Trivia / American Wrestling Association

• Real Song Theme Tune:
  • Hulk Hogan used Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger"
  • The Road Warriors used Black Sabbath's "Iron Man"
  • The Midnight Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) used Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight"
  • The Nasty Boys (Jerry Sags and Bryan Knobbs) used Janet Jackson's "Nasty"^note Verne Gagne's daughter named the team after the song.
  • The Destruction Crew (Wayne Bloom and Mike Enos) used Queen's "We Will Rock You"
  • Badd Company (Pat Tanaka and Paul Diamond) used (what else?) Bad Company's "Bad Company"
  • Nikita Koloff used Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight"
  • DJ Peterson used AC/DC's "TNT"
  • The Long Riders ("Wild" Bill and Scott Irwin) used Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild"
  • The Texas Hangmen (Killer and Psycho) used Styx's "Renegade"
  • "Playboy" Buddy Rose and "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers used Madonna's "Dress You Up"
  • "Yukon" John Nord used Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" and Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London"
  • The Samoan Swat Team (Samu and Fatu (Rikishi)) used Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy"
  • Col. DeBeers used Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle"^note Which made no sense as his gimmick was of a militant, Apartheid-supporting amoral South African.
  • The Trooper (Del Wilkes, aka the Patriot) used U2's "Desire"
• What Could Have Been:
  • Hulk Hogan appeared to have won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship twice in 1982 and 1983, only to be stripped of the title after each match, the first time because he and champion Nick Bockwinkel used foreign objects, and the second time... just because, nearly causing the fans to riot. Hogan would soon leave the company and go on to become the face of the industry while making the WWF synonymous with pro wrestling in the mainstream. For fairly obvious reasons, this is also considered to be the point where the AWA started to go downhill.
  • There's a story about Paul Heyman questioning Verne Gagne's booking in the late 80s to which Verne allegedly threw the booking sheets at Heyman and said "Let's See YOU Do Better!." Heyman, of course, went on to gain a reputation as one of the most innovative bookers in wrestling history with ECW.
  • The original pilot for the infamous Team Challenge Series looked quite different. Instead of an empty, silent room, B-Roll footage of a bar filled with cheering patrons by the studio was filmed to make it appear that people were watching the pilot via a satellite uplink. On top of the wrestling, the initial pilot also featured "Foxy Boxing", worked boxing matches between exotic dancers from a club called Solid Gold (a musical performance was also included, but left out the WWE Network version due to the rights issues inherent in any use of outside music). The pilot was shopped to various networks in an attempt to rebrand the AWA as a competition more akin to American Gladiators, but found no interested parties, with the modified version of the concept aired on the AWA's existing television.
• You Look Familiar: Averted with "Big" Scott Hall who sported an afro, Porn Stache and extremely muscular physique during his AWA run but looked much different by the time he showed up in the WWF as Razor Ramon.