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I am fine taking Rey Mysterio out and Tajiri out. I know where Rey Mysterio game from https://prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/Category:1989_debuts Not sure how Tajiri got on the list but he was not in the North America at this time so he should be removed. This should go for others on the list also if there are any not from North America. All of this is the reason I supported the 10 match in a year rule before we put them in the game.

WCW WORLD CHAMPION 1. Randy Savage vacated the World Title when Ted Turner purchased WCW on August 5, 1988. 2. Ric Flair won a Gauntlet Match over Lex Luger, Hacksaw Butch Reed, Dusty Rhodes and Sting in The Tulsa Convention Center in Tulsa, OK on August 14, 1988 WCW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS 1. Ted Dibiase & Dr. Death Steve Williams defeated The Midnight Rockers (Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty) in the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, TX on Aug. 5, 1988 2. The Horsemen (Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard defeated Ted Dibiase & Dr. Death at Wrestlecade I in the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX on December 26, 1988 3. The Freebirds (Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin) defeat Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard at The Great American Bash in Atlanta, Georgia on July 24, 1989. WCW UNITED STATES CHAMPION 1. Dan Spivey enters Ted Turner's WCW as the United States Champion 2. Lex Luger defeated Dan Spivey at Wrestlecade I in the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX on December 26, 1988 3. Kerry VonErich defeated Lex Luger at The Great American Bash in Atlanta, Georgia on July 24, 1989. WCW UNITED STATES TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS 1. The Latin Connection (Mando Guerrero & Ricky Santana) defeated The Rock n Roll Express to win the vacated U.S. Tag Team Title at Fall Brawl in The Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 17, 1988. 2. The Freebirds (Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin) defeated the Latin Connection at Wrestlecade I in the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX on December 26, 1988 3. Title Vacated as a result of the Freebirds winning the WCW World Title at The Great American Bash in Atlanta, Georgia on July 24, 1989. WCW WORLD TELEVISION TITLE 1. Tom Zenk enters Ted Turner's WCW as the WCW World Television Champion 2. Eddie Gilbert managed by Missy Hyatt defeated Tom Zenk at Fall Brawl in The Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 17, 1988 3. Sting defeated Eddie Gilbert at Clash of Champions: Ragun Cajun in The Superdome in New Orleans on April 17, 1989. 4. Titled Vacated after a controversial match between Sting and Curt Henig at Clash of Champions- Guts and Glory at the Bay Center in Pensacola, Florida on June 19, 1989. WCW WOMEN'S WORLD TITLE 1. Magnificent Mimi defeats Madusa Micelli at The Great American Bash in Atlanta, Georgia on July 24, 1989.

