Wide World Wrestling

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Inaugural Wide World Wrestling Card:

Olympic Auditorium - Los Angeles Calf (Card #1)


Tournament For The Wide World WWWF Title

Round 1

Bob Backlund b Superstar Billy Graham-(Reverse Pin Off The Ropes)

Bruno Sammartino b Hulk Hogan-(Bruno Catches Hogan In The Backbreaker)

Buddy Rogers b Stan Stasiak -(Figure Four Leglock)

Ivan Koloff b Pedro Morales-(Koloff Caught Morales With His Knee Of The Top Rope. Morales Rolled Outside The Ring And Was Counted Out.)


Round 2

Bob Backlund b Ivan Koloff-(The Russian Bear Was Done In By The Backlund Bridge)

Buddy Rogers b Bruno Sammartino-(Rogers Piledrove A Bloody Sammartino Onto The Concrete Floor. Sammatino Some How Managed To Get Back Into The Ring But Was Weakend To The Point That Rogers Piledrove Him Again For The Pin & The Win)


Final

Bob Backlund  b Buddy Rogers-(Backlund Gave Rogers A Little Of His Own Medicine Putting The Nature Boy Away With The Piledriver & The Pin)

Bob Backlund Becomes The First Wide World Wrestling WWWF H.W. Champion

[ajcostello]

Nice little tourney.

Glad to see Bobo with a title, as always.

[capt]

South Mt. Arena - South Orange N.J. (Card #2)

Curt Hennig b Tor Kamata-(Tope Rope Dropkick)

Rene Goulet & Tony Garea 20 Min Draw

Dominic Denucci b The Unpredictable Johnny Rodz-(Airplane Spin)

Moondog Mayne b Dino Bravo-(Top Rope Clothesline)(Bravo A Bloody Mess)

Dick"Bulldog"Brower b Haystacks Calhoun-(Calhoun's Head Was Trapped Between The Ropes & Was Counted Out)

The Spoiler b Chief Jay Strongbow-(Piledriver)

Tony Marino b Waldo Von Erich-(Reverse Pin Off The Ropes)

Blackjacks Lanza/Mulligan b Tony Parisi/Gino Brito-(Mulligan Put Away Brito With A Clothesline}

[newog]

Great to see backlund getting time with a run at the top of a loaded fed like yours.