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I really don't see the need for a full on draft for celebrities. I had Eddie Mekka as a character (loose definition of celebrity) for a stretch and nobody said boo about it. You want to use Muhammad Ali as a special ref, just do it. If someobdy else really wants to use celebrity X as well, work it out individually.

Can anybody get me any information about Robbie Walker? I seem to recall that he had shown up before in Apter mags as Hurricane Walker. I've seen subsequent writeups that he was the later "Hard Work" Bobby Walker, but I really don't think so. Robbie Walker was distinctly taller and wrestled a different style.

Based on the PoP shoot that I have watched, he pretty much admitted that he would get into fights when he drank, "That's why I don't drink anymore."

Jeff Sword was traded to Mid-Atlantic for Rick Patterson, who later went to free agency. I don't know when it was that Sword was dropped by MACW, but he hasn't been seen for a while. Sorry it's been so long, will get the Milwaukee show and associated TV up soon, just been having to work a lot of OT lately but definitely still in the game.

Another great show. Love the stories, Sullivan as Florida Champ and Lord Alfred are awesome.

Still working to get caught up, but will let you know about the matches signed in the wake of the previous big cards : AWA All-Star Wrestling for the weekend of January 20th The Mothership Connection vs. Badd Company Samu vs. Rip Oliver Tito Santana vs. The Super Destroyer Mr. Olympia vs. "Bruiser" Bob Sweetan Da Crusher vs. Ivan Putski Greg Gagne vs. Paul Orndorff Plus a big interview with the Garvin Brothers AWA show at the Mecca, Milwaukee, January 20th The Garvin Brothers vs. Badd Company "Bruiser" Bob Sweetan vs. "Wildman" Jack Armstrong The Mothership Connection vs. Rip Oliver & Eddie Mansfield "Playboy" Buddy Rose vs. Mr. Olympia Da Crusher & "Mad Dog" Pierre Lefebvre vs. The Brotherhood Of Poland AWA American title Match : Ken Patera © vs. Samu 10 Man Tag Cage Match : The Road Warriors, Moose Cholak, Tito Santana & Greg Gagne vs. The Wild Samoans, "The Tank" Mike Shaw, "Ragin' Bull" Manny Fernandez & Col. Buck Robley AWA World Title Cage Match : Stan Hansen © vs. Hulk Hogan

Can this be optional? I am fine with my roster the way it is.

AWA show at the Cow Palace, San Fancisco, January 13th The Assassins vs. The Latin Lovers The Assassins won when Assassin #2 hit a diving elbow smash on the back of Vinnie Valentino’s head Manny Fernandez & Mike Shaw vs. Tito Santana & Greg Gagne Santana & Gagne won when Santana hit the Mexican Hammer on Fernandez Buddy Rose, Rip Oliver & Eddie Mansfield vs. Mr. Olympia, Samu & “Wildman” Jack Armstrong Samu’s team won when he executed the Dynamite Drop on Mansfield Da Crusher, Ronnie Garvin & “Mad Dog” Pierre Lefebvre vs. Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood Of Poland Throughout the match, Ed Wiskowski kept trying to get Precious to directly interfere in the match, but Jimmy Garvin refused to allow her to get in a physical altercation with such dangerous opposition. Finally, when Wiskowski had Crusher down, he started arguing with Precious and then insisting she hand him her aerosol can of air freshener, but while he was berating her, Crusher recovered and tagged out to Ronnie Garvin, who came in and nailed Wiskowski with the running Hands Of Stone Punch for the pin. When he had recovered, Wiskowski was furious and went after Precious, but Jimmy Garvin was having none of that and furiously attacked Wiskowski. This brought in Putski and the pair proceeded to double team Gorgeous Jimmy until his brother could take no more and charged in and knocked the Brotherhood out of the ring with big right hands. For all that the two brothers had been at odds with each other, Ronnie showed genuine concern as he and Precious helped Jimmy from the ring. The Road Warriors & Can-Am Express vs. The Wild Samoans, Paul Orndorff & Super Destroyer The Samoans and partners won when Afa got Brunzell with the Samoan Drop Hulk Hogan & The Mothership Connection vs. Ken Patera, “Crusher” Jerry Blackwell & One Man Gang Kaissie’s Krew won when Blackwell hit the running splash on Master Gee

