Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on April 18th.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 18, 1998) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 18, 1998, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised overseas house show at the New Haven Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut.
This live event featured matches on the road to the ‘WWF In Your House 21: Unforgiven’ pay-per-view.
The results can be found below:
Brian Christopher & Scott Taylor defeated WWF Light Heavyweight Champion Taka Michinoku & Aguila
Steve Blackman defeated D-Lo Brown
Owen Hart defeated TAFKA Goldust
Non-Title: The Headbangers defeated NWA Tag Team Champions Bob Holly & Bart Gunn
The Undertaker defeated Kane by DQ
Bradshaw defeated Savio Vega
Farooq defeated WWF IC Champion the Rock by DQ
The Legion of Doom defeated WWF Tag Team Champions The Road Dogg & Billy Gunn by DQ
WWF World Champion Steve Austin defeated WWF European Champion Triple H
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 18, 1997) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 18, 1997, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised overseas house show in Youngstown, Ohio.
This live event featured matches on the road to the ‘WWF In Your House 14: Revenge of the ‘Taker’ pay-per-view.
The results can be found below:
The Sultan defeated Aldo Montoya
Billy Gunn defeated Jesse Jammes
WWF IC Champion Rocky Maivia defeated Savio Vega by DQ
Blackjack Windham & Blackjack Bradshaw defeated Doug Furnas & Phil LaFon
Hunter Hearst Helmsley defeated Goldust
Steve Austin defeated WWF Tag Team Champion Owen Hart
Ahmed Johnson defeated Crush
WWF World Champion the Undertaker defeated WWF European Champion Davey Boy Smith
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 18, 1981) – WWF Philadelphia House Show *Tony Atlas Pins Hulk Hogan*
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 18, 1981, the World Wrestling Federation held a televised house show at the Philadelphia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The show aired on the PRISM Network and was hosted by Dick Graham & Kal Rudman.
This event also included one of Hulk Hogan’s last WWF matches, before Vince McMahon Sr. let him go (because of their Rocky III dispute) and the Hulkster joined Verne Gagne’s AWA.
The results can be found here:
Johnny Rodz pinned Frank Savage
Tony Garea & Andre The Giant defeated Moondog Rex & Sgt. Slaughter (sub. for Moondog King) by DQ
Larry Sharpe defeated Tony Altimore
Yoshiaki Yatsu wrestled the Hangman to a time-limit draw
WWF World Champion Bob Backlund defeated Killer Khan
Pat Patterson defeated Sgt. Slaughter by DQ
Dominic DeNucci defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna
Lelani Kai & The Fabulous Moolah defeated Jill Fontaine & Suzette Ferreira
Tony Atlas defeated Hulk Hogan
4/18/81:
Tony Atlas pins Hulk Hogan.
This was one of Hogan's final appearances of his first WWF run. pic.twitter.com/wBfUrgyObs
— OVP – Retro Wrestling Podcast (@ovppodcast) April 18, 2023
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