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May 6th
On this day in ....
1921 - Stanislaus Zbyszko defeats Ed "Strangler" Lewis in New York
City, New York to win his second World Heavyweight Title, ending Lewis' third
reign.
1938 - Don McIntyre defeats Vic Christy for the Montreal World Heavyweight Title
in Buffalo, New York.
1946 - Al Szasz defeats Paavo Ketonnen to win the Pacific Coast Light
Heavyweight Title in Portland, Oregon, ending Ketonnen's second reign.
1953 - Killer Kowalski defeats Verne Gagne to win the Montreal World Heavyweight
Title in Montreal, Quebec, beginning Kowalski's second reign.
1953 - Leo Nomellini and Enrique Torres defeat Ben and Mike Sharpe for the San
Francisco NWA World Tag Team Title in San Francisco, California. This ended the
Sharpes' seventh reign.
1958 - Black Hawk and Nelson Royal defeat Doug Donovan and Bill Savage for the
NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Title.
1960 - Ed Francis and Bill Savage defeat Tony Borne and Shag Thomas to win the
NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Title, to begin their second reign.
1964 - Brian Knobbs is born in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
1966 - Georgia Championship Wrestling held an eight-team tournament for the
vacant Georgia NWA Southern Tag Team Title in Atlanta, Georgia. The results:
Quarterfinals:
- The Infernos defeated The Scufflin' Hillbillies.
- Alberto and Enrique Torres defeated Swede Karlson and Jack Vansky.
- Chief Crazy Horse and Bobby Shane defeated Bad Boy and Billy Hines.
- The Mysterious Medics defeated Darrell Cochran and Jack Pesek.
Semifinals:
- Alberto and Enrique Torres defeated The Infernos.
- The Mysterious Medics defeated Chief Crazy Horse and Bobby Shane.
Finals:
- Alberto and Enrique Torres defeated The Mysterious Medics to win the vacant
Georgia NWA Southern Tag Team Title.
1969 - Alberto and Ramon Torres defeat Treach Phillips and Karl Von Stroheim for
the Tri-State NWA United States Tag Team Title in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1974 - Rip Tyler defeats Bob Sweetan in Shreveport, Louisiana to win the NWA
Tri-State Brass Knuckles Title.
1976 - Bob Kelly defeats Duke Miller for the NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Title
in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This ended Miller's second reign and began Kelly's
17th.
1978 - Carlos Colón defeats Ox Baker in Bayamón, Puerto Rico to win his second
WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Title. At the same event, The Hollywood Blondes
(Jack Evans and Larry Sharpe) defeat Victor Jovica and Chief Thundercloud for
the WWC North American Tag Team Title, beginning their second reign. Also, Hurácan
Castillo and Pierre Martel win the WWC World Tag Team Title from Invader I and
José Rivera, ending their second reign.
1979 - Ashura Hara defeats Miles Zrno in Tokyo, Japan to win the World Wrestling
Union World Junior Heavyweight Title.
1980 - Masa Saito defeats Steve Keirn for the NWA Florida Television Title in
Tampa, Florida.
1982 - Black Tiger (Marc Rocco) defeats Gran Hamada for the WWF Junior
Heavyweight Title in Fukuoka, Japan. The title had been vacated in April by The
Dynamite Kid due to injury.
1982 - Joyce Grable and Wendi Richter defeat Princess Victoria and Sabrina to
win their second NWA Women's World Tag Team Title in Kansas City, Missouri.
1982 - King Kamaka and Baron Von Krupp defeat Mark Lewin and Steve Rickard for
the NWA Australasian Tag Team Title in Auckland, New Zealand.
1984 - The first-annual Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions was held by World
Class Championship Wrestling at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas. 32,123 fans
attended the show, held in honor of the recently deceased David Von Erich, who
died on February 10 in Japan. The results were:
- Johnny Mantell and Kelly Kiniski fought to a draw.
- Chris Adams and Sunshine defeated Jimmy Garvin and Precious, when Adams pinned
Garvin.
- Butch Reed defeated Chick Donovan.
- Kamala and The Great Kabuki fought to a double-disqualification.
- The Junkyard Dog defeated The Missing Link by disqualification.
- Rock 'n' Soul (King Parsons and Buck Zumhofe) defeated WCCW American Tag Team
Champioons The Super Destoyers (I and II (Bill and Scott Irwin)), when Parsons
pinned Super Destoyer I, to win the title, ending the Super Destroyers' second
reign.
