AWA Wrestlerock 86 (04.20.1986) (Wrestling Review)

AWA

Wrestlerock 86

Minneapolis, Minnesota

April 20th, 1986

 

Tag Team Match (Special Referee: Gary Lumpkin)
Little Tokyo & Lord Littlebrook vs. Cowboy Lang & Little Mr. T

A tag team midget match, fantastic. This was horrendous and no reason it should have went 10 minutes. 

.01 / 5

Battle Royal
Sherri Martel vs. Luna Vachon vs. Candi Devine vs. Joyce Grable vs. Debbie Combs vs. Misty Blue Simmes vs. Despina Montagas vs. Kat LeRoux vs. Rose Devine vs. Taylor Thomas

Half these women I don’t even know and this wasn’t anything good. 

.5 / 5

Singles Match
Boris Zhukov (w/Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie) vs. Brad Rheingans

Not a great wrestling match at all but this gave the opening match its American face win over the foreign heel. 

.5 / 5

Singles Match
Wahoo McDaniel vs. Col. DeBeers

They hit each other for a few minutes then get a DQ for throwing them over the top to the outside. Horrendous. 

.5 / 5

Singles Match
Tiger Mask vs. Buck Zumhofe

Zumhofe is super boring here. Tiger Mask clearly was slowing his pace down a ton here. 

1.5 / 5

Tag Team Match
Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo vs. The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane & Steve Keirn)

This was fine. It had its moments but it never fully hit it. 

2 / 5

Singles Match
Giant Baba vs. Bob Brown

God this was horrible. Giant Baba can’t wrestle and the crowd didn’t care. 

.5 / 5

Singles Match
Harley Race vs. Rick Martel

A pretty solid match here. Some good action but maybe should have been a few minutes shorter. Martel here was really good as well. 

3 / 5

AWA Americas Heavyweight Title Match
Sgt. Slaughter (c) vs. Kamala (w/Skandor Akbar)

 Kamala doesn’t do much of importance in a ring and this proved it. Boring. 

.75 / 5

AWA World Tag Team Title Match
Curt Hennig & Scott Hall (c) vs. The Long Riders (Bill Irwin & Scott Irwin)

A fine match, nothing special but compared to the rest of this card this was amazing. 

2.5 / 5

European Wrestling Rules Boxing Match (Special Referee: Larry Hennig)
Larry Zbyszko (w/Ninja Go) vs. Scott LeDoux (w/Bob Lurtsema)

Fast action here even if I hated the stipulation. The minute break between rounds wasn’t great either. 

2 / 5

AWA World Heavyweight Title Match
Stan Hansen (c) vs. Nick Bockwinkel

Really good match till the lame finish. Just two guys beating the crap out of each other really. 

3.5 / 5

Steel Cage Tag Team Match
King Kong Brody & The Barbarian (w/Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie) vs. Greg Gagne & Jimmy Snuka (w/Verne Gagne)

Odd pacing here and no momentum but it was fine I guess. A lot of brawling, some good spots, or maybe everything here has been so bad this just seems good. Not having Snuka do his move seems odd.

2 / 5

Steel Cage Match
Verne Gagne vs. Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie

4 minutes and a cheap finish is odd. At least we got good blood. 

1 / 5

Steel Cage Tag Team Match
The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin & Michael Hayes) vs. The Road Warriors (Road Warrior Animal & Road Warrior Hawk)

 

 Pretty much a squash. At least we got blood and The Road Warriors. 

2.5 / 5

 

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