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Cliff Notes Version: -Steve Stack announced that Bruiser Brody has been indefinitely suspended for hitting referee Juan Reynosa with a chair after the San Antonio Street Fight w/Jim Duggan -Jim Duggan challenged Tully Blanchard to a Southwest Heavyweight Title match and asked Stanley Blackburn to force him into it because he knew Tully wouldn't accept -The Texas Dynasty & Mr. Saito interrupted the show to brag about winning back the Southwest Tag Team Titles -David Von Erich was pissed about Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas carrying Sunshine away from the ring last Sunday & promised that one or both of them would be pay severly -David Von Erich mocked Steve Pardee as his challenger for the TV Title and said Pardee was used to facing old men past their prime and wasn't ready for him -Tully refused Duggan's challenge for a Southwest Title match and instead Mr. Saito made his own challenge to Jim Duggan -Mr. Saito demanded to face 2 Americans to prove his superiority to American wrestlers and squashed Mike Fever & Jimmy Doo in a handicap match that lasted less than a minute -Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas talked about their upcoming Southwest Tag Team Title match against The Texas Dynasty -The Fabulous Ones interrupted their interview and asked them to step aside so The Fabs could have a rematch for the titles they had stolen from them -Ken Lucas refused to give up the Southwest Tag Team Title match and left the interview area when The Fabs challenged him to fight for it -The Fabs were ticked off and said they were going to take it out on their opponents, Yin & Yang, Sunday night at The HemisFair Arena -Bill Ash defeated Josh Stroud by submission and then broke his leg after the match by refusing to break the hold, later revealed to be The Fuller Leglock -Roy Lee Welch revealed the unique hold that Ash used was The Fuller Leglock, only ever used by 3 men in professional wrestling his uncle Buddy & cousins Ron & Robert -Welch said it hurt him to know someone in his family taught Ash that hold to use it to break his leg but promised to break Ash's leg instead -Bruiser Costa challenged The Canadian to find a partner and face him & Terry Adonis Sunday night in response to The Canadian walking out of a 6 man tag the previous week -Jose Lothario says he didn't run away from El Gran Apollo last Sunday, he simply tried to spare Apollo from injury but promised to end his career with the Spike Piledriver for demanding a rematch -Mike Masters promised to avenge his DQ loss to Steve Pardee from a few weeks ago this Sunday and said if Tiny Anderson didn't defeat newcomer Larry Hamilton he would not longer be Anderson's mentor and training partner -Mil Mascaras said that the fight against Jose and Mr. Mexico is he and El Gran Apollo's fight to win and they will do it for all the Spanish speaking people Jose & Mr. Mexico have insulted -El Gran Apollo cut an emotional promo in Spanish that promised revenge on Jose Lothario -Mil Mascaras & El Gran Apollo defeated Ali Bey & Juan Reynosa in dominating fashion -Steve Pardee said there was some truth to what David said about Lord Alfred's men being past their prime but that they were still tough competitors and he was ready for the challenge -David Von Erich defeated Steve Pardee to retain the Southwest TV Title after Sunshine knocked Pardee's foot off the rope before the referee saw it to stop counting Scheduled for Sunday, October 2nd at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX Southwest Tag Team Titles: Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas vs. The Texas Dynasty Jim Duggan vs. Mr. Saito Jose Lothario & Mr. Mexico vs. Mil Mascaras & El Gran Apollo Roy Lee Welch vs. Bill Ash Yin & Yang vs. The Fabulous Ones Mike Masters vs. Steve Pardee Bruiser Costa & Terry Adonis vs. The Canadian & ? Larry Hamilton vs. Tiny Anderson

