Dutch Mantell on Nick Bockwinkel Defending the AWA Title in Memphis

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Dutch Mantell on Nick Bockwinkel Defending the AWA Title in Memphis
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@marcm9999 2 года назад

I grew up in the Milwaukee area and raised on the AWA. Bockwinkle was truly greatness. Style, charisma, and great on the mic. The original Heenen Family: Bockwinkle, The Crippler Ray Stevens and manager Bobby Heenen. I would advise you at the very least look up some of their interviews from the AWA. Very entertaining and for the time cutting edge.

@williammitchell4417 Год назад

Howdy neighbor. I'm from St Paul. Nick was terrific in and out of the ring.

@catyear75 2 года назад

Nick Bockwinkel is criminally underrated today. He was literally one of the top 5 wrestlers in the history of the industry...!

@kidguzzi_chrisgalardi 2 года назад

Loved Nick Bockwinkel. I grew up on the AWA. He was an excellent heel. Bockwinkel and Heenan were absolutely fantastic!

@gregorykrug8034 2 года назад

Nick Bockwinkel is one of very best of all-time IMO. I am talking Mount-Rushmore-level greatness. He could work against the big guys or the high-flying guys. He was great on the mic. His in-ring style and psychology was believable. Just the fact that the guy went as "Nick Bockwinkel" without some stupid Vince-McMahon-inspired gimmick says a lot. One of the greatest tag teams ever was Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens with Bobby Heenan as manager. What an amazing combination of talent!

@snarkyguy2657 Год назад

Agreed. AWA didn't get enough attention for him to be at the Flair level of instant recognition, but Nick could do it all.

@bigmike2464 10 месяцев назад

I like Nick Botwinkel with Masa Saito Tag Team.... Of course IMO Saito is underappreciated for being as legit as he was

@matthewcollins8602 2 года назад

Bockwinkel had an incredible run in Georgia also right before the Georgia Wrestling Wars started in 1973. It was when Dutch started there I believe. His dad Warren Bockwinkel was a great in ring talent as well.

@lucag.lisickza425 2 года назад

hey guys i dont know if this im just saying would be stupid ,but personally i love watch and rewatch the mighty battles bockwinckel had during the years but what made me build a super respect for the guy was the run hw had in the awa in the 80s,when iirc he was in his 50s those matches against curt hennig were stellars,

@milovaldez8269 2 года назад

Nick Bockwinkel was the greatest AWA World Champion of all time.

@ThailandDantotherescue 2 года назад

Great on the mic. Great in the ring. A tough SOB ( you had to be back then ) and carried himself like a champion but with dignity. He had a family, you never heard a story of him dancing naked on a bar or running around with ring rats. If you wanted a true professional wrestler back then it was bockwinkle and sammartino.

@briannettles669 Год назад

I always enjoyed the AWA champion defending the title in Memphis. It increased the talent pool pursuing the AWA title beyond just the wrestlers based out of Minneapolis and made the AWA seem much bigger than they were.

@angusthecat6617 2 года назад

bockwinkel maybe the most underrated wrestler of all time. which is amazing because he should be in everyones' top 10

@troylowe814 Год назад

I know he's in my top 3. Up there with Harley Race and Ric Flair. Bockwinkel turned a vanity promotions belt into a legit world title because of how good he was and because he'd defend the belt in Texas, Tennessee, Japan, wherever he could get booked. When Bockwinkel had the AWA belt it mattered and was only behind the NWA belt in importance.

@Ferpero Год назад

Nick was the definition of class act.Great promos great worker in the ring and he looked like a World Champion should look.

@Ted_Bell 2 года назад

They still got a bunch of Bockwinkel's promos with Heenan on RU-vid. Those are so entertaining to watch.

@Eric-ew8jt 2 года назад

Bonkwinkle and Henning was epic!

@JasonQuinn-qq4om 4 месяца назад

Nick Bockwinkle was a true World Champion. Nick defended the AWA title in Memphis, San Antonio, Calgary, Japan. A true pro.

@Bunbunfunfun 2 года назад

I lived in a Canadian province where we got got Stampeded Wrestling from the West and AWA show from the east in Winnipeg.Both "styles" were a lot different. Had my heroes for Calgary Bret Hart,Bruce Hart, Davy Boy Smith and from Winnipeg my heroes were Hulk Hogan,Verne Gagne and Ric Martell. Thats being said Nick Bockwinkle was the best wrestler i had ever seen (sorry Bret you were still green) up to that point. Nick Bockwinkle,Bret Hart,Johnny Saint, Lou Thesz are my pro wrestling mount rushmore. Saint and Thesz are recent additions (last 20 yrs or so ) when I decided to check out wrestling from years past.

@mmmadog 2 года назад

Marty Janetty tells a story how they use to hide his belt from him. I remember Bockwinkle coming out without a belt during interviews.

