I imagine if they kept the mic on Fernandez for longer he would've started screaming about how Ric Flair stole Buddy Roger's gimmick and talked about his freaks as everyone looks on confused.
Fun fact: Chavo Sr talked about his moonsault and he said he never practiced it so when he did it here he screamed because he thought he overshot it but luckily he landed it and it worked.
The later days of the AWA were basically Al Davis in his later year, Clinging on to the glory years but failing to understand what made them great in their heyday
sad part is watching this AWA Card with a lot of bullshit finishes and paper world champions who can't draw, sadly reminds me of WWE, which is sad. Lawlor winning via Blood Loss is some bullshit finish i can see the WWE's "big dog" busting out to retain over somebody more over then him
It's easy to forget how big a guy Mick Foley is since his peak years were spent mostly with even bigger guys, but seeing him here, young and with a normal-shaped spine...
The title was vacant. It wasn't a title change, so I think the rules can be interpreted different there. Ah, who are we kidding. The only rule in wrestling is the one that supports the storyline.
I have a bit of a soft spot for Sgt. Slaughter because I first saw him in the GI Joe Cartoon. At the time did not know he was a wrestler and thought he was a former football player or body builder turned actor. I then saw a replay of him wrestling in WWF right before his heel turn and I became a wrestling fan because of him.
Same here. I remember when the first one was uploaded and I thought what a great idea it was. It’s my favourite wrestling segment, not just on TH-cam, but anywhere.
Also the two other promotions in this show, WCCW and CWA, merged to become the USWA. The USWA had a partnership with the WWF until their closure in 1997.
Not ending supercards with the biggest match was pretty common back in the day actually. Infact, the infamous Kerry Von Erich vs Ric Flair NWA Title match where Kerry was replacing his recently deceased brother David didn't close that show that was a near record attendance at that time. It's looked at as one of the most famous matches in pro wrestling history with Kerry defeating Flair to become champion in honor of David Von Erich & there was one more match after it that closed that show. A mixed tag team match in case you were curious lol
@@jb888888888 that's entirely possible. Nowadays that's unheard of so when somebody watches an old show like this they are shocked when the marquee match doesn't close the show
Iceman has always been one of my favorite old school wrestlers mainly because of his hair. I respect the hell out of wrestlers that have to walk though real life looking that ridiculous
One thing that I have enjoyed as a fan of wrestling and seeing old stuff like this pay-per-view is just seeing all the people who would eventually become stars in the future. I always love seeing something and it’s just a Who’s Who of who will end up being a household name and where they end up.
@@kevinramsey417 I thought he showered with his boots on to hide the fact that he lost his foot, and that only his family & a few close confidantes knew the truth
Even as a young fan it was easy to see how cheesy the production value of shows like this were compared to WWF shows of that era. Not that I was a huge fan of cartoon wrestling, but it’s pretty easy to spot how crappy this was produced.
Worst ending to a match in The History Of Wrestling Jerry Lawler vs Kerry Von Erich. Greg Gagne swears up and down that it wasn't their job to pay Jerry Lawler because ahead of the show it was agreed that each company would pay their guys. So according to him it was Jerry Jarrett who stiffed him. Jim Ross put it best why these kind of shows will never work."2 Promoters Can't Agree On What To Have For Lunch You're Gonna Get Them To Agree On A Match Finish?"
If it wasn't bad enough for Kerry to lose the WCCW to Tatsumi Fujinami on Korakuen Hall just 4 days before (ALSO BY EXCESSIVE BLOOD LOSS), he had to bleed a little more to job to Lawler. Maybe he had skin problems, should have used some Tom ZINK (really good for your skin).
Stoned Kerry cuts himself, Jerry wins a belt he later keeps and probably has next to his soda fountain, and Verne doesn’t pay the boys. It’s the dying days of the AWA and World Class!
The Lawler/Von Erich match finish copys the Flair/Luger match at _Great American Bash '88_ where Luger with a cut on his head has Flair in the Torcher Rack and the referee stops the match and awards the match to Flair...
Just looking at this show and Verne Gagne wanting to keep wrestling old school because it was more serious Gagne is kind of contradicting himself here with this show some of these matches were goofy
What a blast from the past-remember when the Apter Mags back then were building up the Von Erich/Lawler angle up to this card. Thanks for the time machine trip! Fantastic! EDIT: I mean the blast from the past was fantastic...this card though......oooof
Steve Cox was a promising young guy in the UWF, who got a push by Watts. He was teamed up with Hayes to have a mentor and mouthpiece, while Cox did the work in the ring. He was a decent wrestler; but, didn't do much after the UWF folded.
