Major New Signing

Week 4, December, 1989:

Big news this week was the signing of Jerry "The King" Lawler to a two year written contract that will make him a major player in the NWA. He was assigned a position on the WCW brand as a upper midcarder and should soon become a main event draw. Two of his best friends are already on the WCW roster and they are "Hotstuff" Eddie Gilbert and Terry Funk. Gilbert was just turned babyface during the last WCW Saturday Night show and there may be plans to place Lawler and Gilbert up into a face tag team to go up against teams such as the Midnight Express and the Fabulous Freebirds. Jerry Lawler is a former AWA, USWA and WCCW Champion.

During this weeks shows, the NWA was pleased to see on the WCW show, that Eddie Gilbert and Terry Funk drew good heat from the crowd as they paired up in the WCW Saturday Night main event after Gilbert's turn to a babyface. Having Gilbert competing against Funk and the other top heels should bolster WCW ratings, and now with Jerry Lawler there too, things look really good. The brand could use one more good heel however, and Greg Moe may be thinking of sending Bam Bam Bigelow to the WCW off the NWA brand. The move should be smooth, as Bigelow hasn't really been in many matches so far because of his earlier knee injury.

On the NWA Worldwide show, Bret Hart agreed to drop his NWA United States title to Horseman Tully Blanchard. The match went nice and smooth and fans still love watching these two do their masterful, technical works. The plan still remains to have the SlamBoree main event be Bret Hart against Ric Flair once more for the NWA World Heavyweight title. Insiders say that Flair will be asked to drop the title to Hart to boost the heat between the two. Some say Flair may put up a fight about dropping the title though, so Greg Moe is a tad nervous heading into January's pay-per-view.

The begining of plans to give The Wild Somoans, managed by newly signed Captain Lou Albano, have started to peek it's head this week as they were given another "dark match" on Worldwide. Now that they have Albano managing them, plans are to give them a match on the main show and work them to a point of going up against the Varsity Club, made up of Steve Williams and Mike Rotundo who hold the NWA Television Tag Team titles. They won the titles against The Wild Somoans back in October and if a rematch is setup, look for Williams and Rotundo to drop the belts.

In other news this week, Greg Moe was unable to come to an agreement with Woman, who has been managing WCW Television Champion Kevin Sullivan. She was asking for more than what Greg was wanting to pay her, and neither side would give an inch. So look for Woman to be leaving sometime in early January. Odds are she will latch on with the WWF who are always looking to sign NWA talent, as the NWA is always looking to steal away WWF talent.