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1941 Waterloo, Iowa: – Orville Brown defeated Joe Dusek
1943 Wichita, Kansas: – NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ede Virag beat Jack Nasworthy in 2 out of 3 falls
1945 St. Joseph, Missouri: Orville Brown beat Cowboy Roy Graham
1951 St. Louis, Missouri: – NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz defeated Yukon Eric
1972 Chattanooga, Tennessee: – The Interns (Tom Andrews & Jim Starr), managed by Dr. Ken Ramey, defeated Ken Lucas & Ox the Ripper (Ox Baker), managed by Dennis Hall with the Interns’ Masks at stake in a no time limit and No DQ match – Dennis Hall & Kevin Sullivan, managed by Joey Rossi, defeated Bobby Hart & Lorenzo Parente, managed by Don Duffy – Danny Dusek defeated Jimmy Kent – Roy Lee Welch defeated Gene Morton
Amarillo, Texas: – Terry Funk & Ricky Romero beat Black Gordman & Tapia (substituting for Great Goliath) in 2 out of 3 falls – In a Loser Must Unmask match, Mr. Wrestling beat Red Devil. Red Devil was unmasked as Dick Beyer (The Destroyer) – Hank James beat Dory Funk Sr
1973 Denver, Colorado: – AWA Tag Team Champions Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens beat The Crusher & Red Bastien in 2 out of 3 falls – Pepper Gomez beat Buddy Wolff dq – Geoff Portz beat Tokyo Joe – Ric Flair drew Tony Rocco
1976 Macon, Georgia: – Andre The Giant won a Battle Royal – Non Title Match; Jos Leduc beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel – Mongolian Stomper beat Rick McGraw – Roberto Soto beat Stan Stasiak – Paul Orndorff beat Jim Lancaster
1979 Knoxville, Tennessee: – Dick Slater beat Toru Tanaka (substituting for Jack Brisco) in a No DQ match – Jimmy Golden beat Robert Fuller – Mongolian Stomper beat Alexis Smirnoff – Norvell Austin & The Angel beat Ron Fuller & Paul Orndorff
1980 St. Paul, Minnesota: – Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon beat AWA Tag Team Champions Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura dq – Ray Stevens & Pat Patterson & Nick Bockwinkel beat Greg Gagne & Dino Bravo & Super Destroyer Mark II – The Crusher beat Jerry Blackwell to win World Brass Knucks Title – Buck Zumhofe drew Steve Regal – Tito Santana beat Chris Markoff
1981 Atlanta, Georgia: – Terry Gordy defeated Michael Hayes in a taped fist match
Greenville, South Carolina: – Buddy Landell beat Charlie Fulton – The Grappler & Super Destroyer beat Paul Jones & Jake Roberts – NWA U.S. Champion Sgt. Slaughter beat Sweet Ebony Diamond (Rocky Johnson) – Ivan Koloff beat Ricky Steamboat
Memphis, Tennessee: – Stan Lane fought Steve Keirn to a no contest – Bill Dundee beat Chick Donovan – Ricky & Robert Gibson beat The Nightmare & Speed via DQ in a “Hospital Elimination” match – Southern Champ Dream Machine beat Dutch Mantel – Sweet Brown Sugar beat Jerry Lawler in a No DQ match
1984 Houston, Texas: – Cage match: Jose Lothario beat Buddy Landel – The Rock N’ Roll Express beat The Midnight Express with Jim Cornette – Steve Williams & Hercules Hernandez beat Hacksaw Duggan & Bill Dundee – George Wells beat Ernie Ladd – Hector & Chavo Guerrero beat The Fantastics
1985 Nashville, Tennessee: – AWA Champion Rick Martel beat Jerry Lawler dq – Rock & Roll Express beat Ivan Koloff & Nikita Koloff – Hospital Elimination Match; Fabulous Ones beat Sheepherders – Bill Dundee beat Mongolian Stomper – Ron Garvin beat Black Bart
1986 Orlando, Florida: – Kendall Windham beat Kendo Nagasaki in a kendo stick on a pole match – The Fabulous Ones drew the Sheepherders – Southern champ Lex Luger beat Hacksaw Higgins – Barry Windham drew Ron Bass
1987 Memphis, Tennessee: – Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee beat Soldat Ustinov & Doug Somers to win AWA Tag Title – Carl Fergie & Black Prince & Don Bass beat Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee & Steve Keirn – Nasty Boys beat Lord Humongous & Big Bubba – Paul Diamond & Pat Tanaka beat Tracy Smothers & John Paul – Bobby Jaggers beat Rocky Johnson – RPMS beat Jeff Jarrett & Billy Travis
1991 Atlanta, Georgia: – Big Josh (Matt Borne) & Dustin Rhodes, & Tom Zenk defeated Richard Morton, Thomas Rich & Terrance Taylor – WCW World TV Champion Steve Austin pinned Steve Armstrong – WCW World Tag Team champions The Enforcers, Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyzsko defeated The Freebirds, Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin – WCW U.S. champion Sting & Rick Steiner defeated Cactus Jack & Abdullah the Butcher in a steel cage match
1992 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: – Bret Hart defeated Ric Flair to win the WWF World Heavyweight Title
1992 Memphis, Tennessee: – Butch Reed defeated Junkyard Dog for the USWA Unified Heavyweight Title
1998 Uniondale, Long Island: – Ken Shamrock defeated X-Pac in a tournament final to win the WWF Intercontinental Title
1999 Birmingham, Alabama: – Mankind & the Rock defeated The New Age Outlaws to win the WWF World Tag Team Title
