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Sam Houston Coliseum: Houston, Texas September 24, 1986 First 6 matches partially shown on Superstation 17 First, as time continues to be an issue for me, I want to explain a couple of the angles that would have been advanced during the last Power Pro’s tv show. 1. NWA President, Bill Watts, announced the next joint NWA Supercard which will be Halloween Havoc on October 31st in the Omni. Matches for this event will soon be announced. 2. A promo hyping the return to Mid-South Wrestling of the greatest tag team in NWA history …. The Rock n Roll is headed your way! 3. We here from Scott Casey and Sunshine on how great it was to come to Jackson, Mississippi and beat the Freebirds especially with Jimmy Garvin being the one to go down in defeat. Sunshine talked about her past relationship with Garvin and claims that it was her who left Garvin because he was a loser and always wanted her to use some sort of illegal ways to help him cheat to victory. She claimed that the only reason that Precious is with him now is because she is cheating trash just like him. Scott Casey went on to hype up the fact that it was so obvious that Garvin still had eyes for Sunshine as the second he saw her, he lost focus and lost the match. Casey didn’t fault Garvin too much as he said he understood that after looking at Sunshine and Precious, everyone knows that Garvin lost out on that deal! Later, we find out that since Ted Dibiase will be taking on Magnum T.A. for the World title in Houston that it will be Scott Casey and Dr. Death taking on Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes. As the show ended, The Freebirds come to the interview area where both Garvin, Hayes and Precious spend most of the time putting down Precious. It got a little out of hand when Garvin started throwing dog biscuits on the floor for his former valet and calling her Fido instead of Precious. This brought Scott Casey and Precious back out, but the problem was it was 3-1. The Freebirds finished their gifted promos and went right on the attack as they beat Scott Casey all over the arena floor as the show ended. We will have to see what happens this week in Houston. 4. Bill Watts, upset at Black Bart and Bruiser Brody for their extreme violence last week in Jackson, took action against both. He banned them from being in the same Mid-South venue for the foreseeable future. Black Bart was fuming and decided to head out of the territory so that he could earn a fair living. Bruiser Brody was also really upset as he felt he did nothing but defend himself from the pre-match attack. Brody complained that he tries to go out and give the fans a good show and that Watts has lost his focus on doing what the fans want and if the NWA president doesn’t give the fans what they want, then why should he. Now on to our show in Houston… Kendo Nagaski with Tojo Yamamoto defeated Mike Graham by submission with some sort of nerve hold. “Captain Redneck” Dick Murdoch defeated The Masked Yankee with the brainbuster. When Murdoch went for the mask, the Mighty Yankee, Billy Jack Strong, rushed to the ring and dragged out the Masked Yankee. When Murdoch dared Strong to enter the ring, Strong decided discretion was the better part of valor and guided his friend back to the locker room. Jake “The Snake” Roberts with Sheik Adnan Al Kassie defeated U.S. Steel when he slithered out of a potential powerslam by Steel and then connected with the DDT for the pin. The Snake pointed to Sheik’s $1,000,000 briefcase like he was laying claim to it, but the Sheik gave him a noncommittal shrug. U.S. Steel was filling in for Bruiser Brody who was a no show after being upset at Bill Watts for what he thought was unfair treatment. Mid-South Title Match Rocky “Soul Man” Johnson © defeated Bad News Allen with Ernie Ladd by DQ as the ref “came to” just in time to see Rocky being attacked by Bad News Allen, Ernie Ladd and Bad Bad LeRoy Brown. This is Brown’s first appearance in Mid-South in months and Ernie Ladd will have some explaining to do on the next Power Pro. Dick Murdoch, who helped Rocky win the title last week in Jackson, rushed down to the ring to even the sides a bit. Even thought it was a 3-2 advantage for the heels, Murdoch and Rocky controlled the ring and then a frustrated Ernie Ladd led his Bad Bad team to the locker room. Grudge Match The Freebirds (Garvin and Hayes) with Precious vs Dr. Death Steve Williams & Scott Casey with Sunshine did not go off as planned. The fans began to boo when the ring announcer said that due to the attack on Power Pro Wrestling by the Freebirds this past week, the Mid-South doctors have refused to clear Scott Casey to wrestle. Gorgeous Jimmy and Michael “P.S.” Hayes were having a grand ol time after this announcement but boy did that change in a hurray as the ring announcer continued with… but taking his place as he was just cleared by doctors will be none other than …. Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy! The roof nearly came off of the Sam Houston Coliseum! Michael Hayes thought he saw a ghost as he went up to Gordy and moved his finger from side to side to check to see if Gordy really had his eyesight back and Gordy followed every inch of the movement! WHAM! Huge right hand by Gordy and the brawl was under way. Only seconds behind Gordy was Sunshine who went right after Precious! Precious wasn’t backing down and we see a good cat fight in the aisle while the brawl was going on in the ring. Garvin couldn’t take his eyes off of Sunshine and Precious and this led to his downfall as he was caught by Dr. Death with the Oklahoma Stampede. Before the ref could complete the 3 count, Buddy Roberts came off the top rope with a knee to the back of Dr. Death forcing the ref to call for the bell. No big deal as there was no stopping Gordy and Dr. Death as they proceeded to pummel all 3 Freebirds! What a wild scene here in the Coliseum! Mid-South Tag Team Title Match The Masked Superstars © with Sheik Adnan Al Kassie defeated the Patriots (U.S. Steel and Todd Champion) as the Superstars connected with a nasty double team move as Superstar #1 hit a backbreaker on U.S. Steel and then Superstar #2 came off the top rope with an elbow drop! U.S. Steel was just not at his full ability after suffering the DDT earlier in the evening in his match with The Snake. North American Title Match Hacksaw Butch Reed © defeated Jos Leduc with Sheik Adnan Al Kassie with a football tackle. When Reed eyed Sheik Adnan and the $1,000,000 briefcase after the match, the Sheik took off and left Leduc in the center of the ring. NWA WORLD TITLE MATCH Magnum T.A. and Ted Dibiase wrestled to a 45-minute draw. While the match did start and end with a handshake, it did get a little chippy during the long bout. Most in attendance say that Dibiase started with the questionable tactics but that T.A. had no problem mixing it up! See you next week in New Orleans. So long from the Lone Star State.

