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WCW Wrestling Comic Book

WCW World Championship Wrestling Comic Books

Marvel Comics

1992

Issue #1 

Issue #2

Today In Pro Wrestling History (July 9th)

Title Changes for July 9

1963 – Bobo Brazil defeated Handsome Johnny Barend to win the WWWF U.S.A. Heavyweight Championship

1963 – The Crusher defeated Verne Gagne to win the AWA World Heavyweight Championship

1975 – Danny Hodge & Jay Clayton defeated Stan Hansen & Frank Goodish to win the NWA United States (Tri-State) Tag Team Championship

1979 – Angelo "King Kong" Mosca defeated "Iron" Mike Sharpe, Jr. to win the NWA Brass Knuckles (Tri-State) Heavyweight Championship

1985 – The Rock 'n' Roll Express defeated Ivan Koloff & Krusher Krushchev to win the NWA World (Mid-Atlantic) Tag Team Championship

2001 – The APA defeated The Dudley Boyz to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship

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Big Van Vader

3 time WCW World Heavyweight Champion.

1 - Defeated Sting at the Great American Bash on July 12th 1992, Albany, Georgia. (21 Days)

2 - Defeated Ron Simmons in Baltimore, MD on December 30th 1992  (71 Days)

3 - Defeated Sting in Dublin, Ireland on March 17th 1993  (285 days, his longest reign)

Clash of the Champions IX - New York Knockout

Clash of the Champions IX took place on November 15, 1989 at the Houston Field House in Troy, New York. There were 4,000 fans in attendance and the show drew a 4.9 rating on TBS. This show mainly dealt with fallout from Halloween Havoc PPV and set up the Iron Man / Iron Team tournaments at Starrcade 1989.^[11]

• The Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) defeated The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) by disqualification (5:18)
  • The Road Warriors were disqualified when Hawk hit the referee.
  • The Freebirds had actually lost the NWA World Tag Team titles on November 1, but the match had not aired yet, so the Freebirds were introduced as the NWA World Tag Team champions.
• Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed) (with Woman and Nitron) defeated Eddie Gilbert and Tommy Rich (5:15)
  • Doom #1 pins Rich after a double team Clothesline
• The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace and Shane Douglas) (9:22)
  • Eaton pinned Douglas after Jim Cornette hits Douglas with his tennis racket.
  • Jim Cornette was in a neutral corner at the start of the match before deciding to side with the Midnight Express
• Steve Williams defeated The Super Destroyer (1:41)
  • Williams pinned the Super Destroyer with the Oklahoma Stampede
  • This is Jack Victory's 4th “Masked Mystery Man” appearance at a Clash (“Russian Assassin #2”, “The Blackmailer” and “The Terrorist”)
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner) defeated The Skyscrapers (Dan Spivey and Sid Vicious) by disqualification (6:08)
  • The Steiner Brothers had actually won the NWA World Tag Team titles on November 1, but the match had not aired yet, so The Steiners were not announced as the champions.
  • The Skyscrapers were disqualified when Doom ran in and attacked the Steiner Brothers.
  • During the match Sid Vicious punctures a lung and is replaced by ”Mean” Mark Callous soon after.
  • Woman's bodyguard Nitron makes his debut during the post match brawl between the Steiners, the Skyscrapers, Doom and the Road Warriors.
• Lex Luger defeated Brian Pillman to retain the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (12:38)
  • Luger pinned Pillman after hitting him with a chair while the referee was down.
  • Sting saved Pillman from further attacks by Luger.
• NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair defeated Terry Funk (with Gary Hart) in an "I Quit" match (18:33)
  • Flair forced Funk to say “I Quit” on the microphone due to the pain of the Figure Four Leglock
  • Gary Hart attacked Funk after the match and was quickly joined by The Great Muta.
  • Sting saved Flair from the attack only to be attacked by Lex Luger.
  • This match received a 5-star rating from Dave Meltzer.
  • Flair's NWA World Heavyweight Championship was not on the line, making it a non-title match.

Ron Simmons

August 2nd 1992

 Ron Simmons is carried out of the ring as the new 

WCW World Heavyweight Champion.  

He defeated Big Van Vader in Baltimore, Maryland.

Match of the Night (Tag Team Action)

February 6th 1993

Sting 

and

 Ron Simmons

vs

WCW World Heavyweight Champion 

Big Van Vader 

and

"Mr. Wonderful"

 Paul Orndorff

Tag Team Match of the Night

February 6th 1990
WCW Clash of Champions 10
Corpus Christi, Texas

WCW World Tag Team Title Match

Champions
Rick and Scott Steiner
vs
Doom
(Butch Reed and Ron Simmons)

WWE Hall of Fame 2012 - Ron Simmons

Last night it was announced that former WCW World Champion Ron Simmons will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame during Wrestlemania Weekend.

Here is Ron Simmons during his time with JBL as the Acolyte Protection Agency (The APA).   This is early on as they were still the Undertaker's Acolytes and Ron Simmons was still going by the absurd name Farooq.  They are delivering a butt whipping to the very young Jeff and Matt Hardy on Monday Night RAW.

Today in Wrestling History December 30th

December 30th 1992 Big Van Vader defeats WCW World Champion Ron Simmons for his second reign as World Champion.

Halloween Havoc 1991

WCW helds its annual Halloween Havoc PPV at the UTC Arena in Chattanooga TN on October 27th


The main event of the card was #1 contender Ron Simmons facing WCW World Champion Lex Luger.