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Post by turkeysandwich on Sept 28, 2011 10:15:34 GMT -5
I mean other than the ESPN Show between 1985 and 1990. I ask that because it shows up on my DVR every once in a while, and I watch it and it kinda sucks as a show, filmed in front of the deadest of crowds. Other than the episodes before WrestleRock '86 and Superclash 88, there doesn't seem to be much promotion of Big Events.
So was there another AWA show at the time, like say in the Minneapolis Area where World title matches took place or anything other than squash matches were shown?
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Post by destrucity on Sept 28, 2011 20:24:34 GMT -5
They definitely had at least 2 shows at one point. There was a syndicated show that used to air in my area on Saturday mornings in addition to the ESPN one. The syndicated one used to have interviews promoting events in my area as well as wrestlers from other companies (this was during the era of Pro Wrestling USA).
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Post by molson5 on Sept 28, 2011 21:31:59 GMT -5
How far back do you have to go to find hot AWA crowds depicted on TV? I don't remember ANY ESPN shows that had that (with the sole exception of anything involving the Midnight Rockers) - I guess you have to go back to Hogan.
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Post by repomanfan on Sept 28, 2011 22:05:32 GMT -5
How far back do you have to go to find hot AWA crowds depicted on TV? I don't remember ANY ESPN shows that had that (with the sole exception of anything involving the Midnight Rockers) - I guess you have to go back to Hogan. They ran a lot of big arena shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, Winnipeg etc..... They eventually lost there major arena(St Paul Civic Centre) a long with TV slots around 85 I believe(you should probably look into that). 84 was the last truly great year in AWA history. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2011 7:30:27 GMT -5
Long as you get shows that aren't at the Showboat (Las Vegas) or the Cow Palace (San Francisco), you'd get some pretty rabid wrestling fans.
They would show matches from my hometown (Hammond, IN, represent, y0). It's infamously known as the town Hennig & Hall lost the tag titles by countout, plus Bobby Heenan had some wild stories about things that happened here.
I remember turning on Channel 44 Sunday mornings and seeing the AWA syndicated show. (Which is funny because that was all Spanish except for that particular show - and the "Bruiser Bedlam" 1/2 hour afterwards, which mainly consisted of a random Verne Gagne-Nick Bockwinkel cage match from the Chicago Amphitheater in 1974, with promoter Bob Luce and Dick the Bruiser commentating on it. And it was not complete without a Bobby Heenan run-in/toss into the cage/bleeding like a stuck pig.)
At 11am, which was directly opposite WWF All-American Wrestling on USA. So, unless my dad was watching - when it would stay on the AWA, I would flip between the two depending on if I already saw WWF Superstars squash match #119 over the weekend for some AWA squash action.
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Post by britishbulldog on Oct 1, 2011 19:40:38 GMT -5
They syndicated show was so much better than the one on ESPN.
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