Today in WWWF History WWWF @ New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden - August 7, 1976 (22,000) Televised on the MSG Network - featured Vince McMahon on commentary: Johnny Rivera pinned Jose Cadiz at 10:41 with a flying bodypress off the top SD Jones pinned Johnny Rodz at 8:12 after kicking from the turnbuckle and falling back on Rodz as Rodz attempted a German suplex and lifting his left shoulder when both were on the mat WWWF Tag Team Champions the Executioners defeated Jose Gonzalez & Dominic DeNucci (sub. for Haystacks Calhoun) in a Best 2 out of 3 falls match at 22:54, 2-1; fall #1: Executioner #1 pinned DeNucci at 10:11 following a double backbreaker; fall #2: DeNucci pinned Executioner #1 at 7:29 following an airplane sping; fall #3: Executioner #2 pinned Gonzalez at 5:14 after Executioner #1 kicked his partners back as Gonzalez lifted him up for a bodyslam so that he would land on top of Gonzalez for the pin Bruiser Brody defeated Kevin Sullivan via submission at 2:29 with the backbreaker; prior to the bout, Brody was escorted to the ring by the Grand Wizard (Brodys MSG debut) Chief Jay Strongbow & Billy White Wolf defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna & Rocky Tomayo at 5:58 when White Wolf pinned Tomayo with a double chop WWWF World Champion Bruno Sammartino defeated Stan Hansen in a steel cage match at 11:11 by escaping the cage through the door after continually beating on Hansen with Hansens own loaded elbow pad that he Bruno had ripped off Hansens arm Bobo Brazil defeated Doug Gilbert via count-out at the 35-second mark when Gilbert left ringside after receiving Brazils Coco Butt Ivan Putski pinned Skandor Akbar at 2:56 with the Polish Hammer
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:24:40 +0000
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