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Wow...San Diego Battleground and its two nights of action shows what a great roster you have developed. So many great matches with a lot of twists and turns made this a fun read from beginning to end. Sorry I fell behind here but the reward of reading a few shows at once and seeing the angles develop was fun. For me the first shock of the night came when the Hart Foundation went down in defeat. It seems to me that there was a lot of chaos in the tag division here in San Diego and it will be interesting to see who and how you build around. Next big thing to follow is Hart talking to Pringle about OMG.... interesting! And the big shock... Sullivan, one his night off from MACW, shows up after the Masked Avenger goes down in defeat to Bigelow and talks Avenger away! -Simmons over Hansen means he is READY for ANYTHING!! Great job with him this year. WOW... Playboy goes down to Windham. I enjoyed how Windham was up and down throughout his time in PCW and then we got the big build! Can't wait to see what is next for both Windham and Rose! Agaon, awesome shows.

Sorry for falling behind here. Awesome last few weeks of shows. -One thing here, NWA President, Bill Watts, is not happy having his name dragged through the mud on National TV by that "Wanna Be" Les Thatcher...lol -I smell some funny business that the Boutwell just happened to be available on such short notice. I smell a RAT! -Great job heating up the FIesta Garden-Street feud. -Tommy Rich is the least trusted man in wrestling and I love it! -Nice job breaking done Adonis and giving him the quick rebuild into the Adorable one. Looking forward to Thanksgiving Thunder...

Sorry I am a bit behind here. Loved the show on MOvember 13th. Your interviews were really well done with some great lines. I like Chick and Rip calling out Solie and his drinking and Cocoa going back to his problems with the Cartel in Texas. Awesome event! I have been to 2 wrestling shows in my life and one was in the Bayfront Center in 1986. Great memories! Sawyer/Borne vs Texas Red/Spoiler is a great match as was the 4 Corner Match for the TItle. Nice to see Herc get the belt. He is a great monster heel for Florida. Love everything going on here!

