Television taping
AWA appearance listed
Tom’s pay: $50. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Tom Zenk Archive The Early Years
1984-1985
Match results, official line-ups and contemporary press coverage from Tom Zenk's American Wrestling Association years.
Explore the resultsThe Early Years
Browse by year using the menu below. Select any adjoining line-up, advertisement, television listing or news clipping to enlarge it. Confirmed results, advertised cards and appearance/payment records are identified according to the surviving evidence. Printed order is not treated as confirmed running order unless the source explicitly establishes it.
Contemporary advertisements and listings are reproduced as published and document the announced line-up at that time. Wrestling cards were routinely advertised as “subject to change”; an advertised match is not presented as a confirmed result unless surviving evidence establishes that it occurred.
Chronological record
Television taping
Tom’s pay: $50. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Minneapolis TV
Faribault, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $200. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
St. Michael, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $100. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Television taping
Tom’s pay: $30. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Glenwood, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $100. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
St. Paul Civic Center
Tom’s pay: $250. Official line-up and contemporary press coverage adjoin this result.
Official line-up confirms Tom was in the bottom-listed preliminary bout.
Television taping
Tom’s pay: $50. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Winnipeg, Manitoba — Norberry Auditorium TV taping
Winnipeg Arena
Tom’s pay: CAN$525.
Rosemont Horizon, Chicago
Tom’s pay: $200 plus $120.
Milwaukee Auditorium
Tom was named in the substitution note but did not wrestle in the recorded match.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Pine Island, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $75. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Davenport, Iowa — Palmer Auditorium
Minneapolis TV
Willmar, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $100. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
St. Paul Civic Center
Tom’s pay: $150 plus a $150 extra match payment.
Minneapolis TV
Tom’s pay: $50.
Princeton, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $100. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Winnipeg, Manitoba — Norberry Auditorium TV taping
Tom’s pay: $535.
Winnipeg Arena — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Attendance: 4,708. The official line-up and complete results confirm Tom’s participation.
Milwaukee Auditorium
Tom Zenk substituted for Steve Olsonoski. Tom’s pay: $200.
Sauk Centre, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $200. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Minneapolis TV
Minneapolis TV
Tom’s pay: $100.
Minneapolis TV
Winnipeg, Manitoba — Norberry Auditorium TV taping
Tom’s pay: $835.49.
Winnipeg Arena
Minneapolis TV
Tom’s pay: $800.
St. Paul Civic Center
Menomonie, Wisconsin
Tom’s pay: $100. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Salt Lake City, Utah — Salt Palace
Tom’s pay: $250. Attendance: 9,203.
Denver, Colorado
Tom’s pay: $250. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Rockford, Illinois — Boylan High School
Tom’s pay: $200.
Middleton, Wisconsin
They substituted for the Road Warriors. Tom’s pay: $200.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Tom’s pay: $150. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Mankato, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $150. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Winnipeg, Manitoba — Arena
Attendance: 4,376. Car: $250 TV and expenses $150 plus $200.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Tom’s pay: $150.
Rockford, Illinois — Boylan High School
Tom Zenk substituted for Larry Hennig. Tom’s pay: $140 plus $200.
St. Paul, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $100. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Monticello High School, Minnesota
Tom’s pay: $100.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin — Marion College Gym
Tom’s pay: $125. Tom Zenk was the third wrestler eliminated.
Minneapolis TV
Rosemont Horizon, Chicago
Tom’s pay: $175.
Winnipeg TV
Tom’s pay: $100 plus $50 expenses. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Brandon, Manitoba
Tom’s pay: $175. Opponent and result are not stated in the source.
Card context: the records indicate this appearance or payment but does not provide a complete card listing.
Winnipeg Arena
Tom’s pay: $375.
Denver Auditorium Arena
Tom’s pay: $225. See the adjoining official line-up.
The official line-up places Tom in the bottom-listed preliminary bout.
Minneapolis TV
Salt Lake City — Salt Palace
Tom’s pay: $225 plus $100 advance.
Vancouver, British Columbia