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The name Strike Force came from Santana's promise that as a team they would, "be striking (the Islanders) with force." Martel immediately came up with the team's name based on this. [ 8 ] They feuded with the Islanders until October, when they got a shot at The Hart Foundation for the Tag Team Championship .
Strike Force would hold the titles for five months, defending primarily against the Hart Foundation and the Islanders, before losing to Demolition (Ax and Smash) at WrestleMania IV in Atlantic City when Smash pinned Martel as a result of Martel being hit on the back of the neck by Ax using Mr. Fuji's cane as a weapon when Martel had Smash in ...
Referee Danny Davis favoured The Hart Foundation throughout the match and was later banned as a referee by WWF president Jack Tunney. [12] 40 Strike Force (Rick Martel and Tito Santana) October 27, 1987: Superstars: Syracuse, NY: 1 (3, 2) 152 [13] 41 Demolition (Ax and Smash) March 27, 1988: WrestleMania IV: Atlantic City, NJ: 1 478 [14] 42 The ...
At WrestleMania IV, Demolition defeated Strike Force to win the tag team belts, and went on to a then-record 478-day reign as champions. A second Survivor Series occurred the following year, establishing the event as an annual November pay-per-view, becoming one of the WWF's original four annual pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania , Royal ...
Strikeforce Men's World Championship belt Strikeforce Women's World Championship belt. Strikeforce was an American mixed martial arts organization. It crowned male champions in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, and female champions in featherweight and bantamweight.
In June 1988, Rick Martel took a leave of absence from the WWF to tend to real-life family issues, so a storyline was devised to end the Demolition-Strike Force feud, whereby Martel would be (in kayfabe) seriously injured by Ax and Smash by using their finishing move, the "Demolition Decapitation", on him outside of the ring.
When Zenk left, Martel initially carried on the feud with the Islanders on his own, but was soon paired up with Tito Santana to tackle the Polynesian duo, spinning the ill-fated Can-Am Connection off to Strike Force who went on to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship.
Strike Force (Rick Martel and Tito Santana) defeating the Hart Foundation for the WWF World Tag Team Championship on November 7, 1987 (taped October 27, 1987). Demolition (Ax and Smash) defeating the Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) for the WWF World Tag Team Championship on November 4, 1989 (taped October 2, 1989).