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AWA ALL-STAR WRESTLING SYNDICATED SHOW - JOHN E. CARLSON COLISEUM - FARGO, ND - OCTOBER 1990 Announcers: Jack Reynolds & David Crockett Ring Announcer/Interviewer: Eric Bischoff (# Aired on a previous AWA program.) (3rd Taping) In-studio: Larry Nelson welcomed viewers and ran down the program: TV MAIN EVENT: Don Muraco vs. Manny Fernandez Brad Rheingans & Ken Patera see tag team action 'Big' Reggie Bennett sees action Nikita Koloff steps in the ring SC 5 post-match comments from Col. DeBeers and the Destruction Crew And more! Nelson sent it to the ring in Fargo. Tully Blanchard (w/ Valerie) won a squash match over Hank Hill via pinfall with his slingshot suplex finisher Tully and Val were mainly booed coming down the heel aisle, POST-MATCH INTERVIEW: Eric: Tully Blanchard, welcome to the AWA. Tully: The pleasure is all yours, Bischoff. Eric: You've come to the AWA. You've hired Valerie as your manager. What is the end game goal for Tuily Blanchard here? Tully: Money and championships, baby. Money and championships. That's the only two things this business is all about. And I hired Valerie as my manager because I know she can help help me attain lots of both. To be the best in this business you've go to align yourself with the best in the business. No matter what you do for a living, you need to align yourself with proven winners. Align yourself with losers and guess what? You'll be a loser. Val's a proven winner. I ride only with winners. Val: This man to my right is one of the best this sport has to offer. When I signed him, I smelled on him two things: money and championship gold. The sky's the limit when you have a man like Tully in your camp. I already manage the women's champion in Magnificent Mimi. And I'll be managing another champion soon in Tully Blanchard. Eric: Word is you're a shark when it comes to hammering out deals for your wrestlers. Val: You heard right. I am a tough negotiator. I look to get the best deals for my wrestlers and myself. This is a cutthroat business filled with cutthroat people. The objective is to be more cutthroat than the next guy. That's what I do. And it works, as you can tell. Tully: Tully Blanchard and Valerie. We are the real dream team. Pic aired of the Destruction Crew with the caption: NEXT... CHAMPS NO MORE!!! Commercials In-studio: Nelson intro'd a SC 5 post-match interview with the Destruction Crew after they lost the titles to Billy Jack Haynes and Scott Norton. VIDEO: Eric Bischoff was standing in the locker room with a clearly angry and agitated former tag champs. Champs still in their ring attire. Eric: Wayne Bloom and Mike Enos. Your 18-month reign as the World Tag Team Champions ended tonight with a loss to Billy Jack Haynes and Scott Norton. What are you thinking right now? Bloom: What are we thinking right now? What are we thinking?! What a stupid question to ask! We're already thinking about regaining those World Tag Team Titles! Haynes and Norton, know this! You better be looking over your shoulders 24/7! We aren't gonna rest until those belts are back around our waists! We are gunning hard for you! You may have won tonight! But that's not even close to being the end of the story! There will be no happy ending for you! Enos: It's just a matter of time before those belts come home! And home is around our waists! If you people think we're pissed off now... you just wait! Our anger is only going to build and build until we finally get those belts back! Oh yes! It will happen! We will be the tag team champions once again and all will be right with the world once more! Bloom: Haynes and Norton! We're gonna be stalking you until those titles are ours again! END VIDEO Pic aired of Reggie Bennett with the caption: NEXT... THE BIG GAL!!! Commercials/Market-specific house show promos/Generic promos for non-house show cities 'Big' Reggie Bennett won a squash match over Sela Ward via submission with her split-leg rear chinlock finisher Bennett got a good ovation coming to the ring down the face aisle. In-studio: Nelson put Bennett over and said he thinks she's inching closer to being a serious challenger for the Women's World Title. Nelson informed fans of two major announcement coming next week on AWA programming. Pic aired of Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans with the caption: NEXT... DISSENSION IN THE RANKS??? Commercials Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans won a squash match over Private Party when Patera forced Marc Quen to submit to the his swinging full nelson finisher Patera and Rheingans were largely cheered coming down the face aisle. Announcers pointed out friction between Patera and Rheingans recently. Valerie never came to ringside. POST-MATCH INTERVIEW: Eric: Ken and Brad, the fans know of the recent friction between you two. You appeared to work well together tonight and there were no apparent problems. Have you two worked things out? Ken: When people are around each other long enough there's bound to be some problems. You're going to clash over issues some of the time. It's just the way it is. We've wrestled together for a while now. We're professionals and we have a job to do so we do it. Eric: Are there any issues at all with Valerie? Ken: Look, I don't know how many times we ca... Brad interrupted. Brad: Why all these questions about Valerie, Bischoff? She wasn't out here tonight. She's persona non grata as far as we're concerned. Let's go, Ken. We've got some work to do. Ken: Wait just a second, Brad. Who chose you to be the person who ends this interview? Also, as for Valerie, she was told 'no' in clear terms a few weeks ago when she asked us to join her group and that should really be the end of the matter. Brad: Me and Ken just need to concentrate on being the best team we can be. Ken: Anytime Valerie is brought up in interviews from now on, we will go ahead and end the iinterview. How many times do we have to clarify the matter?! Eric: Well... Brad: It's time to put the Valerie matter to bed. The pair left the ring and headed back up the face aisle to a fair crowd response. Brad was walking several steps ahead of Ken. Pic aired of Col. DeBeers with the caption: NEXT... THE COLONEL SPEAKS!!! Commercials/Market-specific house show promos/Generic promos for non-house show cities In-studio: Nelson intro'd post-match comments from Col. DeBeers after he lost his match to Nikita Koloff at SC 5. VIDEO: Eric Bischoff was standing in the locker room with Col. DeBeers. DeBeers was still in his ring attire. Eric: Col. DeBeers, a hard fought battle tonight at Super Clash 5 with Nikita Koloff even though you lost. What are your thoughts on Nikita now? DeBeers thought about the question for a moment. DeBeers then chuckled. DeBeers: Congratulations, Nikita. You beat me at Super Clash 5. But what did you win? Hmmm... What did you win? Was this a great victory for America, the place you now call home? Is that what it was? What kind of a win is that, Nikita? Huh? I'll tell you what kind of a win it is. It's a win for traitors. It's a win for decadence. It's a win for me first, me last and me always even at the expense of the greater good. It's a win for miscegenation and integration. It's a win for greed. It's a win for the perversion of the natural order of things. Nikita, your win was a win for the star spangled dung heap known as the U.S.A.. You should... Eric: Okay, that's enough. Let's end the interview right now. Cut the mic and camera. DeBeers: Bischoff, you're the typical American cowa... Camera cut abruptly and a test pattern appeared. END VIDEO Pic aired of Nikita Koloff with the caption: NEXT... NIKITA!!! Commercials Nikita Koloff won a squash match over Pat Rose via pinfall with his Russian sickle finisher Koloff got a strong ovation coming down the face aisle to the ring. Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... THE MAIN EVENT!!! Commercials TV MAIN EVENT: Manny Fernandez vs. Don Muraco Manny made his way down the heel aisle to fairly strong boos. Muraco made his way down the face aisle to a good crowd response. Ref called for the bell. Both men came out of their corners and Manny struck Muraco with a quick slap followed by a series of knees to the gut. Manny grabbed Muraco and slammed Muraco's head into the top buckle twice. Muraco turned around and Manny whipped Muraco into the opposite buckles and charged in but Muraco got a boot up and Manny slammed face-first into it. Manny staggered back. Muraco cam out of the corner and peppered Manny with punches. Muraco whipped Manny into the ropes and caught Manny coming off with a gorilla press slam. Manny slammed to the mat. Manny up and Muraco grabbed Manny and went to whip Manny into the ropes but Manny reversed and caught Muraco coming off with a back fist to the face. Muraco stunned. Manny caught Muraco with a suplex followed by a jumping elbow smash. Manny snapped Muraco up, whippped Muraco into the buckles and moved in and popped Muraco with a rapid-fire series of shoulder blocks to the gut. Muraco walked out of the corner next to the ropes. Manny caught Muraco with a series of head shots. Manny picked up Muraco and bodyslammed Muraco and then went for a knee drop to the head but Muraco rolled out of the way and Manny crashed knee-first to the mat. Both men down. Ref started the 10-count. Both men up and Manny went to kick Muraco but Muraco grabbed Manny by the foot. Manny tried to beg off but Muraco spun Manny all the way around and blasted Manny with a clothesline. Manny crashed to the mat. Muraco backed up and charged at Manny and Manny backdropped Muraco over the top rope down to the floor. Announcers pointed out that since Muraco was not intentionally thrown over the top rope there was no DQ. Ref ordered Manny back and Manny obliged. Ref started the 10 count. Manny quickly ignored the ref and dropped to the floor. Muraco to a knee on the floor and Manny booted Muraco in the side of the ribs and then slammed Muraco's head into the ring apron twice. Muraco back down to a knee. Ref counting. Manny whipped Muraco at the ring steps and Muraco crashed hard into them. Muraco down in a heap by the steps. Manny quickly rolled in and out of the ring to break the count. Manny reached down to pull Muraco up and Muraco caught Manny with gut shots. Muraco then drove Manny back-first into the steel ringside barricade. Muraco hit Manny with some punches followed by slamming Manny's head into the top of the barricade twice. Ref counting. Manny leaned out over the barricade. Muraco quickly rolled in and out of the ring to break the count. Muraco whipped Manny into the barricade on the opposite side of the ring. Muraco charged in on Manny and Manny moved and Muraco crashed front-first into the barricade. Ref counting. Both men shaking out the effects of the match. Manny with a kick to Muraco followed by driving Muraco back-first into the ring apron. Manny quickly rolled in and out of the ring to break the count. Manny struck Muraco and Muraco struck Manny back on the floor. The two engaged in a punch exchange that Muraco gained the advantage over and threw Manny back into the ring. Manny getting up and Muraco moved in and hoisted Manny up and caught Manny with a Samoan Drop. Crowd popped. Muraco for the cover. 1...2... Manny got a shoulder up. Muraco snatched Manny up and Manny grabbed Muraco and rammed Muraco into the turnbuckles. Manny moved in with a couple of elbow strikes to the side of the head followed by some body blows. Muraco stumbled out of the corner and Manny popped Muraco with a double sledge to the back and Muraco crashed down to the mat. Manny picked up Muraco and nailed Muraco with a suplex followed by a jumping fist drop to the head. Manny for the cover. 1...2... Muraco kicked out. Crowd cheered. Manny snapped Muraco up and went to whip Muraco into the ropes but Muraco reversed and caught Manny coming off with a high backdrop. Manny up and Muraco clotheslined Manny down to the mat. Muraco grabbed Manny as Manny was getting to his feet and whipped Manny into the ropes and caught Manny coming off with a scoop powerslam. Muraco gestured to the crowd it was time for the inverted piledriver. Muraco reached down to pull Manny to his feet and Manny caught Muraco with an eye poke. Manny got to his feet and deliberately pounded away on Muraco. Manny whipped Muraco into the ropes and caught Muraco coming off with a backfist to the face. Muraco staggered. Manny whipped Muraco into the ropes and caught Muraco coming off with his flying burrito (double flying forearm smash) finisher. Manny covered Muraco. 1...2...3! NO! Muraco kicked out. Crowd cheered. Manny grabbed Muraco and went to whip Muraco into the ropes but Muraco reversed and caught Manny coming off with a second Samoan drop. Crowd erupted. Muraco up and grabbed Manny and hoisted him up and nailed Manny with his inverted piledriver finisher. Muraco covered Manny and hooked the leg. 1...2...3! Crowd roared as the ref called for the bell. Muraco to his feet and the ref raised his hand in victory as the program ended. WINNER: Muraco - Pinfall - 8:42 END PROGRAM

