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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: WWA Indianapolis retro review from May 1984

Posted on by Karl Stern

This week’s DragonKing Karl show focuses on some low-rent wrestling as WWA Indianapolis is about the dirt worst “major” pro wrestling show from the territory era I think I have ever seen.

Dick The Bruiser literally gave zero sh*ts about his wrestling show. We have generic knockoffs of Abdullah The Butcher, Michael Hayes, and a dude so skinny he made Kendall Windham rethink his life.

I wanted to watch this to see pre-Lord Humongous Jeff Van Camp wrestle. He did and was about the best thing on this god-forsaken mess of a show.

Watch the show above and then come back for my recap.

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March 11, 2002 Observer Newsletter: WWA fiasco detailed, TNA starting soon, more

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

Ever since the folding of WCW and ECW about one year ago, one of the biggest stories in American wrestling has been the frustrating situation with all the pretenders to fill in the void.

They’ve ranged from the absolute jokes, MECW, to a promotion which had some early success, WWA, to the strange question mark, XWF. And there are likely many others on the horizon.

All were different. MECW seemed to be a con by a delusional wrestling wannabe, backed up by alleged unlimited resources of someone who never came through with money that was under investigation for securities fraud.

WWA was looked at as an international touring organization which would sell shows to local rock show promoters, through the main promoter, Andrew McManus’ connections for being Australia’s leading rock promoter for many years.

XWF has the old unlimited resources and big money, and spent millions producing a tape.

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March 4, 2002 Observer Newsletter: Pride goes head to head with WWA

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

It’s been a long time since there were major shows put head-to-head with a PPV in the United States. There was actually a short period of time, when PPV was in its infancy and the WCW vs. WWF war was still mired in that old school do anything to hurt the opposition, even if it hurts yourself, mentality when it was commonplace. Eventually, because the wrestling industry would have never stopped, the cable television industry forced a truce.

The first time was Thanksgiving of 1987. Jim Crockett Promotions planned its first-ever PPV event, Starrcade, its traditional big show of the year. Starrcade had been successful for years, dating back to its inception in 1983, as a closed-circuit event, mainly to the various arenas around the Carolinas. By 1985, when Crockett took over the promotion of Atlanta, after buying the contract for TBS from Vince McMahon and the subsequent folding of Ole Anderson’s Championship Wrestling from Georgia, Starrcade became so big it was held in two locations.

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