Found a gem I've been looking for! AWA top babyface Blackwell working as a heel in St Louis...on AWA TV. He even calls out NWA champ Flair (with a giant AWA logo behind him) before mentioning Martel.
His feud with Brody actively happens during the taping as they do an angle. But then Blackwell in the same segment is shitting on Kevin Von Erich in his post match promo.
I looked up results and it appears St Louis TV spliced 2 AWA shows into one to make the local angles work and ignore talent that they were not going to book. I was curious why the same jobber appeared in 2 matches on the video.
Despite feuding with Adnan on AWA TV, Blackwell was aligned with a Temu Sheik in St Louis programs at some point, just another weird little part of this.
AND freaking VERNE owned a piece of Central States, so he should have had some booking quality control!!!
KAYFAAAAAAAAAAAAABE!~!
It was all kind of moot as Brody was about to leave the AWA after no showing a ton of shows where he and Blackwell were headlining.
OH and Brody and Blackwell team in Japan during this general time frame. KAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYFABE!
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Later Sgt Slaughter makes his AWA debut via promo and he thinks the Iron Sheik is in the AWA before Resnick corrects him that it is a different Sheik.
