JerryvonKramer

Same, been like it since school although I can't do naps. Back when I was working in the city circa 09-12, I used to go to bed 4.30am and get up 7am every day. And usually one night a week I'd "crash". Now I have a job that doesn't actually require me to get up and out at a set time, I've got into a really strange pattern of just not sleeping until about 12pm and then getting up at 3 or 4pm -- sometimes I won't and just stay awake right through. I may have to stop this soon because it doesn't seem right and I constantly feel a bit weirded out. Also, when the new term starts I have 9am lectures on Tuesdays and Wednesdays that I'm pretty worried about because right now my instinct would be to go straight through and not sleep till after I'd done it -- that can't be right. Anyway, I probably average about 5-6 hours a week wrestling watching. I always plan to do more, but it never seems to pan out.

I think Dylan is confidently #1 in the watching league. I don't know if he sleeps less than I do though. That's the only competition I have a serious stake in myself here.

Once I'm done compiling the footage-watching league, I'll do the footage-hoarding league. Will, Brick and Smack2k have all got to be up there, but who else?

Do the Jeff Walton 57talk shows cover this stuff?

It's tricky. I use 80s WWF as my benchmark because it's what I know best, but take DiBiase or Savage in 88. They were clearly main eventers. But did they main event every card? It seemed like your top feud in MACW in 74 was Wahoo vs. Johnny Valentine. But that doesn't mean Ivan wasn't a "main eventer" on the roster. I can see arguments either way, but he was on top enough for me to put him as "Main event". Other times, GCW in 78, for example, he's almost never in the main event so I put him "semi-main". I agree there are no hard and fast rules though.

I would pay to see Mightnight Lee and NWA Fan in the Doom tuxes and shades. Midnight would have to go in the white because NWA Fan refuses!

If everyone posts their average weekly hours, I'll see if I can put together a top 20 "Sick Fuck" league. Chad will say 5 hours, but I know that's a flagrant lie, it has to be more than that. So tell the truth

In fairness, I do think he needed a little feud to rebuild him after losing out to Savage so many times in the summer. The problem is that Ted is left with nothing to do for most of 1989. It's why he really really should have gone over in the Royal Rumble where he bought the 30 slot as it would have kept him strong. I think they do a good job of building him back up in late 89 and 90 with the Jake and Dusty feuds, but late 88 to early 89 is basically a "lost year" in terms of his push, the Rumble win would have made a difference. ----- I like your analysis of Tito working every match as if he was in a feud. Never thought about that, but it's true.

Pre-89 Rude pretty much blows from everything I've seen. Cue: Sorrow with comment on how his team with Manny is GOAT. But still, I don't think I've seen a good Rude singles match in that time. I'd go as far as to say he sucks in WWF 87-8.

Who do you think watches the most wrestling per week on PWO? Is it Loss? Dylan? soup "the machine"? Kevin Ridge? PeteF3? Is it El-P or OJ? There are a lot of contenders.

Where does CNN come into things? Is that just a news channel? In my mind, that's a massive deal too. Also, is PBS more kinda .. I dunno BBC 2ish? A little more public service and a little less mainstream?

He was number 2 heel in MACW in 74, so if Johnny Valentine vs. Wahoo or similar was on the card, he'd be in the semi-main. It's not realistic to expect main eventers always to be in the main event though. I included the Greensboro 12/26/1974 card so you could see this. I wasn't trying to "boost" Ivan, just give an account of what he was doing in any given year. The point was that if his stuff vs. Patera in AWA was semi-main, then in MACW he was clearly a step up on the card. And a lot of the shows had him in the top match.

I really really like the finish to Flair / Luger, it's one of the most creative and innovative I can recall seeing. The idea of Luger fading and then finding inner strength from Sting's inspirational speech is awesome. And then the counts while the ref is out are just agonising. It might be the *best* BS finish I've ever seen, but I'd need to think about it more.

This is where I'll stop. He's Crockett for life after this point and I think we all know that run. Quick-glance summary: 1968 - a top heel in Canada 1969-71 - feud with Bruno as top heel in WWWF. 1972-73 - slides down card in AWA where he is used as an upper midcarder, limited title shots vs. Verne, semi-main feud with Patera 1974 - no. 2 heel in MACW behind Johnny Valentine, but main events all year, successful tag-team with Super Destroyer, TV title feud with Paul Jones 1975 - main event run in IWA feuding with Thnderbolt Patterson and Mil Mascaras over the title before going back to New York to face Bruno again late in the year 1976 - semi-main feud with Ivan Putski plus title shots vs. Bruno in WWF, New Japan tour 1977 - one of the strongest years in his career: tag title runs in Florida with Pat Patterson and Masa Saito, WWA champ, main events in St. Louis, Chicago spot shows for AWA. Probably his second best year behind 1971. 1978 - feud with Jack Brisco in CWF in both singles and tags, tag title run in Georgia with Ole + feud with Stan Hansen and Dick Slater, run in NY late in the year to take on Backlund 1979 - money main event feud in Georgia tagging with Ole vs. Hansen / Dusty / Tommy Rich / Wahoo while also working WWF shows vs. Backlund, then feud vs. Ole late in the year plus Mid-South dates. Probably his third strongest year. 1980 - semi-main tag title run with Alexis Smirnoff in GCW, main event feud vs. Dusty in CWF and main event tag title feud teaming with Volkoff vs. The Brisco Brothers. Some thoughts: - Aside from his AWA run, Ivan was consistently treated like a big deal in every territory. His strongest runs outside of New York seem to be in GCW and CWF (where he is always booked strong), then MACW. - He was something of a tag specialist from 1977 and had a series of regular partners: Pat Patterson, Ole Anderson, Alexis Smirnoff, and Nikolai Volkoff. With the exception of the Smirnoff team, these teams were very often booked in the main event. In Florida it is not uncommon to see the tag title match put on over the Florida Heavyweight title match. In 1978, the tag matches in GCW are semi-main, but in 1979 they seem to be elevated to main event for most of the year. - With the exception of his AWA run, he didn't have mid-card runs and is never in "no man's land" during this period. We can put to bed the idea that Ivan came in to work with Bruno or Backlund and was just hanging around with nothing to do the rest of the time. He is arguably on top everywhere he works from 1974 to 1980 and there is not much "down time". There are periods, typically when he first debuts for a promotions where he'll spend a month or two getting built up and going over jobbers and JTTS, this is normal. For the most part though, he's in big matches. - He worked a hell of a lot of gimmick matches, especially in Georgia -- this is some indication that he was working in featured feuds. Although some of the GCW booking looked a bit hot-shot-y to me. - He was booked in Japan. IWE and New Japan tours. - He was in CONSTANT demand -- several times he's working for 3-4 different promotions at once. Vince Sr. wanted him, St. Louis wanted him -- and it doesn't dry up, they keep bringing him back again and again. ------------ That's it from me on Ivan. I've done as much work on it as I can. It's up to others to draw their own conclusions now.

