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AWA Show at the Mecca, Milwaukee, October 21st Eric Embry vs. Dean Ho Embry defeated the well liked Ho fairly quickly with the neckbreaker followed by a piledriver. The real story came after the match, while Embry was gloating over his victory , when out of nowhere, a wrestler crawled out from underneath the ring and attacked the Flamboyant one … it was Samu! The Flying Samoan hadn’t been seen in several weeks after being injured at the hands of Embry, and he was now back, clad entirely in black gear and brutally waylaying Embry. Samu busted Embry open and he was bleeding heavily when the AWA officials were finally able to get Samu off him. Mike George vs. Tony Russo George had dominated Russo in past tag matches and continued to do so, hitting a nasty shoulder breaker before locking him in a Full Nelson (a tribute, no doubt, to his mentor, Ken Patera) for the win. Greg Gagne vs. Boris Zukhov Gagne tried to take out Zukhov quickly, distracted as he was about possible attacks by the mysterious masked man, but the tough Russian Menace was having none of it. He ducked Gagne’s attempts to put him down with the dropkick and even fought his way out of the Gagne Leglock. In desperation, Gagne got Zukhov in the Sleeper, leaving his back vulnerable and exposed, and sure enough the masked man charged the ring and clobbered him with a black glove clad fist. The ref called for the DQ and the masked man got on the ringside microphone, saying that he was the Super Destroyer and Greg Gagne’s past had caught up with him. Mr. Olympia vs. Eddie Mansfield Mansfield came to the ring with all three members of the Minnesota Heartbreakers in tow. When the ref was ushering the Heartbreakers out of the ring, Olympia scrambled up the ropes to the top turnbuckle, surprised Mansfield with a flying dropkick and got the shocking quick pin before the Heartbreakers realized what had happened . They charged the ring to get at him, but the masked man rushed out before they could catch him, laughing at having gotten one over on the Continental Lover. Special 10-Man Tag Match : Jimmy Garvin, The Brotherhood Of Poland & The Texas Dynasty (courtesy of Southwestern Championship Wrestling) vs. Iceman Parsons, The Sake and Old Milwaukee Connection & The Latin Lovers Special Stipulations of the 10-Man Tag Match : If Jimmy Garvin loses the decision, he will be have to defend the AWA American title in an immediate match against the person who pinned or submitted him. If Iceman Parsons loses the decision, he must leave the AWA for 90 days If the Brotherhood Of Poland lose the decision, they will be barred from teaming together for a year. If the Sake and Old Milwaukee Connection lose the decision, they will be forced to abstain from alcohol for a year If any member of the Texas Dynasty or the Latin Lovers lose the decision, both members of the respective team will have to shave their heads Oh boy. This one raged long and intensely, with a lot at stake for both teams. With the Brotherhood fighting for their brotherhood and the Connection fighting for their drinking privileges, they treated the match like a barroom brawl. The Dynasty were determined not to return to Texas bald and so pulled out all of the stops and underhanded tactics to make sure they were on the winning side, but the Latin Lovers used their superior speed to keep a step ahead of them. Iceman was fighting for his very place in the AWA and kept trying to get Garvin in the ring but Garvin, fearing for his title, kept ducking out of entering the ring. Finally, when Wiskowski had knocked Parsons down with a big kneelift, Garvin came in the ring and held up Parsons for a Wiskowski lariat. The Iceman, however, still had the presence of mind to reverse it on Garvin and it was the Gorgeous one who was hit by the Polish Prince. Parsons then rolled up Garvin and got a quick one-two-three, leading us to … AWA American Title match : Jimmy Garvin © vs. Iceman Parsons Both teams stayed at ringside for this match, somewhat acting as lumberjacks but mostly fighting with each other. Having no option to tag out, Garvin sought to take advantage over the exhausted condition of Parsons The Iceman, however, kept digging in and fought back hard against the champ. He finally had Garvin set up and went to the top rope for the Rumper Stumper. Precious immediately started for the other side of the turnbuckle, looking to interfere as she had done several times before. However, Vinnie Valentino’s two Bootie Babes, no doubt fed up with her shenanigans, blocked her way, daring her to try to go through them. As Precious panicked, Parsons hit the Rumper Stumper. One … two … THREE!!! Parsons was the new American champ! The crowd roared their approval as Iceman’s teammates held him on their shoulders and celebrated his victory. AWA World Title Match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous The Hockey Masked giant came to the ring with both Col. Buck Robley and Maj. Cal Manson in tow. All three men were shocked when Hulk Hogan came to the ring, wearing his own hockey mask. Robley protested but the ref announced that he had gotten confirmation that Hogan was permitted to wear the mask based on doctor’s orders to protect his injured eye. Humongous’ usual tactics of using his mask to headbutt the eye did him no good, but he still had a lot of size and power he used to try to bludgeon down the champ. The battle went back and forth until Humongous finally got Hogan down and was able to pry off his mask and throw it out of the ring. He then went back to attacking the eye, but when he ended up charging into a big Hogan boot, Hogan got him down and finally yanked of Humongous’ mask. Humongous started to thrash around, accidentally knocking down the ref in his panic to cover up his face. Hogan was about to capitalize when Robley came charging in , trying to hit him with the hockey mask in his hand , but he instead hit Humongous. Hogan threw Robley from the ring and flattened Humongous with the Axe Bomber, followed by the big leg drop. The ref was able to crawl over and make the count. The Hulkster had once again defended his belt. AWA World Tag Title Cage Match : The Wild Bills © vs. The Road Warriors Robley and Manson were back out again to back up their charges, the Wild Bills, while the Warriors were joined by their ally, Moose Cholak, and their mascot, Eddie Mekka. The cage was intended to keep outside interference to a minimum, but that didn’t stop them from trying. For all that the Wild Bills had been no strangers to taking short cuts (such as deliberately getting DQed) to keep a hold of their belts, they certainly knew how to fight when cornered. The Warriors brought the full might of their power offence to the Bills, but the Bills fought back in kind, determined not to relinquish their belts without giving everything they’ve got. First Cal Manson tried to get something in the cage but was tackled to the ground by Moose Cholak. Then Buck Robley tried to climb up the outside of the cage, only for Eddie Mekka to grab ahold of his leg and refuse to let him go. No matter how hard Robley kicked at him, Mekka would not relinquish his grip on the Colonel. Inside the cage, Animal was finally able to elevate Irwin to set him up for the flying clothesline by Hawk. Animal was able to hold back Billy Jack from interfering and Hawk was able to get the pinfall and finally bring the AWA tag titles to the Road Warriors.

