Barely one week after the “blow-off” of the TNA vs. Global Force Wrestling feud on television, TNA has announced a new match for the Bound for Glory PPV on October 4th in Concord, NC, as Eddie Edwards & Davey Richards will defend the TNA Tag Team Championship against Trevor Lee & Brian Myers, who are billed as GFW wrestlers.
The teams wrestled twice on television at the last set of tapings, with Lee & Myers scoring a fluke title win, but then dropping them back before the blow-off Lethal Lockdown match that aired on 9/16.
The two organizations seem to be maintaining an alliance, which behind-the-scenes is described as cordial but uneasy, because they both have reason right now to benefit from working with the other.
Bound for Glory also features:
– Gail Kim vs. Awesome Kong for the TNA Knockouts Title
– Tigre Uno defending the X-Division Title in an Ultimate X match
– Ethan Carter III vs. Drew Galloway for the TNA World Heavyweight Title
– Bobby Roode vs. Lashley vs. the TNA King of the Mountain Championship
Kansas City, Kansas: – Cowboy Bob Ellis and Thor Hagen beat Bob Geigel and Wild Bill Longson by dq, 2 falls to 1
1963
Columbus, Georgia: – Marco Polo defeated Joe McCarthy to win the Southeastern Heavyweight Title
1964
Atlanta, Georgia: – Don Fargo defeated Sputnik Monroe in a no DQ-no timelimit match to win the Georgia Heavyweight title
1970
Atlanta, Georgia: – Bobby Shane and Doug Gilbert defeated The Assassins to win the Georgia Tag Team Titles
1971
St. Paul, Minnesota: – Nick Bockwinkel beat Billy Robinson – Dr X no contest Ray Stevens – Vivian Vachon beat Kay Noble – Don Muraco beat Butcher Vachon – Sailor Art Thomas beat Jack Bence
1973
Atlanta, Georgia: – The Missouri Mauler defeated Ray Candy to win the Georgia Heavyweight Title
1977
Mexico City, Mexico: – El Canek defeated Lou Thesz to win the UWA World Heavyweight Title.
Louisville, Kentucky: – Jimmy Valiant won a tournament to become the first AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion
1978
Augusta, Georgia: – Thunderbolt Patterson defeated King Kong Mosca to win the Georgia Heavyweight Title
Memphis, Tennessee: – AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Jimmy Valiant – Jerry Lawler beat Jos Leduc – Nelson Royal beat Bill Dundee – Tommy Gilbert beat Frankie Laine
1979
Macon, Georgia: – Killer Karl Kox defeated Tommy Rich in a one night tournament to win the Macon Title
1983
Atlanta, Georgia: – Brett Wayne defeated Larry Zbyzsko to win the National Heavyweight Title
St. Paul, Minnesota: – Brad Rheingans drew AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel – Handicap Match: Hulk Hogan beat Mr. Saito & David Shults dq – Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell & Rick Martel beat Ken Patera & Jerry Blackwell & Sheik Adnan – Blackjack Lanza beat Bobby Heenan COR – Buck Zumhofe beat Steve Regal – Steve O drew Bill White
1985
Atlanta, Georgia: – Terry Taylor defeated Black Bart to win the NWA National Heavyweight Title
Seattle, Washington: – NWA Champion Ric Flair drew Billy Jack Haynes – Sgt. Slaughter beat Karl Steiner – AWA Tag Team Champions Road Warriors beat Ivan Koloff & Khrusher Khrushev – Jesse Barr drew Bruiser Brody – Bobby Jaggers beat Rip Oliver
1986
Seattle, Washington: – Road Warriors beat Bruiser Brody & Rip Oliver dq – AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel double count out Curt Hennig
1987
Detroit, Michigan: – Ronnie Garvin defeated Ric Flair to win the NWA World Title
1990
Nagoya, Japan: – Katsuji Ueda defeated Jimmy Backlund (Jimmy Del Rey) to become the AWA World Light-Heavyweight Champion
1999
Memphis, Tennessee: – Steve Bradley defeated Vic Grimes to win the Memphis Power Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Title
Charlotte, North Carolina: – Gary Steele defeated Naoya Ogawa and Brian Anthony to win the NWA World Heavyweight Title
2010
Rahway, New Jersey: – Jay Lethal defeated The Amazing Red to win the X-Division championship
WWE Hall-of-Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch was arrested on Wednesday for missing three different court dates.
