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1984 DRAFT IS UNDERWAY! The draft order is as follows: RD 1: RD 2 RD 3 RD 4 RD 5 Spaldoni : Kendall Windham Cpt. Redneck: Shawn Michaels Rain: John Nord Cpt. Redneck: Yokozuna Rain: Steve Simpson Rain: Jushin Liger Kevin: Marty Jannety Kevin: Lance Vonerich Kevin: Keiji Mutoh Cpt. Redneck Kevin: Nikita Koloff Rain: Undertakaer Cpt Redneck: Jim Power Rain: Steve Doll Cpt. Redneck: Scott Hall Spaldoni: Dan Spivey Rounds 3 and 4 will follow the same order as one and two as will 5 and 6. DRAFT RULES: 1. Remember all wrestlers drafted are rookies. Due a little research on them and treat them the way they actually were in 1984. 2. Draft will start as soon as Spaldoni makes his first pick. You can drop out any time you wish. 3. Please try to make picks in a timely fashion. (24 hours at most) 4. Rookies do not need to be saved with an exemption 5. All undrafted rookies will be added to free agent list 6. Roster size is now 46. If you draft someone and it puts you at 47, you must release someone at the same time. Al Perez: Blue Demon Jr. Dan Spivey Jim Powers John Nord Jushin Liger Keiji Mutoh Kendell Windham Marty Jannetty Mike Thor Nancy Benoit Nikita Koloff Miss. Elizabeth Scott Hall Shawn Michaels Steve Simpson Steve Doll Tom Zenk Undertaker William Vaughn (Lance VonErich) Yokozuna

Great job of using your tv show to sell some tickets for your big show of the week. I have a feeling Buck Zumhofe is in some trouble with Bruiser Brody coming after him. What an awesome job with your tag team division. You managed to get two feuds going with one simple match. The Nightmares vs Soul Patrol for the title might actually be second of the fans wish list as the Fab Ones vs Schultz and Sweetan would be a main event anywhere in the country. I still need to learn how to do this. I focus too much on titles while you use titles to sell tickets. It is like you get double the bang for your buck the way you are doing it. Nice win for Wildfire as Adrian Street keeps the belt hot but you know we all want Tommy vs Tully. I enjoyed your Bockwinkle/Lawler interview. I always found Lawler on the mic great for two reasons. First, his one liners were funny as hell but secondly and more importantly, he always came off so confident and it didn't matter who he was facing next and you captured this nicely. Can't wait for Louisville!

Nice card... As if the Spoiler is not tough enough, add a little help from Mr. Hito and Gamma Singh and he might be unstoppable. I admit I knew very little of Leo Burke before this but I am started to really like his toughness and I am excited to see how his title reign goes. McGhee over Oliver is HUGE! Can;t wait to see what is next for both of these guys. Cool match intro with the Battle of the Flowers! Haha Valiant and Big Jim are a lot of fun. Interested to see if they are championship material down the road Even though Adams was attacked by the Rose Army, the heels seem to be having some difficulty in getting the main event wins of late. I bet they are planning some sort of revenge as we speak!

got it.

Great card and I love CanCon. It hasn't take you long to captivate us with your creative writing style. Your roster is set with some of my favorites including Billy Jack, Rip Oliver and now Ronnie Garvin. Still hope you decide to call in Dynamite Kid for a few Light Heavyweight title matches. It seems of late that those with the gold rings have been taking a beating. First by Piper and now by the Hands of Stone!

