NWA Florida Tag Team Champions (1970s)

NWA Florida Tag Team Champions

Dominic DeNucci and Tony Parisi

Defeated Dick Slater and Toru Tanaka on December 28th 1974 in Tampa, FL. and held the titles until February 4th 1975.  They lost the belts to Dick Slater and J.J. Dillon.

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Mil Mascaras and Andre The Giant 

09/13/1975: Andre the Giant vs. Eric Von Heller & the Masked Marauder

Yukon Moose Cholak

Today March 17th would have been the 84th birthday of wrestling legend "Yukon" Moose Cholak

(born Edward Cholak in Chicago IL)

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Wrestling Magazine Cover of the Day

Inside Wrestling 

(November 1974)

featuring Those Incredible Garvins

(Ronnie, Jimmy and Terrance) 

WWWF Tag Team Champions (The Executioners)

The Executioners were a masked tag team consisting of Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd.   They won the World Wide Wrestling Federation Tag Team Titles on May 11th 1976 in Philadelphia by defeating the champions Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi (below,who had held the belts 185 days).

The Executioners would hold the belts for 168 days, until November 26th 1976 when they were stripped by the WWWF for using a 3rd Executioner in a match.  This Execution #3 was later unmasked as Nikolai Volkoff.

The Executioners

WWWF Tag Team Champions

vs

Dominic Denucci and Jose Gonzalez

Madison Square Garden

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Harley Race, NWA World Heavyweight Champion, poses with the NWA Title Belt and St Louis Promoter and NWA President Sam Muchnick

The Valiant Brothers

Match of the NIght (The Valiants)

This is from Indianapolis again and this includes tv announcer Sam Menacker giving the famous line...

"We will bring you as much of this match as time will allow"

The Valiant Brothers

(Handsome Jimmy and Luscious Johnny)

vs

Wilbur Snyder and Dominic DeNucci

Match of the Night (Cowboy Bob Ellis vs Bobby Heenan)

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Approx 1973-74 

Air Conditioned Expo Center

"Cowboy" Bob Ellis

vs

"Pretty Boy" Bobby Heenan

 

Match of the Night (All Star Championship Wrestling)

From Indianapolis in the Mid 70s, this is why I fell in love with wrestling.  Watching All Star Championship Wrestling with Sam Mennaker.
Great legends like we see here along with Bruno Sammartino, The Valiant Brothers, Dick The Bruiser, Ox Baker, Baron Von Raschke, Ernie Ladd, Pretty Boy Bobby Hennan and the list goes on...it was a great time to be a kid and watching wrestling on TV.

"The World's Most Scientific Wrestler" Wilbur Snyder

and

Pepper Gomez (The Man With the Cast Iron Stomach)

vs

Mitsu Arikawa and Great Saki

Your Match of the Night

You always knew it would be a sellout crowd at the "air conditioned Expo Center" when Andre the Giant came to town.

The Valiant Brothers

Here is a non title tag team matchup between the then WWF tag team champions, Handsome Jimmy and Luscious Johnny Valiant, The Valiant Brothers facing off against Dean Ho and Tony Garea.  Garea was a friend of Vince Sr and Jr and was a loyal employee for years including 2 decades after he retired and served as talent relations and assistant to Gorilla Monsoon.

The Valiants are introduced as being from Chicago Illinois but during their long run in Indianapolis they were from New York City, which made them evil just being from there.  I guess being from Chicago made them hated on the east coast.