...And what about Pro Wrestling???

Unless your living under a rock, you know that The Super Bowl will be held at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, La. this year. There is so much history there. Final Fours, Super Bowls, Sugar Bowls etc. have been played there. Funny thing is I was on nfl.com and saw the 23 greatest moments in Superdome history. Now some of them deserved to be there. Super Bowls and obviously when the Saints came back to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Those are no brainers. Here is the link: http://www.nfl.com/photoessays/0ap1000000131155/the-best-of-the-superdome?campaign=Twitter_essays_superdome#photo=1


If you go through the slideshow, you will see all these great moments but to me, maybe I'm missing something. Where are the wrestling moments? Pro Wrestling has been a staple at The Superdome for over 30 yrs. How about all those shows that Mid South Wrestling used to have? They showed Starrcade 85 in that building after a Mid South show. The first Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament was held in The Superdome in 1986. And who can forget about the epic classic Ric Flair/Ricky Steamboat match at the Clash of the Champions 6, Ragin' Cajun in the Superdome which went up against Wrestlemania 5. Also it was the home of a Monday Nitro headlined by Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant (Big Show). That was the infamous "Robin Hood" match in which the Hogan/Giant match went off the air on Nitro and you had to watch Robin Hood and wait for when Robin Hood went to commerical to see the conclusion of the Hogan/Giant match. By the third commerical break, I think the match finally ended but there was no way that Hogan and The Giant went 45 mins. Hogan had hardly broken a sweat.

There is a lot of pro wrestling history in New Orleans Superdome. Like I mentioned earlier, Mid South Wrestling drew 33, 000, I believe, for a match headlined with Stagger Lee, the late, great Junkyard Dog. My point of all of this is that there have been moments where wrestling was extremely popular and I wonder why to this day why the Superdome has never hosted more wrestling events like a Royal Rumble, Summerslam or even a WrestleMania. There has been talk that WrestleMania 30 might be in New Orleans but I'm a little surprised there hasn't been one there yet. Maybe a Monday Night Raw or Monday Nitro during its heyday.

I was just a little bit surprised that in this nfl.com article there wasnt a mention of pro wrestling. 33,000 was pretty unheard of for a wrestling event back in the early 80s and remember this was right before WrestleMania was born. Now, 33,000 for a wrestling show isnt that uncommon if your talking about WrestleMania attendance. You think I'm reading too much into this? Do you have any pro wrestling memories from The Superdome that I left out?