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The results of the Halloween co-promotion between AWA and WWA will be posted shortly, but the entire AWA is abuzz about the main event scheduled for the AWA show at the Met Center in Bloomington : Hulk Hogan defending his AWA world title against a mystery opponent! A lot of discussion about who it might be, but thus far, AWA management are not giving away any clues, apart from saying that it is sure to be an intense match.

Powers would make sense but I would agree about keeping Ho available until the end of the year.

The AWA Mothership sends to Free Agency Dean Ho, Great Malumba and Johnny Powers. This puts AWA within the roster cap.

Good luck and we look forward to your return.

Full lineup for the special inter-promotional card with WWA/AWA at the International Amphitheatre , Chicago : Bob Orton Jr. vs. Don Kernodle Mr. Olympia vs. Jimmy Garvin Black Gordman & Goliath vs. Bobo Brazil & Brickhouse Brown Loser Leaves The AWA Match : Samu vs. Eric Embry Missouri Title Match : Nick Bockwinkel © vs. Tony Atlas AWA World Tag Team Title Match : The Road Warriors © vs. Ken Patera & Mike George Dick The Bruiser, Da Crusher & Prof. Toru Tanaka vs. King Kong Bundy, Ed Wiskowski & Ivan Putski Hulk Hogan & Jimmy Snuka vs. Lord Humongous & Larry Zbyszko

AWA show at the Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Johnny Powers In a match between two big veterans well familiar to the Canadian crowd, Stasiak beat Power with the Heart Punch. The Wild Italians vs. Great Malumba & Bill Rathke The Wild Italians won when Dominic Denucci beat Great Malumba with the airplane spin. Samu vs. Eric Embry Samu has apparently abandoned the “Flying Samoan” nickname, now going by “Samoan Dynamite” which was emblazoned on the back of his black ring jacket. Samu and Embry engaged in a ferocious slugfest that ended when Embry sent Samu in to the corner and came charging in, only to get a thrust kick followed by the Dynamite Drop (brainbuster) for the Samu victory. Phil Lafon vs. Maj. Cal Manson In a special guest appearance by the popular French Canadian (courtesy of International Wrestling from Montreal), Lafon dazzled the crowd with his technical prowess against the second in command of the Army before putting him away with the Cobra Clutch Suplex. Iceman Parsons, Mr. Olympia & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood of Poland In a back and forth match, it looked like Armstrong would get Garvin to submit to a bearhug, but Putski nailed him with the Polish Hammer when the ref wasn’t looking, giving the pin to Garvin. Greg Gagne vs. Super Destroyer This was the first official match in the AWA between these two combatants , although they had fought at ringside several times since Gagne’s return. Gagne tried to keep this a technical match, in spite of the provocation from Super Destroyer, but the masked man kept dragging the match down into the gutter, cheating whenever he could to get the advantage. Finally , the popular second generation wrestler lost his temper and kept slugging it out with the bigger man until the action spilled out of the ring, where they were both counted out for brawling at ringside. AWA World Tag Titles rematch : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Bills The Wild Bills were clearly determined to take the AWA Tag Titles back from the Road Warriors , and looked like they might just pull it off on a number of occasions, until Billy Jack went for a running kneedrop on Animal, only for Animal to roll out of the way at the last second. He lifted up Billy Jack in a piledriver and got the pin to successfully defend their belts. AWA World Title rematch : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous Another intense match between the two huge men, Humongous was clearly determined to wrest the title from the Hulkster. There were several points in the match where it looked like he would lock in the modified Cobra Clutch, only for Hogan to fight his way out or make it to the ropes. He ultimately looked to polish him off with a big lariat, only for Hogan to duck and come back and hit his own Axe Bomber. One Big Leg Drop later and Hogan had retained the world title.

