AWA TV (11/2/84)
Nov 10, 2013 20:27:35 GMT
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AWA ALL STAR WRESTLING
Taped October 26, 1984 to air across the territory on November 2, 1984 at the studios of KMSP TV in Minneapolis. Rod Trongard on commentary and Ken Resnick as ring announcer and interviewer.
After the opening, we cut to Ken Reanick and Rod Trongard in front of the AWA logo.
RESNICK: Welcome to All Star wrestling. We have another great hour of action featuring the stars of the AWA, the Major League of Professional Wrestling! Today, we have “Dr. Death” Steve Williams, the World Tag Team Champions, the Road Warriors, World Champion Rick Martel will take on “Pretty Boy” Doug Sommers, Mil Mascaras will be in action, and there will be a six man tag team match as Larry & Curt Hennig will team up with Pistol Pez Whatley…Paul Ellering has joined me…
ELLERING: The Hennigs have become a thorn in the side of the Legion Of Doom and it looks like Pistol Pez Whatley has decided to join them in their efforts. Well, I’ve written a few checks from the Legion’s account to bring in three international mercenaries to take care of these three pieces of the Legion’s light work. From Russsia, Alexis Smirnoff & Kortsia Korchenko! From Africa, the great and exalted Java Ruuk! Nobody stands in the way of the Legion of Doom, gentlemen! Now, Dr. Death is in the ring! This man is the future of the AWA! Jimmy Powers, you made the mistake of your life signing this contract!
”Dr.Death” Steve Williams vs. Jim Powers:As Paul Ellering paces at ringside, smacking a rolled up Wall Street Journal into the palm of his hand, Dr. Death methodically takes Powers apart. Powers does get some offense in, but when he goes for a high cross body, Williams catches him out of the air and executes a ring rattling Oklahoma Stampede! The 1-2-3 is easy after that move!
Commercials
The Road Warriors vs. Carl Fergi & Fred Peloquin: Hawk & Animal go on the attack right away. The World Champs are devastating and hawk pins Peloquin after a clothesline off of the top rope.
RESNICK: Another impressive win for the World Champions!
ANIMAL: Something real strange happened recently. Steve Keirn, the only Fabulous One who had the guts to stay around here after wrestling the Road Warriors, teamed up with two members of the Legion Of Doom in a six man! It’s better to switch than fight sometimes, especially if you’re against the Road Warriors or any other member of the Legion! Butch Reed, you don’t seem as smart as Steve keirn. We might have to break you leg to get you to see that you made a mistake by turning down the Legion of Doom!
HAWK: Or maybe we’ll just break you buddy Tony Atlas’ stinking neck! Reed & Atlas, we’re gonna hurt you jerks! Why? Because we can! Because you are trying to take what belongs to us! We want some new blood! Jack Brisco, call your goofy brother Jerry and bring him in, hurting you has beens is our sick idea of a good time! Hennigs….Mil Mascaras…Pez Whatley…Billy Robinson…Bockwinkel and Zybysko…Samoans..it don’t matter. You can even bring in somebody from outside the AWA! We’ve not beat up anybody from Georgia or Tennessee in a long time and we kinda miss it! Just bring it on, boys! We snack on danger and dine on death and dead men don’t make money!
ELLERING: Atlas and Reed, do you actually think that you’re any competition for these men at all? Does anybody have the nerve to think that?
Commercials
RESNICK: I’m here with Sheik Adnan El Kaissey and Boris Zhukov. The Japanese consortium’s money bought you the services of Tatsumi “The Dragon” Fujinami, but he has been unable to take the World Title.
ADNAN: That is correct and that situation must be rectified! Boris Zhukov has found the solution! Fujinami is fired! I have sent him back to Japan!
ZHUKOV: Fujinami tried to beat Martel at his own game. That will never work! The best way is the Russian way! Brute force and raw power! Look at videotape of my friend and countryman, Nikolai Volkoff!