Haha brilliant Brian God this was piss poor. But as it pertains to Kerry, Bret in his book and other wwf wrestlers have all said they never knew Kerry had a fake foot so don't think Lawler's comment was intentional.
Some notable context for the "unification" match. Leading up to Superclash, Lawler and Von Erich had been feuding for months doing nothing but unification matches at house shows that found innovative ways to have Fuck finishes (AWA and WCCW both had different rules for the championship) no matter what gimmick they used!! This dozens of towns in the process,
ive always liked the concept of a tag match with multiple championships on the line like in the 6 person but you commit to it and put all the belts on the line otherwise why would the champs ever tag in and why would the challengers ever tag out. A match that teams the wwe champion with an ic title contender vs the ic champion and a wwe title contender with both titles to the winning team would be a fun change of pace for b ppv
Well, I think I can see the thinking behind this particular match. It was a mixed tag match after all. So women can only wrestle women, and men can only wrestle men. This case the champions are not tagging themselves in but rather they are forced to tag in.
Why was this show held in Chicago?! I get that the AWA was based in the Great Lakes region, but they’d have drawn WAY more attendees if it’d been held in Memphis, Louisville, KY (where the CWA had hosted cards for years prior), or Dallas-Fort Worth. It’s almost as if they *wanted* to fail!
Nobody talking about Cox having the same tights as the Samoan Swat Team? ETA: Steve Cox was in the UWF as I recall, he was (presented as) a rookie, former pro football player who was under, I think Jim Duggan's tutelage?
As a child of the 1980's who grew up right outside Minneapolis, the AWA was the first promotion I ever saw and for a few years, even knew existed. It's a shame what happened to them and I draw a lot of similar parallels to ROH. Just 4 years before this show the AWA was selling out arenas AND the building next door with closed circuit events. But the times changed and Verne was unable to recognize talent and capitalize and instead let them go to the competition who took and made a fortune with them. Just like ROH who had their own staff out draw them on a bet and then Joe Koff never asked himself, "why did my 3 talents just do what I've never been able to do?" Like Verne, he essentially let them go to the competition and now they are flourishing and ROH may never return. You can only shit on you customers for so long. At some point they are going to stop coming.
Bloom & Enos was a tag team in AWA known as The Wrecking Crew, became the company's tag team champions, and had a finisher similar to the Road Warriors' Doomsday Device called The Wrecking Ball.
Dude those big ass DeBeers back bumps are so cool! I think it was against Wahoo McDaniel at WrestleRock 86 I first saw him wrestle and that bump stood out to me. Cool to see he did it often.
Greg Gagne looked like a P.E. teacher turned wrestler. He had the physique of a local jobber, but I guess in the AWA he was a major star. I wonder why…
Kerry VonErich(and the rest of the family) were protected everywhere they went. I don't think I've ever seen a Kerry match where he loses cleanly; maybe in WWE, but everywhere else he either won or lost due to an angle.
Thanks Brian for this and happy New York. I know I'm not a subscriber, but I can always count on your Wednesday videos to help make my Wednesday a little bit happier. Thank you for all the work you do and the wrestling industry and on TH-cam for that matter. Good luck and Fortune to you for the year 2022. And as always, thank you for retro reviewing some of these great events that I've never got to see before but I'm now anxious to see for the first time. Quality TH-camrs can be hard to find these days. Glad I found you
By way of comparison, NWA hosted starrcade at the norfolk scope with an attandance of 10,000 and was headlined by ric flair successfully defending his NWA title over lex luger. WWE hosted survivor series at the richfield colisieum (at that time the home of the cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA) drew 13,500 at was headlined by the team of hulk hogan, randy savage, hercules, hillbilly jim, and koko b ware defeating the team of akeem (one man gang), big bossman, red rooster (terry taylor), haku and ted diabiase (hogan and savage were the sole survivors).
I appluad the companies involved for coming together and trying to put on a good product but the fact they booked a 10k+ seat arena and only had 1600 in attendance shows me they were out of touch with their market share. I think if AWA teamed up with JCP/WCW they could have given WWF some serious competition, but that would also require AWA not to have their top stars being an old man 20 years past his prime.
