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AWA All-Star Wrestling for the weekend of November 4th : The Minnesota Heartbreakers vs. Iceman Parsons & Mr. Olympia The Heartbreakers for this match consisted of Tom Stanton and Rocky Brewer but their partner, Rick Patterson, was at ringside along with their colleague, “The Continental Lover” Eddie Mansfield. Needless to say, both men tried to make their presence felt during the match, swatting at Olympia and Parsons and trying to grab at them any time they got near the ropes but the fan favorite team were able to swiftly get away from these attacks. Mansfield ultimately decided that enough was enough, jumping on the ring apron and taking off his boot so as to slug Parsons with it when Brewer whipped him into the ropes. Parsons , however, reversed it at the last second and it was Brewer who took the boot to the face. Parsons rolled up the staggered Brewer and got the pin but Patterson and Mansfield jumped in the ring and both sides brawled until the refs cleared them out. Interview with Eddie Mansfield : Mean Gene asked Mansfield what exactly was his problem with Mr. Olympia. Mansfield replied that he had come to the AWA with a mission, to whip the Minnesota Heartbreakers into shape as an effective fighting force. Before he had arrived, the Heartbreakers hadn’t been able to deal with this masked goofball, but they were starting to catch up with him. They were going to make an example of Mr. Olympia and he would do the same with Iceman Parsons in Bloomington and become the new American Champion. Mike George vs. Moose Cholak Mike George had been on a tear lately since he arrived in the AWA, with Ken Patera taking him under his wing, He had his work cut out for him in this match, taking on the big Moose , but George was utterly ruthless in his offense, waging an all out assault on breaking down Moose’s right leg. Moose kept fighting back and looked like he might just pull it off when he sent George hard into the turnbuckle. However he wasn’t able to follow up with the Avalanche in time before George ducked out of the way, and when he staggered back out of the corner, George took him down with a brutal clip from behind to his right knee. He put Moose in an Indian leglock and Moose had no choice but to submit. Super Destroyer vs. Stan Stasiak Another match pitting a new arrival to the AWA against a veteran. Super Destroyer seemed to be sending a message to Greg Gagne and battered the former world champion, not giving him a second to breathe as he attacked him before getting the Superplex for the quick win. Gagne is definitely in for the fight of his life in Bloomington. The Wild Italians vs. The Brotherhood Of Poland In this matchup between European powers, the Polish Brotherhood had the distinct advantage as they manhandled the Wild Italians before Putski forced Russo to submit to the big Polish Bearhug. Greg Gagne vs. Jimmy Garvin Garvin was looking to get back on track after losing the American title to Iceman Parsons and sought to take advantage of Gagne being distracted by potentially being attacked by the Super Destroyer. Despite having to keep his attention in several places at once, Gagne kept his cool and was able to escape several near falls from Garvin. It looked like Gagne would ultimately prevail when he got Garvin in a rollup out of the corner, but Garvin reversed it with a fistful of Gagne’s trunks. However, Gagne was able to kickout just in time and sent Garvin face first into the turnbuckle. When Garvin fell back, Gagne got a cradle for the win. Interview : Mean Gene is standing in the ring. Mean Gene : My guest tonight has been getting a great response from the fans in the AWA, TV’s Eddie Mekka! (The Laverne And Shirley Theme plays over the PA as Eddie Mekka comes to the ring, smiling and waving to the cheering fans.) Mean Gene : Big Ragoo, you look like you are having a good time, hanging with the Road Warriors. Mekka : Please, Gene, my name is Eddie. Yeah, Hawk and Animal are great guys and it is a real honor, getting to ride with them and the big Moose. Mean Gene : Well, Eddie, you certainly let your presence be felt when you kept Col. Buck Robley from interfering in the cage match where the Warriors won the World Tag Titles. Did you have any concerns, getting mixed up with a big pro wrestler like Robley? Mekka : For sure, Mean Gene, it certainly was intimidating, but when I saw that Robley was going to try to cheat his way to another victory for the Wild Bills, I just couldn’t let that stand … (Mekka is cut off by the arrival of Col. Buck Robley and Maj. Cal Manson. Robley is livid and grabs the mic from Mekka, shoving him with every phrase he says.) Robley : So , you think you are some kind of big shot, actor boy? Think you can come in from Hollywood and mess with real athletes? You got yourself in a mess of trouble, actor boy! Huh? Have anything to say for yourself , actor boy? (Mekka clearly has had enough and snaps, grabbing Robley by the shirt and shouting in his face.) Mekka : CALL ME! THE BIG! RAGOO! (Robley was briefly startled by this response but soon grabbed the much smaller Mekka and looked like he was about to throttle him when the Road Warriors charged in to the rescue, running off Robley and Manson and helping the clearly shaken Mekka from the ring.) The Wild Bills vs. The Latin Lovers The Wild Bills were gearing up for their return match with the Road Warriors and were even more aggressive than usual with the Lovers. Valentino and Cruz did their best but Irwin and Haynes opened up an all out offense on the two smaller men, ultimately getting the win with a combination of a lariat and back suplex. The Wild Bills seem hell bent on making sure the Road Warriors time as champs is a short one.