EPISODE #2 AUGUST 19, 1988 As the show starts, we go right to a video tape from the Tulsa Convention Center and a ring announce informing us that in the finals of the Gauntlet Match to crown a new WCW World Champion, it is the “Total Package” Lex Luger vs “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair. Now we get the normal intro to World Championship wrestling! Tony Schiavone: Hi everybody. Welcome back to World Championship Wrestling. Tony Schiavone, Jim Ross and David Crockett ringside here with World Championship Wrestling, the major league of professional wrestling. As you just saw, it was Lex Luger and Ric Flair squaring off for the World Title. We will be showing you the finish of that great match in just a little while. Jim Ross: We most certainly will and all I can say is that it was one of the hardest fought matches I have ever seen along with being one of the most chaotic endings ever in the history of this illustrious title. TS: And as always, the top stars the sport of professional wrestling has to offer. Let’s go to the ring for our first match. MATCH #1 The Young Guns (Sam Houston & Kendall Windham) defeat Allen Martin & Keith Steiborn after Houston Hit the Running Bulldog on Allen Martin. A quick, humble interview with David Crockett has the Young Guns just excited top be in WCW and they know there are a lot of awesome tag teams here and they can’t wait to test themselves against the best there is. COMMERCIAL BREAK/PRMOS FOR UPCOMNIG EVENTS IN ST. LOUIS/OKC & KANSAS CITY When we come out of break, we go right to the finals of the Gauntlet Match from Tulsa MATCH #2: VTR WINNER IS THE NEW WCW WORLD CHAMPION “Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs Lex Luger with Woman Just what you would expect until we get to exactly what you wouldn’t expect. We see Flair bumping and selling for Luger until his dirty tactics give him the advantage. Luger does a “descent” job of playing the face in peril but eventually he gets the momentum back. We see him whip Flair into the corner where Nature Boy does his patented flip over the top rope and out onto the floor. Luger rushed out and gives him some big power shots outside the ring before tossing Nature Boy back in. Luger, again whips Flair into the corner but this time Flair “bounces out towards the middle of the ring. Here comes Luger with a huge clothesline! WHAM… Flair pulled ref Pee Wee Anderson in front of Luger and Luger nearly kills Anderson. WHAM… Luger turns and executes another big clothesline on Flair. Luger covers Flair but there is no ref to make the count. Flair is down for at least the count of 7 or 8. The crowd is screaming. WHAM…. Chair shot to the head of Luger by Arn Anderson. Anderson drags Flair on top of Luger for the pin but there is still NO REFEREE. Finally after what would have been another easy 3-count, Pee Wee Anderson starts to crawl over to the action and begins his count. He is still a bit groggy and the count is slow. 1…2… Luger kicks out! Dusty Rhodes has made his way to ringside to make sure Arn stays out of it. Dusty is still fuming about his bout earlier that saw Snowman and Kareem Muhammed interfere in his bout against Butch Reed. The United States Champion, Dan Spivey, has also made his way to ringside and is standing with Arn Anderson. Big body slam by Flair on the already dazed Luger. Flair with the cover but again Luger kicks out. Flair drags Luger up by his hair… Arn on the apron….Pee Wee scolds him. WHAM… Low blow by WOMAN on LUGER…. What is going on!! The cover…1… Here comes an angry Dusty…2….. WHAM…. Shoulder block by Spivey on Dusty…. 3….. Ric Flair has won the World Title! Spivey and Arn are now all over Dusty Rhodes! Woman is directing traffic… She is telling Spivey and Arn to hold Dusty down. She points to the chair and the top rope. She gives Ric Flair his marching orders and he climbs the ropes. Dusty is in some serious trouble. The crowd is screaming…. Here comes Sting and he has a bat. He dares Flair to make a move. Flair thinks better of it and jumps down to the floor. Here comes Hacksaw Butch Reed, Snowman and Kareem Muhammed…. The chaos is frantic. Here comes The Texas Outlaws, Dick Slater and Stan Hansen! There is fighting everywhere but eventually the fan favorites are in control of the ring! Luger is unsure what to do. His enemies, Dusty Rhodes and Sting, from just an hour ago, are surrounding him. Is Luger going to fight? You can almost see him trying to think this one through before it happens. Suddenly, Dusty approaches and holds out his hand! So does Sting! The crowd is cheering! Luger cautiously accepts. Dusty… Sting…. Murdoch… Hansen…. And now Luger are on the same side! Flair may have won the battle but looks like his enemies have gotten significantly stronger! (Now I would normally not want to over shadow a World Title Change with all the chaos but I wanted to get some angles going here in WCW) The video ends and we come back to live