it’s a wrestling reference referring to black saturday when vince mcmahon turned up and presented WWF wrestling on an NWA timeslot in the 80s.

I’ll be filling in the space where Flouncer would normally be presenting the World Championship Wrestling programming with the action from the USWA.

A few months down the timeline from where we are with WCW, the USWA (which worked as a feeder territory to the WWF, people went to memphis to prepare them for WWF TV or while WWF tried to figure out what – if anything – to do with them) had to strip the championship from “The Snowman” as he couldn’t defend the title due to injury. there was a traditional rule that you had to defend the title at least every 30 days, and he couldn’t. Thus, a tournament was scheduled to crown a new USWA Unified Wrestling Champion – this took place over 5 programmes which fit neatly into a 3 and a half hour hole.

participants in the tournament

• Jerry “the king” Lawler
• “Superstar” Bill Dundee
• “Mean” Mark Callous
• “Dirty” Dick Slater
• Danny Davis
• Jeff Gaylord
• Doug Gilbert
• Brickhouse Brown
• Terry Funk
• “the dirty white boy” Tony Anthony
• Steve Keirn
• “Captain Redneck” Dick Murdoch
• Samurai
• Gary Young
• “The Universal Heartthrob” Austin Idol
• King Cobra
• “hollywood” John Tatum
• “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert
• “The Boogie Woogie man” Jimmy Valient
• Sheik Hussein
• Jeff Jarrett