All-Star Wrestling releases Superstar Graham and adds MX-1

AWA ALL-STAR WRESTLING: February 3, 1984: WGN TV From coast to coast, continent to continent and border to border, we welcome you to AWA All-Star Wrestling coming to you from the Milwaukee Auditorium. I am Rod Trongard and joining me will be Gene Okerlund. Well fans, before we get to the in-ring action, we must go to the video tape from this past Thursday in the Mecca right here in Milwaukee as it was Jimmy Garvin vs Bret Hart for the vacant AWA North American Title. VTR of Bret Hart defeating Jimmy Garvin for the AWA North American Title. Gene Okerlund: Ladies and Gentleman, let me bring in the new North American champion… Congratulations Bret Hart. Bret Hart: Thank you Gene, it is a real honor for me to be the first AWA North American champion and I know there are a lot of great challengers and I look forward to defending this title every night all across the United States and Canada. Gene Okerlund: Well I can tell you that wrestlers from all over the sport want a shot at your title. In fact, it will be Wahoo McDaniel vs Dick Murdoch in the Rosemont Horizon this Thursday and you will face the winner in your first title defense February 14th in the St. Paul Civic Center. Bret Hart: That’s what I am talking about Gene. No time to celebrate. I know I will be in for the fight of my life and that is just the way I want it. COMMERCIAL Match: Mongolian Stomper defeats “The Turk” Ali Bey with the Sleeper Another match used to build Stomper as a fan favorite. Ali Bey does a nice job of antagonizing the crowd and using some questionable tactics that help get Stomper over with the crowd. In the post-match interview with Gene Okerlund, Stomper continues to talk about how he is out for revenge on Bad News Allen for the situation back in Calgary in December and that when Allen returns from suspension on March 3rd, he better have eyes in the back of his head. MATCH: Keith Hart & Hiro Saito vs The Bruise Brothers (Dream Machine & Porkchop Cash) Hart and Saito are quick and technically sound while the Bruise Brothers are all about brawling. These contrasting styles work here as all 4 men do a nice job of bumping and selling. In the end, Hart is doing a great job of playing the face in peril role and escapes to get a tag to Saito and we go bonzo gonzo for a while with all 4 men in the ring. As the ref loses control, the camera catches Dream Machine slipping something into his mask and nailing Saito with a headbut. Saito is basically out and the ref pays just enough attention to come over and make the 3 count. At the interview with Okerlund we find out that it was the Dream Machine who came out and helped Porkchop Cash last week in his match with Norvell Austin. Porkchop Cash: All is good now! No more teaming with losers like Norvell Austin. My main man Dream Machine is here and the Bruise Brothers are going to run wild in the AWA. Dream Machine: I saw my brother here being annoyed by that gnat Norvell Austin and decided it was time to get the Bruise Brothers back together again. And look what happened… 5 minutes after I get to town, Austin pack s his bags and hits the road. Well listen up… All the other tag teams better follow Austin or else your gonna fell a whole lot of pain. COMMERCIAL VTR: Jerry Lawler retains his title by DQ as he threw a fireball into the face of Rick Martel. Martel joins Gene Okerlund for an interview where he is wearing sunglasses due to a minor burn around his eyes. Martel let’s us know that he is ok but is still a little stunned that the AWA World Champion would stoop to such a low level. Okerlund adds that Hulk Hogan would never have resorted to such tactics. We also find out that Martel has been cleared by doctors and will be getting a rematch this week against Lawler for the AWA title in the Rosemont Horizon. MATCH: Abdullah the Butcher with Sheik Adnan Al Kassie vs King Konga with Paul Ellering For an Abdullah the Butcher, this is as clean as it gets which means extreme violence without the fork. King Konga responds to ever dirty blow with his own version of violence. After about 3-4 minutes of the rough and wild brawl, Heenan realizes that Butcher is not just going to run over Konga so he calls for the Sheiks (Blackwell and Patera) to hit the ring and attack. Ellering seemed ready for this and had the Road Warriors on stand by. What we get is a 4 on 4 brawl that can’t be stopped. Ellering and Al Kassie are is much onto the action as anyone else and it is apparent these two teams are fighting to become the most dominant force in the AWA. Later in the show, we find out these two stables will face each other this week in the Rosemont Horizon. COMMERCIAL MATCH: Crusher defeats Joe Stark after Stark tried some questionable tactics and Crusher just bet him Pillar to Post At the interview area with Gene Okerlund we find out that it will be a Chicago Street Fight between Crusher and Superstar Graham in the Rosemont Horizon this week. Da Crusher: All ya cute little Dollies down on Halstead Street get ready cause I will be coming down there to party all night after I rip Superstar Graham to shreads this week. I mean come on Gene, the Crusher in a Chicago Street Fight. Take that one to the bank! This might be the last we see of Superstar Graham around here. MATCH: Jimmy Garvin with Precious & Eddie Gilbert vs Davey Boy Smith & Dynamite Kid This is the first time we have seen any of these men tag together but it seems to work. Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert seems to fit right in with the arrogant, peacock-strutting Jimmy Garvin while Precious now has another man by her side which allows her more screen time! Trongard hypes up recent matches between Gilbert and Dynamite Kid for the AWA Light Heavyweight Title and also that he has heard some negative comments by Garvin and Precious about the clean cut, British star, Davey Boy Smith. As for the match, it is full of twist and turns. Some nice chain wrestling between Gilbert and Davey Boy is followed by Dynamite getting himself trapped in the corner and suffering from some brutal double team moves. Garvin and Gilbert may be new but they seem to be on the same wave length. They both know just how to play it dirty while never really getting caught. As we get to all 4 men in the ring, a perfectly timed loaded purse by Precious to Dynamite Kid allows for Gilbert to get the three count! At the interview desk we find out that Precious and her men are now known as Hot Stuff Inc and that the AWA will never be the same. When Okerlund asks about the dirty tactics, all three seem confused. When Gene sends it back to Rod, he is in the ring with Dynamite Kid holding his head and Davey Boy fuming about how the AWA must examine the purse of that jezebel Precious. Verne Gagne comes out and looks straight into the camera and warns Hot Stuff Inc about their nonsense and offers Davey Boy and Dynamite a rematch this week in the Rosemont. COMMERCIAL MATCH: Dick Murdoch defeats Sonny Two Rivers with the Brain Buster The problem came when the tough, tobacco spitting man from West Texas decided one Brain Buster was not enough and delivered another. This is when Jules Strongbow decided to come out to try and protect his tag team partner but all he got was some big right hands followed by his own Brain Buster and in a matter a seconds, Murdoch had laid out both Indians. As Okerlund cautiously came in for the interview, Murdoch was screaming about everything and anything. First, he started by laughing at the Crusher and how tough Chicago is and all his “Dollies.” Murdoch told them all that the toughest come from West Texas and just take a look at them two Injuns laying in the ring if you have any doubts. Murdoch then turned his attention to Wahoo McDaniel. Murdoch says Wahoo may have played in the NFL but come this week in the Rosemont Horizon, he will be playing his last game of anything. He warns Bret Hart that he better run up to the Icebox he calls home and help old Stu in retirement as that North American Title is all his! Okerlund continues to hype up Murdoch and his toughness after Captain Redneck left the set as he sells this newcomer to the AWA fans as one tough SOB. Gene also hypes up Wahoo, his opponent in the #1 contender’s match for the North American title as he lets fans know it is going to be one slobber-knuckle in the Rosemont Horizon. MATCH: Rick Rude with Bobby Heenan vs Tom Zenk A battle of two of the younger stars in the AWA where Zenk shows some promise but in the end, the combo of Heenan and Rude prove to be two much for the up and comer. Rude is able to hit the top rope knee drop followed by the piledriver for the win. At the interview with Okerlund, Heenan is frustrated that it is not Rick Rude getting any of the title shots in the AWA but says that will change . He also says that he has signed a Mega Star to join his family and we will find out who that is very soon and how Verne Gagne and Stu Hart will be sorry for not giving the “Family” what it deserves. COMMERCIAL MATCH: Greg Gagne & Bruce Hart vs The Commonwealth (Jos Leduc & Jonathan Boyd) We find out that Bruce Hart is filling in for Brad Rheingans who could not be here today and this really made it hard on the fan favorites as they were just too undersized. While they gave it their all, the power and roughness of the Commonwealth proved too much and Leduc pinned Hart after a massive football tackle. When everyone though the match was over… Randy Savage hit the ring and just went wild on Greg Gagne and the already down and out Bruce Hart! The Commonwealth simply went back to the locker room as they were happy with their win. What Savage did here was one of the most violent things seen in All-Star wrestling history as Trongard wondered if this was the Mega Star Bobby Heenan was talking about. The Rosemont Horizon: February 7, 1984 Mongolian Stomper defeats The Assassin with the Sleeper as he continues to be built as a fan favorite. The Bruise Brothers (Porkchop Cash & Dream Machine) brutally beat Ton Stone and Verlon Biggs for the win AWA NORTH AMERICAN TITLE #1 CONTENDERS Match: Wahoo McDaniel vs Dick Murdoch: These two are not very technical but they do a nice job of bumping and selling in this slugfest. In the end, Murdoch wins the battle with the Brain Buster. This could have gone wither way and in no shape or form has hurt the reputation of Wahoo. Davey Boy Smith & Dynamite Kid vs Hot Stuff Inc. ( Garvin & Gilbert) with Precious: In a reversal from this week’s match on TV, Smith and Kid come out on top. A major reaon for this was that the ref caught Precious doing her shenanigans and sent her back to the locker room. The crowd loved this as they taunted her the entire way. In the end, Smith hit the powerslam on Garvin and the two Brits walk away with the victory. Chicago Street Fight: Da Crusher vs Superstar Graham: This was a rather short match as neither of these two old-timers can go very long in this type of match but as you would expect in Chicago, Crusher comes out on top! The Sheiks (Blackwell, Patera & Abdullah the Butcher) with Sheik Adnan Al Kassie vs The Road Warriors and King Konga with Paul Ellering: A brawl that leaves nothing on the table but a victor. This match ended in a DDQ as the 6 men brawled all over the ring and arena. Not sure what else could have been expected with these 6 but somehow they are going to have to settle this. AWA WORLD TITLE MATCH: Jerry Lawler vs Rick Martel: Martel claimed his eyesight was fine after last week’s fireball by Lawler but Martel seemed just a little off. In the end, Lawler wins this long battle with the piledriver.

