The US Express

June 17th 1985
The US Express, Mike Rotunda and Barry Windham defeat The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff in Poughkeepsie, NY to regain the WWF Tag Team titles.  This was their 2nd and last reign as Tag Team champions.  They would lose the belts to "The Dream Team: Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine" on August 24th 1985 in Philadelphia.

Match of the Night (WWF Tag Team Titles)

WWF Tag Team Title Match

Monday Night RAW

May 26th 1997

The British Bulldog and Owen Hart

WWF Tag Team Champions

vs

Shawn Michaels and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin

Match of the Night (Sammartino vs Graham 1977)

"Superstar" 

Billy Graham

WWF Heavyweight Champion

vs

"Living Legend" 

Bruno Sammartino

Madison Square Garden

August 1st 1977

Match of the Night

WWF Tag Team Title Match

05/02/1987

Best 2 out of 3 falls Match

The Hart Foundation (Champions)

vs

The British Bulldogs

Match of the Night

Survivor Series '92

November 25th 1992

Richfield Coliseum

Richfield, OH

The Perfect Team

("Mr. Perfect" Curt Henning and Randy "Macho Man" Savage)

vs

Ric Flair and Razor Ramon

Includes the buildup and promos for the match and the followup interviews after the match

Match of the Night

October 14th 1984

Madison Square Garden

The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff

vs

Sgt Slaughter and Andre the Giant

Your Match of the Day (WWF Title Match)

WWF Heavyweight Championship

Philadelphia Spectrum

02/18/1978

Steel Cage Match 

Bruno Sammartino 

vs 

"Superstar" Billy Graham

(WWF Champion)

Saturday Night's Main Event - The Greatest Hits (WWF Coliseum Video)

Great Memories!!!

Your Match of the Night

From 1994 Monday Night Raw

Bret Hart and Davey Boy Smith vs Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart

Today In Wrestling History April 12th

1958 - Verne Gagne defeats Dick the Bruiser in Chicago, Illinois to win the Chicago/Detroit NWA United States Heavyweight Title, beginning his second reign, which carried over into the AWA. Gagne held the title until August 1960 when he won the AWA World Title.


1968 - Mr. Wrestling defeats El Mongol in Atlanta, Georgia to win the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title, ending Mongol's fourth reign and beginning Mr. Wrestling's second


1980 - The Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika) defeat Ivan Putski and Tito Santana for the WWF World Tag Team Title in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.




1983 - Ron Bass and Stan Hansen defeat Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta for the NWA International Tag Team Title in Matsuyama, Japan, ending Baba and Tsuruta's fourth reign.


1987 - The first of three untimely deaths by suicide in the Von Erich family occured when Mike Von Erich intentionally overdosed on Placidyl, a tranqulizer. The overdose occurred after Mike wrapped himself in a sleeping bag in the woods near his home. He was one-third of the World Class Six-Man Tag Team Champions at the time, along with Kevin and Lance Von Erich. Mike had replaced his brother Kerry in the team after he was injured in a motorcycle accident during the previous summer. Mike Von Erich was just 23 years old.


1987 - Rick Steiner and Sting defeat Chris Adams and Terry Taylor to win the UWF World Tag Team Title in Atlanta, Georgia.




2002 - The WWF Hardcore Title changes hands four times at a house show in Amarillo, Texas. William Regal, the original challenger for the title, became a brief double-champion (he also held the WWF European Title) when he won the title from Bubba Ray Dudley, ending Bubba Ray's third reign and beginning Regal's third. Spike Dudley began his second reign as Hardcore Champion by defeating Regal. Spike then lost the title to Goldust, his fourth title win. Bubba Ray Dudley left with the title though, beating Goldust, and beginning his fourth reign


