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USWA adds Tracy Smothers, Steve Armstrong, The Dirty White Boys, The O Godwin brothers, Bill Irwin, JYD, Eric Embry, Ron Fuller, and Dutch Mantel to the block

I really enjoyed the interview with the Citadel. It will be interesting where things go from here.

One of my favorites!!! John Denver was great.

Midsouth Coliseum Thanksgiving Night, November 27, 1990 6-Man Tag Team Match “Wildfire” Tommy Rich, Boogie Woogie Man Jimmy Valiant & The Junkyard Dog Vs The Dirty White Boys & Jimmy Jack Funk How we got here: No real backstory here. Just starting the show with some decent names to get the fans involved. Tag Team Match The Southern Boys (Armstrong & Smothers) vs The Destruction Crew (Bloom & Enos) How we got here: No real backstory here. The Destruction Crew recently debuted on tv. At first, fans were not sure what to make of Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom as they headed to the ring with hard hats and orange construction worker vests with no shirt underneath. Their long blond hair, toned bodies and fluorescent pink tights have the women interested …. But that doesn’t last long as they attack Sweet Brown Sugar and Pez Whatley before the bell and continue to throw forearms, elbows and kicks and throw in a few body slams and clotheslines. They bend every rule that was written from not breaking until the count of 4, using the ropes for leverage and rushing into the ring to distract the ref and allow the other to break more rules. SWB and Whatley are too good just to be dominated and make a comeback … that is until Mike Enos cracks SWB over the head with his hardhead while Bloom was distracting the ref. After the tainted win, the two were berated by Lance Russell but they could care less. Mike Enos: Lance… we don’t care what you have to say. In fact, we don’t care what anyone has to say. We were the best team in the AWA and now we will be the best team here in the USWA. We are exactly what our names says we are… The Destruction Crew. Wayne Bloom: It won’t be long Lance until we get what we came here for … gold! We don’t care who comes out on top between the Road Warriors and The Rock n Roll Express…. As we will destroy either one. Trust me… 1990 will end very, very badly for someone. Now, it is time to see how the Destruction Crew stacks up against one of the best tag teams in the USWA! Jeff Jarrett vs Terry Taylor How we got here: This week’s show starts with a good matchup between Terry Taylor and “White Lightening” Tim Horner. Lance Russell started the match by putting over Taylor’s wrestling ability and that the fans are really going to love having Taylor back in the territory. The match started with a handshake and then went into a pretty good series of chain wrestling as the two went back and forth. Finally we see Taylor back Horner on the corner. WHAM… Knee to the gut by Taylor. Lance Russell is shocked but that is nothing. Taylor continues with questionable tactics until he finally puts Horner away with the Five Arm. At the podium, Lance let’s Terry know that he was surprised by what he just saw in the ring. Terry Taylor: Get used to it Lance. Get used to it. I’m not the same Terry Taylor who was running around here a few years ago just trying to do what the establishment said. I did anything Jerry Lawler asked! I did anything Jerry Jarrett asked… and where did it get me? No where. I was used. I was the scapegoat that took all the punishment while Lawler ran and hid with his titles. Well things are going to be different. I’m here to get even for the wrongs that happened to me and I think I will start with Jerry Jarrett’s son…. Be ready young gun…. You’ll soon find out what Terry Taylor is all about. Later in the show, Jeff Jarrett had a nice win against The Masked invader and told Lance in the post-match interview that he was disappointed in what he saw and heard from Terry Taylor. He said that he was looking forward to working with Taylor but after today… he will look forward to working against Terry. Later in the night, we find out that Terry Taylor will face Jeff Jarrett at Wrestlecade II in the Midsouth Coliseum on Thanksgiving. USWA WORLD TELEVISION TITLE MATCH “Stunning” Steve Austin © with Medusa vs Michael Wallstreet with Ms. Alexandria York How we got here: Wallstreet and York have been bragging that between their money and technology, there isn’t anyone that can stop them. Well that proved to be untrue as Austin recently defeated Wallstreet at Halloween Spooktacular last month in the Midsouth Coliseum. Wallstreet claimed that this win was a fluke and only happened because Medusa attacked Ms. York and Wallstreet was distracted. While Wallstreet embellished the attack by Medusa who was really preventing York from interfering in the match, Stunning Steve was not against granting Wallstreet a rematch …. If the price was right! Austin demanded that Wallstreet give him $20,000 if Austin defeated Wallstreet at Wrestlecade. Wallstreet laughed … calling this pocket change and accepted the stipulations. All of these occurred while Ms. York seemed to be running the information through her computer. If looks mean anything…. Ms. York didn’t seem to like her man’s chances. MEMPHIS STREET FIGHT Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart vs Greg “The Hammer” Valentine with Jimmy Hart How we got here: These two former USWA Southern Tag Team champions recently split after Anvil attacked the leader of the First Family, Jimmy Hart who went after Anvil first as he was upset at the title loss to the Rock n Roll Express. Valentine sided with Hart and Anvil has vowed to not only take out Valentine but the entire First Family. This is just the next installment of this feud. If it is as violent as many expect, it could be the end of the road for someone! USWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH The Road Warriors © vs The Rock n Roll Express How we got here: The Road Warriors recently defeated The Steiner Brothers to win the title and Rick Steiner had injured his leg during the match. This injury forced the Steiner Brothers to forgo their rematch which then made the USWA Southern Tag Team Champs the #1 contenders for the World Title! If the Rock n Roll Express can handle the size and power of the Road Warriors is yet to be determined but nobody should count Ricky and Robert out of it. They have proved themselves to be one of the best tag teams this sport has ever seen and it anyone could defeat the Road Warriors, it is them! GRUDGE MATCH “The King” Jerry Lawler & Brian Lawler vs Honky Tonk Man & “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert with Jimmy Hart How we got here: This started months ago as HTM warned Brian Christopher to leave Memphis Wrestling or else he would reveal some major secret. Christopher did leave or so we thought. A masked man, POW arrived around the time Christopher left. HTM smelled something fishy and went after POW. Week after week, POW was able to handle HTM… that is until Jimmy Hart smashed an Elvis Pressley signed guitar over POW’s head which allowed HTM to remove his mask … revealing Brian Christopher. The next week on tv, HTM and the entire First Family demanded that Christopher come to the podium which he did. As HTM was about to spill the beans on Christopher, Brian turned the tables on HTM. Christopher immediately revealed that he was “The Prince of Wresting” (POW) and let everyone know that Jerry Lawler was his father. He went on to tell everyone that Honky Tonk Man was actually his low-life cousin Wayne Ferris who was the black sheep of the family. HTM, fuming, attacked the young Lawler. This led to Daddy Lawler and the Anvil rushing out to make the save… and here we are… a family feud along with the hated Eddie Gilbert! USWA WORLD TITLE MATCH The Big Bossman © vs “The Macho Man” Randy Savage with Miss. Elizabeth How we got here: Savage, the USWA Southern Champion, has been after Bossman for a long time but Jerry Lawler kept getting in the way. After Savage defeated Lawler and Bossman last month in the big Texas Tornado Three-Way Country Whipping Match, he clearly became the #1 contender for the USWA title. These two have been beating on each other since late summer and this might just be Macho Man’s night!

