Friday, October 30, 2020

The Matches of Halloween Havoc (1995-2000)

Halloween Havoc 1995 took place in Detroit, Michigan the same as Halloween Havoc 1994. The pay per view aired on October 29th, 1995 and included a Sumo Monster Truck match which was taped the day before. Hulk Hogan won the Monster Truck match by having his Hulkster truck push The Giant's Dungeon of Doom truck out of the circle for the win. Following the match, Hogan and The Giant began fighting and The Giant fell off the side of the building. 

Eddie Guerrero defeated Disco Inferno (Aired on WCW Main Event)

Paul Orndorff defeated The Renegade (Aired on WCW Main Event)

Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko defeated The Blue Bloods (Lord Steven Regal and Earl Robert Eaton) (Aired on WCW Main Event)

Craig Pittman defeated VK Wallstreet (Aired on WCW Main Event)

Johnny B. Badd defeated Diamond Dallas Page (c) (with The Diamond Doll and Max Muscle) for the WCW World Television Championship

Randy Savage defeated The Zodiac

Kurasawa (with Col. Robert Parker) defeated Road Warrior Hawk

Sabu (with The Sheik) defeated Mr. JL

Lex Luger defeated Meng by disqualification

Sting and Ric Flair defeated Brian Pillman and Arn Anderson by disqualification

Hulk Hogan defeated The Giant in a Sumo Monster truck match

Randy Savage defeated Lex Luger

The Giant (with The Taskmaster) defeated Hulk Hogan (c) (with Jimmy Hart) by disqualification for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship





Halloween Havoc 1996 was the first event to take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Halloween Havoc event would remain at the MGM Grand Garden until WCW's demise in 2001, with the last Halloween Havoc taking place in 2000. The event took place on October 27th, 1996 and was notable for being the first appearance of Rowdy Roddy Piper after his departure from the WWF a month prior.

Jim Powers defeated Pat Tanaka (Dark Match)

Psychosis and Juventud Guerrera defeated Damián and Halloween (Dark Match)

Dean Malenko defeated Rey Misterio Jr. (c) for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship

Diamond Dallas Page defeated Eddie Guerrero

The Giant defeated Jeff Jarrett by disqualification

Syxx defeated Chris Jericho

Lex Luger defeated Arn Anderson by submission

Steve McMichael and Chris Benoit (with Woman and Debra) defeated The Faces of Fear (Meng and The Barbarian) (with Jimmy Hart)

The Outsiders (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) (c) (with Sister Sherri and Col. Robert Parker) for the WCW World Tag Team Championship

"Hollywood" Hulk Hogan (c) defeated Randy Savage with Miss Elizabeth in a neutral corner for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship




Halloween Havoc 1997 aired on October 26th, 1997 from the MGM Grande Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This show had Hogan face Roddy Piper in a steel cage, but the match that stole the show was Rey Misterio Jr vs Eddy Guerrero in one of the best WCW matches ever. 

Yuji Nagata (with Sonny Onoo) defeated Último Dragón by submission

Chris Jericho defeated Gedo by submission

Rey Misterio Jr. defeated Eddy Guerrero (c) Title vs. Mask match for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship

Alex Wright (with Debra) defeated Steve McMichael

Jacqueline defeated Disco Inferno

Curt Hennig (c) defeated Ric Flair by disqualification for WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

Lex Luger defeated Scott Hall (with Syxx) by submission with Larry Zbyszko as special guest referee

Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth) defeated Diamond Dallas Page in a Las Vegas Sudden Death match

Roddy Piper defeated Hollywood Hogan by submission in a Steel Cage match





Alright, now we're up to one of the more memorable (and disastrous) Halloween Havoc. Halloween Havoc 1998 took place on October 25th, 1998 once again from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This pay per view was the in ring debut of the Ultimate Warrior in WCW where he'd go on to face his Wrestlemania VI opponent Hulk Hogan. Widely considered one of the worse matches of either man's career, this thing was a disaster from start to finish. The Warrior was rusty, neither man seemed to want to sell for each other, and there was a huge blotched fireball spot.

