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This Mid South fukkery 
Ted DiBiase turns on JYD over the North American Championship, which was his whole identity and what he cared about most. Within months he's a full blown a$$hole heel running with his Rat Pack and going out of his way to cheat lol. JYD has to leave the territory for 90 days, which brings in his friend, Stagger Lee. Ted can never prove that Stagger Lee is JYD, and Stagger Lee wins the North American Championship, but then mysteriously vanishes from the territory as JYD's suspension is up. The title is vacated and decided in a huge tournament at the Superdome. The finals end up being JYD vs Mr. Olympia. Here, Olympia reveals he's now in league with Skandor Akbar and fully heel. A ref bump and cheating has the ref count a pin with JYD ON HIS STOMACH, so Bill Watts bytched until the higher ups decided to hold the belt up AGAIN and have them have a rematch at the next Superdome show...in an unadvertised cage match, which still had interference and JYD winning with the Bret/Piper finish. Also, the start of Olympia's heel turn was that he was mad fans liked fellow masked wrestling Mr. Wrestling II.
After Ted turned heel, he formed a team with Matt Borne, and eventually added Jim DOOGAN to the team. After losing the tag titles and rematch, Duggan turns on Borne but stays heel, and Borne leaves the area for a bit. Ted lies about doing business with Akbar, which pisses Duggan off something fierce as something in his family history makes him hate Arabs and oil money. He begins attacking Akbar when he has the chance, which leads to Akbar wanting Ted to take Duggan out. Ted refuses, saying they have no beef, they just went their separate ways and that's cool. A week later Ted is ambushing Duggan.
Tony Atlas was getting a big push, lots of screen time, endorsement from JYD, the whole nine...he just bails and is IMMEDIATELY replaced by Butch Reed overnight, down to the same gear and moves
. It's a very, very brief time before he turns on JYD as well. And man, everyone knows how Tony is so country you can barely understand him, but Butch Reed might be just as bad of a promo. Dude was just completely lost anytime he spoke. You do have to wonder why everyone ends up turning on JYD. Perhaps he really isn't a good friend. Also, damn he must have been hitting the booze or coke hard around this time, the difference in his body from 1981-1982 to the middle of 1983 is pretty crazy. Lots of bloat and muscle loss. Anyway, Butch beats JYD for that fukking title that was held up twice in the last 3 months because of JYD fukkery about a month after he won it back.
They also start getting a bunch of guys who ran their course in WCCW, but the trash ones like Bundy and Kamala
Ted DiBiase turns on JYD over the North American Championship, which was his whole identity and what he cared about most. Within months he's a full blown a$$hole heel running with his Rat Pack and going out of his way to cheat lol. JYD has to leave the territory for 90 days, which brings in his friend, Stagger Lee. Ted can never prove that Stagger Lee is JYD, and Stagger Lee wins the North American Championship, but then mysteriously vanishes from the territory as JYD's suspension is up. The title is vacated and decided in a huge tournament at the Superdome. The finals end up being JYD vs Mr. Olympia. Here, Olympia reveals he's now in league with Skandor Akbar and fully heel. A ref bump and cheating has the ref count a pin with JYD ON HIS STOMACH, so Bill Watts bytched until the higher ups decided to hold the belt up AGAIN and have them have a rematch at the next Superdome show...in an unadvertised cage match, which still had interference and JYD winning with the Bret/Piper finish. Also, the start of Olympia's heel turn was that he was mad fans liked fellow masked wrestling Mr. Wrestling II.
After Ted turned heel, he formed a team with Matt Borne, and eventually added Jim DOOGAN to the team. After losing the tag titles and rematch, Duggan turns on Borne but stays heel, and Borne leaves the area for a bit. Ted lies about doing business with Akbar, which pisses Duggan off something fierce as something in his family history makes him hate Arabs and oil money. He begins attacking Akbar when he has the chance, which leads to Akbar wanting Ted to take Duggan out. Ted refuses, saying they have no beef, they just went their separate ways and that's cool. A week later Ted is ambushing Duggan.