Really nice of you to give the people Alaska a great night of wrestling as darkness is about to set in for the next 4 months. Loved Title Night as we get a lot of chaos throughout the card... I guess that's the Memphis fan in me where chaos is the name of the game. All your chaos seems to be setting up for SuperClash... great continuity. Leo Burke-Iceman and then KKB-Hansen were great post-match attacks that seem to hype up some big feuds that are coming our way. I think Flair needed a nice clean win without any help from the Horsemen to give some extra legitimacy to his reign and he sure proved he was the man with the big win over Saito.... looking forward to Hogan amping up his chance. Hansen-Jumbo... this one sells all over the world. Great finish as both men look strong after the bout. Would love to see a rematch of that opening tag bout. I like both of these teams!!

Survivor Series is looking awesome. I might announce some of Bad News' teammates in some special show or commercial. Maybe get some last minute sales. Same with who will face Fugi's Clan.

Vader is on fire! Enjoying the power struggle between the WWF and Bad News Brown. It might be more fun of the WWF picks his team.

Really like the little details you add like Brad wanted more of the Dangerous Alliance. You find ways to keep certain guys looking good even in defeat. Some huge matches coming. I agree with Eric.... Steamboat vs Muta is going to be great. I recently saw an interview with Steamboat and he talked about wrestling Muta in long matches and it was very frustrating. He said that he had trouble getting Muta to settle into some sort of pace in these 45 minutes as Muta always wanted to go 1000 MPH. Either way, it would be awesome to watch.

Now I would have loved to have seen Bad News and OMG!!! Really liking this Russian angle as it seems really historically correct for the time period with the whole Lithuanian part. Funk vs Von Erich... glad you had the distraction by Sherri and Haku which means we might get more of this one.

Dibiase has some serious challengers after him. Imagine wrestling Bam Bam with Brett Hart in the back of your mind

