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This past weekend there was a two day "Legends Tour" through Germany with
more than ten former WWE superstars and some of Europes best wrestlers. More
than 1.000 fans turned up to see the stars. Unfortunately there was a no show
by Greg Valentine. Robbie Brookside was injured, but he showed up to meet the
fans. Valentine was replaced by DWAs (one of the seven promotions who
promoted this tour) Martin Nolte. Brookside was replaced on Saturday by Leon
van Gasteren and on the second day they had only five matches with a 3-way.
There was also an announcement for a second tour in 2010 headlined by non
other than "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.
On Saturday in Rotenburg they had a Meet & Greet with some sort of pre show.
They had two photographers in the ring, who were doing digital pictures with
the stars & the fans, which where printed out and signed by the stars later.
A great alternative to the very expensive Polaroid thing. They also had four
offer matches by some of the promotions:
(1) Freestyle Championship Wrestling (http://www.fcw-wrestling.nl) presented:
Mot van Kunder beat Bernd Föhr
(2) Deutsche Wrestling Allianz (dwa-wrestling.de) presented:
Lazio Feé & Ken Mahler beat The German Suicide Squad (Craig BC & Machine)
(3) Flemish Wrestling Force (fwf-wrestling.be) presented:
FWF Heavyweight Title Match: Rob Raw beat Dr. Gangreen (c) – New Champion
(4) Catch Wrestling Norddeutschland (catchwrestling.de) presented:
One Knight in Paris (Michael Knight & Pierre Le Prestee) beat Haero Magnusson
& Masterpiece Marsellus
The Fourth match of the meet & greet was definitely the best match. Match
three was a lot of fun with the crowd work. After a break they started the
evening show:
(1) Eugene beat Big Vito
super entertaining and great wrestling, a perfect start into such a night,
right after the main event the second best match of the night
(2) Karsten Kretschmer beat Doink the Clown (with Dink)
a bit of a letdown, only plus for Dink. I don't know who was under the mask
of Doink, but he definitely don't know what Doink was about in WWE.
(3) Joe E. Legend beat Jim Powers
WOW! The body of Jim Powers looked better than ever! A bit of ringrust on his
part, but a strong performance from both guys. Legend is one of the best
wrestlers over here (although he's from Canada, but he lives here in Hannover)
and he showed why.
Intermission with a special appearance by Adam Bomb, who was the special
guest for the meet & greet, but showed up here too.
(4) Marty Jannetty beat Leon van Gasteren
What can I say? He's rockin' as always. Really good match.
(5) Demolition (Ax & Smash) beat The Honky Tonk Man & Martin Nolte
Too see Rhythm 'n' Blues would have been great, but after what Honky said at
the meet & greet it was all Valentines fault, not the promoters, so blame him
for it. Nolte is a big man so he fits into this match and he did very well.
Old School match and after the finish Honky turned on Nolte and smashed the
guitar over his head.
(6) DWA World Heavyweight Title: Tatanka (c) beat Doug Williams
Unbelievable!!! Tatanka ist DWA champion since late 2007 and wrestled every
big DWA show since then and this was his strongest showing! Unbelievable 40
minutes of action and what a reaction for the Native American. He's some sort
of regular over here (I think, this was his seventh stay in the last 1 ½
years) and he always gets the biggest reaction of all stars. Oh yeah,
European legend Tony St. Clair was special referee for this match.
That show really proved, that there are legends shows with good ringwork. The
combination of stars of the WWF era, the WWE days and European Stars was
perfect and made a perfect day.
I only visited the Saturday show here in the north, but here are also the
results of the show in the south. The ring broke, so no pre show, but for the
main show everything worked fine, but I've heard the matches weren't nearly
as good as Saturday.
(1) Eric Schwarz beat Big Vito
(2) Marty Jannetty beat Martin Nolte
(3) 3-Way: Honky Tonk Man beat Eugene and Doink the Clown
(4) Tatanka beat Jim Powers
(5) Joe E. Legend & Doug Williams beat Demolition via DQ (Special Referee:
Tony St. Clair)
Announced for the next tour is one date are one date and five stars, here is
the promo poster:
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/23/l_bda0c32e497e4ad9adc262d70908ef74.jpg