STARRCADE PREVIEW SHOW Shown on Superstation 17 November 20, 2021 -NWA President Bill Watts comes out to hype the next NWA big event will be Starrcade which will be held Thanksgiving night as the NWA will return to the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. Watts goes on to say that this show was to showcase the top talent from all three territories, Mid-South, Mid-Atlantic and Continental but Les Thatcher, the head of Continental Championship Wrestling has decided at the last moment to not take part in the big night. You can tell Watts is fuming over this as he goes on to explain that the NWA Board of Directors is meeting right now to decide if Continental Championship Wrestling will be sanctioned for their actions. -Bill Watts turns the show over to Jim Ross who previews each of the big matches on the card. Chris Benoit vs Steve Wright JR Foley has quickly become one of the most despised men in MACW. Determined to make the territory the newest front of the anti-American crusade that had already been felt from Seattle to Shreveport. Key to this new campaign has been Canadian prodigy Chris Benoit. While some were surprised by this alliance considering Foley's legendary feud with the family responsible for Benoit's training, the Harts it quickly became clear why Foley was willing to overlook the connection. Benoit's blend of technical ability & sheer ferocity has made him a noted contender in the Jr Heavyweight division. Foley saw a opportunity to expand his army with the arrival of Steve Wright in early November & actually arranged a match with Benoit to demonstrate the kind of talent Wright could be associating with. While Benoit certainly seemed to have earned Wright's respect Foley decidedly hadn't. With Wright going onto stand opposite from The Commonwealth in multi-man matches since Foley seems to have taken the hint and has arranged a rematch between Wright & Benoit at Starrcade. Not with the intention to recruit but to punish. NWA JR. Heavyweight Title Match: Eric Embry © vs Brad Armstrong While there are many quality JR Heavyweights in the NWA, there is no denying that Armstrong and Embry are the top two. The interesting thing here is that Brad Armstrong is the only member of the Continental Championship Wrestling roster who is still participating at Starrcade. It will be interesting to hear what Les Thatcher has to say about this and if he is welcomed back to CCW after Thanksgiving night. Grudge Match: Freebird Jimmy Garvin vs Scott Casey with Sunshine Ever sense Casey arrived in Mid-South sporting Garvin’s former girlfriend, Sunshine, as his valet, there has been a lot of tension surrounding all involved. Garvin’s current valet, Precious, has been suspended for the month of November for placing a $25,000 bounty in the career of Scott Casey. While this bounty was eventually stolen by former Freebird Terry Gordy, Scott Casey was forced to have eyes in the back of his head as attackers were coming out of the woodwork trying to collect the money. Since Precious was suspended, Sunshine has been coming out to Garvin’s matches and distracting him in a rather “sexy” way and Garvin has been on a bit of a losing streak. What will happen at Starrcade is anyone’s guess. NWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: Ole & Arn Anderson vs The Patriots (U.S. Steel & Todd Champion) This was to be a Triple Threat Match with Continental sending in JYD and Mr. Olympia but with the current circumstances with CCW, that will not be the case and we will have a regular tag team match. While the Andersons are the clear favorites here, the Patriots took advantage of some wild circumstances last week in New Orleans in a 4-Corner Match to earn this title shot and the vow to take full advantage of it. In New Orleans, The Patriots shocked everyone as the defeated The Freebirds, The Masked Superstars and Ted Dibiase and Dr. Death to get the title match at Starrcade. Jim Ross took us to the video tape of this match: The Masked Superstars and the former champs (Dibiase and Dr. Death) were battling it out on the floor as Jimmy Garvin and Buddy Roberts were putting a beating on U.S. Steel. Suddenly, Garvin’s former girlfriend saunters down in a rather sexy dree and gets the eye of Garvin who is without his valet, Precious, who is currently suspended. Sunshine hops up on the apron and WHAM…. Garvin turned right onto a big spear by U.S. Stee who quickly covered Garvin for the win. Fuming at what just happened, Michael Hayes hightails it after Sunshine who is in full run mode up the aisle. UH OH…. From behind the curtain comes Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy who has been waiting