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From the 1950s until the 1970s, the Kiel Auditorium was behind only Madison Square Garden as North America's most famous wrestling arena, hosting three NWA World Heavyweight Championship title changes from 1959 until 1986. The most notable wrestling event that took place at the Kiel Auditorium was WCW's premier event, Starrcade 1990.
Kiel Auditorium 10,579 Lou Thesz (c) vs. Enrique Torres for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship [31] 7. MVSC: Bill Longson vs. Gorgeous George March 11, 1949: St. Louis, Missouri Kiel Auditorium 10,573 Bill Longson vs. Gorgeous George: 8. MVSC: Bill Longson vs. Primo Carnera March 25, 1949: St. Louis, Missouri Kiel Auditorium 10,466 Bill ...
As the World Wrestling Federation, it became the first national promotion in the U.S. during the 1980s wrestling boom. The National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling were both main competitors to the WWF during the 1980s and 1990s, however, all of their events were surpassed by the WWE by the early 2000s.
The Sam Muchnick Memorial Tournament was a World Wrestling Federation (WWF) supercard held at the sold-out Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri on August 29, 1986, attended by nearly 11,000 fans and making $87,000. [1] [2] The tournament was arranged by Larry Matysik, a protege of Muchnick. [3]
In February 1984, tapings for Wrestling at the Chase shifted to Kiel Auditorium. The WWF returned to the Chase Park Plaza for a final taping at 11am on Saturday, September 29, 1984. This taping followed a Friday night live event at St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium. The last airing of the program with original local content was on October 21, 1984.
It was the final under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner and the first under the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) banner. It took place on December 16, 1990, from the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri. The main event was a steel cage match between Sting and The Black Scorpion for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
The St. Louis Wrestling Club was a professional wrestling promotion based in St ... preferring to run only his monthly cards at Kiel Auditorium and the St. Louis Arena.
The first experimental Royal Rumble match happened at a World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) house show on October 4, 1987, at the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri. It was a 12-man match that One Man Gang won after last eliminating Junkyard Dog. Possibly because the event was not televised and a financial failure (drawing only 1,976 ...