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The following day, Flair lost the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship to Wahoo McDaniel in a no disqualification match. In the midst of his tag team championship reign, Flair defeated Rufus R. Jones to win his second Mid-Atlantic Television Championship on April 4, 1977. On May 8, Flair and Valentine lost the World Tag Team Championship back ...
Scott Hall was stripped of the title by WCW President Ric Flair. [63] 72 Scott Steiner: April 11, 1999: Spring Stampede: Tacoma, WA: 1 85: 84 Defeated Booker T in a tournament final for the vacant title. [64] — Vacated: July 5, 1999: Nitro: Atlanta, GA — — — Scott Steiner was stripped of the title by WCW President Ric Flair. [64] 73 ...
Ric Flair: April 4, 1977: Live event: Greenville, South Carolina 2 72 [7] 17 Ricky Steamboat: June 15, 1977: Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling: Raleigh, North Carolina 1 119 This title change aired on broadcast delay. NWA Television Championship: 18 Baron Von Raschke: October 12, 1977: Live event: Raleigh, North Carolina 1 144
The NWA operated many tag team championships before one prime tag team title was established in 1982. One of those titles was the NWA World Tag Team Championship, which was operated by the NWA member Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (MACW), the predecessor of WCW. The championship was created by MACW in 1975.
Valentine then formed a tag team with Ric Flair, with whom he twice won the NWA World tag team title and held the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (between June 30 and August 22, 1977). They first defeated Gene and Ole Anderson on December 26, 1976 (who nine years later would become in storyline Flair's "cousins" ) in Greensboro ...
Greg Valentine and Ric Flair (2) July 6, 1977: MACW show Anderson, South Carolina 1 47 Awarded. 29 Paul Jones (4) and Ricky Steamboat: August 22, 1977: MACW show Greensboro, North Carolina 1 434 Steamboat and Jones win NWA World Tag Team Champions (Mid-Atlantic version) on April 23, 1978 and hold the titles concurrently. 30 Ric Flair (3) and ...
The Four Horsemen is an American professional wrestling stable that originally consisted of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard.. The stable originated in Jim Crockett Promotions as part of Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling and later World Championship Wrestling for much of the 1980s and 1990s.
Matching him with his brash young counterpart, Ric Flair, was a natural fit. Steamboat was doing an interview on the syndicated Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling when Flair, then Mid-Atlantic television champion, began goading him. Steamboat knocked Flair out with a backhand chop to set up a match between the two.