AWA show at the Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Johnny Powers In a match between two big veterans well familiar to the Canadian crowd, Stasiak beat Power with the Heart Punch. The Wild Italians vs. Great Malumba & Bill Rathke The Wild Italians won when Dominic Denucci beat Great Malumba with the airplane spin. Samu vs. Eric Embry Samu has apparently abandoned the “Flying Samoan” nickname, now going by “Samoan Dynamite” which was emblazoned on the back of his black ring jacket. Samu and Embry engaged in a ferocious slugfest that ended when Embry sent Samu in to the corner and came charging in, only to get a thrust kick followed by the Dynamite Drop (brainbuster) for the Samu victory. Phil Lafon vs. Maj. Cal Manson In a special guest appearance by the popular French Canadian (courtesy of International Wrestling from Montreal), Lafon dazzled the crowd with his technical prowess against the second in command of the Army before putting him away with the Cobra Clutch Suplex. Iceman Parsons, Mr. Olympia & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood of Poland In a back and forth match, it looked like Armstrong would get Garvin to submit to a bearhug, but Putski nailed him with the Polish Hammer when the ref wasn’t looking, giving the pin to Garvin. Greg Gagne vs. Super Destroyer This was the first official match in the AWA between these two combatants , although they had fought at ringside several times since Gagne’s return. Gagne tried to keep this a technical match, in spite of the provocation from Super Destroyer, but the masked man kept dragging the match down into the gutter, cheating whenever he could to get the advantage. Finally , the popular second generation wrestler lost his temper and kept slugging it out with the bigger man until the action spilled out of the ring, where they were both counted out for brawling at ringside. AWA World Tag Titles rematch : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Bills The Wild Bills were clearly determined to take the AWA Tag Titles back from the Road Warriors , and looked like they might just pull it off on a number of occasions, until Billy Jack went for a running kneedrop on Animal, only for Animal to roll out of the way at the last second. He lifted up Billy Jack in a piledriver and got the pin to successfully defend their belts. AWA World Title rematch : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous Another intense match between the two huge men, Humongous was clearly determined to wrest the title from the Hulkster. There were several points in the match where it looked like he would lock in the modified Cobra Clutch, only for Hogan to fight his way out or make it to the ropes. He ultimately looked to polish him off with a big lariat, only for Hogan to duck and come back and hit his own Axe Bomber. One Big Leg Drop later and Hogan had retained the world title.

Bound to be an awesome match in Memphis.

