Even though Mantell and Cooley were about to feud for the two most important titles in the area, the focus remained the whip, simply because Mantell had used it to injure people since his re-arrival. On the next show, taped June 15, Mantell came to the ring with a brown paper bag. He took care of his opponent in short order, then saw Cooley up at the podium, helping Mr. Solie call the match. Mantell called for Collins to bring him a microphone.

”I see you up there,” Mantell said, kneeling over the bag. “And I guess you think you¹ve put something over on me, don’t you?...I called my granddaddy, Sagebrush Mantell. And when I told him about what happened, he was hot - hotter than a Texas summer. But he sent me something. And I’ve got something for you.”

Mantell opened the bag, slowly pulling out a whip even longer than Shoobaby. He called it “Superwhip,” and challenged Cooley to a match where the ring’s ropes would be dropped and both men would bring the whips to the ring. The man who had to get out of the ring would lose the match.

Things were spiced up a bit a week later when Mantell, trying to get Shoobaby back, got into an argument with CCW general manager Ron West, also the promotion's top referee. Mantell went over the top, whipping West and drawing the blood from his back.  Mantell left the scene with the whip, but then went to Gordon Solie to brag to the TV audience. He was met by West and Cooley, and West yanked the whip from his grasp.

I'm taking the whip!," an angry West shouted. "And another thing... This match coming up? When you step in the ring, I'll be the referee. And you call yourself "Dirty" Dutch Mantell? When I get through, I'll be the dirtiest referee you ever seen."

The whip-on-the-pole match was taped as part of the June 29, 1987 TV taping for air on Saturday, July 4, and did not disappoint. The broadcast opened with Cooley and Mr. Solie lauding the match. Rather than save it for the end of the show, the match started just after the show¹s opening, and went for about 20 minutes, with both wrestlers teasing getting the whip.

Finally, Cooley did get the whip, but Mantell caught him with a hard clothesline when he got down, snagging the whip. Mantell began to whip Cooley, but West, when Mantell snapped the whip back, grabbed the whip and tried to use it himself.  West couldn't use the whip, not really, but distracted Mantell long enough for Cooley to recover. Cooley eventually got the whip, and just as he was popping it at Mantell, an enhancement-talent guy from the back brought Mantell "Superwhip."  The match ended in a no-decision.