tv. TS: Well Jim, it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. Ric Flair is the new world champion, again, but Dusty Rhodes is hot on his tail. Let’s go to David Crockett who is with Ric Flair and Arn Anderson right now. Arn Anderson: David Crockett… what you just witnessed is what happens when you play with the big dogs! Ya know what I’m saying. Luger… it was real easy over there in Mid-South when you could pick your opponents and there wasn’t much to be pickin from. Now here in WCW, that’s all changed. The Horsemen are back in town and we are simply the best there ever was. The best there is and the best there will ever be! Ric Flair: Hey, you all saw Randy “Macho Man” Savage toss the World Title in the Chicago River last week and he made up some story about how he hates Ted Turner and isn’t coming down South. That was all a bunch of nonsense. The Horsemen showed up and in one day, he was laid out. He left out of fear. He knew what was coming. Now Luger…. Let me give you some advice. Follow Savage out of WCW. You got no shot. I got the title. I got your pride. I got your Woman. You shook hands with the Devil in Dusty Rhodes. Now if you stay… you gonna go through Hell as The Horseman got your soul. David Crockett: Speaking of Woman… why did you turn on Lex Luger. Woman: I didn’t turn on Lex. I turned to a winner. As you have heard time and time again… The Horsemen are the best in the business. The Rolexes, the private jets, all the money, all the Diamonds. You know what they say David. Diamonds are a Woman’s best friend. And don’t get me wrong. This is not a one-way street. I am gaining a lot by joining the Horsemen but they are gaining a lot by adding Woman to their group. DC: One last question. We saw Dan Spivey out there in all that chaos. Is he the newest Horseman? Ric Flair: Let’s just say that the application process has begun but it takes more than one shoulder block on the American Dream. The Horsemen are a way of life! COMMERCIAL BREAK/PRMOS FOR UPCOMNIG EVENTS IN ST. LOUIS/OKC & KANSAS CITY Before the match, we get another promo hyping up the coming of the Rock n Roll Express. MATCH #3 WCW WORLD TAG TEAM MATCH Ted Dibiase & Dr. Death defeat Sweet Brown Sugar & Jimmy Del Ray after Dr. Death connected with the Oklahoma Stampede on Jimmy Del Ray. In a very interesting post-match interview David Crockett wanted to know how Dibiase and Dr. Death joined together so fast as everyone saw on the Superstation that the two were at each other’s throats in Mid-South Wrestling. Dibiase told the story how he wasn’t seeing eye to eye with his former manager Sheik Adnan Al Kassie. He was upset at the Sheik for always hiring the wrong people to do the job. Whether it was the Natural Disasters, Alofa, the Tonga Kid… The list could go on and on. So, when Dibiase lost his Louisiana title and the Sheik asked what could he do to fix the problem, Dibiase told him that he had made a mistake when he hired Dibiase for a Million Dollars. Dibiase said that if the Sheik really wanted to control wrestling, he would have hired both Ted and his tag team partner at the time, Dr. Death Steve Williams. Dr. Death finished off the story by explaining that about two weeks ago, Sheik came to him and said that he would give him 1 million dollars to join his stable. Dr. Death laughed at the idea as he would never join Sheik’s stable. Dr. Death said that is when Dibiase came to him and told him to take Sheik’s money… literally take the money. When Crockett asked what that meant. Dibiase said exactly what it sounded like. Dr. Death took the Sheik’s money and then he and Dr. Death walked out on the Sheik the day before they won the WCW Title. David Crockett: So, you are telling me that you took 2 million dollars of the Sheiks money and then just left him? Don’t you think he will be coming for you? Dibiase and Dr. Death both laughed and asked David if they looked afraid? As the interview ended, it left people wondering if Dr. Death and Dibiase were heels or babyfaces? Maybe it is time for someone to ride the fans, like the Road Warriors did for a while. COMMERCIAL BREAK/PRMOS FOR UPCOMNIG EVENTS IN ST. LOUIS/OKC & KANSAS CITY Coming out of break, we have Dusty Rhodes, Sting and Lex Luger with David Crockett. Lex Luger: (Screaming in short sentences) Now David Crockett make sure that camera is on me! Close in on my face. Take a look at me Ric Flair. I’ve had it up to here with people like you taking short cuts to the top. You talk about being King of the Hill. You talk about being Space Mountain. Well, if you need Arn Anderson and Dan Spivey to carry you up the hill… you are nothing more than Over The Hill! And as for you Woman… you will look back on the day you picked Grandpa over me as the worst day of your life. Sting: It ticks me off. It really ticks me off. Ric Flair… a title as prestigious as the WCW World Title has been tainted. You go and take what should have been one of the most historic