Wrestling Results - December 21, 1979

[Joe Neglia]

World Class/Houston - Houston, TX

Junkyard Dog defeated Don Diamond
Bull Ramos vs. Les Thornton ended without a winner as a time limit draw
Killer Brooks vs. Tiger Conway Jr. ended without a winner as a time limit draw
Bruiser Brody defeated The Challenger
Jimmy Snuka vs. Ken Patera ended without a winner as a time limit draw
Gino Hernández defeated Sugar Bear Harris
2 out of 3 Falls Match - NWA Texas Brass Knuckles Title Match - Dusty Rhodes defeated Mark Lewin (c) by 2 falls to 1 - TITLE CHANGE!!!

Ramos vs. Thornton sounds like a horrible mismatch in my head.

Sugar Bear Harris = Kamala

Don Diamond had a very short career - only about five years. The following year, he'd get one single WWF match. In MSG. Against Tatsumi Fujinami. For the WWF Junior Heavyweight title. So, y'know, props to that guy or something.

Three time limit draws in the span of four matches? Yuck.

No idea who The Challenger was. I'd say it was someone else on the card playing double-duty under a generic mask, but I don't see anyone there that wouldn't be instantly recognizable.

Lotta crazy in that lockerroom.

? - Bremen, Germany

Billy Samson defeated Oscar Lago
Ivan Strogoff defeated Rasputin
Bobby Gaetano defeated Biko Botowamungo
John Quinn defeated Dave Viking
Wolfgang Saturski defeated Steve Wright
Robby Ganseur and Tony St. Clair defeated Indio Guajaro and Johnny el Corso

Rasputin was Black Angus Campbell in Stampede and elsewhere.

Biko Botowamungo is an awesome name, as is his alternate longer one - Biko Ikomoniya Botowamungo

Championship Wrestling USA - Portland, OR

King Parsons defeated Brute Miller by disqualification
Chris Colt vs. Matt Borne ended without a winner as a time limit draw
Roddy Piper defeated Frank Dusek
Buddy Rose, Luke Williams and Brute Miller defeated Yaqui Joe, Stan Stasiak and Rick Martel

Brute Miller = Butch Miller

Chris Colt was a very...interesting...wrestler. Also one of the first to go into porn.

I need to watch more early Iceman Parsons work. Thought he was awesome in the mid-80s.

EMLL - Arena Coliseo, Mexico

Rolando Valentino defeated Caballero Blanco
El As defeated Irazú
Doberman vs. El Vengador ended without a winner
El Dandy and El Fantasma defeated Leo López and Bruno Victoria
Kato Kung Lee and Kung Fu defeated Tony Salazar and El Supremo
Satoru Sayama and Lawrence de Arabia defeated Sangre Chicana and El Satánico by disqualification

Sayama = the original Tiger Mask

Kato Kung Lee? Found three different ways to rip off Bruce Lee in just one name.

Lawrence de Arabia was actually from Spain.

CWA - Sports Arena, Tupelo, Mississippi

Steve Regal vs. Tony Russo
Assassin #1 and Assassin #2 vs. David Schultz and Dennis Condrey
Paul Ellering and Ricky Morton vs. Tojo Yamamoto and Sonny King

Assassin #1 = Randy Culley (Moondog Rex, Deadeye Dick, The Nightmare in Mid-South, original Demolition Smash, Detroit Demolition, (Fake) Black Scorpion, Shadow #1, Ripper Haw--jesus, this guy had a lot of gimmick...

Assassin #2 = Bill Terry/Kurt Von Hess

Schultz and Condrey is an interesting pairing. Ellering and Morton is f***ing weird. So is Yamamoto/King. This was when Ellering was still a full-time wrestler and was doing a rip-off of Superstar Graham's gimmick.

Steve Regal = Mr. Electricity, not Sir William.

AWA - Auditorium Arena, Denver, CO

Adrian Adonis and Jesse Ventura defeated The Crusher and Steve Olsonoski
AWA World Tag Team Titles Match - Verne Gagne and Mad Dog Vachon (c) defeated Super Destroyer Mark II and Super Destroyer Mark III

Steve Olsonoski = Steve O, '80s jobber extraordinaire.

