( The screen opens to a man in a suit standing in the middle of the ring with a microphone)

Hello ladies and gentlemen, My name is John Laurinaitis and I am the executive vice president of talent relations and general manager for Power Pro Wrestling.

This is our first every broadcast and pay per view, The Royal Rumble
Tonight we will crown our first ever World Heavyweight Champion in a thirty man royal rumble match.

Before we go to our first match Id like to remind everyone to watch our new TV show starting this and every Monday at eight pm eastern time on ESPN. Our showed is called
PPW All Star Wrestling.

Generic announcer guy: Folks its time for our match. The up and comer CM Punk vs Harley Race

Harley Race vs CM Punk
(Race gets the early advantage and controls most of the match but CM Punk wont quit. Around the ten minute mark Harley Race hits the piledriver and wins the match)

Road Warriors vs Wild Samoans w/ Captain Lou Albano

(Hawk and Animal beat Afa and Sika from pillar to post and eventually hit the Doomsday Device and pick up the pin.)

Hulk Hogan Junkyard Dog and Jerry Lawler
vs
Bam Bam Bigelow, Ivan Koloff and Billy Graham

( This is a back and forth match for twenty minutes. Each man gets a good amount of offense in. In the end Hogan hits the legdrop on Ivan Koloff and gets the win for his team)

We go to some vignettes of each of the thirty men talking about who they are and why they are going to win the Royal Rumble)

Cm Punk and Michael Hayes start off. Hayes batters Punk for two minutes until Harley Race comes in.

Race and Hayes double team Punk for the next two minutes until Afa comes into the ring. Afa fights off Hayes until Race hits him from behind.

Race and Hayes quickly dispatch of Afa. Butch Reed is the next in the ring. Race and Hayes sit back as Reed takes his turn beating up on CM Punk. Reed goes for a clothesline and Punk dunks and Reed is eliminated.

Hayes starts to attack Punk but Punk counters and kicks Hayes in the head. Punk hits the Go To Sleep and throws Hayes out. Race starts to beat on Punk until Ivan Putski comes in and attacks Race.

Putski slams Race and has him cowering in the corner as Big Bossman comes in. Putski hits the Polish Hammer on Race. Bossman picks up Putski and slams him hard. Punk and Putski attempt to double team Bossman but he eliminates them both at the same time!!

Baron Von Raschke is next in the ring and he immediately goes for Bossman. Bossman hits the Bossman slam on The Baron as One Man Gang is next to enter.

For the next two minutes Gang and Bossman batter Race and The Baron. The next man out is Sheepherder Butch. He helps the Twin Towers triple team Baron. The Twin Towers throw The Baron out and start to triple team Race.

George Steele is out next and he starts to fight off Butch, Gang and Bossman. Bossman and Gang gain the upper hand as Sheepherder Luke comes in. The Sheepherders starts to maul Harley Race in the corner as the Twin Towers continue to do a number on George Steele.

Sika run to the ring and tries to help Steele. Gang splashes Sika in the corner and throws him out with ease.

Greg Valentine makes his way to the ring and he helps the Sheepherders with Race. The Twin Towers eliminate Steele and turn their focus to The Sheepherders.

Jerry Lawler is out. Lawler, Race and Valentine are all fighting as The Twin Towers and Sheepherders are going at it. Gang and Bossman eliminate Luke. Ivan Koloff makes his way out.

Luke distracts The Twin Towers and from the outside he helps Butch eliminate One Man Gang. Bossman climbs over the top and The Twins Towers starts assaulting Luke on the outside. Butch climbs out too and all four brawl to the back.

Terry Gordy comes in and he goes at it with Ivan Koloff.
Jerry Lawler throws Valentine out and Lawler and Race starts to battle again.

Dino Bravo rushes to the ring and he throws out Terry Gordy as Hulk Hogan makes his way in. Hogan cleans house and eliminates Bravo and Koloff as Ken Patera comes in.

Patera clotheslines Hogan and puts him in the Full Nelson. Hogan backs Patera to the ropes and breaks the hold. Hogan clotheslines Patera over the top.