AWA All-Star Wrestling for October 21st The Texas Dynasty (courtesy of Southwestern Championship Wrestling) vs. The Wild Italians The Texas Dynasty and Sunshine were making their first joint appearance on AWA television , setting the stage for their participation in the big show in Milwaukee, and seemed to be making sport of the Wild Italians, not taking them seriously. The Wild Italians didn’t kindly to that but the Dynasty always seemed to be one step ahead of them, pulling in bits of cheating and underhanded moves seemingly just because they could. Finally, Tully Blanchard hit the Slingshot Suplex on Tony Russo to put the match away and the Dynasty acted like they had pulled something over on everyone, acting very dismissive of both their opponents and the fans after the match. Lord Humongous vs. Moose Cholak The last appearance of Lord Humongous before his big World title shot in Milwaukee. The big Moose, no stranger to Humongous from numerous six man tags, was determined to leave his mark on Humongous before his title challenge. The two leviathans battled it out for several minutes before Humongous hit a massive lariat and followed it up with a running kneedrop for the pin. Iceman Parsons vs. Johnny Powers Iceman was hoping to get a shot at the American title tonight after the 10 man tag, and gave a great display of why he was a contender to the enthusiastic fans. He dominated the veteran Powers, finishing him off with the top rope Rumper Stumper. Garvin will need to keep an eye out if he wants to get through the Milwaukee show with the title still around his waist. Greg Gagne vs. Mike George Gagne tried to have a technical match with Mike George, but Ken Patera’s new apprentice was determined to sneak in every cheap shot he could. Nevertheless, Gagne seemed to have the match well in hand and had George caught in the Gagne Sleeper when the mysterious masked man showed up at ringside. Gagne immediately dropped George and dove to the outside to brawl with the masked man as the ref counted to 10, giving the win by countout to George. The Brotherhood of Poland vs. The Latin Lovers The Brotherhood came to the ring accompanied by Precious, while the Latin Lovers were joined by 2 of Vinnie Valentino’s bikini clad Bootie Babes. The Lovers had experience dealing with bigger opponents from their matches against the Wild Bills and used the same tactics, ducking and moving to flummox the much bigger Brotherhood. It looked like it would pay off when Valentino ascended the top rope to finish Wiskowski off with a flying dropkick, only for Precious to sneak up behind him and shove him off, sending him falling hard to the match. One face first piledriver later and the Brotherhood had the pin. The Bootie Babes were outraged but the decision stood. AWA World Title match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Eric Embry The match had barely gone 5 minutes before Lord Humongous came to ringside. He might have wanted to have a direct influence on the match, but AWA President Stanley Blackburn got on the arena PA and said that if Humongous laid one hand on Hogan during the match , he would lose his world title shot and be suspended for 90 days. Regardless, he seemed to prove a distraction to Hogan as his Army ally Embry pounded on Hogan’s still swollen eye. The battle waged back and forth until Embry whipped Hogan into the corner, only for Hogan to come roaring out and leveling him with an Axe Bomber. One Big Legdrop later and Hogan had gotten the victory over the Flamboyant One. But the ultimate test would come in Milwaukee, where he would have his ultimate battle with the Hockey Masked nightmare.

