JerryvonKramer

Yeah I have, but I guess only when the big names were passing through. Funks, Brisco, Wahoo, guys like that. I think I have that perception though more cos I heard someone talk about it on a shoot that Blanchard even had plans of going national at one point, more like 81-2 time.

When did Southwest lose their TV spot? I thought they were always able to book good talent because of that.

Kris, Swede Hanson worked a full schedule in July 83, why's he listed?

He worked Amarillo too and Flordia. Hawk and Hanson were famous everywhere though like Patterson and Stevens. A team everyone had heard about or read about. I guess money is the disconnect here since we're not simulating it pay is not a consideration. But seem people are imagining it is.

I think a real promoter would snap him up if he was available and actually willing to come. The last bit is what is key. Do you really think ICW or WWA wouldn't have anything to do with him if he was willing to go? Dylan seems to have been trying to simulate a sense of who might actually work in Portland given financial and other constraints. That's fine. But since this isn't actually simulating any of that, I'm just saying that the actual promoters wouldn't have the same take on this if they had their pick of talent and it was guaranteed that they could go. I don't really want to argue it all out or anything.

I won't use him till then.

Name value is important in wrestling. There can be no doubt about it. Ask any indie promoter.

Thread said he wasn't eligible until August so I figured why bother. Hold on, does that mean he's not a legal pick?

I'm just saying 20+ is very low for a guy with name value. Especially a big man.

Hanson would have gotten work and not necessarily as a jobber, more likely down south than in Portland or Vancover. He wasn't a jobber for WWF anyway. They'd often use him as a stop gap title challenger like Bobby Duncum. By 83 he was winding down, but still severely undervalued in terms of where he went. I mean fuck, Frank Williams was picked before him.

WWF has the best veterans of any promotion. We would also like him to extend the friendship between WWF and NJPW.

I see. I've learned a lot about wrestling during this draft.

He worked for WWF till 1986. Do you really think some of the rinky dink promotions would be drafting no-name jobbers before him?

I'm just saying it's not very realistic.

I know Swede Hanson was over the hill and not very good in 1983 but it is very hard to believe that not a single promotion wanted him till round 20+

Legendary tag wrestler Swede Hanson.

Sorry, I just took him. Mac = Jose Luis.

Jose Luis Rivera

What the flying fuck? Someone actually took Williams? Serious?

The WWF is sad to announce the drafting of the purest of all jobbers Frankie Williams

Looking at Somers's career in the 70s, he really was a JTTS / job guy all over for the best part. His tag title run in AWA is one of the biggest anomolies in his career, I wonder what AWA fans who'd seen him jobbing night after night in 1979 thought when he turned up with Buddy Rose in 86.

He was working Central States from October onwards.

That doesn't seem right: Show @ Kansas City 1983/10/20 @ Kansas City, Kansas (United States of America) Angelo Mosca Jr. and Ron Ritchie defeated Doug Somers and Tonga John 2 Show @ Topeka 1983/10/21 @ Topeka, Kansas (United States of America) Sonny Myers and Angelo Mosca Jr. defeated Doug Somers and Tonga John 3 Show @ Rogers 1983/10/25 @ Rogers, Arkansas (United States of America) Doug Somers vs. Ron Ritchie ended without a winner as a time limit draw 4 Show @ Kansas City 1983/10/27 @ Kansas City, Kansas (United States of America) Doug Somers defeated ???

WWF could send Lars and Gene Anderson for a one shot. The Andersons are legends in the Carolinas. *Needs approval of ICW.