To make matters worse, due to the show running long, the main event of Goldberg vs. DDP was cut off and had to air on Nitro the next night. This was memorable because that match is arguably Goldberg's best match ever. DDP actually got some wrestling out of him and its well worth a watch. I would consider it the best main event of any WCW Halloween Havoc. 

Chris Jericho (c) defeated Raven by submission Singles match for the WCW World Television Championship

Wrath defeated Meng

Disco Inferno defeated Juventud Guerrera

Alex Wright defeated Fit Finlay

Perry Saturn defeated Lodi

Billy Kidman (c) defeated Disco Inferno for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship

Rick Steiner and Buff Bagwell defeated The Giant and Scott Steiner (c) for the WCW World Tag Team Championship

Rick Steiner defeated Scott Steiner

Scott Hall defeated Kevin Nash by countout

Bret Hart (c) defeated Sting by knockout for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

Hollywood Hogan defeated The Warrior

Goldberg (c) defeated Diamond Dallas Page for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship




Halloween Havoc 1999 was held on October 24th, 1999 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Disco Inferno (c) defeated Lash LeRoux for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship

Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) defeated The Filthy Animals (Billy Kidman and Konnan) and The First Family (Brian Knobbs and Hugh Morrus) (with Jimmy Hart) Street Fight for the vacant WCW World Tag Team Championship

Eddy Guerrero defeated Perry Saturn by disqualification

Brad Armstrong defeated Berlyn (with The Wall)

Rick Steiner defeated Chris Benoit (c) for the WCW World Television Championship

The Total Package (with Elizabeth) defeated Bret Hart by submission

Sting (c) defeated Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship

Goldberg defeated Sid Vicious (c) by TKO for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

Diamond Dallas Page (with Kimberly Page) defeated Ric Flair in a Strap match

Goldberg defeated Sting (c) for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship




Halloween Havoc 2000 took place on October 29th, 2000 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Similar to the 1999 edition, there wasn't much memorable about the show. Halloween Havoc died with a bit of a whimper.


The Natural Born Thrillers (Mark Jindrak and Sean O'Haire) (c) defeated The Filthy Animals (Billy Kidman and Rey Misterio, Jr.) (with Konnan) and The Boogie Knights (Disqo and Alex Wright) in a Three-Way Dance for the WCW World Tag Team Championship

Reno (c) defeated Sgt. AWOL for the WCW Hardcore Championship

The Misfits In Action (Lt. Loco and Cpl. Cajun) defeated The Perfect Event (Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo)

The Filthy Animals (Konnan and Tygress) defeated Shane Douglas and Torrie Wilson

Buff Bagwell defeated David Flair in a First Blood DNA match

Mike Sanders (with Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo) defeated Ernest Miller (with Ms. Jones) by countout Kickboxing match

Mike Awesome defeated Vampiro

Gen. Rection defeated Lance Storm (c) and Jim Duggan (with Major Gunns) in a Handicap match for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

Jeff Jarrett defeated Sting

Booker T (c) defeated Scott Steiner (with Midajah) by disqualification for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship

Goldberg defeated KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark) in a Handicap Elimination match




In my opinion, Halloween Havoc was at it's best from 1989-1997 with 1998 being the most memorable (not for all the good reasons) but also because it had the best set design of any of the shows.


Monday, October 26, 2020

Pay-Per-View Weekend of October 25 & 26, 2020

The Weekend of October 24th & 25th saw both Impact Wrestling and the WWE present the pay per views Bound for Glory and Hell in A Cell respectively.  This was definitely a weekend of two completely different shows.  

Bound for Glory is hyped as Impact Wrestling's biggest PPV of the year it debuted in 2005 and held annually in October, except 2017 when it was held in November.  The PPV cost $40 and I won a code from a contest on Twitter for Fite TV and that is how I watched the event.

I haven't watched an episode of Impact all year because I don't get AXT tv channel, but I do read the results and keep up on the storylines, and watch clips on YouTube and Twitter and ect.  I was excited to watch the PPV because I was a fan of the product once upon a time and I was glad to be able to watch it.  My hope was to really enjoy to show and have it entice me to want to watch the show weekly.  It didn't, in fact I overpaid for the PPV.

