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Showing posts with label 1991. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1991. Show all posts
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Wrestling Magazine Cover of the Week
WWF Magazine
October 1991
"Macho Man" Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Saturday, August 22, 2015
WCW World Tag Team Champions - 1990s
WCW World Tag Team Champions 1991
Dustin Rhodes and Ricky Steamboat
Rhodes and Steamboat defeated the team of Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko (The Enforcers) at WCW Clash of the Champions XVI, November 19th 1991 in Savannah GA. They held the belts for 58 days before dropping them to Arn Anderson and Bobby Eaton at a house show in Jacksonville FL. on January 16th 1992
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
PPV Poster of the Week
PPV Poster of the Week
December 29th 1991
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Feud of the Year - 1991
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
1991 Feud of the Year
The Ultimate Warrior vs The Undertaker
Thursday, August 7, 2014
WCW Six Man Tag Team Titles
August 5th 1991
Big Josh (Matt Borne), Dustin Rhodes and Tom Zenk win the WCW World Six Man Tag Team Titles from the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes, Jimmy Garvin and Badstreet aka Brad Armstrong) in St. Joseph MO.
That team would hold the belts until October 8th 1991 when they lost to The York Foundation (Tommy Rich, Ricky Morton and Terry Taylor) managed by Alexandra York (Terri Runnels) in Montgomery, AL.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Match of the Day (Japan 1991)
July 18th 1991
Billy Black & Joel Deaton defeated
Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi to win the
AJPW All-Asia Tag Team Championship
Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi to win the
AJPW All-Asia Tag Team Championship
Black and Deaton would hold the belts for 8 days before dropping them to
Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Today in WCW History (July 1st)
July 1st 1991
Ric Flair is fired by WCW after a breakdown in contract talks. Instead of dropping the belt to Barry Windham in Macon, GA he refuses to give the belt back and takes it with him to WWF.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Wrestling PPV Poster of the Night
WCW WrestleWar 1991 : War Games
February 24, 1991 from the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. This was the first PPV after WCW left the NWA.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Dark match: Ultraman and Eddie Guerrero defeated Huichol and Rudy Boy Gonzalez (7:39)
- Guerrero pinned Rudy.
- The Junkyard Dog, Ricky Morton and Tommy Rich defeated The State Patrol (Lt. James Earl Wright and Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker) and Big Cat to retain the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (9:54)
- Morton pinned Parker.
- Bobby Eaton defeated Brad Armstrong (12:51)
- Eaton pinned Armstrong after an Alabama Jam.
- Itsuki Yamazaki and Mami Kitamura defeated Miki Handa and Miss A (6:47)
- Yamazaki pinned A with a roll-up.
- Dustin Rhodes defeated Buddy Landel (6:33)
- Rhodes pinned Landell after a Bulldog.
- The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) defeated The Royal Family (Rip Morgan and Jack Victory) (12:05)
- Smothers pinned Morgan.
- Terrence Taylor (with Alexandra York) defeated Tom Zenk in a No Disqualification match (10:59)
- Taylor pinned Zenk with a roll-up.
- Stan Hansen fought Big Van Vader to a double disqualification (6:21)
- Both men were disqualified after they threw referee Pee-Wee Anderson out of the ring.
- Lex Luger defeated Dan Spivey to retain the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (12:52)
- Luger pinned Spivey with an inside cradle.
- After the match, Nikita Koloff attacked Luger while presenting him with the new US Title belt.
- The Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) (with Diamond Dallas Page and Big Daddy Dink) defeated Doom (Butch Reed and Ron Simmons) (with Teddy Long) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship(6:56)
- Garvin pinned Simmons.
- After the match, Long and Reed turned on Simmons.
- The Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Sid Vicious) and Larry Zbyszko (with Arn Anderson) defeated Sting, Brian Pillman, and The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) in a WarGames match (21:50)
- The Four Horsemen won when Pillman was knocked unconscious from a botched powerbomb by Vicious, prompting El Gigante to run-in and surrender the match on Pillman's behalf.
- Zbyszko was a replacement for the injured Anderson.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
PPV Poster of the Day
The Great American Bash 1991
July 14th 1991
Baltimore Arena
This was the poster for the PPV that wasnt. Two weeks before the scheduled event, the WCW World Champion Ric Flair was fired by WCW's Jim Herd. This left a void that was filled by a cage match between then US Champion Lex Luger against Barry Windham for the vacant WCW World Title.
see full results below
- Dark match: The Junkyard Dog defeated Black Bart (12:45)
- JYD pinned Bart.
- P.N. News and Bobby Eaton defeated Steve Austin and Terrance Taylor (with Lady Blossom) in a Capture-The-Flag Scaffold match (6:19)
- Eaton grabbed Austin/Taylor's flag to win.
- This stipulation was added the day of the show, as the match was intended to be a traditional scaffold match.
- The Diamond Studd (with Diamond Dallas Page) defeated Tom Zenk (9:00)
- Studd pinned Zenk after a bridging belly-to-back suplex.
- Ron Simmons defeated Oz (with Merlin the Wizard) (7:55)
- Simmons pinned Oz after a shoulderblock.
- Richard Morton (with Alexandra York) defeated Robert Gibson (17:03)
- Morton pinned Gibson after hitting him with York's laptop computer while referee Bill Alfonso had his back turned.
- The Yellow Dog defeated Johnny B. Badd (with Teddy Long) by disqualification (6:00)
- Badd was disqualified when Long interfered to try to unmask the Dog; had he done so, Brian Pillman (who was wrestling under the mask) would not be allowed to wrestle in WCW again.
- Big Josh defeated Black Blood (with Kevin Sullivan) in a Lumberjack match (5:39)
- Josh pinned Black Blood after Dustin Rhodes hit Blood with an axe.
- Dustin Rhodes and The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Badstreet, Jimmy Garvin, Michael Hayes) (with Big Daddy Dink) in an Elimination match (17:10)
- Hayes pinned Armstrong after he and Badstreet hit a double DDT on Armstrong (13:49)
- Hayes was disqualified after backdropping Smothers over the top rope (14:04)
- Garvin pinned Smothers after he and Badstreet hit a double DDT on Smothers (15:16)
- Rhodes pinned Garvin after a lariat (15:24)
- Rhodes pinned Badstreet after a bulldog to win the match (17:10)
- El Gigante (with a gaggle of midgets) defeated One Man Gang (with Kevin Sullivan) (6:13)
- Gigante pinned One Man Gang with a clothesline to the back of the head.
- Nikita Koloff defeated Sting in a Russian Chain match (11:38)
- Koloff won by touching the final turnbuckle before Sting could.
- WCW United States Champion Lex Luger defeated Barry Windham in a Steel Cage match to win the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship (12:25)
- Luger pinned Windham after a piledriver on orders from Harley Race.
- The match was originally supposed to pit Luger against Ric Flair prior to Flair's firing.
- After the match, Luger turned heel and took on Race and Mr. Hughes as his managers.
- Rick Steiner defeated Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously in a handicap steel cage match (2:08)
- Steiner pinned Dangerously after a Steiner Line.
- The match was originally supposed to pit The Steiner Brothers and Missy Hyatt against Anderson, Dangerously, and Barry Windham, but plans changed after Flair's firing and Scott Steiner suffering an injury; Windham was moved to the title match against Luger and the match became a standard tag match.
- Before the match Dick Murdoch and Dick Slater forcibly took Hyatt backstage, turning the match into a handicap match.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Wrestling PPV Poster of the Day
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