Good use of your tv show tohype up future matches. I would have been all in on a show that had Tully vs Zumhofe and then you throw in Idol vs Ayala and the Super tag match with Lawler and Funk vs Race and Bockwinkle. WOW! I mean that is 4 of the all time greats in one ring and it was for free and all it really did was sell tickets for a future show. Why do we find it so easy to make great shows and keep our guys white hot but I grew up on squash match after squash match! Great show

Nice set of cards. I was surprised to see Roberts come in to attack Koloff. I guess I was unsure who the heel.

Great show as the fans got their monies worth here. The Rock n Roll Express seem to have a lot of enemies here in AWA Pacific and this could lead to a wild tag team division. The fans were fuming after that one but they all left happy after the Superkick by Adams and the Finger raise by Piper!

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Nice first Omni card. I am really looking forward to that National Heavyweight Championship Match

All-Star releases Norvell Austin and adds Don Bass

Hahahah... that was AWESOME! Piper got the last ring and cacled that he was the King of LA. Was surprised that Hansen came out to team with Anthony but they would be a nasty duo especially if Anthony does most of the heavy lifting and Hansen just comes in to clean it up at the end. Hansen is one of the all-time best and can do it all! I agree with you of the underrated skill of Ron Star and he should get a some thought on being the next Light Heavyweight Champion. Great tag team showcase here and loved how you described the Adams Superkick. That is exactly how I remembered it.... It always seemed to come from nowhere and it was lights out! Adonis and Ventura bring the big name to the division but I wonder who will eventually end up with the belts! NICE SHOW!

The fans in the Freeman Coliseum sure got their monies worth. A lot of matches ended just they way the fans wanted from Atlas to Zumhofe to the big 6 man tag match which by the way I loved. You always seem to get these big tag matches to hype up a few feuds at a time. The times you had the heels win, it was always in great heel fashion. From Stasiak and Hart getting involved to Harley Race coming down to ringside, there was always a legit reason the babyface lost. This always you to build heat on for the heels and love for the babyfaces. Great show... something must give between Funk, Bock and Race. These are three huge names all running in the same circle! Can't wait for the next show.

Matter what gimmick the Long Riders used they were great! They rest of the tag team division better be at their best or they are going to be in trouble.

TNT doesn't miss a beat after the ESPN show. Atlas is a star at this time and if he can get by Hickerson, big things could be in store for him. I love the attention the TV title is getting. I remember many TV champs just gave us a semi-good match for TV in the 80's but you are giving it some star power and serious attention. The tag team division is stacked and can't wait to see all of its twist and turns... first up... the Nightmares and the Guerreros. Jimmy Hart might just be the enough to swing the balance of this feud but we will have to wait and see. Exotic Adrian vs Jaggers, Putski vs Ratymus and Funk vs Race.... Your version of tv shows totally crushes what it was in the 1980's and yet there is some much left for the house shows to draw the crowds. Great job!

Looking forward to it also. With Rain at the helm... I can never figure out what is next and that is why AWA Pacific is awesome.

