The Duke looked like a world champion in that match. Profile Profile. After six months, which included teaming with Karl Gotch to defeat the Blond Bombers (Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson), he left for Japan until at least May 13, 1966, after which point there is no record of him wrestling again until 1971. [7] He is also the current NWA Mid South Unified champion, a championship that was unified with the TCW Heavyweight title when Traditional Championship Wrestling folded in 2014. He had a main event run in WWF in 1979 and wrestled He also lost about a dozen matches each to Jose Estrada, Jose Luis Rivera and Johnny Rodz (never winning even one against any of them), and even made a winner out of wrestlers like Tony Colon, Angelo Gomez and Steve King! He was a WWC Universal Light Heavyweight Champion. [9], On September 16, 2017 at CWA WrestleRaise III in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Matt Riviera interfered in the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title match between NWA Worlds Heavyweight champion, Tim Storm and Jerry Lawler, subduing Lawler with an ether rag, and allowing Storm to pin Lawler to retain the title. Rivera would join forces with Andre the Giant in 1977. It was payback. Bob Backlund for the Championship in M.S.Garden. Doctor D David Schultz was supposed to wrestle some upper-tier talent. And Invader 3 sticks with his side of the story, insisting that the injuries he sustained were 100% legit and confirmed by his doctor. So they can go to HRT places, they can get testosterone, you know, 100 milligrams a week, whatever they prescribe nowadays, umm, they can get hCG, they can do, you know, hGH if they want. I think Manny injured him; how disastrous! The confusion of Mannys timeline of events is either on purpose or by accident, as demonstrated throughout this piece. Who else would go 0 and 26 to Pete Doherty (at times getting pinned by The Duke in less than three minutes)? [1][2] He grew up in Kahnawake speaking Mohawk at home. As such, Doctor D unexpectedly fought Swede Hanson! Claiming to be a veteran who served in Vietnam, the native from El Paso, Texas, shared a brotherhood with wrestlers like Hercules Hernandez and Dick Murdoch, along with fellow West Texas State football alumni Terry Funk, Stan Hansen, and Bruiser Brody. [2] In the UK, Paul LeDuc said he was "treated like a god". Johnny Rodz has been training students for over 30 years, out of Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn. I think MSG also enforced an 11 oclock curfew during cards, so that if wrestlers were in the ring at 11 p.m., the bell rang to end the match. When Marzino worked at Boston Garden many times which was close to his home town of Stoneham Mass. 1996. La Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame una delle Hall of Fame di wrestling; la sua particolarit che esiste solo sulla carta, non essendo prevista alcuna cerimonia di introduzione.. A differenza di quanto accade nel baseball o nel basket, nel mondo del wrestling professionistico non esistono Hall of Fame che prevedono che sia un gruppo di esperti del settore (indipendenti dalle . [4] After TCW folded in 2014, Matt would then move on to focus more on his own in-ring career. Wrestling: Results for D'Agnese, Shoreline, RCK Mat Wars tournaments and Jan. 2-8 meets. 1. I am not familiar with any of those other names that you listed, but I certainly remember Pete Sanchez. Mil Mascaras vs. Johnny Rodz Tony Garea fought WWWF Tag Team Champion Mr. Fuji to a 10-minute draw. He just kept pounding away at Mancini with a big smile on his face before executing one of the best pins I had ever seen. Me and Bruiser Brody were very close. And in 1983 and 1984, both teamed as The Invaders in the newly renamed WWF. In 1986, wrestling as Invader 3 in Japan, he faced many greats in AJPW, including Tiger Mask (Mitsuharu Misawa incarnation), Giant Baba, Animal Hamaguchi, and Masanobu Fuchi. A list of wrestlers Rivera defeated during his career is a who's who of the sport. And he concluded, Id be interested to see the actual medical report. Manuel Soto, Jose estrada, and the jobber of all jobbers the great joe turco, I also remember an obese guy named Rusty Brooks, balding with a moustache, who often appeared in the early to mid-80s. Just like I love Terry [Funk], Dickie [Dick Murdoch], but the way they did it just ate me up, so I knew I had to do something. "You know where the chest cavity is- it caused him to bleed in the chest cavity, and he spit it out. Kenny Ackles, Gordo Chihuahua, Pedro Rodriguez, and Paul Diamond. The Executioners aka Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd in tag team action against Pat Barrett and Johnny Rivera from WWWF All Star Wrestling from 3/10/76. The match would see Jerry Lawler unintentionally throw a fireball into the face of one referee & Riviera pile drive another referee. [2], Matt Riviera was born on May 18, 1983 in Russellville, Arkansas. Bob Bradley [1] He wrestled Bob Backlund in Madison Square Garden while working for the WWWF at the time. 40 years later I still remember it. I was in Japan when that Bruiser Brody incident happened when they came and told me. [19], It was after VH1 producers saw Matt Riviera's acting in Happy Hour, as well as his in-ring career that they invited him to become a participant on a new reality show, Megan Wants a Millionaire. I remember Michael Saxon. In 2015, Matt