Kerry may have had the leaning tower of pizza but did he have his unlimited muffins too?? Great stuff as always Brian!! Thanks for getting me thru 2021!
oh wow. You were trained by Ed Wiskowki? very kewl. My favorite Col De beer match is the one where he's reading from a self defense manual about the proper application of a full nelson. it was so simple, yet so good.
@Harakengard wccw had the potential to go toe to toe with the wwf and jcp/wcw their production value really was innovative I really thought they were going to the next level when Kerry became NWA champion
@@KHayes666 Wow, so Goldberg beat both Beverly Brothers, the fabled tag team nobody wanted to work with in the WWE because they were too stiff? So, let's have Goldberg stiff the life out of them. Bad jokes aside, back at the Beverly Brothers and I figured they could have done something. Sadly, they did not..
@@KHayes666 I'd imagine Both of them are among the "173" a couple of times... Beyond that Enos' biggest claim to fame is being interrupted by Scott Hall when he returned to WCW to ignite the NWO storyline...
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"A time traveling Scott Steiner"..... shame Steiner never used that as an actual gimmick that would have been hilarious.
I imagine if they kept the mic on Fernandez for longer he would've started screaming about how Ric Flair stole Buddy Roger's gimmick and talked about his freaks as everyone looks on confused.
Steiner Math vs Steiner Time
Scott Steiner drives to ring in a Delorean
it would it explain the chain armor
Damn, imagine how that could be:
"You got a 33 1/3 percent chance of reaching 1.21 gigawatts!"
5 stars for the "here's how you do it Hannibal" note!
He’s going to do a response video to this comment 😂
Uhhh Brian Zane uhhh is using my uhhh name for clout.
@@grandpasghost2433 😂
@@KingJaymo2k11 I hope so. Seriously, Hannibal sucks.
Hannibal will eat your liver with some Fava beans and a nice chianti
Fun fact: Chavo Sr talked about his moonsault and he said he never practiced it so when he did it here he screamed because he thought he overshot it but luckily he landed it and it worked.
"That's how it's done, Hannibal"
Rekt
Fck that JOBBER 🤣
Something positive I can say about this PPV is man, Kerry Von Erich had a great discus punch
That he did we lost some great wrestlers in that family but thier wrestling legacy will live on
@@brownhag U speaking FAX, brotha.
Sadly, Kerry's match with Lawler is probably his best and biggest singles match of his career.
Kerry vs Jerry isn't pretty, but to me the whole match feels like a big time Boxing match and like a true championship match. One of my favorites.
@@kenterminateddq5311 bigger than his match with Flair at Texas Stadium?
@@mrpink99 Yeah because while the match where Kerry won the NWA title is good, I think this match had more drama.
Time traveling Scott Steiner had me rolling 😂
Scott Steiner must own a Delorean
@@claymathewselevator8121 why does he need a time machine he was around 😂
I need a “time traveling Scott Steiner” run in any wrestling promotion NOW 😂
And tag team with Misteroso from njpw, big poppy pump and big poppa pump.
The later days of the AWA were basically Al Davis in his later year, Clinging on to the glory years but failing to understand what made them great in their heyday
Nah, Verne just ran out of money. He couldn't afford to pay what Vince & Ted were offering.
@@KHayes666 Verne didn't change with the times
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 That was a big issue but it wasn't THE issue. If Minnesota didn't hit Verne with an eminent domain claim, he'd have kept going.
For they once s ores four touchdowns in a single game!
sad part is watching this AWA Card with a lot of bullshit finishes and paper world champions who can't draw, sadly reminds me of WWE, which is sad. Lawlor winning via Blood Loss is some bullshit finish i can see the WWE's "big dog" busting out to retain over somebody more over then him
This show is available on TH-cam in full along with the other AWA super clashes.
@@kerrygrisson7130 r u kidding?
Where? I am not able to get it. Can you send me the link?
funny thing is i never heard of awa but here i am watching the review lol
@@dashtoroya2838 th-cam.com/video/JFnnPkJVOdE/w-d-xo.html there u go
@nemo pouncey copyright that why it flag
Always a good way to start a show with Cactus Jack!
“Betta knownnnn as Mister Bang Bang”
It's easy to forget how big a guy Mick Foley is since his peak years were spent mostly with even bigger guys, but seeing him here, young and with a normal-shaped spine...