Ron Simmons comes in and starts to beat on Hogan. He hits a spine buster on Hogan and has Hogan in trouble until Lawler makes the save. Lex Luger is out next and Simmons and Luger double team Hogan as Lawler and Race fight.

Hercules is next out and he joins in the Hogan beating. This continues until Junkyard Dog comes out and helps Hogan. Hogan eliminates Hercules and Simmons with a double clothesline.

Luger has the upper hand on JYD and Hogan goes to help. Luger starts beating on Hogan and puts him in the torture rack. Bad News Brown is out and he proceeds to eliminate JYD. Than he takes out Luger.

Brown is battering Hogan in the corner. Superstar Billy Graham is out and he is working with Bad News on Hogan. All of a sudden Bad News double crosses Graham and hits the Ghetto Blaster. Kofi Kingston hits the ring and he hits Trouble in Paradise on Bad News Brown.

Graham and Hogan are battling, Lawler and Race and then Brown and Kofi as Bam Bam Bigelow comes in. Bigelow takes a turn beating up on all six men. He has them all hurt and is celebrating.

Road Warrior Hawk is in and he goes right for Hulk Hogan. He is dominating Hogan like no one ever has before. Road Warrior Animal is out now and the two of them just work over Hogan. They hit the Doomsday Device on Hulk Hogan and throw him out with ease.

Harley Race finally eliminates Jerry Lawler. As the Road Warriors go to work on Kofi Kingston.

As the Warriors are trying to eliminate Kingston, Hulk Hogan sneaks back in and eliminates the Road Warriors.

Hawk and Animal get Hogan on the outside and and throw him into the ring steps. They grabs chairs and pummel Hogan until security get them to the back as paramedics check on Hogan.

Bam Bam Bigelow throws out Bad News Brown as we our down to the final four. Kofi Kingston, Bam Bam Bigelow, Superstar Billy Graham and Harley Race.

Race is in the corner and he looks exhausted. Bigelow and Graham are going to work on Kingston in the corner. It looks like they are going to throw him out but Bigelow throws out Kingston and Graham.

Bigelow is taunting Race. He has race in the corner and he is punching and kicking him. He picks up Race to slam him over the top rope but Race grabs the rope. Race rakes the eyes and hits Bigelow with a low blow. Bigelow recovers and slams Race in the middle of the ring. Bigelow goes to the top and hits Race with a flying headbutt. A move that Harley Race invented.

Bigelow sends Race into the ropes and hits a massive clothesline that has Race staggered against the ropes. Bigelow flies across the ring and tries to a splash but Race moves and Bigelow is eliminated!!!!

Winner and new World Heavyweight Champion: Harley Race

( The screen fades to black as John Laurinaitis present the belt to Race and Race holds it high in the air)

I have a plan. Please don't judge without seeing my vision

Can a person really give you the benefit of the doubt, though, when you say that exclamation marks are the most manly forms of punctuation?

I don't feel like writing weekly shows for the early years of my company so I'll give a brief run down of how my company started.

First I'll start with the tag titles. Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibase Jr. win the tag team tournament and are the first ever TCW tag team champions. For two years their main fued is with a young Mark Henry and D-Low Brown. The two teams swap the belts back and forth, but at the end of the two years D-Low and Henry hold the titles. The Briscoe Brothers just debuted and are currently the number 1 contenders for the tag team championships. Cody and Ted are still a team, but it looks like Cody is the break out star and could be getting a singles push any day now.

The first ever United States champion is Rocky Maivia. Rocky is pushed hard as a guy the fans should love, but as a result he is hated by the crowd. They even goes as far to chant "Die Rocky Die." Rocky fueds with Chris Benoit and JBL for the majority of the two years, and is able to retain the US Championship without losing it once. Finally Rocky can no longer take the fans booing and turns heel. He is from here on out known as The Rock.

