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The first match was between Tito Santana and The Executioner . Santana won the match after applying a figure four leglock on The Executioner, which was a shot at current Intercontinental Champion Greg Valentine, as the figure four was his finishing move as the first WrestleMania match ended in submission.
Merced Solis (born May 10, 1953), better known by the ring name Tito Santana, is an American retired professional wrestler, trainer, and retired school teacher. [2] [4]Solis has stayed a babyface character his entire career [5] [6] and is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation between 1979 and 1993 (missing part of 1980 and returning in 1983) [7] where he was a two ...
The first version of Executioners was founded by Executioner #1, who was a masked wrestler, wrestling for World Wide Wrestling Federation. In 1976 he trained Executioner #2, and the two became a tag team in WWWF. Together, the Executioners captured the WWWF Tag Team Championship on May 11, 1976 by defeating Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi.
Ivan Putski and Tito Santana: 1: 173 30 The Executioners (Executioner #1 and Executioner #2) 1: 168 31 The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) 1: 155 32 Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson: 1: 154 33 Kane and Big Show: 1: 153 34 Strike Force (Rick Martel and Tito Santana) 1: 152 35 The Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) 6: 151 36 The Yukon ...
He was later put under a mask as "The Executioner", losing to Tito Santana in the opening match of the inaugural WrestleMania. [ 13 ] [ 6 ] [ 2 ] This would be his last match, as he departed once more for the PNW.
After Volkoff's team defeated Slaughter's team at the 1990 Survivor Series (Tito Santana was the sole survivor), Volkoff left the WWF at the end of 1990. He made a brief return to compete in the 1992 Royal Rumble match, as well as to face Hercules in a house show match on January 29 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Tito Santana would lose his Intercontinental title to Greg Valentine on an episode of Maple Leaf Wrestling in October 1984. Antonio Inoki would retain the WWF World Martial Arts Championship (in 1985 the title became the property of New Japan Pro Wrestling after the WWF and NJPW ended their working arrangement) until losing it to Shota ...
On October 22, 1979, Putski teamed with a young rookie Tito Santana to defeat Johnny and Jerry Valiant to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship. [1] They held the title for six months before losing it to The Wild Samoans. [3] Putski worked in the renamed World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the 1980s, primarily feuding with Roddy Piper and Sgt ...