AWA Nick Bockwinkel vs Harley Davidson May21,1986

[hendrix7981]

What a horrid opponent for Bockwinkle

[JimRimes]

Bockwinkel is the man!

[bloggo1]

too bad Harley Davidson can't wrestle! he almost made Nick look bad. poor Nick having to wrestle jabronies like this!!

[bloggo1]

got to see Nick live up here in Western Canada when he was AWA world champ, when he came here for the first time ever. great wrestler!

[meekrob]

What's up with the whip?

[tomtrh]

@meekrob Feud vs. Stan Hansen at the time.

[tomtrh]

How's about "BIG" Scott Hall?! Must've taken Verne all of 4 seconds to think of THAT! lol

[tomtrh]

On more than a few aspects of the wrasslin' biz, Verne Gagne couldn't be accused of being the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Let's see:

1. Retiring WITH the belt as opposed to dropping it.

2. Endlessly wanting Greg as World Champion.

3. Putting HIMSELF over in main event matches after he supposedly RETIRED!

4. Getting the tag belts off the Road Warriors & putting them on Jimmy Garvin & the original Steve Regal of all people!!

Oh, I could go on & on....ahhhhhh the memories!

[Reg197844]

If Verne wanted to put the title on Greg, why didn't he just go ahead and do it? I mean, he put it on guys like Mr. Saito. Would have Greg been all that awful?

[tomtrh]

Because the other promoters would have absolutely REVOLTED. Toward the end of the AWA run in Winnipeg, there were MAJOR problems with Greg because Greg simply put did NOT draw and as champion it would have been an abject disaster

[RantingAgain]

harley davidson- nice job verne.

[bluethunder25]

Isn't Harley Davidson the one that makes the motorcycles?