Sting is crowned the first TCW Heavyweight Champion. He wins the Deadly Game tournament, including beating Raven in the finals in a best of 7 series. After losing to the Stinger, Raven isn't able to live with himself and he disappears for a year. During that year Andy Kauffman arrives to TCW and begins challenging women wrestlers to matches. Kauffman cuts promos after every match bashing the crowd and "their hero Sting." Sting finally can no longer take Kauffman's antics and challenges him to a match. Kauffman and Sting fued for the remainder of the year. The fued puts TCW right in the mainstream of pop coulter and lands them a TV deal with MTV. In the final match Sting beats Kauffman with the scorpion deathlock. As Sting is celebrating with the fans Raven and three men come running through the crowd and attack Sting. The men beat Sting so badly that he is taken out of the arena in an ambulance. Raven cuts a promo introducing the crowd to the three men who are Sabu, Sandman, and Tommy Dreamer. Raven says the reason that he lost to Sting is that he was trying to wrestle a style that wasn't his own. He closes the promo by saying "TCW welcome to the world of Extreme." The next night Eric Bischoff informs the crowd that Sting is injured and will have to forfeit the title, and that another tournament will be held to crown a new champion. Raven wins the tournament and becomes the new TCW champion. Raven and his flock reek havoc on TCW all year. Rock realizing that he needs people to watch his back talks to D-Low Brown, Mark Henry, and Charles Wright. The Nation of Domination is formed. Raven is cutting a promo talking about how he has changed TCW when the camera pans to show a man with white face pain dressed in all black with a crow on his arm. This man is revealed to be Sting. Sting returns after a year away as Crow Sting. Sting faces Raven for the TCW championship at the biggest PPV of the year and beats him. As the PPV is ending, the arena goes black and a gong is heard. The titantron shows a graveyard with the words "One Month" written in front of it. The PPV ends and this is where I will start my write-ups.

During these two years Dennis Stamp was never booked.

Lawler vs. Kaufman was a great feud, but it didn't cause some kind of long lasting explosion of mainstream pop success for Memphis Wrestling. So to assume you would get significantly more results from Kaufman then they got, despite putting him up against somebody that isn't as good on the mic as Lawler was, seems quite far fetched.

Jim Ross: Welcome everyone to another edition of Texas Championship Wrestling. I'm Jim Ross joined by Jesse the Body Ventura, and Jess we are just one night removed from the biggest PPV of the year.

Jesse Ventura: Ross Sting may have won the championship last night, but he's about to find out it's a whole lot easier to chase the title than defend it.

Jim Ross: Well he's going to find out tonight who he's defending it against, when Chris Benoit, Raven, JBL, and the Rock face off in a fatal four way match to determine the number one contender.

Jesse Ventura: Yeah and my money is on the Rock, he has held on to that US title for two years plus he has the Nation in his corner.



Jim Ross: Well here they are now. The Rock the United States champion joined by Charles Wright, D-Low and Mark Henry who we found out last night will be defending their titles against the Briscoe Brothers at the end of the month.

The Rock: All you people need to know your role and shut your mouth. The Rock should not have to win a fatal four way match to be the number one contender. The Rock hasn't lost a match since arriving in TCW. This is another sign of the white leadership keeping us down.

Jim Ross: What is he talking about? Jess I know you believe in conspiracies.

Jesse Ventura: He's right Ross.

The Rock: First the Rock is going to get in that ring and go for Benoit. The Rock is going to smack Benoit so hard the ugly will come off of him. It might take all night but the Rock doesn't mind because after he's done with Benoit he's going to turn his attention to JBL. The Rock is going to take that cowboy hat of JBL's, dust it off, shine it up real nice and stick it straight up his candy ass. Then the only one left will be Raven. The Rock knows that Raven doesn't travel alone, no the Rock knows that Raven will have his flock with him, so here's what the Rock's going to do. The Rock is going to let Sandman come at him because the Sandman is a drunken piece of trailer park trash. Then when the Sandman comes at him the Rock will hit him with the Rock bottom. Then next will be Sabu, the dumbest son of a bitch in TCW. The Rock knew Sabu back in elementary school, the Rock remembers the teacher asking Sabu "Little Sabu what is two plus two?" and the Rock remembers Sabu answering "Thomas Jefferson." So then Sabu will get hit with the Rock bottom, and after seeing what the Rock has done Tommy Dreamer won't even enter the ring. And all that will be left is Raven. Raven if you think what Sting did to you last night was bad wait until you're in the ring with the peoples champion. Tonight I'm becoming the number one contender If Ya Smeeeellllllllllllalalalalal What the Rock Is Cooking!