nights in WCW history… the night the title was determined by a Gauntlet Match between 5 of the best wrestlers in all of wrestling… and you have it determined by who could cheat the most. Dusty Rhodes: Ya know David… it makes me just a little bit illllll…. if you willlll….. watching that tape from the Tulsa Convention Center. I watched Lex Luger get Funky Like A Monkey the other night in one of the greatest Gauntlets ever put into a wrestling ring. He put down Hacksaw Butch Reed like it aint no thang. Then he takes Ric Flair to the verge of defeat until that Snake-in- the- Grass, Arn Anderson, gets involved. Now Arn… that aint going to go unpunished! And who is this Wanna-Be- Horseman… Dan Spivey… who does he think he is! Putting his two cents… and that’s all he’s worth…. Two cents… into the Gauntlet Match. I’m ashamed to call him the U.S. Champion. That deed Dan Spivey won’t go unpunished! Horseman…. Your now at your weakest state ever! Down to just Arn Anderson and Ric Flair and a Wanna-Be. Well soon, very very soon, The American Dream Dusty Rhodes… The Total Package Lex Luger and the man they call Sting will be collecting on those unthinkable deeds you done! David Crockett: Well there you have it folks. Lets go back to the ring. MATCH #4 WCW TV TITLE MATCH Tom Zenk © defeats The Assassin with the Superkick After the bout, the Z-Man gives an interview where he basically laughs off the idea that Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert is calling himself the TV champion and that he is walking around here with the defunct Mid-South TV title belt! Suddenly Rip Rogers and Ms. Terri come out. Rogers starts circling Zenk and giving him a pretty good look over. Rip Rogers: (Laughing) And this is what all the fuss is about. You look a little soft to me. You look like you missed a few days in the gym. You’re a little behind the Ripper here. Eddie Gilbert was out here talking last week about him and Missy Hyatt being the best-looking couple in WCW and how they should be the face of WCW. Look at Terri and myself. We are the hottest couple in WCW. We are the faces of this company and when you, Tom Zenk give me a title shot… I will be the TV Champion. Rip gives a few flexes in Zenk’s face. Zenk, still laughing, gives one of his pec bounce flexes and the girls in the audience basically fall over. The camera even catches Ms. Terri biting her lower lip! COMMERCIAL BREAK/PRMOS FOR UPCOMNIG EVENTS IN ST. LOUIS/OKC & KANSAS CITY MATCH #5 Ron Simmons debuts on WCW with a victory over Michael Starr with the middle rope shoulder block. David Crockett: Well Ron, welcome to World Championship Wrestling. That was a rather impressive win. Ron Simmons: I just want to say that nobody has ever given me anything. I’ve worked for everything I had. I worked my way to being a college football player at Florida State. I worked my way into the NFL and now I’ve worked my way into professional wrestling. I don’t expect any breaks here, but I will prove to everyone that there is no keeping me down. It is my honor to work for all those people that give it their all and have to fight for everything they have. Thank you for your time, David. DC: Now that’s a very humble man. Let’s get to the ring for two more humble wrestlers representing the great state of Alabama… The Lightening Express. MATCH #6 The Lightening Express (Brad Armstrong & Tim Horner) defeat Allen Tabb and Cougar Jay after Brad hit the Russian Legsweep on Jay. COMMERCIAL BREAK/PRMOS FOR UPCOMNIG EVENTS IN ST. LOUIS/OKC & KANSAS CITY MATCH #7 UNITED STATES TITLE MATCH “Dangerous” Dan Spivey © defeats “The Fab One” Steve Keirn with a Spivey Spike (DDT) following a rake of the eyes. When David Crockett asked Dan Spivey why he helped Ric Flair and Arn Anderson last week in Tulsa he was very clear with his answer. Dan Spivey: I’m here in WCW for one reason and one reason only and that’s to be on the top of the food chain in professional wrestling. Being the United States Champion is not enough. To be considered one of the best in professional wrestling, you must be a Horsemen! I showed Ric and Arn in Tulsa what an asset I can be. Hopefully, at some time in the near future they will come and talk to me about it. Suddenly Dusty Rhodes comes to the podium and confronts Spivey about his actions. Without Dusty realizing it, Butch Reed, Snowman and Kareem Muhammed come out and surround Dusty. Here comes Dick Murdoch and Stan Hansen Here comes Sting and Lex Luger… While we are at the end of the show, the cameras do pick up some pushing and shoving. One thing Jim Ross notices is that all the major players from last week in Tulsa are at it again with the exception of Ric Flair and Arn Anderson! Tony Schiavone adds that is why they are the top of the food chain. They let the others just tear each other apart. Tony Schiavone: For Jim Ross and David Crockett, I’m Tony Schiavone, we’ll see you next week right here on World Championship Wrestling.

