WRESTLE BOX PRESENTS..........THIS DAY IN WRESTLING HISTORY......JANUARY 23RD!!! 1958: Buddy Rogers defeated Dory Funk, Sr. for the Amarillo NWA North American Heavyweight Title in Amarillo, Texas 1961: Maurice & Paul Vachon defeated Jack Curtis & Ray Villmer, to win the Mid-Atlantic NWA Southern Tag Team Title in Charlotte, North Carolina 1970: Umanosuke Ueda defeated Danny Hodge to win the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title 1974: A double World Heavyweight title match between NWA Champion Jack Brisco & PWF (AJPW) Champion Giant Baba ends in a draw in Nagasaki, Japan 1978: Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Carlos Jose Estrada to win the WWWF Junior Heavyweight Title at a WWWF Madison Square Garden show from New York, NY 1978: WWWF World Heavyweight Champion Superstar Billy Graham defeated Mil Mascaras to retain the title in the main event of a WWWF Madison Square Garden show from New York, NY 1983: Kerry Von Erich defeated Harley Race to win NWA Missouri Heavyweight Title in St. Louis, Missouri 1984: Hulk Hogan defeated The Iron Sheik to win his first WWF World Heavyweight Title at a WWF Madison Square Garden show from New York, NY. The day will forever be known as the Birth Of Hulkamania. youtube/watch?v=U-9y1wu1_9M 1984: Andre The Giant, Rocky Johnson & Tony Atlas beat The wild Samoans (Afa, Sika & Samula) in the main event of a WWF Madison Square Garden show from New York, NY 1987: Terry Taylor & Jim Duggan vacate the UWF Tag Team Titles after Duggan loses a Loser-Leaves-UWF Match to One Man Gang 1989: The Big Boss Man beat Hulk Hogan via D.Q. in the main event of a WWF Madison Square Garden from New York, NY 1990: Rowdy Roddy Piper pinned Pistol Pez Whatley in the main event of a WWF Wrestling Challenge TV Taping from Fort myers, FL 1990: The sky Scrapers (Dan Spivey & Mark Callous) beat Norman The Lunatic in a Handi-Cap Match in the main event of NWA Worldwide Wrestling from Greenville, SC 1993: The Carolina Heartbreaker defeated The Lightning Kid (Sean Waltman) to win the Southeastern Wrestling Alliance Light Heavyweight Title in Sylva, North Carolina 1993: Colonel DeBeers defeated Bart Sawyer to win the Championship Wrestling USA Television Title in Portland, Oregon 1993: ECW Tag Team Champions The Super Destroyers beat WWA Tag Team Champions Barry Hardy & Duane Gill to unify the titles at an ECW Arena show from Philadelphia, PA 1993: ECW Heavyweight Champion The Sandman pinned WWA Heavyweight Champion The Spider to unify the titles at an ECW Arena show from Philadelphia, PA 1993: Terry Funk Defeated Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert in a Tecas Death Match in the main event of an ECW Arena show from Philadelphia, PA 1995: The Smoking Gunns defeated The 123 Kid & Bob Holly to win the WWF World Tag Team Titles at WWF Monday Night Raw from Plametto, FL 1995: British bulldog Davey Boy Smith pinned The Black Phantom in the main event of WWF Monday Night Raw from Plametto, FL 1996: Ric Flair & The Giant (with Jimmy Hart) defeated Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth & Kevin Greene) in the main event of WCW Clash of the Champions XXXII from Las Vegas, NV 1996: Ahmed Johnson beat The 1-2-3 Kid via D.Q. in the main event of a WWF Superstars Of Wrestling Taping from San Jose, California 1998: Sabu pinned Bam Bam Bigelow in the main event of an ECW show from Waltham, MA 1998: Mr. Niebla & Shocker defeated Emilio Charles Jr & Dr Wagner Jr to win the CMLL World Tag Team Titles 1999: Tommy Dreamer beat Justin Credible and Lance Storm in a Three-Way-Dance main event of an ECW Show from Detroit, MI 2000: Chris Jericho beat Hardcore Holly and Chyna in a Triple Threat match to win the WWF Intercontinental Title at WWF Royal Rumble from Madison Square Garden in New York, NY 2000: WWF World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated Cactus Jack in a Street Fight to retain the title at WWF Royal Rumble 2000 from Madison Square Garden in New York, NY 2000: The Rock won the 30-Man Royal rumble match last eliminating The Big Show in the main event of WWF Royal Rumble 2000 from Madison Square Garden in New York, NY 2001: Kurt Angle pinned Kane in the main event of a WWF Smackdown from Mobile, AL 2001: Meng awards the WCW Hardcore Title to The Barbarian at WCW Thunder 2002: Damaja & The Machine beat OVW Southern Tag Team Champions Nick Dinsmore & Rob Conway via D.Q. in the main event of an OVW TV Taping from Jeffersonville, IN 2004: La Park & Shocker defeated Los Guerreros Del Infierno (Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero) to win the CMLL World Tag Team Titles 2005: Scorpio & Doug Williams defeated Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa to win the GHC World Tag Team Titles 2006: John Cena & Nature Boy Ric Flair beat Chris Masters & Edge in the main event of WWF Monday Night Raw from Charlotte, NC 2010: Davey Richards pinned Masaaki Mochizuki to win the FIP Heavyweight Title at DG USA Fearless from Chicago, IL 2010: Dragon Gate Open The Freedom Gate Champion BxB Hulk pinned Dragon Kid to retain the title in the main event of DG USA Fearless from Chicago, IL 2011: Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi) defeated Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi) to win the IWGP World Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles in the main event of NJPW/CMLL Fantastica Mania 11 - Day 2 from Tokyo, Japan 2011: Jigsaw, Mike Quackenbush and The Colony (Soldier Ant & Fire Ant) beat Delirious, Tim Donst & The Swiss Money Holdings (Ares & Claudio Castagnoli) in the main event of CHIKARA Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls from The ECW Arena in Philadelphia, PA 2012: Matt Morgan beat Ring Ka King Heavyweight Champion Brutus Magnus via D.Q. in the main event of a Ring Ka King TV Taping in Maharashtra, India Compiled by Ben Roberts for Ring Wars and Wrestle Box Sources: Gerweck.net & ProFightDB
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:37:31 +0000
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