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AWA ALL-STAR WRESTLING: January 25, 1984: WGN TV From coast to coast, continent to continent and border to border, we welcome you to AWA All-Star Wrestling coming to you from the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah. I am Rod Trongard and joining me today with some special interviews will be Gene Okerlund. Well fans, what a historic night we had this past week as AWA Wrestling was showcased on prime-time TV on ESPN. Fans who were in the Mid-South Coliseum will long remember this event and let’s get right to the video tape to let you know why. VTR of Jerry Lawler defeating Hulk Hogan for the AWA World Title. Rod Trongard: That’s right folks. We have a new World Champion and it is none other than Jerry “The King” Lawler and he is with our own Gene Okerlund. Gene Okerlund: Ladies and Gentleman, let me bring in the new AWA champion… Jerry Lawler. Jerry Lawler: That is King Jerry Lawler and I proved it last week in Memphis. Gene Okerlund: All that proved was that you have a lot of friends in Memphis and one happened to be the referee who seemed to mis Hulk Hogan’s leg on the ropes. Jerry Lawler: Now I don’t like what you are saying. We all just saw the video tape and I got the three count. I came here to Salt Lake City today to offer Hulk Hogan his rematch but he is so afraid, he never even showed up. Gene Okerlund: Now wait a minute… you knew Hulk was going to Japan and even though he lost his title, he is still man enough to honor all his commitments. I think it would be wise of you not to be here when the Hulkster returns from Japan. Jerry Lawler: Excuses, Excuses. I was here to wrestle today but I guess it will have to wait. Gene Okerlund: Well trust you me, your wait will be very short as you will be facing the winner of today’s main event… Rick Martel vs Jim “the Anvil” Neidhart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this Thursday night in the Mecca. COMMERCIAL Match: Bret Hart defeats Larry Cheatum with the Northern Lights Cloverleaf Rod Trongard spends most of the time during this squash match hyping up the North American tournament finals between Hart and Jimmy Garvin. After the match, Bret spends a minute with Gene Okerlund where he is grateful for the chance at becoming the first AWA North American Champion. He explains that the North American title was a major title in his father’s promotion, Stampede Wrestling and that it would be a great honor to be the first champion since the merger. This is where the chaos started as Jimmy Garvin and Precious interrupted the interview. They tried to rattle Bret but that seemed to backfire on them. As Bret stepped to Garvin, Bret threw a fake punch which Garvin really sold as real. His huge flinch made Bret laugh as he knew he was in the head of Garvin. The interesting thing here is that Precious was right in front of her man and she never flinched. MATCH: Mongolian Stomper defeats Jim Kent with the Sleeper In a strange twist, Stomper is getting cheers from the crowd. He has not been around since the riot in Calgary over a month ago as Bad News Allen attacked both him and his son, Jeff Gouldie. The crowd remembers that Bad News said he hoped Jeff died which obviously crossed the line. As a result, the crowd is now behind Stomper. In the post-match interview, the Mongolian Stomper is focused on one thing …. REVENGE. Gene Okerlund reminds him that Bad News Allen is currently serving a 90 day suspension to which Stomper says he is a patient man and Bad News Allen better think twice about returning after his suspension is over. COMMERCIAL Before our next match, Rick Martel is with Gene Okerlund who first informs the audience that Rick Martel is going to have to go it alone for awhile as his tag team partner, Curt Hennig, has injured his leg and will be out of action for a while. Okerlund reminds us that the Sheiks and Abdullah attacked Hennig and injured the leg on last week’s tv show and that Curt was so badly injured he was not even to able to join Rick on the ESPN Supercard as they went for the AWA tag titles. Okerlund hypes up Martel who had to go it alone and still almost won the tag title. Martel is humble and says he can’t wait for Curt to come back so they win the title that he believes belongs to them. Okerlund then hypes up tonight’s main event in which Martel will face Jim Neidhart with the winner to get a World Title shot this week in Milwaukee. MATCH: Greg Gagne & Brad Rheingans vs Porkchop Cash & Norvell Austin A lot of question marks in this match. Can Gagne and Rheingans continue to grow as they step up in competition and can Cash and Austin patch up their differences that were apparent in last week’s loss to Jules Strongbow and Sonny Two Rivers. The match has a few momentum turns but in the end, Cash and Austin botch a double team move and Gagne escapes to make the tag and Rheingans comes in like a house afire and hits a belly to belly suplex on Cash for the win. After the match, Austin comes in to check on his partner who shoves him away. Austin tries again but this time, Porkchop clobbers him with a big right hand and then continues to attack until we break for commercial. MATCH: Bruce Hart vs Hiro Saito ends in a time-limit draw Two of the top Light Heavyweights in the AWA with both hopping that a win here will propel then to a title shot. Unfortunately, we are left with unsettled business here as we get an action packed 10-minute draw. The match ends just as it started, with a handsake between the two. COMMERCIAL Match: Rick Rude with Bobby Heenan vs Tommy Rogers This is the first official match for Rude to be managed by Heenan and the difference is notable. Rude seems to be more aggressive and he is willing to take more risks. Rod Trongard says this is because he knows that Heenan has his back and that becomes obvious when Rogers gains the momentum but he is quickly tripped up by Heenan. This match was basically 2-1 and was too much for Rogers as Rude hit a