These tours covered the period August, September, October and December, 1984. The results from matches in Winnipeg, Manitoba, appear below.

"One of the many men who have been following the career of this young fan favorite is Montreal promoter Frank Valois, who recently signed Zenk to wrestle in the beautiful Canadian city starting in late June. "In Tom Zenk I see one of the finest youngsters in wrestling today," Valois noted, "and we have some great young wrestlers here in Montreal, such as The Rougeau Brothers, Rocky Della Serra and Gino Brito Junior."  (Paul Heyman, Wrestling Scene, 1985)
 

Tom admits that he was at first hesitant about signing to appear in Montreal.
"My immediate goal in the AWA is to break into the top ten contenders list, and I thought I'd ruin any chance of that by going to Montreal."  But when Tom learned from promoter Valois that the Canadian Wrestling Alliance (the governing body in Montreal) is affiliated with AWA, he agreed to change his home base. "Rick Martel defends his [AWA heavyweight] belt up there all the time," Tom said, "and the Road Warriors have defended their belts there several times, so I'll be able to get my title shot when I'm ready!"

One title for which Tom hopes to contend is the prestigious Canadian-International Heavyweight Championship, which as of press time, is still being held up due to the brutal series of matches which took place between champion King Tonga and former champion Dino Bravo. "I've met Dino Bravo at a few of the Pro Wrestling USA TV tapings, " Tom said, "and he told me that maybe we could get together for some work-outs when I came to Montreal!"  (Heyman, Wrestling Scene, 1985)

Despite this, Zenk managed to build a considerable fan following tagging with Curt Hennig.  Greg Gagne responded by moving in to steal Zenk's spot as Hennig's partner. In a match booked by Gagne, Zenk was 'driven into the concrete' by Larry Zbyszko and Ray 'Crippler' Stevens (Stevens was, at the time, trying to revive his career). Zenk was thus 'forced out of competition' (and out of work!). Gagne then moved in as Hennig's partner to 'avenge Tom Zenk' against Zbyszko, Bockwinkel and Stevens! Meanwhile Greg instructed Jack Lanza to tell Tom that "They (AWA) had Greg and Curt and there was nothing there for Zenk." 

Curt Hennig, a second generation wrestler (the son of Larry Hennig) who knew the business well, advised Zenk not to bother complaining -  "Keep your mouth shut for the first five years."  Instead Curt advised him to seek work with Don Owen in the Pacific North West.  Hennig did the ground work and Martel made a call to Owen, telling him "Zenk can throw a real good punch, good drip kick. He's a real technician."

In October 1985, Tom moved to NWA's Pacific North West Federation.