months to get his hands on Michael Hayes. WHAM…. WHAM…. WHAM! Gordy is all over Michael Hayes! We now have brawling all over the arena and it takes a lot of people to get order restored. Jim Ross: Sometimes unexpected things happen and now it is up to the Patriots to take advantage of their opportunity. Speaking of opportunities, Terry Gordy really must have enjoyed his chance to get some measure of retribution on the man who nearly blinded him earlier this year. Captain Redneck Dick Murdoch & Mid-South Champion, “Soul Man”Rocky Johnson vs Bad News Allen &LeRoy Brown with Ernie Ladd Whoever Loses Must Leave the NWA & if Rocky Johnson Loses, the winner gets his Mid-South Title Ernie Ladd has been after Rocky Johnson ever since Johnson took the Mid-South title from Bad News Allen and with each unsuccessful attempt, he has found new ways to blame Bill Watts and his incompetent referees. Ladd often resorted to getting involved himself or have his other goon help out. Each time Johnson found himself on the wrong side of the number’s game, Captain Redneck came to the rescue. Watts tired of the constant bad mouthing by Ladd agreed to give Ladd one more chance but Ladd had to willing to have one of his men “go away” of the attempt was unsuccessful. So here we are, A Loser -Leave Town Tag Team Match for the Mid-South Title. BUNKHOUSE BRAWL The Posse (Dick Slater, Black Bart, Bobby Jagers & Dirty Rhodes) vs Brutha's in Arms (Shaska Whatley, Tiger Conway Jr, Norvell Austin & Savanah Jack) When MACW returned from hiatus one man who clearly had plans for the new era was Shaska Whatley. His initial plans seemed to include a partnership with Roosevelt "SD" Jones & "Bad" Leroy Brown. While Brown would part ways with MACW not long after arriving Whatley was undeterred. On November 25th Whatley would console Jones after a loss to Bobby Jagers. Jones would return the favor later that night interfering in Whatley's match against Black Bart leading to a assault that would be broken up by Jagers, his Hangmen partner Dirty Rhodes, and Dick Slater. That night marked the birth of both the Posse & the Brutha's. Whatley would add to his ranks over the next of months with Norvell Austin & (after the departure of Jones) his AWA World Tag Team Championship partner, Tiger Conway Jr. After a number of multiman matches & various gimmicks between the two sides MACW officials have decided to book a Bunkhouse Brawl in hopes of ending this conflict once and for all! Mid-South Tag Team Title Match: The Masked Superstars © vs Ted Dibiase & Dr. Death Sheik Adnan Kassie must give Dibiase & Dr. Death $5000 if the win No denying this are the top two teams in Mid-South Wrestling and there is also no don’t that they have a strong dislike for each other. It will be interesting to see what happens here as the Sheik has constantly used his “guardian” of the Million Dollar Briefcase, Hercules Ayala, to get involved in matched while Dibiase has seemed to be unbeatable against Sheik’s men United States Title Match: The Russian Nightmare Nikita Koloff vs Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy Nikita Koloff has issued a challenge to any American to step in the ring with him and he didn’t need to say anymore to get Terry Gordy involved. No doubt about it, this will be a clash of the Superpowers at Starrcade! WARGAMES: Kevin Sullivan’s Spectral Hand (Kevin Sullivan, Missing Link, Warlord, The Barbarian &The Great Kabuki) Vs Luger’s Legion (Wahoo McDaniel, Lex Luger, Dan Spivey, & The Renegade Warriors (Mark & Chris Youngblood) 2 rings surrounded by 1 cage. 2 men will face off for 5 minutes after which teams will take turns sending in a new man every 2 minutes. Once all 10 men are in the cage, we enter the "match beyond" which can only be won by submission or surrender. Explaining the type of match and those involved is enough said! WOW! NWA World Title Match: Hacksaw Butch Reed © vs Tully Blanchard with Baby Doll Rumor has it that Bill Watts wanted a title rematch from last week in New Orleans between Reed and Dick Murdoch. He saw this two put on an awesome show in their 30-minute draw but he also saw something he never saw before in a babyface vs babyface match. He saw the crowd divided down the middle and as into the match as anything he has witnessed recently. The white fans were behind Murdoch will the black fans were rooting for Hacksaw. With the crowd split down the middle it didn’t matter that Reed and Murdoch shook hands before and after the match, Watts saw major dollar signs down the road! So instead of it being Reed vs Gavin, It will be Reed vs Tully Blanchard with Baby Doll. No matter what happens, this one is going to be electric

