April 1981
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This match is from the 1981 Champion Carnival, and it is my belief that it is the last televised singles match between Baba and Jumbo. (They would have one more in the tournament the following year - after which it was put on ice until 1991 - but this did not make broadcast.) The copy in circulation is clipped to the four-minute mark, but this still gives us much more of this match than we received of their 1980 Carnival match, so I am fine with it all things considered. The fact that this is a tournament draw in 1981 dooms this to being less substantive than the best of their singles matches, which were the first two. However, this does feel of a piece with the aforement…
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This one is gonna be quick cause there's only 3 minutes of footage. We start with Nick having Verne trapped in a sleeper. Verne tries to grab the referee, and backs Nick into the corner, but cannot escape. Gagne goes to one knee, but rises up and slams Nick backward hard into the corner and succeeds in breaking the hold. Bockwinkel goes after him, but immediately gets trapped in the Gagne sleeper. Heenan grabs Verne's leg and trips him and Bock falls back on top of him. It looks like both men's shoulders are down. The referee counts three and raises Bockwinkel's hand. Heenan jumps in the ring celebrating with the title belt. AWA President Stanley B…
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