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AWA recognized Hennig's title reign as continuous. [5] [13] 35 Jerry Lawler: May 9, 1988: House show: Memphis, TN: 1 256 Lawler later defeated Kerry Von Erich on December 13, 1988, in Chicago to win the WCCW World Heavyweight Championship to become the first (USWA) Unified World Champion. [5] [14] — Vacated: January 20, 1989 — — — —
February 7 - In a live event at St. Paul, Minnesota, Larry Zbyszko won the battle royal to capture the vacant AWA World Heavyweight Championship. The World Wrestling Association professional wrestling promotion based out of Indianapolis, Indiana, closed.
The AWA ran only one pay-per-view card, SuperClash III, during its 30-year run. However, From 1999 to 2002, a series of AWA-related pay-per-views were produced. Titled AWA Classic Wrestling, they featured compilations of old AWA footage, hosted by Greg Gagne and Todd Okerlund (son of Gene Okerlund), with occasional appearances by Verne Gagne. [22]
On May 9, 1988 in Memphis, Lawler took on the reigning AWA World Champion Curt Hennig and won the title. As the year went on the AWA/CWA alliance was expanded to include the World Class Wrestling Association out of Texas, with a title unification match set for the AWA’s first (and only) pay-per-view, AWA SuperClash III.
During the next year, Jammer appeared on several AWA supercards losing to Tully Blanchard at SuperClash 4 on April 8 [7] and wrestled in numerous matches as part of Baron von Raschke's "Baron's Blitzers" during the Team Challenge Series, eventually facing "Larry's Legends" (Destruction Crew and The Texas Hangmen) in an eight-man "Behind the 8 ...
The AWA International Television Championship was a short-lived title in the American Wrestling Association from 1987 to 1989. It was filled with a several months long tournament and was defended on their television broadcast on ESPN .
October 1, 1989: AWA Championship Wrestling: Rochester, Minnesota 1 314 Defeated Paul Diamond and Greg Gagne in a tournament final. 54 D.J. Peterson and The Trooper: August 11, 1990: AWA Championship Wrestling: Rochester, Minnesota 1 123 — Deactivated 1991 [Note 3] — — — — The title became inactive when the AWA folded in 1991.
By the end of 1990, the AWA was effectively on hiatus and would eventually shut down entirely by May 1991. The Destruction Crew's entrance theme in the AWA was the highly popular Queen song "We Will Rock You", a theme of defeating your opponents in sports and leaving them in humiliation. This was most fitting considering by the time the AWA ...