2003 - All Japan Pro Wrestling held the 13th and final event of its annual Champion's Carnival tour at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan with 16,000 fans in attendance. The results were:
- Gran Hamada pinned Gran Naniwa.
- Gigantes and George Hines beat Hiroshi Hase and Masayuki Kono, when Gigantes pinned Kono.
- Ryuki Ueyama defeated Ryuji Hijikata by submission.
- Kaz Hayashi and Jimmy Yang beat Omega Griffon and NWA International Junior Heavyweight Champion Low Ki, when Hayashi pinned Griffon.
- AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Champion Kendo Kashin defeated Carl Contini by submission to retain the title.
- Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka defeated Hideki Hosaka and Shigeo Okumura, when Otani pinned Hosaka.
- AJPW All Asia Tag Team Champion Nobutaka Araya, Nobukazu Hirai and Genichiro Tenryu defeated Tomohiko Hashimoto, Tomoaki Honma and Kazushi Miyamoto, when Araya pinned Hashimoto.
- Keiji Muto and AJPW Unified World Tag Team Champion Satoshi Kojima defeated Masa Fuchi and Toshiaki Kawada, when Kojima pinned Fuchi.
- AJPW Triple Crown Champion Shinya Hashimoto defeated AJPW All Asia Tag Team Champion Arashi by TKO to retain his title.

Chief Jay Strongbow R.I.P.

Former WWWF and WWF tag team champion and longtime fixture in the New York area Chief Jay Strongbow aka Joseph Scarpa, died today at the age of 80.

Article from Slam! Wrestling

Wrestlemania 9

Your Wrestlemania Moment today is from 1993 and Wrestlemania 9 from Las Vegas Nevada.

The Undertaker vs Giant Gonzalez

The Valiant Brothers

Here is a non title tag team matchup between the then WWF tag team champions, Handsome Jimmy and Luscious Johnny Valiant, The Valiant Brothers facing off against Dean Ho and Tony Garea.  Garea was a friend of Vince Sr and Jr and was a loyal employee for years including 2 decades after he retired and served as talent relations and assistant to Gorilla Monsoon.

The Valiants are introduced as being from Chicago Illinois but during their long run in Indianapolis they were from New York City, which made them evil just being from there.  I guess being from Chicago made them hated on the east coast.

Match of the Day

Today Match is from 1998 and RAW the night after Wrestlemania 14 in Boston MA.

At Wrestlemania Terry Funk (Chainsaw Charlie) and Cactus Jack (Mick Foley) won the WWF Tag Team titles by defeating the New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Jesse "RoadDog" James).    Here is the rematch for the belts in a cage.

Royal Rumble 1989

Match of the Day

Today's match is from Feb 1984 and just before the WWF turned some of the legends of pro wrestling into cartoon characters.   This battle royal was in St Louis MO,  the hotbed of pro wrestling west of the Mississippi.
The fans loved it and it was a ring full of some of the biggest names in the sport then and now.

Match of the Day

Your Match of the Day comes from Saturday Night's Main Event from November of 1989


A 2 out of 3 falls match
The Rockers (Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty) vs The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard)

Match of the Day

From Feb 1987, for the WWF Tag Team Titles, the champions, The British Bulldogs vs The Hart Foundation


spoiler alert!  the titles change hands

Tuesday Night Titans

Now seen only on Youtube, but at the time this was original and something never seen before on tv or in the world of pro wrestling, a talk show for wrestlers.

Tuesday Night Titans was originally hosted by owner/promoter Vince McMahon and at his side was the ever out of it Lord Alfred Hayes was funny, strange and too some fans or "real" pro wrestling a complete joke and was mocking of the sport.  However, it took the sport to a whole new fan base and was truly funny and in a way genius material.

Here is Tuesday Night Titans Feb 15th 1985

Match of The Day

From WWF tv in 1974  the WWF Tag Team Champions The Valiant Brothers take on the team of Dean Ho and Tony Garea.
This is the time period I remember the Valiant Brothers from and their trips to Indianapolis to take on Dick the Bruiser and whoever he had as partner at the time.   I really did love to hate the Valiants, they were just so dang good at being bad and getting the crowd worked into a frenzy.