Today in Wrestling History (June 17th)

Title Changes for June 17th

1934 – Mario Nuez defeated Tony Canales to become the first EMLL Mexican National Welterweight Champion

1964 – Pat Patterson & "Tough" Tony Borne defeated Nick Bockwinkel & Buddy Mareno (Omar Atlas) to win the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship

1965 – Bob Orton, Sr. won a tournament to win the vacant NWA Southern (Florida) Heavyweight Championship

1977 – Butcher Brannigan & Killer Karl Krupp defeated Larry O’Day & Ron Miller to win the NWA Austra-Asian Tag Team Championship

1983 – The Dynamite Girls (Jumbo Hori & Yukari Ohmori) defeated Devil Masami & Talantula to win the WWWA (Japan) World Tag Team Championship

1983 – Kerry Von Erich & Bruiser Brody defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Terry Gordy & Michael Hayes) to win the NWA American Tag Team Championship

1983 - Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin defeated David Von Erich to win the vacant NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship. The title is immediately held up due to interference by Sunshine

1983 - Vicki Carranza defeated Lola Gonzales to win the Mexican National Women’s Championship

1984 – Jake Roberts defeated "Hands of Stone" Ron Garvin to win the NWA World (Georgia) Television Championship. The title is immediately held up due to Roberts' use of a foreign object

1985 – The U.S. Express (Mike Rotunda & Barry Windham) defeated The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship

1985 – The Fabulous Ones defeated Ron Sexton & Billy Travis in a tournament final to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship

1988 – Chris Benoit defeated Johnny Smith to win the Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Championship

1989 – TNT (Savio Vega) defeated Abudda Dein to win the vacant WWC World Television Championship

1994 – Mickey Doyle defeated Scott D’Amore to win the BCW (Ontario) Can-Am Heavyweight Championship

1996 – Flex Kavana ((Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) & Bart Sawyer defeated Brickhouse Brown & Reggie B. Fine in a tournament final to win the USWA World Tag Team Championship

1999 – Sensational Sherri Martel defeated Miss Manners (Adrian Lynch) to win the AWA Superstars of Wrestling World Women’s Championship

1999 – The Public Enemy defeated The Brotherhood (Knuckles Nelson & Rick Fuller) to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship

2012 – Manabu Soya & Takao Omori defeated Joe Doering & Seiya Sanada to win the AJPW Unified Tag Team Championship