a battle royal from 1985

[mikesate]

I always thought Greg Gagne looked like Greg Brady!

[Inediblehulk]

Now THAT'S an arena floor!

[JonathanVonErich]

At that point AWA had still a solid Roster. However that year they lost the RoadWarriors, The Freebirds, Brunzell, just to name a few. The AWA was going downhill rapidly.

[DotDotkins]

@JonathanVonErich I believe the big turning point was the success of the first Wrestlemania, after that everyone wanted to go work for Vince.

[stncldrwg]

It's nice that they know how to spell "Nevada".

[TerryT1976]

Interestingly, later on, G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) would be featured at the Riviera Hotel with some matches taped in the same showroom or Convention Center as these match seen here.

[GohModley]

place is more packed than for the two title defences pinklon thomas had in the same ballroom

[Koolazzmike]

I loved the AWA, but it was clearly obvious they were lacking identity as as a company at this time.

[zaius316]

I once saw Slaughter win a tag-team battle royal using the same finish.

[ArnoldOldSchool]

He turned his back on his opponent and got tossed

[XENTELBOY]

wow.. so this is the missing match from my Sgt Slaughter tape!!!

[Sparverine]

Neveda?! Wow, you'd figure they'd know how to spell states.

[johnorydupont]

"... and Gagne just eliminated his brother-in-law (Zbyszko)!"

[ckendall67]

I wonder if there's a clip somewhere of the Battle Royal in 1989 where Larry Zbysko threw out Tom Zenk to win the AWA World Title....

[ArnoldOldSchool]

Wow animal looked like a idiot here...

[XENTELBOY]

how so??