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42-538: Despite the format changes in its last years, the main focus of Prime Time Wrestling remained unchanged—recapping the highlights of the WWF's flagship syndicated programs and presenting exclusive matches taped from the house show circuit. Many of these were main event caliber and mid-card matches seldom seen on the syndicated programs, which tended to show primarily squash matches. Many wrestlers’ first WWF television appearances were also on this show. Selected matches from

84-531: A 30-second squash at WrestleMania V . Taylor would then primarily be used to put over other talent. While he still earned victories against enhancement talent, he was usually on the losing end against established stars. He worked a program with Mr. Perfect , losing to him at SummerSlam '89 and again on the November 25, 1989 episode of Saturday Night's Main Event XXIV . At Survivor Series '89 , he

126-649: A broadcaster and backstage interviewer, wrestling his last on screen match on the May 22, 1993 edition of WWF Mania against Tatanka . Taylor would leave the company in August 1993 after his final match, which was a house show match where he lost to Brutus Beefcake in Sheffield, England. Taylor returned to WCW again in September 1993, doing both commentary and in ring business. In January 1994 he teamed with Erik Watts in

168-823: A heated rivalry. After Jim Crockett Promotions took over the UWF later that year, Taylor (then the UWF Television Champion) initiated a dispute with Nikita Koloff over the NWA World Television Championship by stealing Koloff's belt, which led to a unification match of the two titles at Starrcade 1987 , which Taylor would lose before abruptly leaving the promotion. In early 1988, Taylor returned in World Class Championship Wrestling , where he and Adams continued their feud until early June. Taylor won

210-412: A long lasting very negative effect on Taylor's career as well. In 1990, Taylor returned to Jim Crockett Promotions, now renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW) following a sale to Turner Broadcasting System . Two months after signing, Taylor made his return in a win by disqualification over "Mean Mark" Callous . He later re-debuted as "Terry Taylor" and unsuccessfully challenged Arn Anderson for

252-651: A match for the vacated NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight title in Guangzhou, China . On May 20, 2011, Taylor was fired from the promotion. In 2012, Taylor was re-signed by WWE to work as a trainer in its developmental territory NXT . According to Pro Wrestling Torch in 2017, Taylor along with Shawn Michaels taught the finishing class at the WWE Performance Center , the last of four levels of classes. On April 12, 2004, Taylor had three vertebrae in his neck fused together. On April 3, 2006, he underwent

294-459: A month later with a series against Lance Cassidy . Taylor was primarily used to put over other talent. His most high profile match during this time was a loss to Randy Savage on the December 14, 1992 airing of Prime Time Wrestling . He appeared in the 1993 Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated in 24 seconds by Ted DiBiase . He worked house shows in the spring against Typhoon, then became

336-754: A road agent, trainer, interviewer and the director of talent relations in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . Since 2012, Taylor has worked as a trainer in WWE's developmental territory , NXT . Terry Taylor was a popular fan favorite for much of his early career in the Mid-South region, as well as the Mid-Atlantic in the 1980s. Taylor was originally selected to be part of The Fabulous Ones tag team with Stan Lane , but that role went to Florida wrestler, Steve Keirn . Taylor then formed

378-692: A road agent. Taylor lasted in this capacity until July 14, 2003, when he was released from his contract. Taylor began working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2003. Prior to becoming Head of Talent Relations, he also worked as a road agent, trainer, and interviewer. His only match for TNA was on September 24, 2003, where he defeated Kid Kash . While in TNA, Taylor wrestled for independent promotions, notably teaming with Cyrus in Canada for Ontario's Border City Wrestling and Manitoba's No Holds Barred promotions. On December 30, 2003, Tayor lost to Steve Williams in

420-447: A rooster. Early in his Red Rooster stint, the heel Taylor was described by Heenan as a novice wrestler who could not navigate his way through matches without constant instructions from his manager, despite objections from announcers such as Gorilla Monsoon who would recall him showing considerable promise in matches prior to Heenan's involvement. The Rooster made his pay-per-view debut in the main event of Survivor Series '88 , where he

462-816: A scaffold match, but lost when they were defeated by P. N. News and Bobby Eaton. For a time in late 1991-early 1992, Taylor teased a face turn by arguing with manager Alexandra York and the rest of the group. After the York Foundation disbanded, Taylor (billed as 'The Taylor Made Man') remained heel and formed a tag team with Greg Valentine in 1992. They held the WCW United States Tag Team Championship for three months. Taylor would make three appearances for Eastern Championship Wrestling during September and October 1992. He would defeat Larry Winters and lost twice to Tony Stetson . On September 21, 1992 Taylor returned to