Will pass for the month.

Currently interested in offers for Lord Humongous.

Line up for AWA All-Star Wrestling for the weekend of November 4th : The last TV going in to the Met Center show. The Minnesota Heartbreakers vs. Iceman Parsons & Mr. Olympia Mike George vs. Moose Cholak Super Destroyer vs. Stan Stasiak The Wild Italians vs. The Brotherhood Of Poland Greg Gagne vs. Jimmy Garvin The Wild Bills vs. The Latin Lovers Plus interviews with Eddie Mansfield and Eddie Mekka

Will be posting the results soon, but the Met Center show had an absolutely jam packed line up Lineup for the AWA show at the Met Center, Bloomington, November 4th The Minnesota Hearbreakers vs. The Wild Italians Samu vs. Maj. Cal Manson (Samu has declared that getting rid of Eric Embry was not enough and he intends to destroy the entire Col. Buck Robley Army) The Latin Lovers vs. The Brotherhood Of Poland Grudge Match : Greg Gagne vs. Super Destroyer Sake & Old Milwaukee Connection vs. Ken Patera & Mike George AWA American Title Match : Iceman "King" Parsons © vs. "The Continental Lover" Eddie Mansfield AWA World Tag Titles Match - No DQ, No Countout, No Time Limit, 2/3 Falls : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Bills AWA World Title Match : Hulk Hogan vs. ?

Will be posting the results soon, but the Met Center show had an absolutely jam packed line up Lineup for the AWA show at the Met Center, Bloomington, November 4th The Minnesota Hearbreakers vs. The Wild Italians Samu vs. Maj. Cal Manson (Samu has declared that getting rid of Eric Embry was not enough and he intends to destroy the entire Col. Buck Robley Army) The Latin Lovers vs. The Brotherhood Of Poland Grudge Match : Greg Gagne vs. Super Destroyer Sake & Old Milwaukee Connection vs. Ken Patera & Mike George AWA American Title Match : Iceman "King" Parsons © vs. "The Continental Lover" Eddie Mansfield AWA World Tag Titles Match - No DQ, No Countout, No Time Limit, 2/3 Falls : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Bills AWA World Title Match : Hulk Hogan vs. ?

