[1981-12-25-AWA-St. Paul, MN] Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell vs Jerry Blackwell & Sheik Adnan Al-Kaisee

[paul sosnowski]

The High Flyers are the AWA World Tag Team champs, but this is a non title match.   Available on the Network, Vault, Hidden Gems 1981, December 25th "AWA Christmas Night".   Talk about it here

[shoe]

We are JIP and we get about 13 minutes of a 17 minute match  with Gagne working the arm. Adnan tries to interfere, but Brunzell teaches him  a lesson. Some quick tags from the faces. They are doing some arm work some basic, some high impact. The shine is really well done with a real sense of purpose. Eventually though Gagne would become FIP because Adnan scratched the back. The heels would focus on the back. Blackwell using his weight and and Adnan using more focused attack. Eventually Gagne tags out to Brunzell and he's running wild. The heels are bumping and feeding for Brunzell. Gagne back in and they hit a huge knee drop from the top. The HF are running wild and look to be on the verge of winning when the heels screw them over. I really liked the story here. It had a main event feel to it. Good work all around 4*

[tcg91]

This wasn't great, but it was a fun match anyway. The first few minutes are clipped, but it didn't look like it took too much away from the match. This was a classic old school tag match, which is a good thing, so High Killers shined before the heat segment. The initial stuff didn't blew my mind, but Gagne shined as the outnumbered babyface, which surprised me as I always found him to be a bit too goofy for my liking. Brunzell was hands down the best in here and it was a shame that his hot tag got cut short, but the finish with the Blackwell splash made total sense
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