AWA has sent Mike Vachon to JCP effective the end of this month.

That sounds right.

Great stuff, as always. Love the angle with Sheik and Schultz.

AWA is proud to work with a worthy competitor such as Mr. Lawler.

AWA In Sacramento, October 16th The Wild Italians vs. Bill Rathke & Great Malumba The Wild Italians won when DeNucci got Malumba in an Airplane Spin Greg Gagne vs. Maj. Cal Manson Gagne won with the Gagne Sleeper Eddie Mansfield vs. Mike Vachon Mansfield won with a power slam Prof. Toru Tanaka vs. Ivan Putski Putski won with the Polish Hammer Da Crusher vs. Ed Wiskowski Crusher won with a running Bolo Punch. After the match, he was attacked by Ivan Putski, leading to Tanaka running in for the save Iceman Parsons vs. Eric Embry Parsons won with the Rumper Stumper from the top rope The Road Warriors & Moose Cholak vs. The Wild Bills & Buck Robley The Road Warriors & Cholak won when Hawk hit the flying clothesline on Robley

AWA in Oakland, October 15th. Dean Ho vs. Bill Rathke Ho won with a Full Nelson Ken Patera & Mike George vs. The Wild Italians Patera & George won when Patera hit an elevated backbreaker onto George's knee on Russo Boris Zukhov vs. Greg Gagne Gagne won with the Gagne Leglock AWA American Title match : Jimmy Garvin © vs. Moose Cholak Garvin won when Cholak missed an avalance in the corner and Garvin caught him in a roll up Eddie Mansfield & Rick Patterson vs. Mr. Olympia & Stan Stasiak Olympia & Stasiak won when Stasiak hit the Heart Punch on Patterson AWA World Tag Title match : The Wild Bills vs. The Sake & Old Milwaukee Connection The Wild Bills won when Irwin hit the flying lariat on Tanaka AWA World Title match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous Hogan won by DQ after interference by Col. Buck Robley

The Road Warriors struck up a friendly with Eddie Mekka and his Hollywood lawyers and they managed to push through the cage title match stipulation. (In the real life AWA , cage matches for titles were a rarity but they did happen.)

Lineup for AWA All-Star Wrestling for the weekend of October 21st The Texas Dynasty (courtesy of Southwestern Championship Wrestling) vs. The Wild Italians Lord Humongous vs. Moose Cholak Iceman Parsons vs. Johnny Powers Greg Gagne vs. Mike George The Brotherhood of Poland vs. The Latin Lovers AWA World Title match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Eric Embry

What is the official deadline for getting under the roster cap?

