USWA: Well, wouldn’t you know it. The big angle on Memphis TV this week on October 19th was the return of Randy Hales, doing a Jim Ross disgruntled employee worked-shoot gimmick. Hales had supposedly quit the promotion five weeks earlier as General Manager, but clearly that wasn’t the case. Only Jerry Lawler and Dave Brown knew about the angle before the live TV show took place. Anyway, Hales came out in a ragged t-shirt and jeans. In a worked shoot promo, he claimed it was his lifelong dream to be in wrestling, and under his management, USWA had been the only wrestling promotion in the United States to turn a profit during the previous three years, and that they had the highest rated wrestling show on U.S. TV (both statements were true). He bemoaned how Jerry Jarrett had all the trappings of wealth, yet he made him rich and didn’t have the same degree of wealth. He said that ‘…if your name isn’t Jarrett or (Eddie) Marlin, they don’t care if you eat or not…’ He said that due to being poorly paid, he’d been evicted from his apartment, had his car repossessed, and that since he’d left the company, the TV had been horrible and the wrestling product terrible. Jerry Lawler and security carted him out. Later in the show, Hales turned on both Wolfie D and Brian Christopher, and it was established he was going to be a heel managing Jerry Lawler.
Speaking of Lawler, he continued to knock WCW on Memphis TV. He said that Schiavone had lied when he said last week’s Nitro had been the biggest attendance ever at the Memphis Coliseum. Lawler interviewed fans who attended the Nitro show and bashed WCW, with one saying that he’d had his ‘pro-Lawler’ signs confiscated, and another saying that security initially didn’t let him in with a crown. One fan said WCW stands for ‘We Can’t Wrestle’, and declared how disappointed he was that none of the top names wrestled on the show. Lawler ended by saying anyone who had a ticket stub from the Nitro show could attend the October 21st Flea Market show for free……. Psycho Sid Vicious made a cameo on the TV show, and put over Johnny Rotten, claiming he was his ‘younger brother’, and that he’d take care of his USWA business whilst Vicious was busy in the WWF.
----I stole this from www.wrestlingobserver.com