top rope knee drop followed by the piledriver for the win. At the interview area, Okerlund asks about this new union. Bobby Heenan: Let me ask you a question…. Let me ask all the humanoids out there in tv land a question. If you were going to start a wrestling family and you took everything into consideration would you like an over the hill wrestler like Da Crusher! I think not. Would you want someone running around the ring with their gut flapping in the wind like Jules Strongbow. I think not. Would you like someone who only got a job because of who their daddy was like Greg Gagne or the Hart brothers. I think not. Would you want someone who runs away to Japan when they lose like Hulk Hogan? I think not. Now look at Rick Rude. The perfect age. The perfect body. The perfect wrestler. The perfect mindset. He is someone who will make me a lot of money and I will make him a champion. He is the newest member of my family but trust me, the Heenan family will grow to such a powerful organization, that I will soon control all of the AWA. MATCH: The Road Warriors with Ellering destroy Tom Stone & Verlon Biggs with the Doomsday Device on Biggs A quick interview where Ellering starts to call out the Sheiks and how the Road Warriors need a title shot. For those in the know, this proves that Hennig is truly hurt and Verne is in scramble mode to find a new angle for the AWA World Tag Titles as Martel and Hennig are out of the mix for a while. COMMERCIAL Match: Superstar Graham defeats Bobby Fulton with the Bear Hug. Superstar comes out as arrogant as ever here as he is sure he is going to plow over the much smaller Fulton but he was very wrong. Fulton shows what speed can do and keeps the much older Graham off balance. In the end though, the veteran hooks his arms around the ropes on an Irish Whip as Fulton goes for the drop kick and lands on the back of his head. Superstar turns this into the Bear Hug for the submission win. Superstar then tries to make a point by refusing to break the hold even as the ref threatened to reverse the decision. The crowd is fuming until Da Crusher hits the ring and we end up with an old fashion brawl until Superstar decides to head for the hills. The Commonwealth (Jos Leduc & Jonathan Boyd) defeat Steve Regal & Keith Hart The Commonwealth comes out with a lot of Anti-American taunts and they draw the ire of the fans. Regal and Hart try their best but are just too small to deal with all the raw power of Leduc and Boyd and Leduc comes away with the victory after numerous backbreakers on Regal. Rod Trongard continues to push the current All-Star tag team division. COMMERCIAL Before our main event, we get word that Norvell Austin has challenged his former tag team partner, Porkchop Cash and the challenge has been accepted and the two will meet this week in Milwaukee. Also added to that card will be Da Crusher vs Superstar Graham. Match: Rick Martel vs Jim Neidhart A truly monster clash for TV as Verne continues to want to prove that the entire AWA is the premier wrestling organization across the country. This match has it all as the two literally wear each other out. From power moves to a brawl that went inside and outside of the ring, both men knew this was their shot at getting a match with Jerry Lawler for the title and they held nothing back. Neidhart hit the powerslam but was too close to the ropes and Martel got his foot up. Martel was able to make the come back and connected three big moves … the dropkick followed by the airplane spin followed by the Bridging German Suplex for the win as Rod Trongard reminds us to get your tickets for the major event in the Mecca on January 31st as Rick Martel goes for the AWA World Title. The Mecca: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: January 31, 1984 Mongolian Stomper defeats The Assassin with the Sleeper as he continues to be built as a fan favorite. Superstar Graham and Da Crusher brawl to a 15 time limit draw Eddie Gilbert defeats Keith Hart in another AWA Lightheavyweight clash that could have gone either way. In the end, Gilbert used just enough dirty tactics to prevail as he hit the Hot Shot following a possible low blow. The Commonwealth (Jos Leduc & Jonathan Boyd) defeated Tommy Rogers & Bobby Fulton in a contrast of styles. Rogers and Fulton really look like they have some chemistry and controlled most of the match against the bigger men but in the end, Boyd distracted the ref and which allowed Leduc to pull a foreign object out of his trunks and whack Fulton over the head for the pin. Norvell Austin vs Porkchop Cash: Norvell Austin was able to prevail here after an intense brawl but as soon as the 3 count was finished, Austin was attacked by a masked mask. Cash and the newcomer really gave it to Austin who was in a bad way when the attack was over. Cash and the masked man embraced and left together. AWA NORTH AMERICAN TITLE TOURNAMENT FINAL: Bret Hart vs Jimmy Garvin: Two very skilled wrestlers with egos to match. The crowd is solidly behind Hart but it looked bad for him as Precious was a handful and it was like Hart was wrestling in a Handicap Match. As Brett began to gain momentum, Precious once again jumped up on the apron as was going to hit Bret with the loaded purse but Hart reversed the Irish Whip and Precious clobbered her own man. Hart locked in the Northern Lights Cloverleaf which might not have been unnecessary as Jimmy Garvin was already out. AWA WORLD TITLE MATCH: Jerry Lawler vs Rick Martel: A great match here as Lawler is trying to prove that he can be both a heel in All-Star Wrestling and a babyface in TNT. In the end, Martel is wrestling from the top when Lawler does the ultimate heel move and throw the fireball into the face of Martel. The ref immediately calls for the bell as Martel is writhing in pain on the floor. The King needs security to escort him back to the locker room as the crowd is almost about to riot. People in the Mecca will never forget the night that they learned to hate Jerry Lawler.