AWA WRESTLING ON ESPN - SHOWBOAT SPORTS PAVILION - LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 1990 Announcers: Joe Pedicino & Bill Dundee Ring Announcer/Interviewer: Larry Nelson (# Aired on a previous AWA program.) (3rd Taping) Show Intro In-studio: Nelson welcomed viewers and ran down the program: SPECIAL FEATURE - PWHC MATCH: Greg Valentine (PWHC) vs. The Trooper Nelson then briefly discussed the Patera-Rheingans situation and intro'd an interview that recently took place with the two. VIDEO: # Eric Bischoff was standing in front of the AWA logo with mic in hand. Eric: Would you please welcome my guests at this time... Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans. Patera and Rheingans walked into the interview area in street clothes. Both seemed agitated. Eric: Gentlemen, we saw what happened at the end of your tag team match against Badd Company a couple of weeks ago. You two had a heated argument with one another after losing the match under controversial circumstances. Is your tag team partnership beginning to come apart? Brad: The first thing I want to say, Eric, is this. Ken and I have discussed this matter several times already. But, I wanted to let the fans know what was going on so we decided to do this interview. I had Paul Diamond pinned in that match and Ken was fighting Pat Tanaka on the floor. The ref was distracted by Tanaka and Patera. That allowed Dallas Page to sneak in the ring and club me across the stomach with that thick, heavy cane of his. I wound up getting pinned by Diamond because of that and Ken here was late in trying to make the save to break up the pin try and we lost the match. Ken, if you'd have done your job, you would have made the save and we might have emerged the winners. Instead, you were too busy fighting with Pat Tanaka on the floor. Ken: This should not even be a public matter, Brad. Why you wanted to come out here and air some of our dirty laundry before the public is beyond my comprehension. Tag teams should not be dealing with these issues in front of the fans. But again, I was fighting Tanaka on the floor because Tanaka stepped in and broke up a surefire pin by you on Diamond after a belly-to-belly suplex. It was my duty to try and take Tanaka out and make sure he could not do something like that again. I did my job. It's like you're blaming me for the referee getting distracted and turning his back to what's going on in the ring with you and Diamond. How the hell was I supposed to know what the ref's actions would be at that moment? Brad: Ken, once you drove Tanaka from the ring, you should have been in our corner laser-focused on the match at hand. Instead, you have flashbacks to your days as a bouncer and chase Tanaka down and continue the assault on him there. It was totally unnecessary and opened the door for Page to do what he did. And, notice how well Badd Comapny worked when one of them was in trouble. They stepped in and broke up pin tries. Need I remind you that you're allowed to do that in tag team matches. Ken: Thank you for insulting me, Brad. I know the rules as well as you do. But, I felt Tanaka needed to be kept from re-entering the ring to interfere... Brad: Gee, thanks. So, you protect me from Tanaka but Dallas Page got a wide open shot on me. That makes sense. If you would have been in our corner on the apron like you were supposed to be then this never happens because you could have seen both Tanaka and Page in your line of vision. Eric: I have a quick question for you two. Valerie came out before the match and offered you both the opportunity to join her stable as a tag team. Ken, you spoke for both Brad and yourself when you told her no. But, is Valerie in play here? And are you two still a team after all this or is a break up looming in the near future? Ken: We've talked and we're still a team firmly committed to challenging for the World Tag Team Championships. I just don't think this should have been a public matter between us. Brad hesitated for a moment. Brad: We are still a team. We have a difference of opinion on whether or not the fans needed to know about this issue between us. Eric: As for the matter with Valerie offering you jobs in her stable? Both men hesitated and looked around before answering. Ken: Not going to work for her. No. Brad took a little more time. Brad: Uh-uh. The pair walked out of the interview area. Bischoff had a puzzled look on his face. Eric: Was that a 'no', Brad? END VIDEO In-studio: Nelson talked about the situation between the Olympians and wondered if their partnership was starting to fracture. Pic aired of the PWHC belt with the caption: NEXT... BELT ON THE LINE!!! Commercials SPECIAL FEATURE MATCH - FOR THE PRO WRESTLING HERITAGE CHAMPIONSHIP: Greg Valentine (PWHC) vs. The Trooper Larry Nelson stood center ring with mic in hand. The Trooper made his way down the face aisle to a strong ovation. He handed out souvenir speeding tickets to the fans. Valentine made his way down the heel aisle to strong boos but also had his fans. Announcers said they had two matches on stand-by depending on how long this match went. Nelson: This match is scheduled for one fall with television time remaining and is for the Pro Wrestling Heritage Championship! Crowd cheered. Nelson: Introducing first, the challenger. Weighing in at 271 pounds... he hails from Columbia, South Carolina... The Trooper! Solid crowd response as Wilkes was all business in the ring. Nelson: And his opponent! Weighing in at 253 pounds... he hails from Seattle, Washington.. he is the reigning Pro Wrestling Heritage Champion... Greg 'The Hammer' Valentine! Strong boos as Valentine opened his robe showing the title around his waist. Nelson: Gary DeRusha is your referee! Ref took he belt and held it up for all to see before handing it off to Nelson. Ref called both men out to the center of the ring and laid down the ground rules and patted each man down before sending them back to their respective corners. Ref called for the bell. The men came out of their corners and circled one another and engaged in a collar-and-elbow tie-up. Valentine gained the advantage and caught Trooper in a side headlock into a side headlock takedown. Valentine worked over the hold. Trooper was able to maneuver and catch Valentine in a head scissors. Valentine in pain. Trooper cinched up on the hold. Valentine squirming. Trooper released the hold. Valentine and Trooper up. The two cautiously locked hands and engaged in a test of strength. Valentine started to gain the advantage when Trooper powered up and started to gain the advantage on Valentine. Valentine stunned Trooper with a kick to the gut followed by a series of elbows to the back of Trooper's neck. Trooper down to a knee and Valentine quickly moved in and caught Trooper in a front facelock. Valentine cinched up on the hold as Trooper got to his feet locked in the hold. Valentine clubbed Trooper in the back and Trooper dropped back to a knee as Valentine fully re-applied the hold. Valentine working over the hold and the ref checking to see if it's working its way into becoming a choke. Trooper slowly rose again to his feet locked in the hold. Valentine worked it over a little more and then Trooper was able to drive Valentine back-first into the buckles to free himself from the hold. Trooper popped Valentine with a series of shoulder blocks to the gut. Trooper whipped Valentine into the opposite buckles. Trooper moved in and blasted Valentine with a running clothesline. Valentine staggered out of the corner and crashed on his face on the mat. Trooper rolled Valentine over for the quick cover. 1...2... Valentine kicked out. Trooper snapped Valentine up and caught Valentine with a suplex. Trooper for a jumping elbow smash but Valentine rolled out of the way and Trooper crashed to the mat. Valentine up as Trooper was getting up and caught Trooper with a forearm to the back. Valentine whipped Trooper into the ropes and caught Trooper coming off with a back elbow to the chest. Trooper stunned. Valentine snap mared Trooper over and locked Trooper in a rear chinlock. Valentine had his knee firmly placed in Trooper's back. Valentine cinched up on the chinlock. Valentine held the move on a little longer before standing up and driving a knee three times into Trooper's back. Valentine snapped Trooper up and went to whip Trooper into the corner but Trooper reversed and sent Valentine crashing into the buckles. Valentine bounced out and Trooper caught Valentine with a high backdrop. Valentine slammed to the mat. Trooper snapped up Valentine, whipped Valentine into the ropes and caught Valentine coming off with a big clothesline. Valentine crashed back to the mat as the fans cheered. Valentine to his feet and Trooper moved in and locked Valentine in an abdominal stretch. Trooper cinched up on the hold as Valentine was in great pain. Valentine started slowly moving towards the ropes and was finally able to grab the top rope to force a break in the hold. Trooper released the hold and a hurting Valentine left the ring for the floor and started walking around. Graphic came up on the screen: STAY TUNED!!! THE MATCH WILL CONTINUE!!!! (3:00 commercial break.) BACK FROM COMMERCIAL: Trooper hammering away on Valentine. Trooper whipped Valentine into the corner and Trooper charged in and Valentine moved and Trooper slammed front-first into the buckles. Valentine rolled Trooper up from behind for the pin. 1...2... Trooper kicked out. Both men up and Valentine caught Trooper with a punch followed by a shin breaker across the knee. Trooper down and Valentine holding the leg. Valentine yanked on Trooper's left leg and then applied his figure four finisher. Trooper in great pain but not submitting. Trooper started inching towards the ropes locked in the hold. Trooper finally made it close enough to the ropes to get his hand on the middle rope to force a break in the hold. Both men up[. Trooper limping. Valentine moved in with a kick to the left knee area of Trooper. Trooper hobbled even more. Valentine grabbed Trooper's left leg and held it. Valentine punched Trooper in the knee area. Trooper then stung valentine with a head shot followed by a second one. Valentine lost his grip on the hold and spun around facing away from the Trooper. Trooper rolled Valentine up from behind for the pin. 1...2... Valentine kicked out. Crowd groaned. Both men up and engaged in a collar-and-elbow tie-up and Valentine drove Trooper into the corner. Ref ordered a break. Valentine feigned breaking but instead nailed Trooper with a series of knees to the gut. Trooper stumbled out by the ropes and Valentine leaned Trooper back against the ropes and hit Trooper with a series of stiff forearms to the chest. Valentine went to whip Trooper into the ropes but Trooper reversed and looked to catch Valentine coming off with a backdrop but Valentine stunned Trooper with a kick to the chest. Trooper snapped back and crashed to the mat. Trooper to his feet and walked into a bodyslam from Valentine. Valentine ran and hit the ropes and came off with a running elbow smash that connected. Valentine for the cover. 1...2... Trooper kicked out. Crowd cheered. Valentine caught Trooper with a head shot. Valentine snapped Trooper up and slammed Trooper's head into the top buckle. Trooper spun around in the corner and Valentine fired away with series of knees to Trooper's gut. Valentine pulled Trooper out of the corner and went to suplex Trooper but Trooper twice blocked the move and suplexed Valentine. Trooper for the quick cover. 1... Valentine kicked out. Both men up and Valentine swung wildly at Trooper and missed and Trooper caught Valentine with an atomic drop. Valentine down to his knees holding his junk. Trooper snapped up Valentine and bodyslammed Valentine. Trooper backed into the ropes and came off with a knee drop to the chest that connected. Trooper for the cover. 1...2... Valenitne kicked out. Trooper popped Valentine with a head shot, snapped Valentine up and caught Valentine in a side headlock. Trooper cinched up on the hold as Valentine tried to escape. Eventually, Valentine countered by hoisting Trooper up and crotching Trooper on the top rope. Trooper fell back into the ring. Graphic came up on the screen: STAY TUNED!!! THE MATCH WILL CONTINUE!!!! (3:00 commercial break.) BACK FROM COMMERCIAL: Valentine battering Trooper. Valentine whipped Trooper into the ropes and caught Trooper coming off with a gut punch. Valentine picked Trooper up and nailed Trooper multiple times with a side breaker across the knee. Valentine climbed up on the middle buckle and came off with a pointed elbow smash to the chest. Valentine for the cover. 1... Valentine got his foot on the middle rope for leverage. ...2...thr... Ref looked over and saw Valentine's foot on the middle rope and ordered a break. Valentine got up and had words with the ref. Valentine shoved the ref and the ref in turn shoved Valentine. Valentine stumbled back over Trooper, who was on all fours, and fell over Trooper. Trooper with the roll up for the pin. 1... Valentine's feet on the middle rope. ...2...thr... Ref patted Trooper on the back and Trooper got to his feet thinking he'd won. Trooper walking around in the ring as the crowd buzzed. Ref went over and yanked Trooper's arm down and waved off the pin. Trooper had words with the ref. Valentine snuck up behind Trooper and caught the lawman with a chop block to the back of the knee. Trooper crumpled to the mat. Valentine stomped on Trooper, dragged Trooper over and placed Trooper's left foot on the bottom rope. Valentine grabbed the top rope and jumped up and dropped his ass into Trooper's knee area three times. Trooper in dire pin. Fans cheering on Trooper. Valentine pulled Trooper off the rope to the middle of the ring. Valentine yanked on Trooper's left leg a few times and then locked Trooper into the figure four for the second time in the match. Crowd roaring for Trooper not to give up. Trooper in dire pain. Trooper slowly started to reverse the hold but Valentine shifted his weight and regained control of the hold. Trooper in a bad way. Trooper starting to fade from the pain and his shoulders dropped to the mat. 1...2...thr... Trooper sat up. Fans cheered. Trooper again fighting through the immense pain. Trooper again faded and his shoulders dropped to the mat once more. Dundee: Trooper's finished. Ref counted. 1...2...thr... Trooper again sat up and felt a rush of adrenaline. Fans cheering on Trooper. Valentine also sitting up applying extra pressure to the hold. Trooper then caught Valentine with a trio of head shots and freed himself from the hold. Both men up. Valentine went to hit the shaky Trooper but Trooper blocked the punch and hit Valentine with a series of head shots. Trooper whipped Valentine into the ropes and looked to catch Valentine coming off with a clothesline but Valentine ducked the move and came back and he and Trooper clotheslined each other down to the mat. Crowd buzzing. Ref started the 10-count. Both men stirred and Trooper rolled over by the ropes and was using the ropes to get to his feet because of the gimpy leg. Valentine up. Trooper up bent over and Valentine charged over and kneed Trooper in the side of the ribs and Trooper toppled through the top and middle rope and crashed to the floor. Valentine yelled for the ref to start the 10-count. Ref counting. Trooper started to stir on the floor. As the count grew, Trooper got to his feet. Valentine picked up on a mic. Valentine: Count faster!!! Just before the count hit 10, Trooper found the strength to roll into the ring. Valentine over and started stomping away on Trooper. Valentine snapped Trooper up in a front facelock and clubbed away with forearms on Trooper's back. Trooper in a bad way. Valentine released the hold and Trooper fell back against the ropes. Valentine with a series of bionic elbows to the top of Trooper's head. Valentine went to whip Trooper into the ropes but Trooper reversed and caught Valentine coming off hanging upside down over his shoulders and Trooper blasted Valentine with a double leg slam. Crowd popped. Trooper backed up as Valentine slowly got to his feet. Trooper favoring his left leg. Valentine up and turned and Trooper found the strength to charge over and pulverize Valentine with his flying shoulder tackle finisher. Valentine crashed to the mat. Trooper down holding his left knee. Pedicino: Trooper's got to fight through the pain and cover Valentine quickly! Trooper crawled over and covered Valentine. 1...2...3! NO! Valentine kicked out. Crowd groaned. Both men down on the mat. Ref briefly checked on each man and started the 10-count. Count grew and both men stirred and each was up at the count of 9. Valentine moved in and grabbed Trooper's left leg and Trooper fell against the ropes to force a break. Valentine not letting go of the leg. Trooper started pounding away on Valentine. Valentine staggered back and Trooper blasted away with punches. Trooper hoisted Valentine up for a suplex but Trooper's left leg gave out and Trooper crumpled to the mat with Valentine on top of him for the pin. 1...2...thr... Trooper got a shoulder up. Crowd cheered. Valentine snapped Trooper up and whipped Trooper into the ropes and looked to catch Trooper coming off with a backdrop but Trooper instead caught Valentine with a sunset flip. After a brief struggle, Trooper flipped Valentine for the pin. 1...2...thr... Valentine kicked out. Crowd groaned. Both men up and Valentine caught Trooper with a pair of kicks to Trooper's left knee area. Trooper down to a knee. Valentine hoisted Trooper up and nailed Trooper with a piledriver. Valentine for the cover. 1...2...3! NO! Trooper got his foot on the bottom rope. Valentine slapped his hands together and accused the referee of a slow count. Valentine pounded on Trooper and went to hoist Trooper up for another piledriver but Trooper twice blocked the move, reached down and pulled Valentine's legs out from under him. Trooper catapaulted Valentine into the corner. Valentine crashed front-first into the buckles. Trooper waited as Valentine slowly extracted himself from the buckles, turned and walked into a running clothesline from Trooper. Crowd roared. Valentine down. Nelson: 15 seconds! 15 seconds remaining! Trooper now bounding around like he felt no pain. Valentine up. Nelson: 10 seconds! 10 seconds remain! Valentine turned and Trooper charged in and blasted Valentine with his running shoulder tackle finisher. valentine crashed to the mat. Nelson: 5 seconds! 5 seconds remain! Trooper covered Valentine. Ref counted. 1...2... DING! DING! DING! Trooper still on top of Valentine. Ref went over and talked with Larry Nelson and took the belt. Trooper up and the ref raised his hand in victory. Crowd popped. Ref then raised Valentine's hand in victory and handed the still down valentine the belt. Nelson: In a time of 28 minutes, 46 seconds, the match is a TV time-limit draw! Valentine is still the Pro Wrestling Heritage Champion! Boos from the crowd. DECISION: Time-limit draw - 28:46 (TV TIME: 22+ minutes) END PROGRAM

Michele Bergeron. Now there's a blast from the past. I remembered when he coached Quebec. Speaking of hockey... the Coyotes are headed to Salt Lake City. 😞 Hate to see teams move. You remember my fave player Marcel Dionne?

Time once again for the predictions: 😁 Lionel Robert & Raymond Rougeau vs. Juan Lopez & Eddie Auger Canadian Women's Championship Michèle Richard (C) vs. Renée Martel ASW World Tag Team Championship Jos LeDuc & Antonio Baillargeon (C) vs. The Fabulous Kangaroos Jacques Rougeau vs. Michel "Le Justice" Dubois ASW World Heavyweight Championship Abdullah the Butcher (C) vs. Carlos Rocha Plus - who will win the ASW Canadian Heavyweight Title Tournament? Dino Bravo • Dutch Momberg • Tony Parisi • Del Skinner • Gino Brito • Brute Martin • Dominic DeNucci • Mr. X

MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE AWA LEAVING FOR LAS VEGAS By Roy Otis Star-Tribune Reporter "It is the end of an era. A part of Minnesota history died today." - Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser And so it ends. The American Wrestling Association, an established Minneapolis entity, is moving their entire base of operations to the desert Southwest. The AWA was as much a part of Minnesota as hunting, fishing, the Vikings, the Twins and arctic winters. Created in 1960, the AWA has called Minneapolis home since it began The promotion will complete its move to Las Vegas, Nevada by April of next year. AWA majority owners Deborah Harry of Blondie fame and eccentric Hollywood director John Waters spoke with the media about the move and gave their reasons for the decision. "No state income tax and the weather are the main reasons the AWA's operations are moving to Las Vegas," said Harry. "We feel this gives us a better opportunity to attract big name talent to the organization. The winters here can bee brutal to say the least. It's not a selling point for many of those in the wrestling business today. Throw in no state income tax and it makes it even more appealing to them." "This business is changing," said Waters. "The territorial days are, sadly, coming to an end. We had to think bout the big picture. When the AWA was an upper Midwest territory, they had to have their home base here. Those days are over. We had to explore other options and settled on Las Vegas because of no state income tax, the weather and taping our monthly ESPN shows in Las Vegas. It just seems like the best fit moving forward. The good news is the AWA will still be coming to St. Paul and its other traditional cities on a regular basis. "This is simply about moving the operations to another city. It doesn't affect fans in those areas being able to see the AWA because they're still coming to the AWA's regular cities on tour." Harry and Waters said they purchased a building 'just off the Strip' that they will use as offices and TV production. They say the move will be gradual and they've already rented a building in Vegas until the move is completed. In recent years, the AWA has been in a downward spiral. Business had gone into the tank. It's a far cry from the heyday of he promotion that was run by wrestling legend Verne Gagne. Gagne is a Minnesota native and did a lot for the community for the 30-year run of the promotion here. Now, the AWA will be just a promotion, much like the WWF or NWA, that simply stops in periodically and then moves on to the next city. Such is the price to be paid for pro wrestling's expansion. And you can bet the fans in the Twin Cities will perceive it differently once the promotion has packed its bags and left the area. Pro wrestling is a cyclical business. But for 25 years the AWA weathered the down times and came back strong. Lots of legendary names passed through this area over the decades. In 1986, AWA wrestling took a downturn and has yet to truly recover; though Harry and Waters said business is on the upswing. "Business in the key AWA cities is trending upward," said Waters. "A little over a year ago, the promotion was struggling to draw a thousand people in regular cities like St. Paul, Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay. That's changing. We drew almost 9,000 for Super Clash in Milwaukee. We did two Verne Gagne tribute shows, one in Chicago and one in St. Paul, and the St. Paul show drew over 12,000 fans and the Chicago show drew almost 8,000 fans. The 12,000 was the AWA's biggest crowd anywhere since WrestleRock in 1986 drew over 22,000 fans to the Metrodome. Fans are paying attention to the AWA again. "Bill Watts, Jim Crockett and Jerry Jarrett are 100 percent in charge of the wrestling side of things. They bring fresh eyes to the product and, in some cases, radically different ideas. The AWA needed that to happen to even have a chance to survive." But, lost in all this is that fans in the Twin Cities and Minnesota in general looked at the AWA, during good and bad times, as their own. Now, it won't feel like that anymore. The new owners of the AWA may be misjudging fan loyalties here. Once the base of operations is gone, it will feel like a gut punch. These fans may just drop the AWA, even if it sees a significant jump in business elsewhere, and that could seriously damage ticket sales in the area. "This is like getting hit over the head with a chair," said Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser. "The new owners never came to us to see if they could make some sort of deal. They just dealt with Las Vegas secretly and then dropped this bomb on us. It's frustrating and heartbreaking at the same time. I'm not saying they would have stayed. But they should have at least given us the chance to try and come up with something to try and keep them here." Las Vegas Mayor Ron Lurie sees it differently. "This is a business decision, pure and simple," Mayor Lurie said. "We welcome the AWA moving its operations to Las Vegas with open arms. They should have a positive impact on the economy and probably employ several locals. That's great for the city. Deborah and John have decided to roll the dice on Sin City and we welcome them with open arms." When asked about the AWA leaving behind 30 years of history and tradition in Minneapolis, Mayor Lurie said, "It's sad to see Minneapolis lose something that has meant so much to them over the years. It really is. But sometimes progress means making unpopular decisions. The promotion was sinking up there. The move makes sense. Being in the 'Entertainment Capitol of the World' will give the AWA much more exposure on a national level and that fits in nicely with their plans for expansion." "When all the dust settles, fans will still get to see great AWA action throughout Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and other traditional AWA states," said Waters. "Right now, we are hanging on to the territory Verne Gagne carved out over three decades. We're looking to build on that and expand. Expansion, whether one likes it or not, is the name of the game in pro wrestling today." You can't argue with John Waters on that. Expansion is the name of the game in the wrestling business today. And it sucks. Those thirty years are now just a memory. The territories are dead. It may still be called the AWA. But it won't be our AWA, anymore. Mayor Fraser said it best. "It's a sad day for the entire state of Minnesota. Pro wrestling was like oxygen here. The AWA was ours. Now, that oxygen supply has been cut off and we wait for the end with a tear in our eye."

