Texas All-Star Wrestling

The old territories had once been the foundation of wrestling industry, but But by the 90s, smaller organizations were increasingly opening in small pockets on the margins of a business dominated by national companies.

In 1994, Texas All-Star Wrestling and they rebuilt the Houston wrestling territory.

Paul Bosch's retirement in August 1987 had ended the traditional Houston wrestling office.

Bosch died in March of 1989, leaving behind a promotional legacy that stretched across several generations.

Houston remained a significant city, but the old arrangement where one promoter controlled the local wrestling market was gone.

Bob Murphy began rebuilding an independent presence in the area with Texas All-Star Wrestling.

The promotion held its first show on January 15, 1994, at the Humble Bingo Arena in Humble, Texas.

The venue was modest compared with the Sam Houston Coliseum, but the event did attract a reported crowd of around 450.

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So, so y- So you've, have you always trained at TASW, or have you, have you ventured out elsewhere other than that?

I've, I-

I know, I know you've...

No, bro.

No madness here.

But, uh, yeah, I've been training at TASW for about four years, but just recently I've just been trying to, you know, you can only train with the same people so much until it's like I'm not training now, I'm just memorizing.

Right.

Yeah, I think I w- I think I s- I started training in 2004, summer of '04.

And where were you, where were you trained with? Was it just TASW?

I, I, I'm one of two guys that are left that came from the back of that bingo hall that is still actively wrestling.

Hell yeah.