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[1975-01-25-AWA-Chicago, IL Verne Gagne vs Nick Bockwinkel


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Nick Bockwinkel is narrating this silent film footage with Larry Nelson, I think... We are JIP, but I have no idea on the match time. We get 14 minutes of good clipped footage.

 

Gagne has Bockwinkel down in a head scissors, but Bock escapes and they get to their feet.

 

Next we see Bockwinkel has Verne in a side headlock, Verne escapes and hits Bockwinkel with a knee to the gut, Bock comes off the ropes but Verne bodyslams him, Bock rolls outside. Back in the middle of the ring for a test of strength, Bock gets the advantage and brings Gagne to his knees twice. Verne starts to get some steam, but Nick slams his arm into the post and breaks the hold. Bockwinkel charges at him and wraps his arm in the ropes. Gagne has a lot of tape on his right wrist and Bockwinkel starts attacking it, viciously twisting it as Verne cries out in pain. Verne escapes, but Bockwinkel charges at him in the corner and continues his attack on the wrist, taking Verne down with a hammerlock.

 

Then we see Verne and Bock standing in the corner and Verne grabs Bockwinkel's arm and slings it over the top rope. He stomps on Bockwinkel's arm repeatedly. Nick falls to the outside, he gets back in and Gagne slams his arm into the post, carries him to the opposite corner and rams his head as well. Verne works him over on the mat, ties up his arms, but Bockwinkel gets to the ropes to break.

 

We are clipped again, suddenly I catch a glimpse of Bobby Heenan at ringside, who was not acknowledged at all to this point. Verne has Bockwinkel on the ropes, but Bock hits him with a knee. Verne takes him down with a wicked armdrag, into a hammerlock on the mat. Verne shoots a half nelson and tries to pin Bockwinkel, but Bock bridges up on his neck three times. They stand up and Bockwinkel hits a back elbow to the head to break free. Bockwinkel comes off the ropes, Verne drops down and again catches the hammerlock and hooks Bock's leg as well. Bockwinkel gets an arm free and rakes Gagne's eyes. Gagne picks Bockwinkel up and slams him for a 2 count. Gagne misses a dropkick, Bockwinkel drops two standing kneedrops to Verne's chest, barely missing his throat. Bockwinkel slams Gagne and then grabs a side headlock. Verne whips him off and they collide mid-ring, both men are down and groggy. Bockwinkel is up first and crawls over and gets another 2 count on the champ. Bockwinkel attempts a piledriver, but Gagne sprawls his legs and hits a slow back suplex for a 2 count on Bock. They throw a few punches.

 

Final clip...Bobby Heenan is on the apron, Gagne dropkicks Bock into him. Gagne gets a 2 count, whips Bockwinkel to the ropes, hits an elbow to the chest and gets another two count. Heenan is still down on the apron, trying to pull himself up, Bockwinkel shoves Gagne towards the ropes and he goes flying over the top rope for the DQ.

 

Some decent footage, at first I thought it was just JIP and not clipped. Hard to judge again, but it looked good.

 

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