Guys Who Only Had Brief Runs in the AWA?

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I’m on an AWA kick again after seeing The Wrestler.

Mick Foley is one that comes to mind. He never signed with them, but was loaned out for some matches by World Class.

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Ric Flair had a very short rookie run before going to Crockett. Verne “the thief” Gagne tried him to sign something agreeing to pay Gagne ten percent of his future earnings.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Tom Zenk got his start in the AWA in 84, and I think he returned for a few months in 89?

[Joe Neglia]

In the later days, Nikita Koloff and Tully Blanchard were there for, like, one or two tapings each.

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Jan 6, 2019 12:48:14 GMT -5 El Pollo Guerrera said:

Tom Zenk got his start in the AWA in 84, and I think he returned for a few months in 89?

The Z-Man even almost got the title in when a battle royal was held to name a new champ. He was the runner-up.

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Harley Race kinda started there but had brief runs.

[hulksmash87]

Yokozuna did in 91 and I've read Butch Reed had a brief run there but never seen any footage

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Jan 6, 2019 12:53:23 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

In the later days, Nikita Koloff and Tully Blanchard were there for, like, one or two tapings each.

Wasn’t Don Muraco as well? I seem to recall him wanting to challenge Larry for the title

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Were Adrian Adonis & Bob Orton there long (87 or early 88 run)? I know Adonis was bigger than a house by then (purportedly pushing 400 pounds), but he could still move like a cat.

That seemed like one of those "blink and you missed it" times. (Maybe because it's been 30 years since I seen it.)

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this has archives of AWA results crazymax.org/newsite/awa-results/

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Jimmy Snuka had a few matches during the Showboat era...

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Jan 7, 2019 14:50:15 GMT -5 @jr1 said:

this has archives of AWA results crazymax.org/newsite/awa-results/

I love that site. Thank you for sharing it with everybody.

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Jan 6, 2019 11:54:35 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

I’m on an AWA kick again after seeing The Wrestler.

Mick Foley is one that comes to mind. He never signed with them, but was loaned out for some matches by World Class.

I saw Mick was in SuperClash III

[wildojinx]

Jan 6, 2019 12:53:23 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

In the later days, Nikita Koloff and Tully Blanchard were there for, like, one or two tapings each.

In fact, not counting one-off matches since then, Blanchard pretty much ended his career there.

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Vader as Baby Bull Leon White

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I just saw that Scott Steiner had 2 matches at AWA TV tapings in September 1988.

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Jan 7, 2019 15:35:21 GMT -5 Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 said:

Jimmy Snuka had a few matches during the Showboat era...

Yep, involved in one of the first traumatic angles for me....when Col. DeBeers pushed him off the top rope onto the concrete.

The Original Midnight Express? Though this wasn't as obscure as others...in their time there, Condrey and Rose did win the tag team titles and it did get them on NWA's radar a year later.

The beginning of the Nasty Boys ??

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Butch Reed left Mid-South for a couple of months in 1985 and worked for the AWA during this time before returning to Mid-South by the middle of the year. Reed would leave Mid-South for good the following year.

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Al Snow jobbed there in the 1980s. I also found out around the same time Snow had a singles match with Kerry Von Erich (in a different company though).