Highlights from this week’s tv show. The USWA Keeps Rolling On! The show opens with a quick montage of all the goings-on from last week’s Halloween Spooktacular from the Midsouth Coliseum. We see Batman going over The Joker, Jimmy Hart smashing the guitar over the head of POW, Jeff Jarrett with the pin of Kabuki, the Rock n Roll Express with the double dropkick on the Dirty White Boys, Medusa pulling Miss. York off the apron in the USWA World Title match between Stunning Steve Austin and Michael Wallstreet, The Steiners and Road Warriors pounding all over each other and Macho Man whipping both Lawler and Bossman to victory in the main event. The show opens with Jerry Jarrett announcing the next big event: Wrestlecade II at the Midsouth Coliseum on Thanksgiving Night. Sometimes the Truth Must Be Told As the show opens, we see the First Family (Jimmy Hart, HTM, Eddie Gilbert and Greg Valentine) at the podium with Lance Russell. Honky Tonk Man is visibly upset and demands that Brian Christopher comes out to the podium. Lance Russell trying to protect Brian, says that Brian Christopher is not obligated to do anything he doesn’t want to do. Suddenly, the fans are heard screaming as Brian Christopher comes flying out Jimmy Hart: “Oh baby get ready. This is gonna be great. The cat’s coming out of the bag.” Honky Tonk Man: “Brian, I warned you last time…. If you ever showed your face again in USWA Wrestling, I was gonna blow your cover. I knew there was something strange about that masked POW character nonsense and that’s exactly why I pulled it off of you last week in the Midsouth Coliseum. You thought you could pull the wool over our eyes. No way! I saw right through you. I mean come on Brian. Imitating a prisoner of war that’s really low even for someone with your last name. Brian: “hold on, hold on!” Jimmy Hart: “No way baby. It’s too late!” Brian: “I’m not talking to you, you little weasel. I’m talking to Honky Tonk Man; or should I say Wayne Ferris or ….. should I say ……Cousin.” Honky Tonk man with a shocked look on his face. Brian Christopher: “My father always told me how dumb you were and you just proved it. My POW mask wasn’t for Prisoner of War. It’s for Prince of Wrestling!! That’s right folks, my father is the King of Memphis Wrestling. Jerry Lawler!” A gasp from the crowd along with Lance Russell! Brian Christopher: “That’s right Lance. I am Jerry Lawler’s son. Folks, I’m sorry for not telling you the truth from the start but I wanted to try and make it in this sport all on my own. It has nothing to do with Dad. This was all my decision and I’m sorry for not being honest from the from the beginning. Jimmy Hart and Honky Tonk Man look like all of the Thunder was just stolen from them as the cat is out of the bag. Brian Christopher: “Honky Tonk Man… I’m sorry, I mean Wayne. Let’s tell your story …now since you wanted to be the one who spilled all the beans about me. I remember Dad saying you were the black sheep of the family and that’s why we didn’t spend any time with the Ferris side of the family. He said you just was raised all bad and you didn’t know how to act. That’s right folks …. Wayne here is my daddy’s first cousin and my second cousin, but we don’t like to admit that in public . You cousin… you’ve always been a lowlife and after the last time Daddy kicked your butt, from one end of the arena to the other, you ran away like you’ve always done. This time, you ran all the way up to New York and tried to pretend you were some famous musician. The only problem was you were worse at music than you were at wrestling. WHAM …. Honky Tonk Man attacks Brian This leads to a 3-1 beating as “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert and Greg “The Hammer” Valentine join in the attack and they all get their shots in on young Brian. Lance Russell: And here comes the King and the Anvil. It’s Jerry Lawler and he’s on fire!... Big right hand after big right hand. Neidhart is hammering away on Valentine. Somehow, Jimmy Hart gathers his men as they run for the hills as Lawler and Neidhart check on Brian. Jerry Lawler, Jim Neidhart and Brian Christopher to the podium. Jerry Lawler: Jimmy Hart… Wayne Farris, my lowlife cousin. Let’s get one thing straight. I‘ve known both of you for most of my