Tony Atlas was getting a big push, lots of screen time, endorsement from JYD, the whole nine...he just bails and is IMMEDIATELY replaced by Butch Reed overnight, down to the same gear and moves
. It's a very, very brief time before he turns on JYD as well. And man, everyone knows how Tony is so country you can barely understand him, but Butch Reed might be just as bad of a promo. Dude was just completely lost anytime he spoke. You do have to wonder why everyone ends up turning on JYD. Perhaps he really isn't a good friend. Also, damn he must have been hitting the booze or coke hard around this time, the difference in his body from 1981-1982 to the middle of 1983 is pretty crazy. Lots of bloat and muscle loss. Anyway, Butch beats JYD for that fukking title that was held up twice in the last 3 months because of JYD fukkery about a month after he won it back. They also start getting a bunch of guys who ran their course in WCCW, but the trash ones like Bundy and Kamala
Theolodius_Black
Whoopin suckas with a bag of oranges
So water we watching?
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Straw Hat Luffy
Veteran
They should make this a gimmick for someone now. Finn Balor could totally rock the "you never gave me a chance Vince" gimmick.
The Midnight Express' Mid South TV debut has JR as in the ring announcer and is against a young, still jobber Rick Rood in trunks, thin Cornette whose voice is a full octave lower than it is now. Things are picking up in the Mid South Zone.
So this North American Championship situation...after Butch Reed defeats JYD for the title, he decides he's going to both defend the title and go for the tag titles on the same show. Duggan and Magnum TA are tag champs, and Reed is going to defend his title against Magnum in a singles match first. For some reason, JYD is put in as special guest referee because Mid South was mad at Butch or something. Of course, JYD costs Butch the title. Both Butch and Magnum have been in the area for like 2-3 months. Later in the show, Butch Reed and Jim Neidhart win the tag titles from Magnum/Dugan.
Then Magnum loses the title to Nikolai Volkoff a week later, then the title is returned to Butch Reed the same night due to Magnum's win being invalidated...then JYD wins the title back 2 days later.
Lanny Poffo and Magnum TA form a team under the tutelage of Mr. Wrestling II. Mr. Wrestling, in their first promo as a unit, talks about how Macho Man and Angelo Poffo are the biggest pieces of shyt in the business Magnum and Genius never team up again, and Poffo starts teaming with randoms every week, including Rick Rude.
Krusher Darsow debuts as basically a woodsman, just a weirdo from Minnesota who took a few months off to hang out in the woods by himself and build himself up for a wrestling career after seeing Mid South on TV. He's a face, although really not a face heel or tweener, just a guy. His fist lost comes at the hands of JYD, which garners his respect. His second loss is to Nikolai Volkoff and so...he decides to pair up with Nikolai, because JYD was A shytTY FRIEND WHO DID NOTHING TO HELP HIM. This is every fukking JYD story. Literally all of his friends turn on him and say the same shyt about him, so you have to assume the story really is that JYD is a selfish piece of shyt and should have had a heel turn after a while.
1983 wraps up with JYD as North American Champion (his 3rd reign of the year including Stagger Lee, the title changed hands or was held up 7 times during the year), the Louisiana heavyweight Championship quietly deactivated with Duggan as the last champ, and the Butch Reed/Jim Neidhart as Tag Team Champions (the titles changed hands 5 times during the year), the Midnight Express smashing jobbers, JR being a weekly commentator and/or ring announcer instead of sporadic guest, Dr. Death starting his real push, the Road Warriors causing a scene, and lots of WCCW/Memphis cross over.
All in all, having seen all the TV from Mid Atlantic/WCCW/Mid South up on the Network through 1983, Mid South is probably the best as far as angles and fukkery and balance between promos and wrestling. Mid Atlantic is the basic format they kept through WCW to the end of the decade of in studio squashes and being heavy on promos, and during this time they had basically all the best talkers in the game that weren't Bockwinkel and Heenan.
