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Alex Porteau's name is misspelled. The booker name is missing from the WCW profile.

As if it wasn't impossible already to take him seriously, it doesn't help the credibility of Russo at all that he can't get through a single sentence without saying "Bro".

Precious and Baby Doll were both active in the NWA in 1988, although not much (if at all) afterwards.

Makes sense, his pro career didn't really amount to much more than the proverbial cup of coffee. Even when he showed up in the WWF, it was as "UFC star Ken Shamrock". Given how rich this particular draft is, I don't see a reall issue in this one guy staying in the shoot style realm, since that was his bread and butter.

I would say that Freddie Blassie at this point is effectively retired as a manager.

Pretty sure this hasn't changed yet.

To make way for the new roster additions, PCW will be cutting Masa Fuchi, Don Callis, Bull Pain, Pierre Carl Ouellet, Mike Miller, Tom Magee, Bob Holly, Crash Holly, Bruiser Bedlam and Yoshiaki Yatsu. If possible, I would like one week of shows to write some of these guys out.

For the draft, Yoshihiro Asai/Ultimo Dragon/Dragon Azul should be on the old WCW roster.

I have worked it out, Kevin, and I apoligize that I was inflexible with this. Control can have Albright, I have plenty to work with as it is.

Gary Albright goes back to PCW as he was taken in the unprotected draft.

Pacific Coast Wrestling show from McArthur Court, Eugene, August 6th The Footloose vs. The Can-Am Express Another barn burner of a tag match that the Can-Am's won when Furnas pinned Kawada with a German Suplex Owen Hart vs. Chris Candido Another duo coming off strong showings in the Tournament Of Lions had a highly competitive match which Owen took with a Moonsault Leo Burke vs. The Undertaker The Undertaker kept on digging his way through the competition, burying Burke with a Tombstone Pacific Submission Title Match : Dan Severn © vs. Masanobu Fuchi Severn kept looking strong for his upcoming Pacific Heavyweight Title challenge, forcing Fuchi to tap out to a cross armbreaker Steve Armstrong vs. Genichiro Tenryu The Tenryu Express kept rolling on, knocking out young Armstrong with an enzuigiri Pacific Light Heavyweight Title Match : The Cheetah Kid © vs. Dean Malenko It what was perhaps his most competitive challenge yet, Cheetah Kid was just barely able to hold down Malenko with a Victory Roll for the One Two Three.

Pacific Coast Wrestling show from the Portland Memorial Coliseum , Portland , on Pacific Super Cards on ESPN / TSN, August 5th Stormfront (Al Snow & Alex Porteau) vs. Death Sentence (Jimmie Lee & The Hangman) Stormfront continued their run of upsets by hitting the Storm Warning (modified double Flapjack that drives the opponent down onto his head) on the Hangman. But the big news came when Snow yanked the mask off the Hangman, revealing him to be … Bull Pain! PCW Commissioner Dutch Savage soon got on the ringside microphone and stated that, since he had already lost a Loser Leaves Town Match, the Hangman/Bull Pain was now banned from Pacific Coast Wrestling. Billy Jack Haynes vs. Bruiser Bedlam A knock down, drag out brawl that Haynes wound up winning with a Shoulder Breaker Brian Lee vs. Mark Starr Starr was still battered and bruised from the previous day's donnybrook with the Southern Boys, and Lee was able to take him down with the Prime Time Slam California Title Match : Buddy Rose © vs. Lou Perez Rose continued his path of running scared, barely making it out of several attempted submission holds and hitting a nasty eyerake to set up the Inside Out Backbreaker, just barely coming out of the match with his title. Brian Pillman vs. Eddie Guerrero Pillman showed his win in the Tournament of Lions was no fluke with an intense and fast paced match with Eddie Guerrero, emerging triumphant with the Air Pillman Pacific Heavyweight Title Match : Barry Windham © vs. Maxx Payne Dan Severn was at ringside for his newest pupil, Maxx Payne, who gave the champion a real run for his money, working over his right arm to try to set up the Payne Killer. Windham was able to take down Payne with a lariat from his left arm, but was clearly favoring his right arm as he left the ring.

