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Wrestling Culture Episode 9


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Another excellent show. It brought back memories of when Ken Patera called me when I was a junior in high school. Patera ran some shows in small town Minnesota in the late 90s using the AWA moniker. High school athletic clubs and other organizations would book Patera and the "AWA" as fundraisers. I tried getting my high school to bring them in, but it never happened. Patera was real gruff on the phone, but in a nice way (if that makes any sense).

 

I went to three of Patera's "AWA" shows. A couple were in a small town gym not far from my hometown and another was in a bar with a ceiling so low that the workers couldn't use the top rope or safely execute a back body drop. The talent included Wild Bill Irwin, Lenny Lane, Horace the Psychopath and, of course, Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie.

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Another excellent show. It brought back memories of when Ken Patera called me when I was a junior in high school. Patera ran some shows in small town Minnesota in the late 90s using the AWA moniker. High school athletic clubs and other organizations would book Patera and the "AWA" as fundraisers. I tried getting my high school to bring them in, but it never happened. Patera was real gruff on the phone, but in a nice way (if that makes any sense).

 

I went to three of Patera's "AWA" shows. A couple were in a small town gym not far from my hometown and another was in a bar with a ceiling so low that the workers couldn't use the top rope or safely execute a back body drop. The talent included Wild Bill Irwin, Lenny Lane, Horace the Psychopath and, of course, Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie.

Heh, I actually have a couple of tapes of that. Doink, Jim Brunzell, Iron Shiek, Bill Irwin, Derrick Dukes all listed as featured.

 

My tapes are listed as "Ken Patera's All-Star Wrestling Alliance".

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Nice. I don't remember Patera's name being on the marquee at all, but I could just be forgetting. Every show I went to started with some sort of angle involving Patera forcing Al-Kaissie and Irwin to wrestle someone in the main event.....I think once it was Lenny Lane and the other times I can't remember.

 

You don't have any footage from Pierz, MN by chance? (A bustling metropolis of about 300 people in central Minnesota)

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I went to three of Patera's "AWA" shows. A couple were in a small town gym not far from my hometown and another was in a bar with a ceiling so low that the workers couldn't use the top rope or safely execute a back body drop. The talent included Wild Bill Irwin, Lenny Lane, Horace the Psychopath and, of course, Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie.

 

 

Heh, I actually have a couple of tapes of that. Doink, Jim Brunzell, Iron Shiek, Bill Irwin, Derrick Dukes all listed as featured.

I have some of those Patera All star tapes too. I want to say Tazmaniac was part of the roster.

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