AWA 3/9/86- 3/13/86 Bruiser Brody vs Brad Rheingans Another angle to build to WresleRock 86. Apparently it was supposed to be Brody's manager Sheik Adnon in the match but he claimed injury. So a big fella in a red mask hit the ring to wrestle/help the sheik beat up Rheingans. So they boot him and throw him over the top rope. They post him outside, the mauling is continuing until Greg Gagne runs in and starts battling the masked man. He pulls off the mask(with a lot of help from the guy wearing it)and be still my ticker it's Bruiser Brody under there! They continue to brawl until Brody hits a huge jumping piledriver on Gagne. Who comes down to save Greg.....Why his father Verne of course. At a buck wild age of 61! He puts Brody in a sleeper hits him twice with chair shots and runs Brody and Sheik Adnon to the back! Verne had every reason to be a God in the Twin Cities, for very good reason, but nobody bought this shit did they???
3-9-86 Stan Hansen defends the AWA World Title against SGT Slaughter in a Boot Camp Match. This as you might expect was just a big damn fight! Seven minutes of mayhem! Punching kicking eye rakes combat/cowboy boots to the head you get the point! Japanese commentary for this clip(shows what a megastar Hansen was). Sarge hit Hansen with a boot shot, Hansen went flying over the top rope and landed flat on his back on a table at ringside! Slaughter falls back down in the ring but beats the referee's ten count and makes it back to his feat. I believe he is declared the winner. I'm very confused 1st question A Bootcamp match, that has no rules can end on a countout? Question 2 Why are Slaughter and Hansen both subject to the same count if one is outside and the other is inside? Hansen should be allowed to get in before a legal/fair count starts! 3 was this a title match could Sarge have pinned Hansen and won the belt,if so why the hell didn't he? Plus if a ten count wins the match shouldn't that be a title change? #4 if it was non-title why the hell have a dangerous probable feud ender be non-title in the 1st place?
AWA Champioship Wrestling 3/11/86 Lot a stuff packed in an hour here. Shawn Michaels beat Doug Summers in a good match to kick the show off. Next Marty Jannetty/Curt Henning took on Boris Zuhkof/ Nord the Barbarian. Solid match but, but much to it as the heel team's manager Sheik Adnon jumped up on the Apron Scott Hall(a co-holder of the AWA Tag Titles with Henning, why was he not in the match? Their is that solid AWA booking again!!!) comes out and chases Sheik around ringside. While this is going on the heels are double teaming Marty in the ring. They dump him out over the top rope and lose this odd bout by DQ! Then we have Larry Z's interview segment. When his co-host Larry Nelson informs Larry that this weeks guest is Verne Gagne Larry says Gagne helped get him suspended and he storms off. Verne comes out like it's 1972 and talks about many things(all of which are to boring to write down) Next up Larry Z vs Leon "Bull Power" White (a very young green stiff as hell VADER for those who may not know) Larry takes a hell of an ass whippin in this 10 minute match. He gets forearmed powerslammed pressslammed and splashed in the corner. The big Z ends up winning the bout by countout when the two were on the floor he rakes Leon's eyes and crawls back in the ring. The big rookie has to sell this like he's blind and cant find the ring in time(this looked very silly. After the bout Leon gets back in and slams Larry one more time, before the Pitsburger hightails it to the dressing room. Main event Stan Hansen defends his AWA World Title against the Challenge of David Sammartino. I remember this match vividly from this show! I was 7! I loved Hansen then as I do now(although his interviews scared me to death for some reason I cannot explain) Curt Henning was at ringside doing guest commentary as well. Sammartino the younger was not a great worker by any measure(including those with eyesight) but Hansen made him seem like a threat. David did slams and armdrags and armbars. Hansen took the fight outside once and got into a shouting match with fans! As the bout wore on Sammartino got a near fall with a schoolboy rollup. Hansen countered a backdrop with a stiff kick to the solar plexus. He then nailed a flying dropkick and followed that up with his Lariat for the pin! Hansen did a post match interview where he told his kids he was gonna by them both new shoes because he won this match!
3/13/86 Stan Hansen AWA title defense vs Leon White (yes a very early Hansen/Vader matchup.) A very basic by the numbers bout but you got flashes of the huge star Vader would become. White used a headlock early and went back to it several times after quick bursts of offense by Hansen. Hansen got control and went to work on the fingers of White biting them spreading them apart. Slamming them on the apron and the steps. Then the fight went outside and it looked like it was gonna be a double countout. Both men managed to make it back in the ring before the 10 count (the referee had to stop counting and begin again because they were halfway up the aisle). They got back in and Leon hit a big splash into the turnbuckle. He went for it a 2nd time and Stan moved and hit the Lariat as Leon was going down and got the pin! Not great but you could tell they had chemistry no doubt!
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