Jesse Ventura: How can anyone question the Rock? Ross we just heard from the new TCW champion.

Gangrel and Vampiro vs. The Headbangers

Jim Ross: Gangrel and Vampiro making their TCW debut, and boy are they strange.

Jesse Ventura: Yeah they're not the type of guys you want to take home to mom.

Gangrel and Vampiro make quick work of the Headbangers and pick up the victory. After the match Gangrel grabs the mic.

Gangrel: Three more weeks... he's coming in three more weeks...

Vampiro and Gangrel leave laughing.

Jim Ross: What do you think they're talking about Jess?

Jesse Ventura: I don't know for sure, but I would bet it has something to do with that message we saw last night.

DDP vs. Job Ber

DDP comes out through the crowd and seems to be getting a very good reaction. It's his first match on television. Ber goes for a close line put Paige ducks and hits him with the diamond cutter. The crowd pops as DDP picks up the victory.

Jim Ross: Impressive debut for DDP, now well take it back to Coach who is joined with the Briscoe Brothers.

Coach: You two won the tag-team battle royal match and are now the number one contenders for the tag-team championship. Do you really think you'll be able to beat D-Low and Mark Henry when they will have the rest of the Nation in their corner?

Mark Briscoe: Coach you thin I give a **** about tha Nation. A bunch a grown men crying everday. The say "We being held down" "We not gettin" the shots we deserved" Me and Jay almost didn't get into TCW. We had our tryout match, we wipped ass like we always does, but Bischoff called me up on ma phone and said we weren't "cosmetically pleasing enough for TCW" I'm sorry I thought this was wressling not a dam beauty contest. But did we complain? No we just kept kicking ass and drinking beer, and at the PPV this month that's exactly what we's gonna do.

The Rock vs. Raven vs. Chris Benoit vs. JBL: Fatal Four Way Elimination to Determine the Number One Contender

The match begins with all four men going at it. The Rock and JBL are locked up and Raven and Benoit are too. Raven hits Benoit with and arm drag and Benoit kicks out at one.

Jim Ross: Chris Benoit is tougher than a $2 steak, one day Raven will learn that you can't beat him with an arm drag.

Raven and Benoit tag their fight to the outside. JBL goes for the close-line from hell but the Rock ducks and hits him with the Rock bottom. He goes for the pin and JBL is eliminated. The Rock stands in the corner and catches his breath as Raven and Benoit make their way back to the ring. Benoit locks Raven in the cross-face but Ravens flock comes through the crowd and breaks it up. The Nation then makes it's way to the ring and it's full. The Nation and Raven's flock battle as both groups fall out of the ring, Benoit, Rock, and Raven are alone in the ring now. The Rock slides away from a charging Benoit. Raven the turns and tries to set Benoit up for the DDT but Benoit counters it into the cross-face. Raven can't make it to the ropes and he's forced to tap. The Rock and Benoit battle back and fourth in a very even match. Benoit goes for a suplex but the Rock counters it into a Rock Bottom. He then hits Benoit with the People's Elbow and picks up the victory.

Jim Ross: Bawh God the Rock has done it. He has won the fatal four way and will now face Sting for the TCW championship.

Jesse Ventura: Speaking of the Champ, look up there.

Sting is show holding his belt high up in the rafters.

I like it.

I sat down to work on just setting up the various pushes at which I'll start all of my wrestlers last night, and hatching plotline ideas. With 100 damn workers, it's going to take a while. Hopefully be on with a write-up sooner than later though.

PPW All Star Wrestling

John Laurinaitis explains that there will be a sixteen man tournament for the PPW Intercontinental Championship. the 8 first round matches will be on All Star Wrestling.