Nice to see Renee' fighting fire with fire in the ring.

The Jaggers-Trooper situation does have a back story and it's coming up soon. Glad you enjoyed the old school feel of Valentine-Wahoo. Thanks for your comments.

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL AWA ALL IN ON VEGAS By Walt Reno RJ Staff Reporter It has been made official. The American Wrestling Association, the pro wrestling promotion founded by wrestling legend Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo in 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is moving its entire base of operations to Sin City. In a conference call with reporters, AWA majority owners Deborah Harry of the rock band Blndie and controversial Hollywood director John Waters announced the move. The move to Vegas is expected to be completed in April of next year. Harry and Waters announced they had also bought a building 'just off the Strip', which they will convert to office space and a TV studio. It's believed that the property is located near Tropicana Avenue. The ownership pair expects the AWA base of operations to remain in Vegas for years to come. "We looked at the situation in Minneapolis and compared it to warmer weather climates," said John Waters. "Early on, it was between Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Miami or Tampa, Florida. "We then whittled it down to Phoenix or Las Vegas. Vegas won because there's no state income tax. That was really the difference along with the weather." Deborah Harry also chimed in. "Overall, we think Vegas makes the most sense because the AWA's ESPN tapings take place at the Showboat Hotel and we also feel we can lure more big name talent to the promotion because we're now in a warm weather city. From our understanding, wrestlers either would not come to or stay in Minneapolis in large part because of the weather up there five or six months a year. It's a bitter, biting cold," Harry said. Vegas Mayor Ron Lurie was said to be ecstatic over the news. "The major sports in this town are UNLV athletics; especially the men's basketball team. Having the American Wrestling Association move their base of operations here could see a financial windfall for the city. We look forward to a good business relationship with the company," the mayor said. However, Minneapolis mayor Donald Fraser was singing a different tune. "This is a sad day for Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota," the mayor replied. "We were caught off-guard by the decision to move the AWA's entire operation out of the state where it has been an institution for over 30 years and it's truly heartbreaking. We had good relations with Verne Gagne and the wrestlers and staff of the promotion. Wish we could have worked with them to try and convince them to stay because Minneapolis will always be the AWA's true home. That's all gone now. It is the end of an era. A part of Minnesota history died today." Verne Gagne was already a wrestling star when he and Wally Karbo established the American Wrestling Assocaition in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1960. Gagne would build an empire over the next 25 years that saw him become one of top three or four major players in the wrestling business. However, some serious missteps were made, including letting Hulk Hogan, the biggest star in pro wrestling today, slip through the AWA's fingers and head to the northeast juggernaut known as the WWF. WWF head honcho Vince McMahon also picked off other AWA stars at the time, including announcer Gene Okerlund and manager Bobby Heenan. Surprsiingly, the AWA had two years of fantastic business right after Hogan bolted for New York in 1984 and '85. But it appears that that was driven by the national wrestling craze largely orchestrated by McMahon. Things were still going well for the AWA in the first half of 1986. The promotion put on a major show at the Metrodome in Minneapolis and drew over 22,000 fans to an event called WrestleRock. But after that things started to fall off a cliff. More wrestlers bolted the organization for greener pastures. One of those was rising young star Curt Hennig. Hennig became the world champion in 1987 when he beat Nick Bockwinkel under controversial circumstances at the event Super Clash 2. This show was really a sign of the times as less than 3,000 fans attended the show at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. It was an astonishing free-fall. A year later, Hennig dropped the World title to Memphis wrestler Jerry Lawler in Memphis. Hennig then immedaitely headed for the WWF and became known as 'Mr. Perfect' Curt Hennig. Hennig is a major star today thanks to the WWF machine. The next year, the AWA tried their hand at pay-per-view with a cross-promotional event known as Supeer Clash 3. The event was headlined by AWA World Champion Jerry Lawler vs. World Class World Champion Kerry Von Erich in a title unification match. The event would fail on all fronts. Less than 2,000 fans attended the event at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. And only 44,000 fans bought the pay-per-view. It was a sign of the times. The AWA was in serious trouble. Verne would limp along for another 15 months to dwindling attendance and dwindling financial returns. Verne tried to keep things afloat on a shoestring budget as stations around the country dropped his syndicated show All-Star Wrestling and the ESPN show was plodding along with little fanfare. After trying and failing to sell the promotion to other potential buyers, Verne Gagne was heading towards the demise of the pomotion he built from the ground up. But, there was a financial savior afterall. Deborah Harry and John Waters, deeply involved in show business, along with wrestling promoters Jim Crockett, Bill Watts and Jerry Jarrett, combined forces and funds to buy the promotion and save it from the junk heap. The company name for the group that owns the AWA is Triumph Media Sports. Under new management, things seem to be improving. But, the AWA still lags well behind the WWF and the NWA. "Rome wasn;t built in a day," said Waters. "We know it's gonna take time to get this whole thing turned around. And there's still the chance it could all collapse on us at any time. But right now things are looking pretty positive. We've been able to sign Nikita Koloff, Barry Windham and Tully Blanchard to deals. And with the money we've got backing this project we should be able to sign some other major names in the future. It's an exciting time." "The wrestling business historically is cyclical. You have boom and bust periods. You have to watch your money during down times, try and weather the storm and get back on your financial feet when the next boom period hits. I believe we're starting to see signs of an AWA renaissance," remarked Harry. When I pressed them on any stars they may be looking at from the WWF or NWA, neither Harry nor Waters were forthcoming with any inforrmation. The AWA had only the second pay-per-view in company history in September with Super Clash 5. The show drew almost 9,000 paying fans to the Mecca Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Pay-per-view numbers are still pending as this goes to press. The American Wrestling Association just made a major move in moving the AWA lock, stock and barrel to Vegas. Will the new location appeal to more wrestlers and lead them to jump ship from their current promotions? Will moving here turn into a money pit for the company? Only time will tell. The AWA has been coming to Vegas for roughly a decade now and seems to have a small but loyal fanbase that goes to the shows at the Showboat. Will they be able to grow that base is an interesting question. "The signs are there," replied Waters. "Attendance is going up at the shows at the Showboat. It's not a huge bump yet; but it is a growing number and that's a positive sign. We're trying to be the alternative to the WWF. The WWF is viewed as a family-friendly promotion. While we welcome families to our shows, the fact is we're going after wrestling fans. We want lapsed fans to look at the AWA and say, 'You know, that's the kind of hard-hitting wrestling action I like. I think I'll give it a try.'" "John's right," said Harry. "Attendance had crashed through the floor in several major traditional AWA cities. But now we're seeing cities like St. Paul, Chicago, Milwaukee and others see a rise in attendance. We just drew over 12,000 in St. Paul and almost 8,000 in Chicago for Verne Gagne tribute shows. The interest is growing. We're hoping it holds and we can build on it moving forward" Waters then said, "Our three business partners in this endeavor are wrestling people. They've all had solid, successful history's in the wrestling business. They're excellent wrestling minds." The AWA frequently speaks of this time period in the promotion as the 'new era'. Well, Las Vegas became a major part of the new plan. It's no longer just a stopover for TV tapings anymore. In April, Las Vegas will be the official city for the American Wrestling Association. Welcome to your new home. NEXT: The Minnesota perspective on the AWA leaving Minneapolis after three decades.

AWA ALL-STAR WRESTLING SYNDICATED SHOW - JOHN E. CARLSON COLISEUM - FARGO, ND - OCTOBER 1990 ANNOUNCERS: Jack Reynolds & David Crockett Ring Announcer/Interviewer: Eric Bischoff (# Aired on a previous AWA program. Also highlighted in bold.) (2nd Taping) In-studio: Larry Nelson welcomed viewers and ran down the program: TV MAIN EVENT - FROM SUPER CLASH 5 - AWA WOMEN'S WORLD TITTIE MATCH: Magnificent Mimi (WC - w/ Valerie) vs. Madusa Miceli An interview with Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans after their argument with one another after they lost a match to Badd Co. a couple of weeks ago Badd Co. sees action Post-match interviews with the Trooper and Jerry Lawler after their matches at SC 5 Barry Windham wrestles And more! Nelson sent it to the ring in Fargo. Jonnie Stewart won a squash match over Captain Kremmen via pinfall with his flying elbow off the top rope finisher Stewart was largely booed by the fans. POST-MATCH INTERVIEW: Eric: Jonnie Stewart. 1990 is quickly running out and so far no championship for you. Stewart: Bischoff, how stupid are you, boy? I am the 'Wrestler of the '90s', man. That means I'm the wrestler of this entire decade. I've got time, baby. The championships will start flowing my way in the near future. I've only got nine years and three months left to attain my goals. Like the great philosopher king Alfred E. Newman once said: What? Me worry? There's a time and a place for everything. 1990 is the year Jonnie Stewart's cranking it up to take his rightful place at the top of the mountain as the 'Wrestler of the '90s'. Get ready for some serious championshipping from ol' Jonnie. Crowd booed. Pic aired of the Trooper with a caption: NEXT... KEEP ON TROOPIN'!!! In-studio: Nelson intro'd comments from the Trooper, who beat the masked man who had been causing him all sorts of trouble in a hair vs. mask match at SC 5. Trooper was holding the man's mask. VIDEO: # Eric Bischoff was standing in the locker room with a victorious Trooper after his match at Super Clash 5. Trooper was still in his ring attire Eric: I am here with a very elated Trooper. Trooper, you finally were able to unmask your tormentor in a hard-fought match here at Super Clash 5. You were finally able to unmask him and expose him. How does it feel? Trooper: It feels great, but there's also relief. I now finally know who this man is but I still don't know much about him. His name's Bobby Jaggers and he's a pro wrestling veteran. Since I'm still relatively new to the sport, I didn't know who he was. But, it was explained to me he's been a champion wrestler in the past. I still don't know why he assaulted me and cost me matches over the last several months. I hope we find out very shortly. I hope he'll be man enough to tell us why he went to such great lengths to mess with me. Eric: I think that's on everyone's mind, Trooper. Jaggers is a veteran of the sport. He's made reference to you two crossing paths at one point but has given no specifics. Trooper: Bobby, just tell us what this is all about, man. You owe me that. But now, Eric, it's time to start looking forward to other challenges that lie ahead for the Trooper here in the AWA. I can finally concentrate on the championship picture and look to become a champion with that situation behind me. Eric: That's the Trooper. He unmasked his tormentor here tonight and that man was exposed as Bobby Jaggers. We'll see what happens moving forward. END VIDEO Pic aired of Badd Co. with the caption: NEXT... BADD TIMES!!! Commercials/Promos for house show cities/Generic promos for non-house show cities Badd Co. (w/ Mgr. DDP) won a squash match over Jerry Allen & Jim Young when Tanaka pinned Young after a Slingshot DDT (Slingshot catapult (Diamond) transitioned into a Jumping DDT (Tanaka) Badd Co. was strongly booed coming down the heel aisle In-studio: Nelson intro'd video from the end of a tag match from a couple of weeks ago between Ken Patera & Brad Rheingans against Badd Co. VIDEO: # End of the match saw Brad and Diamond in the ring. Diamond was on the offensive and went to whip Brad into the ropes but Brad reversed and caught Diamond coming off with a belly-to-belly suplex. Crowd erupted. Brad for the cover. 1...2...thr... Tanaka hit the ring and stomped Brad in the back of the head to break up the pin try. Patera charged over and clotheslined Tanaka to the mat. Tanaka rolled out of the ring onto the apron and crashed to the floor and Patera followed. Ref distracted with Patera and Tanaka. Both men up in the ring and Brad hit Diamond with his fisherman suplex (Perfect Plex) finisher for the pin. Crowd yelling for the ref to turn around as Tanaka grabbed the middle rope and tried to pull himself up onto the apron and back into the ring. Patera grabbed Tanaka and a struggle ensued to pull Tanaka off the ropes. Ref still distracted. DDP hit the ring behind the ref and clubbed Brad, who was in the bridgeout position, in the gut with his cane. Brad lost his grip on the hold. DDP fled the ring as Diamond covered Brad. Patera yanked Tanaka off the rope and down to the floor. Ref turned and saw Diamond pinning Brad. Ref dropped for the count. 1...2...3! Ref called for the bell as the crowd booed. Diamond up and the ref raised his hand in victory. Patera had dropped Tanaka on the floor with a big right hand and saw Brad laid out in the ring and climbed in as Diamond left for the floor. As Patera checked on Brad, Diamond and DDP helped Tanaka to his feet and the trio left the ringside area. Patera helped Brad to his feet and said something to Brad and the two got into a heated exchange and shoved Patera. More words exchanged. Brad pointed an accusatory finger at Patera and Patera slapped the finger out of his face. Brad stormed off still grabbing at his gut from the cane shot. A confused and stunned Patera left in the ring. Patera followed several steps behind Brad up the face aisle to the back. END VIDEO In-studio: Nelson then intro'd a recent interview with Patera and Rheingans. VIDEO: Eric Bischoff was standing in front of the AWA logo with mic in hand. Eric: Would you please welcome my guests at this time... Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans. Patera and Rheingans walked into the interview area in street clothes. Both seemed agitated. Eric: Gentlemen, we saw what happened at the end of your tag team match against Badd Company a couple of weeks ago. You two had a heated argument with one another after losing the match under controversial circumstances. Is your tag team partnership beginning to come apart. Brad: The first thing I want to say, Eric, is this. Ken and I have discussed this matter several times already. But, I wanted to let the fans know what was going on, so we decided to do this interview. I had Paul Diamond pinned in that match and Ken was fighting Pat Tanaka on the floor. The ref was distracted by Tanaka and Patera. That allowed Dallas Page to sneak in the ring and club me across the stomach with that thick, heavy cane of his. I wound up getting pinned by Diamond because of that and Ken here was late in trying to make the save to break up the pin try and we lost the match. Ken, if you'd have done your job, you would have made the save and we might have emerged the winners. Instead, you were too busy fighting with Pat Tanaka on the floor. Ken: This should not even be a public matter, Brad. Why you wanted to come out here and air some of our dirty laundry before the public is beyond my comprehension. Tag teams should not be dealing with these issues in front of the fans. But again, I was fighting Tanaka on the floor because Tanaka stepped in and broke up a surefire pin by you on Diamond after a belly-to-belly suplex. It was my duty to try and take Tanaka out and make sure he could not do something like that again. I did my job. It's like you're blaming me for the referee getting distracted and turning his back to what's going on in the ring with you and Diamond. How the hell was I supposed to know what the ref's actions would be at that moment? Brad: Ken, once you drove Tanaka from the ring, you should have been in our corner laser-focused on the match at hand. Instead, you have flashbacks to your days as a bouncer and chase Tanaka down and continue the assault on him there. It was totally unnecessary and opened the door for Page to do what he did. And, notice how well Badd Company worked when one of them was in trouble. They stepped in and broke up pin tries. Need I remind you that you're allowed to do that in tag team matches. Ken: Thank you for insulting me, Brad. I know the rules as well as you do. But, I felt Tanaka needed to be kept from re-entering the ring to interfere... Brad: Gee, thanks. So, you protect me from Tanaka but Dallas Page got a wide open shot on me. That makes sense. If you would have been in our corner on the apron like you were supposed to be then this never happens because you could have seen both Tanaka and Page in your line of vision. Eric: I have a quick question for you two. Valerie came out before the match and offered you both the opportunity to join her stable as a tag team. Ken, you spoke for both Brad and yourself when you told her no. But, is Valerie in play here? And are you two still a team after all this or is a break up looming in the near future? Ken: We've talked and we're still a team firmly committed to challenging for the World Tag Team championships. I just don't think this should have been a public matter between us. Brad hesitated for a moment. Brad: We are still a team. We have a difference of opinion on whether or not the fans needed to know about this issue between us. Eric: As for the matter with Valerie offering you jobs in her stable? Both men hesitated and looked around before answering. Ken: Not going to work for her. No. Brad took a little more time. Brad: Uh-uh. The pair walked out of the interview area. Bischoff had a puzzled look on his face. Eric: Was that a 'no', Brad? END VIDEO Pic aired of Barry Windham with the caption: NEXT... ON THE RISE!!! Pic then flipped to a pic of Jerry Lawler with the caption: ALSO... WORDS FROM ROYALTY!!! Commercials Barry Windham won a quick squash match in under 40 seconds over Terry Gibbs via pinfall with his flying lariat finisher Windham got a solid ovation coming to the ring. In-studio: Nelson briefly discussed how impressive Windham has been since his arrival in the AWA. Nelson then intro'd a post-match interview with Jerry Lawler from SC 5 after Lawler beat Cactus Jack in a wild, bloody falls count anywhere match. VIDEO: # Eric Bischoff was seated with Jerry Lawler in the locker room. Lawler was still in his ring duds and had a white towel draped around his neck and was wiping blood off his forehead. Eric: Jerry Lawler. What an epic victory over Cactus Jack at Super Clash 5 here tonight in a falls count anywhere match. That was one of the wildest matches I've ever seen. How you feeling right now? Lawler: I've got one hell of a headache. The match took its toll on both of us. Cactus is a very dangerous wrestler. He's very unpredictable. The chances that this man will one day maim somebody in the ring is very high. But, the first order of being a man is to stand up like a man and fight if you have to. That was one of the most violent matches I've ever had in my career. I'm sure weeks from now I'll still be feeling the effects of it. To say this match has already taken a serious toll on my body is an understatement. And, while you have to be able to absorb and deal with a lot of pain in this sport, Jack seems to relish feeling pain. He gets off on it to a disturbing degree. Eric: I spoke with cactus earlier. He said he's coming to Memphis to hunt you down and finish you off. Your thoughts on that? Lawler: He's more than welcome to come to Memphis. If he wants another match then I will give it to him. I certainly am not running anywhere. A wrestler like Cactus Jack, if there's ever been another wrestler remotely like him, has to be dealt with with extreme prejudice. You can't try and out-finesse Cactus. He's straight on wildness and unpredictability. Lou Thesz he ain't. Any man who puts his body through what he does and takes great pleasure in suffering just as much as he does punishing is a man who has nothing to lose. I think Cactus is mentally spun. He's really off-kilter upstairs. So, Cactus, if you see this. Come on down to Memphis. I'll be waiting to give you a big West Tennessee welcome. Eric: That was Jerry Lawler. He's willing to fight Cactus Jack again after one of the wildest matches I've ever seen just took place earlier tonight at Super Clash 5. END VIDEO Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... THE MAIN EVENT!!! Commercials/Promos for house show cities/Generic promos for non-house show cities In-studio: Nelson intro'd the Women's World Title match from SC5. # AWA WOMEN'S WORLD TITLE MATCH: Magnificent Mimi (WC - w/ Valerie) vs. Madusa Miceli Madusa came down the face aisle to a strong ovation. Madusa climbed in the ring and acknowledged the fans. Mimi and Val came to the ring down the heel aisle to strong boos. The pair stepped in the ring and played to the booing fans. The wrestlers were now in their respective corners. Nelson: This match is scheduled for one fall with a 30-minute time-limit and is for the AWA Women's World Championship. Cheers. Nelson: Introducing first, the challenger. Weighing in at 150 pounds. She hails from Milan, Italy... Madusa Miceli. Strong pop from the hot crowd as Madusa was all business. Nelson: And her opponent! Introducing first, her manager... Valerie. Loud boos. Nelson: She weighs in at 132 pounds. She hails from Los Angeles, California... the reigning AWA Women's World Champion... the Magnificent Mimi! Crowd booed as Mimi stepped forward and held the belt aloft for all to see. Nelson: Your referee is Mick Karch! Karch took the title and held it up for the fans to see and then handed it off to Nelson who took the belt and placed it on the timekeeper's table. Ref called both wrestlers out to the middle of the ring. The wrestlers stared at each other as Val rubbed the champ's shoulders as the ref laid down the ground rules and patted each wrestler down. Ref sent both women back to their corners. Val had final words for Mimi and left for the floor. Ref called for the bell. Crowd buzzing as the women came out of their corners and engaged in a staredown and both women were talking to each other. Mimi then shoved Madusa. Madusa stumbled back a couple fo steps. Madusa then returned the favor and shoved Mimi and Mimi went down to the delight of the crowd. Mimi to her feet. The pair slowly moved in on one another and engaged in a collar-and-elbow tie-up and Madusa quickly gained the advantage and caught Mimi in a wristlock. Mimi could not escape the hold and Madusa did the wrist burn and Mimi dropped to her knees and got to her feet. Madusa then spun Mimi in the wristlock and flipped Mimi over onto her back. Madusa did not release the hold and caught Mimi in an arm bar. Mimi on a knee locked in the hold. Madusa cinched up on the hold and Mimi winced in pain. Mimi made it to her feet locked in the hold. Madusa worked over the arm bar but Mimi was not giving up. Mimi was able to reach around and grab Madusa by the hair and back Madusa into the ropes. Ref ordered a break and reprimanded Mimi for pulling hair. The pair circled one another and Mimi went to kick Madusa but Madusa grabbed Mimi's leg. Mimi tried to beg off. Madusa punched Mimi, spun Mimi around and hit Mimi with an atomic drop. Mimi crashed to the mat. Madusa for the pin. 1... Mimi kicked out. Both women up and Madusa went to move on Mimi and Mimi bailed from the ring to the floor. Crowd booed. Mimi went over and talked to her manager Val as the ref started the 10-count. Val and Mimi talking with one another. Mimi climbed back up on the apron and Madusa started to move on her and Mimi dropped back to the floor and went over and talked to Val again to more boos. As Mimi and Val engaged with one another, Madusa went over and mounted the top buckle. Val and Mimi turned and Madusa came off with a flying bodypress on the pair. Mimi and Val down on the floor as the crowd popped. Madusa up and snapped up Mimi and threw Mimi back into the ring. Mimi up and Madusa popped Mimi with an enzuigiri and Mimi crashed back to the mat. Madusa grabbed Mimi and went to whip Mimi into the ropes but Mimi reversed and looked to catch Madusa coming off with a high backdrop but Madusa instead caught Mimi with a sunset flip try. Mimi struggled to stay on her feet but Madusa flipped her over for the pin. 1...2... Mimi kicked out. Madusa and Mimi up and Madusa laid into Mimi with forearms to the chest that drove Mimi against the ropes. Madusa whipped Mimi into the buckles and charged in but Mimi got her feet up and Madusa crashed into them and stumbled back. Mimi caught Madusa with a kick to the gut followed by a suplex. Mimi hit an elbow on Madusa and went for the cover. 1...2... Madusa kicked out. Mimi picked up Madusa and bodyslammed Madusa. Mimi mounted the middle buckle and came off with a diving splash on Madusa but Madusa got her knees up and Mimi crashed into them. Crowd popped. Both women down. Ref counting. Both women to their feet and Mimi slapped Madusa. Madusa's eyes flared. Mimi went to try and leave the ring but Madusa grabbed Mimi and pulled her back in before she could bolt. Madusa whipped Mimi into the ropes and caught Mimi coming off with a high backdrop. Mimi slammed to the mat. Mimi up and Madusa snapmared Mimi by the hair and then repeated the move. Mimi sitting up as Madusa dropped an elbow on the top of Mimi's head. Madusa snapped Mimi up and whipped Mimi into the buckles. Mimi bounced out and Madusa blasted her with a spin kick to the chest. Mimi crashed to the mat. Madusa for the cover. 1...2...thr... Mimi got her foot on the bottom rope. Crowd groaned. Ref ordered a break. Madusa reached down and started to pull Mimi up and Mimi caught Madusa with gut punches. Mimi up and moved in and caught Madusa with a swinging neckbreaker. Mimi for the cover. 1...2... Madusa kicked out. Crowd cheered. Mimi up and stomped away on Madusa. Mimi snapped Madusa up and whipped Madusa into the ropes and caught Madusa coming off with dropkick. Madusa crashed to the mat. Madusa up facing away from Mimi and Mimi ran up and shoved Madusa from behind and Madusa crashed front-first into the buckles. Madusa turned and walked out of the corner and was kicked in the gut by Mimi. Mimi then went for her sitout powerbomb finisher but Madusa twice blocked the move and backdropped Mimi to the mat. Mimi up and Madusa caught Mimi by the hair and nailed her with three rapid-fire snapmares by the hair. Madusa grabbed Mimi and whipped her into the ropes and blasted Mimi coming off with a clothesline. Mimi crashed back to the mat. Crowd sensing blood. A shaky Mimi got up facing away from Madusa. Madusa moved in on Mimi. Valerie suddenly jumped up on the ring apron. Ref came over and ordered Val off the apron and Val had words with him. Madusa caught Mimi and blasted Mimi with her German suplex finisher at the same time. Mimi pinned. Crowd going nuts. Val continued arguing with the ref. Madusa released Mimi and saw Val arguing with the ref. Madusa went over and Val tried to slap Madusa and Madusa blocked the slap and slapped Val. Mimi recovered and came up behind Madusa and rolled Madusa up from behind for the pin. 1... Mimi grabbed a handful of tights. ...2...3! NO! Madusa kicked Mimi off and Mimi crashed to the mat. Both women up and Madusa charged in and started blasting Mimi with punches that drove Mimi into the corner, Ref trying to separate them. In the chaos, Mimi reached down, grabbed Madusa's legs and pulled them out from under Madusa. Madusa crashed to the mat. Mimi for the pin. 1... Mimi placed her feet on the middle rope for leverage. ...2...3! Ref called for the bell as the crowd booed. Ref went over to talk with Larry Nelson and take the belt from him. Madusa up glaring at Mimi as Mimi was laughing and pointing at Madusa. Ref went over and handed the belt to Mimi and raised her hand in victory. Nelson: 9 minutes, 26 seconds, your winner... and STILL AWA Women's World Champion... the Magnificent Mimi! Loud boos as Val regained her bearings and climbed in the ring to congratulte Mimi. Madusa glaring at the heel pair as they laughed and pointed at Madusa. Madusa then charged at them. Mimi bailed to the safety of the floor but Madusa caught Val by her long blonde hair. Madusa held Val by the hair, pointed down at Mimi and Madusa maneuvered Val into position and popped her with a German suplex. Madusa up as the fans cheered. Mimi shocked on the floor. Madusa glared down at Mimi for a moment but Mimi was afraid to climb back into the ring. Madusa left the ring and dropped to the floor and headed back up the face aisle. Only then did Mimi climb in the ring to check on her manager. END PROGRAM

