WrestleRock 86

WrestleRock
Information
Promotion American Wrestling Association
Date April 20, 1986
Attendance 23,000
Venue Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
City Minneapolis, Minnesota

WrestleRock was a wrestling event promoted by the American Wrestling Association.

Background

The event was held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday April 20, 1986.[1] The card was heavily promoted for months during weekly television programming. Although not as ambitious as the WWF's WrestleMania 2, The show was a reasonable success, drawing more fans than both of Jim Crockett Promotions' Crockett Cup shows combined.

The show also featured country music legend Waylon Jennings performing a brief concert following the final match. WrestleRock would prove to be the final stadium show for the AWA.

WrestleRock Rumble

The promotions for the show included a music video shot in Las Vegas entitled the "WrestleRock Rumble" in a vein similar to The Super Bowl Shuffle from 1985. It featured different AWA talent "rapping" verses, including 60-year-old Verne Gagne reading his verse off a sheet.[1] The video was parodied by the WWE online comedy show Are You Serious?, with co-host Road Dogg calling Nick Bockwinkel the best rapper of the bunch. It was then parodied as the "WrestleMania Rumble", featuring Brodus Clay, Yoshi Tatsu, Santino Marella and Puppet H doing rap verses to promote WrestleMania XXVIII.[2]

Matches

No. Results Stipulations Times
1 Brad Rheingans defeated Boris Zukhov Singles match 05:44
2 Little Mr. T and Cowboy Lang defeated Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo Tag team match 10:01
3 Colonel DeBeers defeated Wahoo McDaniel by disqualification Singles match 05:03
4 Buddy Rose and Doug Somers defeated The Midnight Rockers Tag team match 12:03
5 Tiger Mask defeated Buck Zumhofe Singles match 10:55
6 Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda defeated The Fabulous Ones Tag team match 14:01
7 Harley Race vs. Rick Martel ended in a double countout Singles match 10:00
8 Sherri Martel defeated Luna Vachon, Joyce Grable, Kat LeRoux, Rose Divine, Taylor Thomas, Despina Montega, Misty Blue Simmes, Debbie Combs, and Candi Divine 10-woman battle royal 10:00
9 Sgt. Slaughter (c) defeated Kamala by disqualification Singles match for the AWA America's Championship 09:54
10 Scott Hall and Curt Hennig (c) defeated The Long Riders (Scott Irwin and Bill Irwin) Tag team match for the AWA World Tag Team Championship 27:53
11 Scott LeDoux defeated Larry Zbyszko by disqualification Boxing match with Larry Hennig as the special guest referee Unknown
12 Nick Bockwinkel defeated Stan Hansen (c) by disqualification Singles match for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship 10:43
13 Greg Gagne and Superfly Snuka defeated Bruiser Brody and John Nord Steel cage match 12:12
14 Verne Gagne defeated Sheik Adnan El Kassey Steel cage match 06:54
15 The Road Warriors defeated Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin Steel cage match 21:21
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. 1 2 "Past Inductions". WrestleCrap. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
  2. "WWE Video - new "Are You Serious?" with WrestleRock, ECW botch, Road Warriors". Pro Wrestling Torch. 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
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