World Class is easily at the bottom of the list, as they were light on promos, heavy on wrestling but the same matches over and over and over. It's like watching current WWE where guys will wrestle 5 times on TV to build to a PPV match. And then do that for 6 months at a time. Also they have a LOT of trash guys in the ring and since they didn't really do squashes, you'd get stuck with 10-15 minute matches with shytbirds like The Mongol or Kabuki/Magic Dragon or Bundy or local area dudes who looked like they never hit the gym in their lives.
So this North American Championship situation...after Butch Reed defeats JYD for the title, he decides he's going to both defend the title and go for the tag titles on the same show. Duggan and Magnum TA are tag champs, and Reed is going to defend his title against Magnum in a singles match first. For some reason, JYD is put in as special guest referee because Mid South was mad at Butch or something. Of course, JYD costs Butch the title. Both Butch and Magnum have been in the area for like 2-3 months. Later in the show, Butch Reed and Jim Neidhart win the tag titles from Magnum/Dugan.
Then Magnum loses the title to Nikolai Volkoff a week later, then the title is returned to Butch Reed the same night due to Magnum's win being invalidated...then JYD wins the title back 2 days later.
Lanny Poffo and Magnum TA form a team under the tutelage of Mr. Wrestling II. Mr. Wrestling, in their first promo as a unit, talks about how Macho Man and Angelo Poffo are the biggest pieces of shyt in the business
Magnum and Genius never team up again, and Poffo starts teaming with randoms every week, including Rick Rude.Krusher Darsow debuts as basically a woodsman, just a weirdo from Minnesota who took a few months off to hang out in the woods by himself and build himself up for a wrestling career after seeing Mid South on TV. He's a face, although really not a face heel or tweener, just a guy. His fist lost comes at the hands of JYD, which garners his respect. His second loss is to Nikolai Volkoff and so...he decides to pair up with Nikolai, because JYD was A shytTY FRIEND WHO DID NOTHING TO HELP HIM
. This is every fukking JYD story. Literally all of his friends turn on him and say the same shyt about him, so you have to assume the story really is that JYD is a selfish piece of shyt and should have had a heel turn after a while.1983 wraps up with JYD as North American Champion (his 3rd reign of the year including Stagger Lee, the title changed hands or was held up 7 times during the year), the Louisiana heavyweight Championship quietly deactivated with Duggan as the last champ, and the Butch Reed/Jim Neidhart as Tag Team Champions (the titles changed hands 5 times during the year), the Midnight Express smashing jobbers, JR being a weekly commentator and/or ring announcer instead of sporadic guest, Dr. Death starting his real push, the Road Warriors causing a scene, and lots of WCCW/Memphis cross over.
All in all, having seen all the TV from Mid Atlantic/WCCW/Mid South up on the Network through 1983, Mid South is probably the best as far as angles and fukkery and balance between promos and wrestling. Mid Atlantic is the basic format they kept through WCW to the end of the decade of in studio squashes and being heavy on promos, and during this time they had basically all the best talkers in the game that weren't Bockwinkel and Heenan.
World Class is easily at the bottom of the list, as they were light on promos, heavy on wrestling but the same matches over and over and over. It's like watching current WWE where guys will wrestle 5 times on TV to build to a PPV match. And then do that for 6 months at a time. Also they have a LOT of trash guys in the ring and since they didn't really do squashes, you'd get stuck with 10-15 minute matches with shytbirds like The Mongol or Kabuki/Magic Dragon or Bundy or local area dudes who looked like they never hit the gym in their lives.
Well I mean I did used to run a site doing this type of shyt
Mid Atlantic really starts popping off in mid 1983 when Harley Race beats Flair to regain the title, which leads to a Flair face turn and returning to the area weekly at least in promo form, the famous bounty angle with him, leading to Piper/Flair/Steamboat forming an alliance and pooling all of their feuds together (Piper vs Valentine, Harley vs Flair, Steamboat/Youngblood vs Briscos). Jake Roberts recently returned to the area as a vicious heel and making the DDT famous instead of just a random move he sometimes did. Although weirdly he's teaming with Dory Funk Jr. and managed by Paul Jones, and he really never speaks at all. Have Jake Roberts in your group and not let him do promos brehs.