life… since we were all kids. You two both tried your luck in the music industry and failed. I tried to help you both out … to make something of yourselves … by bringing you into wrestling. Wayne…. Jimmy…. The problem was you two were jealous. Jealous of me. Jealous that you two weren’t any good at this either so you have been trying to come up with ideas for decades on how to run me out of wrestling. Well you’ve failed each and every time. I am the King of Memphis and now I got me boy with me… Brian…. The Prince of Wrestling. Now imagine how hard it will be for you two now that there’s two Lawler’s. Things are gonna change around here. It’s you two who will be run out of Memphis … by King and the Prince! Father and son embrace as the crowd goes wild. Later in the evening, we hear that it will be Jerry Lawler, Jim Neidhart and Brian Christopher vs HTM, Eddie Gilbert and Greg “The Hammer” Valentine at Wrestlecade in a 6-Man Texas Tornado Match. Randy “Macho Man” Savage is coming for the USWA World Title. After Savage got the big win the wild Country Whipping Match against Jerry Lawler and Big Bossman, it is obvious that Savage is the clear #1 contender to Bossman’s USWA World Title and it is announced that this match will take place at Wrestlecade on Thanksgiving. This week both men are dominant in their matches against members of the undercard and it is their fiery promos that build heat towards this bout. Randy Savage: “Oh yeah… Bossman…You ain’t never seen anyone like the Macho Man… oooh yeah! You got no clue about Randy Savage and where I’m coming from …. Because it’s mindboggling how one man can make it to the top all by himself. I don’t care about the fans… I don’t care about the USWA Board of Directors…. And most of all, I don’t care about you Bossman! I do what the Macho Man thinks is right …. Oooh yeah…. I don’t care if you whip me with that leather strap …. I don’t care if you knock me over the head with that night stick of yours …. I don’t care if you powerslam me on the concrete floor …. Macho Man won’t be stopped. I came to the USWA wanting that World Title and nothing can stop me. People say that the Macho Man ain’t playing with a full deck …. And their right … I’m playing with a stacked deck…. I’ve always got an extra ace up my sleeve…. Oooohhh yeah! And when I slap that 5th ace on the table, I’ll be walking out with the world title. Bossman: (dressed in his correction officer uniform, yelling and sweating) Randy Savage …. I’ve been dealing with people like you all my life. People who don’t think the law applies to them… They don’t care about anybody but themselves. They push and push until the law can’t take it anymore. That’s where my services come in…(waving his nightstick) and by services … I don’t mean beating you 1-2-3 in the middle of the ring. I mean kicking your ---- and breaking every bone in your body. Come Wrestlecade, I will walk into the ring with this USWA World Title and I will walk out with this USWA World Title…. while you will walk into the ring …. But…. You won’t walk out! By the end of the show, Lance Russell and Dave Brown are starting to put over Savage as the lesser of two evils as Bossman seems to be on some vigilante kick while Savage is just trying to do what ever wrestle enters this sport trying to do… be the World Champion. David vs Goliath Lance Russell really puts over the USWA World Tag Team Title match from Halloween Spooktacular where the Road Warriors won the belt over the Steiners. Lance also informs us that Rick Steiner did suffer and injury in that bout and will be out of action for a little while so the Steiners will have to wait to get their rematch. Lance does inform us that due to this injury, the USWA Board of Directors has named a new tag team as the #1 contenders to the Road Warriors and that is none other than the USWA Southern Tag Team Champions… The Rock n Roll Express and it will be the Express vs The Road Warriors at Wrestlecade. After the USWA Southern Tag Team Champs, the Rock n Roll Express defeated Southern Justice in a great TV bout they joined Lance and Dave at the podium. Robert Gibson: Right now, the Road Warriors are on top of the mountain. Make no mistake about it… they are two big and bad men …. But …. the Rock n Roll Express have been the