If I remember correctly, at the time in World Class you could lose titles by count out. Maybe the AWA adopted this during the PPV.
The title was vacant which is why it switched hands
The title was vacant. It wasn't a title change, so I think the rules can be interpreted different there. Ah, who are we kidding. The only rule in wrestling is the one that supports the storyline.
AWA was known for this too. Scott Hall and Curt Hennig lost the tag belts by countout a couple of years earlier
I thought putting your opponent over the top rope was an automatic DQ, they should have both been disqualified. Nobody gets the title.
They could have milked it. Count out so there is still no champ. Rematch.
I have a bit of a soft spot for Sgt. Slaughter because I first saw him in the GI Joe Cartoon. At the time did not know he was a wrestler and thought he was a former football player or body builder turned actor. I then saw a replay of him wrestling in WWF right before his heel turn and I became a wrestling fan because of him.
The sarge is and always will be my fav ever wwf champ
He thought he was an actual veteran so you were still closer to the truth than him
I dig these classic reviews... And the way you space these videos out is perfect. When they do premier I get excited... Much appreciated Content
Same here. I remember when the first one was uploaded and I thought what a great idea it was. It’s my favourite wrestling segment, not just on TH-cam, but anywhere.
I remember seeing this in the late 90's, and Kerry was totally video game spamming his Claw and his discus punch. LOL
The last moment of glory for the AWA.
2 years later, the AWA was dead.
They were already dead at this point.
@@TheForeverRanger Lawler's reign delayed the inevitable for a while.
Also the two other promotions in this show, WCCW and CWA, merged to become the USWA.
The USWA had a partnership with the WWF until their closure in 1997.
Not ending supercards with the biggest match was pretty common back in the day actually. Infact, the infamous Kerry Von Erich vs Ric Flair NWA Title match where Kerry was replacing his recently deceased brother David didn't close that show that was a near record attendance at that time. It's looked at as one of the most famous matches in pro wrestling history with Kerry defeating Flair to become champion in honor of David Von Erich & there was one more match after it that closed that show. A mixed tag team match in case you were curious lol
Maybe that was to give the big names a chance to leave the building in relative peace as the crowd stays to watch the final match.
@@jb888888888 that's entirely possible. Nowadays that's unheard of so when somebody watches an old show like this they are shocked when the marquee match doesn't close the show
15:23 Damn…you still giving Hannibal “No Simpy”…maligantly still! 😂
"I give this negative three stars" the complete dead pan of that made me laugh
Lisa Moretti, Ivory always looked great. Great video Brian, all the best in the upcoming new year.
Ivory was, and is still an absolute stunner.
Iceman has always been one of my favorite old school wrestlers mainly because of his hair. I respect the hell out of wrestlers that have to walk though real life looking that ridiculous
His promos after he turned heel where the shit. He coined the term “Rooty-poo” years before the Rock
Yeah I love that he's basically rocking Road Warrior Animal AND Hulk Hogan's hair at the same time
Love u Brian ty for all the content through the years. I'm 23 so I never got to really see stuff like WCW until I came across you years ago
Your young never got to withness the attitude era you really miss out kid
Mid-96 thru 98 WCW is prime.
One thing that I have enjoyed as a fan of wrestling and seeing old stuff like this pay-per-view is just seeing all the people who would eventually become stars in the future. I always love seeing something and it’s just a Who’s Who of who will end up being a household name and where they end up.
Wait a minute..... Is the prosthetic leg why Kerry's right leg is so heavily wrapped???? He hid the prosthetic leg surprisingly well
Just his foot. He had to hide it because the boys backstage would keep stealing it to rib him.
Wow, what douches.
@@kevinramsey417 that’s super shitty
@@kevinramsey417 I thought he showered with his boots on to hide the fact that he lost his foot, and that only his family & a few close confidantes knew the truth
He was extremely sensitive about it.
Looks even cheaper in production than the Wrestlerock Rumble. Also lacks a banger of a song to top it off
Verne loved to keep it old school
Even as a young fan it was easy to see how cheesy the production value of shows like this were compared to WWF shows of that era. Not that I was a huge fan of cartoon wrestling, but it’s pretty easy to spot how crappy this was produced.
Really love the passion and insight you get from Brian with these older shows.
