Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on January 2nd.
• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 2, 1988) – WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event 14
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 2, 1988, the World Wrestling Federation aired ‘WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event 14’ on NBC.
The entire event was originally taped on December 7, 1987 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland.
Here are the results:
2-out-of-3-falls – WWF Tag Team Championship: Strike Force (c) defeated The Bolsheviks
Jake Roberts defeated Sika
WWF World Heavyweight Championship: Hulk Hogan (c) defeated King Kong Bundy
Greg Valentine defeated Koko B. Ware
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 2, 1988) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 2, 1988, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Worcester Centrum in Worcester, Massachusetts.
This live event included matches on the road to the first ever televised Royal Rumble event.
The results can be found below:
Dino Bravo defeated SD Jones
Sam Houston defeated Danny Davis by DQ
Ken Patera & Billy Jack Haynes defeated Demolition by DQ
Don Muraco defeated Butch Reed
The Islanders defeated Paul Roma & Jim Powers
Ted Dibiase defeated Jake Roberts
Hercules wrestled Koko B. Ware to a draw
Bam Bam Bigelow defeated King Kong Bundy
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• On This Day In Wrestling History (January 2, 2019) – Old School WWF Announcer Passes Away
On this day in 2019, we lost Old School WWF Announcer “Mean” Gene Okerlund at the age of 76 after complications from a fall.
After making a name for himself in Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association between 1970 and 1983, Gene Okerlund joined the World Wrestling Federation in early 1984 as one of quite a few AWA names that jumped ship back then.
“Mean” Gene, who is still considered the greatest backstage interviewer in professional wrestling history, stayed with the WWF for almost 10 full years, before he joined Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling in late 1993.
Shortly before Vince McMahon bought WCW in 2001, Okerlund left the company, but returned to his old workplace, the World Wrestling Federation, at WWF WrestleMania X-Seven.
In 2006 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his close, personal friend “The Immortal” Hulk Hogan.
† REST IN PEACE MEAN GENE OKERLUND!
December 19, 1942 – January 2, 2019
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