The rest of the tournament will be at Starrcade. He also explains Hulk Hogan wont be here tonight as he is still recovering from last night but he will be back in a few weeks.

Bam Bam Bigelow squashes Z Man Tom Zenk with the top rope headbutt.

The Stieners beat the Godwinns

Michael Cole interviews Harley Race who says he wont be defending the title on free tv. He says he is the greatest wrestler ever and if you want to see him wrestle you have to buy Starrcade.

Lex Luger uses the torture rack to beat Ron Garvin in the first IC tournament match.

Road Warriors destroy the Pitbulls.

After the match Paul Ellering explains their motivation for attacking Hulk Hogan. They said when someone goes to jail the first thing you do is attack the big dog to make yourself known and mark your territory so that is what they did.

Superstar Billy Graham beat Big John Studd in a grueling main event

Yeah that sounds like a great idea.

I have experience with this leave me alone. Nice troll though

Teejay is the guy in the front row with a DIE ROCKY DIE sign.

I would come up with something more insulting than that.

Omg you guys dont know anything about old school wrestling. How often did Hogan show up on tv in the 80's. Every few months

He showed up a lot. He just usually cut promos and what not. He wrestled sparingly, but he appeared a lot.

He defintely didnt appear more than once a month. There wasnt a big show back than. We were lucky to get a non squash match back then

Are you counting backstage interviews in this "once a month" thing? They were always spending some of the show on advancing his next match.

Granted, in my view you did that on this ep by having someone cut a promo on him.

I think that only happened for Wrestlemanias. Im clearly planning on using him more but I think he wasnt mentioned on like very episode of tv back in the day. Pre-Raw and Pre-Nitro I mean

I think you'll find him showing up at basically all of the Superstars tapings in this link. Yeah the matches he was wrestling were dark matches for the benefit of the paying crowd, but if he was at all of the tapings you have to think he was doing stuff that went on TV.

Thats not true. A few weeks ago Cena was on tv but wrestled a dark match. Idk where to look to find out the tv results from back than. I mean from what was shown on tv

IWA OVERDRIVE: EPISODE ONE: EMANATING FROM ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Tony Schiavone and Matt Striker welcome us to the inaugural episode of IWA Overdrive.
Schiavone: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the very first episode of Overdrive. The IWA is here, and we’re here to stay. Surely this will be the greatest night in the history of our sport. We’ve got an incredible show for you tonight. We’re mere moments from the announcement of IWA’s championship series, in which IWA President Jack Tunney will inform us of the championship committee’s decision on who will compete to be the first champions of this company. But for the moment, let’s head to the ring.”

HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN V. BARRY HOROWITZ
Hacksaw rips the crowd up into a frenzy of “USA! USA!” chants. They’re really into him from the get-go. He disposes of Horowitz with great ease, pinning him easily after hitting him with a charging clothesline out of the three-point stance.
Winner: Hacksaw Jim Duggan

IWA UPDATE: HOSTED BY MEAN GENE OKERLUND
Mean Gene welcomes us to update, and says that the moment is upon us to find out who will compete in the IWA Championship Series. He sends it to Jack Tunney, who from his office gives the announcement on behalf of the IWA Championship Committee. “Without further adieu, here is the Championship Series schedule:
Next Week: The IWA Women’s Tag Team Titles will be up for grabs in a matchup between the Glamour Girls and the Jumping Bomb Angels.
In Two Weeks: The Dynamite Kid takes on Jinsei Shinzaki for the IWA Cruiserweight Title.
In Three Weeks: The IWA Tag Belts will be on the line, as The Texas Outlaws, Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch, take on the exciting high-flyers, Paul London and Brian Kendrick.
In Four Weeks: We get a doubleheader. The IWA Women’s Title will be on the line when The Fabulous Moolah takes on Mae Young. And we will crown our first-ever Intercontinental Champion in what should be a great matchup between Jack Brisco and Sgt. Slaughter.
And In Six Weeks, at the Inaugural Pay-Per-View Spectacular Starrcade, the IWA World Title will be on the line in a match between ‘The Nature Boy’ Ric Flair and Bruno Sammartino. We look forward to bringing you, the fans, this amazing Championship Series in the weeks to come. Thank you.”
Gene: “What a series of matches that is! Wow. I, for one, can’t wait for this thing to kick off next week. For Update, I’m Gene Okerlund.”