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter noted her not appearing for court dates on 7/29 and 8/21, as well as missing an arraignment on 9/3, all stemming from several charges on 5/30 in Palmerton, PA.
News of her arrest was reported Friday morning by TMZ Sports. Sytch was arrested on charges of a DUI, driving with a suspended license and careless driving. She also faces two other DUI charges in June that this is not related to. She is currently in custody and has a hearing Friday when a bail amount will be set.
Sytch, better known as Sunny, has had a long track record of issues and remains the only person ever under contract that WWE will no longer send to rehab if a request is made.
– Air Date: September 24, 2015 (Sept 23 in Canada)
– Location: American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, TX
The Big News:
Dean Ambrose beat Seth Rollins, which will presumably leads to Kane against Rollins for the title. Also, Natalya confronted Paige but it didn’t go very well.
Show Recap:
They started with an almost 3 minute long recap of the Kane-Seth Rollins storyline. Kane was in the ring after the video and gleefully welcomed everyone to Smackdown. He said WWE was on fire and wanted to come back and help with the heat by using all his administrative experience. He announced Kevin Owens and Rusev against Ryback and Dolph Ziggler, as well as Luke Harper against Roman Reigns with all their friends banned from ringside.
Before Kane could announce another match, Rollins interrupted. Rollins told Kane to cut the crap, comparing him to Bruce Banner. Kane invited him to talk in the ring, but Rollins called him crazy and complained about everything he went through at Night of Champions. Kane said he was watching at home on the network.
Rollins freaked out about Kane dragging him under the ring, but Kane played dumb. They bickered back and forth for a while with Kane smiling through most of it. Rollins told Kane that he needs help. Kane announced Rollins against Dean Ambrose for tonight.
Booker T said he has sources who say Kane has split personality disorder. Jerry Lawler called Booker and Brennan nuts for believing this and said Kane was just playing with everyone. I’m glad they cut to the announcers who attempted to explain the story.
Roman Reigns beat Luke Harper via pinfall
Harper came out to his singles music and video. Reigns got him up for a Samoan drop but Harper countered with a series of elbows to the head. Reigns basically no-sold it and came back with clotheslines in the corner. They went to the outside and Harper cut off Reigns with a big boot.
In the ring, Harper followed with a senton, superkick and powerbomb, which Reigns kicked out of. Harper went for a discus clothesline but Reigns countered with a superman punch and spear for the win. Basic match and Reigns was booked to look strong. And by that I mean he no-sold most of Harper’s offense.
Backstage, The New Day dunked a basketball on some guy. The guy initially saw it coming, so Big E gave Kingston a perfect alleyoop for the basket.
6-Man Tag Match: The New Day beat Neville & The Lucha Dragons via pinfall
New Day said they would put an end to the Dudley Boyz once and for all at the MSG show. They called Bubba “Booty Ray” and chanted “Save the tables.” Brennan said the the Dudleys came back for the tag titles, but Booker said they came back for the money. Uh, ok. Despite this being a 6-man, Woods took a moment to play trombone.
With all three members of New Day on the outside, the three good guys hit dives — Neville and Kalisto hit moonsaults off the top and Sin Cara did a senton. Crazy spot. However, like Harper’s offense in the previous match, none of that mattered. Kingston distracted Sin Cara and Woods hit him with shining wizard for the abrupt win. New Day celebrated on the announce table and Woods played the trombone. This was fun despite the finish.
Cesaro beat Bo Dallas via pinfall
They showed a replay of Big Show beating Cesaro on Raw. I can see why they would do that if Show was having a match, but they didn’t have to show it here. Bo Dallas said he survived Suplex City but Cesaro can’t get off Big Show Boulevard. Bo said Cesaro should bo-lieve. Lame.
Cesaro beat the crap out of Bo for a while until Bo was able to pull the ring skirt out from under Cesaro, who slipped and landed back-first against the edge of the ring. Bo took control and used a headlock. Cesaro got up and applied the same roll-up he did to Rusev last week on Raw and got the pinfall win. Another pretty abrupt finish.
After the match, Cesaro went into the crowd next to a fan holding a “Cesaro Section” sign. I would’ve prefered Cesaro just kill Bo Dallas, but at least he won and was able to show off a bit.
They recapped Charlotte’s title win at Night of Champions and her promo with Ric Flair from Raw. They didn’t show the Paige stuff.
