AWA World Champion Rick Martel -- 25 years later

For those of us who have been around that long, looking back 25 years can be like peering into a different lifetime. It's often fun, though, to look back at school or college days, and reminisce about how, as Freddie Mercury once sang, "those were the days of our lives".

But for Rick Martel, looking back 25 years is to recall the greatest moment of his professional life, even including his high-profile days as the WWF's "Model." For it was on May 13, 1984 that he captured the AWA World Title from Jumbo Tsuruta in St. Paul, Minnesota, the only major singles title of his career...More?

source: slam wrestling