AWA All-Star Wrestling for the weekend of January 13th The Assassins vs. Badd Company This was the first appearance of the Assassins in the AWA, and they proceeded to bully the rookie team of Diamond and Tanaka throughout the match. Badd Company tried to get some fast paced offense going but kept getting shut down by the size and dirty tactics of the bigger team. Assassin #1 finally put them away with a powerslam on Tanaka. Master Gee vs. Sheikh Adnan Kaissie This was a rare wrestling appearance for the manager of Kaissie’s Krew, and he tried to bully the popular newcomer just like the Assassins bullied Badd Company, but Master Gee would have none of it. He would muscle out of Kaissie’s attempts to choke him out and come back with big flying shoulder tackles before finishing him off with the Masterlock. Post-match, a livid Kaissie summoned his men “Crusher” Blackwell and One Man Gang to the ring to attack Master Gee, provoking Gee’s partner, Iceman Parsons, to charge out swinging a chair to clear the ring. Eddie Mansfield vs. Samu Mansfield came out with his fellow Playboy Club members, Buddy Rose and Rip Oliver. Strangely, Rose and Oliver gave no indication of interfering in the match, instead observing Mansfield’s performance with a distinct look of displeasure. Mansfield seem thrown off by the lack of support from his corner, looking to his stable mates to put in a cheap shot on Samoan Dynamite only to be greeted with stony stares. He tried that one too many times , giving Samu time to recover and take him down with a vicious thrust kick to the jaw. Samu went up to the top rope and looked down at Rose and Oliver to see if they would try to knock him off, but the two members of the Playboy Club did not move and Samu hit the Dynamite Dive for the win. Rose and Oliver led Mansfield back to the locker room, clearly looking displeased with his performance. Can-Am Express vs. The Wild Samoans The Wild Samoans were gunning for world tag champions The Road Warriors and were looking set to run right over the Can-Ams to get to them. To their credit, Brunzell and Lafon were determined not to be used as a stepping stone and fought back hard with their trade mark high-velocity offense. The Samoans ultimately cut that short when Brunzell went for a Thesz Press on Sika but was caught and dropped throat first on the top rope. One Samoan Drop later and they had put away the challenge of the Can-Ams. Interview : Mean Gene is in the ring Mean Gene : Ladies and gentlemen, my guest is the former AWA World Champion, Hulk Hogan! The crowd explodes in cheers as Hogan heads to the ring. Hulk good naturedly high fives the fans as he makes his way but seems a bit subdued without the World Title belt. Mean Gene : Hulkster, the whole world was shocked when Stan Hansen took the AWA World Title from you last week in Minnesota, thanks in no small part to the dastardly actions of Kaissie’s Krew. Hogan : Well you know , Mean Gene, I make no excuses. I take it all on my shoulders. I knew they were out there and it was on me to watch out for them interfering. You can’t make a mistake like that for even a second with a big beast like Hansen, and it cost me the belt. Mean Gene : Well, with Patera and his cohorts taking a hand in Hansen’s affairs, it’s going to make things that much harder for you to get the title back. Hogan : I’m never one to back down from a challenge, Gene. But I am nobody’s fool, either. That’s why I have worked a special stipulation into my return match. When I take on Hansen for the title next week in Milwaukee, it’s going to be a cage match! (The crowd cheers) No Patera, no Blackwell, no Gang, no Sheikh. Just you and me, cowboy. And whatcha gonna do when the Hulkster has you trapped in a cage and runs wild on you? Tito Santana vs. “The Tank” Mike Shaw The always popular Santana brought his usual intensity against the much bigger Shaw, and managed to keep the Tank off balance for much of the match. The tempo of the match shifted when Santana sent Shaw into the ropes for a drop kick, only for Shaw to catch himself in the ropes and send Santana falling hard to the match. Shaw followed up with an elbow drop and proceeded to beat down Santana for several minutes. He would then send Santana into the ropes for a clothesline, only for this time Santana ducked and came back with the Mexican Hammer and sent Shaw falling out of the ring. Santana then dove out of the ring and landed on Shaw. He then proceeded to slug it out with Shaw until the Tank’s stable mate, Manny Fernandez, came out to join the fray. All three men exchanged punches until the ref called a double count out. “Mad Dog” Pierre Lefebvre vs. “ The Polish Prince” Ed Wiskowski Wiskowski came to the ring with his partner, Ivan Putski, and his manager, Precious. Lefebvre came out by himself but carrying a very large axe handle. This was a distinctly unrefined match, with Wiskowski trying to take every shortcut he could to win and Lefebvre firing back with lefts and rights. In the end, it was one set of pulled tights or one eye gouge by Wiskowski too far, as Lefebvre simply brought the axe handle into the ring and blasted the Prince with it, leading to an immediate DQ. Putski entered the ring to come to his partner’s aide, only for Lefebvre to take a swing at him too. It took Da Crusher and Ronnie Garvin coming out to the ring to finally calm down the Mad Dog.

