Ricky Steamboat: "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, wrestling fans across the world that are gonna be watching this pay-per-view tonight. That's right. It gives me great pleasure to stand in this squared circle, and the many times that I was in this circle... and throughout my wrestling career would someday be a world champion, and it did happen, on that memorable night with Ric Flair, the Nature Boy --- Chicago, 1989 --- and became an NWA World Champion. You know something, ladies and gentlemen --- this belt, of all the championships I've won, and all these gentlemen that stand here with me, this belt means more to me and to them than any championship I've ever held in my life - the NWA Championship. This belt, to us and in this business of wrestling, is like the Stanley Cup is to hockey players, it is like the Super Bowl to football players, the World Series to baseball players, winning Wimbledon for the tennis players - this is what this belt means to us in our sport --- to be the NWA Heavyweight Champion is the ultimate goal! Yes. You know, ladies and gentlemen, tonight there have been a selected twenty wrestlers through these NWA representatives, that are going to be going the 'Gauntlet For The Gold', and that's for this belt. And also through these good friends of mine, and some old foes, they have chosen me that when it comes down to the final two wrestlers, that I am going to be the special referee for this belt." ... Read on!