The Winners of the Dusty Rhodes Classic (2015)

Finn Balor and Samoa Joe

Bálor & Samoa Joe vs. Lucha Dragons – Dusty Rhodes Classic First Round M...

NXT 

Dusty Rhodes Classic Tag Team Tournament 

First Round

September 9th 2015

Finn Balor and Samoa Joe

vs

The Lucha Dragons

Match of the Night (Mil Mascaras/Dos Caras)

Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras

vs

Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta

Tokyo, Japan

1979

Today in Wrestling History

1988 - Sting & Lex Luger, managed by Magnum T.A., win the third, and final, Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup tag team tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina by defeating Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson.



Sting & Luger defeated Ivan Koloff & Dick Murdoch, The Midnight Express, and the Powers Of Pain to reach the finals. Anderson & Blanchard defeated Kendall Windham & Italian Stallion and The Fantastics to reach the finals. The two-day tournament (day one was held in Greenville, South Carolina) was filled with bracketing problems, as there were 22 teams in the tournament, and for some odd reason, the Sheepherders wrestled twice in the second round, defeating Tim Horner & Brad Armstrong, but losing to the Midnight Express. So despite winning (and eliminating Horner & Armstrong) the Sheepherders didn't go to the next round. The tournament, which was started as a multi-promotional event but now was exclusively WCW, would be discarded when Turner Broadcasting purchased the company from the Crocketts