Great lead up to Starrcade. I thing you did an awesome job with the promos by Nikta and Sullivan. Not sure if the NWA ever did an angle on where Wargames came from but it makes since that Sullivan would start it. Reed vs Tully will we grea. Looking forward to seeing if Baby Dolll and the loaded purse can take down the champ.

Mid-South adds Killer Karl Krupp from the retired list. He is studying for his manager's license as we speak.

Mid-South adds Scott Casey to the block

I really enjoyed your tv show this week. I thought your Ole Anderson impression was spot on! Well done. I hope you have as much fun with JR Foley as I did. There is some great video of him up in Stampede with Stu Hart on youtube. He was an interesting character. Also, nice job with Kevin Sullivan. He is sometime hard to write for but you are making it look easy! I liked Norvel Austin in a match. This idea gives Spivey someone who knows what he is doing to work with, and you are not upsetting Austin but making him go down in jobber-like fashion. Can't wait for our next big event!

I must say, you are the master at building a super card and finding something for everyone to do. Not a shock to see the Fab Ones and The RnR Express going the distance and I can't wait to see which way you go with it. These are two of my favorite tag teams and this angle has been awesome to follow. I can say the same thing for Lawler vs Idol. I loved Idol on Georgia Championship Wrestling when I was a kid. He was usually a babyface and I thought him, Tony Atlas and Wildfire were the best. As an adult, I have know been able to see some Memphis shows and love Idol and Wildfire as heels. This game is really fun to see each of us put our own spin on things. While I love the entire Super card, I am also really looking froward to the Steamboat/Colon match. I know who I want to win but I am more excited to see how you write up Colon as a heel in a major match with a ring technician. Also, whoever comes out of Garvin vs Bock is going to get a huge push. Looking forward to seeing what direction you go. Awesome job putting the big show together.

Nice week of shows for CCW but NWA President Bill Watts might not be too happy with you discussing CCW chaos with Slick, Landel, the Fullers and everyone else before brushing over the fact that we have a bew NWA champion and new NWA tag champions. Just because neither are from CCW don't be showing the sour grapes on national TV.... lol! I like the somber Dusty promo as T.A. should not just be forgotten. Like all your angles but really looking forward to Wildfire and his cousins! Sherri and Starr Power is a nice fit. Like how Furnas is paying his dues on the house circuit. Very real feel to CCW JYD and Olympia are right back where they need to be and that's making the fans happy!

Mid-South places Rocky Johnson on the block

It is all done. Sorry

I really enjoyed this last show. You seem to have Gordon down pretty well and it brings back some memories for me. Woman/Man/Luscious are an awesome interview as is El Jefe. Nice job here! Looking forward to seeing some babyfaces stand up to all these heels but it is going to be tough. Great job getting some major heat in Florida in a short period of time.

Mid-South also releases Alaskan Hunter Bob Brown, Dale Veasey, and Frankie Lancster

Mid-South adds Norman Smileyy and releases Mark Fleming and the Batten Twins

Mid-South takes Shaun Simpson. WWW will be added to the draft at the end of round 4.

