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This is a thread to discuss all business related to the National Wrestling Alliance. The board will need to elect a President and determine dates for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (among other titles) to be defended. Stampede Wrestling is requesting to rejoin the NWA, with Stu Hart as their representative.

Friday July 1st 1983 MACW live from County Hall in Charleston, South Carolina The Russians Nikolai Volkoff & Chris Markoff defeated Bob Bradley & Tony Zane The Tonga Kid defeated Rudy Diamond Barry Darsow & Joe Lightfoot defeated Doug Vines & Steve Estes Hector Guerrero defeated Ben Alexander Fantastic Tommy Rogers & Brad Rhenigans defeated Bill White & Tiger Williams Michal Hayes & Terry Gordy defeated The Vachons MAIN EVENT The Nature Boy Ric Flair defeated The Iron Sheik via DQ

Got a bunch of guys who are doing nothing on your cards? Got a youngster who just needs some more time in the ring? Want to keep that veteran from getting ring rust? Vince McMahon Sr is proud to announce the opening of NWF Developmental. This will be a sub-promotion that runs a single card a week in Buffallo, NY on Friday nights. It will be run by two legendary wrestlers very well known to the area, Johnny Powers and Dominic Denucci. The purpose of the sub-promotion is to ensure guys have in-ring time to hone their skills or stay in shape. This sub-promotion is also an ideal place to send guys who might be coming back from injury. A place to work in front …

Going to get this started. Rules - 1) Draft goes in order. You have the option of passing or picking. If you pick, you move to the back of the line. If you pass, you keep your spot for next month. So, don't pick if you have your eyes set on someone coming up in November. 2) If wrestlers remain after the first round finishes, the draft snakes back until all wrestlers are gone or all drafters pass. Any additional pick also sends the drafter to the end of the line for future months. peachchaos - PASS TravJ - PASS RocketCrypt - PASS Beast - PASS Boon - PASS KrisZ - PASS JHawk - PASS dawho5 - PASS goc - PASS Cross Face - PASS Grimmas - PASS Jesse Ewiak - PASS W…

Dave "Fit" Finlay Steven Wright Pete Roberts Marty Jones Stampede will be running without 4 of it's top stars in Jan/Feb '84 as Bret, Davey, Kid, and Cobra all leave for an extended tour of NJPW. Does anyone have an issue with me supplementing my roster with British talent for this timeframe only? I'd be willing to control the bookings for British talent entirely, but I'm guessing the big issue is that we really don't have any good source for results for these guys. Since we don't have anyone running England in our universe, does it even exist?

Johnny Valiant Steve Muslin (Travis) John Tolos Kurt Von Hess Thunderbolt Patterson Bull Brannigan Dusty Woods Mark Savage Francisco Flores (El Toro) Bill Jodoin Steve Logan

I definitely reckon we should have a free agents list that people that aren't needed at the moment can sit on, rather than sit on rosters and never be used. It may also give new writers a chance to see what's out there if they want to join and just write shows? A bit like an Indy promotion, while they wait for a bigger promotion to open up. I definitely have a few guys who could do with going out to smaller promotions.

Ok so now that we've firmly established that the merger is going through, let's just get this done with and we'll decide what happens with the new August talent afterwards. The draft order has already been decided in the other thread so let's stick with that. If you don't want to draft anyone by the time it's your turn you can just pass, I mean you don't HAVE to take anyone if you don't like what's there. Jesse Ewiak WCCW: Al Madril Cross Face AWA: Eric Embry JHawk WWA: Mando Guerrero peachchaos Stampede: Kerry Brown dawho5 Montreal: Goldie Rogers TravJ Memphis: Sonny King RocketCrypt Florida: Rufus R. Jones Flyin Bruan ICW: Carl Fergie El Boricua WWC: Denny B…

The hottest match up in the NWA is "Nature Boy" Ric Flair and Rick Martel. The great matches can not be contained in Toronto and Greensboro, so this great match is ready to be farmed out to your home promotion. Do you want this great match on your show? Request the date below and if Jack Tunney and Jim Crocket approve then you get a bonafide awesome main event for your town. Bring in two future World Champions and let them light your town on fire!!!

