#1984WrestlingWars 4 AWA bouts taped for Japanesse TV, Green Bay Wisconsin 3/11/84
The Japanese recording of the AWA tour/territory continues with 4 bouts from Green Bay Wisconsin from 3/11/84.....
Match #1 Giant Baba/Tenryu vs "Mr.Electricity" Steve Regal and Roger Kirby! When you read the description or see the video of this 7 minute 43 second match. You might think "Hey this incredible Kentucky hillbilly dumb shit(me!) already did this bout"!...and you would be mostly right!...... sub in Roger "I used to be a low rent Nature Boy" Kirby" for Kevin "I'm the dipshit that tried to kill Vince 8 years later" Kelly and the match is almost a carbon copy!.... Kirby and Tenryu did engage in a nice short chop battle at one point...Unlike Chicago the Japanese did get minor cheers from the Packer faithful! Baba booted Kirby for the win...https://youtu.be/FJbU1w-8Jx8
Match #2 The BlackJacks vs Nick Bockweinkel/Harley Race....I hate saying this with these four greats, but this match, or more correctly said what they showed on this video was not good!...I could do long in depth pieces on all four of these men and thier overwheling import and impact on Wrestling history...Volumes could be written on Bobby Heenan(manager of Bockweinkel and Race here obviously,) alone! So why was this match turd like, well first thing, It Was cut way short here! I know it was for Japan but these men were known there, hell Harley Race was dubbed "Mr. Pro Wrestling" in Japan, for Gotch's sake! If you are going to record this bout why not show it all that makes no sense! They showed 5:46 of this match and a minute of that was introductions! To top it off the camera man missed the finish I assume Heenan got involved but the damn camera was pointed at a fan! What little we see is good this is not a knock on the wrestlers at all!..https://youtu.be/5mEjgvzMcyo
Match #3 AWA World Tag Team Title Match The champions Blackwell/Patera vs Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell "The High Flyers" This was a solid good match! All four of these folks knew how to do what they were best at very well! We join the bout in progress and right away Brunzell zings Patera with a high knee. Gagne comes in full of fire! Some will always see Greg as Verne's "overpushed" kid, but The High Flyers were a tremendous duo! Fast quick tag work and this night in Green Bay they were on their game. As the begin to try to turn Patera's left leg into hamburger! Grinding it, pulling it, diving on it! Brunzell drags Ken to the corner and smashes his leg into the ringpost. Gagne puts him in an "Indian Death Lock" submission! They are doing a number to that leg!... Patera gets over and finally tags Blackwell but he misses a corner "Avalanche" move and they beat him down as well! Gagne just hammering the big man with forearms and punches!... The heel champions take over after Blackwell ties up the referee and Brunzell and allows Patera to choke Gagne down in their corner. This time big Jerry hits the corner charge and a huge elbow drop! Ken tags back in and puts on a bearhug! Gagne manages to escape and scurry around Patera to give Brunzell the Hot tag!... He cleans house but tags Greg right back in Gagne is a tremendous babyface on fire here he hits drop kicks a huge backdrop to Blackwell and clamps the Gagne sleeper om him while up on Jerry's back! Patera tries to come in to break the hold as Brunzell stops him. Patera climbs up the ropes and nails Gagne with a double axehandle and chucks him out over the tope rope! The ref turns around just in time to see this and calls for the DQ!! So it is a "Fuck Finish" but a well done one, so there's that! A great improvement over the 1st two matches! https://youtu.be/cZXJptwlDSc
Match #4 AWA World title bout Champion Jumbo Tsuruta vs Billy Robinson I love this match this is golden to me! I could watch matches like this all day(I often do)! They went 25 minutes and I promise I will not deal with every move and countermove! I realize why read me go on for 3 long paragraphs when you can watch it! Please do! Robinson was rightly a legend everywhere in the wrestling world! This is 1984 no where near his top condition, near the end of his in ring career I believe! Make no mistake though he and Jumbo are great here! They knew how to work with each other, they had been foes many hundreds of times by this point and it shows! Tsuruta is being the ever so slight heel here! Meanwhile Billy had babyface fire and crowd support for days here! Tsuruta best work as champion to this point by a wide margin!....Did I mention I loved this match!...https://youtu.be/23F_WPfRbqY
