April 29th 1974 Killer Kowalski battles Bruno Sammartino in a classic bloody brawl at MSG!

Mat Memories From Madison Square Garden

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Here is Episode 30 of Mat Memories from Madison Square Garden - where we review the wild April 29th, 1974 card that featured the brawl between challenger Killer Kowalski taking on the living legend Bruno Sammartino. Co-hosts John Arezzi and Cary Silkin go into detail on the show which featured rare run ins by wrestlers to break up the battle between a bloody Sammartino and Kowalski!

WWWF @ New York City, NY – Madison Square Garden – Monday night April 29, 1974, 8:30pm bell time (15,945)

Televised on HBO - with Vince McMahon on commentary

Jose Gonzalez fought Larry Zbyszko to a 20-minute time-limit draw

WWWF Tag Team Champion Tony Garea defeated Mike Conrad at 17:09

Nikolai Volkoff (w/ Freddie Blassie) pinned WWWF Tag Team Champion Dean Ho at 5:22

Robert Fuller pinned Ed Sullivan at 10:39 with a jumping DDT

WWWF World Champion Bruno Sammartino (w/ Arnold Skaaland) fought Killer Kowalski (w/ the Grand Wizard) to a no contest at 24:15 Pedro Morales pinned Mr. Fuji at 10:29 with two body slams after Fuji failed a splash off the top

Chief Jay Strongbow & Andre the Giant defeated Otto Von Heller & Don Leo Jonathan in a Best 2 out of 3 falls match, 2-0:

Co - Host - John Arezzi and Cary Silkin

Moderator - Tim Puttre

Writer / Researcher - Ritchie Garcia

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