Taped at The Junction in San Antonio, TX on 9/26 Southwest Championship Wrestling airing on Saturday 10/1 in local markets -Show intro- Steve Stack: Welcome to another edition of Southwest Championship Wrestling! Like every week we have an exciting hour of action in store but before we get to any of that, I have a big announcement to make. Due to the actions of Bruiser Brody on Sunday night, attacking referee Juan Reynosa with a steel chair after his loss to Jim Duggan, Stanley Blackburn has suspended Bruiser Brody indefinitely! This means that both men that Sheik Adnan has hired as mercenaries have both been suspended and who knows what the Sheik's response to this will be. But we're about to find out what 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan's response is because here he comes right now! Jim Duggan: I told everyone last week that the 'Hacksaw' was going to cut the big bad Bruiser Brody down to size and that's just what happened in our San Antonio Street Fight last Sunday night! Not taking anything away from the man, it was maybe the toughest fight I've ever been in but I came out with my hand raised. Now it looks like the Sheik hasn't run out of money but he has run out of men. So now with that out of the way there's only one thing I want to do. And that's beat Tully Blanchard for the Southwest Heavyweight Title! These people deserve a Southwest champion that they can be proud of and I'm not sure even Tully's own mother can be proud of him. I know Tully is never going to accept my challenge on his own, so let me put it to Stanley Blackburn instead. The people want to see that match and you're the one who can make it happen, so let's get it done! -Jim Duggan walks off from the interview area Steve Stack: Well fans there you have it! Jim Duggan has made his intentions known, he wants a shot at the Southwest Heavyweight Title held by Jim Duggan and we'll see if we can get a response from Tully Blanchard later in the hour. Right now we have to take our first commercial break, but don't go away because when we come back we'll talk about how The Texas Dynasty got the Southwest Tag Team Titles back in their possession and we'll get a look at Bill Ash in action against newcomer to the area, Josh Stroud! -First commercial break- Steve Stack: We're back and they weren't scheduled to come out here yet but here they are, The Texas Dynasty and their newest ally Mr. Saito. Tully Blanchard: We heard you say you were going to talk about how we got the Southwest Tag Team Titles back and we wanted to make sure you didn't tell any lies out here. We know how you're biased in favor of The Fabulous Ones so we didn't want you out here making any excuses for them. David Von Erich: The reason that we have OUR Southwest Tag Team Titles back is because we're the better team, plain and simple. They got one lucky fluke win and as you can see, we rectified that last Sunday night. We've beaten The Fabs more times than I can remember now and it's time to move on, we're facing a different team this Sunday night and as far as I'm concerned we're finished defending these titles against The Fabulous Ones. Steve Stack: So it doesn't have anything to do with Mr. Saito interfering in the match and dropping Steve Keirn on his head? Mr. Saito: Hey I Japanese wrestler! I have honor, I never interfere in match like cheating American. Tully Blanchard: That's right Steve Stack! Don't insult this man's honor, he's the finest athlete, the finest wrestler that Japan has ever produced and now he's here in Texas. Steve Stack: Well let me ask just WHY he is now here in Texas and obviously aligned with yourself and David Von Erich? David Von Erich: That's simple Steve Stack. Not only are Tully and I the hottest tag team in all of professional wrestling, we also come to the ring with the hottest woman in all of Texas, and maybe the world, my girlfriend Sunshine. And you saw last Sunday night what happens if we don't have a bodyguard by her side, some disgusting lowlifes like Eddie Gilbert & Ken Lucas came down to the ring to carry Sunshine back to the dressing room to try and do who knows what to her! Steve Stack: Now let's not get carried away David, they carried her away from ringside to keep her from interfering in the match and hitting one of The Fabulous Ones with her loaded purse the way she's done in recent weeks to both Eddie Gilbert and Ken Lucas. David Von Erich: You're right Steve Stack, let's not get carried away and have you interrupt me again. Eddie Gilbert and Ken Lucas put their hands on MY woman and they are going to pay this Sunday night because one or both of them isn't going to be walking away from the ring and that's a promise. Steve Stack: David you're defending you TV Title in the main event today against a young man who has been very successful since his arrival here in Southwest Championship Wrestling, Steve Pardee. Do you have any thoughts on your opponent today? David Von Erich: Yea he might have had some success against the old, out of shape relics that Lord Alfred Hayes keeps digging up. But today he's got to face someone in the very prime of their career, someone who doesn't wrestle at half speed or who is twice his age. I'm not too concerned about Steve Pardee and I'm confident I'll be leaving the ring still the Southwest Television Champion. Steve Stack: Well before you two go, Tully do you have an answer to the challenge by Jim Duggan? Tully Blanchard: I don't have time right now to concern myself with Jim Duggan and as far as I'm concerned he still hasn't proven himself worth of a shot at my Southwest Heavyweight Title. But if he really wants to get me in the ring, he'll have to accept a challenge coming at his direction first. A challenge from my good friend Mr. Saito. -Tully and David walk off Mr. Saito: Jim Duggan you challenge my friend Tully Blanchard but you no deserve a title match. You don't do nothing, you don't beat nobody and you never can beat me. All Japan wrestling fan want to see what Saito doing here, everywhere I go photographer from Japan follow me and take picture my matches. I'm number one karate, number one judo, number one wrestler and if you step in ring with me I break you! Now I want to show you how strong is Mr. Saito!. You give me two American wrestler in the ring now and I beat them like nothing! 2 American wrestler can not beat the number one wrestler from Japan and I show you right now! -Mr. Saito heads down to the ring Steve Stack: Fans we were scheduled to have Bill Ash vs. Josh Stroud as our first match on TV today but I don't think Mr. Saito is going to leave the ring until he gets his wish and has a handicap match so let's see if we have anyone who was ready for a standby match that is willing to come out here and wrestle him. Steve Stack: Well Mr. Saito might not have been telling the truth about his involvement in the tag team title change but he certainly seemed to be telling the truth about his ability. He just took out two men in less than a minute and his version of the Sleeper looks to be very deadly. Our format is kind of out of the window now but when we come back hopefully we'll talk to Eddie Gilbert and Ken Lucas about their Southwest Tag Team Title match this Sunday night and see Bill Ash facing off against Josh Stroud. -Second commercial break- & Steve Stack: Welcome back to Southwest Championship Wrestling and standing with me now are the two men who will face The Texas Dynasty for the Southwest Tag Team Titles in the main event this Sunday night, Eddie Gilbert and Ken Lucas! Now we've seen you two have your problems with The Texas Dynasty in singles competition over the past few weeks but this is your first time facing them together as a team, what do you plan to do to counteract their tendency to do anything and everything to walk out of the ring with their titles? Ken Lucas: You said it Steve Stack, they aren't afraid to stoop to the absolute depths to keep their belts including having a woman doing their dirty work for them with a loaded purse. We tried to keep that from happening to The Fabulous Ones last Sunday night but they still had another trick up their sleeve with Mr. Saito coming from out of nowhere. There's really nothing we can do to account for their tricks except to try to have eyes in the back of our head. Eddie Gilbert: Maybe people are going to count us out because we don't have a woman in our corner with a brick in their purse or a big goon to run in and drop our opponents on their head. But what we have that The Texas Dynasty don't have is heart and we're used to being counted out and still finding a way. I don't think a lot of people expected me to beat Charlie Cook weeks ago on this TV program but I did and now Charlie Cook is gone and I'm still here, getting ready to strap one of the Southwest Tag Team Titles around my waist this Sunday night! -Suddenly The Fabulous Ones come out Steve Keirn: We didn't come out here to start trouble, first of all we wanted to thank you guys for trying to help us last Sunday night by removing Sunshine from ringside. But you know just like we do that we were cheated out of the Southwest Tag Team Titles and we feel like it's not right for anyone, even a worthy team like you guys, to get a shot at those belts before we get our rematch. Ken Lucas: We don't have anything to do with that Steve, we don't make the matches. Stan Lane: We know that and we talked to Stanley Blackburn once we found out that we didn't get a rematch and he said that if you two agreed to step aside this week that he would put us in your place. And once we beat The Texas Dynasty and take back the Southwest Tag Team Titles, we'll give you two the first shot at them. Ken Lucas: You guys are putting me on the spot here, but we have our own issue with The Texas Dynasty. We feel we're deserving of a title shot and we already have the contract. We've been training hard