Results of the special inter-promotional card with WWA/AWA at the International Amphitheatre , Chicago : Bob Orton Jr. vs. Don Kernodle This was shaping up to be a great technical match up, with both men displaying their great scientific wrestling skill. However, the match turned to the nasty when Kernodle tried to get Orton in a vertical suplex and Orton, taking advantage of the fact that the ref was out of position, countered with a vicious low blow kick. A back suplex and a running kneedrop later, and Orton had gotten the tainted victory. Mr. Olympia vs. Jimmy Garvin This was Garvin’s first major singles match since losing the American title and he certainly had his work cut out him with the popular masked man. Early in the match he would try to stall for time by bailing out of the ring, only to be chased back in by Olympia. Precious looked like she might try to interfere, but the referee laid down the law and let her know that if she even looked like she might get directly involved, she would be sent to the back. Garvin pulled out every trick in the book to get and advantage, using every short cut he could thing of and fighting ferociously out of several attempts by Olympia to put on the Figure Four Leglock. Olympia looked to finally put it away by hooking in a Sleeper, but Garvin held out long enough until the ring bell rang, signaling a 30 minute time limit draw. Black Gordman & Goliath vs. Bobo Brazil & Brickhouse Brown The former tag champs were looking to re-establish themselves against the veteran team of Gordman and Goliath, and were showing no sign of friction as they dominated Bobby Colt’s men throughout the match. They seemed about to put the match away when Brickhouse held up Gordman for a running headbutt by Brazil, only for Gordman to duck out of the way at the last moment and Bobo hit Brickhouse instead. Goliath held back Bobo as Gordman got the Diamond Twist DDT on Brickhouse for the victory. Brickhouse was clearly quite upset with Bobo after the match, but Brazil was able to talk him down and the two left the ring together. Loser Leaves The AWA Match : Samu vs. Eric Embry Samu was clearly out for revenge after Embry had earlier put him out of action for a month and Embry was not just fighting for his AWA career but seemingly his life. The Flamboyant One was consistently on the defense against the incredibly aggressive attacks by the newly minted “Samoan Dynamite”, being busted open early in the match. It looked like the match was over when Samu whipped Embry into the corner and came in with a jumping headbutt, only for Embry to duck out of the way at the last moment and Samu went face first into the turnbuckle. Embry hooked both Samu’s legs and put both his feet on the ropes and got the one …. Two … three? No! The ref signaled that Samu managed to get his shoulder up just in time but Embry thought he had scored the win. He celebrated then turned back to Samu, but was greeted with a hard thrust kick to the face. Samu then hit the Dynamite Drop (brainbuster) and got the pinfall, sending Embry out of the AWA. Missouri Title Match : Nick Bockwinkel © vs. Tony Atlas Atlas was still sporting taped ribs from his injury several weeks ago at the hands of Hercules Hernandez, but was clearly not going to let that stop him from going full bore against the Missouri champ. Bockwinkel, the ever canny competitor, put in every effort to control the match using his unparalleled ring smarts and well timed shots to the ribs, but Atlas stayed with him every step of the way, hitting big power moves when it looked like he might be at a disadvantage. Bockwinkel kept trying to wear down Atlas, taking him off his feet and working on his legs. He tried to get Atlas in a figure four leglock but Atlas countered with an inside cradle that got a 2 count. Atlas tried to get another cradle on Bockwinkel , only for the champ to counter with his own cradle and a fist ful of tights to get the pin. Bockwinkel had held onto his belt but Atlas had proved that he was back as a contender. AWA World Tag Team Title Match : The Road Warriors © vs. Ken Patera & Mike George This was the first challenge to the Warriors’ belts by the new team of the veteran Patera and his apprentice, Mike George, and the Sheikh’s men certainly gave the Roadies a run for their money. Patera was big and strong enough to take the Warriors’ power offense and dish out his own, and George showed the benefits of Patera’s coaching as he aggressively tried to break down the champ’s limbs with arm and leg locks. There seemed a possibility they just might pull it off when they were about to hit Hawk with a running clothesline, only for Hawk to duck and come back with a clothesline of his own that knocked them off their feet. A second flying clothesline on George got the pin, but it doesn’t look like the Sheikh’s men are going to go away soom. Dick The Bruiser, Da Crusher & Prof. Toru Tanaka vs. King Kong Bundy, Ed Wiskowski & Ivan Putski The was a cross-promotional reunion of old partners Crusher and Bruiser taking on their current rivals and the crowd was excited to see both men in the ring together, cheering their every double team move. Bundy did his best to try to make this a short lived reunion as he pummeled his opponents with big crushing moves, while the Brotherhood of Poland were happy to take advantage of the destruction left in the big man’s wake. The veteran team toughed it out, though , and when Wiskowski tried to get Tanaka in a face first piledriver, but Crusher and Bruiser, taking advantage of the ref making their opponents leave the ring, came off the ropes with a running double Bolo Punch on the Polish Prince. The crowd roared its approval as Dick The Bruiser got the pinfall. Hulk Hogan & Jimmy Snuka vs. Lord Humongous & Larry Zbyszko This was a big occasion with two extremely popular superstars, Hogan and Snuka, teaming for the first time. Zbyszko, for his part, wanted nothing to do with either man and was more than content to let the huge masked man bludgeon both men. Zbyszko would come in the ring briefly when it seemed his side had the decisive advantage, only to tag out the moment the opposition started to fight back. Only when he felt that Snuka had been beaten down sufficiently that he came back into the ring, directing Humongous to go after Hogan while he put the boots to Snuka. While Hogan and Humongous brawled at ringside, Zbyszko attacked Snuka until he finally threw him out of the ring. But Snuka was only playing possum, and after Zybyzko had finished gloating and turned back in his direction, he came off the top turn buckle with a flying cross body press and pinned the surprised Zybyszko. Larry Z tried to blame Humongous for his defeat, but the masked man didn’t take kindly to that and moved menacingly towards the smaller man, leading to Larry beating a hasty retreat from the ring. The Hulkster and the Superfly celebrated in the middle of the ring as the crowd cheered on their victory in this historic cross-promotional event.

