The 1990 WWF Intercontinental Championship Tournament

April 14, 1990 Superstars of Wrestling in an Update segment WWF President Jack Tunney announced that after winning the WWF Championship at WrestleMania VI he is surrendering the Intercontinental Championship.  The new champion would be decided in a tournament.

April 4, 1990 Glen Falls, New York Wrestling Superstars Taping

Aired April 28th
Round 1: Tito Santana defeated Akeem The African Dream by count out when Santana's flying forearm knocked Akeen out of the ring

 Aired May 5th
Round 1: Mr. Perfect pinned Jimmy Snuka with his feet on the ropes

April 23, 1990 Austin, Texas Wrestling Superstars Taping

Aired May 12th
Round 1: Dino Bravo with Jimmy Hart wrestled Brutus Beefcake to a double count out

Aired May 19th
Finals: Mr. Perfect pinned Tito Santana with an inside cradle after being distracted by Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, after the match it was announced that Heenan was Mr. Perfect's new manager

April 24, 1990 San Antonio, Texas Wrestling Challenge Taping

Aired May 13th
Round 1: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Rick Martel to a double disqualification when Martel used his Arrogance atomizer and Piper used a steel chair.

You did not read that wrong.  Two of the opening round matches ended with both men being eliminated from the tournament.  Not only that but the finals and a new champion was declared before the final first round match even took place.

If you think this is odd then you should read my post about how the Freebirds were WCW World Tag Team Champions for negative six days.

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Signed Trading Cards: Anthony Greene

Friday July 27th Limitless Wrestling presented The 2018 Vacationland Cup that featured a main event steel cage match pitting Anthony Greene vs. Ace Romero.  There was a bit of a mishap in the early stages of the match where the cage broke and it took several fans holding the cage up for the match to continue.  I unfortunately missed the match, damn work got in the way of wrestling once again.

I however my buddy Roy did me a solid and picked up my set of Anthony Greene trading cards.  I had contacted Greene earlier in the week and paid for my set which at $10 for the set is a great deal.

To get your own set contact Anthony Greene on his many social media platforms:

Twitter: @retroag Instagram: retroag_ Facebook: Anthony Greene

The cards were made by Todd Graham of Proving Ground Brand where you to can get your own custom trading cards made.  Following the link above of catch him on Facebook.

There are nine cards in the set measuring the standard 2.5 x 3.5 inches and the design is based on the 1991 Impel WCW trading cards.  The cards are printed on a thick wax card stock.

    

Each cards has a different photo on the front and the back the cards are numbered, feature a short biography that is the same on each, and a cropped version of the front photo. 

Here are the other 8 cards:

As a signed card collector I think it would be great if other independent wrestlers added cards like this and of this quality to there merchandise.  

To get your own set contact Anthony Greene on his many social media platforms:

Twitter: @retroag Instagram: retroag_ Facebook: Anthony Greene

The cards were made by Todd Graham of Proving Ground Brand where you to can get your own custom trading cards made.  Following the link above of catch him on Facebook

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Signed Trading Cards: Colin Delaney, The Patriot, Bruce Tharpe

The post celebrates a few through the mail successes I've had as of late.

Colin Delaney

This card is a 2008 Lamicard released in Germany I believe.  I mailed this card to Delaney's new business Pop Roc in New York.  He also sent me a nice note back answering my questions and thanking me as I sent him a card to keep. 

The Patriot

The card on the left is from 1996 and was released by BBM in Japan when The Patriot was with All Japan Pro Wrestling.  The card on the right is a 1995 Cardz WCW Main Event card of Stars and Stripes the Patriot and Marcus Alexander Bagwell team.  The Patriot signed this card on the back as Bagwell has taken up all of the front when he signed it. 

Bruce Tharpe
This card is a 2015 King of Pro Wrestling game card released in Japan.  I believe this is card is actually a Rob Conway card as Tharpe was his manager in New Japan, as well as being the NWA Owner at that time.

Jerry Sags of The Nasty Boys

These two cards I mailed to Sags and he signed them Nasty Boy Jerry Sags leaving little to no room for Brian Knobs to sign them later.  The card on the left was released in 1991 by Merlin for the WWF and the card on the right was released in 2010 by TriStar for TNA  now IMPACT wrestling during the failed Hulk Hogan experiment.  The card below was released in 1995 Cardz WCW Main Event card and this one I got signed back in 2012 at Legends of the Ring in Monroe, New Jersey.

In the future I need to make sure that I ask them to leave room on the card for their partner to sign it.

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