Today in Wrestling History for July 4th In 2000, AAA TripleMania VIII was held in Tokyo, Japan, making it the first major AAA event to be held outside North America – El Oriental & Esther Moreno fought Pentagon & Xochitl Hamada to a double-countout – Perro Aguayo Jr, El Alebrije & Pathfinder defeat Los Vatos Locos (El Picudo, Charly Manson & Espiritu), Team Japan (Naomichi Marufuji, Minoru Tanaka & Genki Horiguchi) & Los Vipers (Histeria, Psicosis II & Maniaco) in a Four Corners Elimination Match – Heavy Metal & Tiger Mask IV defeat Kick Boxer & Yoshinobu Kanemaru – Octagon, Jushin Liger, Latin Lover & El Alebrije defeat Cibernetico, Shiima Nobunaga, Abismo Negro & Electroshock In 2002, AAA TripleMania X was held in Madero, Mexico – Latin Lover, La Parka, El Alebrije & Gronda defeat Leatherface, Cibernetico, Abismo Negro & The Monsther – Perro Aguayo Jr, Mr Aguila & El Zorro defeat Hector Garza, El Dandy & Pirata Morgan – Los Diabolicos (Mr Condor, Angel Mortal & El Gallego) & Gran Apache defeat Los Vipers (Maniaco, Histeria, Psicosis II & Mosco de la Merced) in a Hair/Mask vs Hair Match. Maniaco was pinned, so was forced to unmask – Heavy Metal defeats Sangre Chicana, El Oriental, Electroshock, May Flowers & El Brazo in a Hair vs Hair Match where each wrestler represented a referee who put his hair on the line. Sangre Chicano was pinned, so referee El Tirantes was shaved bald 1915 – Joe Stecher defeats Charlie Cutler to win the vacant World Heavyweight Title (Frank Gotch had retired as champion) 1962 – Buddy Rogers & Johnny Barend defeat Johnny Valentine & Bob Ellis to win the NWA Northeast United States Tag Team Titles 1982 – The Von Erichs (Kevin & Kerry) defeat King Kong Bundy & Bugsy McGraw to win the WCCW American Tag Team Titles 1985 – King Parsons defeats Chris Adams to win the WCCW American Heavyweight Title 1992 – Terry Gordy & Steve Williams defeat The Steiner Brothers (Rick & Scott) to win the WCW Tag Team Titles. Also, Brad Armstrong defeats Scotty Flamingo to win the WCW Cruiserweight Title 1993 – Jerry Lawler defeats Owen Hart to win the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Title 1994 – Following several no-shows by champion Jake Roberts, the SMW Heavyweight Title is awarded to The Dirty White Boy. Also, Chris Candido defeats Scott Studd to win the vacant SMW Television Title 1999 – on Nitro, David Flair is awarded the vacant WCW United States Title by his father, WCW President Ric Flair 2009 – Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi) defeat The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:21:50 +0000
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