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Despite this talent raid, the AWA went on to have another successful year in 1984, mainly because of the arrival of the Road Warriors and an angle uniting longtime heel Jerry Blackwell with Greg Gagne and feuding with former manager Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey.

Although aging, most of the AWA's longtime core talent still remained.

Stars like Nick Bockwinkel, Ray " The Crippler " Stevens, " The Crusher " Reginald Lisowski, Dick the Bruiser, Baron Von Raschke, Mad Dog Vachon, and Larry Hennig were all still active at this time despite all being in their 40s or 50s.

Bockwinkel, who was still the focus of the company, would turn 50 himself in 1984, Stevens was a year away from 50, and Crusher was 58 while his tag team partner Dick the Bruiser was 56.

Of the aging veterans, Baron Von Raschke was the youngest of them, and he had just turned 40.