Results of the special inter-promotional card with WWA/AWA at the International Amphitheatre , Chicago : Bob Orton Jr. vs. Don Kernodle This was shaping up to be a great technical match up, with both men displaying their great scientific wrestling skill. However, the match turned to the nasty when Kernodle tried to get Orton in a vertical suplex and Orton, taking advantage of the fact that the ref was out of position, countered with a vicious low blow kick. A back suplex and a running kneedrop later, and Orton had gotten the tainted victory. Mr. Olympia vs. Jimmy Garvin This was Garvin’s first major singles match since losing the American title and he certainly had his work cut out him with the popular masked man. Early in the match he would try to stall for time by bailing out of the ring, only to be chased back in by Olympia. Precious looked like she might try to interfere, but the referee laid down the law and let her know that if she even looked like she might get directly involved, she would be sent to the back. Garvin pulled out every trick in the book to get and advantage, using every short cut he could thing of and fighting ferociously out of several attempts by Olympia to put on the Figure Four Leglock. Olympia looked to finally put it away by hooking in a Sleeper, but Garvin held out long enough until the ring bell rang, signaling a 30 minute time limit draw. Black Gordman & Goliath vs. Bobo Brazil & Brickhouse Brown The former tag champs were looking to re-establish themselves against the veteran team of Gordman and Goliath, and were showing no sign of friction as they dominated Bobby Colt’s men throughout the match. They seemed about to put the match away when Brickhouse held up Gordman for a running headbutt by Brazil, only for Gordman to duck out of the way at the last moment and Bobo hit Brickhouse instead. Goliath held back Bobo as Gordman got the Diamond Twist DDT on Brickhouse for the victory. Brickhouse was clearly quite upset with Bobo after the match, but Brazil was able to talk him down and the two left the ring together. Loser Leaves The AWA Match : Samu vs. Eric Embry Samu was clearly out for revenge after Embry had earlier put him out of action for a month and Embry was not just fighting for his AWA career but seemingly his life. The Flamboyant One was consistently on the defense against the incredibly aggressive attacks by the newly minted “Samoan Dynamite”, being busted open early in the match. It looked like the match was over when Samu whipped Embry into the corner and came in with a jumping headbutt, only for Embry to duck out of the way at the last moment and Samu went face first into the turnbuckle. Embry hooked both Samu’s legs and put both his feet on the ropes and got the one …. Two … three? No! The ref signaled that Samu managed to get his shoulder up just in time but Embry thought he had scored the win. He celebrated then turned back to Samu, but was greeted with a hard thrust kick to the face. Samu then hit the Dynamite Drop (brainbuster) and got the pinfall, sending Embry out of the AWA. Missouri Title Match : Nick Bockwinkel © vs. Tony Atlas Atlas was still sporting taped ribs from his injury several weeks ago at the hands of Hercules Hernandez, but was clearly not going to let that stop him from going full bore against the Missouri champ. Bockwinkel, the ever canny competitor, put in every effort to control the match using his unparalleled ring smarts and well timed shots to the ribs, but Atlas stayed with him