USWA: The promotion was now considered history, apart from being a name in a lawsuit. WMC-TV5 in Memphis had dropped wrestling from its programming. The USWA syndicated tv spots in other areas had been taken over by Bert Prentice’s new promotion, Music City Wrestling. For legal and other reasons, neither Jerry Lawler nor Brian Christopher were working for the new promotion at this time. It had since come out that the co-defendant in the Selkers’ lawsuit, Larry Burton, didn’t actually exist; that ‘Larry Burton’ wasn’t his real name (his real name was unknown at this time). At this point it was thought that the lawsuits would quietly be dropped, as all the winner of the case would acquire would be a large debt, no promotion, no tv, and possible I.R.S. problems as the old USWA promotion never paid payroll taxes on the inflated wages to the likes of ‘Burton’.
Credit: www.wrestlingobserver.com
