Magnum vs Wahoo

[thunderfoot]

Can someone tell me when/where magnum beat wahoo in the cage for the US belt?

[bobbyryates]

charlotte
march 23,1985

[thunderfoot]

thanks bobby, was that part of any special card?

[bobbyryates]

not that i recall. i didn't get to go to that particular show. but i do recall going to the mall the following weekend before a show in greensboro, and the match was on "world wide wrestling". so, i stood there in the entertainment area of JC Penny watching the match.

[bluedevil71]

It was a pretty decent TV taping for Mid-Atlantic and World Wide Wrestling that weekend. IIRC, the Koloffs wrestled Manny Feranandez and Don Kernodle (Not sure, I don't have the results in front of me). Jimmy Valiant was on the card and many others. Bobby probably has it handy.

I know this. Crockett came to Richmond, Va., the Friday after that -- the day before the TV taping was shown -- and T.A. defended the U.S. strap vs. Buddy Landell in Richmond. So people there knew who won before the TV bout was shown.

[bobbyryates]

that's one aspect of the good ole days gone forever..the days when i guy shows up with a belt and everybody is surprised about it.
makes me so disgusted by the mentality of the current scene where "a title doesn't change hands until it's happens on tv".....like it was years ago when michael hayes-jimmy garvin "won" the WORLD tag belts 6 days after they lost them...only an idiot would do things like that.

[Bradshaw0012]

I remember one of the Apter mags blew this one out of the water by quoting the length of thier title reign as "negative six days".

[Bradshaw0012]

bobbyryates said:

not that i recall. i didn't get to go to that particular show. but i do recall going to the mall the following weekend before a show in greensboro, and the match was on "world wide wrestling". so, i stood there in the entertainment area of JC Penny watching the match.

Come early this Saturday for our HUGE Last Minute Holiday Sale! Men's cable knit sweaters just 24.99. All women's watches 20-40% off. Plus additional savings throughout the store AND a US Title change. This weekend only, at JC Penny. "It's all inside."

[thegreatbolo]

I attended that card when Magnum beat Wahoo in the cage.

Seems I recall that Wahoo was in some trouble with the law (again), and they had to get him out of JCP for a while. Is this correct, or my faulty memory again?

[thunderfoot]

Where did he go when he left JCP at that point?

[Baltimore Jack]

He went to book Florida.

[bobbyryates]

in '85? it mighta had some issues to deal with his slapping tim parks at greensboro and the lawsuit that followed.

[bluedevil71]

I doubt the title change was directly linked to the lawsuit. The push had been on for Magnum for some time, so the timing seemed right for a switch.

[bobbyryates]

i agree. just suggesting a possibility.
i was in charlotte the night TA debuted (12/25/84)....he was quickly accepted that night, and three months later, he was "it" in MACW.

[Baltimore Jack]

>> in '85? it mighta had some issues to deal with his slapping tim parks at greensboro and the lawsuit that followed.

I'm not saying his leaving did not have anything to do with the incident you describe (although that doesn't really make sense to me, but I know nothing about this incident). I was just answering the question about where he went when he left. He went to book Florida and was the top babyface and challenged Flair for the NWA title at the nationally syndicated/televised Battle of the Belts. That summer he brought Florida guys Billy Jack Haynes, Rick Rood and Jack Hart with him for a Superstation Challenge match on TBS, and then he and Haynes worked some shots that fall and wrestled on Starrcade. Not sure when he gave up the Florida book to come back full time but it was some time in early 1986.