Aug. 2023 classic content is 1981 WWF Championship Wrestling

[cjh]

www.wwenetworknews.com/2022/12/19/new-classic-content-now-available-for-december-2022-10-classic-episodes-of-wwf-championship-wrestling-links/


www.wwenetworknews.com/2023/02/20/new-classic-content-now-available-for-february-2023-ten-episodes-of-wwf-championship-wrestling-links-included/

www.wwenetworknews.com/2023/04/24/new-classic-content-now-available-for-april-2023-ten-episodes-of-wwf-championship-wrestling-links-included/

www.wwenetworknews.com/2023/05/29/new-classic-content-now-available-for-may-2023-ten-episodes-of-championship-wrestling-links-included/

www.wwenetworknews.com/2023/07/24/new-classic-content-now-available-for-july-2023-10-episodes-of-wwf-championship-wrestling-across-two-years/

www.wwenetworknews.com/2023/08/28/new-classic-content-now-available-for-august-2023-10-episodes-of-championship-wrestling-from-1981/

[wildojinx]

I'm thinking WCW Worldwide or WCW Main Event. Longshot but possibly USWA?

[chronocross]

Shotgun Saturday Night?

[I'm A Pop Sensation]

Dec 14, 2022 17:39:21 GMT -5 chronocross said:

Shotgun Saturday Night?

[Marvelous1LUFC]

Needs more heat tbh

[mattyy]

God I want Shotgun so bad.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Looking it up, the major event of significance on these episodes of WWF Championship Wrestling is the Larry Zbyzsko heel turn on Bruno Sammartino.

[James Fabiano]

Well it wasn't Superstars...but it was its direct predecessor.

Hope they get some post-WrestleManias eps (includes but not limited to Orndorff's heel turn...)

[salz4life]

Dec 15, 2022 5:07:44 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Looking it up, the major event of significance on these episodes of WWF Championship Wrestling is the Larry Zbyzsko heel turn on Bruno Sammartino.

I've been wanting to see this so I like this update.

[CeilingFan]

Dec 15, 2022 5:07:44 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Looking it up, the major event of significance on these episodes of WWF Championship Wrestling is the Larry Zbyzsko heel turn on Bruno Sammartino.

No one saw it coming.

[cjh]

WWE didn't add the Jan. 26, 1980 CW episode, but they do have it.  This was posted to WWE's YouTube channel in Feb. 2013.

[johnnyk9]

Glad they’re adding footage

[chronocross]

I was hoping for more Superstars episodes but this will do.

[cjh]

8/20/80; Hamburg, PA; Fieldhouse
9/6/80 – included Vince McMahon interviewing Andre the Giant at ringside, which was interrupted by Hulk Hogan & Freddie Blassie, with Blassie challenging Andre for a match with Hogan the following week, which Andre accepted:
Tony Atlas defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna at 7:31
WWF IC Champion Ken Patera defeated Frank Williams
WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament: Rene Goulet & Tony Garea defeated Johnny Rodz & Jose Estrada
Sgt. Slaughter (w/ the Grand Wizard) defeated Kid Sharkey via submission with the Cobra Clutch at 3:56; after the bout, Bruno Sammartino interviewed Slaughter & Wizard at ringside
The Hangman defeated Angelo Gomez

9/9/80; Allentown, PA; Agricultural Hall
9/13/80 – hosted by Vince McMahon:
Andre the Giant fought Hulk Hogan (w/ Freddie Blassie) to a no contest at around the 4-minute mark when Hogan & Blassie left the ring after Hogan dropped Andre and bloodied him with a Hogan Hammer lariat, using a foreign object loaded in his elbow pad; after the match, Vince McMahon interviewed Andre at ringside, with Andre yelling for Hogan to come back out to the ring (Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology) (8/20/80; Hamburg, PA)
Moondog Hawkins (Rex) (w/ Capt. Lou Albano) pinned Steve King at 4:32 with a shoulderbreaker (Hawkins’ debut)
Pedro Morales defeated Jose Estrada
WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament Semi-Finals: The Wild Samoans (w/ Capt. Lou Albano) defeated Dominic DeNucci & Rick Martel via count-out at 10:54 when DeNucci was unable to make it back in the ring before the 10-count after getting thrown out to the floor
WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament Semi-Finals: Tony Garea & Rene Goulet defeated the Black Demon & Sylvano Sousa at 3:21 when Garea pinned Demon with a reverse roll up
Sgt. Slaughter (w/ the Grand Wizard) defeated Angelo Gomez via submission with the Cobra Clutch at 3:02

The Hogan/Andre interview segment and their match must have been specific to local markets.  On the WWE Network episodes, their two segments have been replaced with two extra matches not listed in the above line ups.

[Porky's Butthole]

Jan 27, 2023 0:34:25 GMT -5 cjh said:

WWE didn't add the Jan. 26, 1980 CW episode, but they do have it.  This was posted to WWE's YouTube channel in Feb. 2013.

That was a heel turn?

[cjh]

Apr 24, 2023 20:07:47 GMT -5 Porky's Butthole said:

Jan 27, 2023 0:34:25 GMT -5 cjh said:

WWE didn't add the Jan. 26, 1980 CW episode, but they do have it.  This was posted to WWE's YouTube channel in Feb. 2013.

That was a heel turn?

Zbyszko's heel turn happened in the match they had the following week.

[cjh]

WWE Network's description for the 7/12/1980 episode says it's supposed to have a weigh-in with Bruno Sammartino and Larry Zbyszko to hype their Shea Stadium match.  A shot of Zbyszko with the scale is the thumbnail image for the episode.

However, the segment is nowhere to be found.  Apparently, it only aired in New York City, and WWE Network used the "generic" version of the episode.  In its place is a replay of the arm wrestling match between Tony Atlas and Ken Patera from two weeks earlier.

[johnnyk9]

Interesting

[cjh]

10 more 1981 episodes are now available, starting from Feb. 21.