AWA All-Star Wrestilng TV show for October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Great Malumba Mercifully quick. Malumba attacked Stasiak right at the bell, but the big former World champion countered with a solid right cross and, when Malumba staggered back, hammered him with the Heart Punch . Malumba collapsed to the mat and Stasiak got the pin. Though Stasiak is one of the older competitors in the territory, he seems determined to show he is as tough as any man in the fight. Eddie Mansfield vs. Johnny Powers “The Continental Lover” came out with all 3 members of the Minnesota Heartbreakers in tow, and this time they were clearly on the lookout at all times for Mr. Olympia. The masked man didn’t show up, but the veteran Powers took advantage of the potential distraction, frequently getting the advantage and at one point coming close to cinching in the Powerlock (Figure Four Leglock) . Mansfield fought his way out and, after a nasty low blow, hit the powerslam on Powers to get the win. Mansfield will need to learn to focus if he is to get the better of Olympia. Ken Patera & Mike George vs. The Latin Lovers This was the first serious challenge to the team of Patera and his “apprentice” Mike George, as the Lovers used their speed and agility to stymie George, taking advantage when he would lose his temper at their high flying moves. Patera took his partner outside the ring and calmed him down and, later, after Vinnie Valentino had leapfrogged George, blasted Valentino with a blindside clothesline. George immediately hit the shoulder breaker on Valentino to get the win. Mr. Olympia, Iceman Parsons & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. The Minnesota Heartbreakers This was the first appearance in the AWA for Armstrongs, and he got a great reaction from the crowd as they cheered on his wild antics and combo moves with Parsons, the new American champion. The Heartbreakers were joined by Eddie Mansfield, who tried to sneak in a few shots on Olympia when the ref wasn’t looking, but the masked man was having none of it, swiftly dodging out of the way when Mansfield tried to slug him. He finally jumped up on the ring apron and looked to hit Olympia when Tom Stanton whipped him into the ropes, but Olympia reversed it and sent Stanton crashing into Mansfield, who fell hard to the floor. He then nailed Stanton with a dropkick and tagged in Armstrong, who flattened Stanton with a big running clothesline and got the pin as the crowd roared their approval. Super Destroyer vs. Dean Ho This was the first appearance in the AWA ring for the Super Destroyer, who had been attacking Greg Gagne for the past several weeks. He was even more aggressive in his match with Dean Ho, crushing him with power moves and brutal neckbreakers. He finally finished him off with a superplex but, seemingly not satisfied with that, hit a piledriver on Ho after the match and, ignoring the protests of the referee, hit a second one for good measure. Ho had to be taken from the ring on a stretcher. Will Greg Gagne be able to stop the monster who seems out to destroy him? Only time will tell. The Road Warriors & Samu vs. The Wild Bills & Eric Embry A lot of grudges going into this match as both teams went at it full bore. Even Buck Robley got in on the act, trying to go after the Road Warriors’ mascot, Eddie Mekka, but their ally, Moose Cholak , made sure the Colonel didn’t get his hands on the Big Ragoo. All 6 men in the match got opened up at some point and didn’t hold back as they tried to wear the other team down. Embry though he had the match wrapped up as he attempted to whip Animal into the corner where Irwin was waiting to hit him with the cowbell, but Animal reversed it and instead sent Embry into the opposite corner, where Samu knocked him sparko with a mighty thrust kick to the jaw. Samu got the pin but neither side looked to be done with each other after the match. Though the Wild Bills were no longer the Tag Champs, the clearly seem set on ensuring that is only a temporary situation and have no intention of letting the Road Warriors out of their sights.

Lineup for the AWA show at the Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Johnny Powers The Wild Italians vs. Great Malumba & Bill Rathke Samu vs. Eric Embry Phil Lafon vs. Maj. Cal Manson Iceman Parsons, Mr. Olympia & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood of Poland Greg Gagne vs. Super Destroyer AWA World Tag Titles rematch : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Bills AWA World Title rematch : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous

Lineup for the AWA All-Star Wrestilng TV show for October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Great Malumba Eddie Mansfield vs. Johnny Powers Ken Patera & Mike George vs. The Latin Lovers Mr. Olympia, Iceman Parsons & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. The Minnesota Heartbreakers Super Destroyer vs. Dean Ho The Road Warriors & Samu vs. The Wild Bills & Eric Embry

Matches announced so far for a special inter-promotional card with WWA/AWA at the International Amphitheatre , Chicago : Jimmy Garvin vs. Mr. Olympia AWA World Tag Title match : The Road Warriors © vs. Ken Patera & Mike George Loser Leaves the AWA match : Samu vs. Eric Embry Dick The Bruiser, Da Crusher & Prof. Toru Tanaka vs. King Kong Bundy , Ivan Putski & Ed Wiskowski Jimmy Snuka & Hulk Hogan vs. Larry Zbyszko & Lord Humongous

Man, you are doing a great job putting your own personal stamp on the ICW. Can't wait for the next episode.

Since this is a new promotion, what will be its name?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

If you look at the results of the previous Milwaukee shows, there was Samu being taken out of action by Eric Embry, Ivan Putski turning heel and costing hometown favorite Da Crusher the match, Mr. Olympia being ambushed by Eddie Mansfield and the Latin Lovers getting brutalized by the Wild Bills, so this was actually the show to balance that last one. No worries about the Bills, I have no plans in the immediate future to split them. They may be getting more singles matches, but they are still a team.

Even in Fantasy booking, Tully Blanchard bring up a deep feeling of seething hatred in me.