I do have some plans for some people to be in the Roddy Piper role, but the initial challengers for Hogan have worked out to be the big men. The Road Warriors being billed over Hogan on the Milwaukee show are based on two factors : 1) The practical matter that it is a cage match so it will have to go on last, and 2) the match with the Wild Bills is the capper on a long term feud (at least, in the terms of this simulation) whereas Hogan vs. Humongous is from a shorter run.

Love it.

Passing

What's going on with Lord Alfred Hayes? Edit : sorry, checked in the trade thread and he has been sent off in a private trade.

AWA at the Cow Palace , San Francisco , October 14th Ken Patera, Boris Zukhov, Mike George & Sheikh Adnan Kaissie vs. Dean Ho, Johnny Powers & The Wild Italians (Dominic DeNucci & Tony Russo) The Sheikh’s crew were especially aggressive with the veteran wrestlers and got the win after a nasty shoulder breaker by George on Powers. Eddie Mansfield & The Minnesota Heartbreakers (Tom Stanton, Rocky Brewer & Rick Patterson) vs. Mr. Olympia, Stan Stasiak & The Latin Lovers (Vinnie Valentino & Javier Cruz) Stasiak, well known to the San Francisco fans, was making his AWA debut and got the win for his team with the Heart Punch on Brewer. Mansfield and Olympia looked to keep going at it after the match but were held back by their partners. Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood Of Poland (Ed Wiskowski & Ivan Putski) vs. Iceman Parsons & The Sake and Old Milwaukee Connection (Prof. Toru Tanaka & Da Crusher) With all of the bad blood going into this match, no surprise that they went at it fist and fire through the length of the match. Parsons looked to have the match wrapped up when he went up top for the Rumper Stumper, but Precious leapt up on the ring apron and sprayed him in the eyes with the aerosol can, causing him to fall from the top turnbuckle. Garvin rolled the stunned Iceman up and the ref, who had missed the shenanigans, counted the one two three. The Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) , Moose Cholak & Greg Gagne vs. The Wild Bills ("Wild" Bill Irwin & Billy Jack) , Eric Embry & Lord Humongous Another match chock full of bad blood and flying fists, with even Gagne setting aside technical wrestling to throw down with Embry. The end came when Gagne got Embry in the Gagne Sleeper, only for the masked man to enter the ring and attack him, leading to the DQ. AWA World Title Match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Jerry Lawler (courtesy of CWA in Memphis) This was an epic match up with both men getting a lot of cheers from the fans. They waged a lengthy war, with the advantage shifting back and forth between the two men. Lawler, fierce competitor that he is, pounded on Hogan’s still swollen eye with piston punches while the charismatic Hogan fought back gamely. Hogan looked to pull out the victory when he got Lawler in position for the big leg drop, only for Lawler to roll out of the way at the last moment. Lawler then set up Hogan for the top rope fistdrop, but Hogan in turn rolled out of the way. Hogan seemed like he might at least get a countout victory when he knocked Lawler from the ring with a desperation Axe Bomber, but the King was able to pull himself back into the ring at the count of 9. The two exhausted men ended up just slugging it out in the middle of the ring in a last ditch effort to knock each other out, but the bell rang, signaling a 30 minute draw. In spite of the ferocity of the match, Hogan and Lawler shook hands afterwards and raised each other’s arms in a show of respect.

