WWF: All Star Wrestling
September 22, 1979
Hamburg, PA
Hamburg Fieldhouse

Your current WWF champions are as follows:
WWF Heavyweight Champion: Bob Backlund (2/20/1978)
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Pat Patterson (9/1/1979)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: Johnny & Jerry Valiant (3/24/1979)

Pop Culture #1s of the Time:
#1 Movie of the Week: Apocalypse Now starring Martin Sheen & Marlon Brando
#1 Song of the Week: My Sharona by The Knack
#1 TV Show of the 79-80 Season: 60 Minutes hosted by Mike Wallace

Follow along if you have the WWE Network!

The following wrestling exhibition requires discretionary viewer participation.

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Bruno Sammartino. While going over the matches for this week with Bruno, Vince refers to Larry Zbyszko as Bruno’s “paisano”. Now Vince has mentioned in the past that Larry Zbyszko had been trained by Bruno, but this looks to be more like Vince’s subtle way of spreading some seedlings of the heel turn that is coming. Read the rest of this entry →