Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on April 8th.
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• ON THIS DAY IN PRO WRESTLING HISTORY (April 8, 1995) – ECW Three Way Dance 1995
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 8, 1995, Extreme Championship Wrestling promoted ‘ECW Three Way Dance’ at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The name of the event came from the 3-way-dance Tag Team main event for the ECW world Tag Team Championship.
The results can be found here:
The Pitbulls defeated Johnny Hotbody & Tony Stetson
Raven defeated Tommy Dreamer
Mikey Whipwreck defeated Ron Simmons by DQ
ECW World Television Championship: Eddie Guerrero defeated Too Cold Scorpio
hair vs. hair: Axl Rotten defeated Ian Rotten
Hack Meyers defeated Dino Sendoff
ECW World Championship: Shane Douglas (c) defeated Sandman
3 Way Dance – ECW World Tag Team Championship: The Public Enemy defeated Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko and The Tazmaniac & Rick Steiner
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 8, 1993) – WWF Paris House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 8, 1993, the World Wrestling Federation held a televised overseas house show at the Bercy Stadium in Paris, France (Europe).
This live event aired on on Canal+ and featured matches on the road to the ‘WWF King of the Ring 1993’ pay-per-view.
The results can be found below:
Frank Anderson defeated Red Tyler (only taped for the Italian version of WWF Superstars)
WWF IC Champion Shawn Michaels defeated Bob Backlund
Crush defeated Doink the Clown (Matt Borne) by count-out
The Nasty Boys wrestled the Headshrinkers to a double-DQ
Mr. Perfect defeated Lex Luger
Kamala defeated Kimchee
Typhoon defeated Damien Demento
Yokozuna defeated Jim Duggan
4/8/93:
Bobby being Bobby as Yokozuna enters to take on Jim Duggan in Paris. pic.twitter.com/qaSi75KX0z
— OVP – Retro Wrestling Podcast (@ovppodcast) April 8, 2023
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