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504-563: A special guest co-host alongside Piper in Piper's studio. The Red Rooster and The Brooklyn Brawler also appeared as guests in 1989 for the purpose of an angle where Lombardi knocked out Monsoon with a chair and beat up The Rooster, who had just fired Heenan as his manager. Rick Rude also guested in the summer of 1989 mostly to further his feud with Piper. Arnold Skaaland , Hillbilly Jim , Ted DiBiase , Koko B. Ware , Mr. Fuji , Demolition , Lord Alfred Hayes and Harley Race also stopped in

546-796: A tag team with Bobby Fulton called the Fantastic Ones. After they split up, Fulton teamed with Tommy Rogers to form The Fantastics . On June 7, 1981, Taylor won the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship from Les Thornton at the Roanoke Civic Center , dropping it back to him in the return match thirteen days later. Also wrestled for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, and Georgia Championship Wrestling in 1981 and 1982. Taylor made his way to Mid-South in January 1984 and feuded with

588-540: A televised loss to Pretty Wonderful on WCW Saturday Night . Wrestling as a face, Taylor began a program with "Diamond" Dallas Page and defeated him at SuperBrawl IV on February 20. As in the WWF, Taylor began commentary work and teamed with Tony Schiavone on play-by-play for WCW Power Hour . After wrestling The Honky Tonk Man and Tex Slazenger during the spring and summer, he ended his run with three straight victories over Jean Paul Levesque on an August house show tour of Texas. Taylor became an announcer for

630-522: A three-hour cervical fusion surgery in which his sixth and seventh vertebrae were joined. Following the second operation, he announced his retirement from the ring. Taylor is a born-again Christian and has appeared on some of the wrestling and religion shows that Ted DiBiase produces. Taylor has two sons. His wife and their mother Trudy (née Davidson) died of cancer on July 14, 2011. The Mid-Atlantic promotion in which Taylor and Steiner won

672-725: The American Wrestling Federation (AWF) in 1994. A fan of wrestling announcer Gordon Solie , Taylor would often use Solie's famous phrases, pronouncing a suplex as a "soo-play" and a clothesline as a "lariat." He defeated Blacktop Bully by disqualification on April 29, 1995 at an AWF event. Taylor spent several years in WCW working backstage, as a road agent and a writer. Along with Annette Yother, Craig Leathers, Eric Bischoff and Kevin Sullivan, he wrote content for Nitro and WCW pay-per-views . He made his return to

714-461: The CN Tower , and Churchill Downs , among others. These segments rarely had much to do with the actual wrestling content of the program, and were played primarily for the comic interaction between Monsoon and Heenan. Heenan and Monsoon co-hosted Prime Time from 1986 – 1991 . Roddy Piper replaced Heenan briefly in the summer of 1989 , during the period Heenan "took over" the last half-hour of

756-533: The Prime Time program for his own talk show ; after Heenan returned to the main program, Piper was retained for the remainder of 1989 as a second co-host. Piper's final episode was the Christmas 1989 episode, where he attacked Heenan for dressing like Santa and badmouthing the Christmas season and insulting kids. The Rosati Sisters, a group of overweight sisters who were fans of the WWF, were frequent guests on

798-644: The WCW World Television Championship on several occasions, with most of the matches ending in time-limit draws. In late 1990, Taylor began a short feud with Michael Wallstreet , which ended abruptly after Wallstreet jumped to the WWF. In January 1991, Taylor took Wallstreet's place in The York Foundation and a couple months later was renamed Terrence Taylor (It was customary for York Foundation members to use formalized versions of their first names and wear suits as part of

840-598: The "business" gimmick). He feuded with Tom Zenk , Dustin Rhodes and Bobby Eaton , and won the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championships with Richard Morton and Thomas Rich . Taylor was the senior wrestling member of the York Foundation and either was a singles wrestler or teamed with fellow York Foundation members during its existence. The exception was at The Great American Bash , when he teamed with “Stunning” Steve Austin in

