Charting The Territories

For the week ending December 30th, 1979: Jim Garvin takes on Oki Shikina in Texas Rules (aka Texas Death) matches, a future Nightmare debuts & more!

For the week ending December 23rd, 1979: Blair and Starr face off in a couple of stipulation matches, Akbar reduces his in-ring schedule to focus on managing & more!

For the week ending December 16th, 1979: The future Butch Reed debuts (as Bruce Reed) in the territory & more!

For the week ending December 9th, 1979: junior heavyweights Brian Blair and Ron Starr feuding, a Texas feud comes to Oklahoma City & more!

For the week ending December 2nd, 1979: the debut of a young rookie who would later become a "Doctor" & more!

For the week ending November 25th, 1979: top babyfaces Jim Garvin and Brian Blair fend off challenges from Akbar and his heel stable & more!

Our coverage of Tri-State in 1979 continues with a look at the week ending November 18th : Haystack feuds with Blair, Garvin feuds with Shikina, Ron Starr may or may not have turned heel, Sugar Bear heads to Texas & more!

Our coverage of Tri-State in 1979 continues with a look at the week ending November 11th : the tag team titles appear to have changed hands in Tulsa, Haystack is back (but as a heel) & more!

Our coverage of Tri-State in 1979 continues with a look at the week ending November 4th : Jim Garvin tries out three different partners, wrestlers who were going back and forth between here and Texas stop coming back, Ron Starr comes in as a regular & more!

Our coverage of Tri-State in 1979 continues with a look at the week ending October 28th : I do a little detective work to find out what happened to Shaft (see what I did there?), top babyfaces play musical chairs against Shikina & Sugar Bear, some interesting background info on Herb Calvert & more!

Our coverage of Tri-State in 1979 continues with a look at the week ending October 21st : a few more newcomers to the roster, looking at the towns they run through the remainder of the year, lots of babyfaces appear in main events & more!

Our coverage of Tri-State in 1979 continues with a look at the week ending October 14th: McGuirk goes back to a couple of his former towns in Missouri, several new faces come in as the roster slowly fills up & more!

Our coverage of Tri-State in 1979 continues with a look at the week ending October 7th: a couple of names from the past return here, the odd couple of Shikina & Sugar Bear continue to rule the roost & more!

Our coverage of Tri-State in 1979 continues with a look at the week ending September 30th: our first look at SPOT ratings, a who's who of the roster for the new(ish) territory, how Brian Blair may have paid for his honeymoon & more!

Our coverage of 1979 continues with a look at the week ending September 23rd: North American champ Mike George faces Mr. Wrestling II multiple times, Dick Murdoch makes a cameo appearance, JYD & Ayala move up the cards, two Watts wrestlers work for McGuirk (!!) & more!

Our coverage of 1979 continues with a look at the week ending September 16th: Watts battles King Kong, a feud from Houston is imported into the territory, McGuirk runs his first "solo" show & more!

Our coverage of 1979 continues with a look at the week ending September 9th: what is believed to be the first "Mid-South" show, three new faces work Tulsa (and only Tulsa), Watts makes the towns, Mike George juggles the title belts & more!

We begin our look at the year 1979 with the week ending September 2nd: the week before "the week that changed everything"