Super Destroyer Mark II = Sgt. Slaughter

Mark III was someone named Neil Guay, who would have a stint as The Hangman the following year in WWF.

Stampede - Calgary...Alberta...Canada

Stampede International Tag Team Titles Tournament
(Round #1) Don Gagne and Tom Stanton defeated Eric Embry and Andre Zvezda
(Round #1) Tetsuo Sekigawa and Dynamite Kid defeated Hiroshi Yagi and Joe Ventura
(Semi Final) Leo Burke and Hubert Gallant defeated Yan Ky and Tsutomu Oshiro
(Semi Final) Tetsuo Sekigawa and Dynamite Kid defeated Don Gagne and Tom Stanton
(Finals AND Tag Title Match) Dynamite Kid and Tetsuo Sekigawa defeated Leo Burke and Hubert Gallant - TITLE CHANGE!!!

Bruce Hart defeated John Foley

Not quite sure I understand the brackets. Seems like the champs got a bye into Round #2/Semi Finals? Something like that. I dunno.

Sekigawa = Mr. Pogo

Don Gagne = Frenchy Martin

Hiroshi Yagi = Ryuma Go

Joe Ventura = Joe Lightfoot, early 80s journeyman

Andre Zvezda = Larry Winters in early ECW (Eastern years)


source: wrestlingdata.com

[Squirrel Master]

Les Thornton was a good technical wrestler. I liked him as a mid-1980s WWF jobber.

In Puerto Rico, Mr. Pogo was a tag team champion with Kendo Nagasaki during a time when the WWC was off the charts with outstanding teams.

Heel Ken Patera was great at getting the crowd to hate him, the quintessential obnoxious guy.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Ken Patera vs. Jimmy Snuka going broadway SOUNDS like it would be a chore to sit through, but both guys were more or less in their primes, there, so....mmmm, not sure.

[Joe Neglia]

Dec 21, 2018 22:50:02 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

Ken Patera vs. Jimmy Snuka going broadway SOUNDS like it would be a chore to sit through, but both guys were more or less in their primes, there, so....mmmm, not sure.

You can find out for yourself, here's the match:



It's not that bad a match, honestly. Nothing spectacular by today's standards, but it stays pretty lively with some really nice bumping.

(Houston footage, exempt from WWE monarchy)

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Re: Germany - Steve Wright is "Berlyn/Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright's father.

Re: Mexico - strange... the link takes me to the same El Dandy that Bret Hart didn't doubt, but I also see information that his debut was in 1982? Is he so good that he started wrestling before he started wrestling?

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Dec 21, 2018 23:25:09 GMT -5 El Pollo Guerrera said:

Re: Germany - Steve Wright is "Berlyn/Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright's father.

Re: Mexico - strange... the link takes me to the same El Dandy that Bret Hart didn't doubt, but I also see information that his debut was in 1982? Is he so good that he started wrestling before he started wrestling?

WrestlingData.com is not without its glitches. I believe they still link the 1989 Zeus the movie villain with the more recent Zeus from All-Japan.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Dec 22, 2018 10:55:12 GMT -5 @sandman said:

Dec 21, 2018 23:25:09 GMT -5 El Pollo Guerrera said:

Re: Germany - Steve Wright is "Berlyn/Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright's father.

Re: Mexico - strange... the link takes me to the same El Dandy that Bret Hart didn't doubt, but I also see information that his debut was in 1982? Is he so good that he started wrestling before he started wrestling?

WrestlingData.com is not without its glitches. I believe they still link the 1989 Zeus the movie villain with the more recent Zeus from All-Japan.

LuchaWiki also lists El Dandy's debut in '82. Starting to wonder if there was another Dandy?

[Milkman Norm]

1. Chris Colt vs Matt Borne sounds like 15 lbs of crazy in 10 lbs bag. Also a hell of a match.

2. Was Ellering doing his babyface Billy Graham act he was doing a few years later in Mid South in Memphis back in 79?

[Joe Neglia]

Dec 22, 2018 12:34:24 GMT -5 Milkman Norm said:

2. Was Ellering doing his babyface Billy Graham act he was doing a few years later in Mid South in Memphis back in 79?

I assumed so, but looking at video, he was just a really muscular bland babyface at the time, and completely unrecognizable: