On the last Saturday TV show of 1989, figurehead promoter Eddie Marlin announced the CWA was merging with the USWA. In reality, both the CWA and the USWA were owned by longtime area promoter Jerry Jarrett. The announcement was an ending of an era for the Tennessee end as the merger was seen as a means to incorporate the talent pools and storylines of both promotions into one.

Aftermath

The Tennessee promotion, based out of Hendersonville, north of Nashville, dropped their CWA designation and adopted the USWA designation which was better known to most fans as the promotion that regularly ran shows out of Dallas, Texas. It seemed as if the two separate territories might operate in a more synchronized manner but that was not to be totally. Although much greater detail is given to the USWA from 1990 forward, these next two articles will attempt to summarize many of the major events in the territory during the same time as it related to the names mentioned in this series of articles. What happened to many of the longtime names and institutions synonymous with the promotion that have been mentioned in this series of articles? What follows is an attempt to give an idea of life after 1989 for those mentioned here since the inception of these articles.

USWA

The 1989 merger of sorts worked for part of the year ahead. Jerry Jarrett retained the majority of the Texas promotion while the remaining minority part of the territory stayed with Kerry and Kevin Von Erich. While the 1988 SuperBrawl III pay-per-view headed by Jarrett and the AWA’s Verne Gagne was a flop financially there were rumblings that Jarrett with his expanded promotion might make moves toward promoting another pay-per-view. Those rumblings though were only rumblings.