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Thanks for the positive feedback from everyone who has commented on my stuff so far. This is actually the "boring" part of what I have planned out as I work to write out some old faces and bring in some new ones so if you guys like the "prologue" so far then things are only going to get better once I get to the Southwest Tag Team Title tournament at the end of the month.

Southwest Championship Wrestling @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 7/17/83 Before the first match began, Lord Alfred Hayes got on the house mic and told everyone that what they saw on their TVs yesterday was a complete fluke! He says that everyone who was here last week to see the debut of Moose Cholak knows that he is the finest wrestler to ever step foot in Texas. Lord Alfred says that if Steve Pardee is victorious again in this match then Moose Cholak has vowed to RETIRE from wrestling! Steve Pardee vs. Moose Cholak - Steve Pardee quickly comes out of the gate with a dropkick, trying to capitalize on his success from their match on TV, but Moose Cholak dodges and swats him down to the mat. Moose goes for an elbow drop on Pardee while he's down, but Pardee rolls out of the way and Moose crashes down on the mat! Pardee quickly makes the cover and pins Moose Cholak who once again struggles to get up off his back! Winner: Steve Pardee in 34 seconds! Before the next match it's announced that this was originally scheduled to be Rick McGraw vs. Mike Masters but due to Rick McGraw's injury suffered at the hands of Killer Khan, Jose Lothario will be replacing him! Jose Lothario vs. Mike Masters - Mike Masters doesn't seem very interested in wrestling Jose as he spends a lot of time posing and getting into the ropes to avoid locking up with Jose. Jose finally gets fed up with Masters' stalling and slaps him in the face while Masters is in the ropes! Masters gets fired up and charges at Jose but gets caught in an armdrag and then Jose stays on him with an armbar. Masters gets Jose backed into the ropes and tries to get a revenge slap in on Jose, but Jose ducks it and comes back with a right hand that sends Masters out of the ring! Mike Masters starts having a temper tantrum outside of the ring as the referee keeps Jose from following out after him. Masters grabs Jose's leg from the outside and pulls him over to the ringpost and crotches Jose against the steel ringpost! The referee immediately calls for a disqualification! Winner: Jose Lothario by DQ in 7:43 Ken Lucas & Charlie Cook vs. The Assassins - Assassin #2 starts off the match by blasting Ken Lucas with a boot to the face. #2 works Lucas over with a hard hitting brawler style with a lot of stiff kicks. Ken Lucas winds up in The Assassins corner and they make a lot of tags in and out to keep the fresh man in. Ken Lucas finally makes it out of The Assassins' corner by rolling under a double clothesline and diving into his corner to make the hot tag to Charlie Cook! Charlie Cook comes in as a house on fire and blasts Assassin #1 with a flying tackle! Charlie Cook tries to cover Assassin #1 but the referee tells him that's not the legal man! While the referee & Charlie Cook are arguing, Assassin #2 stomps his boot against the mat 3 times and then comes in with a huge boot to the face of Charlie Cook! Charlie Cook goes down like a ton of bricks and Assassin #2 makes the cover while #1 keeps Ken Lucas from making a save! Winners: The Assassins in 8:14 when Assassin #2 pinned Charlie Cook after a kick from his loaded boot 'Cuba's Top Gun' Fidel Sierra vs. Bob Sweetan - Fidel Sierra is the first man introduced and he jumps Bob Sweetan the moment that Mr. Piledriver steps through the ropes! Sierra rams Sweetan's head into the turnbuckle and referee Jack Howe jumps in to get him off of Sweetan. Sweetan comes firing out of the corner with a big clothesline that takes Sierra down and Jack Howe decides to go ahead and ring the bell to start the match! Bob Sweetan tries to go for an early Piledriver but Sierra sits down hard on it to keep himself from going up so Sweetan takes him and rams him shoulder first into the ring post! The crowd goes nuts for Sweetan's bit of revenge but Jack Howe admonishes Sweetan and keeps him from following up on Sierra in the corner. Jack