every step of the way, hitting big power moves when it looked like he might be at a disadvantage. Bockwinkel kept trying to wear down Atlas, taking him off his feet and working on his legs. He tried to get Atlas in a figure four leglock but Atlas countered with an inside cradle that got a 2 count. Atlas tried to get another cradle on Bockwinkel , only for the champ to counter with his own cradle and a fist ful of tights to get the pin. Bockwinkel had held onto his belt but Atlas had proved that he was back as a contender. AWA World Tag Team Title Match : The Road Warriors © vs. Ken Patera & Mike George This was the first challenge to the Warriors’ belts by the new team of the veteran Patera and his apprentice, Mike George, and the Sheikh’s men certainly gave the Roadies a run for their money. Patera was big and strong enough to take the Warriors’ power offense and dish out his own, and George showed the benefits of Patera’s coaching as he aggressively tried to break down the champ’s limbs with arm and leg locks. There seemed a possibility they just might pull it off when they were about to hit Hawk with a running clothesline, only for Hawk to duck and come back with a clothesline of his own that knocked them off their feet. A second flying clothesline on George got the pin, but it doesn’t look like the Sheikh’s men are going to go away soom. Dick The Bruiser, Da Crusher & Prof. Toru Tanaka vs. King Kong Bundy, Ed Wiskowski & Ivan Putski The was a cross-promotional reunion of old partners Crusher and Bruiser taking on their current rivals and the crowd was excited to see both men in the ring together, cheering their every double team move. Bundy did his best to try to make this a short lived reunion as he pummeled his opponents with big crushing moves, while the Brotherhood of Poland were happy to take advantage of the destruction left in the big man’s wake. The veteran team toughed it out, though , and when Wiskowski tried to get Tanaka in a face first piledriver, but Crusher and Bruiser, taking advantage of the ref making their opponents leave the ring, came off the ropes with a running double Bolo Punch on the Polish Prince. The crowd roared its approval as Dick The Bruiser got the pinfall. Hulk Hogan & Jimmy Snuka vs. Lord Humongous & Larry Zbyszko This was a big occasion with two extremely popular superstars, Hogan and Snuka, teaming for the first time. Zbyszko, for his part, wanted nothing to do with either man and was more than content to let the huge masked man bludgeon both men. Zbyszko would come in the ring briefly when it seemed his side had the decisive advantage, only to tag out the moment the opposition started to fight back. Only when he felt that Snuka had been beaten down sufficiently that he came back into the ring, directing Humongous to go after Hogan while he put the boots to Snuka. While Hogan and Humongous brawled at ringside, Zbyszko attacked Snuka until he finally threw him out of the ring. But Snuka was only playing possum, and after Zybyzko had finished gloating and turned back in his direction, he came off the top turn buckle with a flying cross body press and pinned the surprised Zybyszko. Larry Z tried to blame Humongous for his defeat, but the masked man didn’t take kindly to that and moved menacingly towards the smaller man, leading to Larry beating a hasty retreat from the ring. The Hulkster and the Superfly celebrated in the middle of the ring as the crowd cheered on their victory in this historic cross-promotional event.

