AWA TV (11/23/84)
Nov 24, 2013 5:58:12 GMT
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AWA ALL STAR WRESTLING
Taped November 16, 1984 to air across the territory on November 23, 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: We have a great hour of ALL STAR WRESTLING this week. A six man tag featuring Butch Red, Tony Atlas, & Curt Hennig! Dr. Death is here and Nikolai Volkoff, the man who gave World Champion Rick martel the beating of his life last week, will wrestle! We have a great main event as well, Rod Trongard…
TRONGARD: One of the greatest stars in wrestling, Mil mascaras, a man of a thousand masks and a thousand holds will wrestle one of the most vicious and dangerous men in the sport, Ox Baker!
RESNICK: We also have a very unusual situation in the AWA. Jack Brisco has decided that desperate times call for desperate measures. “Fabulous One” Steve Kerin and Baby Doll have angered Jack Brisco to the point that he has asked for and received a mixed tag match on Thanksgiving Night at The St. Paul Civic Center. Brisco will team with his friend Lady Maxine against the people who join me now, the Fabulous One and Baby Doll!
KEIRN: Brisco, what’s an old has been like you doing with that crazy looking reject from a punk rock band? I have a video of Baby Doll, the most perfect woman in the world in every way, getting ready for the match on Thanksgiving! Watch real closely, Lady Maxine!
VTR
Music video set to “She Works Hard For The Money”. Shows baby Doll working out on the weights in the gym as well as punching a heavy bag. There is also footage of Baby Doll, in a martial arts gi, tossing another woman around on the mats. Footage of her working out in the ring with a man, hitting clotheslines, forearms, and applying holds as Keirn coaches her.
KEIRN : Did you see that, Ken Resnick? Does this woman look like she is intimidated by that psycho amazon Brisco is bringing in here?
RESNICK: Well, in the interest of equal time, we also have a video of Lady Maxine…
VTR:
Music video set to “War Machine” by KISS. This video shows Lady Maxine destroying several opponents in rings in several promotions.
Coming out of the video, Bay Doll has a “deer in the headlight” look.
KEIRN: Who cares? The women might not even get in the ring! I’ll probably start with Brisco and beat him like I’ve done every other time we’ve wrestled!
RESNICK: We’ll be right back with six man tag team action.
COMMERCIAL
Including a promo for Thanksgiving Night, November 28, at the St. Paul Civic Center!
AWA TITLE MATCH: RICK MARTEL VS. NIKOLAI VOLKOFF!
GHETTO ODDS STREET FIGHT: ROAD WARRIORS, BARBARIAN 7 PAUL ELLERING VS.
BUTCH REED, TONY ATLAS, & CURT HENNIG!
MIXED TAG MATCH; FABULOUS ONE & BABY DOLL VS. JACK BRISCO & LADY MAXINE!
ELIMINATION TAG MATCH: SAMOANS VS. NICK BOCKWINKEL, JESSE BARR, & LARRY ZYBYSKO!
SUPERSTAR GRAHAM VS. MIL MASCARAS!
DR. DEATH VS. BILLY ROBINSON!
TATSUMI FUJINAMI VS. BORIS ZHUKOV!
PEZ WHATLEY VS. DOUG SOMMERS!
STEVE O VS. JIM POWERS![/B]
”Hacksaw” Butch Reed, “Mr. USA” Tony Atlas, & Curt Hennig vs. Mike “the Hippie Boyette, Rick Renslow, & Tom Branch:As Paul Ellering watches from ringside, three of the biggest thorns in the Legion Of Doom’s side dominate the match. Hennig pins Boyette after a top rope dropkick and as Ellering joins the Barbarian and the Road Warriors in the interview area, there’s plenty of pointing, posturing, and trash talking going on!
ELLERING: Thanksgiving night! Atlas, Reed, and Hennig! You fools! You call it a Ghetto Odds match, but I call it SUICIDE! While everybody else is stuffing themselves with turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes, you three will be dining from the Legions buffet of broken bones and busted heads! Curt, your daddy can’t save his little boy now! Reed and Atlas, you are the biggest fools of all because you WANT a cage match with Hawk and Animal! Are you masochists? Sick!