AWA Show at the Mecca, Milwaukee, October 21st Eric Embry vs. Dean Ho Embry defeated the well liked Ho fairly quickly with the neckbreaker followed by a piledriver. The real story came after the match, while Embry was gloating over his victory , when out of nowhere, a wrestler crawled out from underneath the ring and attacked the Flamboyant one … it was Samu! The Flying Samoan hadn’t been seen in several weeks after being injured at the hands of Embry, and he was now back, clad entirely in black gear and brutally waylaying Embry. Samu busted Embry open and he was bleeding heavily when the AWA officials were finally able to get Samu off him. Mike George vs. Tony Russo George had dominated Russo in past tag matches and continued to do so, hitting a nasty shoulder breaker before locking him in a Full Nelson (a tribute, no doubt, to his mentor, Ken Patera) for the win. Greg Gagne vs. Boris Zukhov Gagne tried to take out Zukhov quickly, distracted as he was about possible attacks by the mysterious masked man, but the tough Russian Menace was having none of it. He ducked Gagne’s attempts to put him down with the dropkick and even fought his way out of the Gagne Leglock. In desperation, Gagne got Zukhov in the Sleeper, leaving his back vulnerable and exposed, and sure enough the masked man charged the ring and clobbered him with a black glove clad fist. The ref called for the DQ and the masked man got on the ringside microphone, saying that he was the Super Destroyer and Greg Gagne’s past had caught up with him. Mr. Olympia vs. Eddie Mansfield Mansfield came to the ring with all three members of the Minnesota Heartbreakers in tow. When the ref was ushering the Heartbreakers out of the ring, Olympia scrambled up the ropes to the top turnbuckle, surprised Mansfield with a flying dropkick and got the shocking quick pin before the Heartbreakers realized what had happened . They charged the ring to get at him, but the masked man rushed out before they could catch him, laughing at having gotten one over on the Continental Lover. Special 10-Man Tag Match : Jimmy Garvin, The Brotherhood Of Poland & The Texas Dynasty (courtesy of Southwestern Championship Wrestling) vs. Iceman Parsons, The Sake and Old Milwaukee Connection & The Latin Lovers Special Stipulations of the 10-Man Tag Match : If Jimmy Garvin loses the decision, he will be have to defend the AWA American title in an immediate match against the person who pinned or submitted him. If Iceman Parsons loses the decision, he must leave the AWA for 90 days If the Brotherhood Of Poland lose the decision, they will be barred from teaming together for a year. If the Sake and Old Milwaukee Connection lose the decision, they will be forced to abstain from alcohol for a year If any member of the Texas Dynasty or the Latin Lovers lose the decision, both members of the respective team will have to shave their heads Oh boy. This one raged long and intensely, with a lot at stake for both teams. With the Brotherhood fighting for their brotherhood and the Connection fighting for their drinking privileges, they treated the match like a barroom brawl. The Dynasty were determined not to return to Texas bald and so pulled out all of the stops and underhanded tactics to make sure they were on the winning side, but the Latin Lovers used their superior speed to keep a step ahead of them. Iceman was fighting for his very place in the AWA and kept trying to get Garvin in the ring but Garvin, fearing for his title, kept ducking out of entering the ring. Finally, when Wiskowski had knocked Parsons down with a big kneelift, Garvin came in the ring and held up Parsons for a Wiskowski lariat. The Iceman, however, still had the presence of mind to reverse it on Garvin and it was the Gorgeous one who was hit by the Polish Prince. Parsons then rolled up Garvin and got a quick one-two-three, leading us to … AWA American Title match : Jimmy Garvin © vs. Iceman Parsons Both teams stayed at ringside for this match, somewhat acting as lumberjacks but mostly fighting with each other. Having no option to tag out, Garvin sought to take advantage over the exhausted condition of Parsons The Iceman, however, kept digging in and fought back hard against the champ. He finally had Garvin set up and went to the top rope for the Rumper Stumper. Precious immediately started for the other side of the turnbuckle, looking to interfere as she had done several times before. However, Vinnie Valentino’s two Bootie Babes, no doubt fed up with her shenanigans, blocked her way, daring her to try to go through them. As Precious panicked, Parsons hit the Rumper Stumper. One … two … THREE!!! Parsons was the new American champ! The crowd roared their approval as Iceman’s teammates held him on their shoulders and celebrated his victory. AWA World Title Match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous The Hockey Masked giant came to the ring with both Col. Buck Robley and Maj. Cal Manson in tow. All three men were shocked when Hulk Hogan came to the ring, wearing his own hockey mask. Robley protested but the ref announced that he had gotten confirmation that Hogan was permitted to wear the mask based on doctor’s orders to protect his injured eye. Humongous’ usual tactics of using his mask to headbutt the eye did him no good, but he still had a lot of size and power he used to try to bludgeon down the champ. The battle went back and forth until Humongous finally got Hogan down and was able to pry off his mask and throw it out of the ring. He then went back to attacking the eye, but when he ended up charging into a big Hogan boot, Hogan got him down and finally yanked of Humongous’ mask. Humongous started to thrash around, accidentally knocking down the ref in his panic to cover up his face. Hogan was about to capitalize when Robley came charging in , trying to hit him with the hockey mask in his hand , but he instead hit Humongous. Hogan threw Robley from the ring and flattened Humongous with the Axe Bomber, followed by the big leg drop. The ref was able to crawl over and make the count. The Hulkster had once again defended his belt. AWA World Tag Title Cage Match : The Wild Bills © vs. The Road Warriors Robley and Manson were back out again to back up their charges, the Wild Bills, while the Warriors were joined by their ally, Moose Cholak, and their mascot, Eddie Mekka. The cage was intended to keep outside interference to a minimum, but that didn’t stop them from trying. For all that the Wild Bills had been no strangers to taking short cuts (such as deliberately getting DQed) to keep a hold of their belts, they certainly knew how to fight when cornered. The Warriors brought the full might of their power offence to the Bills, but the Bills fought back in kind, determined not to relinquish their belts without giving everything they’ve got. First Cal Manson tried to get something in the cage but was tackled to the ground by Moose Cholak. Then Buck Robley tried to climb up the outside of the cage, only for Eddie Mekka to grab ahold of his leg and refuse to let him go. No matter how hard Robley kicked at him, Mekka would not relinquish his grip on the Colonel. Inside the cage, Animal was finally able to elevate Irwin to set him up for the flying clothesline by Hawk. Animal was able to hold back Billy Jack from interfering and Hawk was able to get the pinfall and finally bring the AWA tag titles to the Road Warriors.

