AWA wrestlers

• Adrian Adonis
  Adrian Adonis
  Keith A. Franke was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Adorable" Adrian Adonis.-Career:Franke trained under Fred Atkins and debuted in 1974, wrestling under his own name...
  
  
• Badd Company
  Badd Company
  Badd Company was a professional wrestling tag team in the American Wrestling Association in the late 1980s, which later went by the name the Orient Express. It is rumored that the team name was derived from the rock band Bad Company...
  
   (Paul Diamond
  Tom Boric
  Thomas "Tom" Boric is a retired professional wrestler better known by his ring name Paul Diamond. He is best known for being one half of the tag team Badd Company with Pat Tanaka and for his time in the World Wrestling Federation as Kato, one half of The Orient Express also with Pat Tanaka...
  
   & Pat Tanaka
  Pat Tanaka
  Patrick "Pat" Tanaka is a semi-retired American professional wrestler best known for his work in the American Wrestling Association as one half of Badd Company and the World Wrestling Federation as one half of The Orient Express...
  
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• Ox Baker
  Ox Baker
  Douglas A. Baker better known professionally as Ox Baker, is an American former professional wrestler and actor, and was feared for his dreaded finishing move, the Heart Punch, sometimes called the "Hurt Punch", after Baker's famous catchphrase "I love to hurt people!" He has appeared in several...
  
  
• Red Bastien
  Red Bastien
  Rolland Bastein is a former professional wrestler, better known as Red Bastien.-Professional wrestling career:He took part in football and swimming in high school and broke in on Midwest carnivals, fighting local toughs and learning wrestling the hard way. Turning professional, he began in...
  
  
• Crusher Jerry Blackwell
  Jerry Blackwell
  Jerry Blackwell was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Crusher" Jerry Blackwell. Blackwell competed in the 1979 World's Strongest Man contest, but withdrew early in the competition due to an injury...
  
  
• Nick Bockwinkel
  Nick Bockwinkel
  Nicholas Warren Francis "Nick" Bockwinkel is a retired American professional wrestler. He mainly competed in the American Wrestling Association in the United States...
  
  
• Bruiser Brody
  Frank Goodish
  Frank Donald Goodish was an American professional wrestler who earned his greatest fame under the name Bruiser Brody. Goodish was an All-State football and basketball player at Warren High School, Michigan, and played football at West Texas A&M University...
  
  
• PrettyBoy FloydStarr
• Jim Brunzell
• The Crusher
• Colonel DeBeers
  Edward Wiskoski
  Edward Wiskoski is a former American professional wrestler best known as Colonel DeBeers in the AWA . He also wrestled as Derek "The Mongoose" Draper and Mega Maharishi...
  
  
• The Destruction Crew
  Beverly Brothers
  The Beverly Brothers were a professional wrestling tag team comprising Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom in the World Wrestling Federation. They were also known as The Destruction Crew in the American Wrestling Association and the Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 in the National Wrestling Alliance...
  
   (Mike Enos
  Mike Enos
  Mike Enos is a retired professional wrestler who wrestled mainly as a tag-team wrestler in World Championship Wrestling, the American Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Federation between 1989 and 2000....
  
   & Wayne Bloom
  Wayne Bloom
  Wayne Bloom is a former professional wrestler who wrestled in World Championship Wrestling, the American Wrestling Association, and the World Wrestling Federation between 1988 and 1999....
  
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• Bobby Duncum
  Bobby Duncum
  Bobby Duncum may refer to:*Bobby Duncum, Sr., wrestler*Bobby Duncum, Jr., American wrestler...
  
  
• Fabulous Freebirds
  Fabulous Freebirds
  The Fabulous Freebirds were a professional wrestling tag team that attained fame in the 1980s, performing into the 1990s. The team usually consisted of three wrestlers, although in different situations and points in its history, just two performed under the Freebirds name.-History:The Fabulous...
  
   (Michael P.S. Hayes
  Michael Hayes (wrestler)
  Michael Seitz is a retired American professional wrestler and former musician. Seitz is best known for leading The Fabulous Freebirds under the ring name Michael "P.S." Hayes and for his role as the announcer Dok Hendrix in the World Wrestling Federation...
  
