearing nothing but apecial challenge after special challenge out here today. So, why should I be different from anyone else? There is no way that Super Clash should happen without Eddie Gilbert on the card…” Reynolds reminds Gilbert how he lost his qualifier match for the battle royal last week.
“We’re not talking about that right now, Jack. We’re talking about how a super show isn’t a super show without Hot Stuff front and center. I challenge anybody in the world of professional wrestling today. United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, that company back east we don’t talk about it, I don’t care. Show up at Super Clash, get in the ring with me and find out why I’m Hot Stuff and you’re nothing but cold junk.”
Match 3
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
“The Man With the Hands of Stone” Ronnie Garvin vs. “Hacksaw” Butch Reed
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: Garvin slips out of a power slam attempt by Reed. Reed turns around right into a big right hand. Garvin Stomp. Reed avoids a sitdown splash and tries to sucker Garvin with a small package, but he rolls it over and holds it for the victory.
Winner: Garvin by pinfall
Time: 9:40
Segment 4
Jack Reynolds has Bob Backlund to address the upset win by Mr. Saito over him last week. “I make no excuses for losing the match last week to qualify for the Super Clash battle royal. Was I cheated by Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie? Yes. But a reason is not an excuse. I’m now going to whine and I’m not going to cry. And I’m not going to call out all those critics who say Bob Backlund has lost a step. If I have, it’s a step nobody else had to start with. I’m a former world’s champion and I will be again here in Pro Wrestling USA. Mark my words.”
Match 4
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
“Wildfire” Tommy Rich vs. Black Bart with “Outlaw” Ron Bass
Referee: Bill Alfonoso
Finish: Bart with a shoulder breaker, but he misses a falling headbutt. Rich goes to the top rope, but Bass makes his presence known, so he changes direction with a double ax handle to the outside. Bart comes out and they try to double team Rich, but he fights out of it and gets a double noggin knocker. Rich rolls back into the ring and a woozy Bart follows to eat a dropkick and he succumbs to the Fire Driver (sitout suplex slam).
Winner: Rich by pinfall
Time: 6:50
Segment 5
Jack Reynolds has The Crusher. Reynolds mentions how The Crusher came to the aid of Ricky Steamboat last week when he was attacked by “Crusher” Jerry Blackwell and Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie. “Jerry Blackwell has been a thorn in my side for a long time. He’s walking around calling himself the Crusher when every man, woman and child in the world knows there is only one Crusher in professional wrestling. It’s me. This is a day of challenges and here’s mine. Blackwell you face me at Super Clash. We both enter as the Crusher, but only one man can leave with that name.”
Match 5
AWA World Title Match
Rick Martel © vs. Nick Bockwinkel
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: Bockwinkel wears down and uses his weight advantage on Martel throughout the match, who gets a few hope spots. Bockwinkel works a figure four leglock for a while. Martel, with the crowd behind him, eventually turns it over. Bockwinkel turns it over again and they roll to the floor. Bockwinkel with a knee lift as they stand. He goes to whip Martel into the ring post, but Martel reverses and Bockwinkel posts his shoulder. Martel dropkicks Bockwinkel to send him back into the post again. Martel rolls Bockwinkel into the ring and finishes with a slingshot splash from the apron.
Winner: Martel by pinfall
Time: 17:02
Pro Wrestling USA
Episode 3
Oct. 2, 1984
Taped at the Renaissance Coliseum in Peoria, Illinois
Host/Interviewer: Jack Reynolds
Ring Announcer: Lance Russell
Play by Play: Gordon Solie
Color Commentator: Terry Funk
Segment 1
Jack Reynolds welcomes everyone to the show and previews the show, including the last two Super Clash battle royal qualifiers and Ric Flair defending the NWA Heavyweight Title against Dusty Rhodes, with the winner moving onto the title unification match at Super Clash against AWA Champion Rick Martel. Martel defended the title successfully last week against Nick Bockwinkel, but was attacked after the match with Bob Backlund helping out. Highlights are shown.
Nick Bockwinkel and Bob Backlund enter to explain themselves. Backlund speaks first. “There is only one man in all of professional wrestling who I respect in that ring and who I would say is just as good in that ring as myself and that’s Nick Bockwinkel. Every time I’ve ever lost a wrestling match, it’s wasn’t because of what I did inside the ring, it’s what somebody did outside it. Whether it was Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie in my match with Mr. Saito a couple weeks ago or Arnold Skaaland throwing in the towel when I was the champion for the last company I worked for. I wanted someone that would have my back and for him to know I have his.”
