[3] Still, "Cowboy" Bill Watts ended up running the same business that had swallowed his own: Three years after Turner's 1989 acquisition of the Crockett property, Watts was hired as WCW's Executive Vice President. The feud did have a short interruption when Taylor was injured in an automobile accident, but picked up again by the summer and carried over to World Class by 1988. Despite the UWF's strong early ratings and critical praise, it could not compete nationally with Jim Crockett Promotions' and the WWF's much larger and more formidable broadcasting, live event, pay-per-view (and in the WWF's case, vast merchandising) operations. It was taped at various locations including Reseda Country Club, New York Penta, Universal Studios Florida, and War Memorial Auditorium. [4] Unlike the other NWA-affiliated promotions Crockett, Jr. had bought out during the mid-1980s, the UWF did not immediately end; Crockett kept its brand—and its 3 championships—alive in TV storylines until December 1987, when Crockett's NWA-affiliated characters defeated all of the UWF characters in a series of "title vs. title" unification matches, among others. Following Beach Brawl, Abrams ran one final television taping at War Memorial Auditorium before running out of fresh footage for Fury Hour. A face-vs-face bout between Adams and Taylor marked Taylor's heel turn as he piledrived Adams on the floor. Big Time Wrestling (Detroit) CCW--Carolina Championship Wrestling. Ballpark Brawl.

With the Junkyard Dog, Ted DiBiase, the Fabulous Freebirds, Paul Orndorff, Killer Karl Kox, Ernie Ladd, and Watts himself leading the initial charge, Mid South was a standout promotion among the territory system. WWE acquired most of the Mid-South/UWF archive for its WWE Libraries collection in 2012. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. Young's claims prompted Jim Ross to begin referring to him as a "five-time rookie of the year.". They were all compilations of Fury Hour matches.

In 1984, Watts came out of retirement to team with a masked Junkyard Dog (under the name Stagger Lee) to face The Midnight Express to cap an angle in which the Express and manager Jim Cornette beat Watts on TV. Ross was known for getting over-excited during the match, and in 1986, Ross received the unofficial I can scream the loudest during a match award from Pro Wrestling Illustrated (he shared the honor with the NWA's David Crockett).

A former territory[1] wrestler who was blinded in a 1950 auto accident, Leroy McGuirk eventually took over promoting a wrestling circuit that covered Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. In 1982, the promotion grew to include Oklahoma when McGuirk shut down his Oklahoma-based promotion. According to his biography, Controversy Creates Ca$h, Eric Bischoff (who worked under Watts at the time) felt Watts would intimidate anyone he was talking to and was only interested in taking the WCW product back to 1970s standards, with poorly lit arenas and house shows in remote rural towns. In a semi-finals match, Adams and Iceman wrestled against "Dr Death" Steve Williams and Ted DiBiase until Skandor Akbar's Devastation Inc. charged the ring to attack Williams and DiBiase.

He actually had five years experience under his belt. One of his first acts as owner was to withdraw from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), though MSW would still remain loosely aligned with the organization and continue to have the NWA World Champion defend his title on MSW shows. Taylor and Adams promoted a famous angle in August which involved a press conference, where Taylor spoke about his situation with Adams and then left. He actually had five years experience under his belt.