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Post by WorldWideWilliam on Mar 3, 2005 18:37:02 GMT -5
When and where was the first live event you saw? Who was in the main event? Mine was 3/12/83 in Greensboro!!! I picked a good one didn't I?
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Post by bobbyryates on Mar 3, 2005 18:56:29 GMT -5
you sure did!! you couldn't have picked a better one.
mine was in greensboro on 7/2/78 with flair/mulligan on top.
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Post by gwlee7 on Mar 3, 2005 20:04:20 GMT -5
My first card would be in '72 or so. I used to go to the old Rocky Mount Ballpark where the "Leafs" and then the Phillies single or double A minor league teams played. Kind of the outdoor equvilent to an armory.
Lot's of great talent would come through to set up the "big" matches in Raleigh at the Dorton Arena which is only an hour away.
On the first card I think I saw Johnny Weaver and Agentina Apollo v. Missouri Mauler and Brute Bernard. I was only ten so that may not be correct.
The best match that I ever saw there was Jack Brisco v. a very young Ric Flair that went to a 45 minute time limit draw with at least twenty more minutes of Flair bumping all over a muddy outfield. That was awesome!!
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Post by WorldWideWilliam on Mar 3, 2005 20:12:47 GMT -5
Hey gwlee, I remember the Rocky Mount Ballpark...my cousin used to tell me about going to shows there in the 70s. I've also been to Dorton Arena and Cumberland County Civic Center.
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Post by cwh47 on Mar 3, 2005 20:43:13 GMT -5
May 1965 at the Winston-Salem Coliseum.George
Becker and Johnny Weaver beat Bronco Lubich and
Aldo Bogni managed by Homer O'Dell.George and
Sandy Scott beat the Alaskan and the Beast.Abe Jacobs
wrestled Nelson Royal to a draw.
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Post by RMF1973 on Mar 3, 2005 21:57:51 GMT -5
October 12, 1978 at Surry Central High School in Dobson NC. The main event was Claw vs. Claw, Baron Von Ratschke vs. BlackJack Mulligan. I was only five years old at the time. BlackJack has been one of my all time favorites ever since.
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Post by HardcoreHeroes on Mar 3, 2005 23:24:19 GMT -5
Nice topic.
Maybe someone can help me with the date. I don't know, since I was a kid at the time.
My first live show was at Charlotte's Memorial Stadium.
The matches I remember were Wahoo McDaniel vs. Johnny Valentine, Andre the Giant vs. Blackjack Mulligan, and I remember Boris Malenko in a tag match. This was probably the early-70s.
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Post by The Bright Light on Mar 4, 2005 12:29:09 GMT -5
I remember my dad got tickets in the hopes that I would see everything was a work and would lose interest. Did I show him! After 22 years, I love it more than ever!
Richmond, VA
April 30, 1983
World Tag Titles...Steel Cage
Steamboat & Youngblood defeated Slaughter & Kernodle
US Title
Piper pinned Valentine
TV Title Lumberjack Match
LeDuc beat Slater to win the title
New York City Streetfight
Valiant beat Kabuki w/ Gary Hart
Jack & Jerry Brisco beat Gene Anderson & Angelo Mosca
Bugsy McGraw beat One Man Gang
Jake Roberts w/ Paul Jones pinned Mike Graham
Rufus R. Jones beat Ricky Harris
Mike Rotundo pinned Bill White
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Post by Baltimore Jack on Mar 4, 2005 14:16:15 GMT -5
Hardcore, regarding that Charlotte Stadium card -
This almost had to have been in 1975.
The George Scott 1975 Day Planner lists a stadium card on Monday 6/30/75 with Andre vs Destroyer (Jardine), and Wahoo vs. Blackjack in a strap match. Malenko is in a tag there. That is the only stadium card I found on quick revierw. Could this be it?
I suppose it could have possibly been in 1974, but Mulligan was not in full time then, and it would have had to have been a special shot.
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Post by Baltimore Jack on Mar 4, 2005 14:19:34 GMT -5
For me it was Spartanburg SC, the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 1976.  I wrote an article about that night on the Gateway when we first launched the website 5 years ago. "Giving Thanks in Spartanburg" |
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Post by greatbologuy on Mar 4, 2005 14:59:17 GMT -5
Summer of 1958...
Statesville, N.C. Ball Park...
I remember seeing GEORGE BECKER versus THE GREAT BOLO.
Everything else is a blur. I was only a kid (really, I promise).
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Post by phinney on Mar 4, 2005 15:00:35 GMT -5
My first card would be in '72 or so. I used to go to the old Rocky Mount Ballpark where the "Leafs" and then the Phillies single or double A minor league teams played. Kind of the outdoor equvilent to an armory. Lot's of great talent would come through to set up the "big" matches in Raleigh at the Dorton Arena which is only an hour away. On the first card I think I saw Johnny Weaver and Agentina Apollo v. Missouri Mauler and Brute Bernard. I was only ten so that may not be correct. The best match that I ever saw there was Jack Brisco v. a very young Ric Flair that went to a 45 minute time limit draw with at least twenty more minutes of Flair bumping all over a muddy outfield. That was awesome!! You got a great deal with the senior citizen price cause you were what, 60 or so in 1972! ;D Anyway my first card was in Bangor, WWF from 1993, Yokozuna vs. Savage for the world title. Crush interfered to cost Randy the match |
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Post by rlb147 on Mar 4, 2005 23:39:50 GMT -5
I think my frist like match was at the fairgrounds RIP HAWK& SWEDE HANSONvs JOHNNY WEAVER& GEORGE BECKER I BEING HOOKED EVERY SINCE, I think this was around 1967.
thanks rlb 147
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Post by JNance on Mar 8, 2005 18:25:19 GMT -5
My first live show was at the middle school gym in 1986
in Seagrove, North Carolina. I remember Jimmy Valiant vs Ivan Koloff in the main event, and Paul Jones, Barbarian, and a couple others. The NWA was the best wrestling ever; how I long for those days......
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Post by kyle on Mar 8, 2005 20:01:56 GMT -5
My first live show wasn't a Mid Atlantic show, the IWA was still going and they came to the Altavista Ball Park. The Mighty Igor faced Bulldog Brower in the main event. All the kids ran up to the ring as Igor entered. While most of the kids were pushed back, I slid up into the ring. Igor raised my hand like I was the winner. I was promptly escorted out of the ring. I remember Nick DeCarlo and Johnny Powers being on the card, but not much else.
By the end of the year the IWA was gone and I went to the Roanoke Civic Center and saw Wahoo McDaniel vs. Ric Flair in a "Lights Out Match" in the main event.
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