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January 5th
On this day in history in ....
1948 - Orville Brown defeats Sonny Myers in Des Moines, Iowa to win
the NWA World Heavyweight Title for the second time. The current National
Wrestling Alliance would be founded in July of that year, with Brown recognized
as the champion.
1950 - Frankie Talaber wins his seventh Midwest Wrestling Association
World Junior Heavyweight Title in Columbus, Ohio, defeating Cyclone Anaya.
1951 - Danny Savich defeats Danny McShain to win the NWA Texas
Heavyweight Title in Houston, Texas, ending McShain's fifth reign.
1956 - Zack Melkov and Tony Toss defeat Jack Allen and Jerry Woods for
the NWA Illinois Midwest Tag Team Title in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1957 - Mick McManus defeats Jack Dempsey to win the British Welterweight
Title in London, England, ending and beginning each man's second reign.
1958 - Yvon Robert and Billy Wicks defeat Don and Jackie Fargo for the
Mid-America version of the NWA World Tag Team Title in Mobile, Alabama, ending
the Fargos' third reign.
1962 - Dory Dixon wins the NWA Texas Heavyweight Title for the second
time, defeating Jack Dalton (Don Fargo) in Houston, Texas.
1965 - Fritz Von Erich defeats Pepper Gomez for the NWA Texas Heavyweight
Title.
1966 - Nick Kozak defeats Killer Kowalski to win the Hawaii version of
the NWA United States Heavyweight Title. At the same event, Ron Reed defeats
Luther Lindsay for the NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Title.
1967 - Tony Borne wins the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title for
the eighth time, ending the second reign of Paul Jones.
1968 - Stan Stasiak defeats Moondog Mayne to win the NWA Pacific
Northwest Heavyweight Title, beginning his third reign and ending Mayne's
second.
1968 - Alberto and Enrique Torres defeat Butcher and Stan Vachon for the
Georgia version of the NWA Southern Tag Team Title in Atlanta, Georgia. This
ended the Vachons' third reign and began the Torres' second.
1968 - Frank and Jack Dalton defeat Don Carson and Dick Dunn to win the
vacant NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Title in Dothan, Alabama. The title was held up
after a match between then-champions Randy and Rip Tyler and Ramon Perez and
Eddie Sullivan in Mobile on November 2, and vacated when the champions no-showed
a scheduled November 8 rematch.
1970 - Former nWo girl, WCW interviewer and 2000 Miss WCW, Pamela
Paulshock, is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1973 - Kurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz defeat Fred Curry and Tony Marino
in Detroit, Michigan, to win the Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Title
for the second time.
1974 - Jimmy and Johnny Valiant defeat Dick the Bruiser and WWWF World
Heavyweight Champion Bruno Sammartino for the World Wrestling Association World
Tag Team Title in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1974 - John Quinn is awarded the Superstar Championship Wrestling Western
States Heavyweight Title, after previous champion Bob Mongol (Bull Johnson) left
the promotion.
1976 - Don Leo Jonathan defeats Gene Kiniski in Vancouver, British
Columbia for the Vancouver version of the NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title,
ending Kiniski's fifth reign and beginning Jonathan's fourth.
1978 - The Samoans (Afa and Sika) defeat Animal Hamaguchi and Great
Kusatsu to win the International Wrestling Alliance Tag Team Title in Osaka,
Japan.
1980 - Steve Travis defeats Austin Idol to win the NWA Georgia Television
Title.
1983 - The Fabulous Kangaroos (Johnny Heffernan and Don Kent) defeat Ron
Bass and Barry Windham for the NWA Florida Global Tag Team Title in Miami,
Florida.
1984 - Adrian Street defeats Relampago Leon to win the Southwest
Championship Wrestling Southwest Junior Heavyweight Title in Beaumont, Texas.
1986 - Tatsumi Fujinami and Kengo Kimura, who had defeated Antonio Inoki
and Seiji Sakaguchi in the finals of the 1985 IWGP Tag League in Sendai, Japan,
are officially recognized as the first IWGP World Tag Team Champions, with the
reign beginning with the victory over Inoki and Sakaguchi on December 12.
1986 - The Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki) defeat
Bull Nakano and Condor Saito in Tokyo, Japan to wint he vacant WWWA World Tag
Team Title.
1987 - Soul Train Jones defeats Big Bubba for the CWA/AWA International
Heavyweight Title in Memphis, Tennessee.
1988 - Jack Victory and John Tatum defeat Skip Young in a handicap match
to win Young and Tony Atlas' World Class Texas Tag Team Title in Fort Worth,
Texas. Atlas no-showed the event.
1988 - Hurricane Castillo, Jr. defeats Galan Mendoza in Mayagüez,
Puerto Rico to win the WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title for the second time,
ending Mendoza's second reign.
1989 - The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) defeat Johnny Ace and
The Terminator for the NWA Florida Tag Team Title in Nassau, Bahamas.
1989 - In Tokyo, Japan, Chigusa Nagayo wins her second International
Wrestling Association of Japan Women's Title from Madusa Miceli, just one day
after Miceli won the title from Nagayo.
