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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 .
As tag team champions Strike Force finished their feud with Hart and Neidhart—the feud was ultimately blown off in the winter of 1988 with a series of steel cage matches, most of them having Savage join Santana and Martel, and Honky join the Harts—Demolition continued to dominate the tag team ranks before challenging Strike Force for the ...
[6] [5] Upon their arrival, the Powers of Pain were faces managed by Tito Santana. [7] [8] They feuded with Demolition [1] who had defeated Strike Force (Santana and Rick Martel) for the title and then injured Martel . The Powers of Pain were introduced as mercenaries to help Martel and Santana gain revenge on Demolition for both the title loss ...
Tito Santana, who was doing commentary in the Spanish broadcast booth, ran to the ring to help Martel fight off his attackers. Martel and Santana then formed a tag team called Strike Force. The team were played off as good looking pretty boys (a storyline that came directly from the Can-Am Connection), even using the theme called "Girls In Cars ...
Martel, meanwhile, would return in early 1989 and reform Strike Force with Santana, but during their WrestleMania V match against Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson, Martel turned on Santana after a (kayfabe) botched move and became a heel. Following Bret Hart's elimination from the battle royal, he returned to the ring to challenge Bad News Brown.
It asks us to hear the magic of what Carlos Santana did by reveling in the sonic texture, the Latin-gone-psychedelic moxie of those notes. ‘Carlos’ Review: A Portrait of Carlos Santana Revels ...
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 two wrestlers ever to enter a Royal Rumble match were Bret Hart of The Hart Foundation and one half of WWF Tag Team Champions Strike Force, Tito Santana. Hart hit Santana in the corner. Santana fired back, but Hart hit him an inverted atomic drop, followed by a middle rope axe handle elbow drop.