Owner: Vince McMahon Sr. Shareholders: Phil Zacko, Gorilla Monsoon Announcers: Vince McMahon Jr., Gorilla Monsoon, Dick Graham, Kal Rudman Referees: Dick Woehrle, Dick Kroll, Mario Savoldi Ring announcers: Howard Finkel, Gary Michael Cappetta, Joe McHugh Full-time Roster: Andre the Giant Ricky Steamboat Bob Backlund Jack Brisco Superstar Billy Graham Billy Robinson Jerry Brisco Blackjack Lanza George Steele Mr. Fuji SD Jones Dominic DeNucci Baron Mikel Scicluna Victor Rivera Dean Ho The Destroyer Pete Doherty Steve King Jose Luis Rivera Swede Hanson Tony Colon Jack Carson Luke Graham Jerry Monti Johnny Powers Chief Thundercloud Fred C…

July 2, 1983 TV The opening credits and theme song play. There are still photos of some of the new faces to the territory--names like Magnum TA, Chris Adams, Dr. Death Steve Williams and the Moondogs--as well as clips of Honkytonk Man and Al Tomko in action. We cut to the BCTV studio. Ed Karl welcomes everyone promising a "fresh start and new attitude" for All Star, then introduces his new broadcast partner... Precious Paul Ellering. Ed announces that all All Star titles have been vacated, replaced with new heavyweight and tag titles dubbed the NWA International Titles. He also announces that there'll be a new TV Title, with the first champion to be determined in …

7/2/83 at the Montreal Forum (14,500) The show opened with Jacques Rougeau, Sr. explaining that King Tonga and Tonga John would not be participating in the tournament based on their actions towards Jim Brunzell. "That kind of behavior will not be tolerated in the International Wrestling Association," warned Rougeau. Jim Brunzell/Phil Lafon over Sgt. Slaughter/Mad Dog Lefebvre by DQ 11:14 Brunzell and Lafon started hot, but the veteran Slaughter took the advantage after going to the eyes and booting Lafon in the stomach several times. Lafon got worked over for a while, with Slaughter several times taking shortcuts to keep the advantage. The tag to Brunzell g…

Puerto Rico ---à Florida ---à Alabama ---> Georgia ---à New Orleans --à San Antonio --à Dallas --à Memphis ---> Lexington --> Mid Atlantic ----à Puerto Rico New York ---à Indianapolis --à Kansas City ---- > Minneapolis -----à Stampede ---à (Vancouver / Portland) ---à Toronto ----à Montreal --à New York OK, check it out, when I first thought of the territory proposal, I was thinking in pairs. However, people were pissed off with who they were paired off with, etc. . Instead of a pair system, how about a line system? I tried doing this with all of the territories in one line but it got too convoluted and I couldn't really see how it wo…

Buddy Lane Mike Bond Doug Somers 666 (Jim Starr) Dick Tessier Denis Goulet Charles Atlas Karl Moffat (Jason the Terrible) Jim Morris (Hillbilly Jim)

I've had a few people mention to me that they think that there isn't enough feedback going on right now for the promotions and I definitely am looking at myself on this as well as I don't think I tell you guys enough how great of a job you are doing. Believe me as someone who puts a lot into this...especially writing TV....it definitely makes you feel better to know that your work is being appreciated. Also it doesn't hurt to say if you don't think something is working because that lets us know we need to step our game up.

