ON THIS DAY IN PRO WRESTLING HISTORY (thanks to Graeme Cameron and Brian Hoops 1957 - Dory Funk Sr. beat Dizzy Davis in Amarillo to win the North American title 1958 - Karloff Lagarde beat Blue Demon in Mexico City to win the NWA welterweight title 1964 - Rocky Hamilton (Missouri Mauler) beat The Stomper (Archie Gouldie) to win the Central States title in St. Joseph, MO 1966 - The Black Terror (Bobby Graham) & John Tolos beat Pat Barrett & Tim Geohagen to win the Canadian Open tag titles in Vancouver 1966 - Tony Borne & Alaskan Jay York beat Shag Thomas & Bearcat Wright in Portland to win the Northwest tag team titles 1981 - Terry Gordy & Michael Hayes, The Freebirds, beat Ted DiBiase & Plowboy Stan Frazier in Atlanta to win the National tag team titles 1981 - Les Thornton beat Jerry Stubbs in Dothan, AL to win the NWA jr. title 1981 - The Grappler beat Killer Karl Kox in Greenwood, MS to win the Mississippi State title 1984 - Elijah Akeem (Leroy Brown) & Kareem Muhammad (Ray Candy) beat Norvell Austin & Sweet Brown Sugar (Skip Young) to win the Southern tag titles in Memphis 1987 - Tinieblas Sr. beat Billy Anderson in Los Angeles to win the WWA title 1987 - Badnews Allen beat Kevin Sullivan to win the Southern title in Fort Lauderdale 1988 - El Satanico beat Mogur in Mexico City to win the Mexican national middleweight title 1988 - Tony Arce & Vulano & Emilio Charles Jr. beat Pirata Morgan & Jerry Estrada & Hombre Bala to win the Mexican national trios title 1990 - Jushin Liger beat Naoki Sano in Tokyo to win the IWGP jr. title 1994 - Moondogs Rex & Spot beat Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson in Memphis to win the USWA tag titles and Eddie Gilbert beat Jerry Lawler to win the USWA world title 1996 - Damian 666 beat Octagon in Aguascalientes to win the AAA light heavyweight title 1998 - Felino beat El Hijo del Santo in Mexico City to win the WWA welterweight title 2003 - A ladder won the DDT Iron Man heavy metal weight title in Tokyo when it fell on Yoshito Sasaki, knocked him out, and the referee counted the pin. Shoichi Ichimaya then pinned the ladder to win the title. 2004 - Steve Corino beat Masato Tanaka in Tokyo to win the Zero-One UN title
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:54:26 +0000
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