6 months out from Starrcade, most of the card is already being built, with a couple having started a full year in advance (notably the Piper/Valentine feud, which started with a slow build near the end of 1982, which ended up in a match in the Spring that saw Valentine using the ring bell on Piper's ear, giving him a career threatening injury that put him out of action for months, but also Flair/Harley which dated back years really). One of the things that Mid South and Mid Atlantic were both really good at was mixing multiple feuds so most of their main guys could conceivably interact and be in matches against each other at any given time and it would make sense. They went about it in different ways, though. Mid South was all about run in fukkery, Mid Atlantic was usually on "the enemy of my friend is my enemy" type shyt.
Of course, Mid Atlantic also has its fair share of trash, like Jimmy Valiant vs Great Kabuki (which included Magic Dragon and Bugsy McGraw as well) and downright excessive television and promo time to Mike fukking Rotunda.
Mid Atlantic really starts popping off in mid 1983 when Harley Race beats Flair to regain the title, which leads to a Flair face turn and returning to the area weekly at least in promo form, the famous bounty angle with him, leading to Piper/Flair/Steamboat forming an alliance and pooling all of their feuds together (Piper vs Valentine, Harley vs Flair, Steamboat/Youngblood vs Briscos). Jake Roberts recently returned to the area as a vicious heel and making the DDT famous instead of just a random move he sometimes did. Although weirdly he's teaming with Dory Funk Jr. and managed by Paul Jones, and he really never speaks at all. Have Jake Roberts in your group and not let him do promos brehs.
6 months out from Starrcade, most of the card is already being built, with a couple having started a full year in advance (notably the Piper/Valentine feud, which started with a slow build near the end of 1982, which ended up in a match in the Spring that saw Valentine using the ring bell on Piper's ear, giving him a career threatening injury that put him out of action for months, but also Flair/Harley which dated back years really). One of the things that Mid South and Mid Atlantic were both really good at was mixing multiple feuds so most of their main guys could conceivably interact and be in matches against each other at any given time and it would make sense. They went about it in different ways, though. Mid South was all about run in fukkery, Mid Atlantic was usually on "the enemy of my friend is my enemy" type shyt.
Of course, Mid Atlantic also has its fair share of trash, like Jimmy Valiant vs Great Kabuki (which included Magic Dragon and Bugsy McGraw as well) and downright excessive television and promo time to Mike fukking Rotunda.
Bret Hart walks out on the 11/8/99 Nitro while Sid and the outsiders are in the ring and says
“You guys like to talk about panties a lot, you’re nothing but three big pussies”
No bleep, no censor
WCW 1999-2001 was seriously the best for unintentional comedy.
“You guys like to talk about panties a lot, you’re nothing but three big pussies”
No bleep, no censor
WCW 1999-2001 was seriously the best for unintentional comedy.WCCW 1984 January-June:
January: The Von Erich/Freebirds feud continues, minus Michael Hayes for a bit as he lost a loser leaves town match at the end of 1983, and adding the freshly debuted Mike Von Erich. It stays the same back and forth shyt it's always been. Kamala and Skandor Akbar return to the area full time, with JYD popping in for a few shots against Kamala, and Andre/Kamala continuing their Mid South feud here. Chris Adams and Jimmy Garvin continue their feud over the American Championship, with nearly every week having Sunshine beat the shyt out of Precious and trying to blind Jimmy Garvin for cheating on her. Rick Rude debuts in World Class as a jobber after doing some time in Mid Atlantic and Mid South. Ice Man Parsons feuds with Akbar and the Super Destroyers, bringing in various partners including Andre and the Von Erichs.