WCW adds Abdullah the Butcher and Tarzan Goto

I think the highlight of the show for me was when you called Luna and Lock ladies!!

WCW will be starting shows in the next couple of weeks and just trying to figure things out right now.... Here is the current trade block Steve Keirn Dick Slater Jos Leduc Snowman Terry Taylor Hercules Hernandez Honky Tonk Man

After a short break, WA is back and is rolling along at full speed. WrestleRock Walkout is a perfect name for Larry Z.... God, you have me hating him so perfrctly. Tony Atlas with the whenever he wants it title shot is going to be interesting. Nikita and Atlas is HUGE Can't wait for Night of Champions. So many great matches that you have set up so fast after WrestleRock.

WORLD CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING EPISODE #1 AUGUST 12, 1988 TED TURNER: It seems that Ted Turner was not very happy with how his meeting with Jerry Jarrett (Memphis) and Ernie Ladd (Mid-South) went a few weeks ago. Turner fully believes that his Superstation is the vehicle to take professional wrestling to the national stage. By the time the meeting ended, he didn’t trust that Jarrett really wanted the same thing as he did. He also did not believe that Ladd was completely finished with his legal matters with Cowboy Bill Watts. While he did have a handshake agreement with Jarrett, Turner decided to go quickly in a different direction. He decided to go all in a purchase World Championship Wrestling. This promotion, formally promoted in The Carolinas and surrounding states had recently moved to the Midwest with Chicago as its base. Turner believes that this roster, along with some other contracts he recently purchased from Memphis and Mid-South has the ability to take this sport to the next level. He also believes that a return to the The Superstation will help him achieve his goal even quicker. RANDY SAVAGE: The first show on WCW’s return to the Superstation opened to a video of Randy “Macho Man” Savage holding his WCW World heavyweight title and Miss. Elizabeth standing on top of a bridge. Savage looks angry and Miss. Elizabeth looks concerned. Randy Savage: Dis is Macho Man Randy Savage yeah… standing atop the Michigan Ave. Bridge yeah… here in the Windy City… Chicago, Illinois oh yeah. I just heard the news and Macho Man aint none too happy about it… No sir eeee. For whatever reason… yeah…. Greed… oh yeahhh….Greed. It’s the root of all evil. The Macho Man just found out that the greedy weasel from Atlanta… Ted Turner… the greedy rat has bought WCW and is bringing it home to Atlanta and the South. Well, The Macho Man don’t eat no grits. The Macho Man don’t eat no black-eyed peas and the Macho Man don’t live with no hillbillies. Ohhhh Nooo No No. So, Ted Turner, your first expense is going to be buying a new World Title. Macho Man Out! Randy Savage tosses the world title into the Chicago River and the video goes blank. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING’S WORLD TITLE Tony Schiavone: I guess it’s safe to say that not everyone likes WCW’s return to the Superstation. It appears that Randy Savage was not too happy as he tossed the World Championship Title into the Chicago River. It is safe to say that he will be looking for new employment. Jim Ross: And it is safe to say, that WCW will be in search of a new champion. TS: And that question is going to be answered very quickly. The WCW has been fielding phone calls from top wrestlers from all over the country to see how that question is going to be answered. Well, listen to this. Monday night in the Tulsa Convention there is going to be a 5- man Gauntlet Match with the winner walking out as the new WCW World Champion. Listen to these names… “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair, “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, “The Total Package” Lex Luger, “Hacksaw” Butch Reed, and yes… Sting is here and he will be the 5th man in the Gauntlet Match! JR: Fans in Tulsa, get your tickets now. This is going to be an historic event. NEW WCW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS Tony Schiavone: Speaking of historic… the WCW World Champion isn’t going to be the only new champion here in the new WCW. That’s right folks, this past week in Houston, “The Million Dollar Man” Ted Dibiase and Dr. Death Steve Williams defeated The Midnight Rockers to become the new WCW World Tag Team Champions! Jim Ross: Fans, I know Ted Dibiase and Dr. Death from my days in Mid-South Wrestling and they are going to be one double tough team to defeat. I could see them being champions for quite some time. TS: That maybe so but take a look at this video of the newest tag team to sign with WCW…. VIDEO CLIP: The clip is a highlight reel of the Rock n Roll Express…. Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson. From double drop kicks to slapping hands with the fans to high flying top rope action to as many bandanas as you could count. It is clear that Dibiase and Dr. Death will have some stiff competition. WILL THE REAL TV CHAMPION PLEASE STAND UP: Eddie Gilbert and Missy Hyatt showed up on WCW this week carrying his Mid-South TV Title. Neither one of Hot Stuff Inc. wanted to listen to Jim Ross who told him that his Mid-South TV title isn’t valid here in WCW as “The Z Man” Tom Zenk is the current WCW World Television Champion. Both Gilbert and Missy scoffed at the idea that he was not the champion as everyone would want his good-looking couple to be the face of the promotion and not the hideous Tom Zenk. Jim Ross started to argue about just how good looking Zenk was but he quickly stopped himself from doing so and just told Gilbert that Zenk is currently the only Television champion that will be recognized here in WCW. Again, Gilbert just shakes his head like Jim Ross is not thinking straight. THE UNITED STATES TITLE While the rest of WCW’s title picture seems a bit murky, Dan Spivey is still the U.S. champion. Rumors are swirling around that Spivey has gone to Ric Flair and Arn Anderson to see about become the next Horseman. BACK TO A MORE REGULAR SHOW NEXT WEEK!