all week to face The Texas Dynasty and we don't want to give up our match. I'm sorry guys but we're not going to give up our match. Steve Keirn: Well if you won't give it up why don't we fight over it? The format for today's show is already thrown out the window, we'll go get in the ring right now and settle it that way. Ken Lucas: Hey come on guys we're not gonna put our title shot on the line like that, we've already got it guaranteed in writing. We're sorry you guys feel screwed over by Stanley Blackburn but we didn't have anything to do with it and we're not going to stand our here and get sucked into a fight, let's go Eddie. -Ken Lucas and Eddie Gilbert walk off from the interview area, leaving The Fabulous Ones fuming Stan Lane: Well that's just great! Why do they get a title shot ahead of us when we already beat The Texas Dynasty and they had to steal the belts back from us by having Mr. Saito come down and help them?! Steve Stack: Guys I can't answer that question but you can't really fault them for not wanting to give up their title shot. I've got you two facing Yin & Yang this Sunday night on my lineup for the HemisFair Arena and with them being undefeated in the area I'm sure if you guys win that match you'll be right back in the main event against The Texas Dynasty next week. Steve Keirn: We don't want to wait until next week! We should have been given our rematch this week and if Yin & Yang can speak English they should be calling Stanley Blackburn to get out of that match because whoever we step in the ring with this Sunday night is going to get our frustrations taken out on their hide! -The Fabulous Ones storm off from the interview area Steve Stack: Alright well let's try and send it down to the ring now for Josh Stroud vs. Bill Ash before my format sheet gets even more out of wack! Steve Stack: That's one of the strangest, most painful submission holds I have ever seen! I have no idea what that move is called but I think Bill Ash just broke that young man's leg! Look at the pain and agony on Josh Stroud's face, something is seriously wrong with his leg! Fans we have to go to a commercial break but I hope we can give you some kind of information on that move and Josh Stroud's condition when we come back. -Third commercial break- Steve Stack: Fans we're back and with me now is Roy Lee Welch who tells me he can identify just what that submission hold was. Roy Lee Welch: Steve I know exactly what that move is, and I know just how devastating it can be in the wrong hands. Unfortunately I can only confirm your suspicions because I know with the way that Bill Ash put that move on that there is no way that he didn't break Josh Stroud's leg. That move is something I've only ever seen from 3 men all of them in my family. That move is called the Fuller Leglock and it was created by my uncle Buddy Fuller and passed down to his sons Robert and Ron Fuller. The fact that Bill Ash has the audacity to use that hold disgusts me but the reality of the matter is there is no way he taught himself how to do that move. He had to have been taught that hold by my cousin Robert or my cousin Ron and for either one of them to teach him that move solely to come down to Texas and use it on me breaks my heart. But it's NOT going to break my leg! There's no way Bill Ash is going to get that move on me and my Spinning Toe Hold is just as capable of breaking a leg as the Fuller Leglock and Bill Ash is going to find that out this Sunday night! -Roy Lee Welch leaves the interview area and Terry Adonis & Bruiser Costa come in Bruiser Costa: Hold on Steve Stack! I'll introduce us! You people are looking at the best kept secret in Southwest Championship Wrestling! We've been teaming here for over a month now and this is the first time we've been given any TV time?! That's a joke and you know it Steve Stack! Steve Stack: Look I don't have anything to do with that you'll have to take that up with Stanley Blackburn! You two did ask me for a moment to make a challenge to The Canadian after what happened last week at The HemisFair Arena and even with the format going out the window today I still made sure you got your time so go ahead and make your challenge. Bruiser Costa: Hey we're out here and this is our time for as long as we say it's our time so don't rush me! Last week at The HemisFair Arena we got stuck teaming with the masked goof The Canadian in a 6 man tag and he had the nerve to boot my partner Terry Adonis in the fact and then run off when I demanded he explain himself! Well Canadian, if that's even your real name, you aren't gonna be able to run from us this week because I'm calling you out! You find any partner who is stupid enough to team with a snake like you and meet us in the ring Sunday night where we are gonna beat your brains in and take that mask off you and expose your ugly face to the world! Now you can move on with your precious format sheet Steve Stack, the best part of the