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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: NIGHT OF THE SKYWALKERS, UWF, WORLD CLASS, THESZ, AND MORE

November 27th

On this day in history in ....

1949 - National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion Orville Brown, unable to defend his title due to injuries suffered in a car accident (which also ended his career), forfeits the title to his scheduled opponent, Lou Thesz. Thesz would go on to unify all the different versions of the World Heavyweight Title to create one unified and undisputed championship.

1970 - Jack Brisco defeats Tarzan Tyler to win the NWA Florida Television Title in Tampa, Florida.

1986 - The NWA/Jim Crockett Promotions held Starrcade '86, dubbed "Night Of The Skywalkers" at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina and the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. The locations would alternate having matches, and show the balance of the card via closed circuit television. There were also locations set up in other places in the country where fans could see the closed circuit broadcast from both venues. Here are the results from the show:
Greensboro card:
- Tim Horner & Nelson Royal defeated Don & Rocky Kernodle.
- Hector Guerrero & Baron Von Raschke defeated Shaska Whatley & The Barbarian.
- Wahoo McDaniel defeated Rick Rude in an Indian Strap match.
- Jimmy Valiant defeated Paul Jones in a Hair vs. Hair match when he knocked out Jones with a foreign object that he had intended to use. After the match Jones did have his head shaved, then Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez ran in and beat up Valiant.
- Tully Blanchard defeated Dusty Rhodes in a First Blood match to win the NWA Television Title. Blanchard was actually bleeding first, but the referee was down. Blanchard bloodied Rhodes with a roll of coins, then had manager J.J. Dillon wipe the blood from his head.
- NWA World Tag Team Champions The Rock N' Roll Express defeated Ole & Arn Anderson in a Steel Cage match when Morton pinned Ole after a double dropkick.
Atlanta card:
- Brad Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin ended in a fifteen minute draw.
- NWA United States Tag Team Champions Krusher Khruschev & Ivan Koloff defeated Bobby Jaggers & Dutch Mantel in a No DQ match when Koloff pinned Jaggers.
- Central States Champion Sam Houston defeated Bill Dundee via DQ.
- Big Bubba Rogers defeated Ronnie Garvin via knockout in a Louisville Street Fight match. After the referee was knocked out, Garvin gave Rogers a piledriver, and Jim Cornette then gave Garvin a whack with his tennis racket. The referee awoke, counted to ten, then announced that the first man up would be the winner. Garvin was up first, but Cornette hit him again while the referee was looking at Rogers, and Bubba was declared the winner.
- The Road Warriors defeated The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey) in a Scaffold match. After the match, Jim Cornette was chased up, and off, the scaffold, suffering a legitimate broken leg when Bubba Rogers (who was supposed to catch Cornette) misjudged his fall and Cornette crashed to the mat.
- NWA World Heavyweight Champ Ric Flair defeated Nikita Koloff via DQ after the referee was knocked out twice.

1986 - The UWF held their Superdome Extravaganza at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, drawing over 13,000 fans. Interesting to note, the previous year, Mid-South Wrestling (as the company was known before Bill Watts expanded the territory and renamed it UWF) held a short card at the Superdome, and showed Starrcade on closed circuit television. This year, they presented a full show, no doubt taking away attention from Starrcade in the Louisiana area. Here are the results:
- Jeff Gaylord defeated Art Crews.
- Gary Young defeated The Lybian.
- The Angel of Death defeated Ken Massey.
- UWF World Tag Team Champions Leroy Brown & Bill Irwin defeated Joe Savoldi & Gary Young when Irwin pinned Savoldi.
- Iceman Parsons defeated Gustavo Mendoza.
- Chavo Guerrero defeated Sting via DQ.
- The Missing Link defeated Rick Steiner.
- The Fantastics defeated Mike George & Jack Victory.
- UWF Television Champion Savannah Jack defeated Buddy Landel via forfeit.
- Hacksaw Duggan defeated UWF World Champion One Man Gang via DQ. One Man Gang retains the title.
- One Man Gang won a two-ring battle royal.
- Terry Taylor defeated Buddy Roberts in a Barbed Wire Cage match.
- Steve Williams defeated Michael Hayes in a Steel cage match.

1986 - World Class Championship Wrestling held their Thanksgiving Star Wars event at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.  Here are the results:
- Scott Casey defeated Tim Brooks.
- World Class Television Champion Crusher Yurkof (Bam Bam Bigelow) vs. Steve Simpson ended in a 15-minute draw.
- Dingo (Ultimate) Warrior defeated Master Gee (George Wells) in a chain match.
- Mike Von Erich defeated Brian Adias via disqualification.
- Abdullah The Butcher defeated Tony Atlas via disqualification. 
- World Class Heavyweight Champion Kevin Von Erich defeated Black Bart.
- Lance & Mike Von Erich defeated Brian Adias & Matt Borne.
- Kevin Von Erich defeated Al Madril in a Lights Out match. 
- Fritz Von Erich defeated Abdullah The Butcher via disqualification in an Iron Claw vs. Python Sleeper submission match. 

1992 - The Rock N' Roll Express defeat The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane & Tom Pritchard) to win the Smoky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Title in Welch, West Virginia. This ended the third reign for Lane & Pritchard, and started the second title run for Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson.

1999 - ECW ran an event at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Here are the results:
- Nova & Kid Kash defeated Bo & Jack Dupp when Nova pinned Jack.
- Jerry Lynn defeated Little Guido.
- Super Crazy defeated Ikuto Hidaka.
- Simon Diamond defeated Jazz.
- Chris Candido & Rhino defeated Danny Doring & Amish Roadkill.
- Spike Dudley defeated Mikey Whipwreck.
- Axl Rotten & Balls Mahoney defeated CW Anderson & Bill Wiles.
- ECW World Television Champion Rob Van Dam defeated Uganda (aka Kamala II).
- The Sandman defeated Raven. Tommy Dreamer was the guest referee.
- ECW World Champion Mike Awesome defeated Justin Credible.

2001 - World Wrestling All-Stars holds a show at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Ireland, drawing over 5,000 fans. Here are the results of the show:
- Cruiserweight Champion Juventud Guerrera defeated Psicosis.
- Gangrel defeated Luna in a Black Wedding match.
- Crowbar defeated Norman Smiley in a Hardcore Tables match.
- Brian Christopher defeated Disco Inferno.
- Konnan & Nathan Jones defeated Lenny & Lodi.
- Buff Bagwell defeated Stevie Ray.
- WWA World Champion Jeff Jarrett defeated The Road Dogg.

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