Charlotte and Becky Lynch came out. Lawler wondered where Paige could be and Brennan said, “She could be anywhere.” That’s nice. Charlotte said her title win was a dream scenario and put over Nikki as a great champion. She thanked Becky and the fans for believing in the revolution. That brought out Paige.
Paige admitted she wasn’t a team player. She got in the ring and insincerely tried to apologize. Charlotte said Paige sucks at this. Becky tried to interrupt so Paige told her to shut up. Natalya interrupted and Paige called her a crazy cat lady.
Natalya said she was proud of the new generation and thinks this is the best their division has ever been. Natalya said she’s excited, just like she was when Paige won the title for the first time. She likes Paige and doesn’t understand why they’re fighting.
Paige said she’s better than Nattie, who let the revolution pass her by and is now just clinging on. Paige slapped Natalya and left. This was ok. I’m not sure why they didn’t just beat the crap out of Paige by the end of it.
Ryback & Dolph Ziggler beat Rusev & IC Champion Kevin Owens (w/Summer Rae) via pinfall
As Rusev did his warm-up before the match, Owens held up his title behind him. Ryback and Owens were in to start, but Owens tagged in Rusev. Rusev demanded Ryback tag Ziggler, so he did. (What a fighting babyface.) As Rusev beat up Ziggler in the corner, he yelled, “I beat you on Raw, I’m the best! I’m the best! I’m the best!”
Lawler said, in WWE, a relationship is a success if it outlasts milk. Heels had the heat on Ziggler, who was able to hit Rusev with a jumping DDT. After a break, they still had the heat on him. Rusev used a scoop slam and tagged out. Owens hit a scoop slam and told Rusev to do another. Rusev tagged in but Ziggler slammed him instead. Ziggler slammed Owens too and made the hot tag to Ryback.
Ryback made a brief comeback but Rusev cut him off with a spinning heel kick (he missed). Ryback used a spinebuster and knocked Owens off the apron. Rusev used the distraction to hit a superkick, but Owens grabbed his title and left. He pointed at the title and said “This is what matters!” Ziggler hit a superkick on Rusev and Ryback followed with shell shocked for the win. If you’re a fan of watching Ziggler sell, this is the match for you.
There might have been something wrong with Rusev during the match. He kept talking to the referee and completely missed on the spinning heel kick.
They aired a video package for Big Show.
Backstage, Bubba told D-Von that he was tired of the New Day, especially “the kid with the trombone.” Renee Young asked them about New Day. Bubba said he knows she likes them, but they don’t care about the fans like they claim, and they don’t act like champions. D-Von said this isn’t about tables, this is about titles.
Prime Time Players interrupted saying they were next in line. They seemed insincere and Bubba wanted to go after them, but D-Von stopped him.
Elsewhere, Seth Rollins told Jo-Jo there’s something wrong with Kane and he needs help. He’s fine with facing Ambrose tonight because he’s destroyed him before and will do it again.
Dean Ambrose beat Seth Rollins via pinfall
During a break, Rollins hit Ambrose with a double foot stomp on the apron. Ambrose tried a dive but Rollins countered with a forearm and flying knee strike. Ambrose fired back with a million hard chops but Rollins countered with a superkick for two.
Ambrose followed with a rebound clothesline, which Brennan called a “lunatic lariat.” Ambrose made his comeback, with chops, running forearm and double underhook suplex off the ropes. They traded small packages and Ambrose nailed a suicide dive.
Ambrose did a fisherman suplex for two but Rollins came back with an enziguri and a slingblade. Rollins almost ran into the referee and used the distraction to thumb Ambrose in the eye and hit the turnbuckle bomb. The announcers called it like Ambrose was done, but Kane’s pyro went off and the lights when red. Ambrose used the distraction to apply a roll up for the win.
They showed corporate Kane watching backstage on a monitor. A pissed off Rollins grabbed the mic and said Kane doesn’t know who he’s dealing with and referenced what he did to Sting at Night of Champions. Rollins said he would do the same to Kane and no matter what, he’s still the man and the WWE champion.
Really good match, but perhaps they shouldn’t have given Ambrose the buckle bomb if he was just going to bounce back and get the win.
Final Thoughts:
Pretty much a normal Smackdown show with some good wrestling and nothing really important happening. I did like the 6-man and main event in particular.
On a side note, Booker T is really awful on commentary. Lawler was better than usual tonight, perhaps because he spent so much time correcting Booker.
