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October 20th
On this day in history in ....
1922 - Clarence Eklund defeats Helmar Myre to win the World Light
Heavyweight Title in Sheridan, Wyoming.
1955 - Bill Savage and Buck Weaver defeat Luigi Macera and Dick Torio for
the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Title.
1964
- Mad Dog Vachon defeats Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Title in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending Gagne's seventh reign with the title and
beginning his own second run with the belt.
1969 - Jackie Fargo and Dennis Hall defeat Don and Al Greene to win the
NWA Southern Tag Team Title in Memphis, Tennessee.
1972 - Dick Steinborn and Argentina Apollo defeat Skandor Akbar and Ox
Baker to win the NWA Georgia Tag Team Title in Atlanta, Georgia.
1979 - Dutch Mantel defeats Dennis Condrey for his fifth NWA Mid-America
Heavyweight Title in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1983 - Buzz Tyler wins his second NWA Central States Heavyweight Title
reign by defeated Super Destroyer in Kansas City, Kansas.
1984 - Dusty Rhodes & Manny Fernandez defeat Ivan Koloff & Don Kernodle for the NWA World Tag Team Title in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1986 - Tracy Smothers begins his second reign as NWA Mid-America
Heavyweight Champion by defeating Boy Tony (Tony Falk) in Memphis, Tennessee.
1987 - Chigusa Nagayo defeats Yukari Oomori to win the WWWA World Singles
Title and Bull Nakano and Condor Saito defeat The Red Typhoons (Kazue Nagahori
and Yumi Ogura) to win the WWWA World Tag Team Title in Tokyo, Japan.
1989 - Kerry Von Erich defeats The Punisher (The Undertaker) for the USWA
Texas Heavyweight Title in Dallas, Texas.
1989 - Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu defeated Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu for the All Japan World Tag Team Title in Nagoya, Japan, ending Tsuruta & Yatsu's fifth, and final, title reign. On the same show, Masanobu Fuchi defeated Joe Malenko to win the All Japan World Junior Heavyweight Title.
1989 - Kerry Von Erich defeated The Punisher in Dallas, Texas to win the USWA Texas Heavyweight Title.
1995 - Terry Gordy pins Brad Armstrong to win the SMW Heavyweight Title.
1996
- WWF held their eleventh "In Your House" Pay-per-view, nicknamed
"Buried Alive" and held at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis,
Indiana. Here are the results:
- In a dark match, Barry Windham defeated Justin Bradshaw.
- Steve Austin defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley with a Stone Cold Stunner. During
the match, Curt Hennig went to ringside and charmed Helmsley's valet for the
night into leaving with him.
- WWF World Tag Team Champions Davey Boy Smith & Owen Hart defeated The
Smoking Gunns when Owen pinned Billy with a spin kick.
- Intercontinental Champion Marc Mero defeated Goldust. Mero was supposed to
face Faarooq, who was attacked backstage by Ahmed Johnson prior to the match.
Mero defeated Goldust with the Wild Thing (Shooting Star Press), and Curt Hennig
came into the ring to raise Mero's hand.
- Sid Vicious defeated Vader with a chokeslam. As a result, Sid earned a World
Title match at Survivor Series.
- The Undertaker defeated Mankind in a Buried Alive match when Taker hit a
tombstone piledriver, chokeslammed Mankind into the grave, and shoveled some
dirt on him. The Executioner (Terry Gordy) then made his debut, hitting
Undertaker with a shovel and helping Mankind out of the grave. Goldust, Crush,
Bradshaw, and Triple H then came out to help Mankind and Executioner bury
Undertaker completely, filling the whole grave. After they left, a
"lightning" bolt came down and hit the tombstone near the grave and
Undertaker's arm shot up from the dirt to end the show. .
Matches held after the PPV went off the air:
- The Godwinns defeated The New Rockers.
- WWF World Heavyweight Champion Shawn Michaels defeated Goldust.
2000 - WCW officially released Bret Hart, who then announced his retirement from wrestling. WCW had used Hart sparingly since the death of his brother Owen, and scaled him back to only occasional non-wrestling appearances after suffering a concussion against Bill Goldberg the previous December. WCW stopped using him altogether after Hart wrote a scathing editorial about WCW and their product in his weekly newspaper column in the Calgary Sun, so his release was not unexpected.
2001 - Chris Hero defeats Trent Baker to win the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Title in Charlestown, Indiana, ending Baker's second reign and beginning his first.
2002 - Momoe Nakanishi defeats Kaoru Itoh to win the WWWA World Singles Title and noki-A defeats Kayo Noumi in a tournament final to win the WWWA All-Pacific Title in Kawasaki, Japan.
2002 - WWF held their No Mercy Pay-per-view at the Alltell Arena in Little Rock, Arkansas. Tim Whitehead's original report on the show is on Page 2.
2003 - During an edition of Raw from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, World Tag Team Champions The Dudley Boyz defeated Rene Dupree & Rob Conway with the Doomsday Device, the Road Warriors' finishing move. The Dudleys also wore armbands with "Hawk" written on it, and laid the tag title belts on a sign on the runway commemorating Michael "Road Warrior Hawk" Hegstrand, who had passed away the day before.
2007 - UFC announces that they have signed former WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar to a multi-fight contract. Lesnar, who left the WWE in a failed bid to become an NFL player, had a 1-0 MMA record going into UFC. Since that time, Lesnar, a standout NCAA wrestler, has gone 1-1.
Thanks to Ryan Martinez for his help with the above.
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