Backlund and Bockwinkel shake hands and Bockwinkel talks. “Mr. Reynolds, what you and all the plebians watching at home have to realize is that Mr. Backlund and myself aren’t just professional wrestlers. We are the most professional of wrestlers. And as true, real professionals we recognize the proper qualities in each other. Qualities Rick Martel does not possess. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Rick will not defeat either Ric Flair or Dusty Rhodes at Super Clash. And, instead, of saving himself for that tremendous bout, he has challenged myself and Mr. Backlund to a tag team match today. If he can find a partner, which I find highly doubtful, his wish shall be granted.”
Match 1
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Nikita Koloff with Ivan Koloff vs. The Crusher
Referee: Bill Alfonso
Finish: Koloff powers out of the full nelson and does a spinning Russian Sickle for a two count. Koloff misses a second rope knee drop. Koloff ducks the Bolo Punch and gets a back suplex for a two count. Crusher breaks a bearhug with a bell ringer. He nails the Bolo Punch, but Ivan puts his nephew’s foot on the ropes. Crusher knows Ivan interfered and goes to the floor after him. Nikita distracts the referee and “Crusher” Jerry Blackwell runs out and attacks Crusher from behind. They’ve been feuding over the Crusher name. Blackwell rolls Crusher back into the ring and hides under the ring apron. Koloff with a series of knees to the head and then gets the submission with a Jaw Clutch.
Winner: Nikita Koloff by submission
Time: 10:32
Segment 2
Jack Reynolds welcomes Rick Martel. “Nick Bockwinkel and Bob Backlund were out here earlier talking about what professionals they are. They’re just two bullies if you ask me and two old men who are worried about being shown up by someone younger, faster and better. I had no problem in finding a tag partner for later tonight, Jack. Someone just as young and hungry as myself. Someone who wants to prove themselves here in Pro Wrestling USA. Curt Hennig.”
Hennig comes out and Reynolds mentions how he’s the son of AWA legend, Larry Hennig. “I’m my own man, Jack. I’m not standing in my father’s shadow or the shadow of the Bockwinkels and Backlunds of the world anymore. We might not have the experience, but we’ve got everything else we need to get it done in that ring tonight.”
Match 2
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Baron Von Raschke vs. Larry Zybszko
Referee: Marty Miller
Zybszko gets a floatover on a vertical suplex for a two count. He follows with a swinging neckbreaker for a two count. Larry with a shinbreaker and a rolling leg snap. He goes for the figure four, but on the turnaround, the Baron locks in the Claw. Zybszko has nowhere to go and eventually submits.
Winner: Baron Von Raschke by submission
Time: 12:11
Segment 3
Jack Reynolds has Kerry and Kevin Von Erich. Kerry is going to wrestle Randy Savage at Super Clash to unify the WCCW and CWA titles into the All-Americas Title. Kerry speaks. “Randy Savage was out here awhile back talking about how his dad can beat up our dad. That’s ridiculous. That’s schoolyard bully bluster, Jack. It’s laughable and has no place inside professional wrestling. Randy Savage will find out at Super Clash when he gets me in the ring, I’m serious as a heart attack.”
Kevin talks. “And I’m going to have my brother’s back all the way. I’ve got my eyes on you, Lanny Poffo and you, Angelo Poffo. I’ve got two hands and an Iron Claw for each of you.”
Reynolds then mentions a tag match next week between the Von Erichs and the Poffos.
Match 3
Captain’s Match
Michael “P.S.” Hayes vs. Ivan Koloff vs. Stan Lane vs. Greg Gagne
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: All four men are in the ring at the same time. This is a prelude to the four team elimination tag title unification match at Super Clash. The action is kind of chaotic with Young having a hard time keeping track of everybody. Gagne uses a downed Koloff as a springboard for a flying dropkick toward Hayes, but he ducks and Gagne takes out Lane. Hayes with a DDT on Gagne, but Koloff breaks up the cover and tries to pin Gagne himself. Hayes pulls him off. They argue. Lane with a karate kick to Koloff, but Hayes grabs the leg after the kick and delivers an elbow to the knee and a leg whip. Gagne staggers up into a second DDT and Hayes makes the pin with his feet on the ropes.
Winner: Michael Hayes by pinfall on Gagne
Time: 15:40
Segment 4
Jack Reynolds has Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. Steamboat has qualified for the Super Clash $25,000 battle royal with the winner getting a Pro Wrestling USA unified title shot. Steamboat won his qualifier over “The Crusher” Jerry Blackwell with The Crusher saving him from a beatdown afterwards by Blackwell and his manager, Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie.