Moolah's girls actually seem like Moolah's goons! I love old school wrestling. But it sure was a much nastier business back then. I miss it!🙃

(Shows are now being posted again in their proper order after accidentally posting them out of order last week. AWA on ESPN gets posted first and then All-Star Wrestling.) AWA WRESTLING ON ESPN - SHOWBOAT SPORTS PAVILION - LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 1990 Announcers: Joe Pedicino & Bill Dundee Ring Announcer/Interviewer: Larry Nelson (# Aired on a previous AWA program. Also now highlighted in bold.) (2nd Taping) Show Intro Larry Nelson welcomed viewers and ran down the program: TV MAIN EVENT - FROM SC 5 - AWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: The Destruction Crew (WTTC) vs. Scott Norton & Billy Jack Haynes Don Muraco sees action More post-match interviews from SC 5 And more!!! Nelson sent it to the ring in Vegas, Tully Blanchard (w/ Valerie) vs. Bret Sawyer Tully and Val came down the heel aisle to strong boos but also had a core of fans. Tully dominated from bell-to-bell in the brief match and finished off Sawyer with his slingshot suplex for the 1...2...3! WINNER: Tully - Pinfall - 3:17 POST-MATCH INTERVIEW: Nelson: Tully Blanchard, an impressive victory in your debut match here on AWA Championship Wrestling. You also scored an impressive victory in your first match in the AWA over Brad Rheingans at Super Clash 5. Tully: Nelson! I'm just getting started! My first two matches here were just tune-ups for bigger and better things to come! And with Valerie acting as my manager, well, the sky's the limit for me! Because of who I am and my credentials, I don't expect to be wrestling too many guys like Sawyer for very long before I'm in the championship picture! You fans want to get behind a sure-fire winner?! Then you'll get behind Tully Blanchard! Val: Signing Tuily Blanchard was a huge deal for me. I knew that if I could sign Tully, then things would rapidly start to fall into place just like it did when I started managing the Women's Champ Magnificent Mimi. The only question is when does Tully have gold around his waist? My ultimate goal here in the AWA is to be the manager of champions. I want a stable that controls all the titles here. Mimi was the first piece of the puzzle and Tully will be the next. There's no stopping what I'm planning. It's all just a matter of time before everything comes together. Tully: She's a genius, I'm tellin' ya! She knows what it takes to win! And I like winners and people who can make me a lot of money! Crowd boos. Nelson: Tully Blanchard and Vaerie, everybody! Pic aired of the Trooper with the caption: NEXT... SUPER CLASH VICTOR!!! Commercials In-studio: Nelson intro'd comments from the Trooper, who beat the masked man who had been causing him all sorts of trouble in a hair vs. mask match at SC 5. VIDEO: Eric Bischoff was standing in the locker room with a victorious Trooper after his match at Super Clash 5. Trooper still in his ring attire and holding the defeated mystery man's mask. Eric: I am here with a very elated Trooper. Trooper, you finally were able to unmask your tormentor in a hard-fought match here at Super Clash 5. You were finally able to unmask him and expose him. How does it feel? Trooper: It feels great but there's also relief. I now finally know who this man is but I still don't know much about him. His name's Bobby Jaggers and he's a pro wrestling veteran. Since I'm still relatively new to the sport, I didn't know who he was. But, it was explained to me he's been a champion wrestler in the past. I still don't know why he assaulted me and cost me matches over the last several months. I hope we find out very shortly. I hope he'll be man enough to tell us why he went to such great lengths to mess with me. Eric: I think that's on everyone's mind, Trooper. Jaggers is a veteran of the sport. .He's made reference to you two crossing paths at one point but has given no specifics. Trooper: Bobby, just tell us what this is all about, man. You owe me that. But now, Eric, it's time to start looking forward to other challenges that lie ahead for the Trooper here in the AWA. I can finally concentrate on the championship picture and look to become a champion with that situation behind me. Eric: That's the Trooper. He unmasked his tormentor here tonight and that man was exposed as Bobby Jaggers. We'll see what happens moving forward. END VIDEO Pic aired of Don Muraco with the caption: NEXT... M.I.A.: MURACO IN ACTION!!! Commercials/AWA Tour Updates Don Muraco won a squash match over Billy Anderson via pinfall with his inverted piledriver finisher Muraco was heavily cheered coming down the face aisle. POST-MATCH INTERVIEW: Nelson: Don Muraco, have you heard anything from Wahoo about possibly teaming up again and going after the tag team titles? Muraco: Since Wahoo became the World Champion, Larry, I've only had brief conversations with him and he's always telling me we need to talk about reuniting as a team later because he's got World Title defenses coming up. Wahoo, I'm still waiting on your call, brother. That could have been us winning the tag team titles at Super Clash 5 if unforeseen plans did not change our future as a team. We can do this, Wahoo. We were rising fast up the tag team ranks. No one could stop us. Let's do it. Let's get back together and fight for those tag team championships. Think about it, Wahoo. You could be the holder of two World Titles. I know you're busy defending the World Title. But we've got to do this. We can't leave things dangling in the wind. Crowd cheered. Pic aired of Jerry Lawler with the caption: NEXT... THE KING!!! Comemrcials In-studio: Nelson intro'd a post-maatch interview with Jerry Lawler from SC 5 after Lawler beat Cactus Jack in a wild, bloody falls count anywhere match. VIDEO: Eric Bischoff was seated with Jerry Lawler in the locker room. Lawler was still in his ring duds and had a white towel draped around his neck and was wiping blood off his face. Eric: Jerry Lawler. What an epic victory over Cactus Jack at Super Clash 5 here tonight in a falls count anywhere match. That was one of the wildest matches I've ever seen. How you feeling right now? Lawler: I've got one hell of a headache. The match took its toll on both of us. Cactus is a very dangerous wrestler. He's very unpredictable. The chances that this man will one day maim somebody in the ring is very high. But, the first order of being a man is to stand up like a man and fight if you have to. That was one of the most violent matches I've ever had in my career. I'm sure weeks from now I'll still be feeling the effects of it. To say this match has already taken a serious toll on my body is an understatement. And, while you have to be able to absorb and deal with a lot of pain in this sport, Jack seems to relish feeling pain. He gets off on it to a disturbing degree. Eric: I spoke with cactus earlier. He said he's coming to Memphis to hunt you down and finish you off. Your thoughts on that? Lawler: He's more than welcome to come to Memphis. If he wants another match then I will give it to him. I certainly am not running anywhere. A wrestler like Cactus Jack, if there's ever been another wrestler remotely like him, has to be dealt with with extreme prejudice. You can't try and out-finesse Cactus. He's straight on wildness and unpredictability. Lou Thesz he ain't. Any man who puts his body through what he does and takes great pleasure in suffering just as more as he does punishing is a man who has nothing to lose. I think Cactus is mentally spun. He's really off-kilter upstairs. So, Cactus, if you see this. Come on down to Memphis. I'll be waiting to give you a big West Tennessee welcome. Eric: That was Jerry Lawler. He's willing to fight Cactus Jack after one of the wildest matches I've ever seen just took place earlier tonight at Super Clash 5. END VIDEO Video aired from the WTTC match at SC 5 with the caption: NEXT... HISTORY!!! Commercials In-studio: Larry Nelson said Bobby Jaggers would debut on next week's AWA on ESPN. Then discussed the tag title match from SC 5 and intro'd the match: AWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH: The Destruction Crew (WTTC) vs. Billy Jack Haynes & Scott Norton # Haynes and Norton made their way down the face aisle to a strong ovation. Destruction Crew made their way down the heel aisle to loud boos. They were wearing their titles and hard hats. They removed the hard hats and they were placed on the timekeeper's table by a ring attendant. Larry Nelson standing center ring with mic in hand. Nelson: This contest is scheduled for one fall with a 45-minute time-limit and is for the AWA World Tag Team Championship. Crowd cheered. Nelson: Introducing first, the challengers. Weighing in at a combined 525 pounds... they hail from the Pacific Northwest... Scott Norton and Billy Jack Haynes! Nice cheer from the crowd. Both men briefly acknowledged the crowd. Nelson: And their opponents. Crowd boos rising. Nelson: Weighing in at a combined weight of 514 poubds... they hail from Chicago, Illinois...the reigning AWA World Tag Team Champions... Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom... the Destruction Crew! Boos grew louder as the champs had deadly serious looks on their faces. Nelson: Your referee is Marty Miller! Miller took the belts from the champs and held them up for all to see before handing them off to Larry Nelson. Miller called both teams to center ring. Miller laid down the ground rules and patted each man down and sent each team back o their corners. Ref called for the bell. Haynes and Bloom started the match for their teams. The two men engaged in a collar-and-elbow tie-up and Haynes gained the advantage and caught Bloom in a side headlock takeover. Both men down on the mat and Haynes still holding on to the side headlock. Haynes worked over the headlock as Bloom tried to escape. Haynes continued to work over the side headlock as both men made it to their knees and then their feet. Bloom shoved Haynes off and Haynes hit the ropes and came off and caught Bloom with a shoulder tackle. Bloom crashed to the mat. Bloom up and he and Haynes started to lock up again and Bloom caught Haynes with a knee to the gut followed by a forearm smash to the back. Bloom whipped Haynes into the ropes and Haynes came off and Bloom dived down and Hayes leaped over Bloom and Bloom got up and Haynes came at Bloom and Bloom dived down again and Haynes hit the ropes and came off with another shoulder tackle and Bloom crashed to the mat again as the crowd cheered. Bloom up and Haynes caught Bloom in another side headlock. Haynes again worked over the headlock and Bloom was able to maneuver Haynes next to the ropes to force a break in the hold. Bloom stunned Haynes with a punch and caught Haynes in a front facelock. Bloom cinched up on the hold and Haynes started squirming in the hold. Haynes was able to drive Bloom into the buckles and Bloom lost his grip on the hold. Haynes popped Bloom with a series of shoulder blocks to the gut. Haynes went to whip Bloom into the opposite buckles but Bloom reversed and sent Haynes crashing into them. Bloom repaid Haynes with shoulder blocks to the gut of his own and tagged in Mike Enos. Bloom with a kick to the gut before leaving the ring. Enos then hit Haynes with a series of shoulder blocks to the gut of his own. Haynes staggered out by the ropes. Enos whipped Haynes into the ropes and dropped Haynes with a clothesline. Haynes crashed to the mat. Enos for the cover. 1...2... Haynes kicked out. Enos grabbed Haynes as Haynes was getting up and Enos placed his foot on the top buckle and slammed Haynes head into his boot. Haynes hurting. Bloom clubbed Haynes in the back. Enos whipped Haynes into the ropes and looked to catch Haynes coming off with a backdrop but Haynes leapfrogged Enos, spun around, ran Enos into the ropes for a roll up for the pin. 1...2... Enos kicked Haynes off. Both men up and Enos punched Haynes and Haynes lit into Enos with a series of punches. Haynes whipped Enos into his face team's corner and caught Enos with a series of knees to the gut and tagged in Norton as the crowd popped. Norton grabbed Enos and whipped Enos into the opposite buckles and charged in and hit Enos with an avalanche. Norton whipped Enos into the opposite buckles and nailed Enos with another avalanche. Enos staggered out of the corner and crashed to the mat. Norton ran to hit the ropes and Bloom came down the apron and got a knee up and Norton's back slammed into it. Norton fell forward in the ring. Ref reprimanded Bloom. Enos up and stomped Norton in the head. Enos picked Norton up and nailed Norton with a fallaway slam. Enos for the cover. 1...2... Norton kicked out. Norton to all fours and Enos raked his boot laces across Norton's face. Enos snapped up Norton and slammed his head into the top buckle and tagged in Bloom. Bloom with a series of forearms shivers to the side of Norton's head. Bloom whipped Norton into the opposite buckles and Bloom moved in and Norton charged out of thee corner and leveled Bloom with a running clothesline. Bloom slammed to the mat and the crowd erupted. Norton lifted Bloom up by the throat and held him in the air and threw Bloom back down to the mat. Bloom got to a knee and Norton caught Bloom in an over the shoulder backbreaker. Bloom in trouble. Enos hit the ring and nailed Norton in the back with a sideways double sledge. Norton lost his grip on Bloom and went down. Haynes hit the ring and nailed Enos with a flurry of punches as Enos climbed out on the apron. As the ref got Haynes out of the ring, Enos climbed back in the ring behind their backs and stomped Norton in the nuts. Enos fled back to his corner as Haynes stepped back out on the apron. Bloom snapped Norton up and nailed Norton with a double underhook suplex followed by an elbow smash. Bloom up and tagged in Enos. Enos in and hit Norton with head shots, hoisted Norton on his shoulder and hit the snake eyes on Norton. Norton crumpled to the mat. Enos for the cover. 1...2...thr... Norton kicked out. Fans cheered. Enos snapped up Norton and went to whip Norton into the ropes but Norton reversed and caught Enos coming off in the fireman's carry position and blasted Enos with a Samoan drop. Crowd cheered. Norton slow in making the cover. 1...2...thr... Enos kicked out. Crowd groaned. Norton up and started moving in the direction of his partner. Enos stirred and got up and lunged at Norton but Norton made the tag. Crowd roared. Haynes came in and fired away on Enos with punches. Bloom hit the ring and Haynes belted Bloom and then alternated punching each man. Bloom crashed to the mat and rolled out on the apron. Haynes whipped Enos into the ropes and caught Enos coming off with a press slam. Haynes moved in behind Enos as Enos shakily made it to his feet. Haynes locked Enos in his full nelson finisher. Enos struggling to escape. Enos weakening in the hold. Bloom had recovered, hit the ring and bashed Haynes from behind with a forearm smash to the back to break up the hold. Norton hit the ring but the ref intercepted him and ordered Norton back to his corner. Bloom grabbed Haynes and threw Haynes over the top rope down to the floor behind the ref's back. Crowd yelliing at the ref. Norton back to his corner and Bloom back to his. Ref ordered Bloom to stand back and Enos did. Ref began the 10-count. Count grew and Haynes stirred. Enos thinking the champs were gonna win by count out but at the count of 9, Haynes up and rolled into the ring to barely beat the count. Enos stomped away on Haynes while grabbing the top rope and broke the illegal move at the count of 4. Enos grabbed Haynes and whipped Haynes into the ropes and caught Haynes coming off with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Haynes in a bad way. Enos grabbed Haynes and threw Haynes into the corner and tagged in Bloom. Bloom in and fired away on Haynes with head and body shots. Bloom went to whip Haynes into the ropes but Haynes reversed and caught Bloom coming off with a clothesline. Bloom crashed to the mat. Haynes regained his bearings as Bloom slowly made it to his feet. Haynes moved in on Bloom with punches and then bodyslammed Bloom and hit Bloom with a legdrop. Haynes for the cover. 