AWA All-Star Wrestling for October 21st The Texas Dynasty (courtesy of Southwestern Championship Wrestling) vs. The Wild Italians The Texas Dynasty and Sunshine were making their first joint appearance on AWA television , setting the stage for their participation in the big show in Milwaukee, and seemed to be making sport of the Wild Italians, not taking them seriously. The Wild Italians didn’t kindly to that but the Dynasty always seemed to be one step ahead of them, pulling in bits of cheating and underhanded moves seemingly just because they could. Finally, Tully Blanchard hit the Slingshot Suplex on Tony Russo to put the match away and the Dynasty acted like they had pulled something over on everyone, acting very dismissive of both their opponents and the fans after the match. Lord Humongous vs. Moose Cholak The last appearance of Lord Humongous before his big World title shot in Milwaukee. The big Moose, no stranger to Humongous from numerous six man tags, was determined to leave his mark on Humongous before his title challenge. The two leviathans battled it out for several minutes before Humongous hit a massive lariat and followed it up with a running kneedrop for the pin. Iceman Parsons vs. Johnny Powers Iceman was hoping to get a shot at the American title tonight after the 10 man tag, and gave a great display of why he was a contender to the enthusiastic fans. He dominated the veteran Powers, finishing him off with the top rope Rumper Stumper. Garvin will need to keep an eye out if he wants to get through the Milwaukee show with the title still around his waist. Greg Gagne vs. Mike George Gagne tried to have a technical match with Mike George, but Ken Patera’s new apprentice was determined to sneak in every cheap shot he could. Nevertheless, Gagne seemed to have the match well in hand and had George caught in the Gagne Sleeper when the mysterious masked man showed up at ringside. Gagne immediately dropped George and dove to the outside to brawl with the masked man as the ref counted to 10, giving the win by countout to George. The Brotherhood of Poland vs. The Latin Lovers The Brotherhood came to the ring accompanied by Precious, while the Latin Lovers were joined by 2 of Vinnie Valentino’s bikini clad Bootie Babes. The Lovers had experience dealing with bigger opponents from their matches against the Wild Bills and used the same tactics, ducking and moving to flummox the much bigger Brotherhood. It looked like it would pay off when Valentino ascended the top rope to finish Wiskowski off with a flying dropkick, only for Precious to sneak up behind him and shove him off, sending him falling hard to the match. One face first piledriver later and the Brotherhood had the pin. The Bootie Babes were outraged but the decision stood. AWA World Title match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Eric Embry The match had barely gone 5 minutes before Lord Humongous came to ringside. He might have wanted to have a direct influence on the match, but AWA President Stanley Blackburn got on the arena PA and said that if Humongous laid one hand on Hogan during the match , he would lose his world title shot and be suspended for 90 days. Regardless, he seemed to prove a distraction to Hogan as his Army ally Embry pounded on Hogan’s still swollen eye. The battle waged back and forth until Embry whipped Hogan into the corner, only for Hogan to come roaring out and leveling him with an Axe Bomber. One Big Legdrop later and Hogan had gotten the victory over the Flamboyant One. But the ultimate test would come in Milwaukee, where he would have his ultimate battle with the Hockey Masked nightmare.