Pacific Wrestling Showcase from the Portland Sports Arena, Portland , on ESPN / TSN, August 4th Brian Christopher vs. Art Barr As the weeks have gone on, Art Barr has seemingly gotten more and more unhinged and bizarre. Tonight , he came out dressed in ragged clothes and his dark eye makeup had expanded to white face. Christopher seemed unsure of what to make of Barr's erratic behaviour , and the Wild Thing kept him off balance for much of the match. Christopher was able to bid his time, though, and when Barr missed a dropkick, Christopher capitalized by pulling him up from the mat and hitting the Chris Cross (Full Nelson facebuster) for the win. Barr seemed unfazed by the loss, and was laughing uproariously as he left the ring. Jerry Lynn vs. Cactus Jack You can imagine that Barr's Wild Things leader Cactus Jack would be nodding his head (or shaking it manically) in approval at this evolution in his attitude. He brought a similarly crazed attitude to his match with Jerry Lynn. He was more successful than Barr, in spite of a brave effort from Lynn, and the double arm DDT gave the match to the New Mexico Madman. It's been said before, but Cactus is clearly a bad influence on his colleagues. Interview : Don Coss stands in the ring Coss : Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest *eyeroll* is the California Champion, "Playboy" Buddy Rose! The crowd rained down boos as Buddy Rose, Scotty The Body, Mark Starr and Tina Ferrari came out to the ring. For a change, the loudest boos were directed at Scotty The Body, although that was not too surprising given his recent dastardly attack on Sunshine. Rose : *grabbing the microphone* Before we get down to it, I want to give a shout out to my good friend, the late great Adrian Adonis! Miss you, buddy, you will always be the King Of The Bay! Coss : My first question is for Scotty The Body. Scotty, many people were appalled, including myself, when you executed a DDT on Sunshine! Scotty : Hey, she knew the risks when she signed the match. If she wants to get involved in the business of men, she better be prepared to face the consequences. Tina here knows the score, and she can take care of herself. *Tina gives a bicep flex behind him* Buddy : Enough of this chit chat. Let's get down to business. I have to keep dealing with this punk Dustin Rhodes getting in my way. He grew up thinking that his dad was a big deal, he doesn't recognize a truly great athlete like me when he sees one. *silent snickering behind him from Scotty, Starr and Tina* I've got to face him for my California Title at Phoenix Firestorm, and I find out that the Playboy Club are banned from ringside! Well, this isn't my first rodeo, so I made sure that the Brigade are also banned! So it is just going to be you and me, Rhodes! Coss : But the Diamond Exchange have also been banned from ringside! Rose : Do what now? Uhhhhh, well, no matter, the Playboy always has something up his sleeve and will figure this out. Don't you worry about me! Tracy Smothers vs. Mark Starr It wasn't long before Mark Starr came out again, but the scheduled match never took place. Smothers stormed the ring on his own and just tore into Starr and the bell never rang. Soon, Steve Armstrong and Scotty The Body joined the fray and a chaotic brawl erupted, with the Southern Boys intent on avenging their fallen manager. The ref threw out the match and it took PCW security coming out to get both sides back their locker rooms. It looks like Scotty's actions have poured gasoline on the bonfire that is the feud between the Sin City Superstars and the Southern Boys. Pacific Television Title Match : "Diamond" Timothy Flowers © vs. Pierre Carl Ouellet Flowers has had an incredibly strong run as TV champion, but the challenges have gotten progressively tougher and tougher. They don't come much tougher than the fighting French Canadian, PCO, and certainly gave a fierce battle to Flowers. No matter what Flowers did to him in the ring, he was not able to keep Ouellet down for a three count . He ended up hitting a piledriver on the outside and PCO was unable to make it back in the ring, giving the win to Flowers. Bret Hart vs. "Mean" Mike Miller Hart and Miller have been fiercely feuding since "Mean" Mike's return to PCW, but the Hitman seemed determined to be will and truly done with Miller in this match. He tore Miller apart with ferocity, not letting the Diamond Exchange member get a single offensive move in before locking him in the Sharpshooter and forcing him to tap out. Bret Hart is looking to the top of Pacific Coast Wrestling and isn't about to let anyone stand in his way.

Low Blow will be running WWF and the WCW roster will go into the draft. Given that Leon White/Vader was still in what would be mostly a professional wrestling career, with only a relatively brief detour into shoot style, I think he should go to one of the regular rosters. That said, should whoever picks Vader up in the draft be open to it, you could arrange to have Vader appear in UWF on a special appearance basis. Speaking as someone who tends to use monster heels sparingly to preserve their mystique, it would be a way for them to "earn some money" while still being available for whatever their main roster would need them for. Sort of like what Vince Sr. did with Andre.

I didn't realize Crash Holly was so popular Writers tend to go whichever way they choose with regards to using early or later gimmicks, as long as it isn't too out of keeping with the times. I have Flyboy Rocco Rock as Cheetah Kid, Mick Foley as Cactus Jack instead of Mankind, Scotty The Body instead of Raven. I kept Mark Callaway as Texas Red for a long time before morphing him into the Undertaker 2 years early. I also have the Patriot, the Eagle, Crash Holly etc. some years ahead of those gimmicks. It was all for what I needed of them at the time for my writing and roster. It's up to the individual writer's discretion and , as I said, as long as it isn't completely inappropriate for the time period, it's all good. (I have personally refrained from the "Simply The Best" nickname and theme music for Tony St. Clair because Tina Turner's most famous version of that song hadn't come out until mid 1989). Besides, if a particular writer prefers an earlier gimmick for a wrestler, they can write them back into it when they get them onto their own roster.

