Monster Wars

Monster Wars was a syndicated television show featuring United States Hot Rod Association monster truck racing. The show aired for one season between 1993-1994, and was the successor to the popular Super Trax. The show was hosted by Luann Lee (Actress singer), with Joe Lowe providing commentary, and Jim Davidson as a behind-the-scenes reporter.

The show was controversial within the monster truck community for its use of superhero-style mascots for several trucks. Before individual races, these mascots would often appear on screen, trash talking to one another. These trucks were also given new paint schemes, and in Predator's case, a new body, to match their characters (except for Grave Digger, which was the most popular truck on the show). Many saw the personification of trucks as representing the sport as similar to professional wrestling, and although a toy series and video game followed, the show was cancelled after one season.

Trucks

Results

Race #01

West Lebanon, NY. Lebanon Valley Speedway

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 1st

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 2nd

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 3rd

Predator Allen Pezo 4th

Taurus Eldon Depew 5th

Equalizer David Morris 6th

UFO Bob Fisher 7th

Monster Patrol Paul Shafer 8th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 9th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 10th

RACING BRACKETS

Equalizer over Bear Foot Taurus over Tropical Thunder Carolina Crusher over Monster Patrol Predator over Invader Grave Digger over UFO

fast losers: Bear Foot, UFO, Invader

Equalizer over Bear Foot Taurus over Carolina Crusher UFO over Predator -Predator Disqualified Grave Digger over Invader

Taurus over Equalizer Grave Digger over UFO -Grave Digger also rolled over

GRAVE DIGGER over Taurus

Race #02

Pueblo, CO. Pueblo County Fairgrounds

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Taurus Jack Willman, JR 1st

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 2nd

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 3rd

Predator Allen Pezo 4th

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 5th

Equalizer David Morris 6th

Kodiak Mark Bendler 7th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 8th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 9th

Troublemaker Jody Pederson 10th

RACING BRACKETS

Equalizer over Taurus Carolina Crusher over Troublemaker Grave Digger over Invader Predator over Tropical Thunder Bear Foot over Kodiak

Fast losers: Taurus, Invader, Kodiak

Equalizer over Taurus Grave Digger over Carolina Crusher Predator over Invader Bear Foot over Kodiak

Grave Digger over Equalizer Bear Foot over Predator

BEAR FOOT over Grave Digger -Grave Digger DQ (Red Light)

Race #03

Houston, TX. Astrodome

Truck: Driver: Qualifying:

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 1st

Taurus Jack Willman, JR. 2nd

Equalizer David Morris 3rd

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 4th

Predator Allen Pezo 5th

First Blood Rob Fuchs 6th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 7th

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 8th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 9th

Kodiak Mark Bendler 10th

RACING BRACKETS

Grave Digger over First Blood (broke) Predator over Kodiak Equalizer over Carolina Crusher Bear Foot over Tropical Thunder Taurus over Invader

Fast Losers: Carolina Crusher, Invader, and Kodiak

Grave Digger over Carolina Crusher Equalizer over Predator Bear Foot (broke) over Invader Taurus over Kodiak

Equalizer over Grave Digger Invader over Taurus

EQUALIZER over Invader -Invader rolled

Race #04

Jacksonville, FL. Gator Bowl

Truck: Driver: Qualifying:

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 1st

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 2nd

Equalizer David Morris 3rd

Taurus Jack Willman, JR 4th

Predator Allen Pezo 5th

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 6th

First Blood Rob Fuchs 7th

Kodiak Mark Bendler 8th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 9th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 10th

RACING BRACKETS

Carolina Crusher over Grave Digger -Grave Digger red lighted -This race was re ran after both had an equal qualifying time: 3.54. Predator over Invader Equalizer over Kodiak Taurus over Tropical Thunder Bear Foot over First Blood -First Blood was disqualified for going OB.