Match #1 Giant Baba/Tenryu vs "Mr.Electricity" Steve Regal and Roger Kirby! When you read the description or see the video of this 7 minute 43 second match. You might think "Hey this incredible Kentucky hillbilly dumb shit(me!) already did this bout"!...and you would be mostly right!...... sub in Roger "I used to be a low rent Nature Boy" Kirby" for Kevin "I'm the dipshit that tried to kill Vince 8 years later" Kelly and the match is almost a carbon copy!.... Kirby and Tenryu did engage in a nice short chop battle at one point...Unlike Chicago the Japanese did get minor cheers from the Packer faithful! Baba booted Kirby for the win...https://youtu.be/FJbU1w-8Jx8
Match #2 The BlackJacks vs Nick Bockweinkel/Harley Race....I hate saying this with these four greats, but this match, or more correctly said what they showed on this video was not good!...I could do long in depth pieces on all four of these men and thier overwheling import and impact on Wrestling history...Volumes could be written on Bobby Heenan(manager of Bockweinkel and Race here obviously,) alone! So why was this match turd like, well first thing, It Was cut way short here! I know it was for Japan but these men were known there, hell Harley Race was dubbed "Mr. Pro Wrestling" in Japan, for Gotch's sake! If you are going to record this bout why not show it all that makes no sense! They showed 5:46 of this match and a minute of that was introductions! To top it off the camera man missed the finish I assume Heenan got involved but the damn camera was pointed at a fan! What little we see is good this is not a knock on the wrestlers at all!..https://youtu.be/5mEjgvzMcyo
Match #3 AWA World Tag Team Title Match The champions Blackwell/Patera vs Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell "The High Flyers" This was a solid good match! All four of these folks knew how to do what they were best at very well! We join the bout in progress and right away Brunzell zings Patera with a high knee. Gagne comes in full of fire! Some will always see Greg as Verne's "overpushed" kid, but The High Flyers were a tremendous duo! Fast quick tag work and this night in Green Bay they were on their game. As the begin to try to turn Patera's left leg into hamburger! Grinding it, pulling it, diving on it! Brunzell drags Ken to the corner and smashes his leg into the ringpost. Gagne puts him in an "Indian Death Lock" submission! They are doing a number to that leg!... Patera gets over and finally tags Blackwell but he misses a corner "Avalanche" move and they beat him down as well! Gagne just hammering the big man with forearms and punches!... The heel champions take over after Blackwell ties up the referee and Brunzell and allows Patera to choke Gagne down in their corner. This time big Jerry hits the corner charge and a huge elbow drop! Ken tags back in and puts on a bearhug! Gagne manages to escape and scurry around Patera to give Brunzell the Hot tag!... He cleans house but tags Greg right back in Gagne is a tremendous babyface on fire here he hits drop kicks a huge backdrop to Blackwell and clamps the Gagne sleeper om him while up on Jerry's back! Patera tries to come in to break the hold as Brunzell stops him. Patera climbs up the ropes and nails Gagne with a double axehandle and chucks him out over the tope rope! The ref turns around just in time to see this and calls for the DQ!! So it is a "Fuck Finish" but a well done one, so there's that! A great improvement over the 1st two matches! https://youtu.be/cZXJptwlDSc
Match #4 AWA World title bout Champion Jumbo Tsuruta vs Billy Robinson I love this match this is golden to me! I could watch matches like this all day(I often do)! They went 25 minutes and I promise I will not deal with every move and countermove! I realize why read me go on for 3 long paragraphs when you can watch it! Please do! Robinson was rightly a legend everywhere in the wrestling world! This is 1984 no where near his top condition, near the end of his in ring career I believe! Make no mistake though he and Jumbo are great here! They knew how to work with each other, they had been foes many hundreds of times by this point and it shows! Tsuruta is being the ever so slight heel here! Meanwhile Billy had babyface fire and crowd support for days here! Tsuruta best work as champion to this point by a wide margin!....Did I mention I loved this match!...https://youtu.be/23F_WPfRbqY
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