''UWF Fury Hour'' is a

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television program that was produced by Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) and broadcast weekly every Monday night on

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from October 1, 1990, to September 23, 1991. The show was part of the network's ''Feet, Fists and Fury'' programming block that also included kickboxing and

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. A

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occurred during a semifinal SportsChannel Television Championship Tournament match between Steve Ray and Steve Williams that aired in May 1991. Allegedly,

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thought Ray was sleeping with his wife and paid Williams extra money to rough Ray up during the bout. Ray would claim years later that this was a worked shoot. After months without television, the company signed a deal with

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for new episodes. These new episodes taped at

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began airing as ''UWF Thunder Hour'' on Sunday nights in July 1992. In March 1995, existing ''Fury Hour'' and ''Thunder Hour'' episodes were repackaged to a half-hour format and aired daily on

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. Those same 24 repackaged episodes later re-aired on

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between 2008 and 2013. Steve Ray tried suing ESPN Classic in 2014 for using his likeness during these rebroadcasts, but was unsuccessful. ESPN Classic Canada reran the original one-hour format episodes of ''Fury Hour'' and ''Thunder Hour'' in 2004.

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