- Fritz, Kevin and Mike Von Erich defeated WCCW Six-Man Tag Team Champions The
Fabulous Freebirds (Terry Gordy, Michael Hayes and Buddy Roberts), when Kevin
pinned Roberts, to win the title. Kerry later replaced the retired Fritz in the
championship team.
- Kerry Von Erich defeated NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair to win the
title.
1984 - King Kong Bundy and The Masked Superstar defeat The Road Warriors (Animal
and Hawk) to win the NWA National Tag Team Title in Atlanta, Georgia, ending the
Road Warriors' second reign.
1984 - Crusher Lisowski and Baron Von Raschke defeat The Sheiks (Jerry Blackwell
and Ken Patera) for the AWA World Tag Team Title in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
1988 - Makhan Singh defeats Owen Hart to win the Stampede North American
Heavyweight Title in Calgary, Alberta, ending Hart's second reign and beginning
Singh's third reign.
1989 - Chigusa Nagayo retires from the ring, as she had reached age 26, the
mandatory retirement age for female wrestlers in Japan at the time. At her
retirement, she was one-half of the WWWA World Tag Team Champions with Lioness
Asuka as The Crush Gals, as well as IWA Women's World and All Pacific Champion.
She wrestled her last two matches, at least at the time, that night at AJW's
Wrestlemarinpiad event in Yokohama, Japan. The Crush Gals successfully defended
the WWWA World Tag Team Title against Akira Hokuto and Mitsuko Nishikawa.
Immediately following that match, Asuka defeated Nagayo in her retirement match.
Nagayo returned to competition a few years later, after that retirement rule was
waived.
1990 - Matt Derringer defeats The Lightning Kid (Sean Waltman) for the Pro
Wrestling America Light Heavyweight Title in Barron, Wisconsin, beginning his
second reign.
1994 - Jack Steel defeats Scott D'Amore to win the Border City Wrestling Can-Am
Heavyweight Title in North Bay, Ontario.
1994 - The Mongolian Stomper defeats Mike Samson for the Southern States
Wrestling Heavyweight Title in Fall Branch, Tennessee.
1996 - Dick Togo defeats Danny Collins in Nakayama, Japan to win the British
Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Title.
1999 - Frenchy Riviera defeats Silky Boom Boom for the NWA Georgia Heavyweight
Title in Loganville, Georgia.
2000 - The WWF held the first of four annual Insurrextion pay-per-view events,
which aired exclusively in the United Kingdom, at Earls Court in London,
England. The results were:
- Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay and Scotty 2 Hotty) defeated The Radicalz (Dean
Malenko and Perry Saturn), when Sexay pinned Saturn after the Hip Hop Drop.
- Kane (with Paul Bearer) pinned Bull Buchanan after a chokeslam.
- Road Dogg (with Tori) pinned Bradshaw (with Faarooq) after a pumphandle slam.
- The Kat (with Mae Young) defeated Terri Runnels (with The Fabulous Moolah) in
an arm wrestling match.
- The Big Show and Rikishi defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von), when
Big Show pinned Bubba Ray after a chokeslam.
- Kurt Angle pinned Chris Benoit after an Angle Slam.
- The British Bulldog pinned WWF Hardcore Champion Crash Holly after a powerslam
on a chair to win the title.
- The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff) defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Edge and
Christian by disqualification, when Edge hit Matt with the ring bell. Edge and
Christian retained the title.
- WWF European Champion Eddie Guerrero (with Chyna) pinned Chris Jericho, after
hitting him with his title belt while the referee was distracted, to retain the
title.
- WWF Champion The Rock defeated Shane McMahon (with Vince McMahon) and Triple H
(with Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley) in a Triple Threat match, by pinning Shane
after the People's Elbow, to retain the title.
2000 - Shane Black defeats Zero Gravity to win the World Xtreme Wrestling
Cruiserweight Title in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. This began Black's fourth reign
and ended Zero Gravity's second reign.
2000 - Boyce LeGrand and Robert Thompson defeat Frank and Vic Murdoch for the
All-Pro Wrestling Tag Team Title in Pacifica, California.
2001 - Steve King defeats Jason Rumble in Melrose, Massachusetts to win the NWA
New England Heavyweight Title.