“I appreciate the Crusher coming to my aid and I’m sorry I couldn’t return the favor earlier tonight. I was taking care of some business in the back and didn’t have my eyes on the ring. But I talked to Crusher just now before coming out and we’re making an official tag team challenge for next week. It’s the Crusher and me against Blackwell and Al-Kassie if he’s man enough to lace up the boots and face us in the ring and not attack like a coward from the floor.”
Match 4
Rick Martel and Curt Hennig vs. The Professionals (Nick Bockwinkel and Bob Backlund)
Referee: Marty Miller
Finish: The heels work over Hennig. Bockwinkel telegraphs a backdrop and takes a sunset flip for two. Bockwinkel with a heel trip as they come up and works a leg grapevine, while being close enough to tag Backlund. Backlund comes with a series of stomps, but misses a knee drop. Hennig starts crawling for the tag, but Larry Zybszko runs out and pulls Martel off the apron. Martel and Larry brawl. Hennig comes up into an empty corner and Backlund gets a crossface chicken wing slam for the victory.
Winners: The Professionals by pinfall of Backlund on Hennig
Time: 14:03
Post match, Zybszko raises Backlund and Bockwinkel’s hands and Gordon Solie on commentary theorizes we have a new power in Pro Wrestling USA, the Professionals.
Segment 5
Jack Reynolds has Sgt. Slaughter. Another qualifier for the Super Clash battle royal. “Earlier today, Jack, we found out the last two men who are going to be in that 10-men battle royal and I have to say this is the greatest lineup I’ve ever seen for a battle royal ever in the history of professional wrestling. You’ve got two great young high-flyers in Tommy Rich and Ricky Steamboat. You’ve got literal giants of this sport like Thunderbolt Patterson and Billy Graham. Men who don’t know when to say die like Manny Fernandex and Ronnie Garvin. And some despicable men who will do anything to win no matter what in Nikita Koloff, Mr. Saito and Baron Von Raschke. Then you have me, Sgt. Slaughter. I’m going to win not for the money, not for the title shot and not for the bragging rights of throwing nine of the best wrestlers going today over the top rope to the floor. I’m going to win for the honor, the glory and for every little patriot out there waving the American Flag and looking up to me. The last command I’ll be taking in that bout will be ‘at ease.’” Slaughter salutes the camera and walks off.
Match 5
NWA World Heavyweight Title
“Nature Boy” Rick Flair © vs. “American Dream” Dusty Rhodes
Referee: Tommy Young
Flair takes the Flip, Flop and Fly and does a Flair Flop. Rhodes misses a wind up elbow drop. Flair with a rolling leg snap and then snaps the leg on the bottom rope while going to the floor. Flair woos at the crowd, but Rhodes slides to the floor behind him. The crowd pops and Flair knows he’s in trouble. He turns and chops Rhodes, who no sells and shakes his finger no at Flair. Bionic Elbow. Rhodes rolls Flair back into the ring and climbs the top rope from the outside. Flair biels Rhodes off (which usually happens to him.) Flair with a second rope elbow drop for a two count. He goes for the figure four, but Rhodes boots Flair in the butt to prevent it. Flair pulls something out of his tights. Rhodes catches Flair from behind and goes for a back suplex, but Flair nails Rhodes with the foreign object and falls on top of Dusty for the victory, while doing a Flair Pin.
Winner: Ric Flair by pinfall
Time: 20:33
Post match, Rhodes looks for revenge on Flair with a Flip, Flop and Fly and a Bionic Elbow. However, Tully Blanchard makes his debut and takes out Rhodes from behind with a lead pipe. Solie talks about how Rhodes and Blanchard have feuded in the past and now Blanchard has followed Rhodes to Pro Wrestling USA to reignite their feud.
Episode 1
Sept. 18, 1984
Taped at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee
Host/Interviewer: Jack Reynolds
Ring Announcer: Lance Russell
Play by Play: Gordon Solie
Color Commentator: Terry Funk
Segment 1
Jack Reynolds welcomes fans and explains how Pro Wrestling USA is a merger of some of the best wrestling promotions in the United States today for the good of you the fans.
He then introduces the participating promoters, who come in and all shake hands. They pose for the camera with big smiles. This is Verne Gagne of the AWA, Jim Crockett of the NWA, Jerry Jarrett of the CWA and Fritz Von Erich of WCCW.
They exit and Reynolds brings in the neutral third party who will serve as the commissioner of PWUSA, Eddie Einhorn.
Einhorn talks about how PWUSA will be innovative and forethinking in its presentation, looking at the future of pro wrestling not the past. He announces the first super show, Super Clash, for Thanksgiving night at at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Three matches are already known. NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair and AWA World Heavyweight Champion Rick Martel will face in a title unification match. CWA Mid-America Champion Randy Savage and WCCW America Heavyweight Champion Kerry Von Erich will face to form the PWUSA All-American Championship. NWA World Tag Team Champions Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle will have a title unification bout with AWA Tag Team Champions The High Flyers of Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne.
