Grand Wizard / Bob Backlund / Fred Blassie & George Steele / Pedro Morales MSG promos -aired 7/11/81

[@josephine-j1p]

Great stuff.........loved it all!!!!!

[@josephine-j1p]

Don Muraco was truly fabulous.......he really was super.

[@battlestarmarc]

lol 3:33 steele acting like he is afraid of the microphone.

[@smittyinwootown5640]

Funny as Hell when it gets Dead Quiet when The Animal is attempting to string words together. The look on Blassies face is priceless. 😂

[@battlestarmarc]

Grand wizard did great promos. Very colorful. Muraco and the grand wizard were fabulous together.

[@BarryKunkle]

Love old school

[@indiasupportsthereturnofth1475]

George Steele in character is John Fetterman in real life.

[@noneofuourbusiness]

says a man who votes for a rapist and grifter

[@hoakiejoe630]

George Steele dresses nicer!

[@frankpalancio8471]

Freddie Blassie in character is like Donald Trump in real life.

[@andrewpotok2661]

How long did it take to come up with that stupid remark

[@frankpalancio8471]

@@andrewpotok2661 about as long as it took you to be triggered by it

[@Dac54]

At that time, my friends and I held out hope that George the Animal Steele would win the WWF title, if only for a month or two; he would have to lose it anyway due to the fact that he would disappear for long stretches. As far as we were concerned, the Animal was the baddest bad guy heel in professional wrestling. We all found it ridiculous that he ended up as a face, a good guy a couple of years later. We wished that Vince would have come up with some unique role for him as a heel who would occasionally take on another heel as well as any of the faces.

[@strothermartin5368]

3:26 Fred's face 😅. 4:03. 4:03. 4:03. 4:03😂

[@danorthsidemang3834]

Idiot.

[@capacola262743]

blassie was hilarious.

[@quadraticresidue]

Results from this card are as follows: Sgt. Slaughter defeated Jules Strongbow with the Cobra Clutch. The Moondogs defeated Martel and Garea with the use of a large bone. Patterson and Mosca fought to a 60-minute draw. Bronco Lubich was the guest referee for that match. Don Muraco defeated Pedro via count out. Killer Khan defeated Andre the Giant. Backlund and George Steele fought to a double DQ. Butcher Vachon defeated Peter Maivia.

[@funkyflashman]

WWF @ New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden - July 20, 1981 (22,091) This card was not televised Johnny Rodz defeated Terry Gunn (sub. for Strong Kobayashi) at 9:31 SD Jones defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna at 9:18 Curt Hennig defeated Strong Kobayashi (sub. for Rick McGraw) at 5:44 Sgt. Slaughter defeated Dominic DeNucci at 8:39 WWF World Champion Bob Backlund defeated George Steele at 7:11 Pat Patterson defeated Angelo Mosca via disqualification at 11:08 WWF IC Champion Don Muraco fought Pedro Morales to a 20-minute draw Andre the Giant fought Killer Khan to a double disqualification Tony Garea & Rick Martel defeated WWF Tag Team Champions the Moondogs in a Best 2 out of 3 falls match, 2-0 fall #1: Martel pinned Spot at 4:19; fall #2: the challengers won via disqualification at 1:16; due to the DQ finish in the 2nd fall, the titles did not change hands.

[@danorthsidemang3834]

Bullshit. Why would 832,987-year old Bronko Lubich suddenly appear in the WWWF as a troubleshooting referee?

[@davidebrownstl]

It's hard to imagine that they mocked special needs competitors like George Steele

[@theriddler8695]

A short time before this....George The Animal Steele ....could talk!! That was before my time tho.....when I started watching wrestling he acted like this!! Steele did however put on a better promo than....Bob 🥱😴 Put Em To Sleep Backlund!!

[@chrismemphis8062]

Steele was awesome here. Who was shaking the middle rope?

[@danorthsidemang3834]

3:43

[@danorthsidemang3834]

3:56

[@danorthsidemang3834]

4:03