Worst ending to a match in The History Of Wrestling Jerry Lawler vs Kerry Von Erich. Greg Gagne swears up and down that it wasn't their job to pay Jerry Lawler because ahead of the show it was agreed that each company would pay their guys. So according to him it was Jerry Jarrett who stiffed him. Jim Ross put it best why these kind of shows will never work."2 Promoters Can't Agree On What To Have For Lunch You're Gonna Get Them To Agree On A Match Finish?"
The way Hall took the stunner was a lot like DaBeers' helmet bump
I love binge listening to this channel when I'm working... Zane is hilarious yet very informative
If it wasn't bad enough for Kerry to lose the WCCW to Tatsumi Fujinami on Korakuen Hall just 4 days before (ALSO BY EXCESSIVE BLOOD LOSS), he had to bleed a little more to job to Lawler.
Maybe he had skin problems, should have used some Tom ZINK (really good for your skin).
Love your music videos, man!
@@MrGared22 Thanks homie. I appreciate a whole :D
Stoned Kerry cuts himself, Jerry wins a belt he later keeps and probably has next to his soda fountain, and Verne doesn’t pay the boys. It’s the dying days of the AWA and World Class!
Is 'soda fountain' for under-age girl?
@@scotthardie5141 yes :)
Why isn't Jerry Lawler in jail
@@thebandit0256 He harassed the witness, who was also a child
Kerry cut himself with his broken crack stem. 😂😂
I remember watching this on ESPN Classic when I was a teenager. I actually liked the show!
I enjoyed the Brickhouse Brown Iceman king parsons match (ending aside)
I love these retro reviews. I learn so much.
4:10 A wild slapnuts appears.
Double J Jeff Jarrett
"time traveling Scott Steiner" made my day
Great Scott
The Lawler/Von Erich match finish copys the Flair/Luger match at _Great American Bash '88_ where Luger with a cut on his head has Flair in the Torcher Rack and the referee stops the match and awards the match to Flair...
Didn’t they first do that with Dusty vs Flair??
15:22 That little pot-shot at Hannibal... I'd say well deserved considering how he went totally off the hinges with the referee.
That has really got to Zane and rightly so.
Iceman King Parsons, a very underrated wrestling name.
Fun fact, Lee Marshall was the voice of “Tony the Tiger”.
After Thurl Ravenscroft, the original.
@@jeffnettleton3858 who, few people know, sings the Grinch song in the original cartoon version!
Thank you Zane, thanks to your tweet I didn’t watched this bad ppv
“We’re goin live-no, no-we’re goin National!”
old heads swear up and down wrestling used to be taken seriously and not goofy but ive still yet to see an example of that.
Just looking at this show and Verne Gagne wanting to keep wrestling old school because it was more serious Gagne is kind of contradicting himself here with this show some of these matches were goofy
I popped for the Hannibal jab. Well done.
What a blast from the past-remember when the Apter Mags back then were building up the Von Erich/Lawler angle up to this card. Thanks for the time machine trip! Fantastic!
EDIT: I mean the blast from the past was fantastic...this card though......oooof
Oh my god Manny Fernandez does sound like Big Papa Pump I can't unhear it now
Steve Cox was a promising young guy in the UWF, who got a push by Watts. He was teamed up with Hayes to have a mentor and mouthpiece, while Cox did the work in the ring. He was a decent wrestler; but, didn't do much after the UWF folded.
Finaly a AWA Show ! Thank you ! I love AWA
That sounded exactly like late 90's Scott Steiner lol holy crap, this is an amazing video as usual. I love the classic reviews.
"This is how it's done Hannibal!" LOL
Haha brilliant Brian God this was piss poor. But as it pertains to Kerry, Bret in his book and other wwf wrestlers have all said they never knew Kerry had a fake foot so don't think Lawler's comment was intentional.
You see the names on here and think "This could be pretty decent! Maybe a hidden gem!"
Then you see it was booked by the Gagnes and you go "Oh no..."
That last name tells you all you need to know about the quality of the show
Some notable context for the "unification" match. Leading up to Superclash, Lawler and Von Erich had been feuding for months doing nothing but unification matches at house shows that found innovative ways to have Fuck finishes (AWA and WCCW both had different rules for the championship) no matter what gimmick they used!! This dozens of towns in the process,
Brian, this could be your best review ever
As Jeff Jarrett and Conrad Thompson have spoken about this from the "inside", I have been waiting for this. Come on WWW, bring the goods
4:14 A Wild Slapnuts appears
And if you don't like that I'll smack you one ...