AWA All-Star Wrestling for October 14th The Wild Italians vs. Bill Rathke & Great Malumba The new team of veterans, Dominic DeNucci and Tony Russo, had a tough loss last week to Patera and George, but seemed determined to make up for it against this week against Rathke and Malumba. DeNucci really got the crowd going and got a great cheer when he was able to get the big Malumba up in an airplane spin and got him to submit for the win. Eddie Mansfield vs. Javier Cruz Cruz had his partner, Vinnie Valentino, with him at ringside while Mansfield brought all of the Minnesota Heartbreakers. It was a fast paced, back and forth match that seemed like it could go either way until Mansfield caught himself in the ropes to dodge a Cruz dropkick then followed it up with the powerslam for the win. Once again, while Mansfield was celebrating in the ring, Mr. Olympia came out of nowhere, tossing Tom Stanton hard into the ringsteps then disappearing before Mansfield and the Heartbreakers could catch up with him. Dean Ho vs. Mike Vachon Ho, a well liked veteran, had a tough loss last week to Eric Embry but had a much better showing this week against the second generation wrestler. Ho forced Vachon to submit to the full nelson to get his first victory since arriving in the AWA. Interview : Mean Gene is joined in the ring by the Road Warriors as well as Moose Cholak and Eddie Mekka. Mean Gene : Road Warriors, things sure seemed to have turned around for you in the AWA. It doesn’t seem like too long ago that nobody in the locker room would give you the time of day, but it looks like you have found a couple of good friends here. Animal : You ain’t fooling, Mean Gene. The days of us shooting our mouths of have gone, and there is nobody we’d rather have by our side than Moose and the Big Ragoo! Eddie Mekka : Ummm, my name is Eddie. Animal : Don’t sweat it , Carmine, you are good people in our books. Mean Gene : Coming up in Milwaukee, you finally have the Wild Bills where you want them, in a cage match for the World Tag Titles. Hawk : Wild Bills, you called us the Road Runners, but you’ve been running from us since you won the titles. Well now there is no escape from us. And if your Army buddies want to try to break in and help you, we’ve got the big Moose watching our backs, and the Big Ragoo here is a former Golden Gloves boxing champ! (Cue confused look on Eddie Mekka’s face) In Milwaukee, there is no more room for you to run, and we are walking out of the cage with those belts! Maj. Cal Manson vs. Greg Gagne In his first televised match since returning to the AWA, Greg Gagne seemed somewhat distracted, looking around him for the masked man who has been plaguing him since he returned. Manson sought to capitalize on this, but Gagne would always end up with the upper hand. At one point, Gagne looked like he would put Manson out with the Sleeper, only to drop it and look angrily around him. He instead applied the Gagne Leglock while looking warily at ringside. Sure enough, the masked man did show up in the aisle while Gagne got the submission victory, only to simply stare at him before leaving for the back. Jerry “The King” Lawler vs. Boris Zukhov This was the first match the Memphis superstar had on AWA TV, giving the fans a look at him before his big World title match in San Francisco. For all that he would be facing the crowd favorite Hulk Hogan in that match, the fans still gave him a warm welcome as he took on the Russian Menace. Zukhov gave quite a fight to the King, but Lawler showed the tenacity that helped make him a beloved icon in Memphis as he finally put away Zukhov with the top rope fistdrop. Hulk Hogan & Mr. Olympia vs. Lord Humongous & Col. Buck Robley The towering Humongous was partnered with his leader in the Army while the champion would be teaming with his best friend, Mr. Olympia. Hogan was still showing the marks of his past encounters with Humongous as his right eye was still very badly swollen. Humongous capitalized on this, pummeling the injured eye with hockey mask headbutts and big elbowsmashes. Olympia kept trying to tag in and help his partner and friend, but the Army kept him stymied as they worked over the champion. Olympia finally seemed to have tagged in but the ref, whose back had been turned, ushered him back out of the ring. The Army sought to capitalize on this as Humongous held Hogan in place for Robley to hit him with the loaded arm brace, but Hogan ducked out of the way in time and Robley sent Humongous back into the ropes. Olympia rushed over to hold up Humongous as Hogan hit the Axe Bomber on Robley and get the pin. Hogan managed to pull out the victory this time, but has a long road ahead of him to finally get the best of the terrifying man in the hockey mask.

Got it.

Hansen has already been booked for the 14th by Mid Atlantic.