The best match of the night was for the Knockouts Championship and even that was not the advertised match.  It was supposed to be champion Deonna Purrazo defending against Kylie Rae but Kylie wasn't there so Deonna issued an open challenge that Su Yung answered.


  It's evident that Kylie would not be wrestling that night and Impact still advertised the match and even played a long video package build before the match,  Deonna came out first and then they played Kylie's music for half a minute before Deonna issued her open challenge.  This could have been handled much better.  

Regardless this was the best match of the night, going a bout 15 minutes of solid back and forth action with Su Yung capturing the title.   The only other match of the night I enjoyed was the tag title match that saw the North become two time Impact Wrestling Champions. 

The main event saw Eric Young love the World Championship to Rich Swan.  Yes Rich Swan, I don't understand it either.  The last time someone so undeserving headlined a PPV was when The Butcher challenged Hulk Hogan at Starrcade 1994 for the WCW World Championship.

There was other production issues that had me wondering if this show was live or pre-taped.  At no time did they have the world Live on the screen which we as wrestling fans have been conditioned to see if we are watching a live wrestling show.  

Hell in a Cell is an annual WWE PPV event that debuted as an event in 2009 and has been held annually in October.  The first Hell in a Cell match debuted in October 1997 featuring Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker,  at last one Hell in a Cell match has happened every year since it's inception, except in 2001.  I don't know how much the PPV cost on cable, however I pay $9.99 a month for WWE Network.

The show opened with a really good video package hyping the event.  The Roman Reigns vs. Jay Uso match had a tremendous hype video as well.

I absolutely loved, much to my surprise, the Reigns vs. Uso match.  This is the heel Reigns that we have wanted for years.  They have even made Jay Uso a credible challenge two months in a row for the Universal Championship.  That was something I always liked about what Jim Crockett Promotions did was having a tag team wrestler challenge for the World Championship and not break up the team.   I really loved seeing the Wild Samoans come out to place the lei on Reigns. 

I can't say the rest of the card was amazing, because it wasn't, but I am glad that they took the Money in the Bank Contract off of Otis.

Sasha Banks defeated Bayley for the Smackdown Women's championship.  It was a solid match, not a fan of the finish but they worked their asses off.  The main event saw Randy Orton win his 14th WWE Championship pinning Drew McIntyre.  They had a great match, but it really bothers me that McIntyre's championship reign was through the no fan covid era because at the Royal Rumble the fans were so ready for him to be champion.

All in all the WWE dominated Impact on this weekend, it wasn't even a fair contest honestly.  

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Friday, October 23, 2020

Dr. Luthor in WCW

Recently, Luthor (formerly known as Dr. Luthor) main evented AEW Dynamite in a match where he tagged with Serpentico to take on Chris Jericho and Jake Hager. This seemed a little odd since Luthor debuted horribly in 2019 and has pretty much wrestled on Dark ever since. It turns out Luthor and Jericho came up together so this was the reason why he was included in the match that was celebrating Jericho's 30th wrestling anniversary.

I decided I needed to do some research on Luthor, since other than him being sold as the Deathmatch Legend by Excalibur, I knew nothing about him. I checked out a few matches on YouTube and read through a few articles on him when I ran across a little tidbit. It turns out Luthor had a single match in WCW back in 2000. Thanks to YouTube I was able to locate it.

The match took place on WCW Worldwide and Luthor (known as Mad Jack) took on Vampiro. The match was no where near a classic, but there is an interesting backstory to it all as told by Luthor recently on Chris Jericho's podcast:

"So then WCW I go and it went so-so," Luther admitted. "I did a couple shows, but you know how they have you sometimes as security guys or whatever like that, backstage talent or whatever. So, it was cool. I mean, you still get to make a payday, but then I'm wrestling in Kelowna against Vampiro, and so I talked to him the day before and he was not super cool. He was pretty drugged out in my opinion. I'm not a drug counselor, obviously, but I don't know.