HAWK: Instead of breaking a wishbone from a turkey and making a wish, me and Animal and Barbarian are gonna break a bone on one of these geeks! HAPPY THANKSGIVING, BOYS!
ANIMAL: Your early Christmas present is gonna be a two week vacation in the ICU! The Legion is gonna hurt somebody real bad!
COMMERCIAL
RESNICK: We are joined by another member of the Legion of Doom, “Dr. Death” Steve Williams!
WILLIAMS: Billy Robinson, for years, you’ve been the big gun in the AWA. A wrestling machine who could stand up to anybody. Well, it’s time to stand aside for the new wrestling machine! Paul Ellering wanted you to take care of Curt Hennig and you blew it! Paul, I don’t mean to question your judgment, but if you had put Dr. Death on that case….
ELLERING: Say no more, Doc, even the great ones have a lapse in judgment from time to time! Robinson, on Thanksgiving night, the past will clash with the future and you will be left behind like so many before you: The Vachons, the Bruisers, the Barons, and the Gagnes!
WILLIAMS: Billy, remember years ago, when you came to the States? Verne Gagne represented the old guard and you were the new wave, the British invasion. You had your chance to sweep aside the old lion and you blew it! I won’t blow it! I’m Dr. Death and I am the future of the AWA!
Steve “Dr. Death” Williams vs. Jose Luis Rivera: Williams takes Rivera apart and looks unbeatable as he finishes Rivera with the “Oklahoma Stampede” powerslam. Trongard uses some of his commentary to take Williams to task for revisionist history and to praise Billy Robinson’s accomplishments.
COMMERCIAL
Nikolai Volkoff vs. Jake Milliman: As Sheik Adnan El Kaissey rants and raves at ringside, Volkoff dominates the Milkman! Trongard says he is concerned not only about Martel losing the World Title to the Russian on Thanksgiving night, but also for Rick’s physical well being! Volkoff pins Milliman after a bone crushing backbreaker.
RESNICK: I’m joined by World Champion Rick Martel. Rick, I’m concerned and all of the fans are as well after you were attacked by Nikolai Volkoff last week.
MARTEL: My body still aches. But last week, it was a sneak attack and three against one! When we get into the ring, it will be face to face and one on one! Volkoff, you are huge and you have amazing strength, but do you have the heart and the guts to take this belt? Do you have thousands of fans in St. Paul, Minnesota cheering for you? Fans you can draw strength from? Even if you break my back, Volkoff, I’ll keep trying and never give up! Can you say that, Nikolai? I am motivated by professional pride and the support of my fans while you are motivated by Adnan’s money and those Japanese businessman promising you whatever you want if you take the belt back to Tsuruta! I’m concerned, too, Ken, but I’m not worried! I am the World Champion and I intend on remaining World Champion for a long time!
COMMERCIAL
Mil Mascaras vs. Ox Baker: Our TV main event sees Superstar Graham(accompanied by Paul Ellering) show up at ringside early on and begin flexing. This distracts Mil and Baker spends most of the match beating mascaras from pillar to post. The Mexican star does come back and hits the flying headbutt to get the win over Baker! After the bout, an angry Baker does the heart punch on a turnbuckle pad and screams for mascaras to come back for more!
RESNICK: I’m here with Superstar Graham, Mil Mascaras’ opponent on Thanksgiving…
GRAHAM: One thousand masks because that ugly face must be covered at all times! The one and only true Superstar will be in St. Paul on Thanksgiving and just one glimpse of this wonderful body will fulfill every fantasy you poor, puny wrestling fans have ever had! Forget football, parades, or turkey….you are looking at the greatest Thanksgiving tradition of all! Giving thanks that you wake up every morning and walk on the same planet that I walk on! Paul Ellering, you have obtained a major match for me on one of the biggest wrestling spectacles of all time! After I finish with the masked man, I want the World Champion! Bring me Ricky Martel and that AWA Championship of the Universe, daddy!
ELLERING: Superstar, it is only a matter of time before that belt comes to you an the Legion of Doom!
GRAHAM: I know you won’t let me down, Precious Paul!
