9 January 2014

On this Day in Pro Wrestling History

1993 - The WWF holds an afternoon event at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The results were:
- Crush defeated Skinner.
- Terry Taylor defeated Jason Knight (subbing for Lance Cassidy).
- WWF Tag Team Champions Money, Inc. (Ted DiBiase and IRS) defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) to retain the title, when IRS pinned Sags after hitting him with hier briefcase. The Nastys won the match originally after DiBiase collided with Sags and Knobbs pinned DiBiase, but the match was restarted due to Knobbs not being the legal man in the ring.
- The Undertaker pinned Papa Shango after a chokeslam.
- Bam Bam Bigelow pinned Typhoon after a diving headbutt.
- WWF Champion Bret Hart defeated Ric Flair in a 60-minute Iron Man Match, three falls to two, to retain the title. Hart pinned Flair with a roll up, Flair then made Hart submit twice with the Figure-Four Leglock while holding a rope for leverage, first the top then the bottom rope. Hart won the fourth fall by submission with the Sharpshooter, and won the fifth fall with 18 seconds remaining, reversing the Figure-Four into an inside cradle.

1993 - Bart Sawyer defeated John Rambo in Portland, Oregon to win the Championship Wrestling USA Television Title, ending Rambo's second reign and beginning Sawyer's second.


1997 - Flash Flanagan and Steven Dunn defeat Mike Samples and Sir Mo to win the held up USWA Tag Team Title in Memphis, Tennessee. The title was held up after a match between the teams of Flanagan & Dunn and Samples & Vic the Bruiser on December 27 in Memphis.

1998 - Wolf Hawkfield and Johnny Smith defeat Jun Akiyama and Takao Omori for the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Title in Kagoshima, Japan.

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