Riviera decided to team up with former WWE star as well as 2 time National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion Rob Conway. Riviera promoted Global Pro Wrestling, which after a name change, became Traditional Championship Wrestling. Jorge Rivera is 51 today! They were true jobbers. In the English commentary version (which was not recorded live), the always energetic Hugo Savnovich, who witnessed and commented on the gory affair live in Spanish, handled the English commentary. I remember Zumhofe and Jake the Milkman Milliman well from the AWA. I seem to recall a Saturday morning TV match in which he wrestled Orndorff and came out wearing a shirt that said Paula, which made Orndorff crazy. Feb 4, 2015 - This Pin was discovered by Doug McLeer. It looked like the guy was going to die., "Yeah. In a 2021 interview with ewrestling.com, Manny defended his supposed shoot on Invader 3 and the theory that Invader 3 drank blood with vodka beforehand. The high risk he took was incredible. But most humiliatingly, he was 0 and 26 against Pete The Duke of Dorchester Doherty! He moved briefly to Puerto Rico before returning to New York City to begin a career in music. Can you imagine the look? One line Ill never forget from him: Im so cool they can feel the breeze across their face. All that said, his win-loss record seems to say jobber to me (but a very popular jobber). Curt Hennig Sure, Hennig became a huge star in the AWA and later in the WWF as Mr. And he does it two more times! [1] He returned because his family asked him to spend more time at home. On January 5, 2019 at a USA Championship Wrestling event in Jackson, Tennessee, during a match between Lawler and Wildfire Tommy Rich, with the referee down & Lawler covering Rich, Riviera slid in the ring wearing a referee shirt, counted to 2 & stopped. John Rodriguez[3] (born May 16, 1941) is an American former professional wrestler. Take A Listen Today! It looks like hes going to pass out with all that blood loss. Episode 5 of The Matt Riviera Show featured an interview with former bodybuilder, Dave Palumbo. What about Dusty Wolff and A.J. Baron Mikel Scicluna Hailing from the Isle of Malta, Scicluna once held the WWWF Tag Team Titles with King Curtis Iaukea in the 1970s. Matt Riviera also obtained a college degree in broadcast journalism, graduating from Harding University out of Searcy, Arkansas in 2006.[1]. Perfect, but in 1981, a skinny Hennig was a young buck who gave the heels all he had before losing. That night Vince Jr. was there and Vince Jr. changes it. I first started watching WWWF All Star wrestling back in 1966 and he was already a fixture on T.V. NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version), NWA "Beat the Champ" Television Championship, "World Tag Team Championship official title history", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rivera_(wrestler)&oldid=1112407989, NWA "Beat the Champ" Television Champions, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, CPW Brass Knuckles Championship (2 times), WSA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with, The Twin Devils (Twin Devil #1 and Twin Devil #2), This page was last edited on 26 September 2022, at 05:56. How Manny Fernandez and Invader 3 got that ring to become drenched in blood is still a kayfabe secret, not ready to be exposed just yet. Track artist. So was the Cuban Assasin. How about a little love for The Golden Terror. He has also been published on Slam Wrestling and in G-FAN Magazine. 1964. The Iron Empire lost the NWA World Tag Team Championship to Kazushi Miyamoto and Rob Terry in Tokyo, Japan on February 23, 2017. McGraw is an interesting choice, because he did mostly lose on TV, but he was involved in angles at times, too. A golf course in the village of Oka, Quebec, planned to expand onto land claimed by the Mohawk as traditional land. View all concerts. To call him a jobber does not do him justice or serve history correctly. Classic WWWF All-Star Wrestling from February 1976. But the jobberiest jobbers of em all were the Mulkeys. Central Valley Classic on Feb 16, 2008 in Burbank, CA. Gender: Male. My mom always told me to take care of myself, and I did, but some things are inevitable.". Draw your own conclusion!!!! I remember one Saturday afternoon thinking that Sd Jones was actually going to win a match. Putski in 79. His first album was released in 1991, and since then he has scored fifteen hit singles, including the Billboard Latin Tropical #1 "Se Parecia . 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(Use code PWS for a nice surprise). and you cannot forget Irish Davey OHannon. ", "This incident with you and Invader [3] happened before that.". I dont know much about what happened to Rivera since he stopped wrestling in the WWF. Yup, Ron Shaw was a guy who was on almost every week when I watched in the early 1980s. [1] That same year, he also teamed with a rookie Dino Bravo to challenge The Mongols (Geto & Bolo Mongol) for the IWA World Tag Team Championship. Here are the Mat Pack's latest individual rankings for the seven-county South Jersey region. Paybacks a brothers way. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Ao. Where was the mentality in that? cowboy frankie laine, don kernodle (ex-Kangaroo) ricky sexton, johnny defazio, smasher sloan, sonny king, chuck oconnor, swede anderson, great yatsu, chief big heart, tony altimore, pete sanchez, kevin sullivan?