The results of the Halloween co-promotion between AWA and WWA will be posted shortly, but the entire AWA is abuzz about the main event scheduled for the AWA show at the Met Center in Bloomington : Hulk Hogan defending his AWA world title against a mystery opponent! A lot of discussion about who it might be, but thus far, AWA management are not giving away any clues, apart from saying that it is sure to be an intense match.

Powers would make sense but I would agree about keeping Ho available until the end of the year.

The AWA Mothership sends to Free Agency Dean Ho, Great Malumba and Johnny Powers. This puts AWA within the roster cap.

Good luck and we look forward to your return.

Full lineup for the special inter-promotional card with WWA/AWA at the International Amphitheatre , Chicago : Bob Orton Jr. vs. Don Kernodle Mr. Olympia vs. Jimmy Garvin Black Gordman & Goliath vs. Bobo Brazil & Brickhouse Brown Loser Leaves The AWA Match : Samu vs. Eric Embry Missouri Title Match : Nick Bockwinkel © vs. Tony Atlas AWA World Tag Team Title Match : The Road Warriors © vs. Ken Patera & Mike George Dick The Bruiser, Da Crusher & Prof. Toru Tanaka vs. King Kong Bundy, Ed Wiskowski & Ivan Putski Hulk Hogan & Jimmy Snuka vs. Lord Humongous & Larry Zbyszko

AWA show at the Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Johnny Powers In a match between two big veterans well familiar to the Canadian crowd, Stasiak beat Power with the Heart Punch. The Wild Italians vs. Great Malumba & Bill Rathke The Wild Italians won when Dominic Denucci beat Great Malumba with the airplane spin. Samu vs. Eric Embry Samu has apparently abandoned the “Flying Samoan” nickname, now going by “Samoan Dynamite” which was emblazoned on the back of his black ring jacket. Samu and Embry engaged in a ferocious slugfest that ended when Embry sent Samu in to the corner and came charging in, only to get a thrust kick followed by the Dynamite Drop (brainbuster) for the Samu victory. Phil Lafon vs. Maj. Cal Manson In a special guest appearance by the popular French Canadian (courtesy of International Wrestling from Montreal), Lafon dazzled the crowd with his technical prowess against the second in command of the Army before putting him away with the Cobra Clutch Suplex. Iceman Parsons, Mr. Olympia & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood of Poland In a back and forth match, it looked like Armstrong would get Garvin to submit to a bearhug, but Putski nailed him with the Polish Hammer when the ref wasn’t looking, giving the pin to Garvin. Greg Gagne vs. Super Destroyer This was the first official match in the AWA between these two combatants , although they had fought at ringside several times since Gagne’s return. Gagne tried to keep this a technical match, in spite of the provocation from Super Destroyer, but the masked man kept dragging the match down into the gutter, cheating whenever he could to get the advantage. Finally , the popular second generation wrestler lost his temper and kept slugging it out with the bigger man until the action spilled out of the ring, where they were both counted out for brawling at ringside. AWA World Tag Titles rematch : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Bills The Wild Bills were clearly determined to take the AWA Tag Titles back from the Road Warriors , and looked like they might just pull it off on a number of occasions, until Billy Jack went for a running kneedrop on Animal, only for Animal to roll out of the way at the last second. He lifted up Billy Jack in a piledriver and got the pin to successfully defend their belts. AWA World Title rematch : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous Another intense match between the two huge men, Humongous was clearly determined to wrest the title from the Hulkster. There were several points in the match where it looked like he would lock in the modified Cobra Clutch, only for Hogan to fight his way out or make it to the ropes. He ultimately looked to polish him off with a big lariat, only for Hogan to duck and come back and hit his own Axe Bomber. One Big Leg Drop later and Hogan had retained the world title.

