American Wrestling Association

    

Rod Trongard
Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another ALL STAR HOUR IN WRESTLING with the American Wrestling Association! I am Rod Trongard, joined as always by my colleagues Jim Ross and "Mean" Gene Okerlund! Folks! Tonight the final entrants into the Number One Contender Royale will be decided! Greg Gagne set to take on Ken Patera and in our Main Event? Wahoo McDaniel and Baron Von Raschke! We're in the final throws before heading into our January Supershow and I for one can't wait to see the final men announced in the battle to name our number one contender to Nick Bockwinkel's Heavyweight Championship!

Jim Ross
That's Right Rod and we can also expect another week of Jerry Lawler showing off! I for one don't know why we continue to keep calling it an open challenge because ladies and gentlemen, don't fool yourselves for one second. There has been nothing "open" so far about the challenge that Jerry Lawler has been laying down each week! He had a viable contender in Curt Hennig and he made sure that Curt lost his opportunity at the title!

Gene Okerlund
I wouldn't right off Curt Hennig just yet Jim! He's a relentless young man and I'm sure he's not going to let the introduction of Jerry Lawler's "security" in Matt Borne get in the way of his chances at the AWA Television Championship! But folks, on top of all that? We've got a mystery that needs solving as two masked men have been provoking and interfering with the High Flyers, Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell. There are those wondering if those men will interfere here again tonight and what it might mean for the High Flyers going forward!

Jim Ross
It's an action packed hour as always ladies and gentlemen and we hope you'll stick with us through to the end here on All Star Wrestling with the AWA!



 VS. 

In an opportunity for two of the fresher faces to show the AWA Audience exactly what they have, Koko B Ware and Matt Borne would start the show off with a decent bout against one another. Dave Meltzer and his little dirt sheets might go on to write that Koko Picking up the victory over Matt Borne here is nothing more than a "punishment" for Matt's transgressions the previous week. However "The Soulman" Koko B. Ware seems to be getting somewhat of a connection with the fans due to his fast paced athleticism.

Rated: C-

AWA Television Championship
Jerry Lawler Vs....Sonny Rogers?!!

  VS.  

Oh come on now! This is just getting ridiculous! Can AWA management step in here and pop Jerry Lawler's ridiculously sized ego! Sonny Rogers? Sonny Rogers has spent more time on the canvas than Rembrandt! OF COURSE Jerry Lawler won and retained his Championship here, what else is new?! God damn this egomaniac! Somebody stop him! Lawler wins with a Piledriver


Rated: C+





After the match, Lawler would order the referee to strap the AWA Television Championship around his waist as he posed and strutted for the crowd, bowing to them in arrogant victory. He signals for a microphone as the audience rains down their distaste for the disgraceful showing that King has been putting on for the past few weeks here, as their apparent "representative" of AWA Television.

Jerry "The King" Lawler
There's one young PUNK that's back there in the locker room...that goes by the name of Curt Hennig...and I want him to take a good long look at the pathetic example of a man that's being helped out by ring officials! I want him to think back, to every other example of PATHETIC men that have stepped in the ring with me in my open challenge...and I want him to think back...to the example that he became last week when he met my insurance policy, Matt Borne! I want him to think long and hard about the weeks that have passed and try to figure out why it is he hasn't had the chance that he and all of you moronic sheep think that he deserves!

Jerry laughs at the response he expected from the crowd, as he quickly dodges a soda cup thrown by one angry AWA audience member which bounces off of the canvas and over the rope. Jerry looks down at his title to make sure none of the soda had spilled on to it, polishing it with a handkerchief he pulls from the pocket of his robe before continuing.

Jerry "The King" Lawler
You want to know why I denied your little challenge Curt? You really want to know why I'm giving men like Jake Milliman, Like Steve O, like Sonny Rogers opportunities at my Championship over you? Because unlike them Curt...everything has come so EASILY to you, hasn't it? Curt Hennig never had to know what paying dues felt like! Curt Hennig never had to know what REAL STRUGGLE in this industry felt like! Curt HENNIG...got to ride on in, to one of the most prestigious, most celebrated...independent and rising companies in wrestling today...because of his name, and because of the legacy that your FATHER built FOR YOU! Everybody in this company, NO...EVERYBODY IN THIS INDUSTRY...already has big and bright plans for you Curt...you've never had to experience what it's like for somebody to come and tell you...NO!

Jerry smirks as he almost spits that word into the microphone. Whether what we were hearing was the actual reasoning that Jerry had is up for debate, it could simply be the excuse the King has conjured up in his head to make sense of his recent cowardess, but he said it with enough venom to make it sound all too real...