At Thursday’s weigh-ins for Friday’s Bellator 143 event, one fighter missed so badly, his fight had to be scrapped.
In the main event, Joe Warren will face LC Davis with both men hitting at 135.75 pounds. The winner will be gearing up for a bantamweight title shot with a victory. In another feature bout, Joey Beltran (186 pounds) continues to look for some consistency against Kendall Grove (185.5).
The story of the weigh-ins was Nick Gonzalez who was set to face Ryan Couture. Instead of coming into the fight at the non-title lightweight limit of 156 pounds, Gonzalez stepped onto the scales at 172.75 pounds, over the welterweight limit. The fight was scrapped, but Couture (155.5) will be paid his show money. It’s likely that Gonzalez will be done with Bellator after this.
Here’s the rest of the weigh-in results. Spike TV main card coverage will be coming your way on Friday night:
– Emmanuel Sanchez (146) vs. Henry Corrales (145.5)
– Vinicius Queiroz (230) vs. Ewerton Teixeira (236)
Spike.com Prelims
– Saul Elizondo (135) vs. Amador Ramirez (134.75)
– Eduardo Bustillos (136) vs. Steve Garcia (135.5)
– Shawn Bunch (135.5) vs. Darrion Caldwell (135.5)
– Dan Charles (232.5) vs. Chase Gormley (263)
– Gleristone Santos (146) vs. John Teixeira (146)
– Jared Chaffe (155) vs. Guilherme Farias da Costa (156)
– Luke Flores (155.5) vs. Gilbert Jimenez (155)
– Abdul Razak Alhassan (170.5) vs. Bryce Mejia (171)
There was good and bad news on the ratings for TNA and ROH on DestinationAmerica.
The audience tuned in later than usual, as the ROH show at 11 p.m. did 168,000 viewers, nearly double the previous week, and the best in that time slot since July 29.
TNA at 9 p.m. did 272,000 viewers, its second lowest to date.
The TNA midnight replay did 122,000 viewers, the best replay number to date.
That seems to mean that a lot of the people who tuned into ROH than usually don’t also stay with TNA.
It would appear “Empire” on FOX may tell the story, since nothing else on television in the 9-11 p.m. time slot did numbers out of the ordinary enough to change regular viewing patterns.
This weekend we’ll be doing our only poll on the New Japan Destruction in Kobe show which takes place late Saturday night/early Sunday. We didn’t do a poll for Wakayama because it was a lesser show. The only other major show is a UFC show, also from Japan, but that’s an FS 1 show.
We’re also looking for reports on tonight’s NXT show in Lakeland, FL as well as tomorrow’s shows which are WWE in Toronto, ROH in California, PA and NXT in Largo, FL. All arena reports and news can be sent to Dave Meltzer
Smackdown tonight at 8 p.m. on Syfy
Roman Reigns vs. Luke Harper
Lucha Dragons & Neville vs. All three members of New Day
Our lead story covers the Sting injury, the Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar Hell in a Cell match and the interesting back story and questions it brings up, lots of long-term looking at where WWE is headed as well as full coverage of the Night of Champions show. We also cover the second season news for Lucha Underground, the Atlantis vs. La Sombra mask vs. mask match, Akira Hokuto’s announcement about her breast cancer, Bellator’s Dynamite show and what went right and wrong, New Japan’s Destruction in Okayama, ROH’s All-Star Extravaganza, the Pro Wrestling NOAH angle where they tease the end of the company, USADA responds to Thomas Hauser, Josh Gross’ story on the Vitor Belfort drug test and why it’s not nearly as simple as people are making it out to be, AAA’s next major show and record low ratings.
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THURSDAY’S NEWS UPDATE
–Hall of Famer Akira Hokuto underwent successful surgery on her right breast for cancer. This has made a lot of news in Japan where she’s well known far beyond the pro wrestling business.
–One of the matches on the October Mexico tour will be Undertaker & Kane vs. Braun Strowman & Luke Harper.
–This is the UFC coverage on Fox Sports for this weekend.
*Weigh-ins at 11 p.m. Friday night on FS 2 with Karyn Bryant, Brian Stann, Michael Bisping and Caroline Pearce (who will be live in Japan) covering.