Plus, there will be a 10-men battle royal with the winner getting $25,000 and a future shot at the PWUSA Unified Title. And qualifying matches for the battle royal will be over the next few weeks.
Match 1
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Sgt. Slaughter vs. “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert
Referee: Bill Alphonso
Finish: Gilbert complains of hair pulling in the corner and the referee backs him off. This allows Gilbert to pull a small chain out of his boot he wraps around his fist. Slaughter ducks a wild swing that turns Gilbert all the way around. Slaughter grabs Gilbert from behind for an atomic drop and then a Cobra Clutch Slam for the win.
Winner: Sgt. Slaughter by pinfall
Time: 7:11
Segment 2
Jacky Reynolds has Ric Flair. “Since the start of my career in professional wrestling it has been the number one goal of the Nature Boy to be on top of that mountain. Now, they go and build a bigger mountain with Pro Wrestling USA. Woo! Rest assured I will also be the king of the PWUSA mountain come Super Clash. All I have to do is defeat Little Ricky Martel. Little Ricky is a child pretending to be a man and, as I always say, Jack Reynolds, to be the man you have to beat the man, woo! And the boy that is Little Ricky Martel will never, ever beat the real man that is ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair. Woo!”
Match 2
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Thunderbolt Patterson vs. Barry Horowitz
Referee: Marty Miller
Finish: Horowitz is caught on a Thesz Press attempt with a bearhug and rag dolled. Patterson slams Horowitz out of the bearhug and wins with a running leg drop.
Winner: Thunderbolt Patterson by pinfall
Time: 3:11
Segment 3
Jack Reynolds has Rick Martel. “Ric Flair was out here earlier calling me a child, calling me Little Ricky. Well, that’s just fine. Flair can call me whatever he wants to. My entire career, Jack Reynolds, I’ve been underestimated. I’ve been too young. I’ve been too small. I’ve been too good looking to be taken seriously. So, you go ahead and underestimate me all you want, Ric Flair. Call me whatever you want to call me. Jumbo Tsuruta underestimated me. Nick Bockwinkel has underestimated me. Jimmy Garvin has underestimated me. King Tonga has underestimated me. But, I’m still the AWA World Champion and come Super Clash I’ll be the unified champion.”
Match 3
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat vs. “The Crusher” Jerry Blackwell with Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: Blackwell misses a falling headbutt and Steamboat comes back with a series of chops and a dropkick. A flying crossbody off the ropes gets a two count. Steamboat goes to the top rope, but Al-Kaissie whacks him with his cane in full view of Tommy Young. Blackwell is disqualified. Blackwell and Al-Kaissie do a post match beatdown until The Crusher makes the save.
Winner Ricky Steamboat by disqualification
Time: 8:32
Segment 4
Jack Reynolds is with Randy Savage. “Freak out! Freak Out! Yeah! Come Super Clash the Macho Man will be champion of all the Americas, brother. North, south, east, west - the sky’s the limit and space is the place. Oh, yeah! Dig it! And all I have to do is beat Kerry Von Erich. And not only, can I beat you up, Kerry, but my dad can beat up your dad. Dad get in here.”
Angelo Poffo enters and turns around to show his jacket with the number 6,033, signifying the number of sit-ups he did to set a world record in 1945. “My boy will be the first ever and only Pro Wrestling USA All-American Champion, because he’s never going to lose the title. Then he and his brother, Lanny, will win the unified tag titles. And if Flair or Martel aren’t careful, maybe I’ll take the unified belt too. The Poffos are the first family of wrestling.” Angelo puts up one finger and walks. Savage follows after yelling. “Kerry Von Erich, you are yesterday’s news. Oh yeah!”
Match 4
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Bob Backlund vs. Mr. Saito with Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie
Referee: Bill Alphonso
Finish: Backlund starts going for the cross face chicken wing. Al-Kaissie jumps up on the ring apron. Alphonso gets him down, but this allows Saito to get a mule kick. Thumb jab to the throat and he finishes with the Saito suplex. Bit of an upset and Backlund is very frustrated afterward.
Winner: Saito by pinfall
Time:10:03
Segment 5
Jack Reynolds is in-studio with Kerry Von Erich. “Randy Savage is one of the most intense wrestlers in our sport today. That isn’t lost on me. But, to come out here and say ‘my dad, can beat your dad,’ that’s schoolyard bullying. Ric Flair was calling Rick Martel, who is a great wrestler, a child out here earlier. Well, I beat Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Title earlier this year. He learned I was the man, because I beat the man and the Macho Man will be defeated by this man at Super Clash for the All-American Title.”