1...2...thr... Bloom kicked out. Haynes up as Bloom was getting up and Haynes tagged in Norton to the delight of the crowd. Norton came in a house of fire and tore into Bloom with punches. Norton whipped Bloom into the corner and nailed Bloom with an avalanche. Norton pulled Bloom out of the corner and went for his powerbomb finisher but Bloom blocked the move and Enos hit the ring and destroyed Norton with a running clothesline. Norton crashed to the mat. Ref ordered Enos back to his corner. Haynes started to climb in but the ref was able to get him out of the ring. Bloom tagged in Enos and Enos mounted the middle buckle as Bloom hoisted Norton up for a spike piledriver. Haynes dropped off the apron and ran over and tripped up Enos and Enos lost his balance and fell forward into the upside down Norton and Bloom crashed to the ring with Norton on top of him. Enos up and stomped Norton. Enos peeled Norton off Bloom and went to whip Norton into the ropes but Norton reversed and caught Enos coming off with a powerslam. Norton for the pin. 1...2...3! NO! Bloom hit the ring and dived over and broke up the pin with a double sledge to the back. Both men down in the ring as Haynes went to go after Bloom but the ref intercepted Haynes and the pair argued. With Haynes distracted, Bloom charged over and nailed Haynes with a forearm shiver to the side of the head. Haynes fell out of the ring through the top and middle rope down to the floor. Ref getting Bloom back to his corner. Enos picked up Norton and went to whip Norton into the corner but Norton reversed and sent Enos into the other direction and Enos crashed into the ref, who was slammed into the corner and went down. Norton grabbed Enos and nailed Enos with a neckbreaker. Bloom hit the ring behind Norton and blasted Norton with a low blow. Norton crashed to the mat. Three men down in the ring. Bloom went over to thee timekeeper's table and grabbed his hard hat. Haynes was getting to his feet at ringside and Bloom charged over and struck Haynes in the back with the hat and Haynes crumpled back to the floor. Bloom climbed back into the ring. Enos to his feet as Norton was getting up and pounded on Norton with forearms. Ref started to stir. Bloom gestured for Enos to grab Norton from behind. Pedicino: Is he gonna smash Norton in the head with that hard hat again?! Norton reared back and went to hit Norton with the hard hat but Norton wriggled free from Enos' grasp and Bloom struck Enos in the head with the hard hat. Crowd went crazy as Enos crashed to the mat. Haynes recovered enough on the floor, hit the ring and tackled Bloom and the pair toppled through the top and middle rope to the floor. Crowd in orbit. Ref, with the aid of the ropes making it to his feet. Norton grabbed Enos, hoisted Enos up and powerbombed Enos. Crowd deafening. Norton for the cover as the ref saw what was happening and dropped down. 1.....2.....3! Groggy ref called for the bell as the fans were going wild. Pedicino: The Destruction Crew's title reign is over after a year-and-a-half! Ref went over and talked with Larry Nelson and took the belts from him. Shot of the hard hat laying harmlessly in the ring. Haynes climbed back in the ring and Bloom was laying on the floor. Haynes jumped in Norton's arms and the pair celebrated. Ref handed the men their titles and raised each man's hand in victory. Nelson: 14 minutes, 23 seconds, your winners... and NEW AWA World Tag Team Champions... Billy Jack Haynes and Scott Norton! More roars from the hot crowd as Haynes and Norton held their titles up for the fans to see before leaving the ring the new World Tag Team champs. WINNER: Haynes & Norton - Pinfall - 14:23 Pedicino: What a moment here at Super Clash 5! New tag tream champions! Bill, what do you... What are you doing?! Dundee was dabbing at his eyes with a kleenex. Dundee: It's like going to a funeral. The Destruction Crew were such honorable champions. Pedicino: Honorable?! Did you see what they tried to do at the end of the match?! Dundee: I think Wayne Bloom was trying to interest Scott Norton in a job in construction and it went awry. WINNER: Haynes & Norton - Pinfall - 14:23 END PROGRAM (There would he been a 3-minute commercial break during the match. Actual match airtime: 11:30.)

(PREVIOUS POST: Vince calls the Sheik!) (NOTE: I accidentally posted the week's All-Star Wrestling syndicated show first. This is the ESPN show for the week. Things will be back in their proper order by the next round of shows.) AWA WRESTLING ON ESPN - SHOWBOAT SPORTS PAVILION - LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 1990 Announcers: Joe Pedicino & Bill Dundee Ring Announcer/Interviewer: Larry Nelson (# Aired on a previous AWA program. Also now highlighted in bold.) (1st Taping) Show Intro Larry Nelson welcomed viewers and ran down the program: TV MAIN EVENT: Bob Orton vs. Derrick Dukes SC 5 highlights and comments from some of the wrestlers Rip Oliver & The Grappler see tag team action Tina Moretti sees action Big news about next week's main event on the program A look at what happened last week after Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans lost a match to Badd Co. on ASW Nikita Koloff wrestles And more! Nelson sent it to the ring in Vegas. Jonnie Stewart won a squash match over Jimmy Uso via pinfall with his big elbow off the top rope finisher Stewart was largely booed coming down the heel aisle to the ring. Pic aired of Tina Moretti with the caption: NEXT... GIRL POWER!!! Commercials Tina Moretti won a squash match over Sasha Banks via pinfall with her Samoan piledriver finisher Moretti got a strong ovation coming to the ring, Announcers said she is one of a growing number of threats to the reign of AWA Women's World Champ Magnificent Mimi. In-studio: Larry Nelson talked about what a great show SC 5 was and said there was a great crowd in attendance. Hyped SC 5 highlights and comments coming up later in the show. Pic aired of Rheingans and Patera with the caption: NEXT... TROUBLE BREWING!!! Commercials/AWA Tour Update In-studio: Nelson intro'd footage from last week's ASW of possible issues arising between Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans after they lost to Badd Company. VIDEO # Before the match started, crowd booed as Valerie made her way to the ring down the heel aisle. Val, on the floor, called over interviewer Eric Bischoff. Val: Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans. I've just added one of the biggest stars in the sport in Tully Blanchard to my stable. If you two come and work for me,. I will take you straight to the top. I've already got a proven track record of doing this. Just look at Women's Champion Magnificent Mimi. With my guidance, you two can dominate the tag team division here in the AWA. Patera left the ring for the floor and walked up to Val. Patera: You'll take us to the top, huh? Val: And make you two more money than you ever dreamed of. Let me make you the champions you deserve to be. Patera: Well, I speak for both Brad and myself when I say... the answer is still NO! END OF THE MATCH/POST-MATCH # End of the match saw Brad and Diamond in the ring. Diamond was on the offensive and went to whip Brad into the ropes but Brad reversed and caught Diamond coming off with a belly-to-belly suplex. Crowd erupted. Brad for the cover. 1...2...thr... Tanaka hit the ring and stomped Brad in the back of the head to break up the pin try. Patera charged over and clotheslined Tanaka to the mat. Tanaka rolled out of the ring onto the apron and crashed to the floor and Patera followed. Ref distracted with Patera and Tanaka. Both men up in the ring and Brad hit Diamond with his fisherman suplex (Perfect Plex) finisher for the pin. Crowd yelling for the ref to turn around as Tanaka grabbed the middle rope and tried to pull himself up onto the apron and back into the ring. Patera grabbed Tanaka and a struggle ensiued to pull Tanaka off the ropes. Ref still distracted. DDP hit the ring behind the ref and clubbed Brad, who was in the bridgeout position, in the gut with his cane. Brad lost his grip on the hold. DDP fled the ring as Diamond covered Brad. Patera yanked Tanaka off the ropes and down to the floor. Ref turned and saw Diamond pinning Brad. Ref dropped for the count. 1...2...3! Ref called for the bell as the crowd booed. Diamond up and the ref raised his hand in victory. Patera had dropped Tanaka on the floor with a big right hand and saw Brad laid out in the ring and climbed in as Diamond left for the floor. As Patera checked on Brad, Diamond and DDP helped Tanaka to his feet and the trio left the ringside area. Patera helped Brad to his feet and said something to Brad and then got into a heated exchange and shoved Patera. More words exchanged. Brad pointed an accusatory finger at Patera and Pateera slapped the finger out of his face. Brad stormed off still grabbing at his gut form the cane shot. A confused and stunned Patera left in the ring. Patera then left and followed several steps behind Brad up the face aisle to the back. END VIDEO In-studio: Nelson described the shocking turn of events. Wondered what was going on between Patera and Rheingans and if a possible split was in the offing. Pic aired of Rip Oliver and the Grappler with the caption: NEXT... INVADERS??? Commercials Rip Oliver & The Grappler won a squash match over the New Day when Oliver pinned Kofi Kingston with a spinebuster Oliver and Grappler were booed pretty strongly coming down the heel aisle. Pic aired of the Sc 5 logo with the caption: NEXT... SC 5 HIGHLIGHTS!!! Commercials In-studio: Larry Nelson said what a great event SC 5 was and intro'd a highlight reel of the event. 3-minute video highlights package from SC 5 played to the song Winner Takes It All by Sammy Hagar. In-studio: Nelson discussed Haynes and Norton winning the World Tag Team Titles and intro'd a post-match interview with them in the locker room. VIDEO: # Eric Bischoff was standing by with new AWA World Tag Champs Scott Norton and Billy Jack Haynes. The champs were still in their ring attire and each had a belt slung over his shoulder. Eric: Billy Jack Haynes and Scott Norton! Congratulations on becoming the new AWA World Tag Team Champions! You ended the 18-month run of the Destruction Crew and the crowd, as you could tell, loved it! How are you guys feeling right now? Haynes: I feel this is the greatest accomplishment of my career, Eric. The Destruction Crew were the champs for 18 long months! It was like a dark ages for tag team wrestling! They held onto those belts by any means necessary! But today, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they ran out of luck! We worked hard to move our way up the ladder here in the AWA to put ourselves in a position to win these belts and we did it! We did it! Nroton: The Destruction Crew did everything they could to try and derail our championship dream! That attack in the parking lot against us by the then champions was meant to be a warning and intimidate us! It failed on both fronts! It only made us more determined to win these titles today! The Destruction Crew, you have to give them credit, no matter how begrudgingly! They held onto these belts for 18 months! That's a long time to hold any belt in this sport! But, all their shortcuts! All their head games! The attack on us! None of it worked! We now stand before the AWA fans as the new World Tag Team Champions! And I'll never forget what me and Billy Jack accomplished here tonight! Eric: They are the new tag team champions Scott Norton and Billy Jack Haynes. END VIDEO Pic aired of Nikita Koloff with the caption: NEXT... REAL LIFE NIGHTMARE!!! Commercials Nikita Koloff won a squash match over Wade Barrett via pinfall with his Russian sickle finisher Koloff came to the ring down the face ailse to a strong ovation. In-studio: Nelson mentioned Nikita had defeated Col. DeBeers in an exciting match at SC 5. Nelson said coming up next... an interview with Cactus Jack after his wild battle with Jerry Lawler at SC 5. Commercials In-studio: Nelson discussed the wild, bloody falls count anywhere match between Jerry Lawler and Cactus Jack at SC 5. Nelson then intro'd a post-match interview with Cactus Jack. VIDEO: # Eric Bischoff was standing with a still bloody Cactus Jack in the locker room after Jack's match with Lawler. Eric: Cactus Jack, you were the loser in tonight's falls count anywhere match with Jerry Lawler. It was a wild, hard-hitting, bloody affair between you two. One has to wonder was there really a winner in the bout. Cactus: Jerry Lawler. You may have won our fight tonight. But know this. I'm not through with you Jerry Lawler. No way in hell is this over between us. You see, you think you're just gonna head back to Memphis and that's the end of it. But, I'm coming to Memphis, Lawler, and I'm gonna hunt you down and destroy you for good. I loved the violence, the pain, the bloodshed. All of it was exhilarating. Well, we're gonna clash again. I can 100 percent promise you that. And all the violence, pain and bloodshed is gonna be amped up even further. I'm gonna drain the life out of your body, Lawler! I want to send you out of the arena in an ambulance! I am gonna maim you beyond recognition! I want to rip some of the skin off your body! Eric winced. Cactus: I may have lost the match tonight! But, I consider what I did my greatest accomplishment so far in my career! I want to break you mentally and physically! You need to suffer to the most extreme degree, Lawler! I hate you so bad, words can't begin to describe that hatred! And I won't rest, Lawler, until I've mangled you to the point that you're unrecognizable and can't wrestle ever again! It's over for the King! The King is dead! Long live Cactus Jack! Jack walked out of the picture as a shocked Bischoff looked on. END VIDEO Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... THE MAIN EVENT!!! Commercials In-studio: Nelson said that the major news spoken of at the beginning of the show was this... Next week on AWA on ESPN, they will be airing the complete AWA World Tag Team Title match from Super Clash 5 where Haynes and Norton defeated the Destruction Crew to become the new AWA World Tag Team Champions. Nelson also said that on next week's All-Star Wrestling, they would air the AWA Women's World Title match between Magnificent Mimi (WC) and Madusa Miceli from SC 5. Nelson then sent it to Vegas for the main event. TV MAIN EVENT: Bob Orton vs. Derrick Dukes Dukes came down the face aisle to a modest ovation. Orton came down the heel aisle to strong boos. Orton put on a wrestling clinic and dominated the bout against Dukes. Dukes got in a couple of spurts of offense, but in the end Orton proved too much for the Top Gun and finished off Dukes with his superplex finisher to score the 1...2...3! WINNER: Orton - Pinfall - 6:46 END PROGRAM

