25 Years Ago Today: UWF Blackjack Brawl

[Joe Neglia]

Herb Abrams and his UWF held their one and only live TV supercard on September 23, 1994 and shown on SportsChannel America (Their only foray into PPV, Beach Brawl, took place back in 1991). Here's the card/results:

UWF Americas Title Match
Dan Spivey defeated Johnny Ace to become the first UWF Americas Champion

UWF Junior Heavyweight Title Match
Jack Armstrong defeated El Psicópata to become the first UWF Junior Heavyweight Champion

Sonny Beach defeated Dr. Feelgood

UWF Southern States Title Match
Bob Orton Jr. (c) vs. Finland Thor ended without a winner as a double disqualification

UWF Midget World Title Match
Little Tokyo defeated Karate Kid to become the first UWF Midget World Champion

Paul Samson defeated The Irish Assassin

UWF MGM Grand Title Match
Tyler Mane defeated Stevie Ray to become the first MGM Grand Champion

UWF Women's Title Match
Candy Devine defeated Tina Moretti to win the vacant title

UWF Tag Team Titles Match
Killer Bees (B. Brian Blair and Jim Brunzell) defeated The New Powers of Pain (The Warlord and Power Warrior) - TITLE CHANGE!!!

Lumberjack Match
Cactus Jack vs. Jimmy Snuka ended without a winner as a double countout

UWF World Heavyweight Title Match
Steve Williams defeated Sid Vicious to become the first UWF World Heavyweight Champion

El Psicopata = Mando Guererro

Tina Moretti = Ivory

Dr. Feelgood = Late '80s WWF jobber Al Burke

Finland Thor = Ludvig Borga

Stevie Ray is the surfer Stevie Ray, not the Harlem Heat one.

Tyler Man = Sabretooth in the first X-Men movie (and Michael Myers in the Rob Zombie Halloween films)

So. Many. New. Titles.

[eJm]

...Was the MGM Grand title supposed to be some kind of celebrity title or something?

[Mozenrath]

I love that Foley decided to make it a double countout, since at the time, he was a Snuka fan, but Herb didn't want Foley to lose to Snuka. So he did that lumberjack matches are meant to prevent on the basis of, f*** it, it's Herb's show, you can go nuts.

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

Why didn’t the Dr Feelgood match have a title on the line?

[Toilet Paper Roll]

I think Herb Abrams misses the boat by not having enough pointless titles for people nobody cared about to fight over.


How many legit title changes did this company actually see? Like a challenger actually beating a current champion? I don’t remember one

[Deleted]

I've always wondered about the identity of Samson. Seems like he was a UWF project, did a few job matches in WWF, then vanished off the planet.

I say that as he was notoriously awful but Herbie was coked out of his mind over the dude.