  , Terry "Bamm Bamm" Gordy
  Terry Gordy
  Terry Ray 'Bam Bam' Gordy, Sr. was a professional wrestler who was best known in North America for being a member of the Fabulous Freebirds.-Career:...
  
   & Buddy Roberts
  Dale Hey
  Dale Hey is a retired professional wrestler better known as Buddy Roberts.-Professional wrestling career:Dale Hey grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He started wrestling in 1965 as Dale Valentine, the "brother" of Johnny Valentine...
  
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• Ric Flair
  Ric Flair
  Richard Morgan Fliehr is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair is one of the most well-known professional wrestlers in the world....
  
  
• Greg Gagne
  Greg Gagne (wrestler)
  Gregory Alan "Greg" Gagne is a former professional wrestler and the son of Verne Gagne. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he achieved his biggest success as one half of the tag team The High Flyers with Jim Brunzell...
  
  
• Verne Gagne
  Verne Gagne
  Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne , is a retired American professional wrestler, football player, and professional wrestling trainer and promoter. He was the former owner/promoter of the American Wrestling Association , based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was the predominant promotion throughout...
  
  
• Jimmy Garvin
  Jimmy Garvin
  James Williams is a retired American professional wrestler. He is best known by his ring name "Gorgeous" Jimmy "Jam" Garvin and as a member of the legendary Fabulous Freebirds....
  
  
• Scott Hall
  Scott Hall
  Scott Hall is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation in the early and mid 1990s under the ring name Razor Ramon, as well as for his period in the mid 1990s and early 2000s with World Championship Wrestling under his real name...
  
  
• Stan Hansen
  Stan Hansen
  John Stanley Hansen, Jr. is an American former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Stan Hansen. As a wrestler, Hansen was well known for his stiff wrestling style, which he attributes to poor eyesight, as he is nearly blind without glasses...
  
  
• Curt Hennig
  Curt Hennig
  Curtis Michael "Curt" Hennig , also known by the ring name Mr. Perfect, was an American professional wrestler, manager and color commentator who worked for, among other promotions, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , the American Wrestling Association , World Championship Wrestling and the World...
  
  
• Larry Hennig
  Larry Hennig
  Larry "The Axe" Hennig is an American retired professional wrestler. He is the father of the late "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, the grandfather of Joe Hennig, and is best known for his work in the American Wrestling Association, National Wrestling Alliance and World Wide Wrestling Federation...
  
  
• Hulk Hogan
  Hulk Hogan
  Terrance Gene "Terry" Bollea , better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American Semi-retired professional wrestler, actor, television personality, and musician currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ....
  
  
• Sheik Adnan El Kassey
• "Mr. Magnificent" Kevin Kelly
  Kevin Wacholz
  Kevin Wacholz is a former professional wrestler who once worked for the World Wrestling Federation in 1992 as Nailz. He was also known as "Mr...
  
  
• Teijho Khan
  Tom Cassett
  -Career:He started with Jim Crockett Promotions in the National Wrestling Alliance, with Paul Jones as his manager. He participated in the 1987 Jim Crockett, Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament, teaming with Shaska Whatley...
  
  
• Kokina Maximus
  Rodney Anoa'i
  Rodney Agatupu Anoa'i was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna. The term yokozuna refers to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan...
  
   (Yokozuna)
• Nikita Koloff
  Nikita Koloff
  Nikita Koloff is a retired American professional wrestler,. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he wrestled as "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff, which was a play on the nickname of fan favorite "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes .Nikita was brought into the National...
  
  
• Jerry Lawler
  Jerry Lawler
  Jerry O'Neil Lawler is an American professional wrestler, wrestling commentator, musician, businessman, commercial artist and film actor, known throughout the wrestling world as Jerry "The King" Lawler. He is currently signed to WWE, working on its Raw brand as the color commentator and occasional...
  
  
• The Long Riders
  The Long Riders
  The Long Riders is a 1980 western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for this soundtrack...
  
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  Barney Irwin
  Barney William Irwin is a professional wrestler best known as Bill Irwin.-Professional wrestling career:Bill Irwin started wrestling in 1979 in the National Wrestling Alliance's Central States territory and in World Class Championship Wrestling...
  
