10 Forgotten WWE Matches That Came Right Before Iconic Moments
6. Haiti Kid & Tiger Jackson Vs Dana Carpenter & Pancho Boy - Hulkamania Is Born (MSG, January 23 1984)
Haiti Kid, Tiger Jackson, Dana Carpenter and Pancho Boy engaged in countless variations of their specific tag match back when WWE considered "Midget Madness" (their phrasing, not ours) an important inclusion in their broadening Sports Entertainment package, but only once could this formulaic but fun encounter tee up a moment that would change professional wrestling forever.
A Madison Square Garden bow for the four was inserted for chillout purposes after a super-heated Intercontinental Championship match minutes earlier, but the show would be stolen by the moment made in the iconic and historic match that followed.
Going just under seven minutes in a two-out-of-three falls match in Madison Square Garden in January 1984, the quartet assembled much of their usual ahead of Hulk Hogan sending the home market into an absolute frenzy with his ultra-patriotic and uber-over schtick It took 'The Hulkster just over five to despatch The Iron Sheik and claim his first ever WWE Championship, but the ramifications of that match are still being felt over 35 years later.