underdogs before and we’ve climbed that mountain and on more than a few occasions, we took control of that mountain. Animal and Hawk… we won’t give an inch at Wrestlecade. We are coming to win and coming for those world titles. Ricky Morton: Robert and myself have walked through Hell on many nights in this business. I know Wrestlecade will be another one of those nights. It’s going to take both of us a few days, maybe weeks to get out of bed after the Road Warriors beat us from pillar to post at Wrestlecade. We are going to be bruised from head to toe from massive bodyslams and clotheslines… maybe even a night or two in the ER might be instore for us …..but when we come out on the other side of this… oh how sweet it’ll be to have those World Titles around our waist! After their win against Sweet Brown Sugar and Pez Whatley, Animal and Hawk also headed to the podium. Animal: Contusions, busted ear drums, concussions, hemorrhaging… these are the things our dreams are made off! If we took out somebody with the soze and strength of Rick Steiner, imagine what we are going to do to Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton…. Two little bandana-wearing twerps. Hawk: Robert Gibson… Ricky Morton… We heard you two out here earlier talking about how the Road Warriors are the King of the Mountain and how you know what pain you are going to be in when we are through with you. That is good… you have a clear picture of what the Road Warriors are and what we are going to do to you… The only problem is that this might be the last clear thought you two have as we are going to bash your brains from one side of your head to the other. Rock n Roll Express…. Be Afraid…. Be Very, Very Afraid! USWA World TV Title Situation Maybe technology is the wave of the future. It seems that Miss. York’s computer might have been right as Stunning Steve Austin gave Michael Wallstreet his first defeat since arriving in the USWA at Halloween Spooktacular in the Midsouth Coliseum. York warned Wallstreet about this just before the match was going to get started but it was too late. York tried to change the future and interfere in the bout only to have the powerful Medusa drag her off the apron. It was this commotion on the outside that Wallstreet blamed for the loss as he says he was distracted by the fact that Medusa, a professional wrestler, would go after his business partner for no reason. He says that Steve Austin knew that he was the better wrestler and that this was the only way he could save his title. Later in the show, Stunning Steve and Medusa laughed at Wallstreet’s claim. They both said the Computer Knows and that it was inevitable that Austin would win. Austin also said the World Television Title Match that Michael Wallstreet wants but doesn’t deserve, is going to cost him. A lot! When Lance Russell asked Austin how much money it would cost Wallstreet for the rematch, Stunning Steve said that he would let everyone know next week. Medusa also got on the mic and warned Miss. York about sticking her nose in their business. New Talent is in the USWA! This week we see a couple of short videos about newcomers to the USWA…. Terry Taylor and the Destruction Crew (Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom) Lance reminds the fans that Terry has been in Memphis before and that the fans are in for a treat. He admits that he doesn’t know too much about the Destruction Crew but from what he’s been told, they were one of the top teams in the AWA and Memphis fans know from experience that if you’ve made it in the AWA, you can make it anywhere!

Great show.... Saito is a great choice for a title match as everyone could see him beat anyone on any given day. He was one tough looking dude! Love the "who's the best wrestler from Mexico" angle. This could be fun! Really looking forward to Superclash!

Great main event with the Warrior and Rhodes making a big save. While Ivan doesn't have too much left, just his presence makes this feud even bigger. Good job Looking forward to Survivor Series

Great recap show as we move forward to Thanksgiving. Great job setting the scene with some huge angles coming. Looking forward to seeing the Sting title reign.

USWA drops Bill and Jaime Dundee, Steve Simpson, Steve Doll and Dream Machine