February: Michael Hayes returns. Anyway, the feud continues as normal. Beat downs and matches every week. The 2/11/84 episode ends with an announcement from Bill Mercer that David Von Erich had died in Japan. Next week's show doesn't acknowledge it, as it was taped the same night as the previous show. This includes a promo from the Freebirds shytting on the Von Erichs, including David, so it was pretty awkward. It's not until 2 weeks later that there is a tribute show to David. Perro Aguayo and Fishman pop in for a show. Ric Flair defends the NWA Championship against Chris Adams. Precious gets some revenge on Sunshine.
March: The first show of the month is a tribute show to David. It's not dissimilar to the Owen/Eddie style of tribute shows, with home footage set to sappy music, highlights from big matches, comments from wrestlers and announcers. Michael Hayes has an interesting thing that's like... still half kayfabe that praises David as a warrior who fought for what he believed in, but also that the Freebirds would never agree with what he believed in and the feud would continue without him. But then there's footage of Fritz, Mama Von Erich, and the remaining brothers talking about David around the lake. The thing feels less like a eulogy and more that they're pushing Mike very hard as a direct replacement for David in and out of the ring. It's fukking weird. Fritz did a solo talk with Bill Mercer that is bizarrely serene about losing his son (the second one he's lost at this point). "As I said, life goes on" and then again goes into pushing Mike as a spitting image of David in and out of the ring and Kevin or Kerry winning the NWA Championship soon. He's doing this as a promoter, not as a father. It's gross.
The rest of the month continues as if nothing happened. Jimmy Garvin and Chris Adams start feuding less over the title and more over Jimmy's entrance gear. Butch Reed comes in for some shows, Fritz announces Kevin or Kerry will face Ric Flair for the NWA Championship at Texas Stadium in May. The month ends with the Birds getting into tweener territory by facing off against Devastation Inc., which ended with the Von Erichs and Freebirds briefly teaming up to fight off Devastation Inc....only for the Birds to immediately end the truce. 
April: The Freebirds continue their tweener push, with the Birds/Von Erichs/Devastation Inc. all feuding with each other. The push of Mike as THE SPIRIT OF DAVID continues and it's fukking weird. They literally talk about Mike as if he's straight up David reincarnated. And they only talk about Mike as compared to David. Must have been such a mind fukk for him. I'm sure it wasn't good that he was quite a bit smaller than David and was still a rookie and easily the least talented of the four brothers. Jimmy Garvin gets new entrance gear instead of trying to get his shyt back from Chris Adams. Garvin would win back the American Championship, but Sunshine/Precious have way more heat with each other than their men do at this point.
May: Fritz gets back in the ring for ONE TIME ONLY
(that's what he said the last like 5 times he was in the ring. He also has more matches after this) to join Kevin and Mike against the Freebirds. They beat the Birds for the 6 Man Tag Team Championships, and Kerry was allowed to fill in for him afterwards due to Fritz making a backdoor deal with the NWA. Before the match, Kevin (wearing white pants) slices his fingers up with his blade on accident, something that happened to Kerry more than a few times in his career. Kerry defeats Ric Flair for the NWA Championship. Both of these happened at the 1st Von Erich Memorial Parade Of Champions in Irvine Stadium. Kerry would win the rematch in the Sportatorium. Flair would regain the title less than 3 weeks later in All Japan. The Bad Street video debuts. Kamala leaves for the WWF. Gino Hernandez returns to the area. Chris Adams/Sunshine defeat Garvin/Precious. Gary Hart returns and I guess kind of turns, starting a physical feud with Skandor Akbar.
June: Killer Khan arrives and is aligned with the Freebirds via his and Gordy's mutual love of the Oriental Spike. Gino Hernandez "wins" the American Championship from Jimmy Garvin in "Puerto Rico". There was no match and I'm not really sure why this happened as Garvin wouldn't leave WCCW until sometime in July. However, Sunshine was replaced by her "truck driving aunt" in the Garvin/Adams feud. Iceman Parsons finds a regular partner in Buck Zumhofe (the guy who was arrested in both 1986 and 1989 for sexual misconduct with a minor, and is currently in prison for sexually abusing his daughter over the course of 11 years. Even after a PRISON STAY FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH A MINOR, both the AWA and WWF booked him. 
