My first exposure to Southwest Championship Wrestling came in early 1983 when I happened to turn on the TV one Saturday morning to a new UHF station in the Baltimore, MD area called WNUV54 and saw my first SWCW TV show. I was certainly surprised to see a wrestling show based out of San Antonio, TX on TV in a WWF market, but I was a loyal viewer from the beginning. I was able to see on TV every Saturday morning, main event type match-ups that I would only see from the WWF if I paid to go to a house show. The SWCW angles came at you fast and furious, unlike the WWF where angles for the most part were not as prevalent as in the NWA and AWA promotions. Every week an angle played out on SWCW TV, such as "Cowboy" Scott Casey pouring a bucket of pig droppings over the head of "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers, Tully Blanchard bringing in bounty hunters to pile drive "Mr. Piledriver" Bob Sweetan and the numerous brawls between the Masked Grapplers and their tag team rivals Ricky Morton and Ken Lucas.

The main face wrestler in SWCW in 1983 was Bob Sweetan, who was involved in a feud with Tully Blanchard over the Southwest Heavyweight title. I, being a heel fan, hated Sweetan. I used to get a kick out of when Tully would call him "Mr. Tee-Shirt" Bob Sweetan, in reference to the t-shirt he always wore with "Mr. Piledriver" emblazoned across the front. Another time, when Sweetan had defeated Tully for the belt, Sweetan came on TV with Steve Stacks to show the videotape of him beating Tully or the belt to the fans at home. Unbeknownst to them, Tully had replaced the tape of the match with a tape of a giant cowboy boot with cowboy music playing. The missing footage stayed elusive for a few weeks until they were eventually able to get it and finally show the match on TV.