Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on January 6th.
• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 6, 1984) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 6, 1984, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York.
This live event included matches featuring the 1984 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Invader #2 defeated John Callahan
Rene Goulet defeated The Tonga Kid (Tama)
WWF Tag Team Champion Tony Atlas defeated Iron Mike Sharpe
Jose Luis Rivera defeated Samala
SD Jones wrestled Mr. Fuji to a draw
The Masked Superstar defeated Salvatore Bellomo
The Wild Samoans & Samula co-won an 18-man $15,000 battle royal
Bob Backlund defeated Wild Samoan Afa
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• Old School WWF Veteran Would Have Celebrated His Birthday
Today would have been the birthday of Old School WWF Veteran Ludvig Borga (Real name: Tony Halme).
He wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation as an upper mid-carder in 1993 & early 1994 and was eventually going to be pushed to be a main eventer, but then got injured and left the company.
Borga’s biggest accomplishment during his time in the WWF, was ending Tatanka’s 2 year winning streak.
After his Professional Wrestling Career was over, he became an MMA fighter, losing to Randy “The Natural” Couture at ‘UFC 13: The Ultimate Force’ on May 30, 1997, before becoming a politician and even got elected into the Parliament of his home country Finland.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & REST IN PEACE
January 6, 1963 – January 8, 2010
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• Old School WCW Veteran Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WCW Veteran Konnan (Real name: Charles Ashenoff) celebrates his birthday today.
After portraying Mega Man character “Max Moon” in the World Wrestling Federation for a few house show matches, but only 1 (!!!) televised match, Konnan left McMahon’s company, but would soon wrestle for Paul Heyman’s Extreme Championship Wrestling and ultimately found a new home in Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling, where he stayed till the bitter end in march of 2001.
Since the end of WCW, Konnan has wrestled and appeared in non-wrestling roles for Total Nonstop Action, now known as iMPACT Wrestling, as well as several lucha libre promotions such as AAA and Lucha Underground.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KONNAN!
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• Old School Attitude Era Diva Celebrates Her Birthday
Old School WWF Attitude Era Diva Jacqueline (Real name: Jacqueline Moore) celebrates her birthday today.
After being a female wrestler, as well as a manager in Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling from 1997 till 1998, she joined the World Wrestling Federation in mid-1998, when the Attitude Era was running wild.
Jacqueline wrestled pretty much all the big female names of that era: Sable, Ivory, Lita, Trish Stratus, Luna Vachon, …
In 2016 she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by fellow Attitude Era Veterans The Dudley Boyz.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACQUELINE!
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