Match 5
The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane and Steve Keirn) and “Wildfire” Tommy Rich vs. The Long Riders (Scott and Bill Irwin) and “Outlaw” Ron Bass with Black Bart
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: Long beat down on Lane by the heels. Scott telegraphs a backdrop and Lane rolls over him and tags Rich. He’s a house of fire and knocks the other two heels off the apron. Scott charges and runs into a Hot Shot. Rich pins Scott after the Fire Driver (sitout suplex slam).
Winners: The Fabulous Ones and Rich by pinfall of Rich on Scott
Time: 14:11
Segment 6
Jack Reynolds closes the show with Nick Bockwinkel, the former AWA World Champion. “Jack, I hate to speak ill of any grappler of the AWA. I’d hate to have to agree with a scallywag like Ric Flair. But, he was speaking nothing but truth out here earlier tonight, Mr. Reynolds. I cannot fathom a scenario where a wrestler like Rick Martel can defeat a wrestler like Ric Flair and become the Pro Wrestling USA Unified Champion. However, there is no doubt in my mind I can conquer Ric Flair and claim that unified title for the glory of the AWA. I should be the representative of the AWA in that match at Super Clash. Rick Martel, if you want to prove yourself a man and prove yourself worthy, you will answer my challenge for this fine television program next week. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Rick Martel for the AWA World Heavyweight Title with the winner advancing to face Ric Flair at Super Clash. Martel, you can think long and hard about this challenge, but in the end it is unquestionable the decision you need to make.”
Pro Wrestling USA
Episode 2
Sept. 25, 1984
Taped at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee
Host/Interviewer: Jack Reynolds
Ring Announcer: Lance Russell
Play by Play: Gordon Solie
Color Commentator: Terry Funk
Segment 1
Jack Reynolds starts off the show with a recap of what Pro Wrestling USA is and what happened on the first episode, including the Super Clash match announcements. Rick Martel has accepted Nick Bockwinkel’s challenge for the AWA World Heavyweight Title and that will be the main event today.
Dusty Rhodes then comes in. “Jack Reynolds. I can’t say that myself and Nick Bockwinkels see eye to eye on a lot in this life. But, I can’t say he didn’t have a good idea last week in challenging Rick Martel. A former champion saying I deserve that right to give it one more try, win that prestigious title one more time and be the man who goes into Super Clash on Thanksgiving night to unify the NWA and AWA belts. Ric Flair out here last week talked about being world champion like sitting on top of a mountain. I’ve been to the top of that mountain two times before, daddy, and I know I can climb it again.”
Reynolds asks if Rhodes is challenging Ric Flair to a similar match next week for the NWA World Heavyweight Title and Rhodes says yes. This immediately draws out Ric Flair.
“Dusty Rhodes, you’ve never had an original thought in your life before. Now, here you are stealing the best that a real, true world’s champion like Nick Bockwinkel had to offer. Woo! You’ve been to the top of the mountain twice. I’ve been there three times. And the last time you were there, it was me who knocked you to the bottom. If there is any man in this world, who has a claim for a title shot before Super Clash, it’s Harley Race. But we all know he’s off in Japan stylin’ and profilin’. Woo! I don’t need a warm up match for Super Clash, but it wouldn’t hurt. Rhodes, you asked for it and you’re going to get it. Main event next week of this very program, Ric Flair vs. Dusty Rhodes one more time for the last time for the NWA World Heavyweight Title. Woo!”
Match 2
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
“Superstar” Billy Graham vs. Tracy Smothers
Referee: Bill Alphonso
Finish: Smothers goes for a victory roll out of the corner, but Graham blocks it and delivers a wheelbarrow slam. Graham with a leg drop to the back of the head. He pulls Smothers up on the cover, shaking his head no. He locks in the full nelson and Smothers submits.
Winner: Billy Graham by submission
Time: 4:12
Segment 2
The Fabulous Freebirds of Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Buddy Jack Roberts are out with Jack Reynolds. “We are p*ssed off…” Reynolds tells Hayes not to swear on the air. “I don’t give a damn, censor me. The Fabulous Freebirds are the World Class Championship Wrestling Tag Team Champions and are going to be part of the tag title unification match at Super Clash? Nooooo! Who is, Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle vs Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzel. Who the hell are they?”
Reynolds tells Hayes not to swear again. “I’ll swear all I damn want, Jack. Look, in a tag team match each team has a corner of the ring that’s their corner they work out of with their partner on the apron holding that tag rope. That ring, last I checked had four corners, so you can have four teams. Down in Texas the Freebirds have been in plenty of four-man and six-man elimination tag matches. A man loses, he goes to the back. Same thing here. A team loses, they go to the back. No different.”