I am fine with things the way they are now and don't have any problems writing this way.

*cough* Teijoh Khan *cough*

I can at least address address the topic of when wrestlers died. This is a holdover from the previous project. When that project started, there were 3 options available with regards to the deaths of wrestlers : 1) Some sort of random death generation process ("Sorry, buddy, Ric Flair just died.") which would be creepy and weird. 2) Nobody ever dies ("1988 NWA World Champion David Von Erich!") which would be creepy and weird. Or 3) People die when it happened IRL, which has the bizarre side effect of people being able to manage their booking around the deaths of the wrestlers (which the real life bookers certainly couldn't do), which was also a bit creepy and weird but ultimately seemed to be the best of the three otpions. As far as retirement goes, it is a fairly generous rule, with the writers getting to use the wrestlers right up to the end of the year they retired. Along with the rookie rule, it helps to keep the rosters fresh and interesting for the writers and anyone reading.

I see that Ray "Glacier" Lloyd would have been active during this period, having had several matched in WCW/NWA in 1989.

Al Snow working shoot style in Kitao Dojo against Ishinriki JJ Dillon at MSG against Tito Santana

We are a few weeks away from the next PCW Mega Show, Phoenix Firestorm, and we have a great show planned. There are a lot of big matches planned, but we are ready to announce the main events for both nights Night One 2/3 Falls Pacific Light Heavyweight Title Match : The Cheetah Kid (c) vs. Robbie Brookside Night Two Pacific Heavyweight Title Match : Barry Windham (c) vs. Dan Severn

Pacific Coast Wrestling show from the Kelowna Memorial Arena, Kelowna, July 30th Jerry Lynn & Brian Christopher vs. Chris Candido & Cyrus The Virus It's hard to say which of the two teams was more of an odd pairing, but it was Christopher who ultimately prevailed by hitting the Chris Cross on Cyrus Tony St. Clair vs. Steven Regal "Tough" Tony did what he could to discipline his former student, but Regal went to the gutter and knocked him out with a hidden pair of brass knucks for the pin Maxx Payne vs. Robbie Brookside Brookside was all over Payne in the early going, but the lessons of Payne's new friend Dan Severn paid off as he was able to weather out the storm and hit the Payne Threshold (front layout suplex) for the win Jim Neidhart & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Masanobu Fuchi The Anvil and Hashimoto were able to outlast the Blood Syndicate when Hashimoto hit the Leaping Spike DDT on Fuchi Vic Steamboat vs. Genichiro Tenryu The Demon did his best but ended up another victim of the Power Bomb, with another triumph going for Tenryu Pacific Television Title Match : "Diamond" Timothy Flowers © vs. Leo Burke In spite of a valiant effort from Burke, Flowers was able to hit the Piledriver and successfully defend his title.

Pacific Coast Wrestling show from the Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver on Pacific Super Cards on ESPN / TSN , July 29th Pierre Carl Ouellet vs. Bruiser Bedlam The tough as nails PCO was not about to go down easy for the big Bruiser, and put up a hell of a fight, but Bedlam was able to land a crushing elbow smash to the head from the top rope to win this duel between two pugnacious Canadians. Lou Perez & Tom Magee vs. Bob & Crash Holly Magee, another well respected Canadian competitor, knocked out Crash with a Superkick for the win. The Force Of July (The Patriot & The Eagle) & Brian Lee vs. The Destruction Crew & Cactus Jack Eager to capitalize on his win the day before, Lee was keen to throw down with Cactus Jack , and the New Mexico Madman was more than willing to oblige. It looked like Lee's momentum would come to a halt when Cactus had him set up for the Double Arm DDT, but Lee blocked it and hit a bridging backdrop suplex for the win. The Can Am Express vs. Joe & Dean Malenko These two fast rising teams went to a 20 minute time limit draw. Bret Hart vs. "Mean" Mike Miller Another knock down, drag out battle between these two that Bret took with a diving clothesline. Billy Jack Haynes, Scott Hall & Dan Severn vs. Barry Windham, Curt Hennig & The Undertaker Windham seemed taken by surprise by Dan Severn, as the Pacific Submission Champion hit several jarring throws and suplexes that knocked the Pacific Heavyweight Champion for a loop. Unfortunately for Billy Jack, overwhelmed with concern for his missing manager Sunshine, that distraction proved too much as a Western Lariat from Windham gave the victory to the Neighborhood Of Evil.

