PRO WRASSLIN' REFLECTION EPISODE 24: AWA SUPERCLASH 3! (1988) KERRY VON ERICH (WCCW) VS. JERRY LAWLER (AWA)

On this week’s episode of The Pro Wrasslin’ Reflection

Podcast episode 24…  We review the AWA SuperClash 3 (1988)

The "Professor” Chabelo Vera Cruz and "Thee" Tommy Wonder relive this classic AWA (American Wrestling Association) Event!

Event information:

Notable as the AWA's only PPV event, SuperClash III brought plenty of star power not only from the AWA's own ranks, but also from WCCW, CWA and PWOW. Not everything worked - many of the matches were way too short, the PWOW women's battle royal was the kind of silliness you'd expect from a David McLane promotion and didn't fit with the overall tone of the rest of the show, and Greg Gagne winning the TV Title on a count out did little to disprove the nepotism accusations of his push. But there was a hot main event with an old-school bloodbath of a brawl between Lawler and Kerry von Erich to unify the AWA and WCCW World Championships, and there were also several good tag matches, including a fun 6-man opener with the Guerreros vs. Cactus Jack & the Rock N Roll RPMs. A middling grade seems fair for this one."SuperClash III was held on December 13, 1988 from the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. It was the third SuperClash event produced by the American Wrestling Association and the only AWA show to be broadcast on Pay Per View (PPV). The Texas-based World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA; formerly known as "World Class Championship Wrestling"), women wrestling promotion Powerful Women of Wrestling (POWW), and Memphis-based Championship Wrestling Association (CWA) also provided talent for the show. The show was poorly received, not a financial success and soon after the WCWA was bought out by Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarrett and merged with the CWA to become the United States Wrestling Association (USWA). In the sixth match of the night AWA promoter Verne Gagne's son Greg Gagne defeated Ron Garvin by count out. Since this match was for the vacant AWA International Television Championship Gagne won the championship without pinning his opponent. The show was one of the few pay-per-view events to be left off the WWE Network at launch but was later added.

Name of the event: AWA SuperClash III

Date: 12/13/88

Promotion: American Wrestling Association

Type: Pay Per View

Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Arena: UIC Pavilion

Attendance: 1,672

Broadcast type: Aufzeichnung

PPV buyrate (relative): 0.5

FULL MATCH CARD:

Six Man Tag Team Match

Cactus Jack & The Rock 'n' Roll RPM's (Mike Davis & Tommy Lane) vs. Chavo Guerrero, Hector Guerrero & Mando Guerrero

World Class World Light Heavyweight Title Match

Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Eric Embry

Singles Match

Jimmy Valiant vs. Wayne Bloom

WCWA Texas Heavyweight Title Match

Iceman King Parsons (c) vs. Brickhouse Brown

Six Man Tag Team Match

The Badd Company (Pat Tanaka & Paul Diamond) & Madusa Miceli (w/Diamond Dallas Page) vs. The Top Guns (Derrick Dukes & Ricky Rice) & Wendi Richter

AWA International Television Title Match

Ron Garvin (c) vs. Greg Gagne

Street Fight Lingerie Battle Royal

Bambi vs. Brandi Mae vs. Laurie Lynn vs. Luna Vachon vs. Malibu vs. Nina vs. Peggy Lee Leather vs. Pocahontas vs. The Syrian Terrorist

Boot Camp Match

Col. DeBeers vs. Sgt. Slaughter

World Class World Tag Team Title Match

The Samoan Swat Team (Fatu & Samu) (w/Buddy Roberts) (c) vs. Michael Hayes & Steve Cox

Indian Strap Match

Manny Fernandez vs. Wahoo McDaniel

AWA World Heavyweight Title / World Class World Heavyweight Title Unification Match

Jerry Lawler (c) vs. Kerry von Erich (c)

Tag Team Match

The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) vs. The Stud Stable (Jimmy Golden & Robert Fuller)