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You'll have to rely on WWF for that. I've been spooked by the steals the lower tier promotions have been making, so I'm rushing to strengthen my mid-card. Wait till my next pick...

Woah my pick has almost come back round, a lot quicker than I thought, good work guys...

Da South will rise again....

Not great at promo or match writing so try and avoid it, but I think I know where I want things to go, thanks for the comments...

After his unsuccessful debut on TV, DC Drake is released as of the 12th

Smoky Mountain Power Hour Saturday 11th August 1984 Raleigh County Armory, Beckley, VW Taped in front of a live studio audience at the Raleigh County Armory in Beckley, WV Hosted by Rick Stewart and Les Thatcher Smoky Mountain Heavyweight Champion - Tom Pritchard Smoky Mountain Tag Team Champions - Lanny Poffo & George Weingroff The opening credits roll as we pan to Rick Stewart and Les Thatcher who welcome the fans in the Raleigh County Armory in Beckley, West Virginia for another exciting hour of wrestling on Smoky Mountain Power Hour. Your host’s Rick Stewart and Les Thatcher run down the results from this past Monday’s card in Knoxville, where champion Tom Pritchard cowardly walked out on his Heavyweight Title match with Johnny Rich and Lanny Poffo and George Weingroff retained their Smoky Mountian Tag Team Titles, this week we have several television debuts, and here comes one of them, as Scott and Steve Armstrong make their way to the announcers tables. Scott and Steve both tell Stewart and Thatcher that they aren’t here to make up the numbers but they are here to win the tag team titles. Their opponents this week are the Devils Duo of Jeff Sword and Doug Vines who are waiting in the ring ready for the opening contest. The Armstrong Brothers slaps some of the fans hands as they make their way to the ring. As they slide into the ring Sword and Vines jump them and begin to attack before the bell, Doug Vines turns and demands the referee rings the bell. The bell rings and the match is under way, the Devils Duo have full control following the way they forced the match to get underway. But after some confusion the tide has turned and the Armstrong have taken control after Sword and Vines were trying to isolate Scott, only for Vines to miss a clothesline and connect with his partner Jeff Sword instead of Scott, this allowed Scott Armstrong to make the tag to his brother who is a house of fire. Steve hits two superkicks to the Devils Duo, he grabs hold of the legal man Jeff Sword and whips him into the ropes and connects with a massive dropkick and covers him for the 3 count and the victory at 6 minutes. The Armstrong’s celebrate a hard earned victory in their debut for Smoky Mountain Wrestling. === Commercial === Following the commercial Johnny Rich comes to the announcers desk and asks Les Thatcher if he can have another title shot, he goes on to say, he had Pritchard beat this past Monday and he knows he can beat him if given the opportunity again, Les Thatcher the official match maker for Smoky Mountain Wrestling’s say he can have the match on one condition, that this Monday in Knoxville he pins Tom Pritchard in a tag match. Johnny Rich agrees and asks who his tag partner will be, Thatcher says it’s up to him, it’s something we like to call in Smoky Mountain Wrestling as a Dream Partners Tag Match, and Tom Pritchard will have the same opportunity. Johnny Rich, has a little think he says he knows exactly who he’s getting on the phone too after his match, Rich tells Thatcher he will be announced as the new number 1 contender next Saturday and go on to win the Smoky Mountain Wrestling Heavyweight Champion a week Monday. Johnny Rich then makes his way into the ring for his match with Tony Falk. Rich makes light work of Falk and gets the pin after 3 minutes following a Thesz Press. === Run down of this week’s action coming to Smoky Mountain area === We return with Smoky Mountain Wrestling Heavyweight Champion Tom Pritchard with his valet Sunshine. Pritchard tells Thatcher that he is starting to lose patience’s with Thatcher and his crazy decision making, but this Monday in Knoxville he will proved that not only is he the best singles wrestler in the world, but also the best tag team wrestler in the world, as Pritchard and Sunshine go to walk off, Sunshine jumps in and says Johnny Rich will always be a loser, like the rest of his family. We go to the ring where we have Roy Lee Welch, Welch tells the fans that he is introducing the “$500 Welch Submission Invitational” and it starts today, the rules are simple, each week Roy Lee Welch will wrestle an individual of the highest quality and if that individual can go 10 minutes without submitting to the “Submission Specialist” then they will receive $500, not bad for 10 minutes work. Roy Lee Welch asks Rick Stewart if he will introduce today’s challenger. A wrestler makes his way to the announcer’s desk and introduces himself to the audience as DC Drake, Drake says he thinks he has a pretty decent chance of not only lasting but winning the match also. Drake makes his way into the ring, the bell rings and Welch offers his hand and DC Drake shakes it. The match starts with a lot of hold for hold wrestling until Welch takes control following a stiff forearm, after a minute or so of control, Welch locks in the Fuller Leg Lock and Drake submits after 4 minutes of action. Welch gets to his feet as Drake holds his leg in pain, Welch grabs DC Drakes hand and shakes it and walks of with his $500. === Commercial === Following the break we have two teams in the ring, one being the team of Greg Cooley and Gene Ligon and they will be facing off with the Wild Hoggs, LK Hogg and JR Hogg. The bell ring and the Hoggs just charge right at the team of Cooley and Ligon, after a few minutes of battering the Hoggs get the victory after a double axe handle smash to Ligon from JR Hogg, following the bell they continue their attack until the Smoky Mountain Tag Team Champions Lanny Poffo and George Weingroff come running out to fight off the Hoggs. The Hoggs retreat to the changing rooms while the champs check on Cooley and Ligon. Poffo and Weingroff walk over to Thatcher and Stewart and tell the Hoggs they should pick on someone their own size, and they ask Les Thatcher if they can have a match this Monday against the Hoggs, Thatcher says he doesn’t see why not and signs the match for this Monday. === Run down of this week’s action coming to Smoky Mountain area === We return from the break with Ken Lucas, Pez Whatley and Ron Starr joining Rick Stewart and Les Thatcher, Whatley says he’s impressed with how Thatcher has been signing great matches and he would like to request one himself, he with his two friends Ken Lucas and Ron Starr would like to request a 6 man tag match for this Monday in Knoxville, all 3 of them want to teach The Flame, Phil Hickerson and Dirty Rhodes a lesson, with this comment The Flame, Phil Hickerson and Dirty Rhodes all storm to the announcers table and start to argue with Starr, Whatley and Lucas, it doesn’t take long for all 6 man to start brawling and the changing room empties to break up the brawl that goes all around the studio, finally the 6 man are broken up as the screen fades to black. === Show ends ===

