2 bouts From WWF Championship Wrestling,1/7/84, Central States Wrestling 1/7/84

WWF Championship Wrestling 1/7/84 Dr. D vs Steve Lombardi....This is the good Doctor Schultz debut with the promotion....More important historically however is his mouthpiece/manager also debuting "Rowdy" Roddy Piper! ….Both ring announcer Jim Hill and Mean Gene on commentary refer to the future "Brawler" as Lombardo, not Lombardi he is facing Dr. D here! Not much to the quick squash besides the fact that Schultz looks to almost kill poor Steve with a walk the 2nd rope flying elbow finish!....Piper cuts a terrific post match promo going on about how young and tough they are!......

Match 2 Bob Backlund Vs Samoan #3(Fatu) Coming to the ring with him were the other 2 Samoans AFA and Sika and that timid shrinking flower Captain Louis Albano! Backlund senses very early that he is outnumbered and in some trouble, so he goes to the dressing room and returns with a returning/debuting Hulk Hogan. This crowd lost their damn minds! I don't believe I had ever seen this. Upon seeing this crowd response I fully understand why Hogan was "THE GUY" for Vince! A few minutes into the match Backlund hooked in his chicken wing on Samu and the other two Samoans and Albano ran in and caused the DQ! Hogan saves the day and is a one man wrecking crew laying waste to all. Albano takes 3 separate bumps for Hogan and does a tremendous job of looking half dead and somehow in shock as his men drag him from the ring!...The duo has a post match promo where the former champ endorses Hogan, Backlund then becomes a ghost and is not seen again on WWF tv for the better part of nine years!.....Hogan is on fire here!...

Central States Wrestling 1/7/84 To be honest nothing really happened! A Kimala vs Brody main event was still going on when the show went off the air. It was not great, but it was not awful, like the rest of the show it was just sorta there! They did promo's for a house show in St. Louis for Feb over a month away that had a 35 thousand dollar battle royal check to the winner. Some good squash bouts like a taped match of Les Thorton from Georgia and a Tiger Mask bout( in Kansas City, really?.... Some bad with King Cobra and (I swear I am not making this up Honorary "Sheik" Roger Kirby)! I laughed out loud!

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