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1992 - The Rock N' Roll Express defeat The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane & Tom Prichard) for the Smoky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Title in Harlan, Kentucky. This would be the first of ten SMW Tag Title reigns for Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson.
1993 - ECW held their
first "November to Remember" event at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Here are the results:
- Salvatore Bellomo defeated The Rockin' Rebel in a Chair match.
- The Sandman vs. Jim Neidhart ended in a double disqualification.
- The Public Enemy defeated Badd Company (Pat Tanaka & Paul Diamond) in a
South Philly Hood match.
- Kevin Sullivan defeated Tommy Cairo in a Shoot match.
- Malia Hosaka defeated Sherri Martel via disqualification.
- ECW Tag Team Champions Johnny Hotbody & Tony Stetson defeated The Bad
Breed (Axl & Ian Rotten).
- Tommy Dreamer & Johnny Gunn defeated Johnny Hotbody & Tony Stetson in
ten seconds to win the ECW Tag Team Title.
- The Tazmaniac defeated Tommy Dreamer.
- Mr. Hughes defeated Johnny Gunn.
- Sabu & Road Warrior Hawk defeated Terry Funk & King Kong Bundy when
Sabu pinned Funk. As a result, Sabu (who was already the ECW Heavyweight
Champion) won Funk's ECW Television Title.
1995 - Kensuke Sasaki
defeats Sting for the WCW United States Heavyweight Title in Tokyo, Japan,
ending Sting's second reign with the title. This was the first time the United
States Title ever changed hands outside of the U.S. In fact, only one other time
(Lance Storm defeating Hugh Morrus in England in 2000) has the belt changed
hands outside of the U.S. Here are the full results from the show, which was a
New Japan Pro Wrestling event at Sumo Hall, nicknamed "WCW World In
Japan":
- Koji Kanemoto, El Samurai & Shinjiro Ohtani defeated Jushin Liger, Yuji
Nagata, & Tokimitsu Ishizawa.
- Junji Hirata defeated Booker T.
- Masahiro Chono & Hiro Saito defeated Johnny B. Badd & Bobby Eaton.
- Riki Choshu & Masa Saito defeated The Nasty Boys.
- The Giant (Big Show) & Arn Anderson defeated Shinya Hashimoto & Tadao
Yasuda.
- Ric Flair defeated Osamu Nishimura.
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Kurosawa (Manabu Nakanishi).
- Keiji Mutoh defeated Steven (William) Regal.
- Kensuke Sasaki defeated Sting to win the WCW United States Title.
2002 - Brian Lee & Slash defeat America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris & James Storm) for the NWA World Tag Team Title in Nashville, Tennessee.
2005 - Eddie Guerrero, 38, was found dead in his hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was scheduled to wrestle Randy Orton and Batista that night in a three-way match to be aired on Smackdown. For more on Eddie Guerrero's passing, go to the next page.
2006 - At the Wrestling Society X taping in Los Angeles, California, an angle was shot where Vampiro was attacked by a mysterious wrestler (Ricky Banderas) and had a fireball thrown in his face. The angle would end up causing problems with MTV, who felt the fireball shot was too graphic to show on television.
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