• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (March 27, 1988) – NWA Clash Of The Champions 1
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on March 27, 1988, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired ‘NWA Clash Of The Champions’ LIVE on TBS from the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The inaugural Clash of the Champions was done to air on free TV, directly against the WWF WrestleMania IV pay-per-view.
It was the first out of 35 NWA/WCW Clash of the Champions events that all aired on TBS between 1988 and 1997.
The results from that night:
Mike Rotunda defeated Jimmy Garvin
NWA United States Tag Team Championship: The Midnight Express (c) defeated The Fantastics by DQ
Barbed Wire: The Road Warriors & Dusty Rhodes defeated The Powers of Pain & Ivan Koloff
NWA World Tag Team Championship: Lex Luger & Barry Windham defeated Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (c)
NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair (c) wrestled Sting to a time-limit-draw
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (March 27, 1986) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on March 27, 1986, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the New Haven Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut.
This live event featured matches on the road to the ‘WWF WrestleMania II’ PPV.
The results can be found below:
SD Jones defeated Rene Goulet
Tony Atlas wrestled Iron Mike Sharpe to a draw
Pedro Morales defeated Moondog Spot
Jim Neidhart defeated Davey Boy Smith
The Dynamite Kid defeated Bret Hart
King Kong Bundy defeated Tony Garea (sub. for Uncle Elmer)
Ricky Steamboat, The Junkyard Dog & the Haiti Kid defeated Jimmy Hart, Terry & Dory Funk Jr. (Hoss Funk)
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (March 27, 1978) – WWWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history in 1978, the World Wide Wrestling Federation held a televised house show at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
This live event included matches featuring the 1978 WWWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Johnny Rodz wrestled SD Jones to a double count-out
Best of 2 out of 3 falls: Chief Jay Strongbow & Peter Maivia defeated Seiji Sakaguchi & Wilhelm Ruska
Dusty Rhodes defeated Superstar Billy Graham by DQ (Andre the Giant as guest referee)
WWWF World Champion Bob Backlund wrestled Spiros Arion to a double-DQ
Dominic DeNucci defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna
Best of 2 out of 3 falls: Haystacks Calhoun & Larry Zbyszko defeated Stan Stasiak & Butcher Vachon
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• Old School WWF Veteran Would Have Celebrated His Birthday
Today would have been the birthday of Old School WWF Veteran “Big” Swede Hanson (Real name: Robert Hanson).
Hanson wrestled for the World Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation during the 70s & 80s.
During his last 2 years in the WWF (1984 & 1985) he was mainly used as a “Jobber To The Stars” to put over big names like Don Muraco, Bob Orton Jr., Randy Savage, Adrian Adonis, King Kong Bundy, Bret Hart and Jesse Ventura, but also gained a few wins in between over wrestlers like Steve Lombardi, Charlie Fulton and Rene Goulet.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & REST IN PEACE
March 27, 1933 – February 19, 2002
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