   & Scott Irwin
  Scott Irwin
  Scott K. Irwin was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tag team with his brother Barney "Bill" Irwin.-Debut and the World Wide Wrestling Federation:...
  
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• Jerry Lynn
  Jerry Lynn
  Jeremy "Jerry" Lynn is an American professional wrestler who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ....
  
  
• Rick Martel
  Rick Martel
  Richard Vigneault is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation between 1980 and 1995 under the ring name Rick Martel...
  
  
• Wahoo McDaniel
  Wahoo McDaniel
  Edward "Wahoo" McDaniel was a Choctaw-Chickasaw Native American who achieved fame as a professional American football player and later as a professional wrestler.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Ninja
• The Nasty Boys
  The Nasty Boys
  The Nasty Boys are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags, active from the mid to late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Their gimmick was that of anti-social punks who specialized in hardcore wrestling and brawling...
  
   (Brian Knobbs
  Brian Knobbs
  Brian Yandrisovitz , better known as Brian Knobbs, is an American professional wrestler, best known as one half of the tag team The Nasty Boys along with Jerry Sags.-The Nasty Boys:...
  
   and Jerry Sags
  Jerry Sags
  Jerome Saganovich is an American professional wrestler best known as Jerry Sags. He is one half of the tag team The Nasty Boys along with Brian Knobbs.-Career:...
  
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• Steve Olsonoski
  Steve Olsonoski
  Steve Olsonoski is a retired American professional wrestler from Minnesota.Steve Olsonoski, purportedly from Edina, Minnesota, began his wrestling career in the late 1970s in the American Wrestling Association. He won the AWA Rookie of the Year Award in his first year and was often described as...
  
  
• Midnight Rockers
  The Rockers
  The Rockers were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty that teamed from 1985 to 1992. The team worked for Central States Wrestling, the American Wrestling Association, Continental Wrestling Federation, Continental Wrestling Association and the World...
  
   (Shawn Michaels
  Shawn Michaels
  Michael Shawn Hickenbottom , better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American television host and retired professional wrestler. He presents the Outdoor Channel show MacMillan River Adventures, and is currently signed to WWE, where he has served in an ambassadorial role since December...
  
   & Marty Jannetty
  Marty Jannetty
  Frederick Marty Jannetty is an American professional wrestler, best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation as part of tag team The Rockers with partner Shawn Michaels, and later as a singles competitor. While in the WWF, he became a one time Intercontinental Champion and a one time...
  
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• Nord the Barbarian
  John Nord
  John Nord is a retired American professional wrestler. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.-Career:John Nord started wrestling in late 1984 as "The Barbarian" for Mid-South Wrestling under manager Skandor Akbar...
  
  
• Original Midnight Express (Dennis Condrey
  Dennis Condrey
  Dennis Condrey is an American professional wrestler, best known as being one half of the tag team Midnight Express....
  
   & Randy Rose
  Randy Rose
  "Ravishing" Randy Rose is a professional wrestler.-Career:Randy Rose competed in 1981 in Alabama's Southeast Championship Wrestling and formed The Midnight Express with Dennis Condrey and Norvell Austin. They dominated the tag team scene there until Condrey signed with Mid-South Wrestling in 1984...
  
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• Ken Patera
  Ken Patera
  Ken Patera is a former professional wrestler, Olympic weightlifter, and Strongman competitor.-Weightlifting/Strongman career:Patera is a former Olympic weightlifter and American powerlifter...
  
  
• D.J. Peterson
  David Peterson (wrestler)
  David W. Peterson was an American professional wrestler, known by his ringname D.J. Peterson, who competed in North American regional promotions during the 1980s in the Universal Wrestling Federation, the National Wrestling Alliance and the American Wrestling Association during its final days,...
  
  
• Harley Race
  Harley Race
  Harley Leland Race is a retired American professional wrestler and current promoter and trainer. During his career as a wrestler, he held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship 7 times...
  
  
• "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal
  Steve Regal
  Steve Regal is a former professional wrestler, better known as "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal, who competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance and the American Wrestling Association during the early 1970s and 1980s.-Professional wrestling career:Born in Ft...
  
