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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS CONTINUE

By Buck Woodward on 2006-12-21 08:00:00
December 21st

On this day in history in ....

1936 - Chick Dude defeats Albion Britt to win the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title in Hollywood, California. 

1973 - Rob Fuller defeats Bill Watts in Atlanta, Georgia to win the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title, ending Watts' second title reign. 

1974 - Carlos Colon defeats Dick Steinborn to win the WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title in Caguas, Puerto Rico.  On the same show, Vikingo & Ciclon Sudamericano defeat Jose Rivera & Jack Venano to win the WWC North American Tag Team Title. 

1976 - Eric The Red defeats Jose Rivera in Bayamon, Puerto Rico to win the WWC Puerto Rican Heavyweight Title. 

1995 - Hisakatsu Oya & Horace Boulder defeat Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Daisuke Ikeda to win the FMW World Brass Knuckles Tag Team Title. 

1998 - The Monday Night Wars continued, with Raw beating out Nitro, 4.7 to 4.0 in the ratings. 

Here are the results from Raw: Al Snow defeated Gangrel. ... Billy Gunn defeated Intercontinental Champion Ken Shamrock in a non-title match. ... Steve Blackman defeated Blue Blazer via disqualification. ... Jesse James defeated Big Boss Man to win the WWF Hardcore Title. ... Mankind defeated Shane McMahon via disqualification. ... The Headbangers defeated D'Lo Brown & Mark Henry. ... Rocky Maivia & Test defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley & X-Pac via disqualification.

Here are the results from Nitro: Fit Finlay defeated Scott Putski. ... Chavo Guerrero Jr. defeated Kaz Hayashi. ... Wrath defeated Lizmark Jr. ... Eddie Guerrero defeated Rey Mysterio Jr. ... Norman Smiley defeated Prince Iaukea. ... Barry Windham defeated Van Hammer. ... Booker T defeated Jerry Flynn. ... Lex Luger defeated Kenny Kaos. ... World Television Champion Konnan defeated Alex Wright. ... The Giant defeated Disco Inferno. ... WCW World Champion Goldberg defeated Scott Hall via countout.

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