Fast Losers: Invader, Kodiak, and Tropical Thunder

Invader over Carolina Crusher -Carolina Crusher red lighted Equalizer over Predator Taurus over Kodiak Bear Foot over Tropical Thunder

Equalizer over Invader Bear Foot over Taurus

BEAR FOOT over Equalizer

Race #05

Louisville, KY Louisville Motor Speedway -This field had 11 trucks. The slowest/11th fast qualifier did not race.

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 1st

Kodiak Mark Bendler 2nd

First Blood Rob Fuchs 3rd

Monster Patrol Paul Shafer 4th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 5th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 6th

Predator Allen Pezo 7th

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 8th

Taurus Jack Willman, JR. 9th

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 10th

Equalizer David Morris 11th

RACING BRACKETS

Grave Digger over Invader Bear Foot over Tropical Thunder Carolina Crusher over First Blood Taurus over Monster Patrol Predator over Kodiak

Fast Losers: First Blood, Invader, Monster Patrol

Grave Digger over First Blood Carolina Crusher over Bear Foot Invader over Taurus Monster Patrol over Predator

Grave Digger over Carolina Crusher Monster Patrol over Invader

GRAVE DIGGER over Monster Patrol

Race #06 Pontiac, MI. Silverdome- Non Points Race aka The Monster Wars Invitational Challenge Only Monster Wars race to feature Bigfoot.

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Bigfoot Andy Brass 1st

Maximum Overkill Jerry Richmond 2nd

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 3rd

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 4th

Taurus Jack Willman, SR 5th

Equalizer David Morris 6th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 7th

First Blood Rob Fuchs 8th

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 9th

Kodiak Mark Bendler 10th

Rambo Bill Weaver 11th

Predator Allen Pezo 12th- DNF

RACING BRACKETS

Round 1.

Bigfoot bye run Taurus over Kodiak Carolina Crusher over Invader Bear Foot over Grave Digger -Grave Digger rolled Equalizer over Rambo Maximum Overkill over First Blood

fast losers: Rambo, First Blood

Round 2.

Bigfoot over Taurus -Taurus DQ- knocked over a pylon Bear Foot over Carolina Crusher Equalizer over Rambo Maximum Overkill over First Blood

Semi Finals:

Bigfoot over Bear Foot -Bear Foot broke on the final turn Equalizer over Maximum Overkill

Intermission: Dennis Anderson puts on a freestyle with Grave Digger

Finals:

Bigfoot over Equalizer

Race #07 West Lebanon, NY. Lebanon Valley Speedway

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 1st

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 2nd

Predator Allen Pezo 3rd

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 4th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 5th

UFO Bob Fisher 6th

Taurus Eldon Depew 7th

Equalizer David Morris 8th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 9th

Monster Patrol Paul Shafer 10th

RACING BRACKETS

Round 1.

Carolina Crusher over UFO Monster Patrol over Tropical Thunder Predator over Equalizer Bear Foot over Invader Grave Digger over Taurus

Fast Losers: Taurus, Equalizer, UFO

Round 2.

Taurus over Carolina Crusher Predator over Monster Patrol Bear Foot over Equalizer Grave Digger over UFO

Semi Finals:

Predator over Taurus Bear Foot over Grave Digger

Finals:

Predator over Bear Foot

Intermissions: Todd Seeley record jump with Motorcycle and Quad over a firey ring.

Race #08 Uniondale, NY. Nassau Coliseum Straight Line Course

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 1st

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 2nd

UFO Bob Fisher 3rd

Equalizer David Morris 4th

Predator Allen Pezo 5th

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 6th

Nitemare Kirk Dabney 7th

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 8th

Monster Patrol Paul Shafer 9th

Liquidator Mike Wales 10th

RACING BRACKETS

Round 1.

Carolina Crusher over Tropical Thunder Bear Foot over UFO Predator over Liquidator Monster Patrol over Equalizer Grave Digger over Nitemare

Fast loser: Equalizer

Round 2.