  
• Brad Rheingans
  Brad Rheingans
  Brad Rheingans is a former Greco-Roman and professional wrestler.-Career:Rheingans was an NCAA champion in 1975 for North Dakota State University and wrestled in the 1976 Olympics, placing fourth...
  
  
• Dusty Rhodes
  Dusty Rhodes (wrestler)
  Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr. , better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler currently working for WWE...
  
   & Dick Murdoch
  Dick Murdoch
  Hoyt Richard "Dick" Murdoch was an American professional wrestler.-Professional wrestling career:A second-generation wrestler, the son of 1950s Texas wrestler Frankie Hill Murdoch, Dick Murdoch grew up with fellow second-generation wrestlers Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk, watching their fathers...
  
  
• Ricky Rice
  Ricky Rice
  Ricky Rice is an American professional wrestler who competed in Midwest regional promotions during the late 1980s, most notably with tag team partners Derrick Dukes and Jon Paul DeMans as The Top Guns in Eddie Sharkey's Minneapolis-based Pro Wrestling America and the American Wrestling...
  
  
• Road Warriors
  Road Warriors
  The Road Warriors were a professional wrestling tag team composed of Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand and Joseph "Animal" Laurinaitis. They performed under the name "Road Warriors" in the American Wrestling Association, the National Wrestling Alliance, and World Championship Wrestling, and the name Legion...
  
   (Animal
  Road Warrior Animal
  Joseph Aaron "Joe" Laurinaitis is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names, Road Warrior Animal and Road Warrior...
  
   & Hawk
  Road Warrior Hawk
  Michael James Hegstrand was an American professional wrestler. He is best remembered as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors or The Legion of Doom , with Road Warrior Animal.-Early life:While living in Chicago, Hegstrand met Joe Lauranaitis, who would be later...
  
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• Billy Robinson
  Billy Robinson
  Billy Robinson is a British professional wrestler and catch wrestling instructor. Robinson was well known in Japan where he has trained mixed martial arts fighters in catch wrestling...
  
  
• Buddy Rose
  Buddy Rose
  Paul Perschmann was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Playboy" Buddy Rose.-Career:Paul Perschmann was trained by Verne Gagne and Billy Robinson in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Masa Saito
  Masa Saito
  is a former Japanese professional wrestler better known as Mr. Saito or . He wrestled for several years in various promotions operated by the National Wrestling Alliance . He later joined the World Wrestling Federation , where he teamed with Mr. Fuji to hold the World Tag Team Championship twice...
  
  
• Akio Sato
• Sgt. Slaughter
  Sgt. Slaughter
  Robert Remus , better known by his ring name Sgt. Slaughter, is an American former WWE personality and semi-retired professional wrestler. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Slaughter had success in the National Wrestling Alliance, American Wrestling Association, and World Wrestling...
  
  
• Superfly Snuka
  Jimmy Snuka
  James William "Jimmy" Reiher is a semi-retired Fijian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. Originally from the Fiji Islands, Snuka wrestled for several promotions in the 1970s and 1980s. Snuka is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having been a...
  
  
• Doug Somers
  Doug Somers
  Doug Somers is an American retired professional wrestler known by his ring name "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers...
  
  
• Ray "The Crippler" Stevens
  Ray Stevens (wrestler)
  Carl Ray Stevens , better known as Ray "The Crippler" Stevens or Ray "Blond Bomber" Stevens, was an American professional wrestler. Stevens was a wrestling superstar since the early years of the television era until he retired during the early 1990s...
  
  
• Jon Alan Stewart (Jonnie Stewart)
• Texas Hangmen (Psycho
  Bull Pain
  Rick Gantner, known by his ring name Bull Pain, is an American independent professional wrestler, currently best known for his work in IWA Mid-South, and for his past career as part of the Texas Hangmen tag team in promotions such as American Wrestling Association, United States Wrestling...
  
   & Killer)
• The Trooper (aka The Patriot)
  Del Wilkes
  Del Wilkes is a former American professional wrestler. Over the span of 14 years, he performed in various promotions such as American Wrestling Association, All Japan Pro Wrestling...
  
  
• Soldat Ustinov
  Jim Lanning
  Jim Lanning is a retired American professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Soldat Ustinov, who competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance and the American Wrestling Association during the 1980s.-American Wrestling Association :Arriving in...
  
