Retirement and Death
Muchnick promoted his last card on January 1, 1982, which was subsequently named “Sam Muchnick Day” in St. Louis by Mayor Vincent Schoemehl. Without Muchnick’s leadership, the NWA’s power base gradually eroded in the 1980s as WWF head Vince McMahon seceded from the group and embarked on a national expansion. Then in 1988, the NWA’s leading promoter Jim Crockett Jr. sold his territories to Ted Turner, who created World Championship Wrestling as a direct national competitor to McMahon’s WWF. At WWF In Your House Badd Blood 1997, he was honored as a St. Louis legend.
On December 30, 1998, at the age of 93, Muchnick died of internal bleeding.
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