882-554: The 2nd Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show on May 19, 1999, and on July 30, he lost to Chris Jericho at the Mark Curtis Comes Home Memorial Show. He remained with the company until WWF bought it out in March 2001. On August 9, 2001, he defeated Bobby Eaton at 4th Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show in a match refereed by Ricky Steamboat . In September 2002, Taylor returned to the now-renamed WWE as

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924-417: The August 1, 1988 airing of Prime Time Wrestling . After Houston was pinned, Taylor got on the mic and berated him for losing the match, before attacking him and turning heel. Taylor soon acquired Bobby "The Brain" Heenan as his manager and was rebranded "The Red Rooster", a gimmick which saw him don red tights and ring coat and, later as a babyface, style his hair like a rooster 's comb and strut like

966-502: The NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship is not the same promotion that was once owned by Jim Crockett Jr. and sold to Ted Turner in 1988. That promotion went on to be renamed World Championship Wrestling and was sold to World Wrestling Entertainment in 2001. This current promotion, however, operates within the same region as the original and uses some of the same regional championships, primarily

1008-908: The North American Heavyweight Championship, the Mid South region's top title at the time. Moving back to the Mid-South region in 1986, which been renamed the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF), Taylor became one of the promotion's biggest stars and defeated Buzz Sawyer for the UWF Television Championship in May. He won the UWF Tag Team Championship with "Gentleman" Chris Adams in early 1987, before breaking up their "Dream Team" to begin

1050-656: The Red Rooster gimmick. Heenan feigned wanting to make amends with Taylor on Prime Time Wrestling , but it was a set-up for Taylor to be ambushed by Heenan's new protege, long-time enhancement talent Steve Lombardi , who Heenan reinvented as "The Brooklyn Brawler". The two feuded, leading to the Rooster defeating the Brawler on the March 11, 1989 episode of Saturday Night's Main Event XX and then defeating Heenan in

1092-814: The Texas Heavyweight Championship from Matt Borne and defended it against Adams, Kevin Von Erich , and others. Terry also held the tag team title with Iceman King Parsons for a short time. Taylor eventually departed WCCW. In 1988, Taylor signed with the World Wrestling Federation . He made his initial debut in a house show defeating Tito Santana on July 10, 1988 in Las Vegas, NV. Three days later he made his televised debut as babyface "Scary Terry" Taylor, he teamed with Sam Houston against The Conquistadors on

1134-474: The WWF as a heel under the name "Terrific Terry Taylor" and continued to use his Red Rooster entrance theme but minus the rooster crows. His first match under this was when he defeated Jim Brunzell at a WWF Superstars taping in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was undefeated for his first month, gaining a series of house show victories over Jim Powers. In November he began a house show program with Max Moon , followed

1176-501: The WWF's old Tuesday Night Titans program. McMahon's last appearance as a co-host was the June 10, 1991, episode. In the weeks that followed, Gene Okerlund , Sean Mooney , and Gorilla Monsoon all filled in for McMahon as co-hosts. On the July 15, 1991, episode, Mooney became the official co-host of Prime Time alongside Heenan. The duo would remain the show's co-hosts until this format

1218-624: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 943876553 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:29:08 GMT Terry Taylor Paul Worden Taylor III (born August 12, 1955) is an American retired professional wrestler better known by his ring name Terry Taylor and for his time as an in-ring performer in National Wrestling Alliance , World Championship Wrestling , and World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment . From 2003 until 2011, he worked as

1260-445: The fact it was not considered one of the WWF's "primary" shows for most of its history. Many other wrestling programs—both produced by the WWF and by other companies—would attempt to copy this formula, with varying degrees of success. Although primarily a studio-based program, Prime Time would occasionally go on the road and tape its segments from various outside locations. Examples included Busch Gardens , Trump Plaza ,

1302-612: The panel. This format appears to have been inspired by the PBS series The McLaughlin Group , which was growing in popularity at this time. The final episode of Prime Time Wrestling aired on January 4, 1993. Monday Night Raw replaced the show in its timeslot the following week. Television syndication Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

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1344-1007: The past and present from WWF's flagship arenas of the time — Madison Square Garden in New York City , the Spectrum in Philadelphia the Boston Garden in Boston , and the Capital Centre in the Washington suburb of Landover, Maryland — that had aired on various regional sports networks were also aired on Prime Time Wrestling . Premiering on January 1, 1985, the original hosts of Prime Time Wrestling were Jesse Ventura and Jack Reynolds . Reynolds would co-host his final edition of Prime Time on July 9, 1985, with Gorilla Monsoon replacing him as Ventura's co-host

