• 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) (with Jim Cornette) 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
• Roman Reigns’ Replacement In Universal Title Match At WrestleMania 36 Revealed
As we noted earlier, ProWrestlingSheet reported that “The Big Dog” Roman Reigns has informed WWE officials that he doesn’t feel comfortable working shows at the Performance Center because he’s immunocompromised from his battle with leukemia and didn’t want to take any risk regarding his health.
WWE honored Reigns’ request and he’s now taken out of the Universal Championship match at WrestleMania 36.
According to the Wrestling Observer, Braun Strowman is set to be Reigns’ replacement against Goldberg in the Universal Championship match at WrestleMania 36.
Strowman was last seen on WWE programming at Elimination Chamber 2020, where he lost the Intercontinental Championship to Sami Zayn in a 1 on 3 Handicap Match.
WWE is expected to play an angle on this week’s SmackDown to explain this change.
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