LOW - Legends of Wrestling

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Boutwell Auditorium - Birmingham, AL (Card #169)

D-Lo Brown defeated George South (pinfall - Lo Down)
Ox Baker defeated Brian Blair (pinfall - Heart Punch)
Iron Sheik defeated Dutch Mantel by DQ (Chair Shot)
Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Bill Dundee, & Tom Prichard vs. Bob Orton, Sr., Cowboy Bob Orton, & Bob Roop was a Draw
Apter's Corner with Exotic Adrian Street: He vowed to beautify the south one "ugly wrestler" at a time but started by having Miss Linda spray Apter with perfume
Jerry Lawler, Jackie Fargo, & Danny Hodge defeated One Man Gang, Abdullah the Butcher, & Sir Oliver Humperdink (Hodge pinned OMG - Oklahoma Side Roll after interference by Jimmy Valiant)
Steve Williams defeated Bob Armstrong (pinfall - Oklahoma Stampede)
Ricky Steamboat & Roddy Piper defeated Greg Valentine & Arn Anderson (Steamboat pinned Anderson - Flying Bodypress)

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Conseco Fieldhouse - Indianapolis, IN (Card #170)

Pepper Gomez, Red Bastien, & Dick Hutton defeated Bryan Danielson, Steve Corino, & Danny Doring (Gomez pinned Doring - Wind-Up Punch to Stomach)
Tom Jenkins defeated Playboy Buddy Rose (submission - Grinding Crossface Hold)
LOW Junior Heavyweight title: Billy Red Lyons© defeated Sabu (submission - Sleeper Hold) to retain the title
John Pesek defeated Ad Santel (submission - Double Wristlock)
Dan Severn defeated Terrible Turk (submission - Heel Hook)
Fabulous Ones vs. Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens was a DDQ
Frank Gotch & Jim Londos defeated Love Brothers (Londos over Reginald by submission - Short Arm Scissors Hold)
Masked Superstar defeated The Sheik by DQ (outside ring attack)

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El Toreo de Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico (Card #171)

Battle Kat defeated Halcon Oro (pinfall - Cat's Cradle)
Angelo Mosca defeated Koko B. Ware (submission - Sleeper Hold)
Massacre & Brute defeated Tiger Mask & Jushin Liger (Massacre pinned Liger - Atomic Knee Drop)
Konnan defeated Lex Luger (pinfall - Somersault Lariat)
The French Angel defeated Bruiser Brody by DQ (Brody shoved the referee down during an outside ring attack on Angel)
Rikidozan & Antonio Inoki defeated George Hackenschmidt & Ed Lewis (Inoki over Lewis by submission - Octopus Hold)
Mil Mascaras defeated Scott Norton by DQ (outside ring attack)
LOW Strong Style Tag Team Qualifying Match: Nikolai Volkoff & Killer Kowalski defeated The Mongols (Kowalski over Bepo by submission -Kowalski Claw)

(Note: This show marked the start of qualifying tag matches for a Strong Style Tag Team Tournament featuring all four LOW feds. Yes, Nikolai Volkoff faced himself as Bepo Mongol in the tag match. I tend to use different gimmicks as different wrestlers so i can get more use out of the cards so, yeah, Bepo is a different guy in my fed )

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Nassau Coliseum - Long Island, NY (Card #172)

Al Snow defeated Johnny Rodz (pinfall - Smash with Head)
Don Muraco defeated S.D. Jones (submission - Over-the-Shoulder Backbreaker)
Ilio DiPaolo defeated King Kong Bundy (pinfall - Bodyslam); DiPaolo assaulted by Bundy and Don Muraco post-match with repeated splashes and is out 8 cards
Rob Van Dam defeated Brutus Beefcake (pinfall - Five Star Frog Splash)
Jimmy Snuka defeated Diamond Dallas Page by DQ (outside ring attack)
Antonino Rocca & Sgt. Slaughter defeated Superstar Billy Graham & Ivan Koloff (Slaughter over Graham by submission - Cobra Clutch)
Andre the Giant defeated Don Leo Jonathan (pinfall - Big Elbowdrop)
LOW Strong Style Tag Team Qualifying Match: Fabulous Kangaroos defeated New Age Outlaws (Heffernan pinned Kip - Boomerang)