OCTOBER 1990 THE HOME OF SHEIK ADNAN EL-KAISSEY Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey was relaxing and watching TV at his home in Minneapolis when the phone rang. After two rings, Sheik answered. Sheik: Hello. Voice: Is this Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey? Sheik: It is. Wait. Is this... Voice: If you guessed Vince McMahon, you'd win the prize. Sheik: Hello, Vince. This is a pleasant surprise. What can I do for you? Vince: How would you like to come work for the World Wrestling Federation? Sheik: Wow. You caught me off-guard there, Vince. Right now, business is going up here in the AWA. Vince: But is it at the WWF level? Sheik: No. Of course not. Vince: Well, Sheik, come to work for me and I'll make you more money in six months than you could make in a year in the AWA even with an uptick in business. Sheik: What do you have in mind for me if I can ask? Vince: Well, due to the situation in the Gulf, we're turning Sgt. Slaughter into an Iraqi sympathizer. We'd like to put together a heel coalition with you and Iron Sheik aligning with Sarge. Sheik: Sounds like it could be interesting. Should we meet to talk this over? Vince: Sure, I can fly you up here to our offices in Stamford. Just keep this between us for right now. Sheik: I understand. Vince: Also, was wondering about the wrestler you manage there, Kokina. Sheik: Yes. Vince: I'd like to talk with him about joining the WWF as well. Already have a gimmick in mind for him. Could you pass the message along to him? Sheik: Sure, Vince. Sure. Vince: Thank you, Sheik. Maybe I could fly both of you up here and talk with you two on the same day? Sheik: Probably workable. Vince: Just remember this stays between us right now. Sheik: Got it. Vince: Great. We'll set up a meeting and take it from there. Sheik: Okay, Vince. We'll take it from there. Vince: Good to talk with you, Sheik. Sheik: You too, Vince. Vince: Goodbye. Sheik hung up the phone. Larry Zbyszko. Sgt. Slaughter. Was Vince McMahon about to poach a solid wrestling veteran and a rising young star from the AWA? Shades of 1983/84 all over again? STAY TUNED...

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AWA ALL-STAR WRESTLING SYNDICATED SHOW - JOHN E. CARLSON COLISEUM - FARGO, ND - OCTOBER 1990 ANNOUNCERS: Jack Reynolds & David Crockett Ring Announcer/Interviewer: Eric Bischoff (# Aired on a previous AWA program.) (1st Taping) In-studio: Larry Nelson welcomed viewers and ran down the program: All tag matches on the show!!! TV MAIN EVENT - 6-MAN TAG: Rip Oliver, The Grappler & Col. DeBeers vs. Greg Gagne, Jake Milliman & Jerry Blackwell Akio Sato & Ninja Go vs. The Top Guns Jonnie Stewart & Manny Fernandez vs. Tom Zenk & Tommy Jammer Tommy Rich & Dennis Stamp vs. The Guerrero Bros. A look at highlights from SC 5 plus interview with some of the event's participants A major announcement about next week's show And more! Akio Sato & Ninja Go vs. The Top Guns Sato and Go came down the heel aisle to fairly strong boos. Top Guns (Ricky Rice and Derrick Dukes) came down the face aisle to a decent response. Good back-and-forth action with neither side gaining a firm advantage throughout. End of the match saw Sato on the offensive on Rice and Sato whipped Rice into the ropes and looked to catch Rice coming off with a backdrop but Rice leapfrogged Sato and ran Sato into the ropes and rolled Sato up from behind into a bridgeout to score the 1...2...3 for the Guns. WINNER: Guns - Pinfall - 7:12 Pic aired of Stewart and Manny with the caption: NEXT... ODD COUPLE!!! Commercials Jonnie Stewart & Manny Fernandez vs. Tom Zenk & Tommy Jammer Zenk and Jammer came down the face aisle to a fair response. Stewart and Fernandez came down the heel aisle to a decent negative crowd reax. Zenk and Jammer held serve early before Manny and Jonnie fought their way back into the match and took control. Late surge by Zenk and Jammer almost produced the upset victory for the pair. But, in the end, Stewart and Manny proved too much as Stewart pinned Zenk with his flying elbow smash off the top rope and Manny pinned Jammer with his flying burrito finisher to score the dual pinfalls. WINNER: Stewart & Manny - Pinfall - 5:19 Pic aired of the SC 5 logo with the caption: NEXT... SC 5 HIGHLIGHTS!!! Commercials/Promos for house show cities/Generic promos for non-house show cities In-studio: Larry Nelson said what a great event SC 5 was and intro'd a highlight reel of the event. 3-minute video highlights package from SC 5 played to the song Winner Takes It All* by Sammy Hagar. In-studio: Nelson discussed Haynes and Norton winning the World Tag Team Titles and intro'd a post-match interview with them in the locker room. VIDEO: # Eric Bischoff was standing by with new AWA World Tag Champs Scott Norton and Billy Jack Haynes. The champs were still in their ring attire and each had a belt slung over his shoulder. Eric: Billy Jack Haynes and Scott Norton! Congratulations on becoming the new AWA World Tag Team Champions! You ended the 18-month run of the Destruction Crew and the crowd, as you could tell, loved it! How are you guys feeling right now? Haynes: I feel this is the greatest accomplishment of my career, Eric. The Destruction Crew were the champs for 18 long months! It was like a dark ages for tag team wrestling! They held onto those belts by any means necessary! But today, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they ran out of luck! We worked hard to move our way up the ladder here in the AWA to put ourselves in a position to win these belts and we did it! We did it! Norton: The Destruction Crew did everything they could to try and derail our championship dream! That attack in the parking lot against us by the then champions was meant to be a warning and intimidate us! It failed on both fronts! It only made us more determined to win these titles today! The Destruction Crew, you have to give them credit, no matter how begrudgingly! They held onto these belts for 18 months! That's a long time to hold any belt in this sport! But, all their shortcuts! All their head games! The attack on us! None of it worked! We now stand before the AWA fans as the new World Tag Team Champions! And I'll never forget what me and Billy Jack accomplished here tonight! Eric: They are the new tag team champions Scott Norton and Billy Jack Haynes. END VIDEO (* Winner Takes It All: ) Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... MORE ACTION!!! Commercials Tommy Rich & Dennis Stamp vs. The Guerrero Bros. Guerrero Bros. made their way to the ring down the face aisle to a nice ovation. Rich and Stamp came down the heel aisle to boos. Before the match, Rich got on the ring mic. Rich: Tonight, I begin my hunt for the ultimate tag team partner. I need to find a partner who can hep me win the AWA World Tag Team Titles. The first wrestler auditioning for the job is Mr. Dennis Stamp. Ref called for the bell. Short match and Stamp bore the brunt of he Guerreros offense. End of the brief affair saw Mando pin Stamp with a moonsault. WINNER: Guerrero Bros. - Pinfall - 2:23 Rich attacked the defeated Stamp after the match and threw Stamp over the top rope down to the floor. Rich then went over to Eric Bischoff on the floor. Rich: Dennis Stamp. Sorry. You didn't make the cut, buddy. Better luck next time if there is one. Pic aired of a bloody Cactus Jack with the caption: NEXT... CREEPY INTERVIEW!!! Commercials/Promos for house show cities/Generic promos for non-house show cities In-studio: Nelson discussed the wild, bloody falls count anywhere match between Jerry Lawler and Cactus Jack at SC 5. Nelson then intro'd a post-match interview with Cactus Jack. VIDEO: # Eric Bischoff was standing with a still bloody Cactus Jack in the locker room after Jack's match with Lawler. Eric: Cactus Jack, you were the loser in tonight's falls count anywhere match with Jerry Lawler. It was a wild, hard-hitting, bloody affair between you two. One has to wonder was there really a winner in the bout? Cactus: Jerry Lawler. You may have won our fight tonight. But know this. I'm not through with you Jerry Lawler. No way in hell is this over between us. You see, you think you're just gonna head back to Memphis and that's the end of it. But, I'm coming to Memphis, Lawler, and I'm gonna hunt you down and destroy you for good. I loved the violence, the pain, the bloodshed. All of it was exhilarating. Well, we're gonna clash again. I can 100 percent promise you that. And all the violence, pain and bloodshed is gonna be amped up even further. I'm gonna drain the life out of your body, Lawler! I want to send you out of the arena in an ambulance! I am gonna maim you beyond recognition! I want to rip some of the skin off your body! Eric winced. Cactus: I may have lost the match tonight! But, I consider what I did my greatest accomplishment so far in my career! I want to break you mentally and physically! You need to suffer to the most extreme degree, Lawler! I hate you so bad, words can't begin to describe that hatred! And I won't rest, Lawler, until I've mangled you to the point that you're unrecognizable and can't wrestle ever again! It's over for the King! The King is dead! Long live Cactus Jack! Jack walked out of the picture as a shocked Bischoff looked on. END VIDEO (The stuff that would happen between Cactus and Lawler in Memphis would not be covered on AWA programming. Since Jerry Jarrett is part-owner of the AWA in the story, AWA wrestlers would occasionally work Memphis. This is one of those times. The two would meet twice at Mid-South Coliseum. The first match being a wild, bloody double count out and the re-match a couple of weeks later, also at Mid-South, would be a Memphis chain match with Lawler going over clean.) Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... 6-MAN MAYHEM!!! Commercials In-studio: Nelson said that the major news spoken of at the beginning of the show was this... Next week on AWA on ESPN, they will be airing the complete AWA World Tag Team Title match from Super Clash 5 where Haynes and Norton defeated the Destruction Crew to become the new AWA World Tag Team Champions. Nelson also said that on next week's All-Star Wrestling, they would air the AWA Women's World Title match between Magnificent Mimi (WC) and Madusa Miceli. Nelson sent it to the main event. TV MIN EVENT - 6-MAN TAG: Grappler, Col. DeBeers & Rip Oliver vs. Greg Gagne, Jake Milliman & Jerry Blackwell DeBeers, Grap and Oliver made their way down the heel aisle to pretty strong boos. Announcers pointed out that even though DeBeers was from South Africa, he had wrestled for years in the Pacific Northwest. Gagne, Milliman and Blackwell made their way down the face aisle to a decent crowd reaction. Once in the ring, Milliman tore off his '2% Forever' t-shirt and threw it into the crowd and briefly played to the fans. Announcers wondered what Grappler had in the toe of his right boot. Ref called for the bell. Gagne and Rip started the match for their two teams. The two circled one another and engaged in a collar-and-elbow tie-up and Oliver won the struggle and maneuvered around behind Gagne and and caught Greg with an amateur-style wrestling throw. Gagne up and Oliver charged in and drove Gagne into the corner. Rip with a series of knees to the gut followed by head shots. Rip pulled Gagne out of the corner and raked Gagne's eyes across the top rope. Ref reprimanded Rip. Rip suplexed Gagne and grabbed Gagne's left leg and lifted it in the air and caught Gagne in a painful ankle lock. Rip worked over the ankle lock and then kicked Gagne in the back of the left thigh. Gagne hurt. Rip tagged in the Grappler. Gagne getting up and the Grappler caught Gagne with a sweeping kick to the back of the leg and Gagne crashed back to the mat. Grappler grabbed Gagne's left leg and stretched it out and drove a series of knees into Gagne's left knee area. Grappler then locked Gagne in a spinning toe hold. Grappler cinched up on the hold but Gagne not giving up. Grappler spun around again and Gagne kicked Grappler off and Grappler crashed to the mat as the crowd cheered. Both men up and Gagne hobbling. Grappler cut off the ring and kept Greg from making the tag and caught Greg in a front facelock. Grappler working over the hold as the ref checked for choking. Grappler maneuvered Greg into his team's corner and tagged in DeBeers. Loud boos. Gagne still locked in the front facelock as DeBeers mounted the top rope and came off with a double sledge to Gagne's back. DeBeers whipped Gagne into the ropes and caught Gagne coming off with a back elbow to the chest. Gagne crashed to the mat. DeBeers snapped Gagne up and, being a show-off, bodyslammed Gagne with one hand. DeBeers grabbed Gagne's left leg and raised it and put his foot on Gagne's right ankle area and violently twisted Gagne's foot. Gagne in great pain but not giving up. DeBeers released the hold. DeBeers snapped Gagne up and whipped Gagne into the ropes and looked to catch Gagne coming off with a high backdrop but Gagne caught DeBeers with a kick to the chest. DeBeers crashed to the mat and Gagne went down on the mat. Both men started to get up at the same time and Gagne lunged over and tagged in Milliman as the crowd popped. Milliman hit the ring and fired away on DeBeers with punches. Milliman whipped DeBeers into the ropes and caught DeBeers coming off with a high backdrop. DeBeers slammed to the mat. DeBeers up and Milliman went for a dropkick but DeBeers fell out of the way and Milliman crashed to the mat. Both men up and DeBeers hit the ropes and came off with a running punch to the head. Milliman staggered. DeBeers with another one-hand bodyslam on Milliman followed by a double foot stomp to the head. DeBeers for the cover. 1...2... Milliman kicked out. DeBeers caught Milliman with a head shot and threw him into the heel team's corner. DeBeers tagged in the Grappler. Grappler hit the ring and worked Milliman over withe a series of rapid-fire shoulder blocks to the gut. Grappler hip tossed Milliman out of the corner and came up behind Milliman and caught Milliman with a belly-to-back suplex. Grappler with a rear chinlock on Milliman down on the mat. Milliman fighting through the pain. Fans chanting for Jake. Grappler released the hold and snapped Milliman up and placed his boot on the top buckle and slammed Jake's head into it. Jake staggered off and dropped to a knee. Grappler grabbed Jake and whipped Jake into the ropes and looked to catch Jake with a backdrop but Jake turned it into a sunset flip instead for the pin. 1...2... Grappler kicked out. Both men up and Grappler swung at Milliman and missed an Jake lunged over and tagged in Blackwell. Big pop from the crowd. Blackwell came in and walloped Grappler with a running clothesline. Grappler crashed to the mat. Grappler up and Blackwell hit Grappler with a headbutt. Grappler stunned. Blackwell nailed Grap with a standing dropkick. Grappler crashed to the mat. Grappler up and Blackwell whipped Blackwell into the corner. Rip hit the ring and Blackwell blocked a Rip punch and headbutted Rip and whipped Rip into Grappler in the corner. Blackwell charged in and avalanched the pair as the fans roared. Both men laid into one another. DeBeers hit the ring and clubbed Blackwell in the back to kill Blackwell's momentum. DeBeers quickly out of the ring. Blackwell, Grap and Rip down in the ring. Ref counting. Grappler and Rip to their feet as Blackwell got up and Grap and Rip blasted Blackwell with a running double clothesline. Milliman and Gagne hit the ring and got some shots on on Rip and Grap before the ref ordered them back to their corner. As the trio had words, Grap and Rip drove Blackwell into their corner and DeBeers strangled big boy with the tag rope. Strangling party stopped just as the ref turned around. Rip had climbed out on the apron and Grap tagged him in. Rip in and flailed away on Blackwell with punches. Blackwell staggered out of the corner next to the ropes. Rip continued the punch and kick assault. Rip went to whip Blackwell into the opposite ropes but Blackwell grabbed the top rope. Rip tried again to no avail. Blackwell headbutted Rip. Blackwell picked up Rip and bodyslammed Rip. Blackwell went for a leg drop but Rip rolled out of the away and Blackwell crashed to the mat. Rip up and tagged in DeBeers. DeBeers hit the ring and stomped away on Blackwell. DeBeers snapped Blackwell up and whipped Blackwell into the corner. Blackwell slammed hard, front-first into the buckles. Blackwell bounced back and crashed to the mat. DeBeers for the cover. 1...2...thr.... Blackwell kicked out. Crowd cheered. DeBeers up and caught Blackwell with a kick to the gut as Blackwell was getting up and DeBeers bodyslammed Blackwell. DeBeers was proud of what he did and then let out a yell and grabbed his lower back in immense pain. Fans cheered. DeBeers tagged in the Grappler. Grappler came in as Blackwell was getting up and pounced on Blackwell. Grappler hammered away on Blackwell and went to whip Blackwell into the ropes but Blackwell reversed and caught Grap coming off in a bearhug. Grappler struggling to get out of the crushing hold. Rip hit the ring and came up behind Blackwell and kicked Blackwell in the back. Blackwell lost his grip on the hold. Ref getting Rip out of the ring. Grappler looked to repeat DeBeers' slam and hoisted Blackwell up but buckled under the weight of Blackwell and crashed to the mat with Blackwell on top of him. Blackwell for the pin but the ref was caught up having words with Rip and DeBeers. Crowd yelling for the ref to turn around. Blackwell got up and the Grappler was able to recover enough to trip Blackwell up and sent Blackwell toppling into his corner.. Blackwell tagged in the hobbling Gagne. Grappler went to punch Gagne but Gagne blocked the punch try and fired away on the masked man with punches. Gagne whipped Grappler into the ropes and caught Grappler coming off with a dropkick. Grappler crashed to the mat. Grappler up and Gagne found the strength to hit Grappler with another dropkick. Grappler back down and so was Gagne. DeBeers ran down to the middle of the apron and started yelling. Gagne slow to get up as his left leg bothered him. Milliman and Blackwell looking over in the direction of DeBeers. Gagne looked over at DeBeers briefly as Grap tapped the toe of his boot into the mat three times. Ref had been looking over at DeBeers and the arguing parties. Gagne turned and Grap kicked Gagne in the left leg and Gagne crumpled to the mat. Grappler for the cover as the ref saw the cover. 1...2... Milliman and Blackwell tried to hit the ring but DeBeers and Rip cut them off. ...3! Ref called for the bell as the fans booed. Grap up and the ref raised his hand in victory. Gagne down holding his left leg and in serious pain as Blackwell and Milliman checked on him. The Northwest victors left the ring and Eric Bischoff came up to them with mic in hand. Grappler: This is another victory for the Pacific Northwest! Take a look at Greg Gagne! He just got a Northwest surprise and now he's hobbled! Maybe we can send Gagne a sturdy wood cane from the Pacific Northwest so he can at least walk a little and have some quality of life! The trio laughed. Shot of Blackwell and Milliman helping the injured Gagne to his feet in the ring as the program ended. WINNER; DeBeers, Grappler & Oliver - 12:37 END PROGRAM