1980: Where was he? First 6 months in Georgia, June to September in CWF, Mid-Atlantic for the rest of the year, plus New Orleans supercards for Mid-South What was his positioning on the card? Main event or semi-main [GCW, MACW], Main event [CWF], Sample cards: Date Monday, 1980/01/07 Venue Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Battle Royal Wendi Richter defeated ??? 2 Steve Travis defeated Eddie Mansfield 3 Ole Anderson and Thunderbolt Patterson defeated Toru Tanaka and Killer Khan 4 Tony Atlas defeated Tom Shaft 5 Mr. Wrestling #2 defeated Austin Idol 6 NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Ivan Koloff and Alexis Smirnoff © defeated Jack Brisco and Jerry Brisco 7 Cage Match The Masked Superstar defeated Tommy Rich 8 Key on a Pole Cage Match Ole Anderson defeated Ivan Koloff Date Sunday, 1980/03/09 Venue The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Jay Strongbow defeated Charlie Fulton 2 Lone Eagle defeated Billy the Kid 3 Ernie Ladd defeated Ray Candy 4 Tony Atlas defeated Killer Khan 5 Kevin Sullivan defeated Baron Von Raschke by disqualification 6 Battle Royal Winona Little Heart defeated ??? 7 Ivan Koloff and Alexis Smirnoff defeated Lars Anderson and Stan Hansen 8 Mr. Wrestling #2 defeated Austin Idol 9 Dusty Rhodes and Wahoo McDaniel defeated Funk Brothers (Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr.) Date Sunday, 1980/06/08 Venue The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Bob Sweetan defeated Mike Sharpe 2 Eddie Mansfield defeated Don Diamond 3 Terry Taylor defeated Eddie Gilbert 4 Dutch Mantell defeated Tony Charles 5 Eddie Mansfield defeated Terry Taylor 6 Kevin Sullivan defeated Eddie Mansfield 7 NWA Georgia Junior Heavyweight Title Match Kevin Sullivan defeated Dutch Mantell - TITLE CHANGE!!! 8 Mark Lewin defeated Tommy Rich 9 NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title Match Baron Von Raschke defeated Austin Idol © - TITLE CHANGE!!! 10 NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Ole Anderson and Lars Anderson) defeated Ivan Koloff and Alexis Smirnoff © - TITLE CHANGE!!! 11 NWA World Tag Team Titles (Mid-Atlantic-Version) Match Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood © defeated Assassins [5] (Assassin #1 and Assassin #2) 12 NWA World Heavyweight Title Match Harley Race © defeated Mr. Wrestling #2 Date Wednesday, 1980/07/16 Venue Miami, Florida (United States of America) 1 Gordon Nelson defeated Frank Monte 2 Lord Alfred Hayes defeated Scott McGhee 3 Jim Garvin defeated Geoff Portz 4 Bobby Jaggers defeated Bubba Douglas 5 Dick Slater defeated Mr. Florida 6 Jack Brisco and Jerry Brisco defeated Masa Saito and The Super Destroyer 7 Nikolai Volkoff and Don Muraco defeated Bugsy McGraw and Barry Windham 8 Cage Match Ivan Koloff defeated Dusty Rhodes Date Sunday, 1980/08/24 Venue Orlando, Florida (United States of America) 1 The Super Destroyer, Masa Saito and Bill White vs. Jack Brisco, Jerry Brisco and Mike Graham 2 Bobby Jaggers vs. Jim Garvin 3 NWA Florida Television Title Match Barry Windham © vs. Lord Alfred Hayes 4 Florida Heavyweight Title Match Bugsy McGraw © vs. Dick Slater 5 NWA Florida Tag Team Titles Match Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch vs. Ivan Koloff and Nikolai Volkoff © Date Friday, 1980/10/10 Venue Knoxville, Tennessee (United States of America) 1 Nick DeCarlo vs. Tony Russo 2 Ben Alexander vs. Don Kernodle 3 Sheepherders (Butch Miller and Luke Williams) vs. Buzz Sawyer and Matt Borne 4 Ivan Koloff vs. Paul Jones 5 Greg Valentine vs. Ric Flair Date Friday, 1980/12/26 Venue County Hall in Charleston, South Carolina (United States of America) 1 Bill White vs. Johnny Weaver 2 Betty Clark and Peggy Lee vs. Glamour Girls (Judy Martin and Leilani Kai) 3 The Iron Sheik vs. Ivan Koloff - WTF?!!! Face turn? heel vs. heel? Notable opponents: Ole Anderson, Lars Anderson, Mr. Wrestling #2, Dusty Rhodes, Paul Jones, Johnny Weaver, ------------ In 1980, with Smirnoff as his partner, the tag titles are definitely de-emphasised a bit in GCW compared to 1979 when it looks like the money feud of the year. In CWF, as ever, he's booked strong vs. Dusty (at one point beating him in a cage match) and tagging with Nikolai Volkoff to feud with his perennial rivals the Brisco Brothers over the Florida tag titles. Ivan has consistently been treated like a major deal in Florida. In MACW he's still mostly being built up going over SD Jones and the like, but has semi-mains vs. Jones and Weaver. In December there are a series of matches with the Iron Sheik which have me scratching my head. All in all, this is a 4th straight pretty strong year for Ivan, not quite up there with 77 or 79, but still strong.

