AWA Card from Winnipeg Canada 1/16/86 Match #1 "Big" Scott Hall(Verne spent days on that nickname I bet!) VS Anthony "Earthquake" Ferris. Very basic match here. They did your very elementary "big man" Match. Hall powered out of Ferris's go behind attempt. They tacked each other mid-ring, Ferris went for it again and Hall used the drop toe hold to get the mountain to the canvas. Hall won a fairly easy squash after Earthquake missed him in the corner. He turned into a bodyslam(a good show of power by Hall as Ferris was a bulky 350lbs) and took Hall hit a legdrop for the pin. Hall cut a standard "white meat" babyface promo post match saying he wanted champion Hansen, and that he and tag partner Curt Henning were coming after tag gold! It was obvious that Verne Gagne(booker and GOD overlord of the AWA) had huge plans for Hall. Scott would reach huge heights in wrestling just not for Verne.
Match #2 AWA Ladies Championship bout As Champ Sherri Martel faces Candi Divine. Martel did a pre-match interview where she outright flirted with interviewer Ken Resnick and said Candi was a dumb hick bleach blond who couldn't even talk! These two women wrestled each other I'm(guessing here)thousands of times. You can tell their is just natural chemistry between the two! Sherri screaming like only she could while in a body scissors is something you have to hear, friendly tip turn your sound down! Divine did the old rolling body scissors as well. Martel threw Candi out of the ring at one point and hit her with a chair shot to the spine! Unheard of for most ladies matches at the time. Candi Devine won the title again by ducking under a clothesline and hitting a crossbody for the win! Solid match here it seems dated now in 2017 when women do so much more, but the crowed popped big with the title change!
Match #3 AWA World tag team title bout The Road Warriors vs "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin and "MR Electricity" Steve Regal! The match was joined in progress. As we join the action the LOD are beating Garvin from pillar to post. Regal makes the tag and they beat on him for a while. There was a unique spot where Regal was in a front face lock and walked backwards to his corner. Garvin sees this happen and walks away down the apron fussing over his hair while regal is trying desperately to make the blind tag! As he is getting dragged back to mid-ring Gavin runs back to the corner! A great chicken-shit heel heat spot. After a ref bump Animal gave Garvin an over-the shoulder powerslam off the top rope. The ref was knocked out so Hawk counted the pin! After that the video cut off so I assume the decision was a double DQ! This was the only way to protect both teams as The warriors were working for Crockett at this point, neither team could/should lose!
Match 4 there are main events, then there are MAIN EVENTS! This belongs in the latter category as Ric Flair faces Nick Bockweinkel (two of the reasons I fell in love with wrestling as a child)! I have never seen this so I am pumped! It was good it was by no means a classic. I think they called most in the ring during the bout! They pulled it off for the most part but there was a lot of multiple pin attempts so they could figure out the next spot! Nick was the clear face here(makes sense Winnipeg was the AWA's northern boundary I believe so Bockweinkel was their guy. He put Flair in a figure four, as Flair did Nick as well. Bockweinkel used his patented sleeper hold twice but the master of the Woooooooo got to the ropes both times! The end was a double countout(not a chance in hell of a clean pin between these two!) They did a very clumsy both tumble over the top rope spot! The height between the apron and the floor in Winnipeg was quite high the tumble could have been very very bad! As I said no all-time classic, but well worth the time and effort to see!
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