Jerry "The King" Lawler
Well I wasn't going to be one of those people that just laid down, rolled over and let some young blue chipper that's never experienced a hard day in this industry get an opportunity simply because he WANTED one! You want to know why I fought Jake Milliman? Why I fought Steve O? Why I fought Sonny Rogers? Because for so long, they've been scrounging and scraping and clawing at the bottom of the barrel...hoping and praying Curt that they would just get a FRACTION of the praise and the attention that you've already recieved...when you haven't even done anything worthwhile! Did I screw you out of your opportunity last week when you fought Matt Borne! YOU'RE GOD D[CENSORED]-ED RIGHT I DID AND I'D DO IT AGAIN! Because now you know how it feels! Now you know what it's like to be the other guy! Now you finally got a taste of real struggle Curt...and when it comes to the Supershow? Instead of it being Jerry Lawler and Curt Hennig...like you were so certain it would be...you're going to sit this one out, while I defend my Championship against an opponent of MY choosing! But you know what Curt? I'm a fair guy...

Yeah right, nothing that Lawler has done since winning that belt could be deemed even remotely "fair". Only in the mind and imaginary world of Jerry Lawler did that ring true.


Jerry "The King" Lawler
I think this little open challenge of mine should go beyond the AWA Roster...how about at the Supershow...I open my challenge to ANYBODY that will be in the audience there that night? How about that Curt? BUY YOURSELF A TICKET KID! Because that's the only way you're even going to have a CHANCE of getting on the show as long as I have anything to do with it!

Rated B+



  VS. 

In a close bout that saw Greg Gagne throwing everything he had at "The World's Strongest Man" Ken Patera, Greg did everything he could to win the opportunity to get in the Contendership Royale and to right the wrong of his partner being screwed out of it. Hhowever, although Greg would not see the interference from the Masked Men, he would not be able to overcome the raw strength and power of Patera and end up losing the match and opportunity.

Rated: B



    

After the match, a panting and heaving Gagne is met with the microphone of Mean Gene Okerlund, from out of shot he is joined by Jim Brunzell. The two partners hug it out as Brunzell offers his condolences, carrying the Tag Team belts he hands his partner his half of the belts, before turning to Gene to conduct the interview.

Gene Okerlund
Greg a tough fight against Patera tonight, unfortunately it seems that fate was not in your favour, but what that does for you and your partner Jim Brunzell here is make you available to finally deal with the masked assailants who have been a thorn in your side these past few weeks...

Greg Gagne
You know something Mean Gene? As disheartening as it is for us both to have lost our opportunity to become a number one contender...I'm almost thankful. I'm almost thankful because what that means...is that means our attention can be one hundred percent focused on finally dealing with whoever these cowards are that have been poking and prodding at us these past few weeks!

Jim Brunzell
Boys! You finally got what you wanted! We're all yours and this time, our backs aren't turned, the cameras aren't turned off...and all the fans are as curious as we are to find out what faces lie beneath those masks! We might not know who you are...and we certainly don't know where you are...but we know one thing...we know you're watching...and we know you're listening...

Greg Gagne
And we know that eveyrthing you two have done so far? Has been about these...the AWA World Tag Team Championships...so let me take a moment here Gene and tell these cowards EXACTLY what's going to happen. We're going to put our championships on the line. The AWA Supershow? It's going to happen! The High Flyers...putting their titles up for grabs...but if...and ONLY IF..those two masked men are willing to put their masks and identity on the line as well...

  
The two men are suddenly caught as they are knocked down from behind by the two masked men...they both look to Gene, panting...one of them leans in and simply utters...
"Challenge Accepted..."

Rated C



 VS. 

Nice fast paced action between the two light heavyweights here, giving the AWA a taste of the alternative styles that some of the wrestlers on their roster could offer. Their had been rumours and whispers of a potential light heavyweight division to come in the future of the AWA and if the reaction the fans had towards this match is to judge anything, there's definitely potential for it. Rick Martel would pick up the win with a bridging German suplex.

Rated C+






 VS. 

It was a moment of AWA nostalgia for some of the fans in attendance here tonight as two grizzled veterans of the American Wrestling Association faced off one on one to give us a glimpse of Vintage AWA. It was a bit of a slower, but hard hitting encounter between the two as The Baron still struck fear in the hearts of the fans and the noble native indian chief still managed to get the fans to join him in his war cry. Wahoo would pick up the win over Baron Von Raschke with a Tomahawk Chop and become the final entrant into the Contendership Royale to bring the go home show to an end
Rated B-