1979: Where was he? We're moving into the period now that we've covered on the Titans shows. What those shows won't tell you however is that he actually works WWF and GCW co-currently with the bulk of the dates for Georgia, only going up to New York for big matches -- until about August. After this, still with GCW as his base, he does a few spot shows for Mid-South too. What was his positioning on the card? Main event Sample cards: Date Saturday, 1979/02/17 Venue The Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States of America) 1 Johnny Rodz defeated Tony Russo 2 Allen Coage defeated Mike Hall 3 Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna 4 Peter Maivia defeated Dominic DeNucci 5 Lou Albano, Jimmy Valiant and Johnny Valiant defeated Tony Garea, Larry Zbyszko and Ivan Putski 6 Steel Cage Match - WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Bob Backlund © defeated Ivan Koloff 7 Victor Rivera defeated Tony Altimore 8 Greg Valentine defeated SD Jones 9 Steve Travis defeated Stan Stasiak Date Friday, 1979/03/02 Venue Atlanta City Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Dennis Hall defeated Rick Oliver 2 Raymond Rougeau defeated Kurt Von Hess by disqualification 3 No Disqualification Match Blackjack Lanza vs. Tommy Rich ended without a winner as a time limit draw 4 NWA Georgia Television Title Match Ole Anderson © defeated Rufus R. Jones 5 No Disqualification Match Stan Hansen vs. Wahoo McDaniel ended without a winner as a time limit draw 6 NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title Match The Masked Superstar © defeated Tony Atlas 7 Lights Out Russian Chain Match Ivan Koloff defeated Dusty Rhodes Date Sunday, 1979/04/01 Venue Macon Coliseum in Macon, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Rufus R. Jones defeated Larry Latham 2 Ron Bass defeated Rufus R. Jones 3 Angelo Mosca vs. Tommy Rich ended without a winner as a time limit draw 4 Wahoo McDaniel defeated Blackjack Lanza 5 Mr. Wrestling #1 defeated The Masked Superstar 6 No Disqualification Match - NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff © defeated Stan Hansen and Bob Armstrong Date Friday, 1979/06/08 Venue Atlanta City Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Mike Stallings defeated Mike Hammer 2 Ray Candy defeated Doug Somers 3 NWA Georgia Television Title Match Blackjack Lanza © defeated Tony Atlas 4 No Disqualification Match The Masked Superstar defeated Bob Armstrong 5 Dusty Rhodes defeated Kurt Von Hess 6 No Disqualification Match - NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff defeated Tommy Rich and Wahoo McDaniel © - TITLE CHANGE!!! Date Wednesday, 1979/07/04 Venue Municipal Auditorium in Columbus, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Gen'ichiro Tenryu vs. John Wolfe 2 Ben Alexander vs. Jerry Stubbs 3 Bill Howard vs. Ray Candy 4 Killer Karl Kox vs. Tony Atlas 5 Anything Goes Match - NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title Match The Masked Superstar vs. Wahoo McDaniel © 6 No Disqualification Match (Special Referee: Ray Candy) - NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff © vs. Stan Hansen and Tommy Rich Date Friday, 1979/07/20 Venue Atlanta City Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Mike Stallings defeated Ben Alexander 2 Coconut Willie defeated Little Tokyo 3 Bob Armstrong defeated Killer Karl Kox by disqualification 4 NWA Georgia Television Title Match Ray Candy defeated Blackjack Lanza © by disqualification 5 Indian Strap Match - NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title Match Wahoo McDaniel © defeated The Masked Superstar 6 Lights Out Match Tommy Rich and Dusty Rhodes defeated Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff Date Friday, 1979/09/21 Venue The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Bobby Jaggers defeated Chick Donovan 2 Buzz Sawyer defeated Carl Fergie 3 Rick Oliver and Jonathan Boyd defeated Ricky Fields and Bill Dromo 4 Bob Armstrong defeated Toru Tanaka 5 NWA Georgia Television Title Match The Sheik defeated Ray Candy © 6 Tony Atlas defeated Killer Karl Kox 7 Cage Match - NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Tommy Rich and The Crusher defeated Ivan Koloff and Ole Anderson © - TITLE CHANGE!!! 8 Lights Out Match Bill Watts defeated Ernie Ladd Date Tuesday, 1979/11/27 Venue Macon Coliseum in Macon, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Bobby Jaggers vs. Buzz Sawyer ended without a winner as a time limit draw 2 Killer Khan defeated Bret Hart 3 Ivan Koloff defeated Ricky Fields 4 Ray Candy and Tony Atlas defeated The Heenan Family [2] (Killer Karl Kox and The Masked Superstar) 5 NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title Match Tommy Rich © defeated Austin Idol 6 Lights Out Match Ivan Koloff vs. Ole Anderson - winner unknown Date Wednesday, 1979/11/14 Venue Jackson, Mississippi (United States of America) 1 Angelo Mosca and Tank Patton vs. Hércules Ayala and Mark Totten 2 Charlie Cook vs. Junkyard Dog 3 Bill Watts vs. Ivan Koloff 4 Mike George and Bob Sweetan vs. Buck Robley and Mr. Wrestling #2 Date Friday, 1979/12/07 Venue Atlanta City Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Ricky Fields defeated Bobby Jaggers 2 Killer Khan defeated Buzz Sawyer 3 Thunderbolt Patterson defeated Tom Shaft 4 No Disqualification Match - NWA Georgia Television Title Match Ray Candy © defeated Killer Karl Kox 5 Jack Brisco defeated Austin Idol 6 NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Ivan Koloff and Alexis Smirnoff defeated Ole Anderson and Jerry Brisco © - TITLE CHANGE!!! 7 NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title Match The Masked Superstar defeated Tommy Rich © - TITLE CHANGE!!! Notable opponents: Bob Backlund, Dusty Rhodes, Stan Hansen, Wahoo McDaniel, Genichiro Tenryu ------------ This amazingly tasty-looking Ole/Ivan vs. Hansen feud continues in GCW for in the early part of the year and is elevated to the main event. Then, Dusty gets added to the mix. And then both Tommy Rich and Wahoo McDaniel. Through the summer they face any combination of Hansen, Rich, Wahoo and Dusty in various gimmick matches all of which I'd kill to see. These matches all take place on the top of the card unlike in 78 when the tag matches were semi-main. Ole and Ivan lose the titles to Rich and the Crusher in September and after this Ole turns face and feuds with Ivan in main event matches. Around this time he also works dates in Mid-South vs. Bill Watts. In December, he starts tagging with Alexis Smirnoff with whom he promptly wins the titles back vs. his former partner Ole and long-term rival Jack Brisco. On paper, the Georgia stuff looks awesome. The New York dates are actually rather sparse during this time. A handful of dates each month, usually against Backlund or Putski. I have no idea if any of this is on tape, but in my imagination it is blow-away awesome. 1979 was another very strong year for Ivan. On top in Georgia for the whole year with the luxury of working WWF title matches vs. Backlund for most of it.

