Nick Bockwinkel v. Curt Hennig

 

Bock offers his hand for a handshake, but Curt isn't having it and gives him the "fuck you" hand gesture instead. A couple of clean breaks and Bock punches Curt right in the face off of another break and starts throwing some blows to the mid-section. Man Hennig was great at selling a punch and Bock was good at working them as serious blows. Curt bumps through the ropes off a punch and Bock turns around to show off to the crowd. Curt comes back in and Bock just punts him in the guts and tosses him back to the floor while circling around in the ring. Bock reaches through the ropes and punches Hennig who takes a wild bump on his ass. I am not always a fan of the AWA staple "babyface gets knocked to the floor and heel keeps him at bay" stretches, but this one is good because Bock is such an asshole and Hennig sells and bumps so well for every single blow. Hennig comes back with a clothesline using the top rope and Bock falls under the ropes allowing Curt to hit some blows to his face. I liked this control segment from Curt as he sort of turned the tables with his own heelish tactics on Bock. Bock ends up making a mini-comeback and charges the corner but he takes the shoulder bump into the post and Curt goes straight to work on the arm. This is not incredibly great arm work, but it is solid enough. I liked how they worked the arm stretcher and I thought the slingshotting of Bock's arm was a pretty fun spot. Hennig ends up going for a high spot and pays for it by eating Bock's knees. Cool little spot as Bock throws a body shot on the ribs he had been working earlier and then hits a couple of body slams for nearfalls. They end up going into a strange "parity" segment where they both connect with punches and then do a double knockdown spot off of a rope running spot, but Bock is back up first and locks on a pretty sick looking ab stretch. Curt breaks the hold with a hip toss and ends up catching Bock in his own ab stretch. Bock breaks it up with an eye rake and throw some really sick looking uppercuts in the corner. Curt hits an atomic drop out of nowhere for a nearfall. Hennig ends up going to a front facelock which felt like a move done totally out of frustration and Bock backs him into the corner and dumps him back out to the floor. This is another "babyface at bay" segment with Bock arguing with the ref in between taking cheapshots at Hennig who is isolated on the floor. Hennig makes his comeback and face plants Bock into the turnbuckle for a ten count. They fight some more around the ropes and Bock pulls Curt over the ropes and into the ring for a bullshit fall with Curt's foot on the bottom rope. Poorly executed finish of a really good match. This probably had my favorite opening of any of their matches, but in some ways it may have been the weakest match all around.

 

Nick Bockwinkel promo on Rick Martel

 

Finish of Scott Hall/Curt Hennig title win over Regal/Garvin.

 

Scott Hall/Curt Hennig music video EXTRA

 

Stan Hansen destroys Jerry Blackwell who has to back out of his AWA title match due to injury.

 

Stan Hansen v. Curt Hennig

 

Hennig hits the ring to save Blackwell and Hansen is still in his gear flying around for Curt. Hansen post Hennig on the floor and then runs over with a chair and beats the fuck out of Blackwell's ankle. Back in the ring and Curt gets in some licks while still selling the posting. Hansen falls to the floor but comes back in and is still getting his ass kicked by Curt. Fun near fall as Curt kicks Stan in the face twice. Hansen comes back with a quick shot and hits an elbow drop for a big nearfall. Curt is really great as he keeps selling his ass off but makes another comeback punching and kicking wildly at Hansen. Hennig takes a wild sternum first bump into the turnbuckles and Hansen start kneeing him in the face. Hansen goes to the outside and starts hammering on Hennig while standing on the apron, but Hennig fires back and Hansen does a great sell job of a turnbuckle shot, then gets slammed and hit with a splash from the second rope for a huge nearfall. Hansen presses Curt through the ropes to the floor when he kicks out and slams his face into the stairs. He then literally slams Curt on the front row of chairs which is just awesome. Back in the ring he reaches through the ropes to throw a cheapshot and Hennig punches Hansen hard as fuck, then drags him to the floor and gives him the double boot eye rake on the floor which is awesome. Back in the ring Hansen hits a belly to back suplex almost out of desperation for a nearfall. Great camera shot of Hansen hear clutching at his jaw and trying to work out the kinks of the Hennig punches. He stands up and hits a piledriver but Curt's leg was on the bottom rope so the fall gets broken up. He goes for a second piledriver in the middle of the ring but Curt does this incredibly great delayed, slow motion, back body drop that makes the impact look especially brutal. Hennig is leaned over and Hansen follows behind but gets caught with a wild mule kick by Hennig for a nearfall. Hennig then his a fucking monkey flip of all things for a nearfall. They are on their knees trading desperation blows and Hansen kicks Curt in the face. Curt ends up going for another monkey flip, but Hansen pushes him off. Hansen misses an elbow and Curt rolls him up for a nearfall but they are in the ropes. Cool spot as Hansen desperately clutches the ropes to avoid an Irish whip, but Hennig gets it and hits a dropkick for a great nearfall. Great out of nowhere nearfall off a cross body from Hennig. Hennig hits a desperation belly to back with both men out. They get to their feet and Hennig hits a kneelift and a forward roll for a two count as time expires. Great, great match, despite the telegraphed time limit finish. Possibly the best thing I've watched so far as this started as a fight and never really slowed down.

 

Curt Hennig v. Stan Hansen

 

JIP with Curt in the stomach claw of all things. Curt goes into a strike exchange with Hansen but Hansen takes him down and locks on a Boston Crab. Hansen drops the hold but ends up hitting a high back body drop. Hansen ends up pitching Curt into the ropes and Curt gets caught in the hangman position. Scott Hall makes the save as Hansen was beating on the helpless Curt. EXTRA

 

Finish of Buddy Rose/Doug Somers winning the tag belts from Scott Hall/Curt Hennig

 

Sit down interview with Larry Zbyszko/Curt Hennig. Pretty great stuff with Larry essentially calling Curt someone who has done nothing without the help of nepotism. He also calls him a redneck. Curt walks off the set. EXTRA

 

Interview with Nick Bockwinkel upon winning the belt when Hansen "left the Arena" forfeiting. Strange as Bock halfway buries Hansen, and halfway doesn't. EXTRA

 

Another interview with Nick Bockwinkel this time more of a burial of Hansen.

 

Nick Bockwinkel music video EXTRA

 

Confrontation between Bock/Larry Z during sit down interview

 

Finish of Gagne/Larry Z with Bock getting knocked out.

 

Larry Zbyszko and a Ninja beat the hell out of Nick Bockwinkel before a scheduled Bock title defense.

 

Nick Bockwinkel v. Curt Hennig

 

We have this already and it is nominated. This version does have the full post-match with Bock, Hennig, Robinson and Verne Gagne interviews about the controversy.

Curt Hennig v. Stan Hansen

 

JIP with Curt in the stomach claw of all things. Curt goes into a strike exchange with Hansen but Hansen takes him down and locks on a Boston Crab. Hansen drops the hold but ends up hitting a high back body drop. Hansen ends up pitching Curt into the ropes and Curt gets caught in the hangman position. Scott Hall makes the save as Hansen was beating on the helpless Curt. EXTRA

This should be available in full somewhere.

 

Sit down interview with Larry Zbyszko/Curt Hennig. Pretty great stuff with Larry essentially calling Curt someone who has done nothing without the help of nepotism. He also calls him a redneck. Curt walks off the set. EXTRA

There are a lot of these "Zbyszko's Corner" segments, and some of them are really funny.