(Note: The qualifying matches were for the #5 through #8 seeds in the tournament as #1 through #4 had been seeded prior to the tag tournament. Ilio DiPaolo actually bodyslammed and pinned King Kong Bundy on this show but paid for it with a post-match attack and injury courtesy of Bundy and Don Muraco.)

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Eddie Graham Sports Complex - Orlando, FL (Card #173)

Brad Armstrong defeated George South (pinfall - Russian Legsweep)
Bob Roop defeated Brian Blair (pinfall - Shoulder Breaker)
Jackie Fargo defeated Exotic Adrian Street by DQ (outside ring attack)
Bob Armstrong defeated Rick Rude by DQ (interference by Sherri Martel)
Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee defeated One Man Gang & Abdullah the Butcher (Lawler pinned OMG - Strap Pull and Right Hook)
Roddy Piper defeated Harley Race by DQ (outside ring attack)
No DQ Match: Greg Valentine defeated Jimmy Valiant (submission - Figure Four Leglock)
LOW Strong Style Tag Team Qualifying Match: Ted Dibiase & Steve Williams defeated Bob Orton, Sr. & Cowboy Bob Orton (Williams pinned Orton - Oklahoma Stampede)

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Hara Arena - Dayton, OH (Card #174)

Pepper Gomez defeated Playboy Buddy Rose (pinfall - Wind-Up Punch to Stomach)
Bryan Danielson defeated Ad Santel (submission - Cattle Mutilation)
Stan Lane defeated Ray Stevens (pinfall - Midnight Lariat)
Gorgeous George defeated Red Bastien (submission - Spinning Toe Hold)
Larry Zbyszko defeated Dick Hutton (pinfall - Piledriver)
The Sheik defeated Steve Keirn (submission - Camel Clutch following interference by Abdullah Farouk)
Nick Bockwinkel defeated Dan Severn (pinfall - Back Suplex)
LOW Strong Style Tag Team Qualifying Match: Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon defeated High Flyers (Mad Dog pinned Brunzell - Piledriver)

(Note: The Vachon's earned the #8 seed in the tag tournament which you can read about in the next post

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LOW Strong Style Tag Team Tournament

The Superdome - New Orleans, LA (Card #175)

First Round:
Midnight Express (#3) defeated Fabulous Kangaroos (#6) (Condrey pinned Heffernan - Veg-O-Matic)
Ted Dibiase & Steve Williams (#7) defeated Larry & Curt Hennig (#2) by DQ (Larry hit the referee while trying to save Curt)
Nikolai Volkoff & Killer Kowalski (#5) defeated Giant Baba & The Destroyer (#4) (Volkoff pinned Baba - Backbreaker Drop)
Road Warriors (#1) defeated Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon (#8) (Animal pinned Butcher - Doomsday Device)

LOW Junior Heavyweight title: Billy Red Lyons© defeated Danny Hodge (submission - Figure Four Leglock) to retain the title

Semi-Final Round:
Ted Dibiase & Steve Williams defeated Midnight Express (Dibiase pinned Condrey - Powerslam after interference by Jim Cornette backfired)
Road Warriors defeated Nikolai Volkoff & Killer Kowalski (Hawk pinned Kowalski - Doomsday Device)

LOW International Heavyweight title: Rick Rude defeated The Crusher (pinfall - Suplex) to win the title

Final Round:
Ted Dibiase & Steve Williams defeated Road Warriors (Dibiase over Hawk by submission - Figure Four Leglock after a chair shot to the knee) to win the tournament

(Note: A solid tag team tournament featuring Ted Dibiase & Steve Williams upsetting the Road Warriors in the finals to take home the trophy. It was a controversial decision as a chair shot to the knee resulted in the win and began an intense rivalry between the two teams. Rick Rude became the first two-time LOW International champion by beating The Crusher for the belt on this show.)