Added to the block with Bruiser Brody are Black Bart and Bad News Allen

Really good card. Nice job in the first couple of matches and you gave those you wanted a nice little push. Losing to the Beast of Burden is no shame but the Bruise Brothers seem to have lost some mojo. Will be interesting to see what happens here for both of these teams. You have found a great way to keep Billy Jack and Snuka a hot topic in the AWA... Have these two monsters beat on each other. This could entertain the fans for months. Finally a good ref catches the bad guy as Idol gets caught using the belt. We need this refs name as Mid-South is looking for a few good men in stripes. Colon shocks the fans.... maybe he has just snapped. Step into the ring for a year of blood-filled bouts and you just might not be right in the head anymore.

Very interesting first match with Luna going down in defeat. Not buying the Monster's reason for the loss. Maybe they can't win without Madusa. Very interesting. Misty Blue seemed to be the class of the tag match. She might be looking for some gold or a better partner. Time will tell. Moretti "settling" for a powerslam shows just how good she is. Nice booking!

Again, very realistic house shows as we give the stars a win against some decent names and then we get the big main event to sell the tickets!

Mid-South places Brusier Brody on the block.

got it.

My fault with the Spoiler. He is available. Sorry for making so many mistakes on the rosters lately. Please remind me of the Dory for Patera trade when it actually occurs.

Awesome job getting MACW set up the way you like. I just said something similiar to Den and WWF. You have done a great job of building up some of your midcard heels which makes the fans really happy when your upper level babyfaces beat them or you are able to produce more heat when the upper card heels come out on top of your midcard babyfaces that just got some shine on TV. Some huge appearances this week as we get Wahoo Back and see the debut of LeRoy Brown. Looking forward seeing how you use him. Awesome main events!! MACW is STAR-STUDDED!!

Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this. Great reads so far.

The Pleasuredome Challenge was awesome. I had a feeling it was Exotic Adrian coming out but it take anything away from the angle. Awesome promo by the Exotic One. This will be fun to follow in the coming weeks. Great to see the Nightmares back home! Embry finds away to keep his title but I liked how you had the CCW fans come up with new ways to get under the champs skin.... CHEATER! I bet the fans were fuming when the Bullet couldn't go and the Rich's left with the belts.... I am just going to sit back and get ready for a wild ride! Nice job of really showing the type of guy Magnum is as he jumps into the ring to help Dusty before he has to defend his world title. I could see how Sherri's flirting could distract a man. Will her group be able to get along... will be fun to watch. Anyway, the belt stays on Buddy which will be sure to give us some great promos in the coming weeks. The handshake to Stubbs.... very interesting move by T.A.... Can't wait to get more on this one. Great show as always!

WOW.... week after week your promo skills amaze me. The opening with Stubbs and Landel and wheeling Ronnie out.... Awesome. Really good Eric Embry... like how he pointed out he is the best in the world. He better be ready for Prichard. Lanny... Woman... Solie.... really good. I like how Solie is starting to bother Lanny. WOW... the Fiesta Garden... between what was said, along with hot Sherri (also hot Woman) I think CCW is going to be shown after the kids go to bed. I enjoy your use of Ron Slinker. Very creative. WHAT A MAIN EVENT... PURE CHAOS! Can't wait for night of champions

As I said before, really excited about the attention you are giving to the JR HW division. Embry added to the heat here and the match with El Santo Negro now has the fans attention. The Harts better be careful... Lucifer is one dangerous dude! Great contrast in styles here in this match. Like how you brought in Lex for the brawl as this is the top of guy who could deal with the P.oP. Love the Stipulations for the MIdnight Rockers and the pulled it off! They better be ready for the Andersons but they would also make great champs! Looking forward to seeing where this one goes. What a Main Event!!

1987 Rookie Draft Order (Thought I would get this up while I had the time. The draft will be Thanksgiving Week. The order was chosen by a number generator.) ROUND 1 1. Pacific Coast 2. AWA (Traded to PCW) 3. Mid-South 4. WWF (Traded to PCW) 5. MACW (Traded to PCW) 6. CCW (Traded to PCW) 7. Florida (Traded to PCW) ROUND 2 1. Florida 2. CCW 3. MACW (Traded to Mid-South) 4. WWF 5. Mid-South (Traded to MACW) 6. AWA 7. Pacific Coast ROUND 3 1. Pacific Coast 2. AWA 3. Mid-South 4. WWF 5. MACW 6. CCW 7. Florida ROUND 4 1. Florida 2. CCW 3. MACW 4. WWF 5. Mid-South 6. AWA 7. Pacific Coast - 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. - ANYONE WHO JOINS DAWN OF WAR BETWEEN NOW AND THE DRAFT, WILL BE ADDED TO THE END OF THE 1st ROUND. - PLEASE CHECK THE LIST OF WRESTLERS AND MANAGERS TO SEE IF ANYONE NEEDS TO BE ADDED OR IS ALREADY IN THE GAME UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME. - 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.

Madusa seems to need some help but what a story it would be if she goes out and destroys the Monsters all by herself. You do a great job here but Madusa vs The Monsters is awesme. I know Richter and a few other's dominated back then but really like how you made thia your own project.

Boss Man and the Masked Avenger on the same side... great change of direction here in the last few weeks. Like how they didn't come out together. You have made Tracy Smothers into a real star. I always thought he was underrated and should have gotten a bigger push.

