He wasn't HBK at the time, he was typical 80s pretty boy tag specialist. They rarely made new stars, just about everybody was already estiablished or wasn't over
True but even now looking at the reruns you can see HBK and Jannetty did things in the ring that other guys didnt or couldnt do. I know hindsight is 20-20 but they really should have done something with him.
And the AWAs problem in a nutshell was that they didnt give guys a title run unless you were a Gagne...married to a Gagne or Nick Bockwinkel. (curt Henning was 2nd generation AWA)
Hansen and Lawler were last ditch efforts.
On a side note though I have a fun idea if you guys want to play along....
How would you book the Heavyweight title picture for 87-88 ?
I would have used Henning as champ for a long title run first Heel then face till he beat pretty much everyone and built up HBK on a Heel turn on Marty till Curt and HBK was the hot ticket
You Guys ?