@davem6735 Год назад

Growing up on Memphis rassling, Bockwinkel was so easy to hate. Smug, arrogant, well dressed, well spoken, came off as educated. Many of the things most of us fans were not. Seeing Lawler do an actual wrestling move was like seeing a shooting star. It did not happen often. And we were all like, "Lawler can actually wrestle, who knew?". Because 99% of the time it was wild brawls. Dutch didn't do a bunch of chain wrestling either. Dundee carried that load when a Charles or Robinson came to town. People would have gotten bored of it week after week but having Bockwinkel in ever once in a while was entertaining. Bockwinkel would always point out that he was a wrestler and Lawler was just a brawler. That bastard. People would cheer when Lawler would drop kick, sunset flip, or reverse a hold because it was so rare to see. Dutch was so popular in the territory because he was so easy to relate to. We didn't know any "kings'" or "superstars". But a hot tempered red neck that would slap the taste out of your mouth if you crossed him? Most of us had more than one of those in our own families.

@shaolin1derpalm Год назад

I didn't find Bock boring at all. Just well paced. He had holds but he was nefarious. I love when he would jump off the second rope onto a dudes back. His leg scissors from the corner after a snapmare, and how he would hold onto an arm drag and reverse it 8nto an arm bar.

@michaelconnors7668 2 года назад

Lawler wrestled Bockwinkle a few times in Chicago in 1983. Too bad Bobby Heenan didn't make the trip to Memphis.

@papboybrooklyn77 2 года назад

Dutch Mantell versus the AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel would be a great match

@thomaslemond5913 5 месяцев назад

Love ya Dutchman

@brownmut5518 Год назад

I remember seeing Nick Bochwinkle and John Studd vs Angelo Mosca and Jake Roberts live ehen i was a kid. I remember Roberts was a last minute substitute tag partner for Mosca that night because he wrestled Sgt Slaughter earlier that night. I wish i could remember who no showed that night.

@georgemaranville3305 2 года назад

As far as matches shown on TV from the Mid-South Coliseum between Bockwinkel and Lawler Lance Russell’s mic work can’t be overlooked. That on top of them controlling the the crowd made those matches seem super big league.

@imafreakinhistorian2169 2 года назад

Bockwinkel was "world champion" , the fans expected him to wrestle . Thats why it got over .

@jerryscrappielife Год назад

I'm not sure Dutch is giving those matches Lawler had with Nick enough credit. Only one match where Lawler was supposed to get fined for every punch he threw did they actually wrestle. Most of the others, I saw a different Bockwinkle than his "outside of Memphis" style. I have to admit, when he first came to Memphis with that big AWA "inmate" belt, I was mesmerized. He was a class act champion, but he could brawl with Lawler too.

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 Год назад

Bockwinkel was one of the best and he said that Lawler was a ring general .

@MB-oc1nw 2 года назад

Never understood why Jerry Lawler was so huge in Memphis.

@matthewcollins8602 2 года назад

Charisma

@douglasjarnagan3835 2 года назад

Right guy at the right place at the right time.

@tharealje2306 2 года назад

One of the best workers, which even Bockwinkle said , and good believable promos.

@nashburnette7247 2 года назад

What's there not to understand ???

@TheTruth-on5zx 2 года назад

best worked punch in the business and Lawler could sell his ass off

@robertotorres6391 2 года назад

I love to hear from the guy that knows the business in and out he spent a lot of years in wrestling I know him from all the years he did work in Puerto Rico he also did the booking one of the greatest minds in the business thank you El Sucio Dutch Martell… Old-school wrestler old-school mentality that’s what we need bacon professional wrestler thank you sir

@gopherstate777 2 года назад

I remember Nick being manhandled in the early 70s by Billy Robinson. He also threw him around in the AWA movie "The Wrestler" in 1974. But later in the 70s and into the 80s Nick started to get bigger and stronger as Billy started to accumulate injuries and get older.

@johnthegreat Год назад

Billy Robinson was bad ass

@cardiuswalker7068 Год назад

Lawler and Bruno were just regional champions. Ric Flair was the real world champion.

@TheHypnoManNation Год назад

Agree 💯 *_Woooooo!!_*

@MrNatural73 2 года назад

👍👍

@Otingocni 2 года назад

Did Memphis have so many undersized talent because Lawler wasnt that big?

@weaselsuit Год назад

Uh huh. Dutch Mantell had better matches with Lawler than Nick Bockwinkel did. Sure you did Dutch. Go see the wizard…

@imafreakinhistorian2169 2 года назад

Nope

@scaryharryflanagan70 2 года назад

I was there. They wanted to see Flair not Bockwinkle. He could have been Bullwinkle for all they cared. He looked old and slow at that point. THEY DID NOT CARE!!!

@Ted_Bell 2 года назад

Wrong

@CP-kb1du 2 года назад

Nick "Botch"Winkle Single Handed Tanked Bankrupted the AWA with skinny Gagne for refusing to put Hogan over ...Worse Idiot mistake next to SuperStar Billy Graham 9 months Reign from Vince Sr .