Match of the Day - Greg Valentine breaks Wahoo McDaniel's leg and makes a sweet t-shirt off of it!

Greg Valentine vs. Wahoo McDaniel - Heavyweight Championship Match NWA Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (1977)

Happy National Pro Wrestling Day, everybody!

In this heated battle between Greg "The Hammer" Valentine and Wahoo McDaniel in the Mid-Atlantic territory, not only was the heavyweight title up for grabs, but two thousand silver dollars! Apparently silver dollars were all the rage in the 70's and meant for a good ol' slobber-knocker because that's what this match is!

Though not the most brutal or intense matches, it did feature a lot of heat for its time as the match that Greg Valentine "broke" Wahoo McDaniel's leg. As the story goes, Wahoo's legs were too big for the Finger Four Leglock, Valentine's finisher just like his friend The Nature Boy, and so Valentine instead torqued on Wahoo's leg enough for Wahoo to surrender. Instantly, on national TV, it was determined that the leg was broken. Whether or not the leg was really broken is not what matters here but rather that Valentine was now champion and would forever have the reputation of a man who could break any opponent's leg.

Greg Valentine also must have had enough silver dollars to spare himself a sweet custom T-shirt after this bout with Wahoo that read, "I Broke Wahoo's Leg" on the front and "No More Wahoo" on the back (at least that's what I've heard; I've never actually seen the back of the shirt).

"And Still Have a Bunch of Silver Dollars I Don't Know What to Do With!"

A similar situation like this one where a wrestler makes a T-shirt stating his pride of injuring his opponent would be Owen Hart and his parody of Steve Austin's Austin 3:16 shirt (which was a mockery of its own) and on it it said, "Owen 3:16" and on the back, "I Just Broke Your Neck". The thing about Owen Hart's shirt though was that he legitimately broke Austin's neck (which shortened his career) and didn't intend to.Valentine on the over hand, was out for broken Wahoo bones!

More recently, CM Punk has also made light of the "I Broke Wahoo's Leg" after breaking Big Show's hand back in 2010 which led to him donning a "I Broke Big Show's Hand" tee in the same fashion as Greg Valentine's.