1978: Where was he? Same deal as 77 (CWF, WWA, St. Louis, Chicago AWA cards) until May when he moves to Georgia and for whatever reason stops working St. Louis, WWA and AWA. In October, he goes back to WWWF for the rest of the year. What was his positioning on the card? Main event or semi-main [see note] Sample cards: Date Wednesday, 1978/01/25 Venue Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida (United States of America) Keith Franks defeated John Ruffin 2 Bobby Duncum defeated Don Serrano 3 Chavo Guerrero defeated Tank Patton 4 Rocky Johnson defeated Killer Karl Kox by disqualification 5 Battle Royal Joyce Grable defeated ??? 6 Ivan Putski defeated Ox Baker 7 NWA Southern Heavyweight Title (Florida-Version) Match Pedro Morales © defeated Lars Anderson 8 NWA Florida Tag Team Titles Match Jack Brisco and Jerry Brisco defeated Ivan Koloff and Masa Saito © - TITLE CHANGE!!! 9 NWA United States Tag Team Titles (Florida-Version) Match Mike Graham and Steve Keirn © defeated The Valiants (Jimmy Valiant and Johnny Valiant) 10 Dusty Rhodes defeated Ken Patera by countout 11 NWA World Heavyweight Title Match & WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Billy Graham © vs. Harley Race © ended without a winner as a time limit draw Date Saturday, 1978/04/08 Venue International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois (United States of America) 1 Evan Johnson vs. Spike Huber ended without a winner as a time limit draw 2 Killer Verdu defeated El Bracero 3 Wilbur Snyder defeated Bobby Vann 4 Dominic DeNucci vs. Jimmy Valiant ended without a winner as a time limit draw 5 Billy Robinson defeated Ivan Koloff 6 Bob Orton Jr. defeated Verne Gagne by disqualification 7 Angelo Mosca and Ernie Ladd defeated Dick the Bruiser and Rufus R. Jones by countout Date Tuesday, 1978/05/09 Venue Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida (United States of America) 1 NWA United States Tag Team Titles (Florida-Version) Match Mike Graham and Steve Keirn © defeated Bobby Duncum and Killer Karl Kox 2 Florida Heavyweight Title Match Jack Brisco © defeated Ivan Koloff 3 NWA Southern Heavyweight Title (Florida-Version) Match Tiger Conway Jr. defeated Dick Slater © by disqualification 4 NWA Florida Television Title Match Jerry Brisco © defeated Len Denton 5 NWA Florida Tag Team Titles Match Masa Saito and Yoshino Sato © defeated Pedro Morales and José Azzari 6 Dusty Rhodes defeated The Spoiler Date Wednesday, 1978/06/07 Venue Municipal Auditorium in Columbus, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Hartford Love vs. Len Denton 2 Helmut Schmidt vs. Pez Whatley 3 Adrian Adonis vs. King Kong Mosca 4 NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff vs. Tommy Rich and Thunderbolt Patterson © 5 Abdullah the Butcher vs. Stan Hansen Date Monday, 1978/07/31 Venue Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Ken Dillinger defeated Barry Orton 2 The Challenger defeated Roger Howell 3 Rick Martel and Rick McGraw defeated Hartford Love and Ken Dillinger 4 No Disqualification Match Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff defeated Tommy Rich and Stan Hansen Date Tuesday, 1978/08/22 Venue Macon Coliseum in Macon, Georgia (United States of America) 1 Randy Alls defeated Billy Starr 2 Rick Martel defeated The Challenger 3 Sonny King defeated Rick McGraw 4 Thunderbolt Patterson defeated Dr. X 5 Texas Death Match - NWA Georgia Tag Team Titles Match Dick Slater and Stan Hansen defeated Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff © by disqualification 5 Texas Death Match Thunderbolt Patterson defeated Angelo Mosca Date Saturday, 1978/11/04 Venue Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts (United States of America) 1 Johnny Rodz defeated Joe Cagle 2 Dave Darrow defeated Tony Russo by disqualification 3 Silvano Sousa defeated Frankie Williams 4 Dino Bravo defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna 5 Dominic DeNucci vs. Victor Rivera ended without a winner as a time limit draw 6 Bruno Sammartino defeated Billy Graham by countout 7 WWWF World Tag Team Titles Match Yukon Lumberjacks (Lumberjack Eric and Lumberjack Pierre) © defeated Chief Jay Strongbow and Peter Maivia 8 WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Ivan Koloff defeated Bob Backlund © by countout Date Wednesday, 1978/12/06 Venue St. Finbar School in New York City, New York (United States of America) 1 Crusher Blackwell vs. Tony Russo ended without a winner 2 Spiros Arion defeated Johnny Rodz 3 Chief Jay Strongbow defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna 4 Ivan Koloff defeated Dino Bravo by countout 5 WWWF World Tag Team Titles Match Tony Garea and Larry Zbyszko © defeated Crusher Blackwell and Lumberjack Pierre by disqualification Notable opponents: Jack Brisco, Jerry Brisco, Billy Robinson, Tommy Rich, Adrian Adonis, Thunderbolt Patterson, Stan Hansen, Mr. Wrestling II, Bob Backlund, Dino Bravo ------------ CWF were running some insanely stacked cards early in 78 so Ivan's matches with Jack Brisco are in the middle of those cards, but it's hard to imagine they were truly mid-card matches. In the Georgia run, he's mostly in the semi-main, but it should be noted that he was holding the tag titles with Ole Anderson and the tag title match consistently seems to be put in that semi-main slot with a singles match to finish. The prospect of the Ole / Ivan vs. Hansen / Slater feud is positively mouthwatering -- I can only imagine how awesome those brawls would have been. Back in New York, he's naturally taking on Backlund but also looks like he's feuding with Dino Bravo when not in the title matches. Not quite as strong as his 77, but still a pretty strong looking year.