I was waiting for Fernandez to say "The numbers don't lie"
Diamond, DeBeers. Classic
Seeing Fatu aka Rikishi at such a young age really makes you realize how much his sons look just like him. Wow.
@@Rjensen2 then why don't you look like your father?
ive always liked the concept of a tag match with multiple championships on the line like in the 6 person but you commit to it and put all the belts on the line otherwise why would the champs ever tag in and why would the challengers ever tag out. A match that teams the wwe champion with an ic title contender vs the ic champion and a wwe title contender with both titles to the winning team would be a fun change of pace for b ppv
Well, I think I can see the thinking behind this particular match. It was a mixed tag match after all. So women can only wrestle women, and men can only wrestle men. This case the champions are not tagging themselves in but rather they are forced to tag in.
Manny Fernandez "you know, Mr. Fujinami, they say all men are created Aqual. Also Wahoo is FAT!"
Thanks for taking one for the team here. I've dreaded watching this for years and now...I don't have to.
This show is a good example of why the territories would’ve died out eventually with or without Vince’s intervention
Valid point.
But thats a bit like saying Mrs Slocombe wouldve died anyway had I not murdered her.
@@danjonmills Are you unanimous in that?
Why was this show held in Chicago?! I get that the AWA was based in the Great Lakes region, but they’d have drawn WAY more attendees if it’d been held in Memphis, Louisville, KY (where the CWA had hosted cards for years prior), or Dallas-Fort Worth. It’s almost as if they *wanted* to fail!
21:39 That episode of The Critic where Alice's sister kept delivering mattresses to Madonna makes another cameo appearance. 😄
Hey, look at Mick Foley with the tall posture before he started having to hunch all the time!
Nobody talking about Cox having the same tights as the Samoan Swat Team?
ETA: Steve Cox was in the UWF as I recall, he was (presented as) a rookie, former pro football player who was under, I think Jim Duggan's tutelage?
I had to do a double take... it looks like same Colors but SST had a Floral Pattern and Cox was more 'geometric"
As a child of the 1980's who grew up right outside Minneapolis, the AWA was the first promotion I ever saw and for a few years, even knew existed. It's a shame what happened to them and I draw a lot of similar parallels to ROH. Just 4 years before this show the AWA was selling out arenas AND the building next door with closed circuit events. But the times changed and Verne was unable to recognize talent and capitalize and instead let them go to the competition who took and made a fortune with them. Just like ROH who had their own staff out draw them on a bet and then Joe Koff never asked himself, "why did my 3 talents just do what I've never been able to do?" Like Verne, he essentially let them go to the competition and now they are flourishing and ROH may never return. You can only shit on you customers for so long. At some point they are going to stop coming.
I grew up five minutes from the von erichs ranch. Still my heroes all these years later
14:59 Are we gonna call that vintage Colonel bump The DeBump?
Bloom & Enos was a tag team in AWA known as The Wrecking Crew, became the company's tag team champions, and had a finisher similar to the Road Warriors' Doomsday Device called The Wrecking Ball.
They were the Destruction Crew.
Big Poppa Vince… Now I got the image of Vince with the Steiner beard 😂
Wow manny fernandez did totally sound like scott steiner there. I was waiting for him to start talking about math!!
I'll be honest, if I had _this_ show's theme tune, I'd be playing it all the time at home, doing the crip-walk in my socks and undies.
Dude those big ass DeBeers back bumps are so cool! I think it was against Wahoo McDaniel at WrestleRock 86 I first saw him wrestle and that bump stood out to me. Cool to see he did it often.
Greg Gagne looked like a P.E. teacher turned wrestler. He had the physique of a local jobber, but I guess in the AWA he was a major star. I wonder why…
Daddy?
The last name Gagne?
Kerry VonErich(and the rest of the family) were protected everywhere they went. I don't think I've ever seen a Kerry match where he loses cleanly; maybe in WWE, but everywhere else he either won or lost due to an angle.
Kerry jobbed to an Akbar man using the iron claw in world class, try again. They all jobbed to the less talented Harley Race
That big power bomb Richter did looked like it was near seconds from being the original Nash-Giant neck breaker
So glad someone else finally pointed out Fernandez sounded just like Steiner! I’ve been saying this for years!
