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19 January 2014

On this day in Pro Wrestling History


1991 - Jumbo Tsuruta wins his third AJPW Triple Crown Title, ending the second reign of Stan Hansen in Matsumoto, Japan.

1992 - The WWF holds the fourth-annual Royal Rumble pay-per-view event at Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, New York. The results:
- In a dark match, Chris Walker defeated The Brooklyn Brawler by reverse decision.
- The New Foundation (Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart) defeated The Orient Express (Tanaka and Kato), when Hart pinned Tanaka after a Rocket Launcher.
- Roddy Piper defeated WWF Intercontinental Champion The Mountie by TKO with a sleeper hold to win the title.
- The Beverly Brothers (Blake and Beau Beverly) defeated The Bushwhackers (Luke and Butch), when Blake pinned Butch after a double axehandle from Beau.
- The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon) defeated WWF Tag Team Champions The Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal) by countout, LOD retained the title.
- Ric Flair, entering from the #3 spot, won the Royal Rumble match to win the vacant WWF World Title. The final two participants were Flair and Sid Justice (#29). Hulk Hogan (#26), who was just eliminated by Sid, was not pleased over the result and grabbed Sid's arm. This help from Hogan assists Flair's elimination of Sid to win the match. Flair was the ironman in this Rumble match, at 59:26, which broke Rick Martel's 1991 record of 52:17.

1992 - Art and Jesse Barr defeat The Bruise Brothers (Ron and Don Harris) for the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Title in Vancouver, Washington, ending their fifth reign.

31 October 2013

On This Day in Pro Wrestling History and other news..

1985 – Mighty Inoue & Takashi Ishikawa defeat Norio Honaga & Isamu Teranishi to win the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Titles
1998 – Mitsuharu Misawa defeats Kenta Kobashi to win the AJPW Triple Crown Title

2000 – on Smackdown, Ivory defeats Lita to win the WWF Womens Title
2009 – Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeats Jushin Liger in the final of the ‘Jr Heavyweight League’ to win the vacant GHC Junior Heavyweight Title
-Happy Birthday to Tiger Mask III (Koji Kanemoto) he turns 47 today! 

-TNA Impact! Wrestling Glory trading cards will be coming out for sale on November 13.  Here is their twitter page for more details:
 https://twitter.com/tnacards


16 October 2013

Happy Birthday to..

Justin Credible turns 40 today.
Happy birthday to former CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion Derek Frazier (33)

Former Chikara regular Jimmy ‘Equinox’ Olsen (27),

One-time ECW World Champion Justin Credible (40), WSU

Hall of Famer Missy Hyatt (50), current IGF

Champion Kazuyuki Fujita (43) and current AJPW Tag Team

Champion Takao Omori (44)