WrestleRock 86

WrestleRock was a wrestling event promoted by the American Wrestling Association.

Background
The event was held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday April 20, 1986. The card was heavily promoted for months during weekly television programming. Although not as ambitious as the WWF's WrestleMania 2, The show was a reasonable success, drawing more fans than both of Jim Crockett Promotions' Crockett Cup shows combined.

The show also featured country music legend Waylon Jennings performing a brief concert following the final match. WrestleRock would prove to be the final stadium show for the AWA.

WrestleRock Rumble
The promotions for the show included a music video shot in Las Vegas entitled the "WrestleRock Rumble" in a vein similar to The Super Bowl Shuffle from 1985. It featured different AWA talent "rapping" verses, including 60 year old Verne Gagne reading his verse off a sheet. The video was parodied by the WWE online comedy show Are You Serious?, with co-host Road Dogg calling Nick Bockwinkel the best rapper of the bunch. It was then parodied as the "WrestleMania Rumble", featuring Brodus Clay, Yoshi Tatsu, Santino Marella and Puppet H doing rap verses to promote WrestleMania XXVIII.

Results

 * Brad Rheingans pinned Boris Zukhov (5:44)


 * Little Mr. T and Cowboy Lang defeated Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo (10:01)


 * Colonel DeBeers defeated Wahoo McDaniel by disqualification (5:03)


 * Buddy Rose and Doug Somers defeated the Midnight Rockers (12:03)


 * Tiger Mask defeated Buck Zumhofe (10:55)


 * Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo defeated the Fabulous Ones (14:01)


 * Harley Race vs. Rick Martel ended in a double count out (10:00)


 * Sherri Martel defeated Luna Vachon, Joyce Grable, Kat LeRoux, Rose Divine, Taylor Thomas, Despina Montega, Misty Blue Simmes, Debbie Combs, and Candi Divine in a 10-Woman Battle Royal match (10:00)


 * Sgt. Slaughter (c) defeated Kamala by disqualification to retain the AWA America's Championship (9:54)


 * Scott Hall and Curt Hennig (c) defeated The Long Riders to retain the AWA World Tag Team Championship (27:53)


 * Scott LeDoux defeated Larry Zbyszko by disqualification in a Boxing match with Larry Hennig as the special guest referee.


 * Nick Bockwinkel defeated Stan Hansen (c) by disqualification in a AWA World Heavyweight Championship Match (10:43)


 * Greg Gagne and Superfly Snuka defeated Bruiser Brody and John Nord in a Steel Cage Match (12:12)


 * Verne Gagne defeated Sheik Adnan El Kassey in a Steel Cage Match (6:54)


 * The Road Warriors defeated Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin in a Steel Cage Match (21:21)