EPISODE · May 4, 2026 · 1H 39M
Episode 854: AWA Super Sunday '83
from The Lawcast · host Cewsh
Welcome back to The Lawcast! This time our hosts go back to cover the AWA's big moment, it's Super Sunday '83.The AWA is red hot. Hulk Hogan has been chasing Nick Bockwinkel's AWA World Heavyweight Championship for a full year. He's the biggest sensation in pro wrestling. They've built to their biggest show ever, the closed circuit special Super Sunday. It's Hogan's last chance. It's now or never. He has to win. But he doesn't. It's one of the biggest turning points in pro wrestling history. What if Verne and Hogan had been able to work out a deal? What if Hogan had stayed? What would the WWF have done? How far could the AWA have gone? It didn't all turn on this one night, but this whole year was the AWA's chance to strike first in the looming national war. And then Hogan slipped through Verne's fingers.Plus we talk about all the current wrestling news.
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Welcome back to The Lawcast! This time our hosts go back to cover the AWA's big moment, it's Super Sunday '83.The AWA is red hot. Hulk Hogan has been chasing Nick Bockwinkel's AWA World Heavyweight Championship for a full year. He's the biggest sensation in pro wrestling. They've built to their biggest show ever, the closed circuit special Super Sunday. It's Hogan's last chance. It's now or never. He has to win. But he doesn't. It's one of the biggest turning points in pro wrestling history. What if Verne and Hogan had been able to work out a deal? What if Hogan had stayed? What would the WWF have done? How far could the AWA have gone? It didn't all turn on this one night, but this whole year was the AWA's chance to strike first in the looming national war. And then Hogan slipped through Verne's fingers.Plus we talk about all the current wrestling news.
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