Wow... I am hooked. Forget the great matches ... and they were awesome for a tv show... The 4 Families... the Four Kings.... Such a creative angle that has Port;and on fire and then Piper comes out... sort of... and then disappears. PIper just might be the man to wage war on all 4 families or maybe he just tales out the head in Playboy Buddy Rose. Can't wait for the next show.

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UPDATED ALL-STAR TRADING BLOCK Mongolian Stomper, Norvell Austin, Superstar Graham, Hulk Hogan

Looking forward to see what you do on the 2019 project. Hope you can keep up with everything. I am enjoying your shows here.

And this is the reason I kept asking you to do a new project. You nailed it! From the opening to the midcard to the main events... great job. Ratymus is one of those guys who seems like he should have been a bigger star in real life and you have him causing some serious havoc here. Will Putski and McGraw be able to handle him? We will just have to wait and see. Nice job getting the Wildfire-Tully feud off to an even start. I could see this gong either when in the end. Decimation is too big boys but Robinson and Jumbo had to come out with the win. Robinson is an all time great and Jumbo is here to show off for Japan and they is no way he would agree to do the job on the first ESPN super show. I remember the first time I saw Bob Sweetan on tv. He went in and saved Eric Embry from a beating from Tully Blanchard and he just seemed like one bad ass. Well I give Koko and Sweet Brown Sugar a whole lot of credit standing up to not only Sweetan but Dave Schultz. And then comes the Battle Royal with the winner getting a title shot. There were like 8 names there that I would love to see go for the title and Bruiser is one of them. That is going to be awesome. Jimmy Hart and the Nightmares just seems like a perfect combo. Between the Guerreros and the Fab Ones, Hart better save some of his dirty tricks for the future as this is one stacked division. Bockwinkle vs Wahoo would be a classic and I love the way Bock grabs the ropes to add leverage to get the win. He might have been as good as Flair at breaking the rules. Martel gave it his all but the Sheiks are just too much. Hennig must really be hurt to give up the ESPN spotlight. What will Allstar Wrestling do with Martel going forward? Who will battle the Sheiks? I guess we will have to tune in next week! And then the crazy title change! Lawler really does own Memphis and that includes the ref. Lawler must be sending thank you letters to Jerry Jarrett for making the deal with Verne to join the AWA. What is next for Hogan... He just signed that new multi-year deal so he is not heading to the WWF.