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September 20th
On this day in history in ....
1957 - Ivan The Terrible & Nikita Zolotoff defeat Pepper Gomez &
El Medico in Houston, Texas for the NWA Texas Tag Team Title.
1968 - Ramon & Alberto Torres defeat Butcher Vachon & Stan Vachon
for the NWA Georgia Tag Team Title in Atlanta, Georgia.
1975 - WWWF World Champion Bruno Sammartino defeats George Steele in a
stretcher match at the Philadelphia Spectrum in Pennsylvania. Andre The Giant
was the special referee.
1975 - Jose Miguel Perez defeats The Spoiler II in Caguas, Puerto Rico to
win the WWC Puerto Rican Heavyweight Title for the third time. Perez had been
stripped of the title following a no-contest with Spoiler II on August 30th. On
the same show, Carlos Colon defeats The Spoiler I in to win the WWC North
American Heavyweight Title for the fourth time.
1975 - Ric Flair defeats Wahoo McDaniel in Hampton, Virginia to win the
NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Title.
1978 - Jose Lothario defeats Assassin #1 in Monroe, Louisiana to win the
Mid-South Wrestling Association Heavyweight Title.
1980 - Andre The Giant defeats Hulk Hogan in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1981 - Big John Studd defeats Angelo Mosca in Toronto, Ontario to win the
NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title, ending Mosca's third reign as champion.
1985 - Captain Lou Albano defeats Fred Blassie in a steel cage match at
the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York. The two had wrestled to a
disqualification finish on a show at Nassau Coliseum the previous month, and
this rematch between the 67-year-old Blassie and the 52-year-old Albano marked
the last match in the legendary career of Fred Blassie.
1986 - During a WWF event at the Philadelphia Spectrum in Pennsylvania,
Pedro Morales outsmarted Jake Roberts. Prior to the match, Morales took Roberts'
snake bag and brought it to the dressing room while Roberts argued with ringside
fans. Shortly after the bell rang to start the match, Roberts realized the bag
was gone, and left the ring to go find it. Roberts was counted out, and Morales
won the match. Incensed, Roberts returned to the ring and tried to DDT Morales,
but was backdropped out of the ring.
1987 - Hurricane Castillo Jr. defeats Gran Mendoza in San Juan, Puerto
Rico for the WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title. On the same show, Carlos Colon
defeats Hercules Ayala to win his sixth WWC Universal Heavyweight Title.
1993 - Shinya Hashimoto defeats The Great Muta in Nagoya, Japan to win
the IWGP Heavyweight Title for the first time.
1997 - ECW held an event at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
which was later released on home video as "As Good As It Gets". Here
are the results:
- The FBI (Little Guido & Tracey Smothers) defeated Balls Mahoney & Axl
Rotten.
- Justin Credible defeated Jerry Lynn.
- Chris Candido defeated Lance Storm.
- Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Spike Dudley.
- ECW World Champion Shane Douglas defeated Phil Lafon.
- ECW Television Champion Taz defeated Pitbull #2.
- Sabu vs. The Sandman went to a no-contest when Sabu threw fire at Sandman.
- Beulah & Tommy Dreamer defeated Bill Alfonso & Rob Van Dam. In
actuality, RVD and Dreamer were taken out early, and it was Beulah vs. Alfonso,
one-on-one, with Alfonso bleeding buckets before losing the match after a rana
by Beulah. This match is available on the Blood Sport ECW: The Most Violent
Matches DVD.
- New Jack & John Kronus defeated The Dudley Boys to win the ECW World Tag
Team Title.
1997 - Sugar Sato defeated Yoshiko Tamura to win the WCW Women's World
Cruiserweight Title in Kawasaki, Japan. The belt was created in April of 1997,
and quickly became forgotten by WCW, finally being abandoned shortly after this
match.
2002 - Homicide defeats Slyk Wagner Brown in Bayonne, New Jersey to win
the Jersey All Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Title for the fifth time.
2003 - WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defeated The Undertaker in a steel cage
match in the main event of a WWE event at Madison Square Garden in New York City
when Vince McMahon interfered and prevented Taker from leaving the cage while
Lesnar climbed over the top for the win.
2003 - The Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Johnny Kashmere) defeat
Special K (Izzy & Dixie) in a Tag Team Gauntlet match in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania to win the Ring Of Honor Tag Team Championship. The belts had been
vacated by former champions AJ Styles & Amazing Red due to Red suffering a
knee injury. Results from the Gauntlet saw:
- The Briscoes defeated Special K (Hydro & Deranged).
- The Briscoes defeated The Ring Crew Express.
- Special K (Izzy & Dixie) defeated The Briscoes.
- The Backseat Boyz defeated Special K (Izzy & Dixie).
2004 - Raw was held in Tucson, Arizona, with the announcement that Kane
and Lita had lost the (storyline) child they were expecting as a result of the
previous week when Lita was knocked down following a Kane-Gene Snitsky match.
Snitsky then did a promo stating that it "wasn't his fault", which
would become his catchphrase.
2005 - Smackdown was taped in Lubbock, Texas featuring the television
debut of Bobby Lashley, who defeated Simon Dean in under three minutes. However,
that wasn't the fastest match of the night, as U.S. Champion Chris Benoit
defeated Orlando Jordan with the Crippler Crossface in 49.8 seconds.
2006 - WWE announced the following: "WWE has come to terms on the
release of Boogeyman (Marty Wright) as of today 9/20/06. We wish Marty the best
in all future endeavors." The reasoning was that WWE didn't feel
Boogey was working hard in rehabbing from injuries that had sidelined him, as he
had missed several doctor's appointments. However, WWE would rehire him
less than a month later, reportedly at the behest of Booker T, who brought
Boogeyman to his wrestling school where he saw that Boogey was dedicated to
returning to the ring. He would later be released again.
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