Graham goes into a flexing routine as Resnick attempts to close the show….
Taped November 16, 1984 to air across the territory on November 23, 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: We have a great hour of ALL STAR WRESTLING this week. A six man tag featuring Butch Red, Tony Atlas, & Curt Hennig! Dr. Death is here and Nikolai Volkoff, the man who gave World Champion Rick martel the beating of his life last week, will wrestle! We have a great main event as well, Rod Trongard…
TRONGARD: One of the greatest stars in wrestling, Mil mascaras, a man of a thousand masks and a thousand holds will wrestle one of the most vicious and dangerous men in the sport, Ox Baker!
RESNICK: We also have a very unusual situation in the AWA. Jack Brisco has decided that desperate times call for desperate measures. “Fabulous One” Steve Kerin and Baby Doll have angered Jack Brisco to the point that he has asked for and received a mixed tag match on Thanksgiving Night at The St. Paul Civic Center. Brisco will team with his friend Lady Maxine against the people who join me now, the Fabulous One and Baby Doll!
KEIRN: Brisco, what’s an old has been like you doing with that crazy looking reject from a punk rock band? I have a video of Baby Doll, the most perfect woman in the world in every way, getting ready for the match on Thanksgiving! Watch real closely, Lady Maxine!
VTR
Music video set to “She Works Hard For The Money”. Shows baby Doll working out on the weights in the gym as well as punching a heavy bag. There is also footage of Baby Doll, in a martial arts gi, tossing another woman around on the mats. Footage of her working out in the ring with a man, hitting clotheslines, forearms, and applying holds as Keirn coaches her.
KEIRN : Did you see that, Ken Resnick? Does this woman look like she is intimidated by that psycho amazon Brisco is bringing in here?
RESNICK: Well, in the interest of equal time, we also have a video of Lady Maxine…
VTR:
Music video set to “War Machine” by KISS. This video shows Lady Maxine destroying several opponents in rings in several promotions.
Coming out of the video, Bay Doll has a “deer in the headlight” look.
KEIRN: Who cares? The women might not even get in the ring! I’ll probably start with Brisco and beat him like I’ve done every other time we’ve wrestled!
RESNICK: We’ll be right back with six man tag team action.
COMMERCIAL
Including a promo for Thanksgiving Night, November 28, at the St. Paul Civic Center!
AWA TITLE MATCH: RICK MARTEL VS. NIKOLAI VOLKOFF!
GHETTO ODDS STREET FIGHT: ROAD WARRIORS, BARBARIAN 7 PAUL ELLERING VS.
BUTCH REED, TONY ATLAS, & CURT HENNIG!
MIXED TAG MATCH; FABULOUS ONE & BABY DOLL VS. JACK BRISCO & LADY MAXINE!
ELIMINATION TAG MATCH: SAMOANS VS. NICK BOCKWINKEL, JESSE BARR, & LARRY ZYBYSKO!
SUPERSTAR GRAHAM VS. MIL MASCARAS!
DR. DEATH VS. BILLY ROBINSON!
TATSUMI FUJINAMI VS. BORIS ZHUKOV!
PEZ WHATLEY VS. DOUG SOMMERS!
STEVE O VS. JIM POWERS![/B]
”Hacksaw” Butch Reed, “Mr. USA” Tony Atlas, & Curt Hennig vs. Mike “the Hippie Boyette, Rick Renslow, & Tom Branch:As Paul Ellering watches from ringside, three of the biggest thorns in the Legion Of Doom’s side dominate the match. Hennig pins Boyette after a top rope dropkick and as Ellering joins the Barbarian and the Road Warriors in the interview area, there’s plenty of pointing, posturing, and trash talking going on!
ELLERING: Thanksgiving night! Atlas, Reed, and Hennig! You fools! You call it a Ghetto Odds match, but I call it SUICIDE! While everybody else is stuffing themselves with turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes, you three will be dining from the Legions buffet of broken bones and busted heads! Curt, your daddy can’t save his little boy now! Reed and Atlas, you are the biggest fools of all because you WANT a cage match with Hawk and Animal! Are you masochists? Sick!
