Matches You Didn't Think Existed

[BruiserBrody]

2/13/77 – Green Bay, WI @ the Brown County Veteran’s Memorial Arena
Andre the Giant & the Crusher defeated AWA Tag Team Champions Blackjack Lanza & Bobby Duncum via DQ

Here's the inverse of this thread.... Matches you think should have existed a lot more... This is the only time Crusher teamed with Andre ever. You would think the top babyface would have teamed with the monster babyface who came in to conquer the big bad heels more than once over the years. Andre worked plenty of AWA dates.

 

[Valeyard]

I know the company and dates don't work but man I'd love Gene following Andre and Crusher bar hopping as a vignette.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698872591967289842

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1700511819004006413

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701762881329443024

Strong style Horowitz!

 

[Valeyard]

That got me thinking. You know, prime Horowitz vs Roderick Strong just became a weird dream match I didn't know existed for me.

 

[Valeyard]

Simmons and Steamboat is a face team I didn't know I wanted. Orndorff and Slater kind of do it for me as well.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1703911680567054706

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

HOSS FIGHT DEEP DIVE

Roadblock Vs 911 Sledgehammer! This is almost as good as Roadblock Vs Rick Fuller.

Dusty Rhodes- "Happy Valentine's Day Roadblock!"

 

[Fall of Epic]

I think 911 also performed on Nitro under the name Tombstone. I'm guessing it was kind of a shot at Taker?

 

[Valeyard]

Is 911 still alive?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Inexplicably yes. I could've sworn he was one of the first ECW dudes to die but not only is he still alive, he apparently had his last match in 2020.

Not only did WCW make 911 a jobber but they made him the type of jobber that kept changing his name.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Tag teams you never knew existed????

 

[alkeiper]

911’s son is wrestling on the indies as Big Vin. Believe he’s out with an ACL or similar injury at the moment.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1711029685671592272

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1711155957974073802

 

[Valeyard]

Finally it's back up.

 

[BruiserBrody]

WWF @ Moline, IL – Wharton Fieldhouse – January 12, 1990 (6,876 paid; sell out)

Sapphire (w/ Dusty Rhodes) pinned Slick; this bout was held instead of the scheduled Dusty Rhodes / Big Bossman match because Bossman had an ankle injury; prior to the match, Rhodes beat up Slick

Philadelphia, PA – Spectrum – August 24, 1991
Bret Hart defeated Sgt. Slaughter by DQ after General Adnan threw powder in Hart’s face

WWF @ New Haven, CT – Coliseum – February 11, 1991
Earthquake defeated Roddy Piper via disqualification

 

[Valeyard]

Whoa.

 

[JHawk]

So I knew Hogan vs. Santana also happened at the Garden in 1980 but cagematch says Hogan vs. Santana happened at the Garden TWICE

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1716619169100079397

“This guy sucks, Jim! I beat him in handicap matches!”

 

[BruiserBrody]

Wrestlingdata.com

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The Kurgan talk sent me down a rabbit hole. I freaked at seeing "Butcher Vachon vs Kurgan" in 1992. Butcher would have been a geezer...but this Butcher Vachon was apparently a indy geek who took the name.

 

[Valeyard]

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Danny Davis Shemp hair

 

[Valeyard]

Hall working stiffer version of a 1993 Razor squash with Tanahashi is something I didn't know I wanted, let alone one of the first times in a loooong time I've been so happy with a finish.

 

[BruiserBrody]

WWF @ Youngstown, OH – Beeghly Center – May 8, 1991
Ricky Steamboat pinned Shane Douglas (sub. for Haku)

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1724986937893687781

Bob not bothering to catch Sasuke at all several times is brutal!

 

[Valeyard]

Match is fire though. I've come to love me some BattleArts.

 

[Valeyard]

Beef

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]