Really good show with a true MACW feel. Last year youtube had the entire 1985 MACW season and this was spot on. The matches were filled with midcard guys but the stories for the big stars was hyped through the opening montage and interviews. Great job. If anyone wants to see some great wrestling from the territory days, see if this is still on youtube. The Koloffs gave a great promo and hype we see a big rematch between Nikita and the champ. Good job getting some attention for the JR HW's. Benoit is just about ready to become a star. MACW.... 4 Horseman... All is right in Dawn of War! Looking forward to Greensboro!

Really entertaining show. I love the idea of the best of 7 series with the Fabs and RnR Express. I remember Nikita and Magnum doing this in real life. You get so much out of this. You sell tickets, already set up angles for tv as everyone wants to know who won this past week, etc.... Great booking! While I might be a little surprised if Priceless won the tag belts, it wouldn't shock me. There are certain people or teams that you keep reinventing and doing more with and Priceless is one of them. So is Carlos Colon! Looking forward to seeing his where you go with him vs Tiger Jeet. Snuka vs Billy Jack is a great top of the card feud that could go on and on. Also very good booking! Iceman and Brenda.... Water and Oil... they don't mix but they do entertain. Larry Z is one to be watched... carefully! Horner is getting closer and closer... interested to see if he comes through. Bock-Steamboat.....MAIN EVENT!!! This is going to be awesome.

