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1968 - Verne Gagne defeats Dr. X (Dick "Destroyer" Beyer) for the AWA World Heavyweight Title in Minneapolis, Minnesota, starting his ninth reign as champion.
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 defeated 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.
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