I will add Ray Candy, Ron Starr, and Roger Smith

Great recap! Such a hectic time in our game with so many moving parts. You did an awesome job of moving forward.

Nice job getting us all caught up instead of jumping in to where we are at and leaving us with a big gap.

Sorry for falling a bit behind here. Really love the Plowboy-Dundee stuff. Dundee gives you that one big name to hel sell the tickets and bring in the more casual fan. Nice work.

Where should Lou Perez be?

WCW adds Honky Tonk Man to the trade block.

Up to you guys. I am fine with him in both as it would work with you two in the same location.

I'm fine with it also.

Free Agency is now open. With so many moving parts, I ask that you limit your selections to 2 per day though Saturday. This will give everyone a chance to look at where they stand and fill in any holes that are needed. Also, please, please double check your rosters. I have been trying to get them set but am working on 4 hours sleep in the last 40+ hours. I am also going to add Sam Houston and Kendall Windham to my roster before finally going to sleep.

I understand you may be frustrated but Rain has all the right in the world to regain his wrestlers that never would have been available if we were not as welcoming to new writers as we are. I have been involved in other games where you get what's left over and that's it! Look at the roster LowBlow has built in a year with us. That is partly due to great trades on his part but also because he started with some talent that we gave him. We gave you three continents worth of people to pick from but it is our fault for wanting our own wrestlers back! Come on. I have received over 150 emails in the past 24 hours and many have not been the kindest. I am sorry that some people don't like that our game has rules. To publicly complain about what we do is uncalled for. So ... as you said... come on! If people can't tell... I have had about enough. I have answered ever email. I have tried to explain our rules. I have tried be help to as many people as I could to enjoy our version of the game. I have actually given away 1/2 my roster on 3 different occasions. But we are still the ones doing others wrong. Take this as you want but I am about to be the one who walks. This is the first time in 5 years I have publically voiced my displeasure. That is how tired of the nonsense I am. My kids are wondering what I have been doing all weekend. You try to explain to them that I am busy trying to make grown men happy over who is in the game, who is on their roster, why others aren't being nice and why do they have to follow the rules. Try those excuses with your bosses.

