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WWF: Madison Square Garden (12.29.80)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
December 29, 1980
New York City, NY
Madison Square Garden
Your current WWF champions are as follows:
WWF Heavyweight Champion: Bob Backlund (2/20/1978)
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Pedro Morales (12/8/1980)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: Tony Garea & Rick Martel (11/8/1980)
Pop Culture #1s of the Time:
#1 Movie of the Week: Any Which Way You Can starring Clint Eastwood
#1 Song of the Week: (Just Like) Starting Over by John Lennon
#1 TV Show of the 80-81 Season: Dallas starring Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, and Patrick Duffy
There’s a few matches that didn’t quite make the broadcast. Courtesy goes to TheHistoryofWWE.com for these results:
- WWF Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion Antonio Inoki pinned Bobby Duncum in 12:47.
- Ivan Putski pinned Afa in 2:34.
- Tony Atlas pinned Ernie Ladd at 9:24 in a Texas Death match.
Your host is Vince McMahon. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: Madison Square Garden (09.22.80)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
September 22, 1980
New York City
Madison Square Garden
Your current WWF champions are as follows:
WWF Heavyweight Champion: Bob Backlund (2/20/1978)
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Ken Patera (4/21/1980)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: The Wild Samoans (9/20/1980)
Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Kal Rudman. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: All Star Wrestling (05.17.80) (PLUS BACKLUND vs. PATERA TEXAS DEATH MATCH~!)
WWF: All Star Wrestling
May 17, 1980
Hamburg, PA
Hamburg Fieldhouse
Your current WWF champions are as follows:
WWF Heavyweight Champion: Bob Backlund (2/20/1978)
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Ken Patera (4/21/1980)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: The Wild Samoans (4/12/1980)
Pop Culture #1s of the Time:
#1 Movie of the Week: The Long Riders starring David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, James Keach, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid, Christopher Guest, and Nicholas Guest
#1 Song of the Week: Call Me by Blondie
#1 TV Show of the 79-80 Season: 60 Minutes hosted by Mike Wallace
Follow along if you have the WWE Network!
Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Bruno Sammartino. We’ve got a fresh series of tapings here as the crowd already sounds more awake than the crowd at the last taping we saw. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: Madison Square Garden (04.21.80)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
April 21, 1980
New York City
Madison Square Garden
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: The Wild Samoans (4/12/1980)
The following wrestling exhibition requires discretionary viewer participation.
Your host is Vince McMahon. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: Madison Square Garden (03.24.80)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
March 24, 1980
New York City
Madison Square Garden
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: Ivan Putski & Tito Santana (10/22/1979)
Follow along if you have the WWE Network!
The following wrestling exhibition requires discretionary viewer participation.
Your host is Vince McMahon. He makes sure to let us know they sold out not only Madison Square Garden, but also the spillover crowd watching on CCTV in the Felt Forum. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: Madison Square Garden (01.21.80)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
January 21, 1980
New York City, NY
Madison Square Garden
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: Ivan Putski & Tito Santana (10/22/1979)
Your host is Vince McMahon. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: Madison Square Garden (12.17.79)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
December 17, 1979
New York City, NY
Madison Square Garden
Your current WWF champions are as follows:
WWF Heavyweight Champion: Bob Backlund (2/20/1978)
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Pat Patterson (6/23/1979)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: Ivan Putski & Tito Santana (10/22/1979)
Your host is Vince McMahon. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: Madison Square Garden (10.22.79)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
October 22, 1979
New York City, NY
Madison Square Garden
Your current WWF champions are as follows:
WWF Heavyweight Champion: Bob Backlund (2/20/1978)
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Pat Patterson (6/23/1979)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: Johnny & Jerry Valiant (3/24/1979)
Your host is Vince McMahon. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: Madison Square Garden (09.24.79)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
September 24, 1979
New York City, NY
Madison Square Garden
Your current WWF champions are as follows:
WWF Heavyweight Champion: Bob Backlund (2/20/1978)
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Pat Patterson (6/23/1979)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: Johnny & Jerry Valiant (3/24/1979)
Your host is Vince McMahon. Read the rest of this entry
WWF: Madison Square Garden (08.27.79)
WWF: Madison Square Garden
August 27, 1979
New York City, NY
Madison Square Garden
Your current WWF champions are as follows:
WWF Heavyweight Champion: Bob Backlund (2/20/1978)
WWF Intercontinental Champion: Pat Patterson (6/23/1979)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: Johnny & Jerry Valiant (3/24/1979)
Here are some match results that didn’t make the video courtesy of TheHistoryofWWE.com:
-SD Jones pinned Frank Rodriguez at 6:02.
-WWF Tag Team Champion Johnny Valiant defeated Dominic DeNucci via count-out at 8:31 after a collision caused DeNucci to fall out of the ring.
-Greg Valentine pinned Steve Travis at 11:39 with an elbow drop.
Your host is Vince McMahon. Read the rest of this entry
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