show is over because we're out of here! -Terry Adonis and Bruiser Costa leave the interview area and Jose Lothario and Mr. Mexico come in Steve Stack: And now before we have to take our next break I want to bring in Jose Lothario and Mr. Mexico and talk to them about their match last week against Mil Mascaras and El Gran Apollo and their rematch against then this Sunday night. Jose, I know you're going to argue with me about this but there is no other way to put it in my mind, you and Mr. Mexico ran from the ring last Sunday night rather than wrestle El Gran Apollo. Jose Lothario: Of course I'm going to argue with you Steve Stack, once again you are out here lying about me because you are the leader of the Mil Mascaras fan club and I guess now you're getting ready to start one for El Gran Apollo. The real reason I left the ring rather than lockup with El Gran Apollo is that I was doing it for his own safety. Steve Stack: You are saying you walked out of the match for El Gran Apollo's sake? Jose Lothario: Yes, do you suddenly not understand English? Necesito decirlo en español para ti? Steve Stack: No, that's ok I understand English just fine but why are saying it was for Apollo's sake? Jose Lothario: Because I told you weeks ago the man is a nothing, a nobody, a punk who shouldn't even be in this sport. I would know best I took him under my wing and tried to mentor him before I realize he has nothing between his ears but dirt. If he and I were to wrestle each other I would destroy him, it would be like a trained pit bull fighting a chihuahua. I gave him a week's reprieve to forget the lies he was told by Mil Mascaras, to forget his false dreams of being able to get revenge on me for how I humiliated him before I turn them into a nightmare. But the fool, the tonto that he is he asked for a rematch and now the contract is signed and we will be in the ring against each other again this Sunday night. Well let me tell you something Steve Stack all these people who are still cheering for El Gran Apollo when their real hero, Mr. Mexico, is standing right beside me better come down to the HemisFair Arena Sunday night. Because it is the last time they will ever have the chance to see El Gran Apollo in the ring because after he gets hit with the Spike Piledriver he will be lucky if he ever walks again much less steps into a wrestling ring. -Jose Lothario and Mr. Mexico leave Steve Stack: Those are some tough words from Jose Lothario and we'll see if he has any intentions of backing them up because he certainly didn't seem ready to do so last week. We've got to take another time out for our sponsors but don't go away because when we come back we'll not only talk to Mil Mascaras and El Gran Apollo but we will see them in action! -Fourth commercial break- & Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and before we talk to Mil Mascaras and El Gran Apollo and see them in action I wanted to get a quick word with Mike Masters and Tiny Anderson. Mike I heard a rumor that you've sworn off teaming with Tiny Anderson again until he gets in better shape, is that true? Mike Masters: Yes it's true! I'm sick of this big load weighing me down! If I had a partner who could pull his own weight, or one who had a loss less of it to pull, I'd be one half of the tag team champions by now! This Sunday night I got a rematch with Steve Pardee and I'm gonna right the wrong of what happened a few weeks ago when Lord Alfred Hayes and one of his grumpy old men caused me to lose by DQ. I'm gonna make Steve Pardee submit or pass out in the Full Nelson and Tiny Anderson is going to have a chance to prove himself worthy of the time I've taken to train him up by facing a newcomer to the area, some guy named 'Thunderbolt' Larry Hamilton. Steve Stack: Well he's not just "some guy" he's a former AAU amateur wrestling champion and a fine athlete who has been making a name for himself in the Alabama area as of late. Mike Masters: He's just some nobody to me, I never heard of him! And Tiny, you better make sure you win this match! I'm not even going to waste my time coming down to ringside to be in your corner, if you can't beat this guy on your own then I'm done wasting my time on you. -Mike Masters and Tiny Anderson leave the interview area and Mil Mascaras and El Gran Apollo come in Steve Stack: I know you two heard what Jose Lothario had to say out here earlier so let me just ask you your thoughts on his comments and your rematch against Jose and Mr. Mexico this Sunday night. Mil Mascaras: Steve you and I both know, and all these people know that Jose Lothario is a liar. This man beside me is a great young athlete, a wrestler who is destined to become a great hero to our people and Jose is only jealous that his star can't shine forever. Instead of trying to help the next generation of Spanish speaking stars he wants to tear one down and put that impostor under the mask of my country. Well now all that is