Cotton Bowl Extravaganza

Template:Short description Template:Infobox wrestling PPV series The Cotton Bowl Extravaganza was an annual professional wrestling supercard event promoted by Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW). It was held in October every year from 1984 through 1988. All Cotton Bowl Extravaganza events were held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.

Events

#	Event	Date	City	Venue	Main Event
1	1st Cotton Bowl Extravaganza	Template:Dts	Dallas, Texas	Cotton Bowl	Bobby Fulton, Kerry Von Erich and Mike Von Erich (c) vs. Jake Roberts and The Dynamic Duo (Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez) for the WCCW Six-Man Tag Team Championship
2	2nd Cotton Bowl Extravaganza	Template:Dts			The Cosmic Cowboys (Kevin Von Erich and Kerry Von Erich) (c) vs. The Dynamic Duo (Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez) in a hair vs. hair no disqualification match for the NWA American Tag Team Championship
3	3rd Cotton Bowl Extravaganza	Template:Dts			Bruiser Brody vs. Abdullah the Butcher with Fritz Von Erich as the special guest referee
4	4th Cotton Bowl Extravaganza	Template:Dts			Al Perez (c) vs. Kevin Von Erich for the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship
5	5th Cotton Bowl Extravaganza	Template:Dts			Kerry Von Erich (c - WCWA) vs. Jerry Lawler (c - AWA) in a title unification Texas Deathmatch for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship and the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship

Show results

1st Cotton Bowl Extravaganza

Template:Infobox Wrestling event The 1st Cotton Bowl Extravaganza was a major professional wrestling show held by the Dallas, Texas based World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) promotion on October 27, 1984, at the Cotton Bowl football stadium in Dallas. The ninth match of the night between Kevin Von Erich and Chris Adams ended in controversy as Kevin pinned Adams while Adams twice had his shoulder up, while referee David Manning administered the three count. After the match, Adams smashed a wooden chair over Von Erich's head, resulting in a concussion and loss of blood when the chair broken in half, scraping his head. This was used as a storyline excuse to replace Kevin Von Erich in the main event with Bobby Fulton for the six-man tag team match.

2nd Cotton Bowl Extravaganza

Template:Infobox Wrestling event The 2nd Cotton Bowl Extravaganza was a major professional wrestling show held by the Dallas, Texas based World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) promotion on October 6, 1985, at the Cotton Bowl football stadium in Dallas. The main event saw the team of Kerry and Kevin Von Erich defeated The Dynamic Duo (Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez) when Kerry pinned Adams. After the match, Adams and Hernandez were shaved bald. Gino attempted to escape during the hair-cutting, but was tackled by Chris Von Erich at ringside. Cousin Lance Von Erich made his World Class debut in this match.

3rd Cotton Bowl Extravaganza

Template:Infobox Wrestling event The 3rd Cotton Bowl Extravaganza was a major professional wrestling show held by the Dallas, Texas based World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) promotion on October 12, 1986, at the Cotton Bowl football stadium in Dallas. Ricky Steamboat who worked on the undercard was under contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) but they allowed him to work the WCCW show.

4th Cotton Bowl Extravaganza

Template:Infobox Wrestling event The 4th Cotton Bowl Extravaganza was a major professional wrestling show held by the Dallas, Texas based World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) promotion on October 17, 1987, at the Cotton Bowl football stadium in Dallas. In the main event it appeared that Kevin Von Erich defeated Al Perez to win the WCWA Heavyweight Championship, but the championship was later returned to Al Perez due to outside interference during the match and Kevin Von Erich was not officially considered the champion.

5th Cotton Bowl Extravaganza

Template:Infobox Wrestling event The 5th Cotton Bowl Extravaganza was a major professional wrestling show held by the Dallas, Texas based World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) promotion on October 15, 1988, at the Cotton Bowl football stadium in Dallas. The main event match had both the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship and the AWA World Heavyweight Championship on the line as Kerry Von Erich faced off against AWA Champion Jerry Lawler. Von Erich won the match and left the arena with the AWA Championship it was later returned to Jerry Lawler and not officially recognized by the AWA.