• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (May 5, 1986) – WWF Prime Time Wrestling
On this day in 1986, the World Wrestling Federation aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF Prime Time Wrestling’.
It featured pre-taped matches, studio interviews & storyline segments on the road to ‘WWF The Big Event’.
If you thought that the modern day PG era “Women’s Revolution” of the current WWE Divas was great, you actually ain’t seen nothing yet.
You have to watch the “Donna Christianello vs. Linda Gonzalez” match, which is as good as a match between two female wrestlers could possibly get, of course minus all the high spot fests & high flying / high risk maneuvers.
The match features 2 very underrated female Wrestlers, who never get mentioned anywhere nowadays.
The card can be found right here:
Terry & Dory Funk Jr. vs. Jeff Gripley & Ivan McDonald
Bobby “The Brain” Heenan vs. Salvatore Bellomo
Interview: Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff
Brian Blair vs. Iron Mike Sharpe (MSG 2/84)
Leaping Lanny Poffo vs. The Gladiator
Interview: Randy “Macho Man” Savage
Donna Christianello vs. Linda Gonzalez
Tony Atlas & Tony Garea vs. Steve Lombardi & The Menace
The Hart Foundation vs. Ron Dee & Mario Mancini
Ted Arcidi vs. Chuck Simpson
Big John Studd & King Kong Bundy vs. Jim Powers & Michael Saxon
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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (May 5, 1985) – WWF All American Wrestling
On this day in 1985, the World Wrestling Federation aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF All American Wrestling’.
It included pre-taped matches, interviews & storyline segments and featured the 1985 WWF Superstars.
The card can be found right here:
Ricky Steamboat vs. Dave Barbie
Mean Gene Okerlund interviews Junk Yard Dog
Magnificent Muraco vs. Dennis Cyr
Mean Gene Okerlund interviews Andre The Giant
Courtesy of TNT – Paul Orndorff fires Bobby Heenan as his manager
Piper’s Pit – Bobby Heenan
Paul Orndorff vs. Charlie Fulton
Piper’s Pit – Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo
Nikolai Volkoff, Iron Sheik & George Steele vs. Ron Dee, Jose Luis Rivera & Tony Garea
Mean Gene Okerlund interviews Jimmy Hart & Greg Valentine May 12, 1985:
Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo vs. Barry O & Jim Haley
Cowboy Bob Orton vs. Paul Roma
Mean Gene Okerlund interviews David Sammartino
Rocky Johnson vs. Steve Lombardi
Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart vs. Jimmy Londos & Jim Powers
The Body Shop – Nikolai Volkoff, Iron Sheik & Classy Freddie Blassie
Tito Santana, Junk Yard Dog & Pedro Morales vs. Mike Powers, Doc Butler & Johnny Rodz
Mean Gene Okerlund interviews Classy Freddie Blassie, Nikolai Volkoff & Iron Sheik
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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (May 5, 1984) – WWF Superstars of Wrestling
On this day in 1984, the World Wrestling Federation aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF Superstars of Wrestling’.
This was the original third nationally syndicated show that later became known as “WWF Wrestling Spotlight” after the August 30, 1986 episode.
NOT to be confused with the famous weekly “WWF Superstars of Wrestling” TV show, that eventually took over WWF Championship Wrestling in September 1986 and ran until 1997 (before becoming a recap/highlights show that ran till 2001).
Here’s the card:
David Schultz & Paul Orndorff vs. S.D. Jones & Rocky Johnson
Ivan Putski vs. Scrub
André The Giant vs. 2 Scrubs
Dick Murdoch vs. Tony Atlas
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