1977: Where was he? Comes back to the US to work for WWA and work the monthly St. Louis shows again. Goes to CWF in March and stays there all year but still works St. Louis and also does spot shows in Chicago for the AWA and in Indianapolis for WWA (where he had the title). Busy year for Ivan OR he was doing this sort of thing before 1977 too but the site doesn't have the data for it. What was his positioning on the card? Main event Sample cards: Date Friday, 1977/03/25 Venue St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America) Audience 8.873 1 Kay Noble and Donna Christanello defeated Jean Antone and Vicky Williams 2 Pat O'Connor defeated Bulldog Bob Brown by disqualification 3 Ernie Ladd defeated Red Bastien 4 High Flyers (Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell) defeated Ox Baker and Jimmy Valiant 5 NWA Missouri Heavyweight Title Match Jack Brisco © defeated Billy Graham by countout 6 Texas Death Match Dick the Bruiser defeated Ivan Koloff Date Friday, 1977/05/06 Venue St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America) Audience 5.740 1 Bulldog Bob Brown defeated Jerry Kozak 2 High Flyers (Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell) defeated Lord Alfred Hayes and Bull Bullinski 3 Billy Robinson defeated Bulldog Bob Brown by disqualification 4 AWA World Tag Team Titles Match Blackjack Lanza and Bobby Duncum © defeated Pat O'Connor and Rocky Johnson 5 Billy Graham vs. Dick the Bruiser ended without a winner as a no contest 6 NWA Missouri Heavyweight Title Match Jack Brisco © defeated Ivan Koloff Date Tuesday, 1977/05/03 Venue Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida (United States of America) 1 Tony Rocco defeated Jack Armstrong 2 Raúl Mata vs. Skip Young ended without a winner as a time limit draw 3 Bob Ellis defeated Gordon Nelson 4 Steve Keirn defeated Crusher Verdu 5 Ox Baker defeated Mike Graham 6 NWA Florida Tag Team Titles Match Jack Brisco and Jerry Brisco © defeated Hans Schroeder and Siegfried Stanke 7 Florida Heavyweight Title Match Buddy Wolff © defeated Ernie Ladd 8 Ivan Koloff defeated Dusty Rhodes Date Saturday, 1977/08/06 Venue Indianapolis, Indiana (United States of America) 1 El Bracero defeated Bob Golden 2 Steve Regal defeated Jerry Jaffee 3 Barbi Dahl defeated Madame X 4 Spike Huber defeated Leo Seitz 5 The Big Whiz defeated Dr. Jerry Graham 6 Ivan Volkoff vs. Paul Christy ended without a winner as a time limit draw 7 WWA World Heavyweight Title Match Ivan Koloff © defeated Wilbur Snyder 8 Dick the Bruiser and Little Atlas defeated The Valiants (Jimmy Valiant and Johnny Valiant) Date Saturday, 1977/08/20 Venue International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois (United States of America) 1 Bob Backlund vs. Jan Nelson ended without a winner as a time limit draw 2 Chris Markoff defeated Spike Huber 3 Angelo Mosca defeated Pedro Morales 4 Billy Robinson defeated Ivan Koloff by disqualification 5 AWA World Tag Team Titles Match High Flyers (Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell) © vs. The Valiants (Jimmy Valiant and Johnny Valiant) ended without a winner as a no contest 6 AWA World Heavyweight Title Match Nick Bockwinkel © defeated Ray Stevens by disqualification 7 The Super Destroyer defeated Dick the Bruiser by disqualification Date Wednesday, 1977/08/31 Venue Jai Alai Fronton in Miami, Florida (United States of America) Audience 3.762 1 Mike York defeated Gordon Nelson 2 Tony Rocco defeated Butcher Vachon 3 Masa Saito defeated Charlie Cook 4 Steve Keirn and Jerry Brisco defeated Tony Marino and Buddy Roberts 5 Jack Brisco defeated Lars Anderson by disqualification 6 Rocky Johnson defeated Keith Franks 7 Dusty Rhodes and Don Muraco vs. Ivan Koloff and Pat Patterson ended without a winner as a no contest Date Saturday, 1977/10/08 Venue St. Petersburg, Florida (United States of America) 1 Wilhelm Ruska defeated Mike York 2 Charlie Cook defeated Dutch Mantell 3 Buddy Roberts and Keith Franks defeated Raúl Mata and Don Serrano 4 Steve Keirn defeated Super Destroyer 5 Mike Graham defeated Tony Marino 6 Jerry Brisco defeated Tank Patton 7 Ivan Koloff and Masa Saito defeated Jack Brisco and Rocky Johnson 8 Lars Anderson defeated Don Muraco 9 Battle Royal Ivan Koloff defeated Buddy Roberts and Charlie Cook and Don Serrano and Dutch Mantell and Jack Brisco and Jerry Brisco and Keith Franks and Masa Saito and Mike Graham and Mike York and Raúl Mata and Rocky Johnson and Steve Keirn and Super Destroyer and Tank Patton and Tony Marino and Wilhelm Ruska 10 NWA World Heavyweight Title Match Pedro Morales defeated Harley Race © by disqualification Date Tuesday, 1977/12/27 Venue Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida (United States of America) 1 Don Serrano vs. Dutch Mantell ended without a winner as a time limit draw 2 Jerry Brisco defeated Tank Patton 3 Princess Little Dove defeated Diamond Lil 4 Pedro Morales defeated Buddy Roberts 5 Ivan Koloff and Masa Saito defeated Mike Graham and Steve Keirn 6 Rocky Johnson and Don Muraco defeated Killer Karl Kox and Lars Anderson by disqualification Notable opponents: Wilbur Snyder, Dick the Bruiser, Jack Brisco, Dusty Rhodes, Ernie Ladd, Don Muraco, Mike Graham, Steve Kiern, Rocky Johnson -------- Wow. Ivan had a surprisingly hot year in 1977 during which he seems like he had a million things going on. He tagged with both Pat Patterson (as CWF tag champs) and Masa Saito in Florida, and boy would I like to see some of those matches. CWF look like they booked him very strongly -- you can see the one card I've picked out there where he pulls double duty and wins a tag match vs. Brisco and Johnson and a battle royale on the same show. He was being treated like a big deal again in St. Louis. At the same time he was WWA champ. AND working these Chicago cards for the AWA -- although curiously he's still in that upper-midcard slot for them. One of his strongest years so far.

1976: Where was he? WWWF until July ... but then the data stops. KrisZ reliably informs us he was in New Japan at this time -- if anyone has late 76 NJPW card listings, now would be the time to share some of them. What was his positioning on the card? Main event Sample cards: Date Saturday, 1976/01/31 Venue Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States of America) 1 Davey O'Hannon defeated Tom Stanton 2 Francisco Flores defeated Mike Paidousis 3 Bobo Brazil defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna 4 Gorilla Monsoon defeated Bugsy McGraw 5 Ivan Koloff defeated Ivan Putski by countout Date Saturday, 1976/02/28 Venue The Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States of America) 1 Johnny Rodz defeated Mark Tendler 2 Baron Mikel Scicluna defeated Kevin Sullivan 3 Louis Cyr defeated Pat Barrett 4 Bugsy McGraw vs. Ivan Putski ended without a winner as a time limit draw 5 Dominic DeNucci defeated Crusher Blackwell 6 NWA World Women's Title Match The Fabulous Moolah © defeated Kitty Adams 7 WWWF World Tag Team Titles Match Ernie Ladd and Billy Graham vs. Tony Parisi and Louis Cerdan © ended without a winner as a double disqualification 8 WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Bruno Sammartino © defeated Ivan Koloff by disqualification (14:32 minutes) Date Saturday, 1976/07/10 Venue Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts (United States of America) 1 José Gonzales defeated Tony Altimore 2 Doug Gilbert defeated Johnny Rivera 3 Bobo Brazil defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna 4 WWWF World Tag Team Titles Match Executioners [2] (Executioner #1 and Executioner #2) © defeated Haystacks Calhoun and Kevin Sullivan 5 Bruno Sammartino and Ivan Putski defeated Ivan Koloff and Stan Hansen by disqualification Bruno Sammartino © defeated Ivan Koloff by disqualification Notable opponents: Bruno Sammartino, Ivan Putski, Gorilla Moonson -------- The story of this run is that he feuds with Ivan Putski, which main events on non-Bruno cards. He also has plenty of challenges for Bruno's title.