Sorry, left one thing out... Jimmy Jack has released a few wrestlers into free agency as he is moving to Memphis. If he released anyone he took from you during his unprotected draft and you would like to reclaim them, you are free to do that. Check free agency to see if any of your wrestlers are there and let me know. Other than this, free agency is closed

Free agency is now closed except for people being released into it as Straightedge will be joining us after our supplemental draft. Please remember to stay within your roster limit.

You can claim Albright as one of your foreign exemptions which lasts for up to 3 months. Albright, according to wrestlingdata.com doesn't spend any time in Japan until 1991.

Stampede (soon to be Memphis... Jimmy Jack) traded with Memphis (soon to WCW.... Kevin Jerry Lawler Bill Dundee Tommy Rich Austin Idol Dutch Mantel The Dirty White Boy The Grappler Nightmare Danny Davis Nightmare Ken Wayne Roger Smith Don Bass Adrian Street Ms. Linda (Manager) Jeff Jarrett For all picks in the upcoming supplemental draft and Jimmy Jack's 1st and 3rd round picks in the rookie draft.

With Lowblow now running WWF, the wrestlers who should have been retired are now considered to be retired and have been removed from the roster. As for Vader and Japan, the deal with Control is that his promotion is eligible for 3-6 month exchanges with a North American promotion. So where ever Vader ends up, a deal could be made between the two promotions. That will go with all wrestlers in North America.

Continental Wrestling Association begins to try and clean up its roster by releasing Bob Armstrong, Grizzly Boone, Lanny Kean, and Teijho Khan. Jerry Jarret is accepted phone calls on offers for anyone on the roster.

If you don't stay ahead, you quickly fall behind. That is the message Ted Turner had for both Jerry Jarrett and Ernie Ladd in a big meeting held this week in Atlanta. Turner was referring to what seems to be a push by many of the wrestling territories to become "national" promotions. He stated recent roster changes and huge pay per view shows by some of the other territories as his evidence. Turner also explained that the names being used by Jarrett, Memphis Wresting or Championship Wrestling, gives his promotion "a small town feel." When Jarrett tried to explain that "a small town promotion" is just what he was looking for and bigger doesn't always mean better, Turner quickly stated that that Superstation 17 was looking for the exact opposite. He told Jarrett that Memphis must go back to using the Continental Wrestling Association name and logo if it wanted to continue on his station. Jarrett quickly excepted as he really had no choice. This quickly showed who was in charge of the meeting.... the man with the least wrestling knowledge. Can a white collar business man run this wild, blue collar sport? I mean if this works out, you might someday see a business mogul in the white house regardless of political knowledge. Ernie Ladd thought he was reading the room well when he suggested that he back to using the Universal Wrestling Federation, or UWF for short, as his name. This seemed to anger Turner who said that he was not in the habit of paying off lawsuits and reminded him the Cowboy Bill Watts and the U.S. Federal Courts have already ruled that he is not allowed to use the name UWF. When Ladd said that he was fine continuing with the name Mid-South then, Turner simply said that Superstation 17 will be showing Continental Wrestling Association shows only as he "again" wants a show to span the continent just as his television station does. What exactly does this mean for Ladd, only time will tell. Most feel that Memphis is going to expand into other Southern states and will add some roster pieces, mostly coming from Ladd's Mid-South territory. Does this mean that Ladd and Jarrett will join together? Maybe but Ladd has shown that he likes to work alone. Maybe this was just due to his inability to work with Bill Watts and that he will function better with Jarrett. It seems with Turner firmly behind the CWA, Ladd is just a puppet who will soon be begging for a job in the industry. Whatever happens with Ladd, expect the roster in Memphis to grow as it seems that it will soon have all 3 hours to fill on the Superstation each week. Stay tuned... Memphis might be losing its small town feel. This will either make Jarrett's promotion one of the leaders in the industry or it will bring about its demise as we have scene from so many other territories in this Dawn of Wrestling Wars that has taken over the industry. So when will all of this change occur? Basically as soon as my head can figure out some direction. Expect Memphis... ummmm,... the CWA to be back in a few weeks.