This is an indian strap match and is pretty fun, with some blood and some violence. Regular Wahoo matches are better then the strap matches, and this had a weird finish with Adonis coming out and cutting the strap, but still plenty good enough for a nomination

 

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It's hard/impossible? to see but Adonis cuts Hennig's hand pretty badly while cutting the strap off. Lots of stitches needed IIRC.

This is just kind of there until Wahoo starts to bleed and Curt walks over to the camera while choking Wahoo and says "that's what I think of Indians." Cool cut off with Wahoo double booting from his back out of a four corners attempt from Hennig. Wahoo does a few cool things and Curt shows some nice intensity at points but overall this was REALLY disappointing. I'm not even sure this was something I would call "good" especially when you consider who was involved. Hell the crazy finish was the most exciting part of the match.

Indian Strap Match for the AWA World Heavyweight Title: Curt Hennig © vs. "Chief" Wahoo McDaniel (11/28/87)

 

I love the announcers burying Boris Zuhkov before the match talking about Wahoo sending him running away after the Russian Chain match which is similar to this style of match. Curt was dicking around to start so Wahoo strapped him on the chest to wake him up and that was great. Wahoo would choke Curt with the strap a bit and kept using the strap to his advantage before Curt took him to the mat and he started using the strap himself as a weapon. Curt choking Wahoo while yelling that is what he thought of indians was great. Wahoo is now juicing and Curt is solid at working over the cut before tying up Wahoo's wrists so he could drag him around the ring but Wahoo countered out so Curt went back to choking him a bit before trying to drag him again. Wahoo this time would use a mule kick to break free and now he starts his comeback where he just chops the piss out of Curt but he lost Curt on a suplex which looked really bad although the announcers used his blood loss as an excuse. Wahoo would fight back though using the strap before he wraps Curt up and drags him around the ring with Curt fighting hard trying to break free and using a low blow to stop him. Curt starts throwing punches and he puts Wahoo down with a suplex showing some fire and he drags Wahoo again with Wahoo again using a mule kick to break free. This match is pretty compelling at this point as both men are just going to war on each other and Curt takes a wild bump off the top with Wahoo pulling him down using the strap. Wahoo now thinks he has it and drags Curt around but Adrian Adonis runs out with a knife and he cuts the strap along with Curt's hand which needed a lot of stitches. Gary DeRush calls for the DQ as Greg Gagne makes the save and you can see Curt's hand bleeding profusely. Like I said this was a compelling match which I dug a lot and I think this is an easy nomination.

Wahoo McDaniel vs. Curt Henning 6/87? (ESPN 7/28/08)

- Man, Wahoo is just beating the shit out of Curt… and yep, starts bleeding early on. At one point, it looked like Wahoo was trying to bust Curt open hardway. Didn’t happen but it would have been cool if it did. Another shit ending but this was pretty great throughout.