Kris & David are joined by John McAdam (@CCMilani) to discuss the week that was September 29th-October 5th, 1984. We talk about some major happenings going down in Japan, as Riki Choshu's entire Ishingundan/Restoration Army group leaves New Japan to hook up up with former NJPW local promoter Naoki Otsuka and this All Japan by proxy. We have LOTS of major details about what happened and how the landscape was shaken up by this going on. John then joins us for the television debut of Pro Wrestling USA and how that changed wrestling in many ways, the sad state of Georgia wrestling after Black Saturday, why Jim Cornette's best work was in Mid-South, Chris Adams turning heel in World Class and how that all went down, and George Scott shaking up the WWF for the right reasons as he gets more control as Vince McMahon’s official booker of record. All that and so much more on a 80’s-riffic episode of Between the Sheets!!!!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, UWF, AJW, CWA, Joint Promotions, Montreal, EMLL, UWA, & WWC

0:56:48 Classic Commercial Break

1:01:54 Halftime

1:05:57 USA East: PWUSA, JCP, Georgia, CWF, SECW, & Memphis

2:03:10 USA West: Mid-South, Southwest, St. Louis, AWA, Portland, & Hawaii

2:30:14 WCCW

3:01:04 WWF

3:53:38 Patreon Preview: Vince McMahon’s initial public response to the nWo/Outsiders angle

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