• OLD SCHOOL VIDEO HISTORY (June 16, 1990) – NWA PRO
On this day in 1990, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WCW PRO’.
This episode featured pre-taped matches & storyline segments on the road to the ‘NWA The Great American Bash 1990’ PPV.
The card can be found below:
– Doom vs. Darrell Weiss & Tom Griffey
– Paul Orndorff vs. Mark Kyle
– Mark Callous vs. Dennis Fowler
– Freebirds vs. Zan Panzer & Larry Santo
– Steiner Brothers vs. The Mod Squad
– Buddy Landell vs. Rick Fargo
– Rock N Roll Express vs. Ralph Hodges & Max Miles
• Popular NXT Wrestler Not Moving To WWE Main Roster Anytime Soon
According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, WWE was once planning to do Adam Cole vs. Matt Riddle for the NXT Championship at August’s NXT TakeOver: Toronto II show, but they’re going with Adam Cole vs. Johnny Gargano III.
Meltzer noted that WWE officials don’t want to rush things with Riddle and that he’s going to stay in NXT for a long time (and isn’t moving up to the WWE main roster anytime soon):
“What I was told is that Matt Riddle is gonna be in there for a long time and they don’t wanna rush him into anything and they don’t need to rush him into anything so that’s the deal, but at one point it was gonna be Cole and Riddle.
Riddle isn’t even gonna be on the TakeOver show even though he got the big win on the last one which was suppose to set up [his NXT Title match with Cole].”