Howe makes Sweetan wait for Sierra to come out of the corner and as soon as he does he rakes Sweetan's eyes! Sierra works Sweetan over with some punches and then grabs an armbar. Sierra goes back to his strategy from last week of working on Bob Sweetan's arm, constantly changing his hold and positioning to keep Sweetan from the ropes. Finally Sweetan is able to pull himself into the ropes which causes Sierra to have to break his hold. Sierra tries a cheap shot on Sweetan while the referee is calling for the break but Sweetan ducks it and back drops Sierra over the top rope. Fidel Sierra yells at the referee to disqualify Bob Sweetan for throwing him over the top rope but Jack Howe says it was unintentional! Fidel Sierra is livid about referee Jack Howe not calling for the DQ! Fidel Sierra refuses to get back in the ring, instead raising his hand and yelling at everyone at ringside that he is the winner. Sierra walks to the back as Jack Howe finishes reaches the count of 10 to officially count Fidel Sierra out of the match. Winner: Bob Sweetan by countout in 12:30 Southwest Heavyweight Title Match: El Gran Apollo vs. Tully Blanchard © - Tully Blanchard starts the match by getting in Apollo's face and talking trash and Apollo answers by slapping Tully in the face! Tully gets pissed off and charges at Apollo only to eat an armdrag! Tully charges in again only to meet a dropkick, followed up by a big right hand as soon as Tully is back up off the mat! Tully rolls out of the ring and is completely besides himself! He rants at the ringside fans and referee Juan Reynosa who is counting him out. Tully steps back up on the apron and Apollo tries to kick him but Tully grabs Apollo's foot and snaps his leg down on the middle rope. Apollo goes down and Tully immediately pounces on the advantage, kicking Apollo's left leg out from under him as he tries to get back up. Tully goes to work on Apollo's knee dropping elbows on it. Tully tries for a figure four but Apollo rolls him into a small package for a two count! But Tully is right back up, kicks Apollo in the head and goes back to working over Apollo's leg. Tully drapes Apollo's leg over the middle rope and then comes down with all his weight on Apollo's knee. Tully pulls Apollo back into the ring and this time he manages to successfully lock in the Figure Four! Apollo has to fight thru the pain and keep himself going as Juan Reynosa makes the count every time Apollo's shoulders are down on the mat. The crowd in the HemisFair Arena starts an "Let's go Apollo, let's go!" chant as Apollo struggles to turn over and reverse the pressure of the Figure Four! Tully is almost turned all the way over when he rakes Apollo's eyes which puts him back in control. Juan Reynosa forces Tully to break the Figure Four for raking the eyes but Tully quickly puts it right back on. The crowd gets fired up with another chant for Apollo as he fights to turn it over and this time Apollo blocks Tully's attempt to gouge his eyes and responds with a right hand and then turns over the Figure Four! Tully screams in pain as the pressure is reversed and Tully desperately pulls himself into the ropes! The referee untangles both men's legs and Tully is the first one up to his feet. He grabs Apollo and tries to get him up for the Slingshot Suplex but Apollo reverses it and suplexes Tully into the middle of the ring! Apollo tries to go up to the top rope for his Top Rope Crossbody but his injured knee makes him climb the ropes slowly, allowing Tully to recover before he's all the way up! Tully bounces off the ropes which causes Apollo to lose his balance and fall awkwardly onto the top turnbuckle and then down into the ring! Tully quickly makes the cover for the count of the 3 and the win! Winner: Tully Blanchard after crotching El Gran Apollo on the top rope in 13:52 Eddy Mansfield & Roy Lee Welch vs. The Fabulous Ones - Eddy Mansfield & Roy Lee Welch try to jump The Fabulous Ones before the match starts but things don't go their way as The Fabulous Ones get the better of the brawl! Roy Lee Welch & Eddy Mansfield bail and Welch complains to the referee that he should disqualify The Fabs for attacking them before the match started! Eddy Mansfield & Roy Lee Welch do a lot of complaining to the referee before they finally agree to get back in