10 Years Ago on Memphis Wrestling

USWA: Now this is what you call a bizarre story. On last week’s tv show, Billy Travis was arrested by the cops during the show. It turned out that it was only partly a work. Travis’ real life ex-wife and daughter were flipping the dial on their tv on June 21st, and noticed Travis was back working in Memphis. Travis owed a significant amount of child support money to his ex-wife. They called the police, and the police showed up at the Memphis studios on Saturday morning, June 28th. Jerry Lawler apparently knew the officers, and requested for them to wait until the end of the show to arrest him, but they said they had a job to do. Lawler then talked the police into making it part of an angle, in that they could arrest him live on tv, with Travis fighting the cops off, in exchange for the cops not to add ‘resisting arrest’ charges, all of which actually took place live on tv. The storyline excuse for Travis’ arrest on tv was that Brian Christopher had called the cops on him after he’d vandalised Christopher’s truck. Making matters even worse, Travis’ daughter was watching the tv show on June 28th, and seeing her dad fighting with police and being arrested sent her hysterical, to the point she had to go to the hospital……….In other news, PG-13 had returned as heels…. Mabel had injured the Fake Razor Ramon….. There was lots of speculation linking WWF with using USWA as a developmental territory.