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Aug 22nd, 2008, 10:02pm  
I was reading a bit about the territory on onlineworldofwresting.com, and it said that Boesch promoted until '87.  Did he promote Houston until then, or is that counting the shows he promoted for the WWF?  When exactly did "Houston Wrestling" end, and who was still with the company when it folded?
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Reply #1 - Sep 1st, 2008, 2:00am  
I'm far from an expert on Houston, but the promotion mainly used talent supplied by other offices. Over the years Boesch was aligned with Dallas (pre-World Class), Southwest Championship, Mid-South/UWF, and then finally the WWF.  So I believe "Houston Wrestling" officially ended in '87 when Boesch retired, although I think he did return briefly in '88 to help out Jim Crockett (he appeared on TV as one of the NWA board members in the angle where Dusty Rhodes was suspended for attacking Tully Blanchard and Crockett with the baseball bat).
 
Nick Bockwinkel actually owned part of Houston and was supposed to takeover from Boesch when he retired, but got out when Boesch partnered up with Bill Watts. Then Boesch eventually started working with the WWF after he found out Watts had sold the UWF to Crockett.
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Reply #2 - Aug 3rd, 2009, 9:30am  
I saw Houston Wrestling in February 1986 when Paul Boesch talked about Gino Hernandez's death but I do not know if the program continued to air the rest of 1986 or 1987 for that matter. I know he worked a lot with Watts in 1986 with Mid South Wrestling.
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Reply #3 - Sep 11th, 2009, 10:05am  
It was pretty much just a sub promotion of Watts by that stage though wasn't it?
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