World Class Championship Wrestling on the Network

[flyonthewall2983]

That's interesting since the Network's synopsis for the World Class documentary WWE did mentions Mark Lewin.

In another instance I heard Roddy Piper's name mentioned as someone managed by Gary Hart. 

[Ricky Jackson]

That was Saldi referencing Georgia wrestling where Piper was managed by Hart. Saldi was a big reader of the mags and could afford TBS with his NFL salary.

Lewin wrestled in Dallas a lot prior to 1982, but he doesn't show up in late-82 despite being promised by Mercer on TV 

[flyonthewall2983]

I know he's not a favorite of anyone here, but David Manning was on Ric Flair's podcast two times and it must have been the only time I ever sat through an episode. They became tight when Ric would come through Dallas as the world champion, and they had some funny stories about the old days. 

[Johnny Sorrow]

Was that the final nail in that podcast? Manning stinks. 

Sorry, we're just at early 1983 on the World Cast podcast and Manning has been the fucking worst since we started this last year. He's treated like a top babyface and he's a high pitched, little Jimmy Hart sized ref who wins feuds against wrestlers! He's presented as an honorary Von Erich! I'd guess he was the blow connection, but that's Candyman Ken Mantell. He had to have had pictures of Fritz at a Leather Bar to be featured like this.

[flyonthewall2983]

The way he tells it, he was discovered by helping out Kerry in wrestling practice (despite not even being a coach at his school). He knew Fritz because he was a fan, and he was eventually hired as a referee. He said they made a big deal out of him being the youngest-ever referee since all of them at that point were usually just retired guys. 

[flyonthewall2983]

Anyone have an idea who Arman Hussian was? The H&H. Ltd stable is an interesting idea, two managers but I can certainly see why it didn't catch on.

[SirEdger]

I had read a bit about Arman Hussein on the Kayfabe Memories section dedicated to World Class. He seemed to have been one of the top managers in the early 80s in World Class until Gary Hart came along.

[Al]

Oddly Hussein had a run in WWWF in 1967 as a babyface.

[sek69]

This is the best (probably only) article about Hussein. 

[Ricky Jackson]

Too bad his work in 82-83 is channel-changing bad, looks like he had an interesting career 

[Memphis Mark]

On 9/2/2018 at 3:43 PM, sek69 said:

I would imagine they never ran there because Chicago was AWA territory, the old school promoter's mentality of not invading another one's turf. They ran in the Northeast since Vince obviously wasn't playing by the rules. 

 If I remember correctly the Von Erich  boys wanted to expand , but Fritz actually shrunk the territory .  Fritz did not want to  run outside of  the Dallas / North Texas region. I guess Fritz did not want to tale on  a lot of risk at his age. 

[flyonthewall2983]

It's opposite the problem a few of these promotions had in the wake of the WWF getting huge, running in places like New York or Chicago and not keeping things at home to where the demand can meet the supply. Flair always says running Chicago instead of Greensboro for Starrcade was the beginning of the end. In the case of the Von Erichs they had the demand because they were drawing such good ratings with their syndicated show. It would have at least made sense of something like breaking away from the NWA.