Pacific Wrestling Showcase from the Victoria Memorial Arena, Victoria, on ESPN / TSN, July 28th Stormfront (Al Snow & Alex Porteau) vs. The Footloose Snow and Porteau have come out of nowhere to go on something of an unbeaten streak, with victories in successive weeks over the Malenkos and the Hollys. Tonight , they would be facing the fast rising Japanese team of Kawada and Fuyuki. The Footloose were certainly not about to roll over for the upstart team, and the result was a hard hitting and highly competitive match. Porteau was able to catch Fuyuki in a takeover suplex, while Snow held off Kawada, and Stormfront have pulled off another upset, cementing their status as a team to watch. Brian Lee vs. Mike Borassi The big Bulldozer has earned the admiration of the fans in his short time in PCW, but has sometimes found himself on the short end of things in the Brigade's war with the Neighborhood of Evil. Determined to show what he was capable of, Lee dominated Borassi, giving him no chance to make a move before hitting the Prime Time Slam. Brian Lee is clearly not someone to be underestimated. Vic Steamboat vs. Art Barr Never the model of stability in the best of circumstances, Art Barr's behaviour has gotten progressively more erratic of late . He came our wearing bizarre dark eye makeup and twitching as he entered the ring. Steamboat wasn't quite sure what to make of it but, with his eyes set on the equally bizarre Cactus Jack, got down to business. Barr kept the Demon on his toes during the match but Steamboat's focus proved to be the equalizer and Steamboat executed the Demon Suplex (Tiger Suplex) for the win. The Southern Boys & Sunshine vs. The Sin City Superstars (Scotty The Body & Mark Starr) & Tina Ferrari The arrival of Tina Ferrari in the ranks of the Playboy Club has provided a chaotic element to the matches between the Sin City Superstars and The Southern Boys. It was only a matter of time before Ferrari and Sunshine were put directly into the game, resulting in this mixed tag match. Whereas before, Sunshine was timid in the presence of Ferrari, tonight she was determined not to be intimidated. Any time they interacted, Ferrari seemed caught off guard by the fury of Sunshine's attack. Buddy Rose was in the corner of his young charges, but the ref gave him strict orders to keep his nose out of things. That didn't stop things from breaking down into complete chaos, with all 6 competitors slugging it out in the ring at once. Sunshine was able to sweep Ferrari off her feet and was raining down punches on her, but while the ref was escorting the Southern Boys out of the ring, Scotty The Body pulled her off. He dragged her to her feet … then hit a brutal DDT! When the ref turned around, he only saw Ferrari on top of Sunshine and counted the pinfall. Armstrong and Smothers swept in to help their fallen manager, and a furious Billy Jack Haynes stormed out to the ring, but by that time, the Playboy Club were headed for the hills. Even Buddy Rose was giving Scotty a sideways look, but Scotty and Tina were cackling all the way, while the crowd looked on in shock and horror. Leo Burke vs. Cyrus The Virus The veteran Burke clearly had the crow on his side as he took on the sneaky and sinister Cyrus, who bore a wicked grin throughout the match. No matter what Burke did to try to get his hands on Cyrus, it seemed like the young Wild Thing would be able to wriggle out of his grasp. Cyrus eventually got overconfident, and quick as a flash, Burke was able to execute a belly to back suplex for the win. The fans loudly cheered their fellow Canadian on his hard fought victory. Tournament Of Lions Finals : Brian Pillman vs. Owen Hart After 5 weeks of tournament action, it all comes down to this. In the same place the tournament began, the field of 16 contenders came down to just two worthy competitors. Pillman and Hart are fire forged friends, having been Golden State Tag Team champs as the Snowbirds, but now that would have to go out the window. Only one could emerge victorious. The two shook hands before the bell rang, then got right down to brass tacks. The two started off slowly, for although they knew each other well, they were tentative about being too aggressive with each other. As the tempo of the match picked up, however, they started digging into their big moves, becoming more and more willing to do what it took to come out on top. The crowd watched in rapt attention as the excitement just kept increasing. Flyin' Brian and Owen took more and more chances, and the match grew into a real nail biter. Owen was able to send Brian flying out of the ring with a spectacular dropkick, but Pillman was just barely able to catch himself on the top rope and land on the ring apron. With lightning speed, he hit the Air Pillman on Owen and went for the cover. One … two … THREE!!!!! After a tightly competed match, Flyin' Brian emerged victorious , winning both the Tournament and the $100 000 prize. Brian helped Owen to his feet and Owen raised Brian's hand in victory, while the fans cheered the two friends for the classic match they had just put on.

Fujiwara vs. Takada to me is the money match, the tough as nails veteran facing the superstar in the making.