Reynolds asks if, using Hayes’ logic, if the CWA Tag Team Champions of the Fabulous Ones, of Stan Lane and Steve Kerin should be involved too.
“Hell, why not? I’m saying take the four tag champions here in Pro Wrestling USA right now. Let them all face off in one match and let the winner take all at Super Clash as the Undisputed, Unified Tag Team Champions.”
Match 2
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
“The Raging Bull” Manny Fernandez vs. Sam Houston
Referee: Marty Miller
Finish: Fernandez grabs the top rope to block Houston executing the bull dog. He falls on his back and Fernandez nails a series of elbow drops. He whips Houston into the ropes and goes for the flying forearm smash, but Houston ducks it. Fernandez dodges a dropkick and nails a second forearm smash for the duke.
Winner: Fernandez by pinfall
Time: 7:32
Segment 3
Eddie Gilbert is out with Jack Reynolds. “Man, Jack, I’m hearing nothing but apecial challenge after special challenge out here today. So, why should I be different from anyone else? There is no way that Super Clash should happen without Eddie Gilbert on the card…” Reynolds reminds Gilbert how he lost his qualifier match for the battle royal last week.
“We’re not talking about that right now, Jack. We’re talking about how a super show isn’t a super show without Hot Stuff front and center. I challenge anybody in the world of professional wrestling today. United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, that company back east we don’t talk about it, I don’t care. Show up at Super Clash, get in the ring with me and find out why I’m Hot Stuff and you’re nothing but cold junk.”
Match 3
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
“The Man With the Hands of Stone” Ronnie Garvin vs. “Hacksaw” Butch Reed
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: Garvin slips out of a power slam attempt by Reed. Reed turns around right into a big right hand. Garvin Stomp. Reed avoids a sitdown splash and tries to sucker Garvin with a small package, but he rolls it over and holds it for the victory.
Winner: Garvin by pinfall
Time: 9:40
Segment 4
Jack Reynolds has Bob Backlund to address the upset win by Mr. Saito over him last week. “I make no excuses for losing the match last week to qualify for the Super Clash battle royal. Was I cheated by Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie? Yes. But a reason is not an excuse. I’m now going to whine and I’m not going to cry. And I’m not going to call out all those critics who say Bob Backlund has lost a step. If I have, it’s a step nobody else had to start with. I’m a former world’s champion and I will be again here in Pro Wrestling USA. Mark my words.”
Match 4
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
“Wildfire” Tommy Rich vs. Black Bart with “Outlaw” Ron Bass
Referee: Bill Alfonoso
Finish: Bart with a shoulder breaker, but he misses a falling headbutt. Rich goes to the top rope, but Bass makes his presence known, so he changes direction with a double ax handle to the outside. Bart comes out and they try to double team Rich, but he fights out of it and gets a double noggin knocker. Rich rolls back into the ring and a woozy Bart follows to eat a dropkick and he succumbs to the Fire Driver (sitout suplex slam).
Winner: Rich by pinfall
Time: 6:50
Segment 5
Jack Reynolds has The Crusher. Reynolds mentions how The Crusher came to the aid of Ricky Steamboat last week when he was attacked by “Crusher” Jerry Blackwell and Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie. “Jerry Blackwell has been a thorn in my side for a long time. He’s walking around calling himself the Crusher when every man, woman and child in the world knows there is only one Crusher in professional wrestling. It’s me. This is a day of challenges and here’s mine. Blackwell you face me at Super Clash. We both enter as the Crusher, but only one man can leave with that name.”
Match 5
AWA World Title Match
Rick Martel © vs. Nick Bockwinkel
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: Bockwinkel wears down and uses his weight advantage on Martel throughout the match, who gets a few hope spots. Bockwinkel works a figure four leglock for a while. Martel, with the crowd behind him, eventually turns it over. Bockwinkel turns it over again and they roll to the floor. Bockwinkel with a knee lift as they stand. He goes to whip Martel into the ring post, but Martel reverses and Bockwinkel posts his shoulder. Martel dropkicks Bockwinkel to send him back into the post again. Martel rolls Bockwinkel into the ring and finishes with a slingshot splash from the apron.
Winner: Martel by pinfall
Time: 17:02
Pro Wrestling USA
Episode 3
Oct. 2, 1984
Taped at the Renaissance Coliseum in Peoria, Illinois
Host/Interviewer: Jack Reynolds
Ring Announcer: Lance Russell
Play by Play: Gordon Solie
Color Commentator: Terry Funk
Segment 1
Jack Reynolds welcomes everyone to the show and previews the show, including the last two Super Clash battle royal qualifiers and Ric Flair defending the NWA Heavyweight Title against Dusty Rhodes, with the winner moving onto the title unification match at Super Clash against AWA Champion Rick Martel. Martel defended the title successfully last week against Nick Bockwinkel, but was attacked after the match with Bob Backlund helping out. Highlights are shown.