finished. The Spike Piledrivers are over, the injuries that he inflicted on Omar Atlas and Mando Guerrero will not be inflicted on El Gran Apollo or myself. This Apollo's fight and my fight and together we will win it. El Gran Apollo: I am sorry but I no have the words in English to say what I feel in my heart. So I only can say it in Spanish so Jose can understand me. José tu me humillaste. Yo confie en ti. Tu fuistes mi mentor y yo pensaba que juntos seríamos campeones. Pero tu orgullo y los celos arruinaron todo eso. No pensé que tenía la fuerza para luchar contra ti. Pero Mil Mascaras me convenció que regresara a Texas y pelear. No sólo para mí sino para el orgullo de mi pueblo que has insultado.Yo no deseo lastimarte de la forma en que has lastimado Omar Atlas o Mando Guerrero. Pero quiero hacerte sentir el dolor que sentí cuando me traicionaste. No sólo en tu cuerpo, pero en tu mente y en tu corazón. Este Domingo si corres te voy a perseguir y voy a tener mi venganza sobre ti. Y si el impostor a tu lado intenta detenerme voy a arrancar la máscara de su rostro y exponerlo por el fraude que es. Steve Stack: Mil I didn't have time to ask Rapido to come out here and translate for me, could you tell me what Apollo just said? Mil Mascaras: Steve his words will be understood by those who need to understand them the most, Jose Lothario and our people who he has insulted. If you really want to understand what he said, be in the HemisFair Arena Sunday night and you will see clearly with your eyes what your ears did not understand. Steve Stack: Well fans I'm sorry we couldn't get a full translation for you for what Apollo said but I'm quite certain you can tell from the emotion in his voice that he's looking for revenge on Jose Lothario. Let's send it down to the ring now where Ali Bey & Juan Reynosa are waiting to take on Mil Mascaras and El Gran Apollo! Steve Stack: El Gran Apollo looks fired up and ready for action this Sunday night! Ladies and gentleman don't even think about changing that channel because when we come back we'll have our main event of the program with David Von Erich defending the Southwest Television Title against the bane of Lord Alfred Hayes' existence, Steve Pardee! -Fifth and final commercial break- Steve Stack: We're back on Southwest Championship Wrestling and before we head to the ring for our TV Title match I'd like to get a quick word with the challenger, Steve Pardee! Steve we've seen you defeat everyone that Lord Alfred Hayes has brought in to battle you so far in Moose Cholak, Stan Stasiak and now you've unmasked The Avenger and revealed him to be Moose Morowski. Do you feel your days of battling Lord Alfred's men are over? Steve Pardee: Well that's question better answered by Lord Alfred Hayes but I can only hope so. I'd like to move on with my career now and hopefully I'll do that today by becoming the Southwest Television Champion. Steve Stack: Well you've certainly got a tough competitor you'll have to beat to achieve that goal in David Von Erich. What do you think about David's comments that you've been wrestling people who are perhaps a bit past their prime and that you're not prepared to face someone at the top of their game like he is? Steve Pardee: I don't want to run down any of the men I've faced over the past few months, they've all been tough competitors and none of them have been easy matches but there is some truth to what he's saying. Lord Alfred's men have been on the downswing of their career more than coming up but that doesn't mean I'm not ready to face someone like David Von Erich. I look forward to the challenge and I know if I can get him in the Bulldog that was taught to me by Scott Casey then I'll leave here today as the Southwest TV Champion. -Steve Pardee heads down to the ring Steve Stack: Well good luck to you and good luck in your match this Sunday night against Mike Masters. Alright ladies and gentlemen it's time for our main event so let's not waste any more time and send it down to the ring where Steve Pardee is just now stepping through the ropes and awaiting the arrival of the champion, David Von Erich. Steve Stack: That's no way to defend a championship! David Von Erich should be embarrassed to win a match that way and I hope that Steve Pardee will get a rematch, maybe even right here next week! Well fans we're out of time but don't miss your chance to see a huge night of action at the HemisFair Arena as The Texas Dynasty defend the Southwest Tag Team Titles against Eddie Gilbert and Ken Lucas, 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan squares off against Mr. Saito, Mil Mascaras and El Gran Apollo take on Jose Lothario and Mr. Mexico, The Fabulous Ones do battle with Yin and Yang and much much more! And make sure to tune in next week for more Southwest Championship Wrestling because you never know just what might happen in the most exciting hour of professional wrestling television on the planet!

