AWA Thanksgiving Night Card in St. Paul(11/28/84)

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AWA Wrestling

11/28/84

St. Paul Civic Center

St. Paul, MN

1. Jim Powers vs. Steve O: A scientific match between two popular wrestlers. After 12:22 of clean, closely fought action, Steve O gets the pin after a sunset flip.

2. Pistol Pez Whatley vs. “Pretty Boy” Doug Sommers: The Pretty Boy uses his sneaky rulebreaking tactics to control the action for most of the way, but the Pistol man comes back with a flying headbutt to score the pinfall win @ the 13:22 mark.

3. Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Boris Zhukov: “The Dragon” returns to the USA to face a man who is managed by his former manager, Sheik Adnan El Kaissey. The Russian breaks every rule in the book and Adnan interferes liberally. In spite of all that, Fujinami is still extremely impressive and gets the win via submission to the scorpion deathlock at 10:57.

4. Superstar Graham vs. Mil Mascaras: Graham is led to the ring by Paul Ellering with “Bad To The Bone” blasting. Mascaras seems to keep Graham off balance early on with his high flying and mat work. Graham stays in the match with his power and pins Mascaras @13:33 while bracing his feet on the ropes for leverage.

5. Steve “Dr.Death” Williams vs. Billy Robinson: Dr. Death and Robinson start off with a lot of matwork, but tempers flare and the bout becomes more of a brawl which appears to benefit Williams. Doc finally hits the Oklahoma Stampede at the 14:59 mark and scores the pin.

6. ”Fabulous One” Steve Keirn & Baby Doll vs. Jack Brisco & Lady Maxine: Kerin and Brisco start things off and Keirn tags out when Brisco begins to outwrestle him. Maxine overpowers Baby Doll and tosses her around the ring until Keirn trips Maxine to turn the tide. After several minutes of Baby Doll pounding on Maxine, the tall blonde runs into a kick to the head from the taller woman. A tag is made and Brisco and Keirn go at it for several minutes of fast paced, back and forth action. Keirn gets the advantage with a foreign object that Baby Doll hands to him. Lady Maxine counters by pushing the Fabulous One when he goes to the top rope and Keirn lands on his head! Brisco follows that with a sunset flip to get the 1-2-3 on Keirn @ 13:22! After the bell, Baby Doll comes after lady Maxine, but Maxine wipes the mat with her!

7. Elimination Tag Match-The Samoans(Afa, Sika, & Samu) vs. Jesse Barr, Larry Zybysko, & Nick Bockwinkel:

• Samu and Barr are counted out @5:43 to eliminate both.

• Zybysko pins and eliminates Afa after Bockwinkel trips Afa when he attempts a diving headbutt off of the turnbuckles. Time of the fall:10:37.

• Sika pins Zybysko with a Samoan drop @ 12:29.

• Bockwinkel pins Sika with a neckbreaker to give his team the win after Zybysko distracts Sika from ringside. Time of the final fall: 15:59.

8. Ghetto Odds Street Fight-Hacksaw Butch Reed, Tony “Mr. USA” Atlas, & Curt Hennig vs. The Road Warriors, the Barbarian, & “Precious Paul Ellering: The odds are stacked against Reed, Atlas & Hennig here, but they fight bravely. At one point, Ellering attempts to bring a chair into the ring, but Hennig dropkicks the chair right into his face! Hennig then lands a cradle suplex on Ellering and gets the 1-2-3! The Barbarian and the Warriors give Atlas & Reed a vicious beatdown after the match, but Hennig swings the chair to clear the ring of the Legion of Doom members. Due to prematch stipulations, Reed & Atlas will receive a cage match with the Warriors for the World Tag belts inside of a steel cage!

9. AWA World Title Match: Champion Rick Martel vs. Nikolai Volkoff:Sheik Adnan brings in Volkoff to try to take Martel’s World Title. Volkoff uses his awesome power to dish out a brutal beating to the champ. Martel comes back and wrestles more aggressively than usual. The match spills out of the ring and Adnan tries to get involved, but Martel posts him for his trouble! Volkoff regains the advantage when he slams Martel’s back into the ringside barricade. Volkoff drags the champ back into the ring and goes for the backbreaker, but somehow, Martel holds on and rolls the Russian up for a pin at the 13:22 mark! After the bout, Volkoff and Adnan put the boots to Martel until Curt Hennig, Samu, and Steve O run in for the save!

[Chitohausen]

Great show!

The mixed tag team match was a lot of fun. The final two matches alone were well worth the price of admission. I really like what you've been doing with the Legion of the Doom, and I can't wait to see the Warriors destroy Atlas and Reed inside a steel cage!

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Well Fujinumnuts has returned to the AWA, apparently not accepting his shame and "doing the right thing". No matter---General Adnan's final plans for him will make carving out his own intestines with a samurai blade seem like slicing a wart off a thumb when he gets done with this Japanese Disgrace.

Mil Mascaras does a job? More evidence that Paul Ellering is a true genius.

Poor Steve Keirn goes to the top rope to view the physical damage that Baby Doll did to Jacqueline Brisco so he can alert the medical officials, than that festering STD ridden hosebag, Not-such-a-Lady Maxine, takes a cheap shot that causes Keirn to be injured. I predict Baby Doll will get her hands on Maxine, and teach her how a lady is supposed to act; if not, Steve Keirn will show her the hard way where every women belongs: barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen juggling a frying pan in one hand, and a vacuum cleaner in the other.

The way I see it, the Ghetto Odds will be squarely against Mitre-saw Butch Reed and Tony Hapless when they face the men that came from the REAL ghetto, South Side Chicago's own Road Warriors.