Fairgrounds Arena: Jackson Mississippi September 17, 1986 First 6 matches partially shown on Superstation 17 (WRITING TIME IS SHORT.... MIGHT HAVE TO DEVELOP STORIES THROUGH HOUSE SHOWS FOR AWHILE.... SORRY) Debut Match: Kendo Nagaski with Tojo Yamamoto vs Norvell Austin The 5’5, portly, Tojo, wearing a red cap, white suite and black tie, leads Kendo to the ring in his first match in Mid-South since before the Dawn of War era. Kendo comes out wearing a steel mask and carrying a bamboo stick. Once he gets to the ring, he goes through some creative ritual as he is swinging and twirling the stick. Austin, nervously, jumped out of the ring and out onto the floor. Once Kendo was done with the stick, he took off the steel mask to displayed a white and black painted face as the intimidation continued. Give Austin his due, he battled to the best off his ability, but it just was not enough tonight as Kendo pulled out some nasty martial arts and used plenty of dirty tactics to go along with it. The end came with a nasty savat kick to the back of the head. Tojo told him to get the bamboo stick and beat Austin, but Norvell escaped before the assault was carried out. “The Mighty Yankee” Steve Strong defeated Mike George with a powerslam after Mike George was distracted by the Masked Yankee who came out and stood up on the apron. Jake “The Snake” Roberts with Sheik Adnan Al Kassie defeated Rufus Jones with the DDT in a match that saw the action split about 50/50. Revenge Match: Ricky Gibson defeated Rotten Ron Starr with the running bulldog as revenge was achieved by Gibson for Starr interfering in his NWA World Jr. Title Match with Eric Embry last week. Grudge Match: Bruiser Brody vs Black Bart ended in a No Contest as Black Bart met Bruiser Brody in the aisle and the brawl was on with neither man ever actually making it to the ring. Mid-South Title Match: Bad News Allen with Ernie Ladd vs Rocky Johnson in a Steel Cage! Each time Cowboy Bill Watts tried to neutralize Ernie Ladd in this feud, he was outsmarted by either Bad News or the Big Cat. This time, Watts was sure that he had come up with a solution… A steel cage. Ernie Ladd couldn’t get in and Bad News Allen couldn’t simple walk away. Problem… Ernie Ladd is the ultimate planner. After about 5 minutes or an all-out brawl, Ernie Ladd reached under the ring and pulled out a pair of bolt cutters and cuts the lock off the cage and comes into the ring. It is now 2-1 in this No DQ title bout and there is nothing Rocky Johnson or the ref can do about! We see a few big boots by Ladd followed up by Bad News tossing the Soul Man headfirst into the steel cage. Ladd and Bad News were having so much fun that getting the three-count never even crossd their mind! The crowd erupts…. it is none other than Mid-South legend….Captain Redneck Dick Murdoch. Murdoch is rushing through the unlocked gate of the steel cage. Ladd attacks Cpt. Redneck but Murdoch ducks under his attempt and kicks him square in the groin and then rolls him through the cage door. Bad News Allen attacks with the Ghetto Blaster on Murdoch….. MISSED! Murdoch with a knee to the midsection. Bad News is doubled over… Rocky is now back on his feet…. Soul Man Shuffle…. WHAM… Huge right hand by Rocky and down goes Bad News Allen. Murdoch guards the door from Ernie Ladd as Rocky covers the champ. 1….2….3! Rocky Johnson has pinned Bad News Allen and we have a new Mid-South Champion! Mid-South Tag Team Title Match The Masked Superstars © with Sheik Adnan Al Kassie defeat Hacksaw Butch Reed & U.S. Steel when U.S. Steel submitted to the Cobra Clutch by Masked Superstar #1. The submission signal by Steel was not clear as many thought he was shaking his fists to get his adrenaline flowing but Referee Carl Fergie said he submitted and he awarded the victory to the champs. 6 Man Tag Team Match: The Freebirds vs Ted Dibiase, Dr. Death Steve Williams and a Mystery Partner Okay, this one needs some background as it all came to head last week on Power Pro Wrestling… (Yes the Power Pro Episode that I never wrote) Jimmy Garvin with Precious had just won his TV match over Ben Bassarab and was in the middle of his post-match interview when he was confronted by the NWA World Tag Team Champions, Ted Dibiase and Dr. Death. They both wanted to know why Michael Hayes was obviously looking for the purse that Precious had dropped at ringside prior to the Freebirds title shot last week in Shreveport. Garvin and Precious played dumb and said they had no idea what Michael Hayes was doing, and that Precious had accidently dropped the purse while embracing Gorgeous Jimmy after his match. While Garvin and Precious were digging themselves deeper and deeper into a hole, all hell broke loose as Michael Hayes and Buddy Roberts attacked the champs from behind. The 3-2 advantage plus Precious doing a bit of hit and run cat attacks was too much for the champs to overcome. With the champs laid out on the arena floor, Michael Hayes grabbed the microphone as reminded everyone…. Once a Freebird… Always a Freebird. As order was restored and we headed to break, Jim Ross explained to everyone that 3 or 4 years ago, Jimmy Garvin actually was a member of the Freebirds over in Texas and up in the AWA! After the commercial break, the battered tag team champs came out and had a few choice words for the Freebirds. They also said that they knew Garvin was in cohoots with Michael Hayes and they got a surprise for the Devil’s trio this week in Jackson and demanded that Watts grant them a 6 Man Tag Team Match against Hayes, Roberts and Garvin. The crowd started to stir as they were sure this surprise was Terry Gordy. The fans even went to so far as to chant Bam Bam, Bam Bam as Watts sanctioned the match. So here we are…. 6 Man action in Jackson, Mississippi. The problem was that Dibiase and Dr. Death came out along which left Michael Hayes laughing about how the blind mouse, Terry Gordy, couldn’t find his way to the ring tonight. The match went on for a good 15 minutes as the champs more then held their own. We have Jimmy Garvin in the ring going all out against Dr. Death when all off a sudden, the crowd stirs as Scott Casey makes his way to the ring. Casey is somewhat well known because of all the cable TV nowadays but he is not the star they were hoping to see make his return to Mid-South tonight. Following Casey to the ring was his valet Sunshine and this is where things got interesting. Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin acted like he had seen a ghost! WHAM… Dr. Death caught the stunned Garvin and connected with a huge Oklahoma Stampede! 1…2… Hayes and Roberts rush in to make the save but they are nailed by Dibiase and Scott Casey! 3! The fans are somewhat confused but love the end result. This one has some explaining needed but that will have to wait until next week.

