Fury Hour
| UWF Fury Hour | |
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UWF Fury Hour logo |
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| Format | Professional wrestling |
| Created by | Herb Abrams |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 69 (SportsChannel America) 24 (ESPN2) |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multicamera setup |
| Running time | approximately 1 hour per episode |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | SportsChannel America |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original run | 1990 – 1993 |
In 1990, the company signed a deal with national cable network SportsChannel America. A weekly program called Fury Hour debuted in October 1990 and ran until 1993. The program also featured matches from the Wild Women of Wrestling promotion.
In 1991, Herb Abrams was owed money by Steve Ray and wrongly suspected that Ray was sleeping with his wife. On May 10, 1991 during a television taping at Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, Abrams paid Steve Williams an extra $100 for the night to break Ray's nose during their match. The ensuing shoot aired in its entirety on an episode of Fury Hour.
In 1995, existing episodes were repackaged to a half-hour format and aired on ESPN2. Those same 24 episodes re-aired on ESPN Classic between January and March 2008. ESPN Classic started re-airing these episodes on February 4, 2009. ESPN Classic Canada reran original one-hour format episodes of Fury Hour in 2004.
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