As near as I can figure it, it was the summer of 1979. When we originally began this circuit I have no idea what it was called, but we dated it back to January 1979. I have bumped it up to 1980 to fit in better with my later paper and pen circuits. These cards were run in my friend Chris' backyard - yes there has always been "backyard wrestling". The whole thing as I remember was spawned out of Chris ordering this really cool "Intelligent, Sensational, Destroyer" mask from a wrestling mag. Couple this with the very cool Super Destroyer Mark II, and we had our own masked hero "The Destroyer". Chris played the role of Chris Lyon. This is not a rip-off of Chris Jericho, but rather a name we came up with in '79 because Chris thought his last name sounded kind of "faerie" like. The Lyon last name was from a different side of my family. It seemed to fit him well. Since Chris was under the mask as the Destroyer, he also made Chris Lyon a good guy (because it simplified our matchmaking of good v bad). Mike Valiant was born because my mother drove a Valiant.  Besides Chris and myself we were joined by two more friends John (J.P. Moran) and Eric (Eric Lee). Eric was the only one to use his last name - with a martial arts gimmick of course!

We used some of our favorite AWA second-stringers as we called them back then to fill out the cards.

Dean Jarrett was based on a friend of our's Dean, but Jarrett was taken I assume from the race car driver, or Jerry Jarrett. Dean's real last name started with a J, and he was legitimate related (nephew?) to Moose Morowski, the pro wrestler.

One day Dean had me over to his house and showed me his autographed photos of the Black Avenger. We got him as part of the British Columbia booking office which was carried on one of our TV stations. He told me then that the man under the mask was his uncle Moose Morowski. Sure enough a few months later Black Avenger would be unmasked to be Moose. It was from that situation that the Dean Jarrett - Moose Morowski alliance was hatched.