2002 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: – WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar pinned Chris Benoit – Lance Storm pinned John Cena – Chris Jericho defeated Matt Hardy via submission – No DQ match: Edge pinned Eddie Guerrero
2008 Chicago, Illinois: – Sting defeated Samoa Joe to win the TNA World Title – Booker T defeated AJ Styles and Christian Cage – Jeff Jarrett defeated Kurt Angle
Bret Hart was a guest this past week on Fight Network and The LAW and spoke about the recent passing of Roddy Piper, his issues with the upcoming Owen Hart DVD and Martha Hart and more. The full video is below, along with excerpts from the interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgoEIdSeB4E On the death of his close friend, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper:Roddy’s a really hard one; that’s like losing a brother. I can’t say I’ve gotten over it. If anything, I haven’t even really absorbed it yet. I find myself reaching for the phone all the time to give Roddy a call. He was so much more than any of the other wrestlers who worked with me. He was a guy that mentored me and helped me in the very beginning of my career. He gave me advice back at a time when nobody was giving advice to me. Always good advice. When I wrestled him at WrestleMania VIII, I look back at those times – Mr. Perfect would be another one – there’s a few guys who would reach down and help pull someone like me up to the next level. You can take your Jake Roberts and your Hulk Hogans and your Ultimate Warriors and a lot of these guys that were big names back then, but they never did anything for me. They never helped me, they never thought of helping me, and when they had a chance to help me they never did. But Roddy Piper was a guy that looked after guys like me, and a lot of the younger talent when the opportunity came for him to help make my career and pull me up to the next level. I owe a lot to Roddy Piper.On the recent release of “The Kliq Rules” DVD:They were literally a cancer in the dressing room, all of them. I don’t doubt that Shawn Michaels is sorry for a lot of that kind of behaviour. Kevin Nash was a great wrestler and a good guy, but I don’t think he could be that proud of that association. It was a cancerous environment in the dressing room with those guys and they certainly did more negative than positive to the business. Scott Hall, all you have to do is just look at him. He’s a train-wreck with his own life and he was a malcontent, or a guy that when you were close to him long enough you start to feel the same way he did; you just felt so self-destructive and unhappy with your life and your job and everything. He was a guy that was infectious with his bad, bad sort of moods and unhappiness in his own life that would spread to all the other wrestlers. And you know, I’m glad I’m not remembered for that kind of stuff. I’m remembered – I think if you talk to different wrestlers from that era, the Savio Vegas and those kinds of wrestlers that were on my cards – they’re all pretty proud of how I conducted myself, how I related to them and how I may have been the top guy but I didn’t act like a superstar; not to my friends and not to my peers.On the upcoming “Owen: Hart of Gold” DVD:I’m looking forward to it but I’m not really optimistic that it’s going to be a great job. Martha [Hart, Owen’s widow] handcuffed them so much. I don’t know if they’re even allowed to use any pictures from the past. It’s a poorly done DVD because of all the restraints and the limitations that Martha put on it. To me, that’s such a lousy thing to have happen. I think Owen would turn in his grave if he knew how much trouble Martha has gone to erase his career and make sure that nobody enjoys anything about his career today. It’s a bitterness and selfishness that I can’t stand by anymore. I think Martha’s taken the wrong approach and she should understand that, you know, we all miss Owen. I lost a brother, I lost a great friend and maybe one of the closest people I knew on this earth. I want to celebrate his career, I want to watch his matches back – not just with me, but with everybody he worked with. His time with WWE, they got so much footage and so many great memories with Owen, and here she is standing in the way of that saying, “Nobody can see these videos. No one should see anything that brings back any of his career.” […] They couldn’t use any pictures from his childhood, they couldn’t use anything from Stampede Wrestling. They had so many restraints. Even the interviews, the questions that they did with me were so bullshit. The whole thing was so bullshit that sure, there’s an Owen Hart DVD, but it’s the shits. […] I think WWE maybe had good intentions, but I’m not very impressed with the quality that it’s going to be. I haven’t seen it, I’m not optimistic but I’m hoping that it’ll be better than I think. But I could tell by the questions that they asked me and the interview that they did with me that it was a very short version of [Owen’s story]. I’m not really gonna hold up hope that it’s gonna be as great as it should be, and I feel bad because that’s Martha’s fault.