1975: Where was he? Leaves MACW in February and moves to IWA stays there until August. Some random Tenessee cards in September (Fullers?) before moving back ot the WWWF in October for the rest of the year. What was his positioning on the card? Main event Sample cards: Date Monday, 1975/02/17 Venue Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (United States of America) 1 Andre Carpentier vs. Bull Gregory 2 Ali Baba vs. Chief White Owl 3 Argentina Apollo and Luis Martínez vs. Love Brothers (Hartford Love and Reginald Love) 4 IWA World Tag Team Titles Match Geto Mongol and Bolo Mongol © vs. Gino Brito and Dino Bravo 5 George Becker vs. Rip Hawk 6 Eric the Red vs. Mighty Igor 7 Ox Baker vs. Tex McKenzie 8 Bulldog Brower vs. Ernie Ladd 9 Ivan Koloff vs. Thunderbolt Patterson Date Saturday, 1975/05/03 Venue 'Old' Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina (United States of America) 1 Battle Royal Argentina Apollo vs. Bolo Mongol vs. Dino Bravo vs. Eric the Red vs. Geto Mongol vs. Gino Brito vs. Hartford Love vs. Luis Martínez vs. Nelson Royal vs. Reginald Love vs. Rip Hawk vs. ??? 2 Bulldog Brower vs. Mighty Igor 3 IWA International/World Heavyweight Title Match Ivan Koloff vs. Mil Máscaras © Date Saturday, 1975/09/20 Venue Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States of America) 1 Don Carson and George Gulas defeated Rip Hawk and Otto Von Heller 2 Bicentennial Kings (Phil Hickerson and Dennis Condrey) vs. Tojo Yamamoto and Tommy Rich ended without a winner as a time limit draw 3 Jackie Fargo and Pepper Gómez defeated Intern #1 and Intern #2 4 No Disqualification Match Mongolian Stomper and Ivan Koloff defeated Bob Armstrong and Robert Fuller Date Monday, 1975/11/17 Venue Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York (United States of America) 1 Manuel Soto defeated Davey O'Hannon 2 Francisco Flores defeated Frank Monte 3 Kevin Sullivan vs. Pete Sánchez ended without a winner (20 minutes) 4 Pat Barrett defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna 5 Billy Robinson defeated Johnny Rodz 6 Dominic DeNucci defeated Spiros Arion by disqualification 7 Ivan Putski defeated Bugsy McGraw 8 Ernie Ladd defeated Haystacks Calhoun by countout 9 WWWF World Tag Team Titles Match The Blackjacks (Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza) © vs. Tony Parisi and Louis Cerdan ended without a winner 10 Special Referee: Gorilla Monsoon - WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Bruno Sammartino © defeated Ivan Koloff by disqualification Date Monday, 1975/12/15 Venue Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York (United States of America) 1 Pete Sánchez defeated Johnny Rodz 2 Pat Barrett defeated Manuel Soto (10:25 minutes) 3 Antonio Inoki defeated Frank Monte (8:41 minutes) 4 Tony Parisi and Louis Cerdan defeated Spiros Arion and Baron Mikel Scicluna 5 Ivan Putski defeated Blackjack Lanza (11:50 minutes) 6 Billy Graham defeated Dominic DeNucci (0:09 minutes) 7 Ernie Ladd and Bugsy McGraw defeated Kevin Sullivan and Haystacks Calhoun 8 WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Bruno Sammartino © defeated Ivan Koloff Notable opponents: Thunderbolt Patterson, Ernie Ladd, Mil Mascaras, Bob Armstrong, Bruno Sammartino ----------- Ivan looks like he was treated as a big deal in IWA, and that makes sense; the feud with Mascaras looks like it ran for some time. Back in the big time in NY, he's brought in as a challenger for Bruno again. Looks like Ivan's 74-5 is stronger than his 72-3 AWA run -- at least on paper and in terms of positioning on the card.

1974: Where was he? Finally leaves AWA in January and works some dates for WWA in Feburary before joining Mid-Atlantic in March, stays with them for the rest of the year. What was his positioning on the card? Main event Sample cards: Date Wednesday, 1974/02/20 Venue National Guard Armory in Warsaw, Indiana (United States of America) 1 José Martínez vs. Ken Dillinger 2 Bobby Bold Eagle vs. Bobby Heenan 3 Ivan Koloff vs. Wilbur Snyder 4 Pepper Gómez and Bob Ellis vs. The Valiants (Johnny Valiant and Jimmy Valiant) Date Tuesday, 1974/04/09 Venue Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina (United States of America) 1 Abe Jacobs defeated El Gaucho 2 L.D. Lewis vs. Pedro Godoy ended without a winner as a time limit draw 3 Johnny Weaver and Haystacks Calhoun defeated Jim Dalton and Bruce Swayze 4 Ivan Koloff and The Super Destroyer defeated Ole Anderson and Gene Anderson Date Monday, 1974/06/03 Venue Cumberland County Memorial Auditorium in Fayetteville, North Carolina (United States of America) 1 Gene Lewis defeated Ed Wiskowski 2 Tiger Conway Jr. defeated George Harris 3 Abe Jacobs and Sandy Scott defeated Rip Hawk and Ric Flair 4 Ivan Koloff defeated Paul Jones by disqualification Date Thursday, 1974/10/31 Venue Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia (United States of America) 1 Sandy Scott defeated Ken Dillinger 2 Danny Miller defeated Frank Morrell 3 Avenger and Johnny Weaver defeated Brute Bernard and Art Neilson 4 Tiger Conway Jr. defeated Chuck O'Connor 5 Wahoo McDaniel, André the Giant and Paul Jones defeated Johnny Valentine, The Super Destroyer and Ivan Koloff Date Thursday, 1974/12/26 Venue Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina (United States of America) 1 Klondike Bill defeated Mike Paidousis 2 Tommy Seigler defeated Frank Morrell 3 Sandy Scott defeated George Harris 4 Tiger Conway Jr., Swede Hanson and Danny Miller defeated Rip Hawk, Art Neilson and Chuck O'Connor (17 minutes) 5 The Fabulous Moolah defeated Susan Green (10:40 minutes) 6 NWA Mid-Atlantic Television Title Match Paul Jones defeated Ivan Koloff © (13 minutes) - TITLE CHANGE!!! 7 Johnny Valentine defeated Wahoo McDaniel by disqualification (25 minutes) Notable opponents: Wilbur Snyder, Ole and Gene Anderson, Paul Jones, Wahoo McDaniel, Andre ----------- The move to MACW seems to have been a shot in the arm for Ivan as he's firmly back in the main event. Successful tag-team with Super Destroyer here and a feud with Paul Jones over the TV title. Ivan is probably number 2 heel behind Johny Valentine, but he's in the main event on most of the cards.