the ring. The match starts with Steve Keirn against Roy Lee Welch and Steve Keirn once against shows Roy Lee Welch that a fist fight with The Fabulous Ones isn't a good idea. Roy Lee Welch complains to the referee about Keirn's fist so Keirn tags out to Stan Lane. Stan Lane ducks a punch from Roy Lee Welch and comes back with a karate kick that sends Roy Lee Welch down to the mat. Eddy Mansfield comes in and complains to the referee about Stan Lane's illegal karate kicks. The referee gets Mansfield back to his corner as Stan Lane & Steve Keirn just watch in bemusement. Roy Lee Welch tags out and Eddy Mansfield tries his luck against Stan Lane who also winds up sending him down to the mat with a karate kick. Eddy Mansfield complains some more about Stan's karate so Stan Lane tags out to Steve Keirn. Eddy Mansfield baits Keirn into the corner of Mansfield & Roy Lee Welch and they double team Steve Keirn and finally gain the upper hand in the match. Stan Lane tries to come help his partner but referee Jack Howe keeps him from getting out of his corner. Roy Lee Welch sees the referee's back is turned so he pulls out a chain and wraps it around his fist! Eddy Mansfield holds Steve Keirn for Welch to punch him from the apron but Keirn ducks and Eddy Mansfield ends up getting hit with the chain! Roy Lee Welch is in shock and Steve Keirn BLASTS him with a right hand that sends him flying off the apron and then as the referee turns around, Steve Keirn covers Eddy Mansfield for the 3 count! Winners: The Fabulous Ones in 9:17 when Steve Keirn pinned Eddy Mansfield after miscommunication with his partner Roy Lee Welch Scott Casey vs. Killer Khan - Result: No contest This match never even gets started as Killer Khan runs from the back and attacks Scott Casey in the aisle during his entrance! Scott Casey turns the tables on Killer Khan and brings the fight right to the man from Mongolia, slamming his head into the steel guard rail and then running his head into the wooden ring steps! Killer Khan is busted open and staggering as Scott Casey continues blasting him with rights hands. Scott Casey turns his back to Killer Khan to grab a chair but as he turns around with the chair over is head poised to strike, Killer Khan boots him right in the face! Scott Casey falls and drops the chair which Killer Khan tries to grab but Scott Casey crawls over and grabs the other end of it! Killer Khan & Scott Casey have a tug of war over the chair with Scott Casey eventually letting go which forces Killer Khan to stumble backwards with the unexpected momentum and Scott Casey follows that up with a charge that causes slams Killer Khan's back into the steel ringpost! Khan drops the chair upon impact and is barely standing with the ringpost holding him up. Scott Casey picks the chair back up and swings for a homerun, hoping to send Killer Khan's head right out of the HemisFair Arena but unfortunately for Scott Casey, Killer Khan moves out of the way! The force of the chair smashing into the steel ring post causes Scott Casey to drop the chair and then Killer Khan boots him right in the head! Scott Casey falls and when he gets up Killer Khan introduces the steel chair to his head! Referee Juan Reynosa tries to get the chair away from Killer Khan but he eats a chairshot for his troubles as well! Scott Casey gets up and he's now bleeding also after the chair shot but the sight of his blood has Scott Casey fired up and he unloads on Killer Khan with right hands! Juan Reynosa gets back up bloodied and calls for help from the back and the locker room empties to break up the fight just as Scott Casey starts to beat the hell out of Killer Khan! Bob Sweetan, Charie Cook, Jose Lothario & The Fabulous Ones manage to get Scott Casey pulled away from the brawl as Tully Blanchard, Fidel Sierra & The Assassins help Killer Khan back up to his feet and back to the locker room. Scott Casey grabs the house mic and makes a challenge as Killer Khan is almost back to the locker room. Scott Casey: Tully Blanchard I just proved your Monster from Mongolia isn't so tough! If you still have any confidence left in him at all, put his name on a contract to face me right here at the HemisFair Arena so I can send him out of Southwest Championship Wrestling the right way: in a Loser Leaves Texas Death Match!