AWA show at the Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Johnny Powers In a match between two big veterans well familiar to the Canadian crowd, Stasiak beat Power with the Heart Punch. The Wild Italians vs. Great Malumba & Bill Rathke The Wild Italians won when Dominic Denucci beat Great Malumba with the airplane spin. Samu vs. Eric Embry Samu has apparently abandoned the “Flying Samoan” nickname, now going by “Samoan Dynamite” which was emblazoned on the back of his black ring jacket. Samu and Embry engaged in a ferocious slugfest that ended when Embry sent Samu in to the corner and came charging in, only to get a thrust kick followed by the Dynamite Drop (brainbuster) for the Samu victory. Phil Lafon vs. Maj. Cal Manson In a special guest appearance by the popular French Canadian (courtesy of International Wrestling from Montreal), Lafon dazzled the crowd with his technical prowess against the second in command of the Army before putting him away with the Cobra Clutch Suplex. Iceman Parsons, Mr. Olympia & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood of Poland In a back and forth match, it looked like Armstrong would get Garvin to submit to a bearhug, but Putski nailed him with the Polish Hammer when the ref wasn’t looking, giving the pin to Garvin. Greg Gagne vs. Super Destroyer This was the first official match in the AWA between these two combatants , although they had fought at ringside several times since Gagne’s return. Gagne tried to keep this a technical match, in spite of the provocation from Super Destroyer, but the masked man kept dragging the match down into the gutter, cheating whenever he could to get the advantage. Finally , the popular second generation wrestler lost his temper and kept slugging it out with the bigger man until the action spilled out of the ring, where they were both counted out for brawling at ringside. AWA World Tag Titles rematch : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Bills The Wild Bills were clearly determined to take the AWA Tag Titles back from the Road Warriors , and looked like they might just pull it off on a number of occasions, until Billy Jack went for a running kneedrop on Animal, only for Animal to roll out of the way at the last second. He lifted up Billy Jack in a piledriver and got the pin to successfully defend their belts. AWA World Title rematch : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous Another intense match between the two huge men, Humongous was clearly determined to wrest the title from the Hulkster. There were several points in the match where it looked like he would lock in the modified Cobra Clutch, only for Hogan to fight his way out or make it to the ropes. He ultimately looked to polish him off with a big lariat, only for Hogan to duck and come back and hit his own Axe Bomber. One Big Leg Drop later and Hogan had retained the world title.

Bound to be an awesome match in Memphis.

