Flair vs Martel AWA/NWA title unification part three

[HTMAJPW]

Everything about AJPW was amazing back in the 80s and 90s.. In the 80s we had the boys from NWA and AWA come over, and have some of the greatest matches that have ever taken place (they Flair/Tsruta rivarly in this time was legendary) and then in the 90s, we get THE greatest wrestling decade ever and leading the way were Miswa, Kobashi and Kawada. God i love this stuff

[jdbankshot]

now this, children, is pro wrestling... you want sports entertainment, watch your buddies play paintball. hey, vin jr. , you know that your dad is doing about 10,000 rpm in his grave,right?

[KickAssWrestlingShow]

Rick The Model! This guy could act AND wrestle.

[grice40]

what year was this from 86?

[ashleybound]

Someone please I beg of you...show this match to Cena, Morrison,The "Miz", and pretty much 95% of the WWE roster, so they can know how to properly work. Thank god for youtube..and Martel, Flair, Backlund etc makes Cena and those other idiots look like ametuers

[eslubin]

@ashleybound what would that solve. you can show a tape of mike tyson to klitschko also and it wouldn't do much except entertain him

lol

[CadillacL]

@ashleybound They sure did!

[Lfdjake91]

Great match so far. Now to watch the last segment.

[skinwalkerxxx]

This Rick Martel was a great blend of physical strength and skills in my opinion. More so than when he went to the WWF where he was thinner and became more of a high flyer especially in tag teams.

[blkndn305]

Wow, Flair REALLY knows how to snap on the Figure Four.

I've seen others do it but Flair made it a science. He truly is the master of the Figure Four!

[ashleybound]

Good point. I've never seen hogan go longer than 20 minutes..30 tops.

[ashleybound]

Hulk Hogan wishes he had a tenth of the ability of Martel or Flair

[littlenipper8u]

But that is what Hogan has a tenth of there wraslin ability.

[ashleybound]

lol if he has that at all. Martel and Flair were so far beyond hogan in regards to in ring ability, the ability to work and imporvise, and stamina

[rosario508]

I've never seen so many damn photographers.

[DVROFFMAN]

Shows you how HUGE this match really was.  Can't believe no promoter could have pulled this off in the states. Baltimore would have been the perfect city for this bout since both the NWA/AWA were running joint shows there.

[eslubin]

@rosario508 it was an important event, like a boxing match or something

[redwonder]

I agree...this is post of the year.  Truly epic.

[CadillacL]

Also, Maybe if Verne would've put the AWA title On Hogan, we'd seen a Flair/Hogan Unification match way back when. I'll always wonder.

[Fair2Flair]

And then maybe we wouldn't have gotten "Hulkamania" in the WWF instead of in the AWA. Imagine what that could have meant for the AWA and for wrestling in general.

[1000holds]

I forgot that Flair loved to slap on the dreaded Ab Stretch and twist up the opponent for a few minutes. Yelling "Ask him! Ask him!!" That was always the best!

[blaknyte08]

you know,i suspected that the magazines were making this match up when they announced it because they said that there was no american media allowed to be there for this match. but damn,it actually took place. i think every classic wrestling fan should watch this because we all dreamed of it.sondog42,you in my eyes at least,have won the youtube post of the year with this. thanx a million.

[CadillacL]

The NWA is the oldest, until late 50's early 60s...then AWA came. How I wish this unification would've happen. Maybe we wouldn't be stuck with "Sports Entertainment"

[Lannis32]

AWA and the WWF are former NWA territories that split off from the NWA.

[gabexox]

so before it was NWA it was AWA.  was there something before that?

[Sdubb24]

no they were two different promotions NWA was more southern and AWA was up north

[Lannis32]

Actually the AWA is a former NWA territory that split off. The WWF was a former NWA territory that had a falling out with the NWA so the WWF promoters crowned their own champion, Nature Boy Buddy Rogers. Thus, Rogers became the first wrestler ever to hold both NWA and WWF titles. Ironically it wouldn't happen again until the other Nature Boy, Ric Flair, did it in 1992.

[slickshapiro]

LANNIS SPEAKS THE TRUTH!!!

[Lfdjake91]

Actually the AWA was based in the Midwest.