"I even was super nice because he wrestled in WAR. I was like, 'hey, we've worked for the same company in Japan and just wanted to say hi because we're working tomorrow,' and I always feel like I get along with people in the dressing room. And he's just being a dick. He didn't like you, and I noticed a couple people. People who had heat with you, then had heat with me off the bat, and I was like, whatever dude. So we go over the match. It's on TV. It was the very last Worldwide. So we go out, and we have all this stuff, but then he's kind of no selling my s--t.

"And I'm selling all his stuff, and then time for me to do stuff and he's like, 'no, we got to take it home.' But then the day after, he comes up to me actually before the match, and he's like, 'I just want to apologize. I didn't know who you were yesterday, and then people were telling me you were like big in Japan. Sorry for how I acted.' Your a dick. I don't really care, so that's how that went."

Apparently, WCW was impressed since Terry Taylor offered Luthor a three year deal that paid $130,000 the first year and then $210,000 the second year, and over $300,000 in the final year. However, Luthor was living in Canada at the time and did not have a work visa and that messed up his chance at being signed.

Luthor went on to wrestle in the independents for the next nineteen years before signing with AEW in late 2019.

It's hard not to day-dream about what could have been had Luthor signed with WCW. Would he have made an impact? Would they have wasted him? Would he have went onto greater success in WWE once they purchased WCW? Of course, we will never know the answer to those questions, but I'm happy to see that Luthor has a spot on the AEW roster in 2020.

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

The Matches of Halloween Havoc (1989-1994)

 Recently, it was announced that NXT would be reviving the name Halloween Havoc for a special that is scheduled to occur on October 28th. Halloween Havoc was always one of my favorite WCW pay per views, so I thought now would be a great time to take a look back on the matches of Halloween Havoc. 

There were a total of twelve Halloween Havocs that occured between 1989-2000, all taking place sometime right before October 31st. The first two were promoted under the NWA/WCW banner while the rest were strictly WCW events. The show was a traveling event until 1996 when it took place in Las Vegas, Nevada at the MGM Grand Garden Arena where it remained until it's final show in 2000. 

The first Halloween Havoc occurred on October 28th, 1989 in Philadelphia, PA. This show was one of two-shows under the NWA banner. There were eight matches on the card:

Tom Zenk defeated Mike Rotunda

The Samoan SWAT Team (Fatu, The Samoan Savage and Samu) (with Oliver Humperdink) defeated The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) and Steve Williams (with Jim Cornette)

Tommy Rich defeated The Cuban Assassin

The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) (c) defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace and Shane Douglas) (with Jim Cornette) for the NWA World Tag Team Championship

Doom (Butch Reed and Ron Simmons) (with Woman) defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner)

Lex Luger (c) defeated Brian Pillman for the NWA United States Championship

The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) (with Paul Ellering) defeated The Skyscrapers (Dan Spivey and Sid Vicious) (with Teddy Long) by disqualification


Ric Flair and Sting (with Ole Anderson) defeated The Great Muta and Terry Funk (with Gary Hart) in a Thunderdome match with Bruno Sammartino as the special guest referee.





The second Halloween Havoc was held on October 27th, 1990 in Chicago, Illinois. This event was also promoted as an NWA event. The home video release is missing four of the ten matches and the WWE Network version is also missing these matches which is unusual. I've put an asterisk next to the matches missing.


Tim Horner defeated Barry Horowitz (Dark Match)

Rip Rogers defeated Reno Riggins (Dark Match)

Tommy Rich and Ricky Morton defeated The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) (with Jim Cornette)

*Terry Taylor defeated Bill Irwin

*Brad Armstrong defeated J.W. Storm

*The Master Blasters (Blade and Steel) defeated The Southern Boys (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong)

The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) (with Little Richard Marley) defeated The Renegade Warriors (Chris Youngblood and Mark Youngblood)

The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) (c) defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship

*The Junkyard Dog defeated Moondog Rex

Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed) (c) (with Teddy Long) wrestled Ric Flair and Arn Anderson to a double count-out for the NWA World Tag Team Championship

Stan Hansen defeated Lex Luger (c) for the NWA United States Championship

Sting (c) defeated Sid Vicious for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship




The third Halloween Havoc event took place in Chattanooga, Tennessee on October 27th, 1991. This was the pay per view where had the infamous Chamber of Horrors match took place. Also, the first ever WCW Light Heavyweight champion was crowned at this event.

