Daily Pro Wrestling History (01/10): Taz defeats Shane Douglas to win ECW title
1917
Sioux City, Iowa:
– Earl Caddock beat Paul Domke 2 falls to 0
1924
Kansas City, Kansas:
– World Heavyweight Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Joe “Toots” Mondt to retain the title
1950
San Francisco, California:
– Sandor Szabo won the San Francisco NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title by defeating Ray Eckert
1957
Indianapolis, Indiana:
– Boris and Nicoli Volkoff defeated Reggie and Stan Lisowski for the Chicago NWA World Tag Team Titles
1958
Oakland, California:
– Ciclon Anaya and Ramon Torres defeated Ben and Mike Sharpe to win the San Francisco NWA World Tag Team Title
Atlanta, Georgia:
– The Mighty Yankee defeated Ray Gunkel for the Georgia NWA Southern Heavyweight Title
Portland, Oregon:
– Nick Kozak defeated Kurt Von Himmler to win the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title
1959
Fresno, California:
– Red Hangman and Ben Sharpe defeated Johnny Barend and Ron Etchison for the San Francisco NWA World Tag Team Title
1961
Tampa, Florida:
– Buddy Austin defeated Don Curtis for the Florida NWA Southern Heavyweight Title
St. Paul, Minnesota:
– Fence Match: AWA US Champion Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder
– Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Bob Rasmussen
– Len Montana drew Jim Hady
1967
Macon, Georgia:
– Bobby Hart defeated Louie Tillet to win the Georgia NWA United States Junior Heavyweight Title
1968
Osaka, Japan:
– Thunder Sugiyama and Toyonobori defeated The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Don Kent) for the Trans-World Wrestling Alliance (International Pro Wrestling) World Tag Team Title
1969
Los Angeles, California:
– Fred Blassie defeated Bobo Brazil to win the NWA Americas Heavyweight Title
St. Joseph, Missouri:
– Don Kent defeated Dusty Rhodes to win the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title
1972
West Palm Beach, Florida:
– The Infernos (Frankie Cain and Rocky Smith) defeated The Australians (Ron Miller and Larry O’Day) to win the NWA Florida Tag Team Title
1975
Kansas City, Kansas:
– Mike George and Jerry Oates defeated The Interns (Tom Andrews and Jim Starr) in a Losers Leave Town match to win the Central States NWA World Tag Team Title
1976
Caguas, Puerto Rico:
– The Spoilers defeated Carlos Colon and Bob Ellis for the WWC North American Tag Team Titles
Sarasota, Florida:
– NWA Title: Terry Funk DCOR Dusty Rhodes to retain title
– King Curtis defeated Big Bad John by DQ
– US Jr. Title: Mike Graham defeated Bob Orton Jr. by DQ
– Southern Title: Billy Robinson defeated Killer Kowalski
– Missouri Mauler defeated Rocky Johnson
– Florida Tag Titles: Cyclon & Omar Negro drew Rip Hawk & Roger Kirby
– Dino Bravo defeated Beautiful Bruce
-Thunderbolt Patterson defeated Mike York
1977
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
– Gene Kiniski defeated Don Leo Jonathan to win the Vancouver NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title
Orlando, Florida:
– Florida Tag Titles: Jack & Jerry Brisco defeated Bob Roop & Bob Orton, Jr. to win the titles
1979
San Antonio, Texas:
– Tully Blanchard defeated Dale Valentine (Buddy Roberts) for the Southwest Championship Wrestling Southwest Television Title
1981
Omaha, Nebraska:
– Algerian Death Match: Mad Dog Vachon beat John Studd
– Nick Bockwinkel & Bobby Heenan beat The Crusher & Buck Zumhofe
– Jerry Blackwell beat Tito Santana
– Brad Rheingans beat Steve Regal
1983
Memphis, Tennessee:
– Nick Bockwinkel defeated Jerry Lawler for the held up AWA World Heavyweight Title
– Robert Gibson defeated Norman Frederick Charles to win the Southeastern NWA United States Junior Heavyweight Title
– Bobby Eaton won the NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Title from Jacques Rougeau in Memphis, Tennessee.
– Leather Strap on a Pole Match: Fabulous Ones beat Sheepherders
1984
Tampa, Florida:
– Texas Death Match: Yellow Dog defeated Ron Bass
– Steel Chain Match: Dusty Rhodes defeated One Man Gang
– Blackjack Mulligan defeated Kendo Nagasaki by DQ
– Florida Title: Mike Rotundo defetaed Black Bart to retain the title
– Special Attraction: Billy Jack Haynes defeated JJ Dillion
– Chief Joe Lightfoot & Mike Davis defeated The Infernos
– No DQ Match: Hector Guerrero defeated Dennis Brown
1985
Kansas City, Kansas:
– Mr. Pogo defeated Harley Race to win the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title
1986
Chicago, Illinois:
– Cage match: Road Warriors & Jerry Blackwell beat Fabulous Freebirds Terry Gordy & Michael Hayes & Buddy Roberts
– Sgt. Slaughter beat AWA Champion Stan Hansen by DQ
– AWA Tag Team Champions Jim Garvin & Steve Regal beat Curt Hennig & Scott Hall
– Nick Bockwinkel beat Larry Zbyszko by DQ
– Boris Zhukov & Barbarian beat Marty Jannetty & Earthquake Ferris
– Scott Irwin beat Baron Von Raschke
– Bill Irwin beat Kelly Kiniski
1987
Memphis, Tennessee:
– The Sheepherders (Butch Miller and Luke Williams) defeated Badd Company (Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka) to win the Continental Wrestling Association International Tag Team Titles
1992
Dallas, Texas:
– Rod Price and John Tatum defeated Black Bart and Bill Irwin for the Global Wrestling Federation Tag Team Title
1994
Memphis, Tennessee:
– Ron and Don Harris won the USWA Tag Team Title, defeating Far 2 Wild (Chris Michaels and Todd Morton)
Chilhowie, Virginia:
– Robbie Eagle defeated Chris Candido to win the SMW Television Title
Lima, Ohio:
– Shinobi the Oriental Assassin (Al Snow) defeated Sean Casey for the World Wide Wrestling Alliance Light Heavyweight Title
1996
Memphis, Tennessee:
– Jerry Lawler defeated Tex Slazenger for the USWA Heavyweight Title
– Lady Satan (Debbie Combs) defeated Miss Texas (Jackie Moore) to win the USWA Women’s Title
1998
Nashville, Tennessee:
– Wolfie D defeated Terry Golden to win the Music City Wrestling North American Heavyweight Title
1999
Kissimmee, Florida:
– Taz defeated ECW World Heavyweight Champion Shane Douglas to win the title
2005
Tokyo, Japan:
– TAKA Michinoku defeated Kaz Hayashi both the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title and Kaientai Dojo Strongest-K Title
2006
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
– Kurt Angle won the 20-man battle royal for the vacant World Heavyweight Title, last eliminating Mark Henry
