Former Major League Wresting owner and promoter Court Bauer is now working as a member of the creative team for World Wrestling Entertainment. Bauer, who is said to have lost close to 100 pounds, has been with the company for about the last week or two.

Bauer ran and booked MLW from June 2002 until February 2004, with TV running regularly on The Sunshine Network and a crew featuring Terry Funk, Sabu, Steve Corino, CW Anderson, Steve Williams, Satoshi Kojima, Masato Tanaka, Teddy Hart and others. The promotion shut down operations after losing its financial backers. Bauer was later involved with the H2Wrestling startup last year that ended up shutting down operations before its debut show took place in the Boston, MA area. After that project failed, Bauer had been working for a film production company out of Los Angeles and working on screenplays.


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Hey, at least he has wrestling experience. Hopefully he can put over some of the talent from MLW enought o get them a job. One thing MLW was not short on was talent.

MLW was quite enjoyable. Sure, they just felt like an ECW rip off, but they produced some pretty good cards. I like how they had a mix of everything, or how Joey Styles said, a Wrestling Hybrid.

I highly doubt that he would even have a position high enough to have say on talent being brought in though.

I know, that's Ace's job. I'm just hoping through enough recomendations, he can get WWE to at least look at some of those guys.

I would like to think that, but it seems as if Vince won't listen to many people these days.

I don't know much about him, but at least he has wrestling experience

MLW wasn't bad. It was mentioned somewhere else, but he could be a good fit, given his apparant experience in the entertainment industry

Not to mention that Court is a total mark for the business, especially for workrate.

Can't say I ever have seen any MLW stuff. Who are some of the alumni?

Terry Funk, Jerry Lynn, Paul London, Christopher Daniels, SAT, Amazing Red, Jerry Lawler, Steve Williams, Teddy Hart, Kojima, Steve Corino, CW Anderson, etc.

Steve Corino was their #1 heel, and he was part of the Extreme Horsemen, which also consisted of Simon Diamond and C.W. Anderson.

Anderson and Diamond were I think the only Tag Champs, by deafeating Dr. Death Steve Williams and some other guy who's name escapes me right now.

Satoshi Kojima was their World Champion for a good portion of their run.

Jerry Lynn, CM Punk, Christopher Daniels, Paul London, Jimmy Yang, Amazing Red, Sonjay Dutt, American Dragon, Samoa Joe, The Stampede Bulldogs, and a host of other Indy favorites had made appearences.

Past their prime stars like Sabu, Raven, The Sandman, Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes, Abdullah The Butcher, Jerry Lawler, Barry Windham, La Parka, and Vampiro made appearences as well.

Also, MLW held a WarGames match, although the cages didn't have roofs. Oh well, can't complain considering TNAs horrible attempt at the match.

Not bad - not bad.

Not good either.

What else has he done? Is he the reason why MLW went down?

The only problem I had with MLW was that every match was fit for their TV schedule. So they had these great matchups that never broke 10 minutes.

I have a few MLW matches on my computer and they are pretty enjoyable. I feel this new writer can only be a positive thing.

Besides, at least they didn't hire Vince Russo or Dusty Rhodes.

He was pretty much a money mark as he would bring in guys and pay WAAAAAY too much for the money that he was bringing in.

But you have less to worry about being in the WWE. People are under contract,so you don't have to worry about paying indy guys a ton of money for showing-up once.