*The preshow will be on Saturday at 7 p.m. on FS 2
*Prelims are Saturday at 8 p.m. on FS 2
*Main card is Saturday at 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on FS 1
*Post-fight show is Saturday at 1 a.m on FS 1
*Ultimate Insider on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. on FS 2 with Daniel Cormier, Rashad Evans and Tyron Woodley
*Countdown to UFC 192 will air Monday at 9 p.m. Eastern on FS 1 pushing the Daniel Cormier vs. Alexander Gustafsson and Rashad Evans vs. Ryan Bader matches
–The Claro Sports web site will be airing tomorrow night’s Arena Mexico show live at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. The show is headlined by Volador Jr. vs. Rush coming off last week’s Anniversary show.
–Part 2 of the John Layfield interview with Eric Bischoff airs tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern on the WWE Network.
–There are pre sales going on right now for the 12/10 and 12/11 UFC shows in Las Vegas. For 12/10, the password is DECEMBER. For 12/11, the password is TUF. The 12/10 show is a Fight Pass event headlined by Paige VanZant vs. Joanne Calderwood and 12/11 is Frankie Edgar vs. Chad Mendes plus the finals of the current season of Ultimate Fighter.
–Dana White last night after TUF said that he doesn’t think Conor McGregor will ever fight Urijah Faber. He brought up that McGregor is 20 pounds heavier walking around and that both guys career trajectory just doesn’t make the fight likely.
–Rey Hours is off the 9/27 Lucha Libre show in Whitby, ONT at the Live Act Theater. Ricky Reyes vs. Maybach Beta of Zero-One is the new headliner.
–Superkick’d on 10/10 in Toronto at The Great Hall with Moose and Seiya Sanada appearing. Also 10/30 in Toronto at the Lithuanian House with Zombie wrestling.
–Ronda Rousey was named to this year’s Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40” list of people under 40 who standout when it comes to wealth, power, achievement, ambition and influence. She was the only athlete, male or female, to make the list. She was cited by not just her UFC success and appearing in movies, but for overall appeal, influence on culture and popularity. Among the things cited for picking her were her acting, her doing WrestleMania, and her DNB promo which has been viewed 3.1 million times.
–TNA will be doing a taped PPV on 10/30 in New Orleans, called the Battle of New Orleans at the Lakefront Arena, an old Mid South building:
Kurt Angle vs. Eric Young cage match
Gail Kim vs. Awesome Kong cage match
The Wolves vs. EC 3 & Tyrus for tag titles
Bobby Roode vs. Matt Hardy for King of the Mountain title
Abyss vs. Robbie E Monster’s Ball
Plus appearances by Jeff Hardy and Chris Melendez.
No word on when this will air on PPV, but it’ll be in the One Night Only series.
–Aljamain Sterling, one of the top bantamweights in UFC, is talking about giving up fighting and going to school to get his Master’s Degree. He cited he’s been looking for a fight with Bryan Caraway by the end of this year. If not, he may return to college in January to go for his Master’s as well as take a full-time or part-time teaching job. He’s got one fight left on his UFC contract and hasn’t been happy with pay and the Reebok deal. He noted he’s only had three fights since 2013.
–On the radio show, we talked about how nobody but WWE has been able to run Madison Square Garden (although there is the annual amateur wrestling Grapple at the Garden show) since the late 50s other than the McMahon family. It should be noted that both WCW and AAA ran shows at the Paramount, adjacent to the Garden, but neither were allowed to run the Garden itself.
–2K today revealed the MyCareer gameplay trailer for WWE 2K16, featuring details on how players will be able to define their legacy through critical choices while rising through the ranks from NXT to WWE to earn a spot in the WWE Hall of Fame. Players will train, compete against others, conduct personality-driven interviews, interfere with rivals and even form the ultimate tag team. For more CLICK HERE
–WWE stock today closed at $17.65 per share, up five cents.
–NWA Vendetta from Friday night in Santa Maria, CA: Stryder b Ricky Almernara, Midnight Delight & Tab Jackson b Ballard Brothers & Holly Renee, La Generica b Kiara Dillon, Judah Matthew over Alexander Bernard, Jimi Mayhem and Ricky Ruffin, Mike Rayne b Shiloh, Classic Connection b Von Dooms-DQ, Matt Riviera b Sigmon-DQ, Sunami b Dylan drake and Jeckles the Jester. Next show is 10/30 with Sonjay Dutt.
–The PWA show on 9/27 in Dundas, ONT has been moved to December.
–IWA Mid South tomorrow night in Clarksville, IN at the Colgate Gym. They also announced the 2015 Ted Petty Invitational on 12/11 as a one-night 12 man tournament with Timothy Thatcher, Kongo Kong, Jonathan Gresham, Masada, Chris Hero and Too Cold Scorpio.