Please not another draft

Looks like there were previous Action Jacksons in the world before that (including a Chicago gangster in the 40s) so just never mind me. It's a fairly natural euphonious nickname, after all.

Sorry to be a pain in the neck, but wasn't the original Action Jackson (Perry Jackson) a reference to the Carl Weathers movie that came out in 1988?

Buddy Rose's ring entrance music had been "Can't get Enough of Your Love" by Barry White. It is now officially changing.

AWA Dirt - rumor has it that Col. Buck Robley is none too pleased to be working with the Wild Samoans. The current scuttlebutt is that there is bad blood between them ever since both sides took some liberties with each other in a match several years ago in Mid-South , and the passage of time has done little to calm the waters between the two faction. As Robley is in deep with the AWA management, the current talk is that the higher ups are working on bringing in another team for Robley to send against the Road Warriors once the Samoans' short stay in the AWA is done and while the Wild Bills are currently working a tour of Europe

AFAIK Cornette doesn't drink alcohol.

Done.

I think I have the Executioner figured out but will wait to see if I am right. Loving the angles.

Herc and Buzz is my new favorite made up tag team.

Masked man mystery! Awesome! I would have loved to see that Tag Title TLD.

AWA show at Boylan High School, Rockford, IL, January 7th The Mothership Connection vs. Badd Company The Mothership Connection won when Master Gee got the Masterlock on Pat Tanaka Mr. Olympia & Samu vs. Buddy Rose & Rip Oliver The Playboy Club won when Rose got the Inside Out Backbreaker on Samu “The Tank” Mike Shaw vs. “Wildman” Jack Armstrong Shaw won when he hit the running splash Greg Gagne vs. Eddie Mansfield Gagne won when he caught Mansfield in the Gagne Sleeper Paul Orndorff vs. Tito Santana Both men went to a 20 minute time limit draw Da Crusher & “Mad Dog” Pierre Lefebvre vs. The Brotherhood Of Poland Crusher and Mad Dog won when Crusher hit a running Bolo Punch on Putski Hulk Hogan & The Road Warriors vs. Ken Patera, Crusher Blackwell & One Man Gang Hogan and the Road Warriors won by DQ when Blackwell and OMG hit a double avalanche on the ref

Works for me, he is back on for Memphis on the 30th. Sorry for the back and forth.

Done. Kevin, sorry, kept missing Abby being in Japan all month so I had to remove his 30th booking for Memphis. My apologies.