1973: Where was he? In December 72, he starts on the monthly St. Louis cards again while still with AWA. In April, he goes to Japan on the IWE Dynamite series tour, back in the AWA by June, working the monthly dates again for St. Louis by December and also starts working for WWA while maintaining AWA as his "base". What was his positioning on the card? Main event or semi-main, sometimes mid-card Sample cards: Date Saturday, 1973/01/20 Venue Auditorium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States of America) Audience 6.112 1 Jim Brunzell defeated Johnny Heidman 2 Rene Goulet defeated Bob Bruggers 3 Bill Watts defeated Nick Bockwinkel 4 2 out of 3 Falls Match Billy Robinson and Don Muraco defeated Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch 5 Ivan Koloff defeated Verne Gagne Date Friday, 1973/02/02 Venue St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America) Audience 10.544 1 Ronnie Etchison defeated Benny Ramírez 2 Dan Miller defeated Ricky Renaldo 3 Terry Funk and Dory Funk defeated Sonny Myers and Steve Bolus 4 Harley Race defeated Jack Pesek 5 Bill Miller, Ivan Koloff and Invader vs. Pat O'Connor, Rufus R. Jones and Jack Brisco ended without a winner as a time limit draw 6 NWA World Heavyweight Title Match Dory Funk Jr. © defeated Johnny Valentine Date Tuesday, 1973/05/15 Venue Omiya Skate Center in Saitama, Saitama (Japan) Audience 3.500 1 Isamu Sakae vs. Tsutomu Yonemura ended without a winner as a time limit draw 2 Takeshi Oiso defeated Jiro Inazuma 3 Bob Ramstead defeated Sung Yung Kang 4 Tadaharu Tanaka defeated Tarzan Tyler 5 The Canadian defeated Isamu Teranishi 6 Mighty Inoue and Great Kusatsu defeated Lars Anderson and Édouard Carpentier 7 Cage Match Rusher Kimura defeated Mad Dog Vachon (22:18 minutes) 8 2 out of 3 Falls Match - IWA World Heavyweight Title Match Strong Kobayashi © defeated Ivan Koloff (8:59 minutes) by 2 falls to 1 Date Saturday, 1973/06/30 Venue Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States of America) 1 Greg Gagne defeated Bill Crouch 2 Jim Brunzell defeated George Grant 3 Bob Bruggers defeated Rene Goulet 4 Geoff Portz vs. Larry Heiniemi ended without a winner as a time limit draw 5 Billy Graham and Ivan Koloff defeated Ken Patera and Bill Watts 6 AWA World Heavyweight Title Match Verne Gagne © defeated Billy Robinson Date Saturday, 1973/10/06 Venue St. Paul, Minnesota (United States of America) Audience 4.589 1 Buddy Wolff vs. Geoff Portz ended without a winner as a time limit draw 2 Larry Hennig defeated Reggie Parks 3 Ivan Koloff defeated Ken Patera 4 The Crusher defeated Billy Graham 5 AWA World Tag Team Titles Match The Heenan Family (Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens) © defeated Wahoo McDaniel and Billy Red Cloud Date Friday, 1973/12/07 Venue St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America) 1 Hans Schmidt and Bob Orton defeated Ronnie Etchison and Steve Bolus 2 Baron Mikel Scicluna defeated Billy Red Lyons 3 Danny Hodge defeated Don Duffy 4 Blackjack Lanza vs. Ron Fuller ended without a winner as a no contest 5 Bill Miller, Ivan Koloff and Terry Funk defeated Pat O'Connor, Bobo Brazil and Bearcat Wright 6 NWA Missouri Heavyweight Title Match Harley Race © defeated Black Angus 7 Battle Royal Bobo Brazil defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna and Bearcat Wright and Bill Miller and Billy Red Lyons and Black Angus and Blackjack Lanza and Bob Orton and Don Duffy and Hans Schmidt and Ivan Koloff and Pat O'Connor and Ron Fuller and Ronnie Etchison and Steve Bolus and Terry Funk Notable opponents: The Crusher, Verne Gagne, Jack Brisco, Rufus R. Jones, Strong Kobayashi, Rusher Kimura, Ken Patera, Bill Watts ----------- Seems to be stuck in a holding pattern in AWA in the semi-main, much as he was in 1972. He was in the main events for most of the IWE tour, but back in AWA the feud with Ken Patera seems to have been a mid-card affair. St. Louis seem to have been doing a lot of battle royales in December 1973 -- Larry Matysik must have been hating it.

1972: Where was he? AWA all year What was his positioning on the card? Semi-main. Sample cards: Date Saturday, 1972/01/29 Venue Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States of America) 1 Lars Anderson defeated George Gadaski 2 Dr. X defeated Chris Markoff 3 Dusty Rhodes defeated Bull Bullinski 4 Ivan Koloff defeated Don Muraco 5 AWA World Tag Team Titles Match Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens © defeated The Crusher and Red Bastien Date Saturday, 1972/04/15 Venue International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois (United States of America) 1 Paul Christy defeated Treach Phillips 2 Moose Cholak defeated Chris Markoff 3 Wilbur Snyder defeated The Big K 4 Dusty Rhodes defeated Bull Bullinski 5 Billy Robinson vs. Ivan Koloff ended without a winner as a no contest 6 The Blackjacks (Blackjack Lanza and Blackjack Mulligan) defeated The Crusher and Bill Watts Date Friday, 1972/09/01 Venue Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois (United States of America) Audience 12.000 1 Rene Goulet defeated Don Muraco 2 Ramón Torres defeated Angelo Poffo 3 Art Thomas defeated Hans Hermann 4 Bobo Johnson defeated Little Bruiser 5 Baron Von Raschke defeated Billy Red Cloud 6 Handicap Match André the Giant defeated Larry Hennig and Butcher Vachon 7 Dusty Rhodes defeated Wahoo McDaniel 8 AWA World Tag Team Titles Match Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens © defeated Billy Robinson and Wilbur Snyder 9 AWA World Heavyweight Title Match Verne Gagne © defeated Ivan Koloff 10 Steel Cage Match - Special Referee: Jersey Joe Walcott The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser defeated The Blackjacks (Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza) Date Wednesday, 1972/12/13 Venue Richwoods High School in Peoria, Illinois (United States of America) Audience 1.500 1 Bob Bruggers vs. Joe Scarpello ended without a winner as a time limit draw 2 Dawn Lemke defeated Kay Noble 3 The Big K defeated Bob Kappel 4 Billy Graham defeated George Scott 5 2 out of 3 Falls Match Wahoo McDaniel defeated Ivan Koloff Notable opponents: Red Bastien, Don Muraco, Billy Robinson, The Crusher, Verne Gagne, Wahoo McDaniel, Nick Bockwinkel ------ His position on the card has definitely slipped in 1972. He doesn't look like he was challenging Verne much for the title and is almost always in the semi-main in big shows -- he is in main events on smaller shows.

