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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: BATISTA WINS THE RUMBLE, MISSY HYATT BEATS PAUL E. AND MORE

By Buck Woodward on 2007-01-30 08:00:00

January 30th

On this day in history in ...

1920 - Joe Stecher defeats Earl Caddock in New York, New York to win the World Heavyweight Title for the second time.

1965 - Larry Hennig & Harley Race defeat Crusher & Dick the Bruiser for the AWA World Tag Team Title in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1968 - Fritz Von Erich & Billy Red Lyons defeat The Spoiler & Gary Hart in Dallas, Texas to win the NWA American Tag Team Title.

1986 - Dos Caras defeats El Canek in Toluca, Mexico to win the UWA World Heavyweight Title for the second time, ending Canek's sixth title reign.

1990 - Jushin Liger defeats Naoki Sano in Osaka, Japan for the IWGP World Junior Heavyweight Title.

1991 - Clash of the Champions XIV took place in Gainesville, Georgia at the Georgia Mountain Center. The show, nicknamed "Dixie Dynamite" aired live on TBS, earning a 3.9 cable rating. Here are the results of the show:
- Sting & Lex Luger defeated WCW World Tag Team Champions Doom (Ron Simmons & Butch Reed) via disqualification when Simmons threw Sting over the top rope.
- WCW World Television Champion Tom Zenk defeated Bobby Eaton with a backslide.
- The Freebirds (Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin) defeated Tommy Rick & Allen Iron Eagle with a double DDT on Eagle.
- Sid Vicious defeated Joey Maggs with a powerbomb.
- Terry Taylor defeated Richard (Ricky) Morton with a cradle.
- Ranger Ross defeated El Cubano with a sunset flip.
- Arn Anderson & Barry Windham defeated Chris & Mark Youngblood after Windham superplexed Mark.
- Brian Pillman defeated Buddy Lee Parker with a flying bodypress.
- Missy Hyatt defeated Paul E. Dangerously in an arm wrestling match when Heyman was distracted by Missy's cleavage after she took off her ring jacket.
- WCW World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs. Scott Steiner ended in a 25-minute draw. Steiner had Flair pinned when the time ran out.

1992 - Tarzan Goto defeats Big Titan in Osaka, Japan to win the WWA (FMW) World Martial Arts Heavyweight Title.

1993 - Terry Gordy & Steve Williams defeat Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada to win the All Japan World Tag Team Title for the fifth, and final, time in Chiba, Japan.

2000 - Minoru Tanaka defeats Yuuhi Sano in Tokyo, Japan to win the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Title for a second time.

2003 - Danny Doring defeats The Bruiser in Glen Burnie, Maryland to win the Maryland Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Champion, ending Bruiser's sixth, and final, reign as champion.

2005 - Batista won the 2005 Royal Rumble in Fresno, California.  For the original PPV report from that show, go to Page 2! 

2006 - WWE held a Raw/Smackdown supershow broadcast and taping in Orlando, Florida.  Unfortunately, the most memorable part of the night occurred during the Smackdown taping, during Rey Mysterio's promo about his victory the previous night at the Royal Rumble. As Mysterio thanked the late Eddie Guerrero for helping him win the Rumble, Randy Orton interrupted and said that Guerrero was "in hell".  Later that night, Mark Henry & Randy Orton defeated Rey Mysterio & Kurt Angle when Orton pinned Mysterio, and after the match Orton said that Mysterio's chances of winning the World title were the same as the chances of Eddie Guerrero coming back from the dead, as he goaded Mysterio into putting his Wrestlemania title shot on the line.

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