Today in Wrestling History - October 30th

1978 - Ric Flair and Big John Studd win the NWA Mid Atlantic Tag Team Titles by beating Ricky Steamboat and Paul Jones in Greenville, SC.   They would not be champs long as they lost the rematch on November 5th 1978 in Greensboro, NC.

1999 - Big Van Vader defeats Mitsuharu Misawa in Tokyo, Japan to win the AJPW Triple Crown Unified Heavyweight Championship.

2001 - Test and Booker T defeat The Rock and Chris Jericho for the WWF World Tag Team Titles in Cincinnati, OH during a SMACKDOWN! show.

The Blackjacks

The Blackjacks were a legendary tag team consisting of BlackJack Lanza and BlackJack Mulligan both big and very tough men.
They made their name in the AWA and WWF, along with a very good run in the WWA (Dick the Bruiser run promotion out of Indianapolis).

They never held the AWA World Tag Team titles but did hold the WWF and WWA Tag Team titles.


They won the WWA Tag Team titles (below) on November 26th 1971 in Indianapolis by defeating the team of Wilbur Snyder and Paul Christy.  They held the belts until December 9th 1972 when they lost the titles to Dick The Bruiser and The Crusher in Detroit Michigan.

Moving on to the WWF in 1974 the Blackjacks won the WWF Tag Team Titles on August 26th 1975 in Philadelphia by defeating the reigning champions Dominic DeNucci and Pat Barrett (who replaced Victor Rivera in July of 1975).   They held the belts for 74 days before losing to the team of Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi in Philadelphia on November 8th 1975.

Here they meet the reigning champions DeNucci and Rivera in a non title match in 1974.

NWA World Tag Team Champions (Slaughter and Kernodle)

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Sgt. Slaughter and Don Kernodle

Won the belts September of 1982 (or were awarded the belts) in a fictional tournament final over Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba in Tokyo, Japan.

They held the belts for 192 days.  Lost the belts to Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood on March 12th 1983 in a cage at the now legendary "Final Conflict" match in Greensboro NC.

Here are the final brutal minutes of that match

History of the WWF/WWE Tag Team Titles

History of the WWF/WWE Tag Team Championship

1971-09/16/2012

(see a full listing of title holders here)

New WWE Tag Team Champions (10/14/2013)

WWE Monday Night RAW

October 14th 2013

St Louis,  MO

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns

WWE Tag Team Champions

vs

Cody Rhodes and Goldust

Smackdown Highlights 10/18/2013

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Smackdown Highlights 10/11/2013

SMACKDOWN!  

Highlights from October 11th 2013

Tag Team Match of the Night (Moondogs vs Fabulous Ones)

Anything Goes Tag Team Match

The Moondogs w/Jimmy Hart

vs

The Fabulous Ones

January 9th 1984

Mid South Coliseum

Memphis TN

WWE BATTLEGROUND 2013

WWE

BATTLEGROUND

Sunday October 6th  2013

First Niagara Center

Buffalo, NY

Matches

No.	Matches	Stipulations
Battleground Kickoff	Dolph Ziggler vs. Damien Sandow	Singles match[5]
1	Daniel Bryan vs. Randy Orton	Singles match for the vacant WWE Championship[6]
2	Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. Rob Van Dam(with Ricardo Rodriguez)	Battleground Hardcore match for the World Heavyweight Championship[7]
3	CM Punk vs. Ryback(with Paul Heyman)	Singles match[8]
4	AJ Lee (c) vs. Brie Bella	Singles match for the WWE Divas Championship[9]
5	Goldust and Cody Rhodes (with Dusty Rhodes) vs. The Shield (Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins) (with Dean Ambrose	Tag team match If Goldust and Cody win, they will be reinstated by WWE. If The Shield wins, Dusty will lose his job as an NXT trainer and the Rhodes family will be banned from WWE.[10]
6	Curtis Axel (with Paul Heyman) (c) vs. R-Truth	Singles match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship[11]
(c) – refers to the champion heading into the match

WWWF Tag Team Champions (The Executioners)

The Executioners were a masked tag team consisting of Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd.   They won the World Wide Wrestling Federation Tag Team Titles on May 11th 1976 in Philadelphia by defeating the champions Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi (below,who had held the belts 185 days).

The Executioners would hold the belts for 168 days, until November 26th 1976 when they were stripped by the WWWF for using a 3rd Executioner in a match.  This Execution #3 was later unmasked as Nikolai Volkoff.

The Executioners

WWWF Tag Team Champions

vs

Dominic Denucci and Jose Gonzalez

Madison Square Garden

Match of the Night (Junkyard Dog vs Dibiase)

The Mid South North American Heavyweight Title

June 23rd 1982

Shreveport, LA

Junkyard Dog

North American Heavyweight Champion

vs

Ted Dibiase

(3 time former champion)