–The Jake Roberts documentary will play on 10/2 in Yonkers, NY at the Alamo Drafthouse. DDP will be appearing for a Q&A.
–There is a presale going on for WWE tickets for 11/28 in Kansas City at the Sprint Center going on today using the code word RING. It ends on Friday at 10 p.m. Advertised for the show are Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, Ryback, Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt, Sheamus and Rusev.
–Elkmania 3 on Saturday in Beverly, MA at the Beverly/Salem Elks Lodge at 7 p.m.
–Renegade Promotions Battle of the Best on 11/8 in Burlington, ONT at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center headlined by Derek Wylde vs. Tyson Dux.
–AAA star will work for rival promotions in Tijuana next week. On 10/2 at Auditorio Municipal, Alberto El Patron & Rey Mysterio Jr. & Rey Hours vs. Brian Cage & Daga & El Hijo del Fantasma plus Pentagon Jr. vs. Bestia 666 for the The Crash cruiserweight title and Psycho Clown & Pimpinela Escarlata & ? vs. Cibernetico & Taya Valkyrie & Black Mamba, plus a four-way for the X trophy with Angelico vs. Matt Cross vs. Seiya Sanada vs. Fenix are the top bouts. The next night at Salon Casa Blanca, a different promotion as Psycho Clown & Fenix & Angelico vs. Daga & El Hijo del Fantasma & Pentagon Jr.
–Evolve on 10/18 in Deer Park, NY at the Sportatorium has:
Timothy Thatcher defending the Evolve title against either Drew Gulak or Trevor Lee (based on who wins a match the night before in Brooklyn)
Trent Baretta & Rocky Romero vs. Anthony Nese & Caleb Konley
Willie Mack vs. Lee/Gulak loser
T.J. Perkins vs. Tracy Williams
Matt Riddle vs. Chris Dickinson
–The next Glory event on Spike will be 10/9 from Denver. There is also a show on 11/6 in Milan, Italy.
–CZW has a live iPPV on 10/10 at streamCZW.com from Flyers Skate Zone in Voorhees, NJ and on 10/17 from Laval, Quebec at Scratch a Laval. Vampiro will be on the 10/17 show.
–Infinity Pro on Saturday night in Bloomington, IN at the National Guard Armory with OI4K headlining plus Crazy Mary Dobson vs. Lufisto.
ON THIS DAY IN PRO WRESTLING HISTORY INTERNATIONAL (thanks to Graeme Cameron)
1940 – Earl McCready beat John Katan in Dunedin, New Zealand to win the British Empire title
1951 – Enrique Llanes (the uncle of the Guerreros) beat Sugi Sito in Mexico City to win the NWA middleweight title
1963 – Gori Guerrero beat Ali Bey in El Paso to win the NWA light heavyweight title
1995 – Mima Shimoda & Akira Hokuto beat Takako & Kyoko Inoue in Kawasaki to win the WWWA women’s tag title
2004 – Nicho beat L.A. Park in Tijuana to win the XLWA heavyweight title
Des Moines, Iowa: – Bob Orton defeated Pat O’Connor in 2 out of 3 falls
1960
St. Paul, Minnesota: – Hard Boiled Haggerty (sub Gene Kiniski) & Len Montana defeated Tiny Mills & Stan Kowalski in a 2/3 falls match to win AWA Tag Team Title (titles were returned to Mills and Kowalski due to the substitution)
1963
El Paso, Texas: – Gory Guerrero defeated Ali Bey to win the NWA World Light Heavyweight Title
1966
Omaha, Nebraska: – Midwest Tag Team Champions Luke Brown & Jake Smith beat AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher dq – Dale Lewis beat Doug Gilbert – Nebraska Champion Mr Wrestling Tim Woods drew Mad Russian Stan Pulaski – Ron Reed beat Harley Race
1971
Denver, Colorado: – Nick Bockwinkel beat AWA Champion Verne Gagne dq – Larry Hennig & Lars Anderson beat Mad Dog Vachon & Butcher Vachon
1972
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: – Ronnie Etchison defeated Billy Howard – Les Thornton defeated Black Angus by disqualification – NWA Central States champion Harley Race defeated Rufus R. Jones
1973
Sapporo, Japan: – Shozo “Strong” Kobayashi beat AWA Champion Verne Gagne dq – Lars Anderson & Blackjack Mulligan beat Animal Hamaguchi & Great Kusatsu – Greg Gagne beat Isamu Sakae
1974
Tampa, Florida: – In a Lumberjack Match: Jos Leduc beat Pak Song – Florida Tag Team Champions Mike Graham & Dusty Rhodes beat Dick Slater & Professor Tanaka – North American Champion Bob Armstrong beat Bill Watts by DQ
