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AWA SUPERCLASH III December 13th 1988

AWA SUPERCLASH III December 13, 1988
December 13th 1988 in Chicago, IL
UIC Pavilion drawing 1,672 ($25,081)
Shown live on PPV (0.5)

Hosted by Larry Nelson and Lee Marshall
Hector, Chavo and Mando Guerrero vs Cactus Jack and Rock-n-Roll RPMs
Eric Embry vs Jeff Jarrett
Jimmy Valiant vs Wayne Bloom
WCCW Texas Champ Iceman King Parsons vs Brickhouse Brown
Ricky Rice, Derrick Dukes and Wendi Richter vs Paul Diamond, Pat Tanaka and Madusa Micelli
Greg Gagne vs Ronnie Garvin for the AWA TV Title.
A "street fight lingerie battle royal" In the match were: Bambi, Peggy Lee Leather, Laurie Lynn, Brandi Mae, Malibu, Nina, Pocohantas, Luna Vachon and The Syrian Terrorist
Sgt Slaughter vs Col DeBeers in a "boot camp" match.
WCCW Tag Champs The Samoan Swat Team vs Michael Hayes and Steve Cox
Wahoo McDaniel vs Manny Fernandez in an Indian Strap match
AWA World Champ Jerry Lawler vs WCCW World Champ Kerry Von Erich
The Rock-n-Roll Express vs Jimmy Golden andRobert Fuller

Match of the Day

NWA World Championship 

February 7th 1986

Superstars on the Superstation

Ric Flair (C) vs Ron Garvin 

Today in Wrestling History

Title Changes for September 25th

(yes a little late)

1953 – Blue Demon defeats El Santo to win the NWA World Welterweight Championship

1964 – Rayo de Jalisco defeats Benny Galant to win the NWA World Middleweight Championship

1965 – "Bulldog" Don Kent defeated Red McKim to win the NWA Tri-State Missouri Junior Heavyweight Championship

1981 – The Great Kabuki defeated Kerry Von Erich to win the NWA American Heavyweight Championship

1985 – Terry Taylor defeated Black Bart to win the NWA National Heavyweight Championship

1987 – "Hands of Stone" Ronnie Garvin defeated Natureoy Ric Flair to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship

1994 – Stars 'n' Stripes (Marcus Alexander Bagwell & The Patriot) defeated Pretty Wonderful ("Pretty" Paul Roma & "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship

1995 – The Smoking Gunns defeated Owen Hart & Yokozuna to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship

1999 – Gary Steele defeated Brian Anthony & Naoya Ogawa in a 3-Way Dance to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship

1999 – Team Extreme (Kit Carson & Khris Germany) defeated The Brotherhood (Dukes Dalton & Knuckles Nelson) to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship

2000 – Vince Russo defeated Booker T in a Cage Match to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship

2000 - The Natural Born Thrillers (Sean O’Haire & Mark Jindrak) win a battle royal to win the vacant WCW World Tag Team Championship

2001 – Booker T & Test defeated The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker & Kane) to win the WCW (WWF) World Tag Team Championship

2006 – The Pro Wrestling Noah GHC Tag Team Championship is vacated when one-half of the reigning champions, Kenta Kobashi is diagnosed with kidney cancer

2007 –The WWE Cruiserweight Title is vacated by Smackdown General Manager Vickie Guerrero. This would be the final time that the belt would appear on WWE programming, though it wouldn’t be officially retired until the following year

2010 – "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal defeated The Amazing Red to win the TNA X-Division Championship

Wrestling Magazine Cover of the Day

Inside Wrestling 

(November 1974)

featuring Those Incredible Garvins

(Ronnie, Jimmy and Terrance) 

NWA Superstars on the Superstation 1986

This is the NWA (Crockett Promotions) first attempt at a nationally televised supercard that was taped Feb. 2nd 1986 and aired on WTBS Feb 7th 1986.

The card stacked up like this:

World Tag Team Title Match
The Rock N Roll Express (Champions)
vs
The Midnight Express w/Jim Cornette

The Road Warriors vs The Koloffs (Ivan and Nikita) w/Baron Von Raschke

NWA National Heavyweight Title Match
Tully Blanchard vs Dusty Rhodes (Champion)

NWA World Heavyweight Title Match
Ron Garvin  vs  Ric Flair (Champion)

The Four Horseman Part 13 and 14

1st Annual Crockett Cup Tournament

Today in 1986 the NWA held the 1st annual Jim Crockett Sr Memorial Tag Team Tournament at the Superdome in New Orleans Louisiana.  The heavily favored Road Warriors made it to the finals where they met the team of Magnum TA and Ronnie Garvin.
The Warriors would "win" the "Million dollar prize"  and the Crockett Cup trophy.



  The tournament featured 24 teams. The results were:
First round:
- Wahoo McDaniel and Mark Youngblood defeated Bobby Jaggers and Mike Miller
 - Sam Houston and Nelson Royal defeated The Batten Twins (Bart and Brad).
- The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers) defeated The Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn and Stan Lane).
- The Sheepherders (Butch Miller and Luke Williams) defeated Chavo and Hector Guerrero.
 - Manny Fernandez and Jimmy Valiant defeated The Barbarian and Baron Von Raschke.
- Terry Taylor and Steve Williams defeated Bill Dundee and Buddy Landel. - Buzz Sawyer and Rick Steiner defeated The Italian Stallion and Koko Ware.
- NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion Black Bart and Jimmy Garvin defeated D.J. Peterson and Brett Wayne.
Second round:
 - The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) defeated Wahoo McDaniel and Mark Youngblood.
 - NWA World Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express (Dennis Condrey and Bobby Eaton) defeated Sam Houston and Nelson Royal.
- The Fantastics defeated NWA World Television Champion Arn Anderson and NWA National Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard.
- The Sheepherders defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton).
 - NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Champions Ivan and Nikita Koloff defeated Manny Fernandez and Jimmy Valiant.
- Terry Taylor and Steve Williams defeated Dino Bravo and Rick Martel.
- Ron Garvin and NWA United States Heavyweight Champion Magnum T.A. defeated Buzz Sawyer and Rick Steiner.
- Giant Baba and Tiger Mask (Mitsuharu Misawa) defeated NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion Black Bart and Jimmy Garvin.
Quarterfinals:
- The Road Warriors defeated NWA World Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express.
- The Fantastics and The Sheepherders were both disqualified, giving The Road Warriors a bye to the final match.
- NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Champions Ivan & Nikita Koloff and Terry Taylor & Steve Williams fought to a draw.
 - Ron Garvin and NWA United States Heavyweight Champion Magnum T.A. defeated Giant Baba and Tiger Mask to advance to the final match due to the previous draw.
 Finals: -
The Road Warriors defeated Ron Garvin and NWA United States Heavyweight Champion Magnum T.A.

Non-tournament matches
 - Mid-South North American Heavyweight Champion Jim Duggan defeated Dick Slater to retain the title.
 - NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair defeated Dusty Rhodes by DQ to retain the title.

Ron Garvin NWA World Heavyweight Champion

September 25th 1987
Ric Flair is defending the NWA World Title against #1 contender Ronnie Garvin.   Held at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit Michigan and in a steel cage.
This would be the one and only title victory for "the truck driver everyman" Ron Garvin.