![]() ![]() That’s where we all used to watch Nick Bockwinkel and Jesse The Body, Mad Dog Vachon and Baron von Raschke. Karch was the last play-by-play announcer for the old American Wrestling Association: the locally based league owned by Verne Gagne that gave us All-Star Wrestling, which aired Saturday mornings on Channel 11. I’m sitting at the announcer’s table, a special guest of tonight’s broadcast team: play-by-play man “Slick” Mick Karch and color man Ken Resnick. They seem to be in constant danger of launching themselves right through the drop ceiling. In the ring at the center of the room, men in neon tights fling each other against the ropes. Half these guys have kids in tow they’re also wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ’80s-era wrestlers. The room is half full, mostly middle-aged dudes in jeans and T-shirts emblazoned with ’80s-era wrestlers like Ric Flair and “Macho Man” Randy Savage. Inside this old banquet hall in Bloomington, the air conditioning roars. Illustration collage of Minnesota wrestlers ![]()
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