Lineup for AWA All-Star Wrestling for the weekend of October 14th The Wild Italians vs. Bill Rathke & Great Malumba Eddie Mansfield vs. Javier Cruz Dean Ho vs. Mike Vachon Greg Gagne vs. Maj. Cal Manson Making a special appearance before his world title match in San Francisco, CWA favorite Jerry Lawler vs. Boris Zukhov Hulk Hogan & Mr. Olympia vs. Lord Humongous & Col. Buck Robley Plus a special interview with the Road Warriors, Moose Cholak & Eddie Mekka

Line for the AWA Show at the Mecca, Milwaukee, October 21st Eric Embry vs. Dean Ho Mike George vs. Tony Russo Greg Gagne vs. Boris Zukhov Mr. Olympia vs. Eddie Mansfield Special 10-Man Tag Match : Jimmy Garvin, The Brotherhood Of Poland & The Texas Dynasty (courtesy of Southwestern Championship Wrestling) vs. Iceman Parsons, The Sake and Old Milwaukee Connection & The Latin Lovers Special Stipulations of the 10-Man Tag Match : If Jimmy Garvin loses the decision, he will be have to defend the AWA American title in an immediate match against the person who pinned or submitted him. If Iceman Parsons loses the decision, he must leave the AWA for 90 days If the Brotherhood Of Poland lose the decision, they will be barred from teaming together for a year. If the Sake and Old Milwaukee Connection lose the decision, they will be forced to abstain from alcohol for a year If any member of the Texas Dynasty or the Latin Lovers lose the decision, both members of the respective team will have to shave their heads AWA World Title Match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Lord Humongous AWA World Tag Title Cage Match : The Wild Bills © vs. The Road Warriors

The lineup for tonight's big AWA show from the Cow Palace in San Francisco : Ken Patera, Boris Zukhov, Mike George & Sheikh Adnan Kaissie vs. Dean Ho, Johnny Powers & The Wild Italians (Dominic DeNucci & Tony Russo) Eddie Mansfield & The Minnesota Heartbreakers (Tom Stanton, Rocky Brewer & Rick Patterson) vs. Mr. Olympia, Stan Stasiak & The Latin Lovers (Vinnie Valentino & Javier Cruz) Jimmy Garvin & The Brotherhood Of Poland (Ed Wiskowski & Ivan Putski) vs. Iceman Parsons & The Sake and Old Milwaukee Connection (Prof. Toru Tanaka & Da Crusher) The Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) , Moose Cholak & Greg Gagne vs. Thw Wild Bills ("Wild" Bill Irwin & Billy Jack) , Eric Embry & Lord Humongous AWA World Title Match : Hulk Hogan © vs. Jerry Lawler (courtesy of CWA in Memphis)

Hansen is in play. I am grabbing him for the 6th, 18th and 20th. 12-14th he will be in Mid-Atlantic.

Guys, Bit of a strange issue here. Back during the original draft, a deal was made between the AWA and Maple Leaf Wrestling (as it then was) that sent a draft pick to MLW in exchange for AWA getting the use of the Canadian champ (initially Rick Martel) for the once monthly AWA Winnipeg house shows and one TV taping per month for a year. At the time of IWF's closing, Rick Martel had lost the NWA/IWF Canadian title to Riki Choshu and no new title holder was made after that. Given that , at the same time, Rick Martel was still AWA Canadian champ, would it be alright if I kept the same deal in place with Martel with the same Winnipeg shows and TV taping?

AWA at the Met Center, Bloomington, MN, Oct. 7th Mike George vs. Dean Ho Mike George won with a shoulder breaker The Sake & Old Milwaukee Connection vs. The Brotherhood Of Poland The Sake & Old Milwaukee Connecton won after Da Crusher hit Wiskowski with a running Bolo Punch. Both teams kept brawling long after the bell. Mr. Olympia vs. Eddie Mansfield Mr. Olympia won by DQ after he was attacked by the Minnesota Heartbreakers Greg Gagne vs. Maj. Cal Manson Gagne won with the Gagne Sleeper AWA American Title Match : Jimmy Garvin © vs. Iceman Parsons Both men went to a 30 minute draw Road Warriors & Moose Cholak vs. The Wild Bills & Eric Embry The Wild Bills & Eric Embry won after Bill Irwin hit Moose Cholak with a flying lariat AWA World Title Match : Hulk Hogan vs. Lord Humongous Both men went to a double countout while they were brawling at ringside