Wrestling Results - May 5, 1976

[Joe Neglia]

results per wrestlingdata.com

WWWF @ Florence, New Jersey
1. Crusher Blackwell vs. José Gonzales ended without a winner as a time limit draw
2. Stan Lavdas defeated Les Morgan by disqualification
3. 2 out of 3 Falls Match - WWWF World Tag Team Titles Match: Tony Parisi and Louis Cerdan (c) defeated Louis Cyr and Baron Mikel Scicluna
4. Rocky Tomayo defeated Mike Santocapito
5. Billy Graham vs. Ivan Putski ended without a winner as a double disqualification

- Les Morgan is the father Heidi Lee Morgan

- Louis Cerdan = Gino Brito

- Gonzalez is, of course, the asshole who murdered Bruiser Brody

AJPW The 4th Champion Carnival - Day 31 @ Date, Fukushima (Japan)
1. Kazuharu Sonoda defeated Atsushi Onita
2. Masao Ito defeated Oh Tae Kyun
3. Mitsuo Momota defeated Masanobu Fuchi
4. Munenori Higo and Samson Kutsuwada defeated Mitsu Hirai and Kazuo Sakurada
5. Kintaro Oki defeated Larry Lane
6. Harley Race defeated Motoshi Okuma
7. Great Kojika defeated Larry Sharpe
8. King Iaukea defeated The Beast
9. Giant Baba, The Destroyer and Jumbo Tsuruta defeated The Barracuda, Abdullah the Butcher and Buddy Wolfe

- Sonoda = Magic Dragon

- Sakurada = Kendo Nagasaki (US version, not UK)

- Kojika = Dory Boy. Also, he debuted in 1963 and is STILL working, including in 2020!

- King Iaukea = Curtis Iaukea, aka the Master of the Dungeon of Doom

- This Beast was the Yvon Cormier version

- "The Butcher...The Barracuda...and The Buddy" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

NJPW The 3rd World League - Day 27 - @ Fukuoka, Fukuoka (Japan)
1. Makoto Arakawa defeated Daigoro Oshiro
2. Yoshiaki Fujiwara defeated Seiei Kimura
3. Katsuhisa Shibata defeated Masashi Ozawa
4. Osamu Kido defeated Raúl Mata
5. Butcher Vachon defeated Haruka Eigen
6. Masa Saito defeated Killer Karl Krupp
7. Pedro Morales defeated Victor Rivera
8. Strong Kobayashi defeated Kantaro Hoshino
9. Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi defeated Towering Inferno and Ken Mantell

Towering Inferno = Neil Guay (aka The Hangman in WWWF)

Show @ Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas
1. Paul Perschmann defeated Jan Nelson
2. Francisco Flores defeated Don Wade
3. Peter Maivia defeated Don Fargo
4. Lord Alfred Hayes vs. Rocky Johnson ended without a winner as a time limit draw
5. José Lothario vs. Killer Tim Brooks ended without a winner as a double disqualification
6. Chavo Guerrero defeated Mongolian Stomper

- Perschmann = Buddy Rose

- Lord Alfred and Rocky Johnson going to a time limit draw blows my mind

Show @ Tennessee State Fairgrounds Arena in Nashville, Tennessee
1. Dennis Hall vs. Rocket Monroe ended without a winner as a time limit draw
2. Charlie Cook defeated The Assassin
3. Charlie Cook and Dennis Hall defeated Rocket Monroe and The Assassin
4. 2 out of 3 Falls Match: Masked Domino, Masked Domino and J.C. Dykes defeated Frankie Lane, Don Kernodle and Randy Fargo
5. Phil Hickerson and Dennis Condrey defeated Tommy Marlin and Don Greene

Show @ Coliseum at Mississippi State Fairgounds in Jackson, Mississippi
1. Alex Pérez vs. Ron Starr - winner unknown
2. Bob Sweetan vs. Ted Heath - winner unknown
3. Buck Robley and Bob Slaughter vs. Tom Jones and Nelson Royal - winner unknown
4. NWA North American Heavyweight Title (Tri-State-Version) Match: Bill Watts (c) vs. Killer Karl Kox - winner unknown
5. No Disqualification Match: Dick Murdoch vs. Ken Patera - winner unknown

- Bob Slaughter = Sgt Slaughter

- I've got to be honest, that may be the most unpleasant locker room I've seen on one card in a little while.

Show @ William Lindsay White Civic Auditorium in Emporia, Kansas
1. Mike York vs. Omar Atlas - winner unknown
2. Ray Candy vs. Tank Patton - winner unknown
3. Akio Sato vs. Bob Brown - winner unknown
4. Ed Wiskoski vs. Mike George - winner unknown
5. Pole Battle Royal: Akio Sato vs. Bob Brown vs. Ed Wiskoski vs. Mike George vs. Mike York vs. Omar Atlas vs. Ray Candy vs. Tank Patton - winner unknown

- Ray Candy = Kareem Muhammad/Commando Ray

- Wiskoski = Col. DeBeers

SECW @ Dobyns-Bennett Gym in Kingsport, Tennessee
1. Adventure #1 vs. Mike Stallings - winner unknown
2. Adventure #2 vs. Ron Wright - winner unknown
3. Ron Fuller, Jimmy Golden and Butch Malone vs. Toru Tanaka, Norvell Austin and Homer O'Dell - winner unknown
4. NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Title (Northern Division) Match: Don Carson vs. Robert Fuller (c) - winner unknown

MACW TV-Taping @ WRAL Television Studio in Raleigh, North Carolina
1. NWA World Tag Team Titles (Mid-Atlantic-Version) Match: Dino Bravo and Mr. Wrestling defeated Gene Anderson and Ole Anderson (c) - TITLE CHANGE!!!

