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- In the dying days of the AWA, to weaken the growing dominance of WWF, they had to do something different that would again attract wrestling fans’ hearts. Thus the AWA Team Challenge Series was born. It caused a whirlwind of confusion and later vanished along with the AWA.
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4 days ago · The AWA Team Challenge Series died a slow death by August 1990, and soon along with it, the AWA closed its doors in 1991. We have hundreds of great Pro Wrestling Stories, but of course, you can’t read them all today.
Jul 7, 2021 · By October the Team Challenge Series was slated to begin. By this point the AWA World Champion was Larry Zbyszko and the roster consisted of names like Tommy Jammer, Derrick Dukes, and several former stars about 3 days from retirement. The Team Challenge Series itself is almost difficult to describe in that it’s just terribly convoluted.
In the dying days of the AWA, a desperate Verne Gagne saw his once-powerful promotion bereft of most of its big-name talent and bleeding red...
The Team Challenge Series placed all the wrestlers in the promotion into three separate teams, headed up by Larry Zbyszko, Sgt. Slaughter, and Baron von Raschke, the company’s three main draws. After some unspecified amount of time, the winners would receive a million bucks.
The AWA held a "Team Challenge Series" from October 1, 1989, through August 11, 1990. All of the available wrestlers were divided into three teams: "Larry's Legends", headed by Larry Zbyszko, "Sarge's Snipers", originally headed by Sgt. Slaughter, and "Baron's Blitzers", headed by Baron von Raschke.
While AWA would continue for another year holding its Team Challenge Series in empty studios, the “new” AWA, with its foxy boxing, satellite feeds, fake audiences, and slow-motion replays wouldn’t see the light of day for nearly 30 years.
The AWA makes a last-ditch effort to drive interest, launching the Team Challenge Series, splitting the roster up into three squads, with a $1,000,000 prize at stake. Unfortunately, ill-conceived stipulations like a Turkey on a Pole Match don’t bring the fans back, and the AWA is out of business by December.