I am up for booking in the future, but I would prefer if it not be February

AWA show at the Met Center, Bloomington, January 6th 1984 The Playboy Club (Buddy Rose, Rip Oliver, Bob Sweetan & Eddie Mansfield) vs. Greg Gagne, Samu & The Mothership Connection Samu’s team won when Samu hit the Dynamite Dive on Mansfield The Latin Lovers vs. Badd Company The Latin Lovers won when Al Perez got a German Suplex on Pat Tanaka Manny Fernandez vs. Tito Santana Both men fought to a double DQ when the ref was unable to get their brawling under control Super Destroyer vs. Phil Lafon Lafon won with a flying back cross body press Da Crusher, Ron Garvin & “Mad Dog” Pierre Lefebvre vs. Jimmie Garvin & The Brotherhood Of Poland Ron Garvin’s team won when he caught Ivan Putski with the Hands Of Stone punch Paul Orndorff vs. Jim Brunzell Orndorff won when he hit Brunzell with the Piledriver AWA American Title match : Ken Patera © vs. Mr. Olympia In a back and forth match, Olympia sent Patera into the ropes for a big dropkick, only for Patera to catch himself in the ropes and Olympia went crashing into the mat. Patera then hit a running knee drop to successfully defend his title. AWA World Tag Team Title match : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Samoans The Road Warriors won by DQ when Sika hit the Samoan Drop on the referee AWA World Title match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Stan Hansen The Hulkster had defended his belt against an array of challengers since winning the title in July, but the huge Texan looked to provide him with his toughest defense yet. Hansen unleashed a ferocious offense on the champ, and it was all Hogan could do to fight back against the Bad Man From Borger. It certainly didn’t help that Sheikh Kaissie and his men, Ken Patera, “Crusher” Blackwell and the One Man Gang, showed up mid way through the match and surrounded the ring. For the most part, they didn’t interfere directly in the match, instead just stared at him and jawed with the champion. Hansen sent Hogan into the ropes to hit the lariat, but Hogan ducked it at the last second and looked to come back off the opposite ropes with his own Axe Bomber. However, Patera chose this moment to take action, snagging Hogan’s leg and sending him staggering, off balance, out of the ropes. Hansen blasted him with a huge lariat and got one …. Two …. THREE! STAN HANSEN IS THE NEW AWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION!!!!! The crowd looked on in shock as Hansen held the belt over head while the Sheikh and his men laughed at Hogan’s misfortune.

AWA All-Star Wrestling for January 6th The Latin Lovers (Vinnie Valentino & Al Perez) vs. Badd Company (Pat Tanaka & Paul Diamond) This was the first appearance for the rookie team of Tanaka and Diamond and they impressed the crowd with their fast paced moves and double team offense. Ultimately, though, the Latin Lovers had the edge in experience and got the win when Valentino hit a top rope cross body press on Diamond. Paul Orndorff vs. Phil Lafon Orndorff had a number of encounters with the Can-Am Express but now was taking on Lafon in solo action. Lafon was a house afire in the match, peppering Mr. Wonderful with forearms and dropkicks. Orndorff was equally determined and fired back with power moves and nasty elbow smashes. When Orndorff whipped Lafon hard into the corner turnbuckle, Lafon caught himself just in time, swiftly ascended the top rope and came back with a flying back cross boddy press, but Orndorff ducked just in time, and when Lafon fell hard to the mat, Orndorff picked him up and got the piledriver for the win. Buddy Rose vs. Mr. Olympia Olympia had been no fan of the Minnesota Heartbreakers and was clearly no more enthused about Rose’s Playboy Club, especially given Rose bringing back Eddie Mansfield when he had thought he had gotten rid of the Continental Lover for good. Olympia took out his frustration on the Playboy and, while Rose managed to sneak out of some close situations with his surprising athleticism, it seemed to be all over when Olympia got the Sleeper on Rose. This provoked the rest of the Playboy Club to come out and break up the hold, leading to a DQ result in favor of Olympia. Tito Santana, Samu & “Wildman” Jack Armstrong vs. Manny Fernandez & The Wild Samoans The Wild Samoans lived up to their reputation in this brawl that was on the verge of going out of control at any moment, teaming with their equally crazy stable mate, the Ragin’ Bull. They seemed to direct most of their ire at fellow Samoan Samu, beating him down in the corner every chance they got, but it wound up being Armstrong who took the fall when Afa hit him with the Samoan Drop. “The Tank” Mike Shaw vs. Moose Cholak In this match up of two leviathans, the big Tank showed why he was brought in to Col. Robley’s Army as he savaged the veteran Cholak. Cholak looked like he might just squeak out a victory when he went for an Avalanche in the corner on Shaw, but Shaw was able to move out of the way just in time and when Cholak rebounded out of the corner, Shaw knocked him to the ground with a clothesline before hitting the running splash for the win. “Mad Dog” Pierre Lefebrve vs. “The Polish Prince” Ed Wiskowski This was an out and out slugfest as Wiskowski seemed determined to get Lefebvre out of his hair after the Mad Dog interfered in the Brotherhood Of Poland’s business several weeks before. Lefebvre would not be dismissed so easily, and whenever it seemed like he was down and out, he would come back with a flurry of punches. At one point, when he had been knocked down by the Prince, Wiskowski turned to his manager, Precious, and insisted that she throw in her trademark can of air freshener, but before she could respond, Lefebvre recovered and blindsided Wiskowski with a brutal running double axehandle and got the one two three. Wiskowski was clearly not happy with Precious as they left the ring.