VTR:
Footage of Volkoff from various promotions, beating on several opponents and then, executing the over the knee backbreaker on many hapless adversaries.
ZHUKOV: [voice over] Watch my comrade as he destroys these weak American wrestlers! Rick Martel, you are puny compared to this man! Volkof is a machine! HE WILL BURY YOU!
ADNAN: Volkoff will take World Title and I will present it to the consortium in Japan! I might even buy the AWA and run it as I see fit!
RESNICK: The World Champion will wrestle Doug Sommers next!
Commercials
Rick Martel vs. “Pretty Boy” Doug Sommers: Sommers gives a good accounting of himself, but is no match for the World Champion. Martel picks up the win after the slingshot splash.
RESNICK: World Champion Rick Martel has joined me after another impressive win. Now, Nikolai Volkoff is coming after you and he is massive.
MARTEL: Yes, I know that he’s a big, strong Russian. I know that he is a vicious competitor and doesn’t care about the rules. It’s a shame that we can’t have scientific wrestling. Fujinami and I were having great matches, but that wasn’t what Adnan and his cronies in Japan wanted! As World Champion, I want to promote scientific wrestling and I support people like Curt Hennig who want to clean up the AWA! Nikolai Volkoff, you are a scary person, but you don’t scare me! I’m the AWA World Champion and I plan on holding this belt for a long time!
RESNICK: Mil Mascaras is next!
Commercials
Mil Mascaras vs. Gary Royal: The masked man puts on quite a show, using most of his signature moves on Royal before getting the win with his famous flying bodypress.
Commercials
Curt & Larry Hennig & Pistol Pez Whatley vs. Alexis Smirnoff, Kortsia Korchenko, & Java Ruuk:Paul Ellering’s mercenaries control the action for most of the match. Larry sparks the comeback lowering the boom on Ruuk with “the Axe”. Whatley throws in a bunch of headbutts, and Curt gets the win with the top rope dropkick. Ellering, who has joined Trongard on commentary, is obviously disgusted, but says that he still has plenty of men in the Legion Of Doom who can get the job done!
Taped October 26, 1984 to air across the territory on November 2, 1984 at the studios of KMSP TV in Minneapolis. Rod Trongard on commentary and Ken Resnick as ring announcer and interviewer.
After the opening, we cut to Ken Reanick and Rod Trongard in front of the AWA logo.
RESNICK: Welcome to All Star wrestling. We have another great hour of action featuring the stars of the AWA, the Major League of Professional Wrestling! Today, we have “Dr. Death” Steve Williams, the World Tag Team Champions, the Road Warriors, World Champion Rick Martel will take on “Pretty Boy” Doug Sommers, Mil Mascaras will be in action, and there will be a six man tag team match as Larry & Curt Hennig will team up with Pistol Pez Whatley…Paul Ellering has joined me…
ELLERING: The Hennigs have become a thorn in the side of the Legion Of Doom and it looks like Pistol Pez Whatley has decided to join them in their efforts. Well, I’ve written a few checks from the Legion’s account to bring in three international mercenaries to take care of these three pieces of the Legion’s light work. From Russsia, Alexis Smirnoff & Kortsia Korchenko! From Africa, the great and exalted Java Ruuk! Nobody stands in the way of the Legion of Doom, gentlemen! Now, Dr. Death is in the ring! This man is the future of the AWA! Jimmy Powers, you made the mistake of your life signing this contract!
”Dr.Death” Steve Williams vs. Jim Powers:As Paul Ellering paces at ringside, smacking a rolled up Wall Street Journal into the palm of his hand, Dr. Death methodically takes Powers apart. Powers does get some offense in, but when he goes for a high cross body, Williams catches him out of the air and executes a ring rattling Oklahoma Stampede! The 1-2-3 is easy after that move!
Commercials
The Road Warriors vs. Carl Fergi & Fred Peloquin: Hawk & Animal go on the attack right away. The World Champs are devastating and hawk pins Peloquin after a clothesline off of the top rope.
