Wrestling Federation in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1989, he made a handful of appearances with the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) (the successor to the Continental Wrestling Association), both wrestling against and teaming with Lawler. Throughout 1990, Idol appeared with the USWA and with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Tri-State Wrestling Alliance. In October 1990, he competed in a one-night tournament for the vacant USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship, losing to Lawler in the final bout of the tournament. In 1991, Idol made a handful of appearances with the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance and the Dallas, Texas-based Global Wrestling Federation. Idol wrestled very few matches over the following years. In 1993, he briefly ran his own promotion in Alabama. Idol formally retired in 1998 after appearing on the debut television episode of the Memphis, Tennessee-based Power Pro Wrestling promotion. Retirement; various endeavours (1998–present) After retiring, Idol went on to work as a real estate investor. In August 2011, Idol broke his retirement for one night to wrestle a five-way match on the Juggalo Championship Wrestling pay-per-view "Legends & Icons" in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, defeating Brickhouse Brown, Doug Gilbert, Dutch Mantel, and Koko B. Ware. In November 2012, Idol launched the Austin Idol Rock & Roll Wrestling Show on American Hearts Radio. In 2017, after appearing on Jim Cornette's podcast, The Jim Cornette Experience, Idol began hosting his own podcast, Austin Idol Live. Idol discontinued the podcast after 31 weekly broadcasts. In 2017 and 2018, Idol appeared alongside Nick Aldis as his manager. On January 8, 2020, Idol made a guest appearance on All Elite Wrestling's AEW Dark webcast as part of a commemoration of Memphis wrestling. In 2020, Idol established the Universal Wrestling College professional wrestling school in Greenville, South Carolina. In 2021, Idol's likeness was featured as a playable character in the RetroMania Wrestling video game on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. In 2021, Idol founded the stable "Idolmania Sports Management" - consisting of Jordan Clearwater, Marshe Rocket, BLK Jeez, and Tyrus - in the National Wrestling Alliance. The stable later expanded with the masked Cyon, who was portrayed as being Idol's son. Tyrus won the NWA World Television Championship on the August 6, 2021 episode of NWA Powerrr. In November 2022 at NWA Hard Times 3, Tyrus relinquished the NWA World Television Championship to challenge for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship, defeating champion Trevor Murdoch in a triple threat match. Stablemate