There was actually a WWF jobber named Max Blue. Is his name Max? Is he blue to the Max? Is he depressed? Is he a restaurant on “Saved By the Bell”? If he were around today ol’ Max would come out to Eiffel 65 and be a cult hit. I am not sure what a “Blue Max” is supposed to be. Precious looks very 80’s hot in her leopard top. He looks like a star here, with ZZ Top playing as he struts in with his sequin green outfit. In this case it just happens to be a creepy, rapey, boombox wielding, greaseball fighting for a title.
It gives the viewers something to invest in. Zumhofe runs in to plug his match next week with Steve Regal. Larry Zbyszko plugs his upcoming interview with the Road Warriors. This was a perfectly acceptable little match. Zumhofe almost misses a splash and lands on Londos’ lower area for the win. Despite the solid action, some in the crowd scream “boring”. Zumhofe actually resembles a slightly smaller Joey Ryan. The men have a good back and forth scrap featuring many holds and counters. (I say that in jest, as I realize the boombox had been Buck’s gimmick for years). Some prelim guys show zero emotion, Londos is ready to upset Zumhofe and move up the ranks.īuck has to bring his own boombox yet as the AWA has not adopted theme music for most of their workers. Londos, who is not related to the famous wrestler of the same name, at least is acting excited to get down and grapple. Zumhofe, the incestual creeper, is wearing his Elvis jumpsuit and sporting greasy, slicked back hair. Larry Nelson is actually too big for an interviewer, as here he is looking eye to eye with Bockwinkel, and towers over some of the other workers. Bockwinkel plugs today’s AWA mat classic with Verne Gagne and himself, which we will see later on. Larry Nelson is with Nick Bockwinkel, who does a brief career bio and speaks of wrestling Lou Thesz when he was a mere teenager. It’s much bigger than the TBS studio show, but a far cry from the WWF’s arena presentation. The Tropicana “arena” is smallish, with bleachers in front of the hard cam and the walls not too far off from the ring. I’m not sure why they decided to go with an aerial, blurred effect there. The AWA opens with a terrible picture of the Tropicana hotel, from which they are taping these shows. Nonetheless, here is the second ever chance the AWA had to appeal to a mass audience and draw some eyes away from the WWF’s star laden circus: I was saved by youtuber bwilliamswyn25 who uploaded several months worth of early AWA on ESPN episodes…except the first one.
However, the internet appears to have been purged of that particular episode. My intention was to review the debut episode of the AWA on national cable TV, much like I did for JCP’s move to 6:05 Saturday night.
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