Carolina Crusher over Bear Foot Predator over Monster Patrol Grave Digger over Equalizer

Fast loser: Monster Patrol

Semi Finals:

Carolina Crusher over Predator Grave Digger over Monster Patrol

Finals:

Carolina Crusher over Grave Digger

Race #09 New Orleans, LA. Superdome

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 1st

Taurus Jack Willman, JR 2nd

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 3rd

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 4th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 5th

Kodiak Mark Bendler 6th

First Blood Rob Fuchs 7th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 8th

Predator Allen Pezo 9th

Equalizer David Morris 10th

RACING BRACKETS

Round 1.

Grave Digger over Kodiak -Kodiak rolls over on turn 2 Equalizer (Broke) over Tropical Thunder -Equalizer breaks suspension, not able to return to round 2 Bear Foot over Invader Carolina Crusher over Predator Taurus over First Blood

Fast Losers: Predator, First Blood, Invader

ROUND 2.

Grave Digger over Predator Bear Foot (Broke) over Tropical Thunder -Suspension. could not make the semi finals Carolina Crusher over First Blood Taurus over Invader

SEMI FINALS;

Grave Digger over Tropical Thunder (Broke) Taurus over Carolina Crusher

FINALS;

Grave Digger over Taurus

Round #10 West Lebanon, NY. Lebanon Valley Speedway

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 1st

Taurus Eldon Depew 2nd

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 3rd

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 4th

Predator Allen Pezo 5th

Monster Patrol Paul Shafer 6th

UFO Bob Fisher 7th

Equalizer David Morris 8th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 9th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 10th

Intermission: Green Mamba

ROUND 1.

Bear Foot over Monster Patrol Predator over Invader Equalizer over Carolina Crusher Grave Digger bye run Tropical Thunder broke Taurus over UFO

fast losers: Invader, Carolina Crusher, UFO

ROUND 2.

Bear Foot over Carolina Crusher Predator over Equalizer Grave Digger over UFO Taurus over Invader

SEMI FINALS;

Bear Foot over Predator Taurus over Grave Digger

FINALS;

Bear Foot over Taurus

Race #11 Tampa, FL. Tampa Stadium

Truck: Driver: Qualified:

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 1st

Predator Allen Pezo 2nd

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 3rd

Invader Ray Pirkowski 4th

Taurus Jack Willman, JR 5th

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 6th

Kodiak Mark Bendler 7th

Equalizer David Morris 8th

First Blood Rob Fuchs 9th

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 10th

Intermission: Todd Seeley Motorcycle Jump

ROUND 1.

Carolina Crusher over Grave Digger -Grave Digger lost the back rear tires Equalizer over Tropical Thunder Bear Foot over Taurus First Blood over Invader -Invader red lighted Kodiak over Predator

fast losers: Taurus, Tropical Thunder, Predator

ROUND 2.

Equalizer over Carolina Crusher Taurus over Bear Foot -Bear Foot crossed the line first, but DQ for missing the final set of cars Tropical Thunder over First Blood Predator over Kodiak

SEMI FINALS:

Equalizer over Taurus Tropical Thunder (broke) over Predator

FINALS

Equalizer over Predator

Race #12 Louisville, KY. Louisville Motor Speedway

Truck: Driver: Qualified

Bear Foot Fred Shafer 1st

Grave Digger Dennis Anderson 2nd

Predator Allen Pezo 3rd

Taurus Jack Willman, JR 4th

Equalizer David Morris 5th

Invader Ray Pirkowski 6th

Carolina Crusher Gary Porter 7th

First Blood Rob Fuchs 8th

Kodiak Mark Bendler 9th

Monster Patrol Paul Shafer 10th

Tropical Thunder Wayne Smozanek 11th

ROUND 1.

Bear Foot over Invader Equalizer over Monster Patrol (Red Light) Predator over First Blood (Broke) Kodiak over Taurus (Broke) Grave Digger over Carolina Crusher

Fast Losers: Carolina Crusher, Invader

ROUND 2.

Bear Foot bye run Equalizer over Predator Carolina Crusher over Kodiak Grave Digger over Invader

SEMI FINALS

Bear Foot over Equalizer Carolina Crusher over Grave Digger (DQ)

FINALS;

Bear Foot over Carolina Crusher