Johnny Rodz/Baron von Raschke/Gashouse
Gilbert v. Bob Backlund/Chief Jay Strongbow/Billy White Wolf
Referee-Dick Woehrle Philadelphia, PA-Philadelphia Arena May 3,1977
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| Gashouse Gilbert |
This was a pretty chaotic match and
Backlund was very well protected. He was the only guy who really
never took offense. Everything was back and forth with a ton of tags
and double teams. Rodz came off the top a couple times on White
Wolf.
Backlund later made a hot tag on Baron and dared Rodz to come
in the ring to face him. Bob got distracted and Baron nailed him
from behind and tagged Gilbert who hit a headscissors on Bob but then
ate a big scoop slam.
Strongbow came in but Gilbert hits a dropkick
and then, Jay hit a slingshot into the corner.
Rodz came in and held
Jay in the ropes and ran onto him with a knee/leg. He then tried a
second time and totally missed.
Rodz was all over the place, by now,
and he ended up walking into the face corner and got clobbered. Jay
was still in the heel corner as Gilbert held him, Baron ran at him,
and accidentally hit Gilbert instead of Backlund. Later, all six
guys were in and the heels were thrown into each other followed by a
big Atomic Drop on Rodz by Backlund for the pin.
White Wolf, Backlund, and Jay had
already teamed prior to this match on March 1 in Philadelphia,
against Baron Mikel Scicluna, JoJo Andrews, &
Sylvano Sousa. Backlund made his WWWF debut against Rocky Tamayo on
December 7, 1976 in Philadelphia and he wrestled Rodz on the same
card for a later Championship Wrestling television airing. On the
May 3 tapings, Backlund also beat Jan Nelson with the Atomic Drop.
"Gas House" Doug Gilbert was not the same, younger Doug Gilbert who was brothers with Eddie.
