Posted December 29, 201014 yr comment_5461158 Nick Bockwinkel v. Mad Dog Vachon JIP. Finish shown with Heenan blindsiding Vachon with knucks and a wild post-match brawl. Mad Dog Vachon/Crusher Nick Bockwinkel v. Mad Dog Vachon JIP. I really wish we had this in full as this is super hot, with some nice momentum turns and a nasty piledriver finish. Too bad. Maybe it is more complete elsewhere. Crusher/Greg Gagne v. Jerry Blackwell/Shiek Adnan Al-Kaissie (Cage Match) Finish only basically though Gagne leaping off the cage with a huge knee drop was a cool finish. Fabulous Ones v. Jesse Ventura/Jake Milliman Milliman is so fat looking and it is hilarious to watch the Fabs fuck with him working chain wrestling sequences and comedy spots. Keirn finally misses a corner charge and Ventura gets tagged in and starts working him over. I am not a Ventura fan but he looked appropriately vicious here and Keirn knew how to take his limited offense well. Ventura misses a leg drop and the Fabs take back over. I know some guys hate Jesse's theatrical bumping style but I kind of like it especially opposite the Fabs act. Milliman ends up taking the fall after some fast paced Fabs offense. Short but fun. Dusty Rhodes v. Larry Zbyszko JIP. Looks like all that may have been cut was some early Larry Z stalling. Dusty's rapid fire punches at the beginning of this looked great. Larry takes over and batters Dusty with strikes but Dusty comes back with a big elbow and then a blindside lowblow. Dusty ends up winning with a flash bionic elbow. Bizarre. Battle Royal This is the Brody/Abby beatdown of Blackwell we have from one of the Blackwell discs. Curt Hennig v. Harley Race JIP. Harley gets DQ'ed after a few minutes of hot offense. Post-match Larry comes in and saves his son. Jesse Ventura v. Hulk Hogan God damnit. Tons of good clipped shit on this St. Paul stuff and this fucking match is in full and it is almost entirely Jesse working Hogan's arm. Yuck. Shiek Adnan Al-Kaissie v. Baron Von Raschke JIP. Adnan wins with the knucks. Jerry Blackwell v. Hulk Hogan We have this on Blackwell #3
December 29, 201014 yr comment_5461194 Nick Bockwinkel v. Mad Dog Vachon JIP. I really wish we had this in full as this is super hot, with some nice momentum turns and a nasty piledriver finish. Too bad. Maybe it is more complete elsewhere. There is a more complete if not totally complete raw footage version of this IIRC. Dusty Rhodes v. Larry Zbyszko JIP. Looks like all that may have been cut was some early Larry Z stalling. Dusty's rapid fire punches at the beginning of this looked great. Larry takes over and batters Dusty with strikes but Dusty comes back with a big elbow and then a blindside lowblow. Dusty ends up winning with a flash bionic elbow. Bizarre. This is a very short match so not much is missing, if anything. FWIW you will come across some longer versions of some of these matches in your travels through the AWA stuff. Some may also be available in better VQ as some will be my original tapes, which originally got traded around tape-to-tape and not tape-to-dvd. Most of this stuff originates with me, but romdam got copies and renamed a bunch of it. Not a big deal, it just takes me a bit longer to try and recall which of my tapes or discs it is, and then I can extract my memory of the match/angle from there.