  
• "Mad Dog" Vachon
  Maurice Vachon
  Maurice Vachon is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, best known by his ring name "Mad Dog" Vachon. He is the brother of wrestlers Paul and Vivian Vachon, and the uncle of wrestler Luna Vachon...
  
  
• "Butcher" Vachon
  Paul Vachon
  Paul "Butcher" Vachon is a former professional wrestler. He is a member of the Vachon wrestling family.-Professional wrestling career:Paul Vachon grew up as one of thirteen children of Ferdinand Vachon, a Montreal police officer...
  
  
• Jesse Ventura
  Jesse Ventura
  James George Janos , better known as Jesse Ventura, is an American politician, the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003, Navy UDT veteran, former SEAL reservist, actor, and former radio and television talk show host...
  
  
• Baron Von Raschke
  James Raschke
  James Donald Raschke is a retired professional wrestler best known as Baron von Raschke.-Career:...
  
  
• Leon White
• Larry Zbyszko
  Larry Zbyszko
  Lawrence "Larry" Whistler is a professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Larry Zbyszko. Zbyszko is perhaps best known for his feud with his mentor, wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino during the early 1980s....
  
  
• Tom Zenk
  Tom Zenk
  Thomas Erwin "Tom" Zenk is a former Mr. Minnesota Bodybuilder, and most notably a American professional wrestler, also known by his nickname Z-Man.-Early career:...
  
  
• Boris Zukhov
  Jim Barrell
  James Kirk Harrell is an American professional wrestler best known as Boris Zhukov in his time with the World Wrestling Federation.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
  
• Buck Zumhofe
  Buck Zumhofe
  Eugene Zumhofe is a professional wrestler better known as Buck "Rock n' Roll" Zumhofe, wrestling's self proclaimed original rock and roller.-Training:...
  
  
• The Nighthawk
• CT Night "The Boss

AWA wrestlers (Chicago)

• Dick the Bruiser
• Reggie Lisowski (The Crusher)
• Dr X
  Dick Beyer
  Dick Beyer is a retired professional wrestler who is best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ox Baker
  Ox Baker
  Douglas A. Baker better known professionally as Ox Baker, is an American former professional wrestler and actor, and was feared for his dreaded finishing move, the Heart Punch, sometimes called the "Hurt Punch", after Baker's famous catchphrase "I love to hurt people!" He has appeared in several...
  
  
• Moose Cholak
• Sailor Art Thomas
  Sailor Art Thomas
  Sailor Art Thomas was a bodybuilder working as a professional wrestler.Arthur "Sailor Art" Thomas was born in Gurdon, Arkansas, as the son of Alfred and Jessie Thomas. Early in his life he moved to Wisconsin...
  
  
• Bobo Brazil
• Bob Luce (Chicago promoter)
• Sam Menacker (host of the Indianapolis-based
  World Wrestling Association (Indianapolis)
  The World Wrestling Association was an Indianapolis-based pro wrestling promotion which was operated by Dick "The Bruiser" Afflis and his business partner Wilbur Snyder. The WWA was affiliated with the larger American Wrestling Association and recognized its champions, though the WWA also had its...
  
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• Don Eagle
  Don Eagle
  Carl Donald Bell , better known by his ring name Chief Don Eagle, was a Mohawk Native American professional wrestler during the 1950s and 1960s. Originally from Kahnawake, Quebec, Eagle became an AWA Boston World Champion.- Career :Don Eagle began his boxing career in 1945, after a brief time...
  
  
• Prince Pullins
• Paul Christy
  Paul Christy
  Paul Christy is a former professional wrestler known mainly for his work in the National Wrestling Alliance and International Championship Wrestling as well as a very short stint in the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-'80s...
  
  
• Spike Huber
• Johnny Kace
• Ernie Ladd
  Ernie Ladd
  Ernest "Ernie" Ladd , nicknamed "The Big Cat" was an American collegiate and professional football player and a professional wrestler.-Pro Football career:...
  
  
• Pepper Gomez
• "Pretty Boy" Bobby Heenan
  Bobby Heenan
  Raymond Louis "Ray" Heenan , better known as Bobby "The Brain" Heenan , is a former American professional wrestling manager and color commentator, best known for his time with the American Wrestling Association , World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation...
  