Mid-South sends Ron Starr to Florida and releases Alexis Smirnoff and Larry Winters. Mid-South then adds Mike Davis and Tommy Lane

After reading your house shows, I'm convinced you remember more about Dawn of War then anyone else around. Bringing back JR Foley to run the Commonwealth is great! How do you remember all this. Do you have a notebook or somoething. LOL! Great "B" Show in Charleston as you entertained them throughout the night and Harley Race vs Ivan Koloff would have sold all the tickets you had. Awesome "A" show in Charlotte where we start to see the pecking order of MACW. Dillon's group did well here as the Horseman are on the rise. Slater held them off from having a perfect night. Texas Red with the big win over Herc shows he is going to be a big player here in MACW. Ole and the Crippler would have been one stiff match! Great booking.

Huge event for CCW... Nice to see that the moment of the night was caught on video... Here comes the Bullet. Funny when you had Tommy admit to being the Medic. Dusty wins the SE TItle. Looking forward to seeing what's next for him. Very interesting moment as Scott Armstrong comes out to help Prichard. Looking forward to seeing what is next here. Sherri with have to wait a little for the belts but it will be a fun chase. Also looking forward to seeing who here singles wrestle is. Wendell Cooley is CCW! He had to win that one but I never know what changeup you have planned for us. Liked that this one came right down the middle.

Great week for the AWA Like the change of pace you threw at us this week. Usually the angles build until the next supercard but we are getting Carlos and Tiget Jeet in a LLT Match in a week. Very interesting. I bet there is something special planned here. Love it. I would't want to be CHarland. Ronnie is one tough dude. Vin Man has been the perfect mid-card guy as he is always entertaining. WOW... very creative writing here with the lawsuit for Mrs. Rainey!! Great booking. Paul Jones seems to have some very nasty friends. Snuka better be careful. As for the Roane Fieldhouse... nice, balanced show that was very realistic for 86. The last two matches sold the tickets but the rest of the show did a great job of entertainng. Haystacks and Ferris would have been slow but very interesting to see ... then we had the brawl with Rugged Ronnie... tag matches, singles matches... the masked Cobra.... Really something for everyone.

Great TV show with some much happening! T.A. gets the attention he should as the NWA champ. Nice touch No matter wat T.A. or anyone else does in CCW, the story is Tommy Rich and his whole family. The T-Shirts were a nice touch. Can't wait to see who the mystery man is. I like how Les explaned all the comings and goings of CCW. I am really interested in the Prichard-Lanny bout. I have no idea where you are taking this as they are both huge Jr. Heavyweight stars! Can't wait to see what your creativity has instore for us this time. Again, looking forward to the LLT Match with Cooley and Myers. I think I know where you are going by you have shocked me before. I agree with Sherry... she could be very persuasive. I see her rising to the top real fast! The Super D's might be the favorites for the titles this week. Nice job with the Dusty accent. I found him fun and frustrating at the same time to write for. Looking forward to his bout with Bass. He can't stop fighting the big cowboys! Wow... A clean win for Buddy... His stock is rising! Looking forward to the big show this week. Very, very well done TV show!

WOW.... It didn't take long for MACW to become MUST READ! Great event that shows some new angles, some ending and some huge matches! Benoit needed some help and now he might have fellow Canadian JR Foley to guide him. Now this is going to be a PARTY! I wonder if Foley will not invite certain people like he did in Stampede in real life... Can't wait to see. Not like the Powers of Pain need much help but when they get the masked man coming down to the ring they might be unbeatable.... Might, I said, as your tag division is HUGE!! Nice wins by Tiger and the Crippler... this gives us some insight into your pecking order which I think is spot on. Wrecking Crew... Midnight ROckers..... Road Warriors....Sawyers.... like I said.... Huge tag division. If there was every a way to get instant heat.... put the U.S. Title on a Russian in the 1980's.... Great booking. And then one of the biggest moments in Dawn of War... Flair over Macho Man with the Birth of the 4 Horseman!!! Loved the show!!