AWA All-Star Wrestilng TV show for October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Great Malumba Mercifully quick. Malumba attacked Stasiak right at the bell, but the big former World champion countered with a solid right cross and, when Malumba staggered back, hammered him with the Heart Punch . Malumba collapsed to the mat and Stasiak got the pin. Though Stasiak is one of the older competitors in the territory, he seems determined to show he is as tough as any man in the fight. Eddie Mansfield vs. Johnny Powers “The Continental Lover” came out with all 3 members of the Minnesota Heartbreakers in tow, and this time they were clearly on the lookout at all times for Mr. Olympia. The masked man didn’t show up, but the veteran Powers took advantage of the potential distraction, frequently getting the advantage and at one point coming close to cinching in the Powerlock (Figure Four Leglock) . Mansfield fought his way out and, after a nasty low blow, hit the powerslam on Powers to get the win. Mansfield will need to learn to focus if he is to get the better of Olympia. Ken Patera & Mike George vs. The Latin Lovers This was the first serious challenge to the team of Patera and his “apprentice” Mike George, as the Lovers used their speed and agility to stymie George, taking advantage when he would lose his temper at their high flying moves. Patera took his partner outside the ring and calmed him down and, later, after Vinnie Valentino had leapfrogged George, blasted Valentino with a blindside clothesline. George immediately hit the shoulder breaker on Valentino to get the win. Mr. Olympia, Iceman Parsons & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. The Minnesota Heartbreakers This was the first appearance in the AWA for Armstrongs, and he got a great reaction from the crowd as they cheered on his wild antics and combo moves with Parsons, the new American champion. The Heartbreakers were joined by Eddie Mansfield, who tried to sneak in a few shots on Olympia when the ref wasn’t looking, but the masked man was having none of it, swiftly dodging out of the way when Mansfield tried to slug him. He finally jumped up on the ring apron and looked to hit Olympia when Tom Stanton whipped him into the ropes, but Olympia reversed it and sent Stanton crashing into Mansfield, who fell hard to the floor. He then nailed Stanton with a dropkick and tagged in Armstrong, who flattened Stanton with a big running clothesline and got the pin as the crowd roared their approval. Super Destroyer vs. Dean Ho This was the first appearance in the AWA ring for the Super Destroyer, who had been attacking Greg Gagne for the past several weeks. He was even more aggressive in his match with Dean Ho, crushing him with power moves and brutal neckbreakers. He finally finished him off with a superplex but, seemingly not satisfied with that, hit a piledriver on Ho after the match and, ignoring the protests of the referee, hit a second one for good measure. Ho had to be taken from the ring on a stretcher. Will Greg Gagne be able to stop the monster who seems out to destroy him? Only time will tell. The Road Warriors & Samu vs. The Wild Bills & Eric Embry A lot of grudges going into this match as both teams went at it full bore. Even Buck Robley got in on the act, trying to go after the Road Warriors’ mascot, Eddie Mekka, but their ally, Moose Cholak , made sure the Colonel didn’t get his hands on the Big Ragoo. All 6 men in the match got opened up at some point and didn’t hold back as they tried to wear the other team down. Embry though he had the match wrapped up as he attempted to whip Animal into the corner where Irwin was waiting to hit him with the cowbell, but Animal reversed it and instead sent Embry into the opposite corner, where Samu knocked him sparko with a mighty thrust kick to the jaw. Samu got the pin but neither side looked to be done with each other after the match. Though the Wild Bills were no longer the Tag Champs, the clearly seem set on ensuring that is only a temporary situation and have no intention of letting the Road Warriors out of their sights.

Lineup for the AWA show at the Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Johnny Powers The Wild Italians vs. Great Malumba & Bill Rathke Samu vs. Eric Embry Phil Lafon vs. Maj. Cal Manson Iceman Parsons, Mr. Olympia & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood of Poland Greg Gagne vs. Super Destroyer AWA World Tag Titles rematch : The Road Warriors © vs. The Wild Bills AWA World Title rematch : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous

Lineup for the AWA All-Star Wrestilng TV show for October 28th Stan Stasiak vs. Great Malumba Eddie Mansfield vs. Johnny Powers Ken Patera & Mike George vs. The Latin Lovers Mr. Olympia, Iceman Parsons & "Wildman" Jack Armstrong vs. The Minnesota Heartbreakers Super Destroyer vs. Dean Ho The Road Warriors & Samu vs. The Wild Bills & Eric Embry

Matches announced so far for a special inter-promotional card with WWA/AWA at the International Amphitheatre , Chicago : Jimmy Garvin vs. Mr. Olympia AWA World Tag Title match : The Road Warriors © vs. Ken Patera & Mike George Loser Leaves the AWA match : Samu vs. Eric Embry Dick The Bruiser, Da Crusher & Prof. Toru Tanaka vs. King Kong Bundy , Ivan Putski & Ed Wiskowski Jimmy Snuka & Hulk Hogan vs. Larry Zbyszko & Lord Humongous

Man, you are doing a great job putting your own personal stamp on the ICW. Can't wait for the next episode.

Since this is a new promotion, what will be its name?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

If you look at the results of the previous Milwaukee shows, there was Samu being taken out of action by Eric Embry, Ivan Putski turning heel and costing hometown favorite Da Crusher the match, Mr. Olympia being ambushed by Eddie Mansfield and the Latin Lovers getting brutalized by the Wild Bills, so this was actually the show to balance that last one. No worries about the Bills, I have no plans in the immediate future to split them. They may be getting more singles matches, but they are still a team.

Even in Fantasy booking, Tully Blanchard bring up a deep feeling of seething hatred in me.