) The Six Man Tag Team Championships are vacated after the Birds call a meeting with the NWA and it's decided that Kevin Von Erich was not the legal man when he made the pin to win the titles...a fukking month and a half ago. 
Bill Irwin "returns" to the area, although he's been there all along as part of the Super Destroyers. He's just returning to his old bullwhip gimmick instead of the masked tag team. Gino Hernandez also wins the Texas Championship (defeating Ric Flair in a tournament final at a house show) and repeatedly challenges any and all of the Von Erichs. Also, his nick name is the Handsome Half-breed.
I'm completely over the Freebirds/Von Erichs feud. Luckily, the Birds will be on to the WWF/AJPW/Florida in the Fall, so that angle can get a rest. It's absolutely bizarre how they moved right along from David dying. From Fritz's reaction of "we loved that boy, but what can ya do shyt happens oh btw my other son looks and acts just like him have you heard of him he's gonna be a big star" "Oh yeah also I guarantee one of my other sons will win the NWA Championship very soon" to having Michael Hayes do a promo saying the rivalry would continue regardless of David's death to pushing Mike as David 2.0. It's just fukking bizarre all around. It's not the same thing as Owen or Eddie dying, this is the top babyface who is also the anchor of the family that IS the promotion and son of the owner/promoter. They just continued as if nothing happened.
January: The Von Erich/Freebirds feud continues, minus Michael Hayes for a bit as he lost a loser leaves town match at the end of 1983, and adding the freshly debuted Mike Von Erich. It stays the same back and forth shyt it's always been. Kamala and Skandor Akbar return to the area full time, with JYD popping in for a few shots against Kamala, and Andre/Kamala continuing their Mid South feud here. Chris Adams and Jimmy Garvin continue their feud over the American Championship, with nearly every week having Sunshine beat the shyt out of Precious and trying to blind Jimmy Garvin for cheating on her. Rick Rude debuts in World Class as a jobber after doing some time in Mid Atlantic and Mid South. Ice Man Parsons feuds with Akbar and the Super Destroyers, bringing in various partners including Andre and the Von Erichs.
February: Michael Hayes returns. Anyway, the feud continues as normal. Beat downs and matches every week. The 2/11/84 episode ends with an announcement from Bill Mercer that David Von Erich had died in Japan.
Next week's show doesn't acknowledge it, as it was taped the same night as the previous show. This includes a promo from the Freebirds shytting on the Von Erichs, including David, so it was pretty awkward. It's not until 2 weeks later that there is a tribute show to David. Perro Aguayo and Fishman pop in for a show. Ric Flair defends the NWA Championship against Chris Adams. Precious gets some revenge on Sunshine.March: The first show of the month is a tribute show to David. It's not dissimilar to the Owen/Eddie style of tribute shows, with home footage set to sappy music, highlights from big matches, comments from wrestlers and announcers. Michael Hayes has an interesting thing that's like... still half kayfabe that praises David as a warrior who fought for what he believed in, but also that the Freebirds would never agree with what he believed in and the feud would continue without him. But then there's footage of Fritz, Mama Von Erich, and the remaining brothers talking about David around the lake. The thing feels less like a eulogy and more that they're pushing Mike very hard as a direct replacement for David in and out of the ring. It's fukking weird. Fritz did a solo talk with Bill Mercer that is bizarrely serene about losing his son (the second one he's lost at this point). "As I said, life goes on" and then again goes into pushing Mike as a spitting image of David in and out of the ring and Kevin or Kerry winning the NWA Championship soon. He's doing this as a promoter, not as a father. It's gross.