1976
St. Paul, Minnesota: – AWA Tag Team Champions Blackjack Lanza & Bobby Duncum beat Dick the Bruiser & the Crusher dq – In a Non Title match, Bill Francis beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel – Peter Maivia beat Mad Dog Vachon
Knoxville, Tennessee: – Ron Fuller beat Don Carson in a Loser Leaves Town match – Great Mephisto beat The Gladiator – Mike Stallings beat Louie Tillet in a Texas Death match
1979
New Orleans, Louisiana: – Charlie Cook & Hercules Ayala beat Junkyard Dog & Porkchop Cash in a Texas Tornado match – Bill Watts & Wahoo McDaniel(sub for Dusty Rhodes) beat Ernie Ladd & Ken Patera
1981
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: – Sheik Adnan beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel dq – Hulk Hogan beat Jerry Blackwell – Non Title match, Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura beat AWA Tag Team Champions Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell – Billy Robinson drew Tito Santana – Baron Von Raschke beat Ed Boulder
1982
Houston, Texas: – Southwest champ Dick Slater beat Jerry Lawler – Junkyard Dog beat Nick Bockwinkel – Tony Atlas beat the Mongolian Stomper to win the Southwest Brass Knuckles Title
1983
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: – Intercontinental champion Magnificent Muraco defeated Chief Jay Strongbow – WWF World Champion Bob Backlund (w/ Arnold Skaaland) pinned Sgt. Slaughter in a Texas Death Match – In a steel cage match, Andre the Giant defeated Big John Studd
1984
London, Ontario, Canada: – Greg Valentine defeated Tito Santana to win the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Title.
1985
Portland, Oregon: – NWA Champion Ric Flair drew Magnum TA – AWA Tag Team Champions Road Warriors beat Sgt. Slaughter & Billy Jack Haynes dq – Steve Simpson & Joe Savoldi beat Mike Miller & Karl Stiener – Ivan Koloff & Krusher Khruschev beat Bobby Jaggers & Steve Pardee
1988
Dallas, Texas: – AWA Champion Jerry Lawler ddq Kerry Von Erich – Terry Gordy ddq The Beast – Ron Garvin beat Black Bart – Kendall Windham beat Eric Embry
1993
Greenville, Tennessee: – Tim Horner beat Chris Candido – Scott & Steve Armstrong beat Killer Kyle & The Dirty White Boy – SMW Tag Champs The Rock N’ Roll Express beat Ron & Don Harris – Tracy Smothers beat SMW Champ Brian Lee via DQ
1995
Saginaw, Michigan: – WWF champion Diesel & WWF Intercontinental champion Shawn Michaels defeated WWF Tag Team Champions the British Bulldog (substituting for Owen Hart) & Yokozuna (with Jim Cornette & Mr. Fuji) to win the titles – Dean Douglas (Shane Douglas) pinned Razor Ramon
2000
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: – The Hardy Boyz defeated Edge & Christian in a cage match to capture the WWF World Tag Titles – Chris Jericho defeated X Pac – Tazz defeated Jerry Lawler in a strap match
Frank Iadevaia, who has promoted Jersey All Pro Wrestling for more than 18 years, passed away in his sleep last night. He was found this morning by family members.
Iadevaia was described as a guy who had no ego and was a huge fan, and was a key in getting the original exposure for guys like Low Ki, Homicide and Jay Lethal.
Friends said that his death was a complete shock as he had not been sick.
Iadevaia stated as a wrestler, using the name Lighting Lou Diamond in New York City. He was part of a tag team called NC-17 with Kane D, who later worked with him as a JAPW booker.
He started Jersey All Pro Wrestling in April, 1997, as a Hardcore style promotion, and got a lot of very negative local mainstream media publicity. Like all the Hardcore style promotions, they were trying to copy ECW.
The company stopped promoting regularly in 2011 after heavy money losses in promoting a tour with New Japan Pro Wrestling, and was down to doing one anniversary show per year. He was working on such a show on 11/14 in Rahway, NJ at the time of his death.
