Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Today in Wrestling History (Title Changes) September 9th

Title Changes for September 12
1970 – Waldo Von Erich defeated Jack Curtis to win the NWA Tri-State Mississippi Heavyweight Championship
1980 – The Wild Samoans defeated Tony Garea & Rene Goulet in a tournament final to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship
1980 – The Grappler defeated Ted DiBiase to win the MSW North American Heavyweight Championship
1986 – "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes defeated "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson to win the NWA World Television Championship


1988 – Shinichi Nakano & Shunji Takano defeated Footloose (Samson Fuyuki & Toshiaki Kawada) to win the AJPW All-Asia Tag Team Championship
1993 – "The Franchise" Shane Douglas defeated Tito Santana via forfeit to win the NWA ECW Heavyweight Championship. This was a “phantom” title change, as the supposed show in Roanoke, Virginia where Douglas vs. Santana was to have taken place never actually occurred.
1993 – Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat defeated The Eagle & The Patriot to win the AJPW All-Asia Tag Team Championship
2000 – Rhino defeated Kid Kash to win the ECW World Television Championship. Rhino would be the final champion, before the company was bought out by the WWF in 2001)
2006 – Naomichi Marufuji defeated Jun Akiyama to win the Pro Wrestling Noah GHC Heavyweight Championship

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