The rest of the month continues as if nothing happened. Jimmy Garvin and Chris Adams start feuding less over the title and more over Jimmy's entrance gear. Butch Reed comes in for some shows, Fritz announces Kevin or Kerry will face Ric Flair for the NWA Championship at Texas Stadium in May. The month ends with the Birds getting into tweener territory by facing off against Devastation Inc., which ended with the Von Erichs and Freebirds briefly teaming up to fight off Devastation Inc....only for the Birds to immediately end the truce. April: The Freebirds continue their tweener push, with the Birds/Von Erichs/Devastation Inc. all feuding with each other. The push of Mike as THE SPIRIT OF DAVID continues and it's fukking weird. They literally talk about Mike as if he's straight up David reincarnated. And they only talk about Mike as compared to David. Must have been such a mind fukk for him. I'm sure it wasn't good that he was quite a bit smaller than David and was still a rookie and easily the least talented of the four brothers. Jimmy Garvin gets new entrance gear instead of trying to get his shyt back from Chris Adams. Garvin would win back the American Championship, but Sunshine/Precious have way more heat with each other than their men do at this point.
May: Fritz gets back in the ring for ONE TIME ONLY
(that's what he said the last like 5 times he was in the ring. He also has more matches after this) to join Kevin and Mike against the Freebirds. They beat the Birds for the 6 Man Tag Team Championships, and Kerry was allowed to fill in for him afterwards due to Fritz making a backdoor deal with the NWA. Before the match, Kevin (wearing white pants) slices his fingers up with his blade on accident, something that happened to Kerry more than a few times in his career. Kerry defeats Ric Flair for the NWA Championship. Both of these happened at the 1st Von Erich Memorial Parade Of Champions in Irvine Stadium. Kerry would win the rematch in the Sportatorium. Flair would regain the title less than 3 weeks later in All Japan. The Bad Street video debuts. Kamala leaves for the WWF. Gino Hernandez returns to the area. Chris Adams/Sunshine defeat Garvin/Precious. Gary Hart returns and I guess kind of turns, starting a physical feud with Skandor Akbar.June: Killer Khan arrives and is aligned with the Freebirds via his and Gordy's mutual love of the Oriental Spike. Gino Hernandez "wins" the American Championship from Jimmy Garvin in "Puerto Rico". There was no match and I'm not really sure why this happened as Garvin wouldn't leave WCCW until sometime in July. However, Sunshine was replaced by her "truck driving aunt" in the Garvin/Adams feud.
Iceman Parsons finds a regular partner in Buck Zumhofe (the guy who was arrested in both 1986 and 1989 for sexual misconduct with a minor, and is currently in prison for sexually abusing his daughter over the course of 11 years. Even after a PRISON STAY FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH A MINOR, both the AWA and WWF booked him. ) The Six Man Tag Team Championships are vacated after the Birds call a meeting with the NWA and it's decided that Kevin Von Erich was not the legal man when he made the pin to win the titles...a fukking month and a half ago. Bill Irwin "returns" to the area, although he's been there all along as part of the Super Destroyers. He's just returning to his old bullwhip gimmick instead of the masked tag team. Gino Hernandez also wins the Texas Championship (defeating Ric Flair in a tournament final at a house show) and repeatedly challenges any and all of the Von Erichs. Also, his nick name is the Handsome Half-breed. I'm completely over the Freebirds/Von Erichs feud. Luckily, the Birds will be on to the WWF/AJPW/Florida in the Fall, so that angle can get a rest. It's absolutely bizarre how they moved right along from David dying. From Fritz's reaction of "we loved that boy, but what can ya do shyt happens oh btw my other son looks and acts just like him have you heard of him he's gonna be a big star" "Oh yeah also I guarantee one of my other sons will win the NWA Championship very soon" to having Michael Hayes do a promo saying the rivalry would continue regardless of David's death to pushing Mike as David 2.0. It's just fukking bizarre all around. It's not the same thing as Owen or Eddie dying, this is the top babyface who is also the anchor of the family that IS the promotion and son of the owner/promoter. They just continued as if nothing happened.