Bobby Heenan believed every word he said. Best manager of all time.

Heenan & Bockwinkel were the greatest manager/wrestler pairing in the history of the buisness. These 2 were awesome together.

I loved Bockwinkel's promos. This is what a world champion should look and sound like.

Ken Resnick does a nice job of getting Nick and Bobby to express themselves.

WOW! Now THIS is how you do a promo. I SO miss this.

Class Acts..

GOOD GAWD!!! I know who Bobby Heenan is & how great he is on the mic. I also know who Nick Bockwinkel is, but I never go tto see any AWA stuff. I thought Ric Flair was the best guy on the mic, but personally I think NB's style is better. He is calm & cool at all time it seems. Which quite frankly is more villainous than the way Flair got with all his screaming & in his later days of knee dropping his suit jacket etc. God I wish I had some footage of NB.

Nick Bockwinkel had suuperb command of the English language and could wrestle circles around anybody in the ring.This was 1984 because that's when Rick Martel was AWA Champion.

great memmories Thank you

Beau is correct. Heenan did a short tour in September of 1984 losing weasel suit matches vs. The Fabulous Ones and Blackjack Lanza before departing for the WWF. It was a rare case of someone giving Verne Gagne notice and gagne, in appreciation for how much Bobby had done for the AWA over the years, suggested they do one more tour with the Weaselsuit gimmick as a "thank you" of sorts to Bobby (plus a chance to pop the houses one more time). That 6-man match never made it to Winnipeg. Too bad.

More True words could not be said especially about Bockwinkel.

Nick Bockwinkel was The Greatest Champ Ever so was Bobby the Brain

That's no accident, Jericho grew up in Winnipeg which was an AWA city, he probably got to see a lot of Bockwinkel and his promos.

I think I saw an interview with Ken Resnick where he said that the interviews for Winnipeg TV had to be filmed in Canada. So they couldn’t do them from Minneapolis. I like when Bobby said they were jobbed. Classic.

Nick was the poet laurette of AWA.

1984. Fresh out of grad school.

Classy promo

Amen brother!

Heenan was a great heel talker. So funny.

NO, HE DIDN'T. Hogan, Okerlund, and one other person signed in Dec. '83, but Heenan stayed in AWA until summer '84. The AWA had just started the Norberry tapings in either June or July and Heenan was only at the first one, that's it. I was there! This promo was part of 3 weeks' worth done while he was in Winnipeg for that taping and the Winnipeg Arena card the day before it. By the time of the next taping, he was in WWF.

@potomacbrave88 He had a smooth tongue. The joke about him was ask him what time it is, he'll tell you how to make a watch. A World Champion should have some gravitas. Nick had it, a guy who dresses like a street thug and pumps up his shoes doesn't, a guy who keeps repeating that he's awesome doesn't have it.

If you listen closely Ken Resnick sounds like a young Bob Hope!😂🎤🤼‍♂️🏌️‍♂️B.W.

Ken Resnik eventually ended up in WWF, but I don't know when

I'm stupid - landrykkb points out the obvious above about Martel - thank you - but also, Ken Resnick replaced Okerlund, as AWA fans know. Here Heenan and Bockwinkel are interviewed by Resnick. So that pinpoints it right there. Anytime you see an AWA interview with Resnick interviewing Heenan, you know it can only be from the first seven months of 1984. And I think the other person that went to WWE with Okerlund and Hogan in Dec. '83 was either Ventura or Shults.

nick bockwinkel is my uncle

@77REVOLTFORAFRIKA77 American Wrestling Association.

@chockbrock

Ken Resnick is surpassed only by David Crockett in awfulness as an announcer.

Beau is correct. Heenan did a short tour in September of 1984 losing weasel suit matches vs. The Fabulous Ones and Blackjack Lanza before departing for the WWF. It was a rare case of someone giving Verne Gagne notice and gagne, in appreciation for how much Bobby had done for the AWA over the years, suggested they do one more tour with the Weaselsuit gimmick as a "thank you" of sorts to Bobby (plus a chance to pop the houses one more time). That 6-man match never made it to Winnipeg. Too bad.