2001 - The Bloody and Fang Suzuki defeat The Masked Angels (Fleia and Rosetta)
for the TWF World Women's Tag Team Title in Tokyo, Japan.
2002 - WWE held a live RAW at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford,
Connecticut, which got a 4.6 rating on TNN. The results were:
- WWE Women's Champion Jazz (with WWF Hardcore Champion Steven Richards) pinned
Trish Stratus in a no-disqualification match, after Richards hit Stratus with
the Steven Kick, to retain the title. After the match, Bubba Ray Dudley brought
a referee to the ring to go after Richards' title.
- Bubba Ray Dudley pinned WWE Hardcore Champion Steven Richards after the Bubba
Bomb to win the title, beginning Bubba Ray's 10th reign and ending Richards'
seventh.
- Raven pinned WWE Hardcore Champion Bubba Ray Dudley, after hitting Bubba with
a trash can lid and hitting the Evenflow DDT, to win the title, and begin his
17th reign.
- Justin Credible pinned WWE Hardcore Champion Raven after a superkick to win
the title, beginning his second reign.
- Crash Holly pinned WWE Hardcore Champion Justin Credible after a missile
dropkick to win the title, his 18th.
- Trish Stratus pinned WWE Hardcore Champion Crash Holly, after Bubba Ray Dudley
hit Crash with a trash can, to win the title.
- Steven Richards pinned WWE Hardcore Champion Trish Stratus to win the title,
after Jazz sprayed Bubba Ray in the face with a fire extinguisher and Bubba Ray
put Trish through a table in the ring, thinking he was doing this to Jazz
because he was blinded. This began Richards' eighth reign. Bubba Ray carried
Trish backstage after the match.
- William Regal defeated WWE European Champion Spike Dudley by submission with a
half-crab to win the title, beginning his fourth reign.
- Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) pinned Shawn Stasiak after the F5.
- Jeff Hardy and Rob Van Dam besiegen Booker T and WWE Intercontinental Champion
Eddie Guerrero, when RVD pinned Guerrero after Hardy hit a Swanton and RVD hit a
Five-Star Frog Splash.
- Steve Austin, Bradshaw and Ric Flair fought The nWo (The Big Show, Scott Hall
and X-Pac) to a no-contest.
2003 - All Star Wrestling held an eight-man tournament for the vacant World
Heavy-Middleweight Title in Croydon, England at Fairfield Halls. The results
were:
Quarterfinals:
- Five-Star Flash defeated Mal Sanders.
- Bryan Danielson defeated Santino Herbert.
- Robbie Dynamite defeated Murat Bosporus.
- James Mason defeated Steve Grey.
Semifinals:
- Bryan Danielson defeated Robbie Dynamite.
- James Mason defeated Five-Star Flash
Non-tournament match:
- PN Newz defeated Ricky Knight and Zebra Kid in a handicap match.
Finals:
- Bryan Danielson defeated James Mason to win the vacant World
Heavy-Middleweight Title.
2004 - Paul Gomez, better known as Pepper Gomez, dies from kidney failure at age
77.
2006 - Alex Shelley defeats Acid Jazz, champion Jaysin Strife and Brandon
Thomaselli in a four-way match in Streamwood, Illinois for the NWA Midwest X
Division Title.
2006 - The Turbanators (Jaheed and Johad) defeated The Hillbillies (Bucky and
Cletis) to win the NWA Blue Ridge Tag Team Title in Grundy, Virginia. The Night
Prowlers (Mad Dog and Pit Bull) had been stripped of the title due to injury.
2006 - The Beastie Boyz (Ape Atomica and Lupo) defeat La Lesione Straniera (Drago
and Manuel Majoli) for the Italian Championship Wrestling Italian Tag Team Title
in Lecce, Italy. At the same show, Kaio defeats Chris the Bambikiller to win the
ICW Italian Heavyweight Title, beginning his second reign.
2006 - Johnny Lightning defeats champion El Fandango and J.T. Hogg in a
three-way match in Parkersburg, West Virginia to win the NWA Tri-State X
Division Title.
2007 - MIYAWAKI and YOSHIYA defeat Yuji Hino and Saburo Inamatsu to win the
Kaientai Dojo Strongest-K Tag Team Title in Chiba, Japan.
2007 - Lupo defeats Kobra for the ICW Interregional Heavyweight Title in Crema,
Italy.
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