December 17, 2018 Observer Newsletter: Fantastic Tokyo Dome card, death of Larry Hennig

With the conclusion of the tag team tournament, the full card for WrestleKingdom 13 on 1/4 at the Tokyo Dome was announced.

The show, which starts at 2 a.m. Eastern time and the final two hours will air on tape delay on AXS from 8-10 p.m. that night, will open with a gauntlet match, expected to last 30 to 45 minutes, involving a series of trios. I believe the names will be kept secret, but it’ll consist of most of the company’s regular wrestlers who don’t have other matches, such as Jushin Liger, Tiger Mask, Marty Scurll, Ryusuke Taguchi, Toa Henare, Togi Makabe, Minoru Suzuki, Hirooki Goto, Takashi Iizuka, Taichi, Michael Elgin, Jeff Cobb, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Chase Owens, Hangman Page, Yujiro Takahashi, Tomoaki Honma, Toru Yano, Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, David Finlay, Chuckie T, Baretta, Rocky Romero and probably a number of surprises..

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Portland Wrestlecast: Remembering Larry and Curt Hennig

Before he was perfect, Curt Hennig was a young, green wrestler in Portland Wrestling. Then, he won his first-ever pro wrestling title, the Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship, with his late father Larry “The Axe” Hennig.

In this edition of the Portland Wrestlecast, I recaps Curt’s career in Portland, including his feuds with Buddy Rose and Rip Oliver.

Then, I talk to his father, the legendary Larry “The Axe” Hennig who passed away earlier this week. Larry reminisced about how their tag team victory was more than just a wrestling angle and how the entire family came out from Minnesota to experience it. In 1985, the Hennigs would team again in Oregon, this time facing AWA Tag Team Champions The Road Warriors at the famous Don Owen 60th anniversary extravaganza.  

In addition, Larry remembered a memorable fishing trip on the Columbia River when he and Curt accidentally discovered a nudist colony.

If you’re new to the podcast, it relives the memories of Don Owen’s Portland Wrestling territory and every week, I recap the history and interview the people who made the territory so memorable. 

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