   (manager, often drawn into a cage match against Dick the Bruiser and the Crusher http://www.wrestletapes.net/bestofdickthebruiser.html)
• Wilbur Snyder
  Wilbur Snyder
  Wilbur Snyder was an American football player and professional wrestler.-Wrestling career:Snyder's wrestling debut occurred during the 1953 offseason. He was trained by Sandor Szabo and Warren Bockwinkel in Southern California. In 1954, Snyder retired from football completely to pursue a full-time...
  
  

AWA female wrestlers

• Penny Banner
  Penny Banner
  Mary Ann Kostecki , better know by her stage name Penny Banner, was a professional wrestler. She was best known for her time spent in the American Wrestling Association...
  
  
• Candy Divine
• Sherri Martel
  Sherri Martel
  Sherri Schrull was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri....
  
  
• Judy Martin
  Judy Martin (wrestler)
  Judy Hardee is a former female professional wrestler known as Judy Martin. Martin is a former WWF Women's Tag Team Champion. She held the title with partner Leilani Kai as The Glamour Girls...
  
  
• Madusa Miceli
  Debra Miceli
  Debrah Ann Miceli is a Monster truck driver and former professional wrestler. She is best known under her ring names Madusa or Alundra Blayze. Her early career was spent in the American Wrestling Association, where she held the AWA World Women's Championship one time...
  
  
• Wendi Richter
  Wendi Richter
  Wendi Richter is a retired American professional wrestler. She began her professional wrestling career in companies such as the National Wrestling Alliance, where she teamed with Joyce Grable, with whom she held the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice. In the 1980s, she joined the World...
  
  
• Vivian Vachon
  Vivian Vachon
  Vivian Vachon was a female professional wrestler. She was the sister of wrestlers Maurice and Paul Vachon. She was also the aunt of wrestler Luna Vachon...
  
  

Other notable AWA contributors

• Eric Bischoff
  Eric Bischoff
  Eric Aaron Bischoff is an American entrepreneur, and professional wrestling booker and on-screen personality currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
  
   (interviewer)
• Stanley Blackburn
  Stanley Blackburn
  Stanley Charles Blackburn is a national genealogist from Alabama who rose to prominence with his contribution to the critically acclaimed, historical documentary The Stories of the Great Depression: This Great Nation Will Endure along with his two books, The Stubbs Family of Howell Cross Road,...
  
   (on-air president)
• Lord James Blears (wrestler/commentator)
• Gary DeRusha (referee)
• Donna Gagne (announcer)
• Paul E. Dangerously
  Paul Heyman
  Paul Heyman is an American entertainment producer, best known for his career in professional wrestling as a promoter, manager, commentator and journalist. He is also an occasional actor in film....
  
   (manager)
• Bobby Heenan
  Bobby Heenan
  Raymond Louis "Ray" Heenan , better known as Bobby "The Brain" Heenan , is a former American professional wrestling manager and color commentator, best known for his time with the American Wrestling Association , World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation...
  
   (manager)
• Dick Jonkowski (announcer/commentator)
• Rodger Kent (ringside announcer)
• Scott LeDoux
  Scott LeDoux
  Alan Scott LeDoux, "The Fighting Frenchman," was a politician, professional heavyweight boxer, professional wrestler and referee.-Boxing:...
  
   (referee)
• Lee Marshall (announcer/commentator)
• Marty Miller (referee)
• Larry Nelson (interviewer/announcer/commentator)
• Gene Okerlund
  Gene Okerlund
  Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund is a semi-retired American professional wrestling interviewer and announcer. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006 by Hulk Hogan...
  
   (interviewer)
• Diamond Dallas Page
  Diamond Dallas Page
  Dallas Page , better known by his ring name "Diamond" Dallas Page , is an American retired professional wrestler, fitness instructor and actor...
  
   (manager)
• Ken Resnick (interviewer/commentator)
• Rod Trongard
  Rod Trongard
  Rod Trongard was a Minnesota-based sports broadcaster on both radio and television in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area for more than fifty years.-Early career:...
  
   (commentator)
• Marty O'Neil(interviewer/commentator)