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On This Day In Wrestling History: April 21st

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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 21, 1990) – WWF House Show

On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 21, 1990, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

This live event included matches featuring the 1990 WWF Superstars.

The results can be found below:

Hercules defeated Pete Doherty

Tugboat defeated Black Bart

The Honkytonk Man & Greg Valentine defeated The Bushwhackers by DQ

Jake Roberts defeated Bad News Brown

The Warlord defeated Tito Santana

Paul Diamond defeated Jim Powers

WWF World Champion The Ultimate Warrior defeated Mr. Perfect

 

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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 21, 1984) – WWF House Show

On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 21, 1984, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This live event included matches featuring the 1984 WWF Superstars.

The results can be found below:

Brian Blair defeated Steve Lombardi

David Schultz defeated Ivan Putski

Spike Huber defeated Billy Travis

Tiger Chung Lee defeated Pete Sanchez

WWF World Champion Hulk Hogan defeated Greg Valentine by DQ

Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorff wrestled Tony Atlas & Rocky Johnson to a no contest

 

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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 21, 1980) – WWF MSG House Show

On this day in Pro Wrestling history in 1980, the World Wrestling Federation held a televised house show in the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.

This live event featured the 1980 WWF Superstars and included World Heavyweight Champion Bob Backlund defending his title against Afa of The Wild Samoans.

The results can be found below:

Larry Sharpe defeated Mike Masters

Greg Gagne defeated Jose Estrada

Jay Youngblood & Ricky Steamboat defeated Bulldog Brower & Tor Kamata

Sika defeated Dominic DeNucci

Andre The Giant defeated Bobby Duncum

Hulk Hogan defeated Rene Goulet

WWF Intercontinental Title: Ken Patera defeated Pat Patterson (C)

Bruno Sammartino defeated Larry Zbyszko by count-out

WWF World Heavyweight Title: Bob Backlund (C) defeated Afa

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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 21, 1985) – AWA StarCage 1985

On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 21, 1985, Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association promoted ‘AWA StarCage 1985’ at the Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.

This was an attempt by the AWA at doing a house show and running it on LIVE TV.

Here are the results:

Steve Olsonoski & Tom Zenk defeated Dave Wagner & Rick Renslow

Baron von Raschke & Buck Zumhofe defeated Jimmy Garvin & Steve Regal

Bob Backlund & Brad Rheingans defeated Butch Reed & Larry Zbyszko

Jim Brunzell & Tonga Kid defeated Billy Robinson & Bobby Duncum

AWA Tag Team Title: The Road Warriors (c) defeated Curt Hennig & Larry Hennig by DQ

Greg Gagne & Verne Gagne defeated Mr. Saito & Nick Bockwinkel

Steel Cage: Jerry Blackwell & Sgt. Slaughter defeated King Tonga, Sheik Adnan Al-Kassie & The Masked Superstar

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