EMLL Guadalajara Miércoles - La Arena Coliseo del Occidente in Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico)
1. ? vs. ? - winner unknown
2. ? vs. ? - winner unknown
3. Atila and Bello Greco vs. Dos Caras and Rayo de Jalisco - winner unknown
4. Alberto Muñoz, El Solitario and Tinieblas vs. Ángel Blanco, Frankenstein and Ray Mendoza - winner unknown
5. Hair Match: Hermano Escobedo #1 and Hermano Escobedo #2 vs. El Vikingo and Renato Torres - winner unknown

- Frankenstein = Nothanael Evaristo León Moreno, aka Rudy Leon. This guy worked as Frankenstein in Mexico starting all the way back in the late '40s and was still working under that name in the late '70s. Anyone have any idea what this gimmick was like? Just a normal masked luchador?

IWE Dynamite Series - Day 18 - Maebashi, Gunma (Japan)
1. Tadaharu Tanaka defeated Tsutomu Yonemura
2. Goro Tsurumi defeated The Inferno
3. Animal Hamaguchi and Isamu Teranishi defeated Snake Amami and Katsuzo Oiyama
4. Jiro Inazuma and Rusher Kimura defeated The Undertaker and Zebra Kid
5. IWA World Tag Team Titles (2. Version) Match: Mighty Inoue and Great Kusatsu (c) defeated Scorpion #1 and Scorpion #2

- This Zebra Kid was aka Earl Freeman

- The Undertaker = Hans Schroeder. It's amazing how many Undertakers there were in the business before Mean Mark. This one even worked AS "The Undertaker" in the WWWF at one point. I just yesterday came across reference to a '70s UK tag team called the Undertakers, and then there's the USWA character the year before Survivor Series 90 as well as the IWCCW tag team that Vince hired to get the name rights from before dumping them on the side of the road.

CWF @ Convention Hall Room 100 in Miami Beach, Florida
1. Mike Pappas defeated Mr. Hayashi
2. Bob Backlund defeated Bill Howard
3. Steve Keirn defeated Jim Dalton
4. Fatback Brown defeated George Harris
5. Jack Brisco and Billy Robinson defeated The Assassin and Pak Song by disqualification
6. NWA Florida Tag Team Titles Match: Bob Orton and Bob Orton Jr. (c) defeated Hiro Matsuda and Jerry Brisco
7. Brass Knuckles Match: Dusty Rhodes defeated Missouri Mauler

- Fatback Brown = Bearcat Brown

- Fatback? Really?

ESA @ Lady Beaverbrook Arena in Fredericton, New Brunswick (Canada)
1. Roy Callender vs. Tom Stanley - winner unknown
2. Frank Marconi vs. Herbert Gallant - winner unknown
3. 2 on 1 Handicap Match: The Brute vs. Willie Tremblay and Ted Herbert - winner unknown
4. Mad Dog Martel and Frenchy Martin vs. Rudy Kay and Tommy Gilbert - winner unknown
5. Dory Funk Jr. vs. Leo Burke - winner unknown

- The Brute = Bugsy McGraw

- No, seriously...FATBACK?

AWA @ Palmer Auditorium in Davenport, Iowa
1. Russ Francis defeated Kim Duk
2. Mad Dog Vachon defeated Chris Taylor by disqualification
3. Larry Hennig defeated Baron Von Raschke
4. Verne Gagne, Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell defeated Nick Bockwinkel, Blackjack Lanza and Bobby Duncum

[Mozenrath]

There's something so funny to me about Bob Slaughter. I had no idea he had a kayfabed first name.

This is like if Captain America debuted as Jim America.

[Joe Neglia]

May 5, 2020 5:23:07 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

There's something so funny to me about Bob Slaughter. I had no idea he had a kayfabed first name.

This is like if Captain America debuted as Jim America.

It's actually his shoot first name, being Bob Remus. So more akin to Steve America.

...unless you're talking about when Bucky took over, than yeah, Jim America is the way to go.

[Sir Woodrow]

May 5, 2020 5:23:07 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

There's something so funny to me about Bob Slaughter. I had no idea he had a kayfabed first name.

This is like if Captain America debuted as Jim America.

His name is really Bob S. Laughter, he was never a Marine but instead a failed stand up comedian who would put the audience offside when he called them Maggots

[XIII]

Huh, so many Undertaker’s. Weird.

Is Russ Francis from the AWA card the professional footballer/WM2 battle royal participant?

[Joe Neglia]

May 5, 2020 18:10:22 GMT -5 XIII said:

Is Russ Francis from the AWA card the professional footballer/WM2 battle royal participant?

One and the same. Bonus: His father was wrestler/promoter Ed Francis, who ran the Hawaii territory for years before selling it off to Peter Maivia in 1979. Ed had another son (and Russ, a brother) named Bill Francis who was also a wrestler.