Was La Crosse becoming a mecca for pro wrestling, 27 years ago?

In June of 1990, the TV show ‘WWF Superstars of Wrestling’ featured bouts from the La Crosse Center three weeks in a row.  On one episode, Brutus Beefcake defeated Jim Ruby, and Nikolai Volkoff beat Boris Zhukov.
 
The top man in the Soviet Union visited the Midwest that June.  Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife spent an afternoon in the Twin Cities, at the invitation of Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich.  The Bush White House slammed Democrat Perpich for not saving spaces for Minnesota’s two U.S. Senators, Republicans Dave Durenberger and Rudy Boschwitz, at a luncheon for Gorbachev.  The governor said he had never agreed to invite the senators. 
 
La Crosse’s new airport terminal was trying to draw local customers to its bar, called Amelia’s, by presenting live bands on the weekends.  Meanwhile, on TV, Jerry Seinfeld was trying out a new sitcom on NBC, about his life as a comedian.  The show about Jerry and his friends George, Elaine, and Kramer, became a big hit and lasted eight years…but even at the beginning of the series, Seinfeld promised that he wasn’t going to do another sitcom after this one.  Not that there was anything wrong with that…in 1990, yesterday in La Crosse.