Week 44, 1986 Highlights from the show on Superstation 17: -Show starts with a video montage from Halloween Havoc and the audience is shown that we have new NWA World Tag Team Champions as Ole & Arn Anderson defeat Ted Dibiase & Dr. Death and that the new NWA World Champion is Hacksaw Butch Reed who survived the one night 16-man tournament to win the vacated title. - NWA President, Cowboy Bill Watts, comes on to not only congratulate the new champions but he announces this week in the Sam Houston Coliseum, Ted Dibiase and Dr. Death will get their rematch against the Andersons and that there will be a 3-man elimination match to determine who will get a crack at Hacksaw Butch Reed the following week at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans. The 3 men be the NWA North American Champion, Jake “the Snake” Roberts, Bad News Allen, and Dick Murdoch. -Watts also goes on to explain that the NWA has completed its investigation into the whole bounty thing involving Precious and Scott Casey and that it has been determined that Precious did indeed place a $25,000 bounty in the career of Scott Casey and that Precious has been suspended for 30 days. It has also been determined that Tojo Yamamota, Rip Oliver and Kendo Nagasaski attempted to collect that bounty and have been fined the sum of $1,000 each and have been suspended for 10 days. -The Rock n Roll RPM’s continued to push the buttons of the fans as they boasted about how they are the best Rock n Roll Tag Team in all of wrestling today and that soon they will be champions. -Ernie Ladd came on the air and paid his $3,000 fine ALL in Pennies and said that while “The Big Dum President Watts doesn’t get it, maybe he could learn something from one that did and now he has 3000 chances to look at Abraham Lincoln and learn. -Hacksaw Butch Reed gives a very humble interview about what it means to be the first ever black NWA champion! Sam Houston Coliseum: Houston, TX November 7, 1986 Ricky Gibson defeats The Cuban Assassin with the cross-body block The Rock n Roll RPM’s defeat Johnny Mantell & Cajun Joey Jackson with a double dropkick on Jackson. Interesting thing here was that the RPM’s seemed to be having words with Ricky Gibson as he was leaving, and they were coming. Koko Ware defeats Iron Mike Sharpe with a top rope diving elbow The Mighty Yankee defeats Rufus Jones with help from the Masked Yankee Superstar Challenge Challengers get not only the titles but $50,000 of Sheik Adnan Al Kassie’s money if they win the Mid-South Tag Team Titles: The Masked Superstars defeat The Patriots (U.S. Steel & Todd Champion) when the Superstars hit the back-breaker/elbow drop combo on Champion. The interesting thing here was that Todd Champion started the match well and seemed to want to be the hero and never tagged in U.S. Steel. Steel was fuming when the match was over but the two left together. Mid-South Title Match Rocky Johnson © defeats Bad LeRoy Brown by DQ with Ernie Ladd as the ref caught Brown connecting with a punch while having three rolls of pennies in his hand. Texas Street Fight Match The Freebirds (Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin) vs Terry Gordy & Scott Casey with Sunshine is a brawl from beginning to end. We see Sunshine do here best to get Jimmy Garvin to lose his focus and it even looked like at one point she blew him a kiss. The problem for the babyfaces here was that inexperienced ref, Carl Fergie seemed to be in over his head and lost focus numerous times. The worst was as he was trying to untangle Michael Hayes from the ropes, Buddy Roberts came off the top rope with a chair shot to the neck of Casey. Gordy tried to go after Buddy for a moment, but this only gave Fast Count Fergie the chance to make the quick 1-2-3 for the heels. NWA World Tag Team Title Match The Andersons © defeat Ted Dibiase & Dr. Death Steve Williams in a wild, physical bout. The end saw Ted Dibiase doing a great job of playing the face in peril and eventually fighting his way out. As he went to make the tag, Arn Anderson, who was not in the ring at the time, saw Dibiase making his move and he sprinted around the ring and pulled Dr. Death off the apron just as Dibiase lunged from the tag. Ole tossed Dibiase back into their corner, tagged in Arn who connected with the Spine Buster and that was all she wrote. Dibiase seemed confused after the match at what happened to Dr. Death on the tag attempt. Main Event: 3-Man Elimination Match: Winner gets an NWA Title Shot Next Week Jake “The Snake” Roberts” with Sheik Adnan Al Kassie vs Bad News Allen with Ernie Ladd vs Dick Murdoch The problem here is that Roberts and Bad News make some sort of deal to defeat Dick Murdoch first and they make quick tags to each other and refuse to tag in when Murdoch asks for help. Murdoch starts off fine but eventually the numbers game gets to him and he is in a lot of trouble but he keeps finding someway to kick out. The two managers are getting more and more frustrated. Snake tossed Murdoch out of the ring where Hercules Ayala attempts to clobber him with the Million Dollar Briefcase. The crowd erupts as Hacksaw Butch Reed rushed the ring and grabs the briefcase and clobbers Ayala with it. Murdoch seems inspired by Reed and he is back in the ring like a house a fire. All 3 men are brawling in the ring… You here Butch Reed yell, “Look Out” and Murdoch ducks just in time as Bad News clobbers Jake “The Snake” and he is out cold. The problem was that the ref saw it and calls for the DQ on Bad News Allen. Again, Ladd is screaming that Reed just hit someone with a briefcase and nothing happened, but it doesn’t matter… Bad News is out. Murdoch now simple covers Roberts who is out cold and he is the winner. Reed jumps in the ring and congratulates his buddy and they take the house mic and promise to give it their all to beat the crap out of each other next week in New Orleans and may the better man win!