I’m so glad you put up Eric embry’s chyron because you can see it says “flambouyant” instead of flamboyant
The match begins, aaaaaannd the match ends 🤣🤣🤣
Wow, you werent lying about the time travelling Scott Steiner cuz thats scary how close it is.
Thanks Brian for this and happy New York. I know I'm not a subscriber, but I can always count on your Wednesday videos to help make my Wednesday a little bit happier. Thank you for all the work you do and the wrestling industry and on TH-cam for that matter. Good luck and Fortune to you for the year 2022.
And as always, thank you for retro reviewing some of these great events that I've never got to see before but I'm now anxious to see for the first time. Quality TH-camrs can be hard to find these days. Glad I found you
By way of comparison, NWA hosted starrcade at the norfolk scope with an attandance of 10,000 and was headlined by ric flair successfully defending his NWA title over lex luger. WWE hosted survivor series at the richfield colisieum (at that time the home of the cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA) drew 13,500 at was headlined by the team of hulk hogan, randy savage, hercules, hillbilly jim, and koko b ware defeating the team of akeem (one man gang), big bossman, red rooster (terry taylor), haku and ted diabiase (hogan and savage were the sole survivors).
I appluad the companies involved for coming together and trying to put on a good product but the fact they booked a 10k+ seat arena and only had 1600 in attendance shows me they were out of touch with their market share. I think if AWA teamed up with JCP/WCW they could have given WWF some serious competition, but that would also require AWA not to have their top stars being an old man 20 years past his prime.
They tired that a couple of years prior. Verne and Crockett couldn't agree on march finishes so it didn't last long.
Kerry may have had the leaning tower of pizza but did he have his unlimited muffins too??
Great stuff as always Brian!! Thanks for getting me thru 2021!
17:54 I'd say there's a 33 1/3 percent chance, at best, that that is a time-traveling Scott Steiner.
oh wow. You were trained by Ed Wiskowki? very kewl. My favorite Col De beer match is the one where he's reading from a self defense manual about the proper application of a full nelson. it was so simple, yet so good.
Iceman, not Rock, invented Roody-Poo. My contractual obligation to remind you.
Excellent in ring work from "Los Hermanos Guerrero", in English, The Guerrero Brothers.
"There's only one Eiffel Tower"
*Looks at Las Vegas*
The London Bridge is in Arizona.
LMAO! 😂
"Then another one! Then another one! And another one! ...And another one!"
Is that a Critic shout-out??
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A great way to finish off 2021. With the loss of the shitty games review after so long, I'm glad this is still going.
When in doubt open your show with Cactus Jack....bang bang
Col. DeBeers and Big Scott Hall was one of my favourite AWA feuds!
Thanks, I never quite understood the POWW acronym as it related to the company name.
So it's a real life "Super Bowl of Wrestling." You owe _The Wrestler_ an apology Brian!
You'd think Verne Gagne wanted to go out of business if this was his best effort.
This show doesn't hold a candle to the wwf and wcw/nwa
@@rickyrosay33977the production value on this is light years behind WWF and WCW of the time.😂
@@rickyrosay33977Or World Class weirdly enough. I really don't get why they went old school when WCCW was so innovative during its prime.
@yankees29 It feels like a 70s wrestling show or a smaller nwa territory show Verne was really behind the times
@Harakengard wccw had the potential to go toe to toe with the wwf and jcp/wcw their production value really was innovative I really thought they were going to the next level when Kerry became NWA champion
I laughed at the not so subtle jab at Devon Nicholson (15:22). Hilarious.
I’ve been waiting for this one - thank you
I see you, Mike Enos! Much respect!..Wait...AND Wayne Bloom?! What more could you ask for??
Fun Fact Wayne is one of many victims during Goldberg's undefeated streak
@@Lorenzo3K I think Enos was too
@@KHayes666 Wow, so Goldberg beat both Beverly Brothers, the fabled tag team nobody wanted to work with in the WWE because they were too stiff? So, let's have Goldberg stiff the life out of them. Bad jokes aside, back at the Beverly Brothers and I figured they could have done something. Sadly, they did not..
@@KHayes666 I'd imagine Both of them are among the "173" a couple of times... Beyond that Enos' biggest claim to fame is being interrupted by Scott Hall when he returned to WCW to ignite the NWO storyline...
Time traveling Big Booty Daddy makes his W3 debut 💪🏽💪🏽
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