Smoky Mountain picks up DC Drake

As a bottom of the barrel promotion, and only planning to pick up a small core of wrestlers, am I allowed to bring in free agents as and when i want for shows?

Just to let everyone know, ECWA talent will be available for bookings all bar 2 days of the month... Which includes jobbing on TV or tours of Japan

So with the realignment of tiers it's blown a lot of my picks away, time to get really creative in Delaware...

Just let me know when I can go...

Smoky Mountain is undecided as of this time...

Andre and the woman cool with. From a territory stand point the others did flick in and out of promotions throughout this time period..

Just putting it out there..

I have no interest in any of the freelancers/Andre/Women/Minis.

From a selfish point of view, I'd rather you guys all draft the freelancers so I can pick up the youngsters. But I think to stay realistic people like Abdullah and Brody wouldn't hang around in territories too long. But I'll go with minority...

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What about if they could be drafted for 3 months at a time? A lot of the guys wouldn't hang around much longer?

Also I reckon their should be a tier 4, ECWA isn't on USWA's level, Memphis is still running 3 plus shows a week at this point..

Personally, I'm going to lock in 8-10 wrestlers and then fill out the shows with what's left, if it's the Bushwackers or Steiners, it's what's left, fancy not being entirely in control...

Just out of interest can promotion move up tiers in future?

Looking at who's been protected the first annual ECWA Super 8 Tournament will be stacked...

El Gran Apollo was screwed again, liked the addition of the vailed girls accompanying Ron Starr to the ring and the main event was epic...

Drum roll please........... Steve Corino, Billy Kidman and Devon Storm.

How many am I saving?