Nick Bockwinkel and Bob Backlund enter to explain themselves. Backlund speaks first. “There is only one man in all of professional wrestling who I respect in that ring and who I would say is just as good in that ring as myself and that’s Nick Bockwinkel. Every time I’ve ever lost a wrestling match, it’s wasn’t because of what I did inside the ring, it’s what somebody did outside it. Whether it was Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie in my match with Mr. Saito a couple weeks ago or Arnold Skaaland throwing in the towel when I was the champion for the last company I worked for. I wanted someone that would have my back and for him to know I have his.”
Backlund and Bockwinkel shake hands and Bockwinkel talks. “Mr. Reynolds, what you and all the plebians watching at home have to realize is that Mr. Backlund and myself aren’t just professional wrestlers. We are the most professional of wrestlers. And as true, real professionals we recognize the proper qualities in each other. Qualities Rick Martel does not possess. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Rick will not defeat either Ric Flair or Dusty Rhodes at Super Clash. And, instead, of saving himself for that tremendous bout, he has challenged myself and Mr. Backlund to a tag team match today. If he can find a partner, which I find highly doubtful, his wish shall be granted.”
Match 1
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Nikita Koloff with Ivan Koloff vs. The Crusher
Referee: Bill Alfonso
Finish: Koloff powers out of the full nelson and does a spinning Russian Sickle for a two count. Koloff misses a second rope knee drop. Koloff ducks the Bolo Punch and gets a back suplex for a two count. Crusher breaks a bearhug with a bell ringer. He nails the Bolo Punch, but Ivan puts his nephew’s foot on the ropes. Crusher knows Ivan interfered and goes to the floor after him. Nikita distracts the referee and “Crusher” Jerry Blackwell runs out and attacks Crusher from behind. They’ve been feuding over the Crusher name. Blackwell rolls Crusher back into the ring and hides under the ring apron. Koloff with a series of knees to the head and then gets the submission with a Jaw Clutch.
Winner: Nikita Koloff by submission
Time: 10:32
Segment 2
Jack Reynolds welcomes Rick Martel. “Nick Bockwinkel and Bob Backlund were out here earlier talking about what professionals they are. They’re just two bullies if you ask me and two old men who are worried about being shown up by someone younger, faster and better. I had no problem in finding a tag partner for later tonight, Jack. Someone just as young and hungry as myself. Someone who wants to prove themselves here in Pro Wrestling USA. Curt Hennig.”
Hennig comes out and Reynolds mentions how he’s the son of AWA legend, Larry Hennig. “I’m my own man, Jack. I’m not standing in my father’s shadow or the shadow of the Bockwinkels and Backlunds of the world anymore. We might not have the experience, but we’ve got everything else we need to get it done in that ring tonight.”
Match 2
Super Clash Battle Royal Qualifier
Baron Von Raschke vs. Larry Zybszko
Referee: Marty Miller
Zybszko gets a floatover on a vertical suplex for a two count. He follows with a swinging neckbreaker for a two count. Larry with a shinbreaker and a rolling leg snap. He goes for the figure four, but on the turnaround, the Baron locks in the Claw. Zybszko has nowhere to go and eventually submits.
Winner: Baron Von Raschke by submission
Time: 12:11
Segment 3
Jack Reynolds has Kerry and Kevin Von Erich. Kerry is going to wrestle Randy Savage at Super Clash to unify the WCCW and CWA titles into the All-Americas Title. Kerry speaks. “Randy Savage was out here awhile back talking about how his dad can beat up our dad. That’s ridiculous. That’s schoolyard bully bluster, Jack. It’s laughable and has no place inside professional wrestling. Randy Savage will find out at Super Clash when he gets me in the ring, I’m serious as a heart attack.”
Kevin talks. “And I’m going to have my brother’s back all the way. I’ve got my eyes on you, Lanny Poffo and you, Angelo Poffo. I’ve got two hands and an Iron Claw for each of you.”
Reynolds then mentions a tag match next week between the Von Erichs and the Poffos.