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Brendan Byrne Arena - East Rutherford, NJ (Card #176)

Al Snow defeated Larry Sharpe (pinfall - Snow Plow)
King Kong Bundy & Don Muraco defeated S.D. Jones & Chief Omega (Muraco pinned Jones - Hawaiian Hammer)
Yukon Eric defeated Chris Candido (submission - Kodiak Krunch)
Diamond Dallas Page & Rob Van Dam defeated Brutus Beefcake & Johnny Valiant (Van Dam pinned Beefcake - Flying Bodypress)
Johnny Valentine defeated Justin Credible (pinfall - Forearm Hammer)
George Steele defeated Antonino Rocca (submission - Flying Hammerlock)
Superstar Billy Graham & Ivan Koloff defeated The Sandman & Wolf (Graham pinned Sandman - Knee to Spine)
LOW World Heavyweight title: Bobo Brazil© defeated Jimmy Snuka (pinfall - Bobo Bodyslam) to retain the title

(Note: An interesting result on this show saw George Steele, the bootleg version, score a huge clean win over Antonino Rocca.)

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Louisville Gardens - Louisville, KY (Card #177)

Ox Baker defeated D-Lo Brown (pinfall - Shoulder Breaker)
Iron Sheik defeated Hacksaw Jim Duggan (pinfall - Kick with Loaded Boot); Sheik and Bob Roop assaulted Duggan post-match with chair shots and he is out 8 cards
LOW Women's title: Ida Mae Martinez defeated Sherri Martel (pinfall - Flying Bodypress) to win the title
Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, & Jackie Fargo vs. Bob Orton, Sr., Cowboy Bob Orton, & Bob Roop was a DDQ
Abdullah the Butcher defeated Bob Armstrong (pinfall - Chair Shot)
Dutch Mantel & Tom Prichard defeated Midnight Express (Mantel pinned Eaton - Whip with Shoo Baby)
One Man Gang, Greg Valentine, & Arn Anderson defeated Andre the Giant, Ricky Steamboat, & Jimmy Valiant (OMG pinned Valiant - 747 Splash)
LOW World tag team titles: Ted Dibiase & Steve Williams defeated Larry & Curt Hennig (Dibiase over Larry by submission - Figure Four Leglock) to win the titles

(Note: A big LOW South show in Louisville featuring two title changes. Dibiase & Williams, coming over their tournament win, beat Larry & Curt Hennig to win the world tag team titles. Sherri Martel lost her LOW Women's title to Ida Mae Martinez underneath starting a stretch of "hot potato" changes of that belt. Jim Cornette was an unhappy camper here as the Midnight Express lost to Dutch Mantel & Tom Prichard in his hometown.)

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Veteran's Memorial Auditorium - Des Moines, IA (Card #178)

Fabulous Ones vs. Steve Corino & Danny Doring was a Draw
Greg Gagne defeated Terrible Turk by DQ (outside ring attack)
John Pesek defeated Ad Santel (pinfall - Roll-Up after a missed corner charge)
Love Brothers defeated Dick Hutton & Red Bastien (Reginald pinned Hutton - Flying Cross Bodyblock and pull of the tights)
Bryan Danielson defeated Jim Brunzell (submission - Cattlle Mutilation)
Pepper Gomez defeated Sabu by DQ (outside ring attack)
Tom Jenkins defeated Larry Zbyszko (Referee Stoppage)
Frank Gotch, Jim Londos, & The Crusher defeated Nick Bockwinkel, Ray Stevens, & Masked Superstar by DQ (interference by Bobby Heenan)