Jack Veneno

[Al]

 

I had no idea there was footage of this title "switch."

 

The only thing that ever comes out of Jack Veneno is that he once won the title from Flair. Is he a wrestler of any note, or just a one-time Dominican star? Can anyone shed some light on him in general?

[smkelly]

It's not much:

 

Jack Veneno

[sek69]

I've never understood how Flair can beat Von Erichs in Texas in 1983, but gets shaken beyond belief over some Dominicans?

[Al]

I've never understood how Flair can beat Von Erichs in Texas in 1983, but gets shaken beyond belief over some Dominicans?

In Texas the police were in on the trick. In the Dominican, they would point them at Roddy Piper for interfering. At least that's the story Dave Meltzer and Jim Cornette gave in a commentary on Wrestling Gold (Vol. 5).

 

One question this answered for me though is whether it was a case of a wrestler shooting on Flair and the NWA covering it up. It wasn't.

[Jingus]

In Flair's book he repeated the story about the soldiers at ringside aiming their rifles at Piper to keep him from interfering, and said that even after the local hero won the match the crowd still swarmed the ring and rioted anyway.

[jdw]

Flair was talking out of his ass. Fans celebrated rather than rioted. Probably all the blow that Piper and Ric were doing at the time making them paranoid and delusional.

 

John

[Loss]

"Ric was the drug." - David Crockett

[Guest jawhnb74]

There was a thread going on at crazymax that a guy had the footage of the Flair match and he would not part with it. There was a link to some photos and info and here it is:

http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/colu...lgiapop/09.html

 

I am really hoping to see this footage someday.