Mid-South takes Steve Cox

With life being really busy right now, I thought I would get this up now. Make your picks when you have the chance. No rush. RULES: - ALL DRAFT PICKS CAN BE TRADED - DRAFT WILL BE A SNAKE DRAFT - DRAFT WILL LAST UNTIL LAST PERSON DROPS OUT - ALL ROSTERS MUST BE AT THE CAP BY JAN 1. - DRAFTED WRESTLERS CAN NOT BE USED UNTIL JAN 1. - SCARLET WILL GET THE FIRST 3 WOMEN HE WANTS FROM THE LIST. IF YOU EVER WANT TO USE THE WOMEN, HE IS REALLY GOOD ABOUT SHARING. - PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH ON YOUR WRESTLERS AND TRY TO AVOID PUSHING THEM INTO STARDOM TOO SOO! FLORIDA IS UP! DRAFT: (wrestlers are listed at the bottom) ROUND 1 1. Pacific Coast: John Tenta 2. AWA (Traded to PCW): Eddie Guerrero 3. Mid-South: Scott Steiner 4. WWF (Traded to PCW): Art Barr 5. MACW (Traded to PCW): Sid Eudy 6. CCW (Traded to PCW) Maxx Payne 7. Florida (Traded to PCW): Pierre Carl Ouellet ROUND 2 1. Florida: Vlad Petrov (To retire after 1987) 2. CCW: Curtis Hughes 3. MACW (Traded to Mid-South) Steve Cox 4. WWF: Taz 5. Mid-South (Traded to MACW): Jerry Sags 6. AWA: JT Southern 7. Pacific Coast: Konnan ROUND 3 1. Pacific Coast: PN NEWS 3. Mid-South: Shaun Simpson 4. Florida: Mark Laurinatis ROUND 4 2. Mid-South 3 WWW: Trudy Adams Ursula Hayden WRESTLERS TO PICK FROM Balls Mahoney Bob Cook CW Bergstom Drew McDonald Glacier Great Malumba (To retire after 1988) Joey Mags John Paul Johnny Grunge Jonathan Holiday Mad Dog Rex (To retire after 1988) Mighty I Ton Mighty Wilbur (To retire after 1988) Pat Brady (To retire after 1989) Rex King Ross Hart (To retire after 1988) Scott Peterson (To retire after 1989) Rocco Rock

Mid-South release Bob Roop. He retires in Jan. and might have time for a quick angle for someone.

Really well put together set of shows. The Houston County Farm Center show was great. I love how you use these elimination matches and continue to fin ways to keep everyone looking good. Travis hitting Brad gets them out with no harm down to their characters and then we get some outside interference in the end so everyone looks good in the end. Nice job. Fun to see Johnny and Rich not helping Tommy. Can't wait to see what is next here. That main event was pure chaos. I admit I had to read it a few times to get it all figured with who was helping and hitting Ron or Rob Fuller but once I got it, it was awesome. Good job getting some of the other talent on the spot shows to see how the crowd reacts to them. It looks like you have some plans for Furnas!

MACW keeps on rolling with very realistic house shows! I am enjoying how you are giving us some many compeitive matches where the outcome is not know just be reading who is wrestling. It makes it a fun read for me. Benoit vs Michaels might have been the best match on the card as they continue to grow into superstars.

Looking forward to Wendy Richter's comlete blow up which could come at any moment! Fun angle.

Great show where you really pushed the limits with some of the promos with Slick. I think that is wrestling at its best. To me, wrestling is much more political than you think and always finds a way to invilve itself in the hot button topics of the day. Crispy Col. Sanders was awesome! Speaking of pushing bottons... Wildfire and the Car pool comment about T.A.! Wow. I enjoy the Fiesta Garden everyweek but loved the Exotic Garden this week!

Awesome event! Well done. I like all the small touches like Capetta and Whitney. Hope we still made some money here after paying everyone. I think we need to sell this one on VHS to keep the money rolling in. I like how Tommy Rich continued to push buttons and become the biggest heel in the NWA! Big win for the Andersons! Dr. Death and Dibiase need to get on the same page for the rematch. We need to find some stiffer competition for Embry. He is on quite a roll. Congrats to Butch Reed! He has a lot of tough challenges coming up. Thanks for all your hard work.