AWA has sent Mike Vachon to JCP effective the end of this month.

That sounds right.

Great stuff, as always. Love the angle with Sheik and Schultz.

AWA is proud to work with a worthy competitor such as Mr. Lawler.

AWA In Sacramento, October 16th The Wild Italians vs. Bill Rathke & Great Malumba The Wild Italians won when DeNucci got Malumba in an Airplane Spin Greg Gagne vs. Maj. Cal Manson Gagne won with the Gagne Sleeper Eddie Mansfield vs. Mike Vachon Mansfield won with a power slam Prof. Toru Tanaka vs. Ivan Putski Putski won with the Polish Hammer Da Crusher vs. Ed Wiskowski Crusher won with a running Bolo Punch. After the match, he was attacked by Ivan Putski, leading to Tanaka running in for the save Iceman Parsons vs. Eric Embry Parsons won with the Rumper Stumper from the top rope The Road Warriors & Moose Cholak vs. The Wild Bills & Buck Robley The Road Warriors & Cholak won when Hawk hit the flying clothesline on Robley

AWA in Oakland, October 15th. Dean Ho vs. Bill Rathke Ho won with a Full Nelson Ken Patera & Mike George vs. The Wild Italians Patera & George won when Patera hit an elevated backbreaker onto George's knee on Russo Boris Zukhov vs. Greg Gagne Gagne won with the Gagne Leglock AWA American Title match : Jimmy Garvin © vs. Moose Cholak Garvin won when Cholak missed an avalance in the corner and Garvin caught him in a roll up Eddie Mansfield & Rick Patterson vs. Mr. Olympia & Stan Stasiak Olympia & Stasiak won when Stasiak hit the Heart Punch on Patterson AWA World Tag Title match : The Wild Bills vs. The Sake & Old Milwaukee Connection The Wild Bills won when Irwin hit the flying lariat on Tanaka AWA World Title match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous Hogan won by DQ after interference by Col. Buck Robley