El Gigante, Sting, and The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) defeated Abdullah the Butcher, The Diamond Studd, Cactus Jack and Big Van Vader Chamber of Horrors match

Big Josh and P.N. News defeated The Creatures (Creature 1 and Creature 2)

Bobby Eaton defeated Terrance Taylor (with Alexandra York of The York Foundation)

Johnny B. Badd (with Teddy Long) defeated Jimmy Garvin (with Michael Hayes)

Steve Austin (c) (with Lady Blossom) vs. Dustin Rhodes ended in a time-limit draw for the WCW World Television Championship

Bill Kazmaier defeated Oz by submission

Van Hammer defeated Doug Somers

Flyin' Brian defeated Richard Morton (with Alexandra York of The York Foundation) for the inaugural WCW Light Heavyweight Championship

The Halloween Phantom defeated Tom Zenk

The Enforcers (Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko) (c) defeated The Patriots (Todd Champion and Firebreaker Chip) for the WCW World Tag Team Championship

Lex Luger (c) (with Harley Race) defeated Ron Simmons (with Dusty Rhodes) Two-out-of-three-falls match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship




Halloween Havoc 1992 took place on October 25th, 1992 in Philadelphia, PA. The main event was a Spin the Wheel, Make a Deal match that selected a Coal Miner's Glove stipulation. 

Erik Watts and Van Hammer defeated The Vegas Connection (Vinnie Vegas and Diamond Dallas Page (Dark Match)

Tom Zenk, Johnny Gunn and Shane Douglas defeated Arn Anderson, Michael Hayes and Bobby Eaton

Ricky Steamboat defeated Brian Pillman

Big Van Vader (c) defeated Nikita Koloff for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes (c) vs. Steve Williams and Steve Austin ended in a time-limit draw for the NWA and WCW World Tag Team Championships

Rick Rude (with Madusa) defeated Masahiro Chono (c) (with Hiro Matsuda) by disqualification for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Kensuke Sasaki and Harley Race as Special Guest Referees

Ron Simmons (c) defeated The Barbarian (with Cactus Jack) for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship


Sting defeated Jake Roberts in a Coal Miner's Glove match





Halloween Havoc 1993 took place in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 24th, 1993. The main event stipulation was once again determined by the Spin the Wheel, Make a Deal spinning wheel and this time the stipulation was Texas Death Match which suited the competitors: Cactus Jack and Vader.

Ice Train, Charlie Norris and The Shockmaster defeated Harlem Heat (Kole and Kane) and The Equalizer

Paul Orndorff (with The Assassin) defeated Ricky Steamboat by countout

Lord Steven Regal (c) (with Sir William) wrestled Davey Boy Smith to a time-limit draw for the WCW World Television Championship

Dustin Rhodes (c) defeated Steve Austin for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) (with Missy Hyatt) defeated Marcus Alexander Bagwell and 2 Cold Scorpio (c) (with Teddy Long) for the WCW World Tag Team Championship

Sting defeated Sid Vicious

Rick Rude (c) defeated Ric Flair by disqualification for the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship

Big Van Vader (with Harley Race) defeated Cactus Jack in a Texas Death match




Halloween Havoc 1994 took place in Detroit, Michigan on October 23rd, 1994. The first match was originally slated to be The Harlem Heat vs. The Armstrongs, but Brad Armstrong had a family emergency and could not appear.

