Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on March 3rd.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (March 3, 2001) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on March 3, 2001, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Civic Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.
This live event featured matches on the road to the ‘WWF WrestleMania X-Seven’ PPV.
The results can be found below:
Grandmaster Sexay defeated Albert
Hardcore Holly defeated Raven
WWF Women’s Champion Ivory defeated Lita
The Acolytes defeated Bull Buchanon & The Goodfather
WWF European Champion Test defeated Val Venis
WWF Hardcore Champion The Big Show defeated Billy Gunn
William Regal defeated Steve Blackman
Kane defeated Haku
Elimination Rules: WWF Tag Team Champions The Dudley Boyz defeated Matt & Jeff Hardy and Taka Michinoku & Sho Funaki
WWF IC Champion Chris Jericho defeated Kurt Angle
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (March 3, 1987) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on March 3, 1987, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Metro Centre in Rockford, Illinois.
This live event featured matches on the road to the ‘WWF WrestleMania III’ PPV.
The results can be found below:
Wild Samoan Sika defeated Moondog Spot
Paul Roma defeated Steve Lombardi
Outback Jack defeated Tiger Chung Lee
The Islanders wrestled Don Muraco & Bob Orton Jr. to a time-limit draw
Jake Roberts wrestled Kamala to a double count-out
The Crusher defeated Bobby Heenan by count-out
WWF IC Champion Randy Savage defeated George Steele
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (March 3, 1984) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on March 3, 1984, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
This live event included matches featuring the 1984 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
The Tonga Kid wrestled Butcher Vachon to a time-limit draw
Brian Blair defeated Israel Matia
Roddy Piper & David Schultz defeated Eddie Gilbert & Tony Garea
IC Champion Tito Santana defeated Rene Goulet (sub. for Bob Bradley)
Tag Team Champions Tony Atlas & Rocky Johnson defeated the Wild Samoans by DQ
WWF Champion Hulk Hogan defeated Paul Orndorff by count-out
Andre the Giant defeated Don Muraco
Jimmy Snuka defeated Mr. Fuji
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (March 3, 2016) – Old School Wrestling Veteran Passed Away
On this day in 2016, we lost Old School Japanese Hardcore Wrestling Superstar Hayabusa at the age of 47 due to a cerebral hemorrhage.
Hayabusa mainly wrestled in Japan (FMW, …) and Mexico, but also appeared in Paul Heyman’s Extreme Championship Wrestling once, when he joined Jinsei Shinzaki (WWF’s Hakushi) to take on the team of Rob Van Dam & Sabu at the ‘ECW Heat Wave 1998’ PPV.
His pro wrestling career ended when he was paralyzed after a botched Moonsault in 2001.
REST IN PEACE HAYABUSA!
November 29, 1968 – March 3, 2016
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