Looks interesting. I'll be reading. Good luck. Also, I notice your name: TardisMechanic. Could you possible check on my Tardis? I think it's leaking oil. 🙃

Good to see Vince pull the rug out from under that super-b*tch Moolah. Ever notice how many wrestling shows back in the day were title Big Tim Wrestling, All-Star Wrestling, Championship Wrestling? One thing about then, promoters sure weren't creative when it came to naming their shows,

He apparently had quite a few DUI-type incidents in his life. The announcer Mike Tenay used to host a pro wrestling radio show in Las Vegas. My friend told me that Larry Zbyszko told Tenay on the show that one time Nelson was driving drunk, hit another car, managed to find his way to the airport and bought a ticket to somewhere in Europe and left the country for a while. Don't know if it's true. The guy apparently had a real serious drinking problem. But I couldn't resist adding that little tidbit! 😁

AWA ALL-STAR WRESTLING SYNDICATED SHOW - HAMMOND CIVIC CENTER - HAMMOND, IN - SEPTEMBER 1990 Announcers: Jack Reynolds & David Crockett Ring Announcer/Interviewer: Eric Bischoff (# Aired on a previous AWA program.) (Show taped before SC 5.) (4th Taping) In-studio: Larry Nelson welcomed viewers and ran down the program: TV MAIN EVENT: Cactus Jack vs. The Trooper Ken Patera & Brad Rheingans vs. Badd Company A look at the tribute to Verne Gagne which took place in St. Paul in July Reggie Bennett vs. Black Venus And more! Nelson sent it to the ring in Hammond. Manny Fernandez vs. Barry Windham Manny came down the heel aisle to strong boos. Windham got a strong face reaction coming down the face aisle. Ref called for the bell. The two men engaged in a collar-and-elbow tie-up and struggled for quite a bit before Windham drove Manny against the ropes to force a break. Break was clean. The pair tied up again and Manny caught Barry in a side headlock. After a brief struggle, Barry shoved Manny off into the ropes and Manny came off and Barry caught Manny with a hip toss. Manny up and Barry caught Manny with an arm drag and then locked Manny in a rear chinlock. Barry worked over the chinlock but Manny would not submit. Barry released the hold and dropped an elbow to the top of Manny's head. Barry snapped Manny up and bodyslammed Manny and went to hit Manny with a jumping elbow smash but Manny rolled out of the way and Barry crashed to the mat. Both men up and Manny stunned Barry with a kick to the gut. Manny whipped Barry into the ropes and caught Barry coming off with a back fist to the face. Barry crashed to the mat. Manny raked his boot laces across Barry's face and Barry rolled out on the apron holding his face. Ref ordered Manny back and Manny obliged. Ref started the 10-count. Barry to his feet and started to climb back into the ring and Manny attacked Barry as Barry was climbing back in the ring. Manny whipped Barry into the buckles. Manny charged in and Barry got his foot up and Manny slammed face-first into it and staggered back. Barry came out of the corner firing away with punches on Manny. Barry whipped Manny into the ropes and caught Manny coming off with a high backdrop. Manny slammed to the mat and the crowd cheered. Manny getting up and Barry grabbed Manny by the hair and slammed Manny's head into the top buckle. Manny spun around in the corner and caught Manny with a series of knees to the gut and hip tossed Manny out of the corner. Manny sat up and Barry caught Manny with a flying snap mare. Manny down on the mat holding the back of his head. Barry reached down and started to pull Manny up when Manny stunned Barry with a jaw breaker to the top of the head. Barry snapped back and crashed to the mat. Manny grabbed Barry, whipped Barry into the ropes and caught Barry coming off with a jumping back elbow to the chest. Barry crashed to the mat. Manny for the cover. 1... Barry Kicked out. Barry getting up and Manny caught Barry with a kick to the chest. Manny whipped Barry into the ropes and looked to catch Barry coming off with a backdrop but Barry caught Manny and blasted Manny with a DDT. Crowd popped bigly. Windham a little slow in making the cover. 1...2...thr... Manny kicked out. Crowd groaned. Barry up and snapped Manny up and whipped Manny into the buckles. Barry moved in and popped Manny with a series of shoulder blocks to the gut. Manny staggered out of the corner and dropped to his knees. Barry reached down and started pulling Manny up and Manny caught Barry with an eye rake and rolled Barry up in a small package for the pin. 1...2... Barry kicked out. Crowd cheered. Both men up and Manny hit Barry with some punches and went to hit Barry with a belly-to-back suplex but Barry flipped out of Manny's grasp and landed on his feet behind Manny. Manny turned and Barry hit him with a clothesline and Manny crashed to the mat. Barry grabbed Manny in a front facelock and worked it over but Manny not submitting. Manny then rammed Barry hard, back-first into the buckles. Barry slammed so hard into them that he dropped to his ass in the corner. Manny started choking Barry out with his knee and broke the illegal move at the ref's count of 4. Manny then reached down and choked Barry with his hands and once again broke at the count of 4. Manny pulled Barry to his feet and whipped Barry into the ropes and caught Barry coming off with a back fist to the face. Barry spun around and crashed to the mat. Manny dropped a knee across Barry's chest and went for the pin. 1... Manny grabbed the top rope for leverage. ...2...3! NO! Barry got a shoulder up. Ref saw Manny's hand on the top rope and ordered a break. Manny stomped Barry and pulled Barry to his feet. Manny whipped Barry into the opposite buckles and charged in and looked to hit Barry with another jumping back elbow but Barry moved and Manny slammed Back-first into the buckles. Manny walked out by the ropes grabbing at his back. Barry moved in and pulverized Manny with punches, whipped Manny into the ropes and nailed Manny coming off with a flying dropkick. Manny crashed to the mat as the fans popped. A stunned Manny up as Barry grabbed Manny, whipped Manny into the ropes and caught Manny coming off with his flying lariat finisher. Manny down and Barry covered. 1...2...3! Ref called for the bell as the fans cheered. Windham up and the ref raised his hand in victory. Windham left the ring and slapped hands with fans on the way back up the face aisle. WINNER: Windham - Pinfall - 8:26 Pic aired of Reggie Bennett with the caption: NEXT... RUMBLIIN' REG!!! Commercials 'Big' Reggie Bennett vs. Black Venus (from the LPWA) Venus was in the ring and announced. Bennett came down the face aisle to a strong ovation. Venus attacked Reg before the match and the ref called for the bell. Venus almost stunned Reg in the first 30 seconds but Reg fought back and took control of the match. Reg dominated the rest of the way and finished Venus off with her split-leg rear chinlock finisher. WINNER: Bennett - Submission - 2:49 In-studio: Nelson talked about what a big, powerful wrestler Bennett was and how she is a serious World Title contender. Nelson talked about what a great event SC 5 was and said they'd have highlights and comments from some of the wrestlers next week on the program. Pic aired of Verne Gagne with the caption: NEXT... TRIBUTE TO VERNE!!! Commercials/Promos for house show cities/ Generic promos for non-house show cities In-studio: Larry Nelson intro'd highlights from a tribute to Verne Gagne that took place at the St. Paul Civic Center in July. VIDEO: # Video showed footage from the tribute to Verne plus snippets of speeches by AWA luminaries Nick Bockwinkel, Crusher, Billy Robinson, Baron Von Raschke and son Greg Gagne. Video also showed Verne receiving gifts and the Key to the City from the mayor of St. Paul. Video also featured comments from Verne and guests behind the scenes talking about the big night. Plus interviews with some of the fans who had fond memories of the AWA's heyday when Verne ran the show. END VIDEO In-studio: Nelson talked about the special night to honor the man who was responsible for creating and building the AWA. Nelson also thanked the fans who came out for the tribute show. Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... TAG TEAM ACTION!!! Commercials Ken Patera & Brad Rheingans vs. Badd Company (w/ Mgr. DDP) Patera and Rheingans came down the face aisle to a pretty strong reaction. Badd Co and DDP came down the heel aisle to strong boos. Before the match started, crowd booed as Valerie made her way to the ring down the heel aisle. Val, on the floor, called over interviewer Eric Bischoff. Val: Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans. I've just added one of the biggest stars in the sport in Tully Blanchard to my stable. If you two come and work for me,. I will take you straight to the top. I've already got a proven track record of doing this. Just look at Women's Champion Magnificent Mimi. With my guidance, you two can dominate the tag team division here in the AWA. Patera left the ring for the floor and walked up to Val. Patera: You'll take us to the top, huh? Val: And make you two more money than you ever dreamed of. Let me make you the champions you deserve to be. Patera: Well, I speak for both Brad and myself when I say... the answer is still NO! Crowd popped. Patera yelled for Valerie to leave ringside and Val was nervous Patera might do something to her by the tone of his voice and she beat a retreat back up the heel aisle. Match between the two teams featured hard-hitting action. Exciting near falls and some cheating on the part of Badd Co. and DDP. DDP got his comeuppance during the bout when he tried to hit Patera with his cane but Patera smacked the crap out of DDP and sent DDP crashing to the floor to the delight of the Hammondites in attendance. End of the match saw Brad and Diamond in the ring. Diamond was on the offensive and went to whip Brad into the ropes but Brad reversed and caught Diamond coming off with a belly-to-belly suplex. Crowd erupted. Brad for the cover. 1...2...thr... Tanka hit the ring and stomped Brad in the back of the head to break up the pin try. Patera charged over and clotheslined Tanaka to the mat. Tanaka rolled out of the ring onto the apron and crashed to the floor and Patera followed. Ref distracted with Patera and Tanaka. Both men up in the ring and Bad hit Diamond with his fisherman suplex (Perfect Plex) finisher for the pin. Crowd yelling for the ref to turn around as Tanaka grabbed the middle rope and tried to pull himself up onto the apron and back into the ring. Patera grabbed Tanaka and a struggle ensued to pull Tanaka off the ropes. Ref still distracted. DDP hit the ring behind the ref and clubbed Brad, who was in the bridgeout position, in the gut with his cane. Brad lost his grip on the hold. DDP fled the ring as Diamond covered Brad. Patera yanked Tanaka off the rope and down to the floor. Ref turned and saw Diamond pinning Brad. Ref dropped for the count. 1...2...3! Ref called for the bell as the crowd booed. Diamond up and the ref raised his hand in victory. Patera had dropped Tanaka on the floor with a big right hand and saw Brad laid out in the ring and climbed in as Diamond left for the floor. As Patera checked on Brad, Diamond and DDP helped Tanaka to his feet and the trio left the ringside area. Patera helped Brad to his feet and said something to Brad and the two got into a heated exchange and Brad shoved Patera. More words exchanged. Brad pointed an accusatory finger at Patera and Patera slapped the finger out of his face. Brad stormed off still grabbing at his gut form the cane shot. A confused and stunned Patera left in the ring. Patera then left and followed several steps behind Brad up the face aisle to the back. WINNER: Badd Co. - Pinfall - 7:11 Announcers wondered if there was dissension brewing between Patera and Brad. Said they were stunned by the turn of events. Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... CRAZY VS. THE LAW!!! Commercials/Promos for house show cities/ Generic promos for non-house show cities TV MAIN EVENT: Cactus Jack vs. The Trooper Trooper came down the face aisle to a strong ovation and handed out souvenir tickets to fans on the way to the ring. Cactus came down the heel aisle to strong boos but also had his fans. Ref called for the bell. Cactus charged over and jumped Trooper and pounded away on him. Jack went to whip Trooper into the ropes but Trooper reversed and caught Jack coming off with a high backdrop. Jack crashed to the mat. Trooper grabbed Jack and Jack caught Trooper with a trio of gut punches and then dropped Trooper with a discus clothesline. Trooper crashed to the mat. Jack stomped away on Trooper and dragged Trooper over and hanged Trooper upside down in the corner. Jack backed up and charged in and nailed Trooper with his hanging elbow drop. Trooper toppled over and crashed face first in the ring. Jack snapped Trooper up and Trooper stunned Jack with a series of elbow strikes to the side of the head. Jack stumbled back. Trooper laid into Jack with punches, whipped Jack into the ropes and caught Jack coming off with a clothesline. Jack crashed to the mat. Trooper snapped Jack up and had Jack hanging upside down over his back and nailed Jack with a double leg slam. Crowd cheered. Trooper for the cover. 1...2... Jack kicked out. Both men up and Trooper struck Jack and Jack fell into the corner. Trooper pulled Jack out of the corner, whipped Jack into the ropes and looked to catch Jack coming off with a backdrop but Jack instead nailed Trooper with a swinging neckbreaker. Both men down. Ref counting. Both men slowly to their feet and engaged in a punch exchange. Jack got the upper hand and bodyslammed Trooper and hit Trooper with a running leg drop. Jack for the cover. 1...2... Trooper kicked out. Jack grabbed Trooper and went to hoist Trooper up for a suplex but Trooper twice blocked the move and hit Jack with a suplex. Trooper held onto Jack and repeated the move. Trooper repeated the move a third time. Trooper snapped Jack up. Trooper went to whip Jack into the corner but Jack reversed and sent Trooper smashing into the buckles. Trooper staggered out of the corner by the ropes as Jack backed up. Jack charged over and hit Trooper with a running clothesline that sent both men toppling over the top rope and crashing to the floor. Both men down. Ref started the 10-count. Both men stirred on the floor. Jack up as Trooper was getting up and Jack kicked Trooper and slammed Trooper's head into the ring apron. Jack grabbed Trooper and went to ram Trooper's head into the ring post but Trooper shoved Jack off and Jack slammed into the post and stumbled off. Trooper caught up to Jack and spun jack around and started nailing Jack with punches. ...8...9...10! Ref called for the bell. The two men were slugging it out at ringside. Jack was able to eye gouge Trooper and throw Trooper into the ringside barricade. Ref called for the bell once more to no avail. Jack grabbed an empty chair from next to the announcer's table and quickly folded it up. Trooper turned and Jack swung the chair down and Trooper caught the chair and a struggle over the chair ensued. Trooper caught Jack with a kicked to the gut and gained control of the chair as the fans cheered. Jack started to back up as Trooper stalked Jack. Jack backed himself into the ring post. Trooper swung the chair at Jack but Jack escaped and the chair slammed into the post. Jack walked over and grabbed the ring bell off the timekeeper's table. A stand-off ensued. Wrestlers from both dressing rooms, refs and AWA officials came out and kept the two at bay as the program ended. DECISION: Double Count Out - 6:14 END PROGRAM DARK MATCHES CAGE MATCH #1: Don Muraco def. Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey via pinfall with his inverted piledriver finisher - 5:53 - Both men bled CAGE MATCH #2: Billy Jack Haynes & Scott Norton def. Col. DeBeers, Rip Oliver & The Grappler when Norton pinned Oliver after a powwerbomb - 11:47 - Haynes and Oliver bled 6-MAN TAG MATCH: Wahoo McDaniel (WC), Barry Windham & Nikita Koloff def. Greg Valentine (PWHC), Bob Orton & Jonnie Stewart when Nikita pinned Orton after a Russian sickle - 15:38 ATTENDANCE: 3,652 (Great crowd for ASW. Driven by the double cage main.)