RESNICK: Another impressive win for the World Champions!
ANIMAL: Something real strange happened recently. Steve Keirn, the only Fabulous One who had the guts to stay around here after wrestling the Road Warriors, teamed up with two members of the Legion Of Doom in a six man! It’s better to switch than fight sometimes, especially if you’re against the Road Warriors or any other member of the Legion! Butch Reed, you don’t seem as smart as Steve keirn. We might have to break you leg to get you to see that you made a mistake by turning down the Legion of Doom!
HAWK: Or maybe we’ll just break you buddy Tony Atlas’ stinking neck! Reed & Atlas, we’re gonna hurt you jerks! Why? Because we can! Because you are trying to take what belongs to us! We want some new blood! Jack Brisco, call your goofy brother Jerry and bring him in, hurting you has beens is our sick idea of a good time! Hennigs….Mil Mascaras…Pez Whatley…Billy Robinson…Bockwinkel and Zybysko…Samoans..it don’t matter. You can even bring in somebody from outside the AWA! We’ve not beat up anybody from Georgia or Tennessee in a long time and we kinda miss it! Just bring it on, boys! We snack on danger and dine on death and dead men don’t make money!
ELLERING: Atlas and Reed, do you actually think that you’re any competition for these men at all? Does anybody have the nerve to think that?
Commercials
RESNICK: I’m here with Sheik Adnan El Kaissey and Boris Zhukov. The Japanese consortium’s money bought you the services of Tatsumi “The Dragon” Fujinami, but he has been unable to take the World Title.
ADNAN: That is correct and that situation must be rectified! Boris Zhukov has found the solution! Fujinami is fired! I have sent him back to Japan!
ZHUKOV: Fujinami tried to beat Martel at his own game. That will never work! The best way is the Russian way! Brute force and raw power! Look at videotape of my friend and countryman, Nikolai Volkoff!
VTR:
Footage of Volkoff from various promotions, beating on several opponents and then, executing the over the knee backbreaker on many hapless adversaries.
ZHUKOV: [voice over] Watch my comrade as he destroys these weak American wrestlers! Rick Martel, you are puny compared to this man! Volkof is a machine! HE WILL BURY YOU!
ADNAN: Volkoff will take World Title and I will present it to the consortium in Japan! I might even buy the AWA and run it as I see fit!
RESNICK: The World Champion will wrestle Doug Sommers next!
Commercials
Rick Martel vs. “Pretty Boy” Doug Sommers: Sommers gives a good accounting of himself, but is no match for the World Champion. Martel picks up the win after the slingshot splash.
RESNICK: World Champion Rick Martel has joined me after another impressive win. Now, Nikolai Volkoff is coming after you and he is massive.
MARTEL: Yes, I know that he’s a big, strong Russian. I know that he is a vicious competitor and doesn’t care about the rules. It’s a shame that we can’t have scientific wrestling. Fujinami and I were having great matches, but that wasn’t what Adnan and his cronies in Japan wanted! As World Champion, I want to promote scientific wrestling and I support people like Curt Hennig who want to clean up the AWA! Nikolai Volkoff, you are a scary person, but you don’t scare me! I’m the AWA World Champion and I plan on holding this belt for a long time!
RESNICK: Mil Mascaras is next!
Commercials
Mil Mascaras vs. Gary Royal: The masked man puts on quite a show, using most of his signature moves on Royal before getting the win with his famous flying bodypress.
Commercials
Curt & Larry Hennig & Pistol Pez Whatley vs. Alexis Smirnoff, Kortsia Korchenko, & Java Ruuk:Paul Ellering’s mercenaries control the action for most of the match. Larry sparks the comeback lowering the boom on Ruuk with “the Axe”. Whatley throws in a bunch of headbutts, and Curt gets the win with the top rope dropkick. Ellering, who has joined Trongard on commentary, is obviously disgusted, but says that he still has plenty of men in the Legion Of Doom who can get the job done!
