Wwf Wrestling 1984

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Atthe 1984 Summer Olympics, 20 wrestling events were contested. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines. Competition took place at the arena at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.[1]

On this page you find the full WWF Roster in the year 1984. This includes the list of all WWF Wrestlers, division between Men and Women Rosters, active Tag Teams & Stables, the current reigning Champions, as well as Managers, Announcers, Authority figures, Producers and other personalities in World Wrestling Federation.

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HALL OF FAME

The "Pin King" was an automatic six team points for the SIUE wrestling team from 1982 to 1985. A four-time All-American in the heavyweight class, Al Sears holds the school record for falls in a season with 30. His 122 career falls also was recognized as an NCAA record. Sears was a member of SIUE's first two national championships in 1984 and 1985.

*Tuesday Night Titans switched to Fridays. He says as soon as wrestling reaches a saturation point, cutbacks will occur and the territories will get hit hardest since WWF can lose 70 percent of its cable time and still have plenty of programming.

*Mike sums up the wrestling war. He says the WWF initially hit hard, but some circuits, like the AWA, appear to by rallying. Mid-Atlantic got raided hard but is coming off a highly attended Starrcade and is holding its own.

*Tag Team of the Year: 1) Warriors; 2) Dynamite/Davey Boy; 3) Brody/Hansen. Commentators say there are some strong teams and all do not list Warriors first because of their low work rate and short matches.

*Most Underrated: 1) Brian Blair; 2) Takada; 3) Starr. This was a tough one because it was hard to determine how to define underrated. By who: the fans? Promotions? Other wrestlers? Technically, all Japanese wrestlers could win this one.

*WWF drew 2,800 in Houston compared to 10,000 drawn by Mid-South for a free show the same night. Same situation in Oklahoma saw WWF outdrawn 10,000 to 1,500. Watts had to turn several fans away and they ended up going to the WWF show instead.

*The latest series took place thanks to a sponsor of New Japan putting up $160,000. A joint UWF/NJ show was also discussed. A subsequent meeting between NJ and UWF was cancelled after the UWF wrestlers stormed out because reporters arrived at the meeting. The sponsor was mad and demanded the $160,000 back. UWF gave back $48,000, or what was left after paying off all debts.

*Behind the scenes maneuvering by Lawler and Jarrett has lowered the rent at Mid-South Coliseum from 12 percent of the gate to 10 percent. Crowds have been way down and the promotion feels it was because an entertainment tax being levied, which forced tickets to rise $1 per seat (damn liberals even try to ruin wrestling!). Dave explains how the tax on wrestling somehow went from four to 11.75 percent. It was all kind of confusing. He went back to it later in the report, which confused me even more (good thing Meltzer reports on wrestling and not Capitol Hill).

*The NWA and Ole had a show booked for 2/30 in Pittsburgh but the building was suddenly pulled from them.*The NWA and Ole had a show booked for 2/30 in Pittsburgh but the building was suddenly pulled from them.

Martel-Robinson was actually a decent match given that nobody thought Robinson had a snowball's chance to take the title. Still a good competitive bout. The real seller of tickets on this card was the Roadies match, although there was also a Greg Gagne revenge match against Sheik Kaissie in a cage that would have brought some fans in, too. This was just after the Lights out match between Brody and Blackwell and it would have been Greg's first wrestling return to the ring for revenge. IIRC Masked Superstar ends up coming into the cage to save Sheik and beat on Gagne, and Jerry Blackwell comes in for the save. Blackwell was ridiculously hot as the top face about that time.

The Turkey Battleroyal the WWF did was indeed mocked by the media in all of their sports reports (Twin Cities TV used to show highlights of all the wrestling cards up through at least the end of 1985, and plenty of years before that).

This makes little sense as the High Flyers tagged in a "reunion" match on 1/13/85 in St. Paul against Kaissie and Masked Superstar. They had not wrestled together since April of 1984 when Brody took them both out. The Flyers splitting was never teased in the Minnesota markets as far as I can remember...the opposite was the selling point. Must've ben a local Salt Lake angle of some sort or Dave misread what he thought he was seeing (or his correspondent did).

After this would have been written, the Flyers teamed several times in Winnipeg (and probably many other cities) before Brunzell left for the WWF. One notable match was the Freebirds (Hayes and Roberts) getting the win in Winnipeg over Gagne and Brunzell at the stat of the Freebirds "push" (such as it was).

You're right about Gagne's return boosting attendence. The Mondo Mike guy mentions that. I had to re-type some of this recap because of computer issues, so I went through the Mondo Mat report on the AWA a little hastily. Dave also mentioned he thought the High Flyers split was a longshot, but some people were hinting at it.

That explanation doesn't really make sense, as he was allowed to use his talent, as he was given the IC belt in 1984, worked with many of the top heels from a working standpoint (Muraco, Valentine, Orndorff, Orton, etc.) and his matches were given time to breathe. He also wasn't too lazy to use it, as his work from that time period held up well in the DVDVR 80s set. He was still a very solid, reliable performer. Sounds like an early Observer myth.

I'll have to go back and check, but I don't think Meltzer or the other commentators included Tito in their washed up lists. He came in third on reader ballots. Meltzer describes Tito's matches as hit or miss. He seems to like most of his matches with Valentine.

These are fascinating reads and I love going into the past...though naturally these WONs are uber-smarky for me. You think it would kill Meltzer at the time to say anything nice about the WWF...or was it really doing iffy business when the Hulkamania "boom" started?

He gives the WWF credit every now and then, but usually in a backhanded way. The way Meltzer portrays it, the WWF has always done great in the northeast. When they started going national during the Hogan boom, it struggled to crack certain markets, yet McMahon always bragged about how the WWF sells out huge arenas throughout the U.S. and are the No. 1 wrestling promotion in the world. In other words, it didn't sound like the WWF was doing iffy business, per se, but wasn't the well-oiled machine it portrayed itself as.

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