This week we head to Las Vegas, Nevada for an episode of AWA Championship Wrestling on ESPN from May 9, 1987!
- How one ends up doing an AWA show from this era
- Examining what Curt Hennig’s 1987 might have looked like had he jumped to the WWF
- A TV show idea for Larry Zbyszko
- Theorizing on Sensational Sherri’s working style
- Rod Trongard can’t keep his shaded eyes on the prize
- Nick Bockwinkel doesn’t give a crap anymore
- The one man who may have benefitted from Curt Hennig’s and the Midnight Rockers’ respective decisions during the year
- The racist symbol that somehow made its way onto ESPN
- Looking at Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs as separate enhancement talents
Plus:
- How Eric Bischoff got his foot in the door of professional wrestling
- What was that damn noise when sports channels went to commercial in the 1980s?
- Playing the AWA Front Row Empty Seat Watch game
- The current state of the site of the Las Vegas AWA shows “The Showboat”
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