”CANADA’S GREATEST ATHLETE” GENE KINISKI V. LUIS RIVERA
Kiniski stomps to the ring with an incensed look on his face. Striker says that he just saw Kiniski backstage before the show and he seemed to be in a pretty good mood. He isn’t sure what has him so furious. He takes the fight to Rivera before the bell, beats him against the corner until the referee threatens disqualification, and then hits Rivera with a vicious backbreaker before pinning him. Kiniski grabs a microphone and says, “Not one look from the championship committee? Not one?? I should be in the world title match! Kid, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Kiniski goes back to pounding away at his fallen opponent until Bob Backlund races out of the back to clear Canada’s Greatest Athlete out of the ring. Backlund picks up the microphone that Kiniski dropped and says, “Look, Kiniski: you’re not the only one who got snubbed by the championship committee. You’re just the only one using it as a license to throw the world’s biggest temper tantrum. I’m not happy with what we just found out either, but I’m going to suck it up and earn my shot at the title. I suggest you do likewise.” Kiniski is clearly angered by Backlund’s words and tries to get back in the ring, but a horde of officials hold him back.
Winner: Gene Kiniski

SIX-MAN TAG: DYNAMITE KID, BRIAN PILLMAN, AND DEAN MALENKO V. JINSEI SHINZAKI, LA PARKA, AND PSICOSIS
Schiavone comments on what a treat this match will be, as it should be a great preview of the action we’re going to see from the IWA cruiserweight division. And obviously two of the best are in this match, as we should get some preview of the upcoming cruiserweight title fight between Dynamite Kid and Jinsei Shinzaki. Striker mentions that Shinzaki has gone by the ring name “Hakushi” in the past, but has chosen from here on out to wrestle under his actual name. The match is fast-paced and highly entertaining. Shinzaki ends up getting the pin on Brian Pillman after hitting him with a crucifix powerbomb.
Winner: Jinsei Shinzaki, La Parka, and Psicosis

PRE-MATCH INTERVIEW: VELVET SKY AND LACEY VON ERICH
Velvet Sky and Lacey Von Erich give an interview with Mean Gene, in which they say that they’re going to cleanse the IWA, one ugly person at the time. “Since Beth Phoenix is one of the ugliest, it looks like we’re getting right down to business.” Lacey and Velvet react excitedly and head toward the ring.

VELVET SKY V. BETH PHOENIX
Velvet holds her own with Phoenix, but after a mid-match maneuver in which she wipes Beth’s face on the map, Beth loses her temper and attacks Velvet viciously and repeatedly, ending the match emphatically with a Glam Slam for the 1-2-3.

JAKE “THE SNAKE” ROBERTS V. LANNY POFFO
Tony Schiavone says, “Man, this guy Jake Roberts is just a sicko. It makes my skin crawl to watch him.” Jake makes quick work of Poffo, finishing the match with a DDT and a pin. After the match, he brings out his bag from the corner of the ring opens it to reveal an enormous snake inside. He wraps the snake around Lanny Poffo’s neck and around his lower body as well. Poffo, mostly out from the DDT, struggles to get up and actually coughs up some vomit in the process. Schiavone: “Oh my goodness. Like I said, fans…absolutely repulsive.”
Winner: Jake “The Snake” Roberts

MEAN GENE INTERVIEWS RIC FLAIR
Flair: “Mean Gene! Woooo! I have to admit, I didn’t know what that championship committee was going to do, but they decided very, very well. Not only did they put the Nature Boy in the title match in the main event of Starrcade, but they put him in there with a big dumb oaf like Bruno Sammartino. Let me tell you something, big man: it takes a bit more than brute strength and the support of thousands of moron in attendance to pin MY shoulders to the mat. You’re in for a challenge that you can’t handle. But look on the bright side, kid…you got the golden ticket today. You get to go down in history as one half of the main event at Starrcade. And you get the best seat in the house to witness history, as you lay in the middle of the ring and watch me put that gold around my waist. Not a bad night’s work. Now Gene, if you’ll excuse me, I have a victory party to arrange.” <Flair exits stage left> Gene: “Nature Boy Ric Flair. Never at a loss for words, never at a shortage of confidence. Back to you, Tony.”

