Naturally, after eight months of getting nowhere, most people would give up and as Mark Calaway noted, he was about to walk away from his wrestling aspirations before the unthinkable happened on one of the Wednesdays at WCCW's offices.

"Who walks through the door? It was Fritz Von Erich. And he was the one that owned the company and did all that. Here's the thing: he walks in, and so he's standing at the door and he's staring at me." Calaway noted how Fritz Von Erich then walked into the office to inquire about who he was. "And I can hear him like he said 'No, this kid's been coming for months, he's just trying to get a – he's just trying to get a booking.' And Fritz? He just had a really deep gravelly voice and I heard him say 'Let's book him Friday night.' It's crazy."

Calaway then noted how similar he looked to Fritz's recently departed son, David Von Erich, and that the Von Erich patriarch shared the sentiment. "And he said 'Let's book him. He looks like David.' And I hear that, you know, and then he came by, and get up again, and he walks right by me. But I showed up and that was the start and so I showed up Friday night and so I was 'Texas Red.' That was the first name, the first time I got a paycheck."