Match 3
Captain’s Match
Michael “P.S.” Hayes vs. Ivan Koloff vs. Stan Lane vs. Greg Gagne
Referee: Tommy Young
Finish: All four men are in the ring at the same time. This is a prelude to the four team elimination tag title unification match at Super Clash. The action is kind of chaotic with Young having a hard time keeping track of everybody. Gagne uses a downed Koloff as a springboard for a flying dropkick toward Hayes, but he ducks and Gagne takes out Lane. Hayes with a DDT on Gagne, but Koloff breaks up the cover and tries to pin Gagne himself. Hayes pulls him off. They argue. Lane with a karate kick to Koloff, but Hayes grabs the leg after the kick and delivers an elbow to the knee and a leg whip. Gagne staggers up into a second DDT and Hayes makes the pin with his feet on the ropes.
Winner: Michael Hayes by pinfall on Gagne
Time: 15:40
Segment 4
Jack Reynolds has Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. Steamboat has qualified for the Super Clash $25,000 battle royal with the winner getting a Pro Wrestling USA unified title shot. Steamboat won his qualifier over “The Crusher” Jerry Blackwell with The Crusher saving him from a beatdown afterwards by Blackwell and his manager, Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie.
“I appreciate the Crusher coming to my aid and I’m sorry I couldn’t return the favor earlier tonight. I was taking care of some business in the back and didn’t have my eyes on the ring. But I talked to Crusher just now before coming out and we’re making an official tag team challenge for next week. It’s the Crusher and me against Blackwell and Al-Kassie if he’s man enough to lace up the boots and face us in the ring and not attack like a coward from the floor.”
Match 4
Rick Martel and Curt Hennig vs. The Professionals (Nick Bockwinkel and Bob Backlund)
Referee: Marty Miller
Finish: The heels work over Hennig. Bockwinkel telegraphs a backdrop and takes a sunset flip for two. Bockwinkel with a heel trip as they come up and works a leg grapevine, while being close enough to tag Backlund. Backlund comes with a series of stomps, but misses a knee drop. Hennig starts crawling for the tag, but Larry Zybszko runs out and pulls Martel off the apron. Martel and Larry brawl. Hennig comes up into an empty corner and Backlund gets a crossface chicken wing slam for the victory.
Winners: The Professionals by pinfall of Backlund on Hennig
Time: 14:03
Post match, Zybszko raises Backlund and Bockwinkel’s hands and Gordon Solie on commentary theorizes we have a new power in Pro Wrestling USA, the Professionals.
Segment 5
Jack Reynolds has Sgt. Slaughter. Another qualifier for the Super Clash battle royal. “Earlier today, Jack, we found out the last two men who are going to be in that 10-men battle royal and I have to say this is the greatest lineup I’ve ever seen for a battle royal ever in the history of professional wrestling. You’ve got two great young high-flyers in Tommy Rich and Ricky Steamboat. You’ve got literal giants of this sport like Thunderbolt Patterson and Billy Graham. Men who don’t know when to say die like Manny Fernandex and Ronnie Garvin. And some despicable men who will do anything to win no matter what in Nikita Koloff, Mr. Saito and Baron Von Raschke. Then you have me, Sgt. Slaughter. I’m going to win not for the money, not for the title shot and not for the bragging rights of throwing nine of the best wrestlers going today over the top rope to the floor. I’m going to win for the honor, the glory and for every little patriot out there waving the American Flag and looking up to me. The last command I’ll be taking in that bout will be ‘at ease.’” Slaughter salutes the camera and walks off.
Match 5
NWA World Heavyweight Title
“Nature Boy” Rick Flair © vs. “American Dream” Dusty Rhodes
Referee: Tommy Young
Flair takes the Flip, Flop and Fly and does a Flair Flop. Rhodes misses a wind up elbow drop. Flair with a rolling leg snap and then snaps the leg on the bottom rope while going to the floor. Flair woos at the crowd, but Rhodes slides to the floor behind him. The crowd pops and Flair knows he’s in trouble. He turns and chops Rhodes, who no sells and shakes his finger no at Flair. Bionic Elbow. Rhodes rolls Flair back into the ring and climbs the top rope from the outside. Flair biels Rhodes off (which usually happens to him.) Flair with a second rope elbow drop for a two count. He goes for the figure four, but Rhodes boots Flair in the butt to prevent it. Flair pulls something out of his tights. Rhodes catches Flair from behind and goes for a back suplex, but Flair nails Rhodes with the foreign object and falls on top of Dusty for the victory, while doing a Flair Pin.
Winner: Ric Flair by pinfall
Time: 20:33
Post match, Rhodes looks for revenge on Flair with a Flip, Flop and Fly and a Bionic Elbow. However, Tully Blanchard makes his debut and takes out Rhodes from behind with a lead pipe. Solie talks about how Rhodes and Blanchard have feuded in the past and now Blanchard has followed Rhodes to Pro Wrestling USA to reignite their feud.
