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1945 - Ted Cox defeats Buddy Rogers in Houston, Texas to win the NWA Texas Heavyweight Title.
1968 - Verne Gagne defeats Dr. X (Dick "Destroyer" Beyer) for the AWA World Heavyweight Title in Minneapolis, Minnesota, starting his ninth reign as champion.
1981 - Eddie Gilbert & Ricky Morton defeat Masa Fuchi & Atsushi Onita in Memphis, Tennessee to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Title.
1985 - Tiger Mask (Mitsuharu Misawa) defeats Kuniaki Kobayashi in Tokyo, Japan to win the NWA International Heavyweight Title.
1986 - Eddie Gilbert & Sting defeat The Fantastics in Tulsa, Oklahoma to reclaim the UWF World Tag Team Championship. The belts had been held up following a match between the two teams two weeks earlier.
1987 - Ted Arcidi, who held the world benchpress record with a lift of 705.5 lbs., wins the World Class Championship Wrestling Texas Heavyweight Title in a battle royal. The belt had been vacated when the previous champion, Al Perez, won the WCCW World Heavyweight Title on August 21st.
1991 - Katsuji Ueda defeats Mark Starr in Chiba, Japan to win the AWA World Light Heavyweight Title for the second time.
1997 - Kensuke Sasaki defeats Shinya Hashimoto for the IWGP Heavyweight Title in Yokohama, Japan. This would end Hashimoto's third, and final, reign as New Japan's top champion, and would mark the first of four reigns with the belt for Sasaki.
1997 - PG-13 defeat Steven Dunn & Flash Flanagan for the USWA Tag Team Title in Memphis, Tennessee. This ended the third title reign for Dunn & Flanagan and began the fifteenth reign for PG-13. It would also be their last title reign, as USWA would shut down operations in November of 1997.
1997 - Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka & Koji Nakagawa defeat Mike Awesome, Hisakatsu Oya & Mr. Gannosuke to win the FMW World Streetfight Six-Man Tag Team Title in Yokohama, Japan.
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