The WWF is committed to bringing through young talent and giving them exposure and experience "for the good of the business". The WWF fans are very good at remembering faces, and, who knows, one day the young hopefuls they see on TV could see their name in lights at the world famous Madison Square Gardens. But everyone has to start somewhere. The deal consists of the following: - 3 months of TV tapings every Wednesday, the youngster will appear on WWF Superstars or WWF Challenge - The youngster will be booked to a win, win, loss pattern. First win over a jobber, second win over a JTTS, loss to a star - The youngster may occassionally be used in small angles …

Owner: Jack Tunney Announcers: Mike McMan & Billy Red Lyons Championships NWA Canadian Title: Rick Martel (won 7/1) NWA Canadian Tag Team Titles: Ivan Koloff & Super Russian (won 7/10) The hit "Wrestling Night in Canada" will be airing every Sunday evening and taping every Sunday morning. Roster: Greg "The Hammer" Valentine w/ Dan Carson Rick Martel "The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff Wahoo McDaniel Jesse "The Mind & Body" Ventura Rocky Johnson Mr. Saito Leo Burke Tony Garea "Big" Stephen Pettipas "No Class" Bobby Bass Cuban Assassin Chicky Starr Ben Bassarab "Outlaw" Joel Deaton Tiger Cownay Jr. Alexis Smirnoff Rick Patterson Joe Marcus Bob Ma…

Barry Orton Charles Buffong Randy Webber Franklin Hayes (John Tatum) Greg Cooley (Wendell's brother) Dennis Stamp Terry Daniels

Butch Miller Steve Lombardi Don Serrano Jeff Gouldie (Tommy Lane) Roberto Renesto (Tom Branch) John Cosman John King Hacksaw Higgins Scrap Iron Sheppard Greg Evans Paul Kelly Snake Brown Mike Von Erich

JULY 12, 1983 NWA PRESIDENCY CONTROVERSY Jim Crockett Jr. is now the new President of the NWA Board of Directors. Over the past week, there was a fierce debate on who should be the NWA President, and in effect, the person who controlled the bookings for the NWA World Heavyweight Champion. The three nominees in contention were Crockett, Paul Jones of Georgia Championship Wrestling and Bob Geigel from Central States. Geigel had been President but a vote was taken to determine a new President as the NWA looks forward to unchartered territory. There were positive and negative traits from all three candidates. For current President, Bob Geigel, the feeling internally…

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The following members of the PNW roster will be retained: --Buddy Rose --Barry Windham --Bill Dundee --Jos LeDuc --Chris Colt --Gerry Morrow --Brett Sawyer --Pat Patterson --Ray Stevens The following All Star wrestlers will be released from the active roster: --Carl Fergie --Al Madril --Al Tomko --Sonny King --Timothy Flowers All moves take effect August 1

World Class Championship Wrestling Owner: Fritz Von Erich Announcers: Bill Mercer, Marc Lowarance Referees: David Manning, Bronko Lubich Roster: Fan Favorites: Kerry Von Erich Kevin Von Erich Tito Santana Bugsy McGraw Al Perez Norvell Austin Siva Afi Bobby Duncum Gran Markus #2 Mike Miller Rulebreakers: Kamala Bad News Allen Big John Studd The Great Kabuki Killer Tim Brooks The Mongol Ken Timbs Korstia Korchenko Rock Riddle Ciclon Negro Licensed Managers: Skandor Akbar Titles: NWA American Heavyweight Championship - Kevin Von Erich NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship - Vacant WCCW Television Championship - The Mongol (Gene Lewis) NWA Texas Brass Knuckles …

Missouri Heavyweight Championship Tournament July 4th, 1983 Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO - Central States July 4th Missouri Heavyweight Championship Super Show opens up with former Missouri Heavyweight Champion Sonny Myers in the ring, holding the belt, as all eight men competing for the prestigious title are introduced. They spend the entire segment shooting daggers at each other, particularly King Kong Bundy and Dick the Bruiser, although Bundy’s manager, Gary Hart, seems more interested in the appearance of Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan at the side of Nick Bockwinkel. With the introductions done, Myers allows each man to take a moment to touch the belt, before they gath…

Hey, Sorry guys. Had a crazy last couple of last weeks. Was in Vegas last weekend and a few more 4th of July plans than I thought the previous weekend. In short, my meager social life was a little more busy than I previously thought it was. Back to normal this weekend, so I should have everything caught up for World Class by the end of this weekend. Just think of it as a slight delay in the tapes getting out to the various tape traders. Thanks, Jesse Ewiak