• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (May 6, 1986) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on May 6, 1986, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
This live event included matches featuring the 1986 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Candice Purdue defeated Judy Martin
Tony Parisi defeated Rene Goulet
Sivi Afi defeated Steve Lombardi
Ted Arcidi defeated Iron Mike Sharpe
Jacques & Raymond Rougeau defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart
Ricky Steamboat defeated the Iron Sheik
Cpl. Kirchner defeated Nikolai Volkoff
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (May 6, 1984) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on May 6, 1984, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the New Haven Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut.
This live event included matches featuring the 1984 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Rene Goulet defeated Akira Maeda
Brian Blair wrestled Buzz Sawyer to a draw
Rocky Johnson defeated Pete Doherty
Tony Atlas defeated Tiger Chung Lee
Roddy Piper defeated Salvatore Bellomo
Andre The Giant, Sgt. Slaughter & Jimmy Snuka defeated The Iron Sheik & the Wild Samoans
WWF IC Champion Tito Santana defeated Greg Valentine by count-out
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (May 6, 1984) – David Von Erich Memorial Parade Of Champions
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on May 6, 1984, Fritz Von Erich’s World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) held the ‘1st Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions’ at the Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas.
This was the 1st out of 5 “Parade of Champions” events that were held every year from 1984 till 1988.
The results of the event can be found here:
Kelly Kiniski vs. Johnny Mantell ended in a time-limit-draw
Chris Adams & Sunshine defeated Jimmy Garvin & Precious
Butch Reed defeated Chick Donovan
Kamala wrestled The Great Kabuki to a double-DQ
The Junkyard Dog defeated The Missing Link by DQ
American Tag Team Championship: Rock & Soul defeated The Super Destroyers (c)
NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship: Kevin, Mike & Fritz Von Erich defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (c)
NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Kerry Von Erich defeated Ric Flair (c)
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (May 6, 1984) – AWA House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on May 6, 1984, Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association held a televised House Show at the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
On this show The Crusher & Baron Von Raschke won the prestigious AWA World Tag Team Championship from “The Sheiks” Jerry Blackwell & Ken Patera.
Here are the results:
Curt Hennig defeated Jake Milliman
Billy Robinson defeated Larry Zbyszko
Brad Rheingans defeated Steve Regal
Princess Victoria & Velvet McIntyre defeated Donna Christianello & Wendi Richter
AWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Nick Bockwinkel defeated Jumbo Tsuruta (c) by DQ
AWA World Tag Team Title Match: Baron von Raschke & The Crusher defeated The Sheiks
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• Old School WWF Tag Team Legend Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WWF/WCW Tag Team Wrestling Legend “Nasty Boy” Brian Knobbs (Real name: Brian Yandrisovitz) celebrates his birthday today.
Brian Knobbs was most famous as one half of the legendary Tag Team ‘The Nasty Boys’ with his partner Jerry Sags.
Together they worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Xcitement Wrestling Federation (XWF) & Total Nonstop Action! (TNA).
They teamed from 1985 till 1997 and then reunited again in 2001 and still team up to this day during occasional appearances on the independent scene.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN KNOBBS!
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