WrestleRock 86
WrestleRock was a professional wrestling supercard event promoted by the American Wrestling Association (AWA). In June 2016 the event was added to the WWE Network.[1]
| WrestleRock | |||
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 The logo used when the show was televised | |||
| Promotion | American Wrestling Association | ||
| Date | April 20, 1986 | ||
| City | Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||
| Venue | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome | ||
| Attendance | 23,000 | ||
| Event chronology | |||
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Background
The event was held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday April 20, 1986.[2] 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.[2] 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.[3]
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brad Rheingans defeated Boris Zukhov | Singles match | 08:31 |
| 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 (Sean Michaels and Marty Jannetty) | Tag team match | 12:03 |
| 5 | Tiger Mask defeated Buck Zumhofe | Singles match (Tiger Mask's NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship was not on the line) | 10:55 |
| 6 | Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo defeated The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane and Steve Keirn) | Tag team match | 14:01 |
| 7 | Giant Baba defeated Bulldog Bob Brown | Singles match | 8:28 |
| 8 | Harley Race vs. Rick Martel ended in a double countout | Singles match | 17:34 |
| 9 | Sherri Martel defeated Luna Vachon, Joyce Grable, Kat LeRoux, Rose Divine, Taylor Thomas, Despina Montagas, Misty Blue Simmes, Debbie Combs, and Candi Divine | 10-woman battle royal | 10:00 |
| 10 | Sgt. Slaughter (c) defeated Kamala (with Skandor Akbar) by disqualification | Singles match for the AWA America's Championship | 09:54 |
| 11 | Scott Hall and Curt Hennig (c) defeated The Long Ryders (Scott Irwin and Bill Irwin) | Tag team match for the AWA World Tag Team Championship | 27:53 |
| 12 | Scott LeDoux defeated Larry Zbyszko by disqualification | Boxing match with Larry Hennig as the special guest referee | 12:19 |
| 13 | Nick Bockwinkel defeated Stan Hansen (c) by disqualification | Singles match for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship | 10:43 |
| 14 | Greg Gagne and Jimmy Snuka defeated King Kong Brody and The Barbarian | Steel cage match | 12:12 |
| 15 | Verne Gagne defeated Sheik Adnan El Kassey | Steel cage match | 06:54 |
| 16 | The Road Warriors (Road Warrior Animal and Road Warrior Hawk) (with Paul Ellering) defeated Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin | Steel cage match | 21:21 |
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References
- Updates, WWE Network (2016-06-03). "ADDED: Awa - AWA WrestleRock 86 (04/20/1986". @wwe_network_bot. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- "Past Inductions". WrestleCrap. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
- "WWE Video - new "Are You Serious?" with WrestleRock, ECW botch, Road Warriors". Pro Wrestling Torch. 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2013-02-01.