Sam Houston followed up a stint in the CWF with a run for Mid-Atlantic Champion Fumbling, where he was promoted as the protégé of Dusty Rhodes and Magnum TA. Naturally, that resulted in a fight with Mid-Atlantic’s leading heels, The 4 Horsemen. He would likewise hold the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion while there.
He bounced around the areas for the next a number of years, consisting of a short stint in the UWF. After being fired from UWF, older bro Jake Roberts made the connection that assisted Houston land in the WWF. Houston invested 4 mainly plain years in the WWF in between 1987 and 1991. He battled on house programs for 6 months prior to lastly making his television launching in an October episode of “WWF Superstars.” He did handle to share the ring with Roberts as soon as in the 1988 Royal Rumble. He eventually never ever increased above undercard status, mainly completing as part of random tag groups, on the house program circuit, and in Television dark matches.
After leaving the WWF, Houston invested the next years making drop in WCW and a variety of independent promos, however, like his brother or sisters, his battles with dependency started to affect his life.