1971: Where was he? WWWF until July, Vancouver during the summer, AWA from October What was his positioning on the card? Main event. Sample cards: Date Friday, 1971/01/08 Venue Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York (United States of America) 1 Vincente Pometti defeated Lee Wong (13:34 minutes) 2 Jack Evans defeated Jean DuBois (10:15 minutes) 3 Sky Low Low and Little Brutus defeated Joey Russell and Frenchy Landau 4 Blackjack Mulligan defeated Tony Marino (8:07 minutes) 5 Bepo vs. Gorilla Monsoon ended without a winner as a double countout (4:13 minutes) 6 Canadian Wolfman vs. Manuel Soto ended without a winner as a time limit draw (20 minutes) 7 Bruno Sammartino defeated Arnold Skaaland (5:27 minutes) 8 WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Pedro Morales defeated Ivan Koloff © (23:18 minutes) - TITLE CHANGE!!! Date Friday, 1971/03/05 Venue Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States of America) 1 Frank Holtz vs. Johnny DeFazio ended without a winner as a double countout (9:50 minutes) 2 Hurricane Hunt defeated James Dillon (12:25 minutes) 3 Victor Rivera defeated Joe Turco (10:31 minutes) 4 2 out of 3 Falls Match Baron Mikel Scicluna and Jim Grabmire defeated Dominic DeNucci and John L. Sullivan (14:55 minutes) 5 Gorilla Monsoon defeated Eric the Red (10:06 minutes) 6 Texas Death Match Bruno Sammartino defeated Ivan Koloff (15:45 minutes) Date Monday, 1971/08/16 Venue Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) 1 Eric Froelich vs. Pat O'Brien ended without a winner as a time limit draw 2 Fred Barron defeated Mike Webster by disqualification 3 Tex McKenzie defeated Soldat Gorky 4 Duncan McTavish defeated Frank Marconi 5 Gene Kiniski and Ivan Koloff defeated Dean Higuchi and Steven Little Bear Date Saturday, 1972/12/02 Venue Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States of America) 1 Cowboy Lang and Farmer Pete defeated Little Tokyo and Billy the Kid 2 Larry Hennig vs. Rene Goulet ended without a winner as a time limit draw 3 Don Muraco defeated The Big K 4 Texas Outlaws (Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch) defeated George Scott and Joe Scarpello 5 Wahoo McDaniel defeated Ivan Koloff by disqualification 6 AWA World Heavyweight Title Match Verne Gagne © defeated Nick Bockwinkel Date Thursday, 1972/12/28 Venue Moorhead, Minnesota (United States of America) 1 Dennis Stamp defeated Jim Brunzell 2 Reggie Parks defeated The Big K 3 Billy Robinson defeated Dusty Rhodes 4 Ivan Koloff vs. Nick Bockwinkel ended without a winner as a time limit draw Notable opponents: Pedro Morales, Bruno Sammartino, Wahoo McDaniel, Rene Goulet, Nick Bockwinkel ----------- So that's why he didn't challenge Pedro much: After dropping the title, it looks like he continued fueding with Bruno until going to Vancouver in the Summer and resurfacing in the AWA.

http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=687&page=20 http://www.wrestlingdata.com/index.php?bef...1&details=4 1968: Where was he? Working for MLW in Toronto and in Quebec. What was his positioning on the card? Main event. Sample card: Date Sunday, 1968/09/22 Venue Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario (Canada) 1 Fred Atkins vs. Murray Cummings ended without a winner as a time limit draw (20 minutes) 2 The Assassin and Tiger Jeet Singh defeated Eric the Red and Dewey Robertson (20 minutes) 3 Flash Gordon defeated Bull Johnson (11:02 minutes) 4 Duke Noble vs. Joe Christie ended without a winner as a time limit draw (15 minutes) 5 Argentina Apollo and Whipper Billy Watson defeated Bull Curry and George Momberg (12:02 minutes) 6 Ivan Koloff defeated Bulldog Brower by disqualification (16:11 minutes) Notable opponents: Whipper Billy Watson, Bulldog Brower, Eduard Carpentier 1969: Where was he? In the early part of the year, still in Canada, working monthly St. Louis shows, later in the year WWWF What was his positioning on the card? Main event or semi-main. Sample cards: Date Friday, 1969/05/16 Venue St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America) 1 Luis Martínez and Frankie Hester defeated Mitsu Arakawa and Tor Kamata 2 Stan Pulaski defeated Terry Martin 3 Harley Race vs. Wilbur Snyder ended without a winner as a time limit draw 4 Bob Ellis and Terry Funk defeated Dick the Bruiser and Bob Geigel 5 Pat O'Connor defeated Ivan Koloff by disqualification 6 Blackjack Lanza defeated Édouard Carpentier Date Friday, 1969/11/14 Venue Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States of America) 1 Frank Hickey vs. Jim Grabmire - winner unknown 2 Gino Brito vs. Waldo Von Erich - winner unknown 3 Dr. Bill Miller and Johnny DeFazio vs. The Sicilians (Lou Albano and Tony Altimore) - winner unknown 4 Baron Mikel Scicluna vs. Frank Holtz - winner unknown 5 Dominic DeNucci vs. Killer Kowalski - winner unknown 6 WWWF International Tag Team Titles Match Battman and Antonio Pugliese vs. Mitsu Arakawa and Prof. Toru Tanaka © - winner unknown 7 WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Bruno Sammartino © defeated Ivan Koloff Notable opponents: Bruno Sammartino, Dory Funk Jr, Bob Giegel, Pat O'Connor, Gene Kiniski 1970: Where was he? WWWF all year What was his positioning on the card? Main event or semi-main Sample cards: Date Sunday, 1970/03/29 Venue Deer Lakes High School in Russellton, Pennsylvania (United States of America) 1 Johnny DeFazio vs. Waldo Von Erich 2 Battman vs. George Steele 3 WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Bruno Sammartino © vs. Ivan Koloff Date Friday, 1970/10/23 Venue Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York (United States of America) Audience 17.491 1 2 out of 3 Falls Match Sky Low Low and Little Brutus defeated Jamaica Kid and Sonny Boy Hayes (16:07 minutes) 2 Baron Mikel Scicluna vs. Tony Marino ended without a winner as a time limit draw (20 minutes) 3 2 out of 3 Falls Match Eddie Graham and Jack Brisco defeated Johnny Rodz and Carlos Peradas (14:45 minutes) by 2 falls to 0 4 Ivan Koloff defeated Gorilla Monsoon by countout (6:05 minutes) 5 Geeto defeated Victor Rivera by countout (13:37 minutes) 6 Chief Jay Strongbow defeated Crusher Verdu (4:35 minutes) 7 Texas Death Match - WWWF World Heavyweight Title Match Bruno Sammartino © defeated Bepo (14:30 minutes) Notable opponents: Bruno Sammartino, Gorilla Monsoon, Killer Kowalski, Arnold Skaaland, Billy Robinson More soon.