(PREVIOUS POST: First post-SC 5 AWA on ESPN. Main Event: Don Muraco vs. Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey in a steel cage.) CURRENT AWA ROSTER (Updated for September 1990) (Champion) (New addition to the roster) OWNERS - TRIUMPH MEDIA SPORTS Deborah Harry John Waters Jim Crockett Bill Watts Jerry Jarrett PRESIDENT Nick Bockwinkel FACES Wahoo McDaniel (AWA WC) Nikita Koloff Ken Patera Brad Rheingans Tom Zenk Barry Windham Billy Jack Haynes Scott Norton Greg Gagne Jake Milliman Top Guns (Ricky Rice & Derrick Dukes) 'Big' Reggie Bennett Sam Houston Don Muraco The Guerrero Bros. Tina Moretti Jerry Blackwell Wendi Richter Tommy Jammer Trooper Del Wilkes HEELS Greg Valentine (PWHC) Cactus Jack Kokina Maximus Col. DeBeers Tully Blanchard The Destruction Crew (Wayne Bloom & Mike Enos - AWA WTTC) Badd Company (Paul Diamond & Pat Tanaka) The Grappler Manny Fernandez Rip Oliver Greg Valentine (Pro Wrestling Heritage Champion) Tommy Rich Magnificent Mimi (AWA Women's WC) Bobby Jaggers 'Cowboy' Bob Orton Heidi Lee Morgan Candi Divine (Tweener) Lelani Kai Jonnie Stewart Akio Sato Ninja Go MANAGERS (F = Face/H = Heel) Dallas Page (Badd Company) (H) Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey (Kokina Maximus) (H) Dick Murdoch (Sam Houston) (F) Valerie (Magnificent Mimi) (H) ANNOUNCERS AWA ON ESPN Joe Pedicino & Bill Dundee (Match Announcers) Larry Nelson (Ring Announcer/In-Ring Interviewer/Alcoholic) ALL-STAR WRESTLING (Syndicated) Jack Reynolds & David Crockett (Match Announcers) Eric Bischoff (Ring Announcer/In-Ring Interviewer) TELEVISION AWA Championship Wrestling (ESPN) AWA All-Star Wrestling (Syndicated)

Thanks for the noms, OSF. The dozen, 6-day old Tim Horton's donuts are in the mail!

AWA WRESTLING ON ESPN - SHOWBOAT SPORTS PAVILION - LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPT. 1990 Announcers: Joe Pedicino & Bill Dundee Ring Announcer/Interviewer: Larry Nelson (# Aired on a previous AWA program.) (4th Taping) (Show taped before Super Clash 5.) Show Intro Larry Nelson welcomed viewers and ran down the program: SPECIAL TV MAIN EVENT - STEEL CAGE MATCH: Don Muraco vs. Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey Highlights of the St. Paul tribute to Verne Gagne Akio Sato & Ninja Go vs. The Top Guns And more!!! Nelson sent it to the ring in Vegas. Tom Zenk vs. Jonnie Stewart Stewart came down the heel aisle to strong boos. Zenk came down the face aisle to a decent ovation. Zenk came out on fire and wound up driving Stewart from the ring to the floor to the delight of the crowd early in the match. Zenk dominated early until Stewart took advantage of a Zenk mistake and then Stewart was in control. Some good near falls. End of the match saw Zenk on the offensive and whipped Stewart into the corner. Zenk charged in on Stewart for a splash but Stewart moved and Zenk slammed into the buckles. Upper half of Zenk's body leaned out of the top buckle. Stewart pulled Zenk off the rope and bodyslammed Zenk. Stewart climbed out on the apron and mounted the top buckle and came off with his flying elbow to the chest finisher that connected. Stewart for the cover. 1...2...3! Ref called for the bell as most of the crowd booed. Stewart had his hand rasied by the ref in victory. WINNER: Stewart - Pinfall - 7:28 Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... ROLL CALL OF CHAMPS!!! Commercials In-studio: Nelson intro'd the AWA roll call of champions for the end of September. VIDEO: AWA ROLL CALL OF CHAMPIONS! AWA WORLD CHAMPION: Wahoo McDaniel TOP 5 CONTENDERS 1 Greg Valentine (PWHC) 2 Cactus Jack 3 Bob Orton 4 The Trooper 5 Jonnie Stewart PRO WRESTLING HERITAGE CHAMPION: Greg Valentine Top 5 Contenders 1 Don Muraco 2 Cactus Jack 3 The Trooper 4 Col. DeBeers 5 Sam Houston AWA WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPION: Magnificent Mimi Top 5 Contenders 1 Madusa Miceli 2 Tina Moretti 3 Reggie Bennett 4 Candi Divine 5 Wendi Richter AWA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: Billy Jack Haynes & Scott Norton Top 5 Contenders 1 The Destruction Crew 2 Ken Patera & Brad Rheingans 3 Badd Company 4 Akio Sato & Ninja Go 5 Greg Gagne & Jake Milliman Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... MORE ACTION!!! Commercials/AWA Tour Updates The Guerrero Bros. vs. Akio Sato & Ninja Go Sato and Go came to the ring down the heel aisle to fairly strong boos. Guerrero Bros. came to the ring down the face aisle to a nice ovation. Match was high-flying and fast-paced with exciting near falls. The fans got into it because of the athleticism. End of the match saw Hector Guerrero and Akio Sato in the ring. Sato had worked over Hector and whipped Hector into the corner. Sato charged in and Hector moved and Sato slammed into the buckles and Hectot maneuvered around and hoisted Sato up on his shoulders and nailed Sato with an electric chair slam. Hector for the cover. 1...2...thr... Go broke up the pin with a diving elbow to the back. Mando in and went to go after Go but the ref caught Mando and ordered Mando back to his corner. As the pair argued, Go snapped up Hector and popped Hector with a backbreaker across the knee. Go back out on the apron. Ref got Mando back to his corner. Sato snapped up Hector and blasted Hector with his Japanese Vegematic (sitout powerbomb) finisher. Sato for the cover. 1... Hector hit the ring but was quickly cut off by Go. ...2...3! Ref called for the bell as the crowd mainly booed. Sato up and the ref raised his hand in victory. WINNER: Sato & Go - Pinfall - 6:32 PIc aired of Verne Gagne with the caption: NEXT... TRIBUTE TO MR. AWA!!! Commercials In-studio: Larry Nelson intro'd highlights from a tribute to Verne Gagne that took place at the St. Paul Civic Center in July. VIDEO: Video showed footage from the tribute to Verne plus snippets of speeches by AWA luminaries Nick Bockwinkel, Crusher, Billy Robinson, Baron Von Raschke and son Greg Gagne. Video also showed Verne receiving gifts and the Key to the City from the mayor of St. Paul. Video also featured comments from Verne and guests behind the scenes talkng about the big night. Plus interviews with some of the fans who had fond memories of the AWA's heyday when Verne ran the show. END VIDEO In-studio: Nelson talked about the special night to honor the man who was responsible for creating and building the AWA. Nelson also thanked the fans who came out for the tribute show. Nelson then talked about what a great event SC 5 was and said they'd have highlights and comments from the event on next week's show. Split-screen pic aired of Don Muraco and Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey with the caption: NEXT... CALM BEFORE THE STORM!!! In-studio: Nelson intro'd pre-match comments from Muraco and El-Kaissey before their cage match. VIDEO: Sheik Adnan was in his Arab garb with mic in hand standing in front of the AWA logo. Sheik: This match should not be happening! How dare the AWA order me to be put in a cage with a wild animal like Muraco! The man is insane! I am retired from wrestling! I am now a manager! I tried to get this unjust match stopped but the infidel courts ruled otherwise! Now, my life is in danger because the infidel dog wants to see me maimed... or worse! But, I want Muraco to know one thing! I will not come into this match unprepared! Don Muraco! If I am to be harmed, then I will harm you, too! Pic flipped and Muraco was in street clothes holding a mic and standing in front of the AWA logo. Muraco: Sheik Adnan! There will be nowhere for you to run in our cage match! I want vengeance and I shall have it! I'm going to take my time and enjoy giving you a sound thrashing! I don't just intend to beat you! I intend to hurt you like you've never been hurt before! You're getting in that cage with a very angry man, Sheik! And you will pay dearly for what you did to me with that weapon at WrestleRock! And since I know you're gonna bring Kokina to the ring with you, guess what?! I'll have someone with me, too! See you inside the steel! END VIDEO Pic aired of the AWA logo with the caption: NEXT... CAGE RAGE!!! Commercials TV MAIN EVENT - STEEL CAGE MATCH: Don Muraco vs. Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey Kaissey made his way to the ring in his ring attire and brought Kokina with him down the heel aisle to loud boos. Kaissey talked to Kokina and then climbed into the cage. Muraco came down the face aisle and made his way to the cage and turned and gestured for someone to come out. Jerry Blackwell came down the face aisle as the crowd popped big-time for the faces. Muraco briefly talked with Blackwell and then Muraco climbed into the cage. Sheik staying as far away as possible from Muraco. Cage door was closed and locked by an AWA official. Before the match even started, Kokina tried to rip the cage door off. Blackwell charged over (as much as Blackwell can charge over) and started belting Kokina with punches. Crowd popped as the two behemoths exchanged punches and fought back up the face aisle and disappeared to the back. Fans eating it up. Kaissey was beside himself now that Kokina was gone. Ref called for the bell. Kaissey tried to climb out of thee cage but Muraco came over and grabbed Sheik and ripped him off the cage and threw Sheik down to the mat. Crowd totally hot. Sheik got up and tried to back off but backed himself into the corner. Sheik begging off. Sheik dropped to his knees pleading with Muraco to let him go. Muraco stood and looked at Sheik. Sheik slowly got to his feet. Muraco gestured for the Sheik to leave through the door. Sheik looked skeptically at Muraco for a moment and then cautiously made his way over to the door. Sheik yelled for the official to unlock the cage door. Muraco just looking at Sheik. Official unlocked the cage door and opened it. Sheik started to climb out of thee cage when Muraaco charged over and jumped Sheik and started pounding the living hell out of him. Crowd roaring as the cage door was closed. Announcers said you could only win by pin or submission. Muraco grabbed the Sheik and then threw him head-first into all four sides of the cage. Sheik staggered. Muraco reared back and pulverized Sheik with a big right hand and Sheik slammed to the mat. Sheik tried to crawl away from Muraco but Muraco grabbed Sheik by the back of the tights and pulled Sheik to his feet. Muraco whipped Sheik into the ropes and caught Sheik coming off with a stiff clothesline. Sheik crashed back to the mat. Muraco was enjoying the felonious assault. Muraco snapped Sheik up and violently scraped Sheik's head across the unforgiving steel. Sheik went down face-first on the mat. Ref ordered Muraco back and the fans booed the ref. They wanted the carnage to continue. Sheik to his knees and now bleeding. Muraco popped Sheik with some well-placed head shots on the cut. Muraco snapped Sheik up, hoisted Sheik in the air and threw Sheik like a dart head-first into the steel. Sheik back down. Muraco stomped on Sheik and pulled Sheik up, hoisted Sheik across his shoulders and hit Sheik with a Samoan drop. Sheik dead. Muraco covered Sheik. 1...2...thr... Muraco pulled Sheik up by the hair before the three count. Ref reprimanded Muraco but the crowd cheered Muraco. Muraco snapped Sheik up and whipped Sheik into the corner. Muraco moved in and nailed Sheik with a series of knees to the gut and then clubbed Sheuik across the back. Muraco threw Sheik out of the corner and Sheik crashed to the mat. Dundee: The ref should stop the match. This is totally unnecessary! Sheik Adnan is retired and should not be put through this! How inhumane! Pedicino: So, Bill Dundee is suddenly a great humanitarian! The irony of it all! Muraco stood over Sheik as Sheik slowly made it to his feet. Muraco caught Sheik with another punch and Sheik then kneed Muraco in the groin. Muraco stumbled back and fell on his butt in the ring. As the ref checked on Muraco, Sheik, wearing a singlet, reached into the side of his tights and pulled out a weapon and concealed it in his hand. Muraco to his feet and the Sheik moved in and popped Muraco in the head with the foreign object. Muraco stunned. Sheik nailed Muraco in the head with the object a second time. Muraco staggered. Sheik then hit Muraco with the weapon concealed in his right hand a third time. Muraco spun around, stumbled forward and crashed to his knees with his head and arms draped over the middle rope. Sheik stood over Muraco from behind and nailed Muraco with a deliberate series of foreign object shots to the head. Sheik then scraped the object acros Muraco's forehead. Ref ordered Sheik to stand back. Crowd buzzing. Dundee: The Sheik is doing his civic duty! His tactics are those of the The original Sheik*! It's a winning formula! Pedicino: So now everything is okay. Love your logic, Bill. Ref ordered the match to continue. Sheik grabbed Muraco and pulled him up and Muraco was now bleeding. Sheik moved in and caught Muraco with another foreign object shot to the head. Muraco fell back into the corner. Sheik moved in and struck Muraco with the object again. Muraco staggered out of the corner. Sheik grabbed Muraco, whipped Muraco into the ropes and caught Muraco coming off with another foreign object shot to the head. Muraco crumpled to the mat. Sheik for the pin. 1...2...3! NO! Muraco got a shoulder up. Crowd popped. Sheik backed up and waited for Muraco to get to his feet. Muraco up and Sheik went to hit Muraco with the object again but Muraco blocked the punch try and fired away on Sheik with punches. Sheuk dropped the object. Ref tossed the object. Announcers said the winner must win by pinfall or submission. Crowd alive. Muraco whipped Sheik into the corner and charged in and blasted the Sheik with a running clothesline. Sheik staggered out of the corner and crashed down on the mat. Muraco snapped Sheik up by the hair and threw Sheik head-first into the cage. Sheik bounced back and walked right into a powerslam from Muraco. Crowd in orbit. Muraco, wearing a crimson mask, stood up and wildly gestured to the crowd it was time for his inverted piledriver finisher. Sheik crawled over and grabbed Muraco's leg and was shaking his head 'no more'. Muraco looked down at Sheik, picked Sheik up and blasted Sheik with his inverted piledriver finisher. Muraco for the cover. 1...2...thr... Muraco pulled Sheik up by the hair. Crowd cheering. Ref reprimanded Muraco. Muraco snapped Sheik up and inverted piledrived him once again. Muraco for the cover. 1...2...thr... Muraco pulled Sheik up once more. Crowd acting like Romans watching Christians vs. lions in the arena. Muraco hoisted Sheik up and hit him with another inverted piledriver. Muraco covered Sheik and hooked the leg. 1...2...3! Ref called for the bell as the crowd exploded. Muraco to his feet and the ref raised his hand in victory but Muraco yanked his hand away. Muraco stood over the defeated and thoroughly destroyed Sheik. Muraco reached down and pulled Sheik up by the hair. Ref tried to get Muraco to stop. Sheik practically limp. Muraco held Sheik there for a moment. Sheik too banged up to plead anymore. Muraco reared back like he was gonna drill the Sheik once more but instead just tossed Sheik down by the hair to the mat. Muraco looked at Sheik as the ref interceded and checked on the big loser in this one. Muraco left the cage and dropped to the floor as a euphoric crowd cheered his demolition of the man from the MIddle East. Muraco raised his fists in the air and the crowd ate it up as the program ended. WINNER: Muraco - Pinfall - 9:09 END PROGRAM DARK MATCHES CAGE MATCH #2 - HANDICAP MATCH: Col. DeBeers, Rip Oliver & The Grappler vs. Scott Norton & Billy Jack Haynes WINNER: Haynes & Norton - Norton pinned Oliver after a powerbomb - 14:35 6-MAN TAG MATCH: Wahoo McDaniel (WC), Barry Windham & Nikita Koloff vs. Greg Valentine (PWHC), Bob Orton & Jonnie Stewart WINNER: Wahoo, Nikita & Barry - Pinfall - Nikita pinned Orton with a Russian sickle - 18:11 Cactus Jack and the Trooper fought to a double count out - 6:24 PAID ATTENDANCE: 3,776 COMPS GIVEN OUT: 469 COMPS USED: 299 TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 4,075 (Has to be considered a rousing success. People who got free tickets were said be interested in the double cage main. Same also appeared to drive a large chunk of ticket sales. Crowd with a lot of rocker types in it.) *Ed Farhat, aka, the Original Sheik. Based out of Detroit. * Since these tapings would have occured in late August/early September, the house show run of Muraco-Sheik cage matches would have been completed at the time of this airing.

Thanks for the comments. I agree with you. I think Lawler-Jack was the best match I wrote for the show.