HAWK: Instead of breaking a wishbone from a turkey and making a wish, me and Animal and Barbarian are gonna break a bone on one of these geeks! HAPPY THANKSGIVING, BOYS!
ANIMAL: Your early Christmas present is gonna be a two week vacation in the ICU! The Legion is gonna hurt somebody real bad!
COMMERCIAL
RESNICK: We are joined by another member of the Legion of Doom, “Dr. Death” Steve Williams!
WILLIAMS: Billy Robinson, for years, you’ve been the big gun in the AWA. A wrestling machine who could stand up to anybody. Well, it’s time to stand aside for the new wrestling machine! Paul Ellering wanted you to take care of Curt Hennig and you blew it! Paul, I don’t mean to question your judgment, but if you had put Dr. Death on that case….
ELLERING: Say no more, Doc, even the great ones have a lapse in judgment from time to time! Robinson, on Thanksgiving night, the past will clash with the future and you will be left behind like so many before you: The Vachons, the Bruisers, the Barons, and the Gagnes!
WILLIAMS: Billy, remember years ago, when you came to the States? Verne Gagne represented the old guard and you were the new wave, the British invasion. You had your chance to sweep aside the old lion and you blew it! I won’t blow it! I’m Dr. Death and I am the future of the AWA!
Steve “Dr. Death” Williams vs. Jose Luis Rivera: Williams takes Rivera apart and looks unbeatable as he finishes Rivera with the “Oklahoma Stampede” powerslam. Trongard uses some of his commentary to take Williams to task for revisionist history and to praise Billy Robinson’s accomplishments.
COMMERCIAL
Nikolai Volkoff vs. Jake Milliman: As Sheik Adnan El Kaissey rants and raves at ringside, Volkoff dominates the Milkman! Trongard says he is concerned not only about Martel losing the World Title to the Russian on Thanksgiving night, but also for Rick’s physical well being! Volkoff pins Milliman after a bone crushing backbreaker.
RESNICK: I’m joined by World Champion Rick Martel. Rick, I’m concerned and all of the fans are as well after you were attacked by Nikolai Volkoff last week.
MARTEL: My body still aches. But last week, it was a sneak attack and three against one! When we get into the ring, it will be face to face and one on one! Volkoff, you are huge and you have amazing strength, but do you have the heart and the guts to take this belt? Do you have thousands of fans in St. Paul, Minnesota cheering for you? Fans you can draw strength from? Even if you break my back, Volkoff, I’ll keep trying and never give up! Can you say that, Nikolai? I am motivated by professional pride and the support of my fans while you are motivated by Adnan’s money and those Japanese businessman promising you whatever you want if you take the belt back to Tsuruta! I’m concerned, too, Ken, but I’m not worried! I am the World Champion and I intend on remaining World Champion for a long time!
COMMERCIAL
Mil Mascaras vs. Ox Baker: Our TV main event sees Superstar Graham(accompanied by Paul Ellering) show up at ringside early on and begin flexing. This distracts Mil and Baker spends most of the match beating mascaras from pillar to post. The Mexican star does come back and hits the flying headbutt to get the win over Baker! After the bout, an angry Baker does the heart punch on a turnbuckle pad and screams for mascaras to come back for more!
RESNICK: I’m here with Superstar Graham, Mil Mascaras’ opponent on Thanksgiving…
GRAHAM: One thousand masks because that ugly face must be covered at all times! The one and only true Superstar will be in St. Paul on Thanksgiving and just one glimpse of this wonderful body will fulfill every fantasy you poor, puny wrestling fans have ever had! Forget football, parades, or turkey….you are looking at the greatest Thanksgiving tradition of all! Giving thanks that you wake up every morning and walk on the same planet that I walk on! Paul Ellering, you have obtained a major match for me on one of the biggest wrestling spectacles of all time! After I finish with the masked man, I want the World Champion! Bring me Ricky Martel and that AWA Championship of the Universe, daddy!
ELLERING: Superstar, it is only a matter of time before that belt comes to you an the Legion of Doom!
GRAHAM: I know you won’t let me down, Precious Paul!
Graham goes into a flexing routine as Resnick attempts to close the show….
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