Yea I actually think the Rollins/Kane feud has been well done. It's one of the rare times they've actually had a STORY instead of just "well let's have these guys trade wins until a PPV at which point we'll forget that whole thing ever happened and have them both move on"

Steve Stack is all the commentary team I need and uhh whoever the hell my ring announcer is, he's doing a fine job also.

I uploaded the whole Hansen/Colon feud as one video:

I'm fine with that unless I get a bad spot in the order at which point I will demand a re-do by goodhelmet

That Winnipeg card is loaded! Crusher & Tanaka vs. The Princes of Poland has a lot of heat behind it as does Garvin vs. Iceman and Hogan teaming up with The Road Warriors is a huge ticket seller on it's own. Add in a big time cage match between The Wild Bills and The Fabs and you should have them hanging from the rafters.

Not greedy!? You took Ron Ritchie AND Rick McCord!

No but we pretty much already agreed to give him until the 7th to boot him out

Well if we're trying to keep the draft process moving quickly I thing we'd be better off not giving Flyin' Brian a spot in the draft order and assuming he isn't coming back (while still giving him another week to pop back up)

That would make some of things I read about old time wrestlers feeling Karadagain was going to kill of wrestling in Argentina by getting too far away from "serious wrestling" when he started up Titanes seem very ridiculous.

We're waiting on October 7th to hear from ICW so he still might be able to pick up a full promotion. Or take over writing the Alabama developmental since kevin got promoted to Memphis.

Yea pretty much that's what I was thinking. I think there should be a limit if you don't drop anyone so that the free agent option doesn't just totally disappear with people stockpiling.

Something like that yea. But if the time limit was up and no one else was interested in using him then you could keep doing it until someone else put in a claim.

A waiver wire seems really unnecessary considering how long those guys are sitting on the free agent list with 0 interest. It should just be first come first serve. I think you should be able to use the guys on the free agent list if you want without having to drop anyone but they also don't become yours exclusively. You should get to claim them for a set amount of shows to be exclusive to your roster but after that number is up someone else can take them. You can use them more than the limit but you can't block someone else from using them after that.

I know that Abdullah the Butcher is in New Japan the whole month of January 1984. I can't find any results for Stan Hansen from January don't know if he was just taking time off or what. Brody & Mil Mascaras seem to have both spent the month in the U.S. so seems their calendar is open for the month. The Sheik has no results at all for 1984 on wrestlingdata so I don't know the story there.

I'm not sure. I do know that WWE wasn't making money from ads during any of the period that people are trying to point to for Edge being a TV draw. (Mostly my argument here is if you're voting Edge for TV ratings you better add Jerry Jarrett to your ballot)

Although I want to say that if TV ratings are now a viable metric to use for arguing that someone is a draw (and personally I find it shaky ground) it makes Jerry Jarrett not being in the HOF even more of a joke when Memphis Wrestling was on over half the TVs that were turned on on Saturday morning in that market.

Yea I understand how advertisers look at it, and agree it seems like a really stupid view of things. But people get so caught up in the ratings that they'll go off talking about "See the ratings are down! That confirms that I was right when I trashed them for doing *insert thing here* last week!" and totally miss that the number of viewers is either the same or actually UP. *This is kind of a bad thread to have this discussion in though as it's not really relevant to the WON HOF

I don't think it works that way. The rating percentage is based off the number of overall homes watching TV that night. There is no caveat for whether or not the show is available in all homes. The NUMBER of viewers also dropped. I think that's a more interesting number anyway and I get mad when people just give the ratings figures without adding the number of viewers to go along with it.

SOME of it was due to the channel they were on. There was an immediate drop the week after they went from USA to Spike because Spike was available in less homes. It kept dropping though because of the brand split and how horribly depressing Raw was at the time with HHH killing off any babyface that started gaining momentum.

Awesome! Hope this inspires more people to check out NWAClassics and then more podcasts that inspire more people to check out NWAClassics.

JYD was a HUGE star for Mid-South for close to 5 years. People say he doesn't have longevity and it's true he fell off hard but his run in Mid-South is not THAT short. He was more popular with kids in New Orleans than other sports heroes like Saints QB Archie Manning or 'Pistol' Pete Maravich. http://rare.us/story/how-capitalism-and-the-junkyard-dog-helped-integrate-pro-wrestling/

Finally watched the Gino/Jose Texas Death Match, really great match. The finish felt a bit disappointing to me but still this was an awesome performance by both guys. I said it before but man Houston fans really had it good. Not just with the great arena cards but probably the best TV in the country if matches like the Texas Death Match in a Cage and the Spoiler/Wahoo match being aired in full on TV are any indication.

I actually do use Firefox with NWA Classics and have never had an issue. I don't have a bunch of add ons or plugins though.