1386-698: The ring on April 20, 1996 in Little Rock, AR when he defeated Steve Regal and would occasionally wrestle on house shows over the next two and a half years. His last match came on September 23, 1998, when he faced Steve McMichael in Utica, NY at a house show. Taylor returned to the WWF in 1998, doing interviews backstage and sometimes commentary on WWF television. As with WCW, he would occasionally wrestle on live events. His first match would be against Kurt Angle on May 15, 1999 in Baltimore, MD. His final match

1428-407: The show from 1989 to 1990, also serving as assistants to Heenan on his show. At times, guests have appeared on the studio set for cameo appearances or to sub-host for someone. Gene Okerlund was the most frequent guest, sometimes stopping by on the set for no reason other than to antagonize Heenan. Okerlund also was a substitute host for the series whenever Monsoon or Heenan were away; Vince McMahon

1470-410: The studio as guests during the run of the series. On February 18, 1991, Prime Time changed formats to something vaguely resembling a talk/variety show, with an in-studio audience. Vince McMahon and Bobby Heenan hosted this version of Prime Time , with Lord Alfred Hayes serving as an announcer. WWF wrestlers were frequent guests during this particular incarnation of Prime Time , which was similar to

1512-639: The team of Nikolai Volkoff and Krusher Darsow . Darsow changed his name to Krusher Khruschev, and he and Taylor met in the finals of a May tournament to crown the first ever Mid-South TV champion , which Khruschev won. 45 days later, Taylor defeated Khruschev in New Orleans to begin his first of four TV title reigns. Taylor feuded with "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel over the NWA National Heavyweight Championship in 1985. On March 13 of that year, he defeated Ted DiBiase for

1554-541: The week after. Bobby Heenan made his first appearance as Monsoon's co-host on April 28, 1986, and officially replaced Ventura on June 30 of that same year. The best-remembered Prime Time format featured Heenan and Monsoon introducing taped matches and analyzing them afterward, with Monsoon taking a babyface and sometimes neutral position and Heenan unashamedly cheering on the heels , especially members of The Heenan Family . The chemistry between Monsoon and Heenan made this show popular with fans for many years, despite

1596-448: Was against Joey Abs on September 23, 1999. After conducting backstage interviews for a year in the WWF, Taylor returned to WCW yet again. He appeared in a backstage segment with Kimberly on Monday Nitro on November 15, 1999. During this run in WCW, Taylor co-hosted and provided commentary for WCW Saturday Night with Larry Zbyszko . While in WCW, Taylor would also wrestle for the independent promotions . He defeated Tom Prichard at

1638-486: Was also a substitute host when Monsoon fell ill in early 1988. Tony Schiavone also guest hosted an episode of the series along with Sean Mooney , with the explanation being that Monsoon and Heenan were at the Trump Plaza for Wrestlemania V. Also notably, Freddie Blassie made an appearance in late 1989, antagonizing Heenan for owing him money and turning face in the process. For the rest of the episode, he remained as

1680-446: Was discontinued after the November 4, 1991, episode. Prime Time' s final format debuted on November 11, 1991, and featured a panel of WWF personalities (including, at various points, Bobby Heenan, Gorilla Monsoon, Jim Duggan , Randy Savage , Mr. Perfect , Jerry Lawler , Slick , Sgt. Slaughter , and Hillbilly Jim ) participating in a roundtable discussion about the goings-on in the WWF. Vince McMahon served as host and moderator for

1722-536: Was part of Dusty Rhodes 's "Dream Team". Though Taylor was eliminated from the match, the Dream Team was victorious. The Rooster's last pay-per-view appearance was as a participant in the 1990 Royal Rumble match (replacing The Widow Maker ), where he lasted only two minutes before being eliminated by André the Giant . Taylor left the federation in June 1990, and "The Red Rooster" gimmick that he had used has left

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1764-472: Was the first wrestler eliminated from the match. On the January 7, 1989 episode of Saturday Night's Main Event XIX , the Rooster lost a match to Tito Santana due to being distracted by an argument with Heenan. Following the loss, Heenan slapped Taylor. Taylor, tired of Heenan's demeaning style of coaching, turned against his manager and attacked him. He became a face as a result, though he retained

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