JACK BRISCO V. “PRETTY BOY” PAT PATTERSON
Brisco high-fives fans on the way to the ring. Striker comments that Brisco is obviously in better spirits after the championship committee’s decision than Gene Kiniski was earlier. While Patterson gets a fair bit of offense in, it’s clear that Brisco is the better man on this night, and he scores the pin after executing a surprising belly-to-back suplex as Patterson ran at him off the ropes. Schiavone: “I think the championship committee’s confidence in Brisco was well-placed. He very well might become our first Intercontinental Champion.”
Winner: Jack Brisco

Back to the announce table, Schiavone and Striker advertise next week’s show, which will emanate from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and will feature the first match of the IWA Championship Series, the women’s tag title match between The Glamour Girls and The Jumping Bomb Angels. We will also see The Living Legend, Bruno Sammartino, in action against Truth Martini. And the IWA debut of Piper’s Pit. All of that and more, on the next episode of Overdrive. See you then.

Early days of my company and transition to the 'present' (aka were I start doing write ups):

Legends like Eddie Graham, Billy Robinson, and Fritz Von Erich dominate and bring great success to the company. The heights reached by the company are even greater when a great looking, great wrestling, quick talking blonde heel, namely Buddy Rogers, comes along. Rogers has apparently ended the career of long time, super popular wrestler Gorilla Monsoon with a figure four that he refuses to release after Gorilla had already passed out from instead of submitting. Rogers taunts the fans by saying "Maybe if his leg improves a bit, he can go back to driving garbage trucks where he belongs!" Gorilla actually eventually joins a youngster by the name of Bobby Heenan (and sometimes Lance Russell) in the broadcast booth.

Rogers outwrestles, or outswindles, the other top babyfaces with the help of Fritz Von Erich. Fritz wins a battle royal that grants him a title shot vs Buddy. After a victory that Fritz helps Buddy attain, Buddy out of nowhere nails Fritz from behind in the leg, then puts him in the figure four until television time runs out, and Fritz is put out of action for several months. Rogers cuts a promo saying that anybody who doesn't fall in line will simply fall, and that a friend is always easier to screw then an enemy.

Suddenly, Fritz Von Erich returns and turns face by saving a hapless opponent from the figure four by nailing Rogers with a cane (earning an upstart young kid a victory over Rogers in a non-title match), and then feuds with Rogers. Rogers insults Fritz for being slow instead of quick and clever, for being a southerner, and for looking plain instead of attractive, and claims that he will relegate Von Erich to the dustbin of history.

In the long awaited match, Rogers has the advantage until he takes a risk and misses. Von Erich locks in the claw, and Rogers is almost out and goes to the eyes in desperation. He locks in the figure four after a suplex, and the camera cuts to a big teenager he somewhat resembles Fritz in the front row ("A concerned look on the face of that youngster in the front row" Gorilla). However Von Erich struggles out and nails Rogers with a right. Rogers appears to be out, and Von Erich starts to struggle to his feet...

But Rogers was playing possum, and clips Fritz's legs out from under him. He goes to the figure four, and with Fritz screaming in pain, the ref, not wanting to be responsible for another career ending injury, calls the match. However, Buddy will not release the hold. The ref tries to remove him, but Rogers tosses the ref aside without even breaking it. The kid from the audience goes to the ring, and is clearly much taller then either wrestler-he swiftly places his massive hand on Buddy's forehead, utilizing Fritz's own claw to save him, holding Rogers down as he yells "Nobody messes with my family!"