Extreme Rules 2014 Results

EXTREME RULES 

May 4th 2014

Izod Center

East Rutherford  NJ

Results

No.	Results	Stipulations	Time
1†	El Torito (with Diego and Fernando) defeated Hornswoggle (with Heath Slater, Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre)	WeeLC match[6]	10:53
2	Cesaro (with Paul Heyman) defeated Jack Swagger (with Zeb Colter) and Rob Van Dam	Triple Threat Elimination match[7]	12:34
3	Alexander Rusev (with Lana) defeated R-Truth and Xavier Woods by submission	2-on-1 Handicap match[8]	02:53
4	Bad News Barrett defeated Big E (c)	Singles match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship[9]	07:55
5	The Shield (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose) defeated Evolution (Triple H, Randy Orton and Batista)	Six-Man Tag Team match[10]	20:02
6	Bray Wyatt (with Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) defeated John Cena by escaping the cage	Steel Cage match[11]	21:26
7	Paige (c) defeated Tamina Snuka by submission	Singles match for the WWE Divas Championship[12]	06:18
8	Daniel Bryan (c) defeated Kane	Extreme Rules match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship[13]	22:44
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match † – indicates the match took place on the pre-show

NWA World Tag Team Champions (Slaughter and Kernodle)

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Sgt. Slaughter and Don Kernodle

Won the belts September of 1982 (or were awarded the belts) in a fictional tournament final over Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba in Tokyo, Japan.

They held the belts for 192 days.  Lost the belts to Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood on March 12th 1983 in a cage at the now legendary "Final Conflict" match in Greensboro NC.

Here are the final brutal minutes of that match

NWA World Tag Team Champions (Flair and Valentine)

Ric Flair and Greg Valentine were a hated combination that managed to defeat the legendary Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene and Ole Anderson) twice for the NWA Tag Team Titles

Their first title reign started with a defeat of the Wrecking Crew on December 26th 1976 in Greensboro, NC and last 133 days until they lost the belts back to the the Anderson on May 8th 1977 (below) in a cage with special guest referee Wahoo McDaniel.  After losing the belts on a botch suplex by Flair they proceeded to beat up McDaniel and the Andersons until Paul Jones made the save.  Ole was stretchered out due to the bad suplex that "injured" his neck.

Valentine and Flair won the belts from the Andersons again for the titles on October 30th 1977, also in Greensboro, NC.  This reign lasted for 153 days until they were stripped of the belts due to continually ending their title matches in disqualifications (and Flair moved into the running for the NWA World Heavyweight Title),

Match of the Night (Sgt. Slaughter vs Bob Backlund 1981)

March 21 1981

Madison Square Garden

WWF Heavyweight Title
Cage Match

Sgt Slaughter

vs

Bob Backlund

WWF Champion

John Cena vs. Dolph Ziggler: Steel Cage Match - Raw, Jan. 14, 2013

Today in Wrestling History - October 20th

1984

The NWA World Tag Team Title Match

Cage Match

Greensboro NC

Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle

(Champions)

vs

Manny Fernandez and Dusty Rhodes

Birth of The SuperPowers

I remember when this first aired on TBS WCW Saturday Night.  I was sitting in my living room with my uncle Phil and our friend Kevin and we knew there had been a cage match the previous week between Ole and JJ against Dusty and a mystery partner. We knew that Magnum TA was to be the partner but his accident had happened recently and he was done wrestling.
This was long before the internet and dirt sheets that gave things away ahead of time and when there was a mystery partner it was truly a mystery until the match.   There were several wrestling organizations so anyone could be the partner for Dusty but we literally gasped at the sight of Nikita Koloff with Dusty Rhodes.   Nikita was truly the most hated wrestler next to the 4 Horseman and even Ric Flair was cheered when he faced Nikita for the World title on several occasions in 1986 and 1987.
As you can see, the crowd was RABID and ready to explode and when Nikita starts attacking Ole it was like a cork popped and all that emotion was deafening.  You just dont see natural spontaneous cheering of that level anymore.  People were scared of Nikita and really wanted, to a certain extent, done a way with but they never expected this the reaction is proof.

This kind of story line is not possible today with truly one organization, unless somehow the can hide Kurt Angle or Sting or even Goldberg returning to the WWE ring...but I dont think that will ever happen.

Enjoy this, because it is one huge happy wrestling memory for me...at time when we all believed.

NWA Final Conflict 1983

The pre PPV era reached its end with this card from Greensboro NC in March of 1983.  This was a huge sellout as fans from all around came to see a tag team war meets its "Final Conflict" with the team of Rick Steamboat and Jay Youngblood meeting the NWA Tag Team Champions Sgt Slaughter and Don Kernodle.
If Steamboat and Youngblood lost they would have to split up and never wrestle again and if they won they would be Tag Team champions for a 4th time.   This was in a cage and the crowd was over the top excited and made this seem almost world changing.
The undercard featured a Television Title Match between champion Dick Slater and challenger Rowdy Roddy Piper.
What is not see on this video (which was put together from raw footage by one of the undercard wrestlers, this was never put together for official release) is the match for the NWA World Title with Ric Flair defending against former partner and friend Greg "The Hammer" Valentine.

read a good synopsis at "From the Collection" blog.

Royal Rumble 2012 Announcement

A steel cage match for the World Heavyweight Championship has been set for the Royal Rumble next Sunday January 29th in St Louis Missouri.


World Champion Daniel Bryan will face The Big Show and Mark Henry at the Scottrade Center in St Louis.

Armageddon 2002

Today in 2002 the WWE held its Armageddon PPV from Ft Lauderdale Florida.

The main event was Shawn Michaels defending the World Heavyweight Title against HHH in a 2 out of 3 falls match.
Subtitled "3 Stages of Hell" this one started off fall one as a "Street Fight", fall #2 "Steel Cage" and fall #3 was a ladder match.
Because these are as close as brothers, Michaels and HHH wanted to blow the roof off and make each other look great and so they turned in one of the best matches of the decade.

due to the WWE blocking all videos of the finish of this match, this was all I could find and I apologize for that.

Match of the Day

Today's match is from Starrcade 85 (The Gathering) and one of the biggest matches of that year and any other year was the culmination of the fued between Magnum TA and Tully Blanchard.   The "I Quit" match in a cage became legendary for its violence and controversial finish.

This is what wrestling today is missing, a long, great feud that has a great payoff finish at the biggest PPV of the year.

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.

TNA Lockdown 2011

Coming up this Sunday April 17th TNA Wrestling will present its annual LOCKDOWN PPV.  This year it will held at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati Ohio.

The card will feature all matches in a steel cage.
The big main event matches will be an Ultra Male Rules Two Out of Three Falls Steel Cage Match with Jeff Hardy facing Kurt Angle.
The top main event is a 3 way dance with Mr. Anderson vs RVD vs TNA Champion Sting.