Booker T (with Stevie Ray) defeated Brian Armstrong (Dark Match)

Johnny B. Badd (c) wrestled The Honky Tonk Man to a time-limit draw for the WCW World Television Championship

Pretty Wonderful (Paul Orndorff & Paul Roma) defeated Stars and Stripes (The Patriot & Marcus Alexander Bagwell) (c) for the WCW World Tag Team Championship

Dave Sullivan defeated Kevin Sullivan by countout

Dustin Rhodes defeated Arn Anderson (with Col. Robert Parker & Meng)

Jim Duggan (c) defeated Steve Austin by disqualification for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

Vader (with Harley Race) defeated The Guardian Angel

The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags) defeated Terry Funk and Bunkhouse Buck (with Col. Robert Parker & Meng)

Hulk Hogan (c) (with Jimmy Hart) defeated Ric Flair (with Sensuous Sherri) in a Steel Cage Retirement match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship with Mr. T as special guest referee

Following the match, Hogan was attacked by a masked man who had been stalking him: Brother Bruti (Brutus Beefcake). After Brother Bruti was unmasked, Kevin Sullivan and the debuting Avalanche (John Tenta) attacked Hogan until Sting made the save.

Check back soon for the second part of The Matches of Halloween Havoc (1995-2000)

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Same Tag Team Different Gimmick II

Welcome to the second edition of Same Tag Team Different Gimmick, in the first post we looked at Mike Enos & Wayne Bloom in this edition it's all about....

Paul Diamond & Pat Tanaka 

In December of 1986 Diamond and Tanaka first teamed together in the Memphis based Continental Wrestling Association as Badd Company where they captured the tag team championships four times.  In February 1988 they made their debut in the AWA defeating the Midnight Rockers in Las Vegas.

A month later in their fourth AWA match they would win the AWA World Tag Team Championships from the Midnight Rockers.  They would go on to hold the championships for 371 days defending them outside the AWA in the CWA, Kansas based WWA, and Florida Championship Wrestling.   In the AWA they were managed by Diamond Dallas Page and Madusa.

In May of 1989 they would wrestle their last AWA match as a team.  Diamond would stay in the AWA while Tanaka would travel to New Japan.  Tanaka would sign with the WWE in February teaming with Akio Sato as The Orient Express managed by Mr. Fuji.  Diamond would first appear as a singles in the WWE in March 1990.  

November 22, 1990 Akio Sato wrestled his last match in the WWE at the Survivor Series.  Two days later on the 24th a masked Paul Diamond now known as Kato teamed with Tanaka as The Orient Express. 

Kato & Tanaka

Sato & Tanaka

The duo would team together in the WWE regularly until August 1991 and then a final match at Royal Rumble 1992 when Tanaka would leave the promotion.  They had an excellent match at the 1991 Royal Rumble against The Rockers.  On July 29, 1991 at the Summerslam Spectacular TV Special in Worcester, MA Tanaka & Kato would team up with Sato in a losing effort to British Bulldog, Ricky Steamboat, and Kerry Von Erich.  This would be the only time all three members of the Orient Express would team together.

Tanaka would stay in the WWE wrestling as Kato in enhancement matches until September 1992 when he would become Max Moon. 

In October 1993 Badd Company would reunite in ECW feuding with Bad Breed and The Public Enemy.   In March 1994 they would have a couple matches in WCW as Haito & Tanaka-San losing to Arn Anderson & Ricky Steamboat on WCW Saturday Night.

They wouldn't team again until 2006 at an indie show in Michigan.  From 2006 - 2008 they would team up five times as the Orient Express: Kato & Tanaka.

Team Names

Badd Company: Paul Diamond & Pat Tanaka
Orient Express: Kato & Tanaka
Haito & Tanaka-San

Title
CWA International Tag Team Champions four times
AWA Southern Tag Team Champions
AWA World Tag Team Champions

First Match: December 15, 1986 Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee CWA event
Stretcher Match: Badd Company: Paul Diamond & Pat Tanaka defeated CWA International Tag Team Champions: Akio Sato & Tarzan Goto to win the championships

Last Match: April 18, 2008 Port Richey, Florida ASWF Can't Touch Us
The Orient Express: Kato & Tanaka defeated Joshua Masters & Kennedy Kendrick

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