This is a card that could be really interesting. I would love to see the Blanchard/Morton & Gino/Ken Lucas matches. Mascaras/Duggan is probably terrible but it's such an odd matchup that I want to see it and the same goes for The Stomper vs. Bruiser Brody. Boesch @ Houston, TX – Sam Houston Coliseum – June 18, 1982 Manny Fernandez d. Cocoa Samoa Tiger Conway Jr. fought Bob Sweetan to a draw Tully Blanchard battled Ricky Morton to a no contest Gino Hernandez d. Ken Lucas Mil Mascaras d. Hacksaw Duggan Mongolian Stomper d. Bruiser Brody by DQ

I am pretty sure that was just Bruce Tharpe taking the opportunity to hype NWA Classics. I don't think that's the reason she really got fired, or at least not the only reason.

Honestly, there is way more risk involved to Dana than reward when it comes to Rousey & WrestleMania. Is her working WrestleMania REALLY going to bring a lot of new eyes to her UFC fights? I doubt it would make her PPV numbers move too much and on the flip side of it they have to risk her getting injured in a WWE ring and losing her for a big money UFC fight. They have enough problems with people getting injured in their own training camps, I don't see them taking a risk on letting one of their 3 biggest draws work a WWE match.

I was also a big Jim Powers fan as a kid. To the point where I "repackaged" my Roddy Piper action figure into Jim Powers.

Despite what Bottomjack said, I suspect that it's Hogan who should keep his eye on Mr. Olympia. Jerry Stubbs never could walk the straight path for too long.

Midget battle royal! I want to see that, why'd you hide it off camera? Then even more midget awesomeness with Pez Whatley losing to the midgets in a handicap match. I loved Brett Hart telling us about his family & older brother Bret and Lanny cutting him off when he was listing all his brothers. Still loving all the Rataymus/Pentagram stuff. I think you should go all the way with making Randy Savage your invincible babyface. Maybe he doesn't survive his trip in Mike Graham's trunk only to have his body disappear from the funeral home the night before his funeral leading to a huge return!

Going forward I am only going to post my TV and the results from my Saturday show in Waco & the Sunday shows in San Antonio. I am still going to run my territory like the shows on Tuesday-Friday are happening but since they are really just the same matches with the same results as the big HemisFair show on Sunday night I'm not going to keep posting the same stuff over and over. It's not really fun for me to try and think up slightly different finishes with the same result 3 different times and it's probably not an enjoyable read either.

This is great. I wish there were more attendance numbers though, looking at some of the cards that had 3,000-4,000 people compared to 9,000-12,000 the biggest discrepancy I could find is that Duggan wasn't on the cards that didn't draw that well. I know he was a Paul Boesch favorite but I wonder how big of a draw he was in Houston.

I like Garvin a lot but I'm with you on the WWF matches vs. Valentine. I don't really know how they can be considered some of the best WWF matches of all time.

D'Lo actually made it to TV for 2-3 matches on Raw. I think he had some kind of mini feud with Santino.

Superstar Billy Graham would have freaked out about having to team with Bob Backlund!

Thanks for the feedback! The TV format is really just me trying to make the show "look" like an actual Southwest show from this time period. Lots of Steve Stack standing in front of the blue backdrop.

They should be kissing Dana White's ass because he is the one they need to sign off on that.

This is what is really the most interesting part of it. I mean I guess if you're New Japan and WWE asks you, do you want to risk pissing them off?

I don't know about Jose Lothario and "breakneck pace" but glad to see the Greensboro crowd was into the match.

"Bill Dundee you're out here calling me a tall drink of water! What does that make you, a sip?" - 'Hollywood' John Tatum

Is that your first time seeing that match?

I forget whether it was Heyman or CM Punk who told the story, but Heyman wanted CM Punk & Big Show to start and have CM Punk make Big Show tap out before anyone else got out of their pods. Vince flipped out thinking it was stupid so he called Big Show in thinking Big Show would hate it but Big Show put it over and wanted to do it (probably because he was really hurting and it got him out of the match really quickly) which pissed Vince off even more.

Moppy is my favorite thing Perry Saturn ever did.

Then you would do Face Vs. Face? Because there's no way the crowd is going to boo Lesnar. Yes. It didn't hurt the quality of the Mania match.

This is a playlist of Dusty Rhodes doing commercials for Tim Stimus' dealerships in Florida in the early 80s. HIGHLY recommended. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL15G6m42mIENgc-nzyzRkMicg-SjLNUzO

Giant Baba crushing people's plans in here.

I always liked Kelly Kelly and the first time I ever saw her in a match on ECW it was some mixed tag match where her crowd reaction totally blew me away. She was getting really loud Kelly Kelly chants while she was the FIP.