1990 - Kerry Von Erich defeats Jerry Lawler to win the World Class Texas
Heavyweight Title in Dallas, Texas, beginning his second reign.
1991 - The WWF runs an event at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland.
The results:
- Jimmy Snuka pinned Greg Valentine.
- WWF Tag Team Champions The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart)
defeated Power and Glory (Hercules and Paul Roma) to retain the titles.
- WWF Intercontinental Champion Kerry Von Erich pinned Virgil to retain the
title.
- Jake Roberts defeated Rick Martel by disqualification.
- The Legion of Doom (Animal and Hawk) defeated The Orient Express (Kato and
Tanaka).
- Hulk Hogan and Tugboat defeated Dino Bravo and Earthquake.
1992 - Sakie Hasegawa and Debbie Malenko defeat Takako Inoue and Mariko
Yoshida for the AJW World Tag Team Title in Tokyo, Japan.
1994 - Kouji Ishinriki defeats Ultimo Dragon to win the UWA World
Middleweight Title in Osaka, Japan, ending Dragon's fourth reign.
1996 - ECW holds "House Party '96" at the ECW Arena in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The results:
- 911 and Rey Misterio, Jr. defeated The Eliminators (Kronus and Saturn), when
Misterio pinned Saturn.
- Rob Van Dam pinned Axl Rotten in his ECW Arena debut.
- 2 Cold Scorpio pinned ECW World Television and World Tag Team Champion Mikey
Whipwreck to win the Television title, ending Whipwreck's second reign and
beginning his fourth.
- Taz defeated Hack Myers by submission.
- Buh Buh Ray Dudley pinned Jimmy Del Ray.
- The Bad Crew and J.T. Smith & Tony Stetson fought to a no contest.
- ECW World Heavyweight Champion The Sandman defeated Konnan by TKO.
- Sabu pinned Stevie Richards.
- The Public Enemy (Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock) defeated The Gangstas (New
Jack and Mustapha Saed), when Rock pinned Saed. This was Public Enemy's
last ECW match before leaving for WCW.
1996 - Jason the Terrible and Super Leather defeat Horace Boulder and
Hisakatsu Ooya for the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Title in Tokyo, Japan.
1996 - D'Lo Brown defeats Bobby Blaze in a tournament final to become the
first Heartland Wrestling Association Heavyweight Champion in Fort Wright,
Kentucky.
1998 - The Monday Night War continued, with WCW Monday Nitro's 4.3 rating
defeating WWF RAW is WAR's 3.3 rating.
WCW Monday Nitro's results from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia:
- WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page defeated Chris
Jericho.
- Goldberg defeated Stevie Ray.
- John Nord defeated The Barbarian.
- Juventud Guerrera defeated Psychosis.
- WCW World Television Champion Booker T defeated Prince Iaukea.
- Ray Traylor and WCW World Tag Team Champions The Steiner Brothers (Rick and
Scott Steiner) defeated Buff Bagwell, Konnan and Scott Norton.
- Rick Martel defeated Brad Armstrong.
- Scotty Riggs and Perry Saturn defeated Chris Benoit and Steve McMichael.
- Lex Luger defeated Randy Savage.
WWF RAW is WAR's results from the New Haven Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut,
taped December 30, which featured many Stone Cold Stunners:
- Ken Shamrock defeated Faarooq by submission, after The Nation's interference
backfired. Steve Austin came out and gave both The Rock and Shamrock Stone Cold
Stunners.
- Jeff Jarrett pinned Barry Windham to win the vacant NWA North American
Heavyweight Title. Austin again came out and gave Jarrett a Stunner after the
match. Before the match Jim Cornette came to the ring with NWA President and
Vice President Howard Brodie and Dennis Corraluzzo to announce the match was for
the title. This began the "NWA Invasion" angle.
- The Disciples of Apocalypse (8-Ball and Skull) defeats The Truth Commission
(Recon and Sniper).
- Owen Hart pinned Savio Vega.
- Marc Mero defeated Tom Brandi by disqualification when Austin interfered and
Stunnered Mero.
- Flash Funk defeated The Artist Formerly Known as Goldust by disqualification
after Luna pushed Funk off the top rope.
- WWF Tag Team Champions The New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) defeated
The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher) in a non-title match, when Gunn pinned Mosh.
- The show closed with The Undertaker popping out of a DX-graffitied casket and
stuffing WWF Champion Shawn Michaels inside.
2000 - Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeats Masato Tanaka for the WEW Heavyweight
Title in Tokyo, Japan.
2001 - Damien Steele defeats Eddie Colon, Richie Santiago, Black Boy and
Rockero in a five-way match in Ponce, Puerto Rico to win the vacant WWC World
Junior Heavyweight Title.
2005 - Eddie Colón defeats Titus (Ryan Wilson) for the vacant WWC
Universal Heavyweight Title, beginning his second reign.
2006 - Cerebro Negro, Scorpio, Jr. and El Veneno defeat Negro Casas,
Felino and Heavy Metal in Naucalpan, Mexico for the IWRG Intercontinental Trios
Title.
2007 - Mr. Big wins his second IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Title in
Isabela, Puerto Rico, defeating Chicano, ending his third reign.
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