• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 8, 1983) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 8, 1983, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show in Plainville, Connecticut.
This live event included matches featuring the 1983 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Pancho Boy & Sonny Boy Hayes defeated Butch Cassidy & Tiger Jackson
Eddie Gilbert defeated Pete Doherty
SD Jones defeated Swede Hanson
Big John Studd defeated Tony Garea
Jimmy Snuka defeated Ray Stevens by count-out
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 8, 1978) – WWWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 8, 1978, the World Wide Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Baltimore Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
This live event included matches featuring the 1978 WWWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Nikolai Volkoff defeated Joe Turco
Dino Bravo (sub. for Antonio Inoki) defeated Johnny Rodz
Peter Maivia defeated Strong Kobayashi
Ken Patera defeated Gorilla Monsoon by count-out
WWWF World Champion Bob Backlund defeated Superstar Billy Graham by DQ
Spiros Arion defeated SD Jones
Peter Maivia & Larry Zbyszko defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna & Stan Stasiak
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 8, 2014) – A WWF Legend Passed Away
On this day in 2014, we lost Old School WWF Legend The Ultimate Warrior (Real name: Jim Hellwig) at the age of 54 due to a heart attack caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
The Ultimate Warrior wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation from 1987 till 1991 and then again in 1992 and 1996.
Warrior became a former WWF World Heavyweight Champion when he defeated “The Immortal” Hulk Hogan in the main event of WrestleMania VI, and is still remembered as one of the biggest draws in professional wrestling history.
In 2014 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Linda McMahon.
REST IN PEACE ULTIMATE WARRIOR!
June 16, 1959 – April 8, 2014
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